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Commentary: Trusting the authorities
Published on Friday, August 21,
By Gordon Barlow
This sure is the Age of Information, isn’t it?
Too much information, perhaps.
Remember the Good Old Days when we believed everything we read in the newspapers and heard on the radio and TV?
There wasn’t much call for contrary opinions, then. We trusted the media not to lie to us, and we trusted the authorities not to lie to the media.
Not any more.
Today the international mainstream media organs (“the MSM”) broadcast the official versions of events, and alternative versions are offered by independent blogs and online forums. (One of my favourite news websites calls itself “What Really Happened”.)
The ongoing debate over mass medication is a case in point. At least in the USA and the UK, the MSM almost always reports the political and medical establishments’ assurances that mass medication is safe. If it weren’t safe it wouldn’t be authorized: it’s as simple as that.
It is usually left to the independent websites to look behind the curtains. Are the official assurances believable, or are the spokesmen on the payroll of the pharmaceuticals companies (“Big Pharma”)? Follow the money, they say.
After all, Big Pharma makes billions of dollars from every drug approved by government inspectors; the companies’ senior managers and chemists pocket some of those billions in bonuses; banks pay billions in bonuses when the companies pay off their loans; lobbyists skim off billions more in fees, some of which they pass on to politicians in bribes called “election donations”.
Fluoride in the public water supplies is safe, depleted uranium is safe, genetically modified foods are safe, recycled sewage is safe, vaccinations for swine flu are safe. The MSM says “yes, that’s correct”, the independents say “well, not so fast”.
Swine flu
Increasingly, the general public doesn’t trust the MSM of Britain and America, or the officials from whom they get their news. Trust has been eroded by too many lies, over the years. As a general statement: politicians however democratically elected, and bureaucrats however fairly appointed, long ago sold out to Big Pharma and Big Agriculture and Big Military and Big Banks. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me a hundred times, forget it.
The brutal Western crusade against Moslems – invasions, occupations, tortures, indiscriminate slaughters, ethnic cleansing, mass abductions, concentration camps… The theft of trillions of dollars of private and public moneys… The economic collapse and the endless bailouts from the Public Purse… The faked suicides of whistle-blowers and investigators...
Official lies and pretence are part of the daily fare, all over the world. Oh well, maybe they always were.
The cover-ups are effective, God knows. Forty-six years after the event, we still don’t know who killed Kennedy. The CIA say they didn’t – but they say they don’t torture prisoners, too. How can we believe a word they say?
Even Al Jazeera and Pravda are more believable now than the CIA – and Britain’s MI6.
So. What are we to believe about the swine flu? Is it really a naturally occurring pandemic?
Some websites allege that the virus was created in a US or British laboratory as a bio-warfare weapon. Billions of dollars stand to be made from the surge in vaccine-use during the next flu season. Champagne all round, eh?
One British newspaper reports that an advisor to the UK Government is actually an executive of a company that makes an anti-flu drug. He was instrumental in having the swine flu designated as a pandemic. Fancy that.
Public Health
Where does all this leave us consumers?
At least one EU (European Union) nation is openly expressing doubts as to the effectiveness of the vaccines and the post-infection inoculations. They are refusing to be hustled into mass medication on the say-so of Big Pharma.
How should consumers react to reports that the vaccines haven’t yet been tested for small babies?
How much trust should we put in assurances that the medication is safe for everybody?
How fatal is the swine flu anyway, and who says? Could the cure be worse than the disease?
Turning to Cayman, now: I’d like to hear our local medical association’s answers to all the questions.
What have its members done to learn about the disease’s lethality and the vaccines’ safety, for people of different ages?
And especially: what truth is there in reports of the very nasty side-effects of Tamiflu?
What research have our Caymanian politicians done on the topic?
We can’t realistically expect any original research to be done on-Island, but we do expect our paid protectors to protect us to the best of their abilities. Public Health kept us in the dark about HIV in the early days; can we rely on them to tell us the whole truth about the swine flu in these early days?
Will they be compelling us all to get the jabs, or recommending them, or recommending against, or what? It’s a bit disappointing that we’ve heard so little to date from our local experts. Shouldn’t they be trying to build a local consensus?
I have two small grandchildren, whose parents are leaning towards skipping the vaccines and Tamiflu. It could be a life-or-death decision. If they do skip the medication, will they be courting death or dodging it?
What should I tell them?
Published on Friday, August 21,
By Gordon Barlow
This sure is the Age of Information, isn’t it?
Too much information, perhaps.
Remember the Good Old Days when we believed everything we read in the newspapers and heard on the radio and TV?
There wasn’t much call for contrary opinions, then. We trusted the media not to lie to us, and we trusted the authorities not to lie to the media.
Not any more.
Today the international mainstream media organs (“the MSM”) broadcast the official versions of events, and alternative versions are offered by independent blogs and online forums. (One of my favourite news websites calls itself “What Really Happened”.)
The ongoing debate over mass medication is a case in point. At least in the USA and the UK, the MSM almost always reports the political and medical establishments’ assurances that mass medication is safe. If it weren’t safe it wouldn’t be authorized: it’s as simple as that.
It is usually left to the independent websites to look behind the curtains. Are the official assurances believable, or are the spokesmen on the payroll of the pharmaceuticals companies (“Big Pharma”)? Follow the money, they say.
After all, Big Pharma makes billions of dollars from every drug approved by government inspectors; the companies’ senior managers and chemists pocket some of those billions in bonuses; banks pay billions in bonuses when the companies pay off their loans; lobbyists skim off billions more in fees, some of which they pass on to politicians in bribes called “election donations”.
Fluoride in the public water supplies is safe, depleted uranium is safe, genetically modified foods are safe, recycled sewage is safe, vaccinations for swine flu are safe. The MSM says “yes, that’s correct”, the independents say “well, not so fast”.
Swine flu
Increasingly, the general public doesn’t trust the MSM of Britain and America, or the officials from whom they get their news. Trust has been eroded by too many lies, over the years. As a general statement: politicians however democratically elected, and bureaucrats however fairly appointed, long ago sold out to Big Pharma and Big Agriculture and Big Military and Big Banks. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me a hundred times, forget it.
The brutal Western crusade against Moslems – invasions, occupations, tortures, indiscriminate slaughters, ethnic cleansing, mass abductions, concentration camps… The theft of trillions of dollars of private and public moneys… The economic collapse and the endless bailouts from the Public Purse… The faked suicides of whistle-blowers and investigators...
Official lies and pretence are part of the daily fare, all over the world. Oh well, maybe they always were.
The cover-ups are effective, God knows. Forty-six years after the event, we still don’t know who killed Kennedy. The CIA say they didn’t – but they say they don’t torture prisoners, too. How can we believe a word they say?
Even Al Jazeera and Pravda are more believable now than the CIA – and Britain’s MI6.
So. What are we to believe about the swine flu? Is it really a naturally occurring pandemic?
Some websites allege that the virus was created in a US or British laboratory as a bio-warfare weapon. Billions of dollars stand to be made from the surge in vaccine-use during the next flu season. Champagne all round, eh?
One British newspaper reports that an advisor to the UK Government is actually an executive of a company that makes an anti-flu drug. He was instrumental in having the swine flu designated as a pandemic. Fancy that.
Public Health
Where does all this leave us consumers?
At least one EU (European Union) nation is openly expressing doubts as to the effectiveness of the vaccines and the post-infection inoculations. They are refusing to be hustled into mass medication on the say-so of Big Pharma.
How should consumers react to reports that the vaccines haven’t yet been tested for small babies?
How much trust should we put in assurances that the medication is safe for everybody?
How fatal is the swine flu anyway, and who says? Could the cure be worse than the disease?
Turning to Cayman, now: I’d like to hear our local medical association’s answers to all the questions.
What have its members done to learn about the disease’s lethality and the vaccines’ safety, for people of different ages?
And especially: what truth is there in reports of the very nasty side-effects of Tamiflu?
What research have our Caymanian politicians done on the topic?
We can’t realistically expect any original research to be done on-Island, but we do expect our paid protectors to protect us to the best of their abilities. Public Health kept us in the dark about HIV in the early days; can we rely on them to tell us the whole truth about the swine flu in these early days?
Will they be compelling us all to get the jabs, or recommending them, or recommending against, or what? It’s a bit disappointing that we’ve heard so little to date from our local experts. Shouldn’t they be trying to build a local consensus?
I have two small grandchildren, whose parents are leaning towards skipping the vaccines and Tamiflu. It could be a life-or-death decision. If they do skip the medication, will they be courting death or dodging it?
What should I tell them?
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