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Here is another example of misinformation from those who are seemingly on our side. Maybe he was thinking this and he never actually said it. If we perpetuate this fabrication in an effort to disparage the WHO, we leave ourselves open to ridicule. Here is Gemini's analysis:

Here is a direct analysis of the veracity of the information presented in the file named "Screenshot 2026-08-10 at 10.08.42.png".

The Verdict: False/Misattributed

The image contains a mixture of historical fact and a fabricated quote. While the man pictured, Brock Chisholm, was indeed the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), he never said or wrote the quote attributed to him in the image.

Here is a breakdown of the facts regarding this image:

1. The Persona (True)

Brock Chisholm was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, and the first Director-General of the WHO, serving from 1948 to 1953.

2. The Quote (False)

There is no historical record in any of Chisholm's speeches, lectures, or writings of him saying: "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas."

3. The Origin of the Misquote

The text in the image is a highly distorted summarization of Chisholm's actual views, created by his critics and later falsely presented as a direct quotation.

Chisholm was a highly controversial figure in his time. Following the devastation of World War II, he delivered the William Alanson White Memorial Lectures in 1946 (later published in the journal Psychiatry). In these lectures, he expressed views that shocked many conservative commentators of the era:

⚬ On Dogma and Morality: He argued that strict adherence to rigid religious dogmas and traditional concepts of "right and wrong" caused psychological neuroses and contributed to the behavioral rigidity that leads to war.

⚬ On Patriotism: He advocated that to prevent future global conflicts, humanity needed to develop a sense of global citizenship that superseded strict national loyalties.

During the 1950s, political critics and conservative groups strongly opposed his ideology. They summarized his complex, psychological arguments into hostile talking points. Over the decades, one of these critical summaries was mistakenly (or intentionally) put into quotation marks and attributed directly to Chisholm, which is what circulates in internet memes like the one in your screenshot today.

The Foundation System

Brendon O'Connell is always on about the FOUNDATION SYSTEM and Norman Dodd who first exposed the agenda of these foundations. Here is a link to a video on YouTube in which G. Edward Griffin interviews Norman Dodd about this topic. The thumbnail for the video features the cover of Anthony Sutton's "The Best Enemy Money Can Buy". See Figure 1. I have this book in my elibrary and have transferred it to my Kindle for reading. Oddly though, the book is not mentioned in the interview.

Figure 1

The interview is quite illuminating and begins with reference to the Carnegie Foundation that Google's Gemini describes as follows:

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT):

Focus: Established in 1905, this foundation is a U.S.-based education policy and research center.

Mission: The CFAT advocates for improvements in American K-12 and higher education, promoting high teaching standards and quality educational experiences for all students.

Activities: They conduct research on various educational issues, publish reports and recommendations, and develop programs to support educators and improve teaching practices. 

As with all such foundations, their focus, mission and activities sound benevolent enough but mask a quite different agenda. The Carnegie Foundation, from its inception, sought to change the way in which American History was presented. To this end, they conspired with the Guggenheim Institute to support the education of people who they deemed suitable. These people, after completing their doctorates were promoted to positions of prominence and became the nucleus of a new generation of educators, all spouting the Carnegie version of History.

All the foundations function in this way, supporting people and programs that will promote their agendas. This might not be a bad thing if the people running these foundations were well intentioned but they are clearly not. The minutes of the first meeting of the Carnegie Foundation included a discussion about the best way to bring about desired changes in society and a conclusion reached was that WAR was the best tool.

The changes sought in society by these foundations invariably involve a diminution of the power of the individual and his or her absorption into a larger whole, a process termed collectivism or communitarianism but really just a disguised form of communism. They seek total control in their sphere of interest whether it be education, health, food, mass media, finance etc. NGOs like the WEF and intergovernmental organisations like the WHO function similarly.

Probably the most notorious foundation as of 2024 is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, dedicated to spreading murder and mayhem around the globe. It's a perfect example of everything that's wrong with the Foundation System. Take Africa as an example. Does the Foundation focus on clean water, good nutrition and improved sewerage systems to improve the health of Africans living in rural poverty? Of course not. The focus is on vaccinations, the more the merrier.

Of course, the various foundations collaborate and conspire with one another to subvert and sabotage. Take Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, that partners with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to do its worst in Africa.

The investigative committee that Norman Dodd headed back in 1954 was instigated by Carroll Reece and Wikipedia says this about him:

From 1953 to 1954, as chairman of the House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, often called the Reece Committee, he led an investigation of Communist activities by non-profit organizations, particularly educational institutions and charitable foundations. The Reece Committee concluded that foundations were actively embroiled in efforts to promote socialist and collectivist ideologies.

Nothing ever came of it and the foundations continued as before and became even more emboldened in the following decades.

The Polypill

Wonderful name and another potential triumph of modern medicine. What is the polypill? Well let this October 13th 2022 article from https://medicalxpress.com/ explain.

Global health has paid a deadly price for not using simple, low-cost blood pressure lowering drugs, statins and aspirin widely in the form of a single pill, also known as the polypill, say two leading cardiologists in a commentary published in The Lancet. Widespread availability of polypills would substantially reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and be affordable for most people globally, says their call-to-action.

"Despite substantial scientific evidence of the high effectiveness, safety and affordability of the polypill, few such combined products are available, and in the few countries where they are available, use is low," says Prof Fausto Pinto, President of the World Heart Federation.

"This systemic failure is a global tragedy, as many premature deaths from CVD could be avoided," says Prof Salim Yusuf, Executive Director of the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at McMaster University.

About 54 million people suffer from cardiovascular disease every year—a third of them die from CVD—with 80 percent of them living in low-income and middle-income countries.

Most heart attacks and strokes afflict people who have no prior CVD, meaning that primary prevention of the first heart attack or stroke is essential. Secondary prevention for people who already have CVD is also important but does not have the same impact.

"The current strategy for primary and secondary prevention of CVD has only been modestly successful in most countries, including high-income countries. Even in these countries, fewer than half of patients with prior CVD, and fewer than 20% without prior CVD, receive effective preventive treatments," says Prof Yusuf.

The polypill, also known as fixed-dose combination (FDC) therapy—with the combination of blood pressure lowering agents, a statin for lowering LDL cholesterol, and low-dose aspirin—was proposed in the early 2000s as a means to reduce CVD substantially and at low cost.

"The answer is now clear and resounding, with data from three independent, large, and long-term trials in primary prevention and one in secondary prevention showing its life-saving significance," says Yusuf, whose various publications have shown that heart attacks and strokes were cut by 35 to 50 percent by using a polypill.

"It is time to use the polypill widely to save millions of lives each year," says Prof Pinto. He and Prof Yusuf recommend the following new strategies:

Encourage large pharmaceutical companies to invest in developing and testing polypills—in particular, newer polypills with larger blood pressure lower effects (such as combining low doses of 3 or 4 classes of drugs with statins and low doses of aspirin). Manufacturing with generic components, and marketing polypills at locally sensitive prices, would ensure affordability while maintaining profitability for the companies, thereby enhancing use by the majority of people around the world.

Include polypills in the WHO's Essential Medicines List, and in guidelines for both primary and secondary prevention of CVD is an important next step. "This would encourage governments and insurance companies, especially in low-income and middle-income countries to include in their formularies, and clinicians to recommend its use," Pinto and Yusuf write.

Combine the polypill with lifestyle advice for CVD prevention delivered by trained non-physician health workers (NPHWs)—not meant as a replacement for physicians who can use their advanced skills on managing individuals with more complex conditions—thus a combined strategy that would help many more people.

Clearly the time has never been more opportune to push these polypills given the "fallout" from the Covid vaccinations. The time-worn trick is being played again, exacerbate an existing problem via pharmaceuticals and then propose a pharmacological solution. To quote from the article:

Encourage large pharmaceutical companies to invest in developing and testing polypills ...

Let's not forget the WHO. To quote again:

Include polypills in the WHO's Essential Medicines List

These are the sorts of solutions that one would expect from the medical establishment.  No investigation into the reasons for the uptick in CVD, just a new pill. Stay healthy and cheat death (for a while at least) with the help of BIG PHARMA.

The Fuster-CNIC-Ferrer cardiovascular polypill combines three drugs into one pill to make it easier
for patients to comply with secondary cardiovascular prevention therapy. Link.

I think we'll be seeing more of polypills in the future. Here's an October 13th 2022 headline from CNN Health:

Combination ‘polypills’ can help solve world’s heart problems, experts say, if more people can get them

Well, the "experts" are saying so you'd better listen. The pharmaceutical companies will need to come up with new patented drugs to pack into these polypills so as to make them as expensive as possible. As usual, third world countries will need to spend money allocated to their health care budgets to buy these new medications along with all the other crap that the WHO is foisting on them. Even if you're feeling well and are young and seemingly healthy, you'll be encouraged to take them as a prophylactic. The more young people that keep dropping dead on sporting fields or dying in their sleep, the more people will opt to take them. Most of the elderly are already dependent on several medications and will need no persuasion to use them.

State of Play

I’ve not made an alternative news post for quite some time, mainly out profound disillusionment with the state of the world. However, it’s time to take stock and assess the state of play in the world today. Brendon O’Connell, whom I follow on YouTube, feels that the tide has turned and that the USA is finally asserting itself and confronting the forces that seek to undermine it. Brendon thinks that Putin was lured into attacking Ukraine in the expectation that the country would offer little resistance. However, with NATO and United States support, Ukraine has pushed back and Putin’s plan to take the country has been thwarted. I don’t see it that way at all.

In my mind, Putin was very much following a script he had been given. If he had really wanted to take over Ukraine, he could have done so easily but instead he dithered on the border for quite some time before attacking and even then only half-heartedly. The purpose of the invasion was to disrupt the supply of grain to the outside world and to drive up the price of natural gas. The Chinese lockdowns had already seriously disrupted the world’s supply chains and so the Ukraine invasion exacerbated an already bad situation. Russia and China have adequate food but not so the rest of the world.

Rising prices of all commodities around the world are driving more individuals and small businesses into bankruptcy and this is very much in line with Agenda 2030 where individuals are envisaged as owning nothing and being happy. More and more wealth will flow to the already wealthy while the 99% sink into neofeudalism. Russia and China are playing the long game. The former has become a global pariah and the latter seems to be shooting itself in the foot with its lockdowns and incessant testing but both countries can ride out the storm that will engulf the world and, with ample gold reserves, are well-positioned to benefit from the new global currency that will replace the ailing US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

I think both Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi are both doing what the City of London and the European banking cartel have instructed them to do. Their actions are bringing the world to its knees but in the long term their countries will emerge stronger and part of a trading block that will include Iran and Pakistan and perhaps other countries. Putin must have known that his invasion of Ukraine would drive countries like Finland and Sweden into the arms of NATO. That is the intention of the global elite who are playing this chess game. Tension between Russia and its European neighbours and between China and its southeast Asian neigbours is vital to maintain arms sales and keep global citizens in a state of apprehension.

Organisations such as the WHO and WEF will dominate nation states, dictating policies that all nation states must follow or suffer the consequences. In the next year or so, as the economies of more countries implode, the level of indebtness to the IMF and World Bank will soar and economic independence will plummet. Even more so than now, politicians will simple follow instructions issued by their overlords and individuals will suffer helplessly as each country’s police enforce the implementation of these instructions. For example, the WHO may declare another pandemic and issue instructions regarding vaccines, lockdowns etc. that the politicians in each country must implement, having signed the pandemic treaty.

Brendon seems to have succumbed to a Q-Anon type of delusion, wherein he anticipates that the United States will be great again and live up to the ideals of its founding fathers. He sees the country as the only one with a real committment to individual freedom and, if it loses its superpower status, we are all doomed to live in smart city gulags under constant surveillance and our freedom of movement dependent on our social credit score. He hopes that the United States has realised that it has been compromised by a foreign power (Israel) and take appropriated action, including occupation of Palestine. This to me seems unrealistic.

However, there is an growing awareness within the United States that its partnership with Israel has benefited only the latter. Whether it generates enough momentum to cause a foreign policy reassessment is doubtful. It seems that the US is breaking apart and that the goal of Israel, to weaken the country and promote migration of wealthy or talented Jews to Israel, is well underway.

Ivermectin

I must confess to having avoided taking much interest in Ivermectin as a treatment and prophylactic for Covid-19. My reasoning was that paying attention to drug treatments only lent more credibility to the belief that Covid-19 was a dangerous pathogen. However, with the push to vaccinate, the effectiveness of Ivermectin becomes an important issue. If the drug's effectiveness can be confirmed, then the emergency use of the vaccines cannot be justified because there is an alternative therapy. This would cost the vaccine makers billions of dollars and so it's no surprise that calls to utilise this drug in the treatment of the virus have fallen on deaf ears. The major medical journals refuse to publish studies on the positive effects of Ivermectin but will happily publish publish studies that fail to confirm its effectiveness. Health authorities remain silent and social media actively removes any references to the drug's benefits.

This of course is not surprising. However, it was interesting to learn of this drugs history and its long time use in the treatment of parasitical diseases in both animals and humans. This February 2011 academic paper titled Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective is quite informative. Here is the abstract:

Discovered in the late-1970s, the pioneering drug ivermectin, a dihydro derivative of avermectin—originating solely from a single microorganism isolated at the Kitasato Intitute, Tokyo, Japan from Japanese soil—has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world. Originally introduced as a veterinary drug, it kills a wide range of internal and external parasites in commercial livestock and companion animals. It was quickly discovered to be ideal in combating two of the world’s most devastating and disfiguring diseases which have plagued the world’s poor throughout the tropics for centuries. It is now being used free-of-charge as the sole tool in campaigns to eliminate both diseases globally. It has also been used to successfully overcome several other human diseases and new uses for it are continually being found. This paper looks in depth at the events surrounding ivermectin’s passage from being a huge success in Animal Health into its widespread use in humans, a development which has led many to describe it as a “wonder” drug.

For the pharmaceutical industry, such a wonder drug is not welcome in the treatment of Covid-19 even though the industry had been instrumental is rolling it out as a treatment for parasitical diseases. The effectiveness of Invermectin in the treatment of Covid-19 was first discovered in 2020 in third world countries with limited health resources. When doctors in these countries tried to communicate their findings to the rest of the world, global health authorities and Big Pharma quickly took notice because the drug threatened to derail their plans for a vaccine rollout of unprecedented proportions. Ivermectin needed to demonised and quickly. 

In this article on the Covid Blog we read:

There are currently at least 93 studies, with 54 being peer-reviewed (as of May 15, 2021), showing that Ivermectin is highly effective in treating COVID-19 in early stages and as prophylaxis (preventative measure). View the data and studies here. Also watch Congressional testimony from Dr. Pierre Kory about Ivermectin.

The video on the site is well worth watching as we watch poor Dr. Kory vainly plead his case for the acceptance of Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19. 

Another video featuring Dr. Tess Lawrie is quite powerful in conveying the extent of the obstruction surrounding Ivermectin's acceptance. Figure 1 shows the safety profile for Ivermectin. Here is some information about the doctor who is interviewed in it:

Figure 1

Dr. Tess Lawrie is a Medical Doctor as well as a Researcher from Bath, UK. She is funder and Head of a Company that does Evidence Synthesis on Medical Research to establish the evidence for Regulatory Guidelines to be issued for Treatment options. Her Company has been working for the World Health Organisation as well as the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Early in 2021 Dr. Lawrie ran a Systematic Review on the Evidence of Ivermectin as Treatment for Covid-19 - and found the Data was strongly suggesting Ivermectin is both safe and effective.

This interview covers details on Ivermectin, it's track record as an essential medicine of the WHO with more than 3,5 billion doses administered to patients all across the world, how Ivermectin compares to other well-known drugs in terms of adverse events registered, and about censorship in Science as well as n Social Media of information of life-saving medications.

More on Dr. Lawrie and the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group: https://bird-group.org

Dr. Lawrie blames Big Pharma and its pursuit of profit as the main reason for the rejection of Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19.

Madagascar and Measles

The heading of The Sydney Morning Herald article screamed:

More than 900 dead in Madagascar measles epidemic

Geneva: At least 922 people have died in a measles outbreak in Madagascar, the majority of them children, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

I haven't even read the article yet but I thought it would be an interesting article to dissect as its clearly sending a message, namely that measles is a very dangerous disease and you'd better make sure your children are protected against this threat. The actual article is very short and continues:

Since the beginning of the outbreak in September, more than 66,000 people in the African island nation have been infected with the highly contagious virus, the WHO said. Measles is easily preventable through vaccination. The WHO has launched a campaign in collaboration with local authorities to vaccinate more than 6 million children in Madagascar. The campaign also includes efforts to educate the population and counter negative perceptions about vaccinations.

In a report released last week, the WHO wrote that the outbreak was "unprecedented" and "occurred in a context of poor performance of routine vaccination." That report listed 300 deaths and 53,000 infections. The dramatic increase in such a short time is due to a more complete collection of data in Madagascar, a spokesman said on Friday.

There were 229,000 reported measles cases worldwide in 2018 - double the number of the previous year, according to preliminary WHO figures. WHO experts say the actual number of cases is likely to be many times higher. The former French colony of Madagascar has a population of about 25 million and is one of the 30 poorest nations in the world, according to the United Nations.

In a slightly lengthier article from Reuters, there is an inadvertent allusion to the real reason behind the deaths:

Madagascar has Africa’s highest children’s malnutrition rate, at 47 percent. The condition can increase the risk of serious complications and death from measles infection, the WHO says. 

Malnourished children are what made measles such a killer in the 19th century and that is the real killer here. Once the poverty, poor sanitation and crowded living conditions are reduced, a measles infection is easily shrugged off by a healthy immune system. The statistics quoted in the article are largely meaningless because they don't differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated children. The assumption is that everybody who was infected was unvaccinated and this assumption is not justified. Measles outbreaks can occur in vaccinated populations. The impact of the vaccination on the already compromised immune systems of these malnourished children is also not taken into account. The money spent by governments in Madagascar and elsewhere would be far more profitably spent in improving public health infrastructure but of course this doesn't generate any money for the pharmaceutical companies.

Meanwhile, the headlines and hysteria continue. For example, this editorial from The Sydney Morning Herald warns:

NSW must not drop its guard against measles

It's not worth the space in this blog post to quote from the nonsense contained in this editorial but it's just one of many examples of the unrelenting media message to the masses: vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate! Movies and television series about pathogen-induced zombie apocalypses reinforce this further and possibly more deeply. A worldview is being promoted of a planet full of potentially lethal pathogens that its human inhabitants need to protect themselves against. How? By regular vaccinations of course. If the vaccinations sometimes prove ineffective as children become adults, then this indicates a need for booster jabs at regular intervals throughout adulthood.

Perhaps every age has been an Age of Propaganda but it seems that the propaganda is intensifying in terms of us getting us to accept that vaccinations are good for us. When persuasion fails there is always legislation like preventing unvaccinated children from entering schools and kindergartens and withholding child support payments from parents who don't vaccinate their children. In the Australian state of New South Wales, the following describes the flu vaccine schedule for children under five:

To develop strong protection, children who are aged from six months to under five years are recommended to have two vaccine doses in the first year they receive a flu vaccine, with at least four weeks between doses. Children who have been immunised against flu previously will only require one dose each year. Source

These shots are free so if this schedule is followed by responsible parents, the child will have six flu shots (all containing Mercury of course) by the time she or he turns five years old. This is in addition to all the other vaccinations containing aluminium and all sorts of other additives. There is a nice synergy in the toxic effects of mercury and aluminium.

Italian Government Makes Childhood Vaccinations Mandatory

An article appeared in the BBC News yesterday with the headline: Italy makes 12 vaccinations compulsory for children. The vaccinations are:

• polio
• diphtheria
• tetanus
• hepatitis B
• haemophilus influenzae B
• meningitis B
• meningitis C
• measles
• mumps
• rubella
• whooping cough
• chickenpox

The photo of a child attempting a smile but effecting a strange sort of grimace accompanies the article:

Compare this photograph to that accompanying articles that are skeptical of vaccinations:

This news set me to wondering what pressures had been brought to bear on the Italian Government to implement such legislation (if children are not vaccinated by the age of six, the school starting age, their parents will be fined). An article from Politico titled Italy fights vaccines fear gives some clue. To quote from the article (21st April 2016):

“The Italian situation is unique. Italy has been called out by the WHO [World Health Organization] because the vaccine coverage of the country is falling,” said Lorenzo Moja, an Italian public health expert with the global health body, adding that in some regions, about one in five children do not complete the recommended vaccination schedule.

The article says that in 2015 the Italian Government launched a €700 million National Vaccination Plan with special attention being paid to any doctors who might have reservations:

“We also reached an agreement with the order of physicians, who will be paying close attention to those doctors that discourage parents from vaccinating their kids.” Monitoring these anti-vaccine doctors is key to encourage parents to vaccinate their children.

Further investigation led to an article about a pair of Italian scientists who had published some disturbing findings about contaminants in vaccines. The article titled Dirty Vaccines: New Study Reveals Prevalence of Contaminants (January 30th 2017) appears in a blog called "The Driven Researcher" on the website CRMSI (Children's Medical Safety Research Institute) and begins:

Every Human Vaccine Tested Was Contaminated by Unsafe Levels of Metals and Debris Linked to Cancer and Autoimmune Disease, New Study Reports 

Researchers examining 44 samples of 30 different vaccines found dangerous contaminants, including red blood cells in one vaccine and metal toxicants in every single sample tested – except in one animal vaccine. 

Using extremely sensitive new technologies not used in vaccine manufacturing, Italian scientists reported they were “baffled” by their discoveries which included single particles and aggregates of organic debris including red cells of human or possibly animal origin and metals including lead, tungsten, gold, and chromium, that have been linked to autoimmune disease and leukemia. 

In the study, published this week in the International Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination, the researchers led by Antonietta Gatti, of the National Council of Research of Italy and the Scientific Director of Nanodiagnostics, say their results “show the presence of micro- and nano-sized particulate matter composed of inorganic elements in vaccine samples” not declared in the products’ ingredients lists.

There is a link to the study. It leads to a PDF file hosted on a site called MedCrave that promotes the publishing of scientific papers without the peer review process of the well known scientific journals. To be fair, MedCrave does claim that its paper are peer reviewed. However, the site is listed as one of many accused by the scientific community of "predatory publishing" (publishing articles of dubious scientific merit in exchange for money). The site does have its defenders however, and while it does not have the imprimatur of the scientific establishment, it does seem to be offering a genuine service. A number of online journals are hosted and the International Journal of Vaccines & Vaccinations is just one of many. The study appears in Volume 4 Issue 1 2017. 

The study seems professional enough and seems to show that vaccines contain a disturbing number of contaminants. However, a harsh criticism of the study can be found here. The author writes:

I’ve frequently written about what I like to refer to as the “toxins gambit” with respect to vaccines. Basically, in the hard core (and even soft core) antivaccine crowd, vaccines are feared as being loaded with all sorts of “toxins,” such as aluminum, formaldehyde, mercury, and various chemicals that are dangerous enough separately, but, when combined, “poison” young babies, resulting in their becoming autistic, acquiring asthma and autoimmune diseases, or even dying of sudden infant death syndrome. Of course, many of the scary-sounding chemicals to which antivaccinationists point actually are in vaccines, but, as Paracelsus put it, the dose makes the poison, and the amount in vaccines is very much low enough not to pose a health threat. Also, formaldehyde is a product of normal metabolism present in the bloodstream of infants at a level much higher than what any vaccine contains.

It's an interesting argument and I'm not trying to decide here if the author's criticisms are valid or not. What I started out to investigate was the reason why the Italian government decided to make vaccinations mandatory. I've established that the government was already under pressure from WHO and had launched a vaccination drive back in 2015. The Italian researchers' article appeared in January 2017 and, coming as it did from Italians, it would have been noticed. The rebuttal from Orac, the nom de blog of a surgeon named David Gorski, was posted on ScienceBlogs. Maybe the MedCrave article was the catalyst for the legislation but who knows?

There is definitely politics involved. According to this source:

The ruling parties accuse the opposition 5-Star movement for feeding the climate of fear over vaccines. The populist movement criticised the vaccination reform as a gift to pharmaceutical companies.

So this polarisation, between the ruling party and the opposition regarding attitudes to vaccination, may have played a role as well. It's clear that mandatory vaccination is quite a contentious issue in Italy and there is far from unanimous support for it.

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: