Bulletin N° 1055
Subject:
The use of history lessons for public consideration.
Grenoble
August 26, 2022
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
The
now famous aphorism coined by the Spanish philosopher George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it,” serves as a useful guide to avoid mistakes, although
we can be certain that history never repeats itself in the exact same manner.
For example the words of Harry S Truman after the
Nazi invasion of the USSR in June 1940, when he was still a Democratic US
Senator from Missouri, have a significance today, in quite a different
historical context: “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to
help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in
that way let them kill as many as possible….” (cited
in “Harry S. Truman: Decisive President,” by
Alden Whitman, The New York Times,
Dec. 27, 1972.)
The cynical expression of such opportunism speaks
volumes to the social class nature of impereialist warfare, which is partially captured by Albert Einstein in the following axiom: “Older men start wars, but
younger men fight them.” In WWI, the English were said to be prepared to fight
Germans to the last Frenchman, much as American-led NATO is said to be prepared
to fight Russians to the last Ukrainian.
History informs us of the eventual cost of wars and
post-war consolidation of international capitalist class interests, which unites
former “enemies” in new business ventures. The working class is soon left out
of this marriage de convenience, as
joint ventures are quickly organized for future capital investments, including
new wars for the military-industrial complex, when once again old men start war
for the younger working class to fight and die in.
Add this pattern to the “post-modern” notion of transhumanist robotics and “surplus population,” and an antique
relic of the late 19th century is again dredged up and put on display to see the light of day: “Eugenics,” the
sinister elitist ideal of population control borrowed from the 18th-century agrarian science
of selective cattle breeding.
Today,
it has belatedly dawned on many people that “consumerism” in our contemporary capitalist
system has evolved into an expansion of the concept of “commodity” to now include
people - not just their productive labor, as 19th-century Marxists
contended – but the actual biological and mental entity of their existence to
be exploited and disposed of at the whim of their "superiors" in a illegitimate, dependent power hiararchy.
Such
is the history of class struggle in the evolving capitalist system, where all
alliances are temporary and power is permanent. Routinely, the national
“enemy” has become tomorrow’s ally of the owners of capital,
and their objective is to secure more power over society, i.e. ownership for
private profit.
The
rules of this sinister board game remain the same, as players, employing a diversity of tactics, come and go to
win and to lose . . . .
The
19 + items below are articles and essays selected from critical Anglophone social
media which offer readers food for thought and encourage open-minded discussions about
public policy and the need for meaningful change. Without serious facilitation of democratic
participation in such public conversations, we will see tyranny by default.
The
choice is ours . . . .
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
___
Professeur honoraire de l'Université
Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
Whose Rules? Our Rules! in the Rules-Based
International Order
https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/23/whose-rules-our-rules-in-the-rules-based-international-order/
by David Bromwich
+
By the numbers: Keeping track of the single largest
arms transfer in US history
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57200.htm
by Connor Echols
+
War Propaganda About
Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/13/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-starting-to-wear-thin/
by Chay
Bowes
+
Russians Welcomed as Liberators in Many Eastern
Ukrainian Cities Contrary to Western Media Depictions
by Sonja Van den Ende
+
Europe Quietly Abandoning Ukraine, as for the First
Time, No New Military Pledges Have Been Made
by Uriel Araujo
+
'Weary' Europeans Must 'Bear Consequences' Of
Ukraine War As Putin Will Eventually Blink: EU's Borrell
by Tyler Durden
EU high representative and foreign policy chief Josep
Borrell gave a surprisingly blunt assessment of the Ukraine war and Europe's
precarious position in an AFP interview published Tuesday, admitting that
Russian President Vladimir Putin is betting on fracturing a united EU response
amid the current crisis situation of soaring prices and energy extreme
uncertainty headed into a long winter.
Borrell's words seemed to come close to admitting that
Putin's tactic is working on some level, or at least will indeed chip away at
European resolve in the short and long run, given he
chose words like EU populations having to "endure" the deep economic
pain and severe energy crunch. He cited the "weariness" of
Europeans while calling on leadership as well as the common people to
"bear the consequences" with continued resolve.
Borrell explained to AFP that Putin sees "the weariness of the
Europeans and the reluctance of their citizens to bear the consequences of
support for Ukraine."
+
A Military Rich in Dollars, Poor in People
https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/17/a-military-rich-in-dollars-poor-in-people/
by Andrea Mazzarino
+
US military equipment: Taliban seized over $7
billion of US military equipment
by The Economic Times
+
Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid,
wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/18/ukraine-veterans-us-aid-soldiers-war/
by Lindsey Snell and Cory Popp
“The weapons are
stolen, the humanitarian aid is stolen, and we have no idea where the billions
sent to this country have gone,” a Ukrainian complained to The Grayzone.
+
Discussing
Ukraine. Glenn Diesen interviews
Scott Ritter and Alexander Mercouris"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD44Eb1xDhE&feature=youtu.be
with Alex Alexander Mercouris, Glenn Diesen, and Scott
Ritter
(1:58:08)
+
Politico Calls Out Ukraine For War Crimes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuEi8HKYeNU
with Jimmy Dore
(9:22)
+
European Aid to Ukraine Grinds to a Halt
https://www.globalresearch.ca/european-aid-ukraine-grinds-halt/5791083
The Kiel
Institute for the World Economy reported this week that aid commitments from
the six largest European countries for Ukraine fell to almost zero in July.
My objective is to inform people worldwide and
refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to
destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the
imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in
its entirety: almost 8 billion people.
===========
b.
RNA for Moderna’s Omicron
Booster Manufactured by CIA-Linked Company
by Whitney Webb
+
"Baffling" Excess Death Mystery, Zelensky's Nuclear Game & New Bivalent Jab Will Cause
Real Pandemic
with Ryan Cristián
(2:28:36)
+
The Dogma and
History of Vaccination. Questioning "Germ
Theory" is a Taboo
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dogma-vaccination/5790942
by Michael Doliner
+
Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons:
Recent DARPA Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
by Whitney Webb – March 20, 2020
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c.
Fauci's out and Public Health Officials are Turning on
Themselves
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/faucis-out-and-public-health-officials?utm_source=email
by Robert Malone, MD, MS
That was long
past overdue, and Purity tests are never a good idea
+
Pro-Vax Bully Implicated
in Virus Engineering Program
https://viuku.com/pro-vax-bully-implicated-in-virus-engineering-program/
by VIUKU NEWS
+
“Hotez Funded Creation of Chimeric
Coronavirus”
https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2022/August/PDF/peter-hotez-virus-engineering-pdf.pdf
with analysis by Dr.
Joseph Mercola
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Dr. Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of
Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, has repeatedly dismissed the idea of a lab accident or
deliberate
spread, calling it “an outlandish conspiracy theory.”
He’s also a fiercecritic
of the ongoing Congressional probe into gain-of-function
research, decrying it as a “threat to American biomedical science”
As it turns out, Hotez has funded risky
gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the
now-infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology
Hotez’s conflicts of interst
are particularly pertinent as he’s on The Lancet COVID-19
Commission, where he co-chairs the COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics task
force
Hotez has a long history of public vitriol, insulting
and threatening parents of vaccine-
injured children and anyone who doesn’t buy the convenient one-size-fits-all vaccine
narrative. Anyone who disagrees with him is “antiscience”
and, in his mind at least, guilty
of a “hate crime” and should be punished with cyberwarfare
+
Five Salvadorans have dropped dead while walking on
the street; 92 fresh graves found in a small New Zealand town
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/five-salvadorans-have-dropped-dead?utm_source=email
by Mark Crispin Miller
Still more
evidence that those "vaccines" are REALLY doing to millions what
"the virus" NEVER did to anyone—i.e., causing them to "drop dead
in the street" (a Big Lie to be probed at Nuremberg 2.0)
+
In memory of those who "died suddenly" in
the United States and worldwide, August 15-August 22
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-c80?utm_source=email
by Mark Crispin Miller
Athletes in the US,
Brazil (2 soccer stars), Argentina, UK, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy
(where 2 yoga teachers also "died suddenly"); 9 killed in 7 "vaxxidents" worldwide; and many more
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d.
The Biden-Trump Persecution of Julian Assange
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57199.htm
by Eve Ottenberg
+
Those Angry at Rushdie's Stabbing Have Been Missing
In Action Over a Far Bigger Threat to our Freedom
https://www.mintpressnews.com/salman-rushdie-stabbing-julian-assange-freedom/281757/
by Jonathan Cook
+
Living in a World Built on All-American Lies
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57190.htm
by Kelly Denton-Borhaug
+
Outposts of the U.S. Surveillance Empire: Denmark
and Beyond
by Ron Ridenour
+
CovertAction Bulletin - Surveillance Nation: From Amazon to the NSA
by Rachel Hu
and Chris Garaffa
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e.
‘No Farms, No Food:’ Dutch farmers confront
billionaire ‘green’ elite’s food system reset plan
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/19/farms-food-dutch-farmers-protests-elite/
by Stavroula
Pabst
Dutch farmers’
protests offer a preview of the resistance to come as transnational “green”
billionaires advance a “reset” of the global food system. The elite agenda
threatens to deepen an international cost of living crisis and spark unrest
well beyond The Netherlands.
+
An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure
Continued U.S. Dominance
https://www.globalresearch.ca/engineered-food-poverty-crisis-secure-continued-us-dominance/5790815
by Colin Todhunter
The issue is not food shortage but speculation on
food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food
system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and
suppliers of inputs at the expense of people’s needs and genuine food security.
+
Droughts, Cloud Seeding and The
Coming Water Wars
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/droughts-cloud-seeding-and-the-coming?utm_source=email
by James Corbett
+
'Disaster Capitalism at Its Worst': Profits of Grain
Giants Spark Global Criticism
by Jessica Corbett
+
Eating Bugs: Let's Dig into It!
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/eating-bugs-lets-dig-into-it?utm_source=email
by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Crickets are
getting pushed by the UN/WEF as alternatives to farming - so lets pay attention!
+
Amid Warnings of 'Catastrophic Collapse,' Feds Cut
Colorado River Water Use in Arizona, Nevada
by Brett Wilkins
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f.
Vera Sharav Speech at
Nuremberg 75
with Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, speaking
first at the 75th Anniversary Event of the Nuremberg Code in Nuremberg,
Germany, on August 20, 2022
(26:48)
+
Mary Holland Speech at Nuremberg 75
with
Mary Holland, President & General Counsel for Children's Health Defense,
speaking at the 75th Anniversary Event of the Nuremberg Code in Nuremberg,
Germany, on August 20, 2022.
(10:23)
===========
g.
World Economic Forum makes big push for digital
identity programs around the world
https://reclaimthenet.org/wef-digital-id-push/
by Didi Rankovic
Says that governments need to develop "digital trust"
to make people accept the rollout of digital IDs.
+
Deglobalization and Central
Banking
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/deglobalization-and-central-banking
by Michael Lebowitz
+
How ‘Food Shortages’ & Economic Collapse
Protects the Status Quo
https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/23/how-food-shortages-economic-collapse-protects-the-status-quo/
by Colin Todhunter
Finland Braces For Rolling
Blackouts This Winter
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/finland-braces-rolling-blackouts-winter
by Tyler Durden
+
Number Of Migrants Crossing
English Channel Hits Single-Day Record
by Tyler Durden
+
Growing Number Of
Economists Anticipate Recession Will Hit By Middle Of Next Year: Survey
by Tyler Durden
+
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by Tyler Durden
+
Oil prices tumble as prospects of Iran deal grow
https://www.globalvillagespace.com/oil-prices-tumble-as-prospects-of-iran-deal-grow/
by Global Village Space
===========
h.
Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57197.htm
by Boaventura
de Sousa Santos
+
After Nuking Japan, US Government Lied About
Radioactive Fallout as Civilians Died
by Ben Norton
+
Letter to the United Nations Chief on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Situation
https://www.globalresearch.ca/letter-un-chief-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-situation/5790916
by Bruce K. Gagnon
+
High-Level Ukrainian Intelligence Official Admits
U.S. Deeply Involved in Ukraine Conflict
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
+
Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid,
wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/18/ukraine-veterans-us-aid-soldiers-war/
by Lindsey Snell and Cory Popp
+
In Just Under Three Weeks, Ukrainian-Fired Prohibited
“Petal” Mines Maim At Least 44 Civilians, Kill 2, in Donetsk Region
by Eva Bartlett
+
Ukraine: Amnesty International revealed the
unpleasant truth
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57189.htm
by Slavisha Batko Milacic
+
Ukrainian Regime Led by Media Darling Volodymyr Zelensky Kidnaps
Student Dissidents, Bans Opposition Parties, Shuts Down Independent Media,
Commits Egregious War Crimes and Imposes Regressive Labor Laws
by Dmitri Kovalevich
+
The Hideous Assassination of Russian Journalist Daria Dugina, Designed to Enhance
the Conflict?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hell-hath-no-fury-like-hegemon-scorned/5790851
by Stephen Karganovic
===========
i.
Letter from Republic of Mali to UN on French
Aggression and Support for Terrorism in Region
by
Abdoulaye Diop
+
Haiti: Beware of Washington's Trap!
http://www.blackagendareport.com/haiti-beware-washingtons-trap
by
Berthony Dupont
+
'A fearless leader': South African shack-dwellers’
leader, Lindokuhle Mnguni,
assassinated in Durban
by Pavan Kulkarni
+
Racial Genocide: The Case of the Martinsville Seven,
William L. Patterson, 1969
by Editors, The
Black Agenda Review
===========
j.
Israel Conquers the World
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-conquers-world/5790958
+
Israeli forces raided, ransacked and shuttered
offices of seven leading Palestinian human rights organizations
by Marjorie Cohn
+
How Israel erases Palestinian cultural memory
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-erases-palestinian-cultural-memory/36026
by Rona Sela
+
50+ Israeli Organizations Blast 'Baseless' Attacks
on Palestinian NGOs
by Kenny Stancil
+
Why is the world so indifferent to Gaza?
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-world-so-indifferent-gaza/36146
by Ghada Al-Haddad
+
Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey
Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israel
by Whitney Webb
+
Brutal police assault on Palestinian-American teen
in Chicago
https://electronicintifada.net/content/brutal-police-assault-palestinian-american-teen-chicago/36141
by Reema Rustom and
Muhammad Sankari
===========
k.
BBC assault on antiwar academics was apparent
product of UK intel plot
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/21/bbc-antiwar-academics-uk-intel/
by Kit Klarenberg
+
U.S. Media Decries Brutal Russia Invasion of
Ukraine—Yet an Intrepid Reporter Finds that the Russians Were Welcomed as
Liberators in the Southern Ukrainian City of Henichesk
along the Sea of Azov
by Sonja Van den Ende
+
Was the Now-Forgotten Murder of One Man on September
9, 2001 a Crucial Pre-condition for 9/11?
by Peter Dale Scott and Aaron Good
+
Virtual Reality and the Network State
https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/24/virtual-reality-and-the-network-state/
by
Ryan
Matters
+
The Deadly Business of Reporting Truth
https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/19/the-deadly-business-of-reporting-truth/
by
Andy
Lee Roth
+
A Hall of Mirrors
https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/19/patrick-lawrence-a-hall-of-mirrors-2/
by Patrick Lawrence
+
What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook,
Reddit, and TikTok All Have
in Common?
by John Parker
+
Amidst Uproar Over Nancy
Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan, Media Ignores Aggressive U.S. Maritime Action in
South China Sea
by Sara Flounders
+
How One Spook-Run London College Department Is
Training the World’s Social Media Managers
https://www.mintpressnews.com/kings-college-london0training-social-media-managers/281787/
by Alan Macleod
+
US universities are pipelines to the defense
industry. What does that say about our morals?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57196.htm
by Indigo Olivier
+
Corporate Media Mostly Mum as US Strikes Kill at
Least 20 in Somalia
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57201.htm
by Brett Wilkins
===========
l.
This Time the Collapse Will Be Global
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57193.htm
by Chris Hedges
+
Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act
"Secretly" Brought To You By Bill Gates
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57194.htm
by Tyler Durden
+
“End this silly nonsense of exploiting our children
and grandchildren,” wrote Rashida Tlaib.
“End student debt now.”
by Sharon Zhang,
+
The Broken College Ranking System
https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/18/the-broken-college-ranking-system/
by David Kirp
+
Should We Let Scam-Artists ‘Educate’ Our Young
People?
https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/23/should-we-let-scam-artists-educate-our-young-people/
by Sam Pizzigati
+
Nationalizing UK Energy Companies
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/22/nationalizing-uk-energy-companies/
by Andrew Fisher
+
The British “Bubble of Unreality”
https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/22/patrick-lawrence-the-british-bubble-of-unreality/
by Patrick Lawrence
===========
m.
The Western Narrative on Russia & China
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/24/the-western-narrative-on-russia-china/
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
+
The Only Thing Keeping US and China From War Is Running Dangerously Thin
https://www.globalresearch.ca/only-thing-keeping-us-china-from-war-running-dangerously-thin/5790911
by Scott Ritter
+
"Economic Warfare" Directed against China?
The Shanghai "Covid Zero Tolerance Mandate"
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
+
German dependence on China growing 'at tremendous
pace', research shows
by Klaus Lauer
+
China Forgives 23 Loans for 17 African Countries,
Expands ‘Win-Win’ Trade and Infrastructure Projects
by
Benjamin
Norton
+
What Did the West Promise Russia on NATO Expansion?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-did-west-promise-russia-nato-expansion/5790967
by Ted Snider
+
Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, is Responsible for
the War in Ukraine
by Roger Annis
+
US Space Force Wants to Disrupt Russia-China Space
Cooperation
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-space-force-wants-disrupt-russia-china-space-cooperation/5790931
by Drago Bosnic
===========
n.
New Documentary 'The Territory' Chronicles
Indigenous Land Defenders' Fight to Protect the Amazon
by Sara Herschander
+
VIDEO: Congress screws American workers to escalate
war on Russia
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/10/congress-american-workers-war-russia/
with Max Blumenthal
(7:45)
+
Likely
sensing the power of the labor movement, the GOP has compiled a shortlist of
labor officials to go after
by Sharon Zhang
+
By
making jury trials obsolete, plea bargaining allows the American criminal legal
system to run on autopilot
by Dan Canon,
+
Punjabi workers in Toronto are fighting wage
theft—and they're winning
https://therealnews.com/punjabi-workers-in-toronto-are-fighting-wage-theft-and-theyre-winning
by Saurav
Sarkar
+
Ask a railroad worker: How did railroad jobs get so
bad?
https://therealnews.com/ask-a-railroad-worker-how-did-railroad-jobs-get-so-bad
by Maximillian
Alvarez
+
“Revolutionary Organizing: An Interview with Ahjamu Umi”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/revolutionary-organizing-interview-ahjamu-umi
by
Ahjamu Umi,
and Roberto Sirvent
===========
o.
Republicans' imminent return to power
https://therealnews.com/republicans-imminent-return-to-power
by Marc Steiner
+
J. Edgar Hoover’s Evil Brainchild
http://www.blackagendareport.com/j-edgar-hoovers-evil-brainchild
by John Kiriakou
+
Liberals Love Liz Cheney
http://www.blackagendareport.com/liberals-love-liz-cheney
by Margaret Kimberly
+
The Investigation Into
Gordon B. Hinckley & Walton Hunter
with Ryan Cristián and Derrick Broze
(1:29:53)
===========
p.
A new Golden Age of protest songs
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/a-new-golden-age-of-protest-songs
by Mark Crispin Miller
+
The History and Significance of Black August
http://www.blackagendareport.com/history-and-significance-black-august
with Margaret
Kimberly and Kalonji Changa
(audio, 25:26)
+
Corbett Pirate Streams
https://www.bitchute.com/video/nMHACxqTVu3f/
with James Corbett
and Ryan Cristián
(29:47)
===========
q.
Well Being: Cardiovascular Damage & Health and
The role of supplements.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/well-being-cardiovascular-damage?utm_source=email
by Robert W Malone MD
There have been
a some peer reviewed papers recently published which provide clear evidence
that certain dietary supplements can help in repairing and supporting
cardiovascular and vascular health. Based on these data, it is reasonable to
hypothesize that supplements shown to support heart and vascular health in this
manner will provide benefit to those with damage done to the heart and
arteries/veins by COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines and most likely will have
benefit.
This topic comes
out of a conversation that I had with Dr. Ryan Cole and Dr. Richard Urso around the kitchen table one night a few months ago in
Tennessee, when we were providing testimony to the Tennessee legislature on
natural immunity. We were discussing damage done to the heart and vessels by
COVID-19 as well as the vaccines, and what types of interventions or treatments
can be done to help alleviate this damage. Jill mentioned supplements and all
involved shared some very pragmatic ideas on the subject, a discussion that
lasted well into the night.
In this Substack, I am writing to the many people with COVID-19 and
vaccine damage - as well as older people and all the people that support them
who have asked me the following question again and again.
“What can we do
to alleviate damage from the jab and long COVID?”
So, if this
isn’t you and you aren’t interested - feel free to stop reading now.
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Covid Treatment: Dr
Peter McCulloch Protocol
https://www.protectyourbreasts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Covid-trearment-Dr-McCulloch.doc.pdf
by Dr. McCullough
===========
r.
CHD TV – August
22, 2022
“Children’s
Health Defense – Live, Video, Audio”
+
New
PDF Ebook: “The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity” August 24, 2022
by Michel Chossudovsky
+
CovertAction Magazine: Archives
https://covertactionmagazine.com/
+
Global
Research: Selected Articles
+
Children's Health Defense - August 26, 2022
Please Join Us in the Battle Against Censorship
"We are winning !"
https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chd-deplatformed?wvpId=f0b6826b-15ae-4c2a-9662-3001033b9406
+
Counter Punch: Recent Articles
"Our Fascist Future"
https://www.counterpunch.org/articles/
===========
s.
“Are
Medical Errors Still the Third Leading Cause of Death?”
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked
Story at-a-glance
·
In 2013, Americans spent more on health care than Japan, Germany, France,
China, the U.K., Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Australia combined. At the
time, the U.S. ranked last in terms of quality of care among industrialized
nations. Little has changed since then. If anything, conventional medicine has
only gotten more dangerous over time
·
In 2021, The Commonwealth Fund’s international health care performance
report ranked the U.S. dead last out of 11 industrial nations yet again,
despite spending more of its GDP (18% as of 2019) on health care than any other
nation
·
A 2013 review of U.S. health care expenses revealed that 30 cents of
every dollar spent on medical care was being wasted on unnecessary services,
inefficient delivery of care, excess administrative costs, overinflated prices,
prevention failures and fraud. A follow-up investigation in 2019 found the
annual waste of health care funds had risen anywhere from $10 billion to $185
billion since 2013, and now accounts for one-quarter of all health care
spending
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In 1998, researchers concluded that properly prescribed and correctly
taken pharmaceutical drugs were the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S.
Since then, several investigations have concluded conventional medicine in
general, and medical errors in particular, are among the top leading causes of
death in the U.S.
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In 2016, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts calculated that more than
250,000 patients died each year from medical errors, making it the third
leading cause of death
I remember 22 years ago as if it were yesterday. It was a warm summer
afternoon in July 2000 and at the time I was getting the print copy of JAMA. I
was shocked to find the article that completely aligned with my interests,
"Is US Health Really the Best in the World?"1 It was
written by Barbara Starfield, MD.
Of course, I immediately sped to the article to carefully read it and
discovered that buried in tables for the article was the data that physicians
were the third leading cause of death in the United States. I created that
headline 22 years ago and it has been a meme ever since then, and virtually no
one realizes I created it.
Interestingly if you use the Brave search engine (which you should as
Google search controls 95% of the searches in the world and steals your
privacy) and you type in "Barbara Starfield JAMA
July 2000" the first article that comes up is a headline with the meme I
created.
For over 15 years when you typed in "doctors are the third leading
cause of death," my article on it from 2000 came up first, but those days
are long gone, since Google has censored me out of the search engines for the
past six years.
Starfield's Ironic Tragedy — A Victim to What She Chronicled
Ironically, Starfield became a statistic to her
own research. She died suddenly in June 2011, a death her husband attributed to
the adverse effects of the blood thinner Plavix taken
in combination with aspirin. However, her death certificate makes no mention of
this possibility. In many ways, this echoed the COVID jab cover-ups where the
true cause of death was obscured and hidden.
In the August 2012 issue of Archives for Internal Medicine,2 her husband, Dr. Neil A. Holtzman,
wrote, in part:
"Writing in sorrow and anger, I express up front my potential
conflict of interest in interpreting the facts surrounding the death of my
wife, Dr. Barbara Starfield ... Because she died
while swimming alone, an autopsy was required. The immediate cause of death was
'pool drowning,' but the underlying condition, 'cerebral hemorrhage,' stunned me ...
Barbara started taking low-dose aspirin after coronary insufficiency had
been diagnosed three years before her death, and clopidogrel
bisulfate (Plavix) after her right main coronary
artery had been stented six months after the
diagnosis. She reported to the cardiologist that she bruised more easily while
taking clopidogrel and bled longer following minor
cuts. She had no personal or family history of bleeding tendency or
hypertension.
The autopsy findings and the official lack of feedback prompted me to
call attention to deficiencies in medical care and clinical research in the
United States reified by Barbara's death and how the deficiencies can be
rectified. Ironically, Barbara had written about all of them."
Drug Safety Must Become a Priority, Not an Afterthought
Holzman went on to explain that
when a patient dies suddenly (and not while in a health care facility), there's
no routine procedure to notify their physician, even if the patient is
autopsied. Therefore, sudden deaths are only in very rare cases ever linked to
adverse effects of medical treatment (most common of which is drugs).
In this case, Starfield's husband personally brought
the findings of the autopsy to her doctor's attention, who subsequently
submitted an adverse event report to the FDA, stating that she was receiving Plavix, which may have contributed to her cerebral
hemorrhage and subsequent death.
"The report may be the critical action that prompts a modification
in use or design of the product, improves the understanding of the safety
profile of the drug or device and leads to increased patient safety," Holzman
wrote.
One of Starfield's points of contention with
the current medical system was the lack of systematic recording and studying of
adverse events, and her death highlights this situation, as it is quite
possible that it was the Plavix-aspirin combination
that killed her, yet if it hadn't been for an autopsy and her husband insisting
on an adverse event report, no one would ever have been the wiser about such a
connection.
Starfield herself pointed out that
her statistics were likely far lower than the real count, as they only included
people who died in the hospital. They did not include (as there's no data)
people who suddenly die outside a hospital setting, due to a drug side effect.
What if a sufficient number of adverse event reports had been filed prior
to her taking a combination therapy of Plavix and
aspirin — would her life have been spared? It's impossible to speculate of
course, but what is clear is that someone's life would eventually be spared if
adverse event reporting were taken seriously.
Plavix sales brought in $6.1
billion during 2010 alone;3 meanwhile, there's no telling how many
Dr. Starfields there are out there, who suddenly
collapse and die, and no one is ever made the wiser about their true cause of
death.
"As our population ages and morbidities accumulate, the United
States needs policies that redirect American medicine to primary care
physicians," Holzman wrote.
"By providing continuing care over time, primary care physicians can
practice person-focused as opposed to disease-centered care. They can get to
know their patients as persons and become aware of their multiple morbidities,
alert to the presence or possibility of disease and/or drug interactions.
... When a specific adverse event is expected (eg,
bleeding with clopidogrel), adverse event reporting
to FDA should be mandatory, and the manufacturer should be obliged to conduct postmarket surveillance. When a harmful effect is
confirmed, the FDA should issue a warning to physicians and require a warning
in the package insert. Risks should be weighed against benefits to decide
whether the drug should be removed from the market."
US Health Is Moving in the Wrong Direction
In 2013, Americans spent more on health care than Japan, Germany, France,
China, the U.K., Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Australia combined.4
At the time, the U.S. ranked last in terms of quality of care among
industrialized nations, and Americans had worse health outcomes compared to
most other nations.5
Fast-forward to 2021, and The Commonwealth Fund's international health
care performance report6 ranked the U.S. dead last out of 11
industrial nations yet again, despite spending more of its GDP (18% as of 20197)
on health care than any other nation.
According to that report, the U.S. has the lowest access to care, the
worst administrative efficiency and the poorest health outcomes. The U.S. also
has a staggeringly high infant mortality rate. Out of 195 countries and
territories, the U.S. is now in 50th place.8 Life expectancy in the
U.S. is also sliding. In 1999, we were in 24th place. Now we're ranked 67th.9
The US Health Care System Is Fundamentally Flawed
An Institutes of Medicine (IOM) review10 of U.S. health care
expenses, published in May 2013, revealed that 30 cents of every dollar spent
on medical care was being wasted on unnecessary services, inefficient delivery
of care, excess administrative costs, overinflated prices, prevention failures
and fraud.
All together, such medical waste added up to $750 billion annually. For
perspective, the Pentagon's proposed defense budget for 2014 was just under $527
billion.11 This waste of funds has also
stayed consistent over the years. A follow-up review published in October 2019
noted:12
"Despite efforts to reduce overtreatment, improve care, and address
overpayment, it is likely that substantial waste in US health care spending
remains ...
A search of peer-reviewed and 'gray' literature from January 2012 to May
2019 focused on the 6 waste domains previously identified ...: failure of care
delivery, failure of care coordination, overtreatment or low-value care,
pricing failure, fraud and abuse, and administrative complexity.
For each domain, available estimates of waste-related costs ... were
recorded, converted to annual estimates in 2019 dollars ...
Computations yielded the following estimated ranges of total annual cost
of waste: failure of care delivery, $102.4 billion to $165.7 billion; failure
of care coordination, $27.2 billion to $78.2 billion; overtreatment or
low-value care, $75.7 billion to $101.2 billion; pricing failure, $230.7
billion to $240.5 billion; fraud and abuse, $58.5 billion to $83.9 billion; and
administrative complexity, $265.6 billion ...
The estimated total annual costs of waste were $760 billion to $935
billion ... accounting for approximately 25% of total health care spending ..."
So, in the years between 2013 and 2019, the annual waste of health care
funds rose by anywhere from $10 billion to $185 billion, and now accounts for
one-quarter of all health care spending! Clearly, no one is taking this
seriously.
The health care industry is also, by and large, ignoring the fact that
conventional medicine itself has been a leading cause of death for at least 30
years, and probably a lot longer. That's how bad it is. People are just not
getting much better from all this care — it's actually killing them.13
Decades of Death by Medicine
In 1998, researchers at the University of Toronto, led by professor Bruce
Pomeranz, concluded that properly prescribed and
correctly taken pharmaceutical drugs were the fourth leading cause of death in the
U.S.14,15
Pomeranz's analysis was the largest
and most complete of its kind at that time. In all, they calculated that
somewhere between 76,000 and 137,000 American patients died each year from
correctly administered drugs.
Two years later, in 2000, the IOM reported16 that avoidable
medical errors were the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S., killing
between 44,000 and 98,000 people each year.17
This was followed by a 2003 article aptly titled, "Death by
Medicine,"18 written by Dr. Carolyn Dean, Gary Null, Ph.D., Dr.
Martin Feldman, Dr. Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith,
Ph.D., which described in excruciating detail how the modern conventional
American medical system has bumbled its way into becoming the leading cause of
death and injury in the United States, claiming the lives of nearly 784,000
people annually.
Using those figures, that would put the health care system as the No. 1
cause of death in the U.S., bypassing cardiovascular disease. These iatrogenic
deaths (meaning deaths resulting from the activity of physicians) include
everything from adverse drug reactions and avoidable medical errors, to
hospital-acquired infections, surgeries gone bad and deaths from unnecessary
medical procedures.
The authors took statistics straight from the most respected medical and
scientific journals and investigative reports by the IOM, showing that on the
whole, American medicine is causing more harm than good. (For clarity, the
reason Dean et. al. came up with a much higher number than anyone else, even in
later years, is likely because they included a broader range of mistakes.)
Medical errors have been the third leading cause of death for years, with
10% of all deaths being attributable to some kind of medical error, and it
continues to be a leading cause of death today, ranking somewhere between third
and first place, depending on the scope of medical mistakes you include in your
equation.
In 2010, a report in The New England Journal of Medicine,19 and another in the Journal of General
Internal Medicine,20 revealed just how little things had changed
since 2003.
For example, out of 62 million death certificates dated between 1976 and
2006, nearly 250,000 deaths were coded as having occurred in a hospital setting
due to medication errors,21 and an
estimated 450,000 preventable medication-related adverse events occurred every
year.
Three years later, in 2013, a Journal of Patient Safety study22,23,24,25 concluded preventable medical errors kill
anywhere from 210,000 to 440,000 patients a year. In 2016, Johns Hopkins
patient safety experts, led by Dr. Martin Makary,
calculated that more than 250,000 patients died each year from medical errors —
the same death count found in 2010.
In 2022, the World Health Organization announced that unsafe care by
medical professionals and hospitals result in a "horrifying" 2.6
million deaths each year, worldwide, with at least 250,000 of those in the U.S.26
And, in July 2022, the National Institutes of Health updated their library on
medical errors, saying that number could be as high as 440,000 — and possibly
even more because of lack of reporting — making it still the third leading
cause of death.27
So, medical errors have been the third leading cause of death for years,
with 10% of all deaths being attributable to some kind of medical error,28,29
and it continues to be a leading cause of death today, ranking somewhere
between third and first place, depending on the scope of medical mistakes you
include in your equation.
Avoid Teaching Hospitals in July
It's worth remembering that medical errors noticeably spike during the
month of July each year, particularly in teaching hospitals.30 This
phenomenon, referred to as "the July effect," is explained by the
fact that each July, thousands of fresh med students begin their medical residencies
and, frankly, they don't always know what they're doing.
So, anytime you're in the hospital, especially during the month of July,
check and double-check everything you're given. Ideally, you should always have
a patient advocate at your side — a friend or family member — who can ask
questions, take notes and keep track of your treatment. This is by far the most
effective way to avoid medical errors.
When it comes to drug-related errors, there are four points in the
medication use process at which errors can occur:31
1. When the medication is ordered (written, electronic or oral)
2. When the medication order is transcribed and verified
3. When it's dispensed
4. When it's administered to the patient
The most common drug errors occurring in hospitals include:
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Excessive dosage resulting in drug overdose
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Prescribing the wrong drug
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Dispensing the wrong drug
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Accidents involving medications during surgery or
medical procedures
Older adults are at a higher risk of medication errors and have a greater
propensity for experiencing harmful and fatal errors. The most common types of
medication errors in older adults are omission and improper dose.
Medical Care Often Dictated by Financial Interests
In her 2008 book, "Overtreated: Why Too
Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer,"32 Shannon
Brownlee noted that 180,000 hospitalized Americans die every year from largely
preventable causes, and the worst part about it, Brownlee says, is that as much
as one-third of that care does nothing to improve your health.
Typically, you'll end up undergoing certain medical tests based on what
your physician's specialty is, not because that's necessarily the test you
need. For example, if you have low back pain and see different specialists, you
will get different tests: rheumatologists will order blood tests, neurologists
will order nerve impulse tests, and surgeons will order MRIs and CT scans.
Many treatments are also prescribed for the simple reason that the
hospital has a vested interest in them. Such is often the case for angioplasties
and certain types of chemotherapy, for example.
They have all this equipment and they need to use it to get a return on
it — but they also need to get you out of there as quickly as possible, so they
can get the next patient in. What ensues is a type of aggressive patient
therapy that can end in disaster.
According to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS), in October 2008, 27% of hospitalized Medicare
recipients were harmed as a result of the medical care they received, and
nearly half of these instances were preventable.33
Ten years later, in 2018, the DHHS OIG repeated the study, and found 25% of
Medicare patients were harmed during their hospital stay.34
Can Conventional Medicine Survive?
Over the past 19 months, the quality of U.S. health care has gone so
rapidly down the tubes, many now refer to hospitals as "killing
fields" and "murder factories," as the most dangerous treatments
possible for COVID-19 have been enforced as the sole standard of care.
There are also a disturbing number of accounts of hospitals denying COVID
patients food and water, something that would have been unthinkable in years
past. The only apparent reason for all this has been financial incentives, as
hospitals have received government funding for every COVID test, treatment and
death.
To this day, going to a hospital is a risky venture that many will avoid
like the plague, and for good reason. There are still plenty of stories in
circulation about patients being denied medications, food and water, even if
they're not admitted specifically for COVID, so something appears to have
fundamentally changed for the worst.
At the same time, rates of chronic diseases are through the roof. My advice? Take your health into your own hands. Abandon
this fatally flawed medical model and embrace holistic modalities that can help
you heal on a body-wide level.
Take Control of Your Health
It's important to remember that the more you take responsibility for your
own health — in the form of nurturing your body to prevent disease — the less
you need to rely on the "disease care" that passes for health care.
In my anniversary article, "25 Health Tips for 25 Years," I summarize some
of the strategies I've found most helpful.
The truth is, if you carefully follow some basic health principles —
simple things like exercising, eating whole organic foods, sleeping enough and
getting sun exposure — you can drastically reduce your need for conventional
medical care, which in and of itself will reduce your chances of suffering ill
side effects.
In the event you do need medical care, seek a health care practitioner
who will help you move toward health by helping you understand the foundational
causes of your health challenges, and create a customized and comprehensive —
i.e., holistic — treatment plan for you.
What's more, you can have an impact on your doctor's tendency to
recommend natural alternatives, as when you inquire about them, some health
care providers do in fact listen. If they don't, then keep shopping.
Remember, your doctor works for you, not the other way around. Ideally,
it's a partnership, where you work together to identify the best solutions.
Either way, if you're not satisfied with their know-how or the tools in their
toolbox, find another doctor.
And, last but not least, always bring someone with you when you go to the
hospital. Now more than ever before, standing firm on your patient rights is
essential to ensure a positive outcome.
If you're seriously ill, it can be very difficult to keep tabs on what
they're asking you to sign and the medications and treatments they're giving
you, so having someone there who can double-check everything — and make sure
you receive basic care in the form of fluids and nutrition — can be a life
saver.
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