Saturday, November 13, 2021

The Covid Outbreak: “Biggest Health Scam of the 21st Century

The Covid Outbreak: “Biggest Health Scam of the 21st Century.” Report by 1500 Health Professionals

United Health Professionals (UHP) Report

We say : STOP to all crazy and disproportionate measures that have been taken since the beginning to fight SARS-CoV-2 (lockdown, blocking the economy and education, social distancing, wearing of masks for all, etc.) because they are totally unjustified, are not based on any scientific evidence and violate the basic principles of evidence-based medicine.

On February 4, 2021, United Health Professionals sent a followup report to national governments entitled:

International Alert Message about COVID-19. United Health Professionals  

Neither the August report nor the more recent February report have been the object of media coverage.  

The earlier UHP August 28, 2020 report (which was also submitted to national governments) laid the groundwork for the February 2021 report. 

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The August 2020 report is entitled:

STOP the Terror, Madness, Manipulation, Dictatorship, Lies and the Biggest Health Scam of the 21 st Century,  

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list of signatories

1. We say : STOP to all crazy and disproportionate measures that have been taken since the beginning to fight SARS-CoV-2 (lockdown, blocking the economy and education, social distancing, wearing of masks for all, etc.) because they are totally unjustified, are not based on any scientific evidence and violate the basic principles of evidence-based medicine. However, we of course support reasonable measures such as recommendations of washing hands, sneezing or coughing in elbow, using a disposable tissue, etc.

It is not the first time that humanity faces a new virus : it experienced H2N2 in 1957, H3N2 in 1968, SARS-CoV in 2003, H5N1 in 2004, H1N1 in 2009, MERS-CoV in 2012 and faces the seasonal flu virus every year. However, none of the measures taken for SARS-CoV-2 has been taken for these viruses. We are told :

-“But, SARS-CoV-2 is very contagious” and we answer : IT’S ABSOLUTELY FALSE. This claim is, moreover, rejected by internationally renowned experts[1]. A simple comparison with the other viruses shows that the contagiousness of SARS-CoV-2 is moderate [2,3]. It’s diseases like measles that can be described as very contagious. For example, a person with measles can infect up to 20 people while a person infected with this coronavirus only contaminates 2 or 3, that is : 10 times less than measles. –

“But, it is a new virus” and we answer : H1N1 and the other viruses that we mentioned were also new viruses. Yet : we did not put countries into lockdown, we did not block the global economy, we did not paralyze the education system, we did not social distancing and we did not tell the healthy people to wear masks.



In addition, some experts say that it is possible that this virus was already circulating before but we did not realize it [4].

-“But, we don’t have a vaccine” and we answer : at the start of H1N1, we also had no vaccine, as at the time of SARS-CoV. Yet : we did not put countries into lockdown, we did not block the global economy, we did not paralyze the education system, we did not social distancing and we did not tell the healthy people to wear masks.

-“But, this virus is much more deadly” and we answer : IT’S ABSOLUTELY FALSE. Because, compared to the flu for example, and if we take into account the period between 01 November and 31 March, there was worldwide -when those measures have been taken- : 860,000 cases and 40,000 deaths while the flu in the same period of 5 months infects, on average 420 million people and kills 270,000. In addition, the case fatality rate announced by the WHO (3,4%) was greatly overestimated and was rejected from the beginning by eminent experts in epidemiology5.

But even if we take this case fatality rate, we can see that this coronavirus is three times less lethal than that of 2003 (10%) and ten times less lethal than that of 2012 (35%).

-“But, COVID-19 is a serious illness” and we answer : IT’S ABSOLUTELY FALSE. SARS-CoV-2 is a benign virus for the general population as it causes 85% of benign forms, 99% of those infected recover, it does not constitute a danger for pregnant women and children (unlike the flu), it spreads less faster than the flu6 and 90% of those who die are elderly people (who must, of course, be protected like other populations at risk). This is why experts have called “delirium” the claim that it is a serious illness and said, on August 19, that “it is not worse than the flu” 7.

“But, there are asymptomatic people” and we answer : 77% of infected people are asymptomatic in influenza too and they can also transmit the virus8. Yet : healthy people are not told every year to wear masks and no social distancing is done despite the fact that the flu infects 1 billion people and kills 650,000.

-“But, this virus leads to saturation of hospitals” and we answer : IT’S ABSOLUTELY FALSE. Saturation affects only a few hospitals, but people are made to believe that the entire hospital system is saturated or that saturation is imminent when there are thousands of hospitals in certain countries.

Is it reasonable and true to attribute, for example, to 1,000 or 2,000 hospitals a situation which concerns only 4 or 5 hospitals? Furthermore, it is not surprising that some hospitals were saturated because they were situated in clusters (like Lombardy in Italy or New York in the USA). It should not be forgotten that hospitals in many countries have been overwhelmed (including intensive care units) during previous influenza epidemics9 and at the time, we were even talking about : “tsunami” of patients in hospitals, “saturated hospitals”, tents erected outside the hospitals, “war zones”, “collapsed hospitals” and a “state of emergency”. And yet : we did not put countries into lockdown, we did not block the global economy, we did not paralyze the education system, we did not social distancing and we did not tell the healthy people to wear masks.

2. We say : STOP to these crazy measures also because of their catastrophic consequences that have already started to appear : suicide of people as it was reported in China, development of psychiatric disorders, paralysis of the educational path of pupils and students at the university, negative impacts and dangers on animals, neglecting other diseases (especially chronic) and an increase in their mortality, domestic violence, economic losses, unemployment, major economic crisis (few people know that the economic crisis of 2007-2008 has caused the suicide of at least 13,000 people in Europe and North America), serious consequences on agriculture, destabilization of countries and social peace, risk of wars.

An editorial [5] published in the European Journal Of Clinical Investigation has denounced, from the beginning, the harms of : non‐evidence‐based extreme measures, exaggerated information on the real danger of the virus and the fake news spread (even by major journals). Some have even compared this pandemic to that of the 1918 influenza, which is a LIE and a manipulation since it killed 50 million people, which has absolutely nothing to do with the death toll of this coronavirus.

3. We REFUSE the obligation of contact tracing applications as it is the case in certain countries because SARS-CoV-2 is a benign virus which does not justify such a measure. Moreover, according to international recommendations and whatever the severity of a pandemic (moderate, high, extraordinary), contact tracing is not recommended. During flu epidemics, do we make contact tracing ? Yet, the flu virus infects much more people and has more populations at risk than this coronavirus.

4. We say : STOP the censorship of experts and health professionals to prevent them from telling the truth10 ( especially in countries that claim to be democratic).

5. We share the opinion of experts who denounce the inclusion of screenings in the counting of cases, even if the subjects are healthy and asymptomatic. This resulted in an overestimation of the cases. It should be remembered that the definition [11] of a case in epidemiology is : “the occurrence of many possible outcomes : illnesses, complications, sequelae, deaths. In so-called syndromic surveillance, the occurrence of non-specific events such as grouping of symptoms or reasons for seeking care, hospitalizations, calls to emergency services is defined as a case”. So, we say : separate the screenings from the cases and stop confusing them.

6. We share the opinion of experts who denounce the fact that no distinction is made between people who died from the virus and people who died with the virus (with co-morbidities), the fact that the cause of death is attributed to SARS-CoV-2 without testing or autopsy and that doctors are pressured to add COVID-19 to death certificates even if the patient died from other reasons.

This leads to an overestimation of the number of deaths and constitutes a scandalous manipulation of the figures because during epidemics of seasonal flu for example, we don’t work in this way. Especially, since 20% of COVID patients are co-infected with other respiratory viruses [12].

After re-evaluation, only 12% of death certificates in a European country13 have shown a direct causality from coronavirus. In an another European country, Professors Yoon Loke and Carl Heneghan showed that a patient who has tested positive, but successfully treated and discharged from hospital, will still be counted as a COVID death even if he had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later.

On July 31, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s director of a country in North America recognized that it is true that there is a perverse economic incentive for hospitals to inflate coronavirus deaths.

7. We share the opinion of experts who warned against the almost systematic intubation of certain patients, due to the mad fear of the virus. Protocols must be changed as they have resulted in a high number of deaths [14].

8. We say : it is important that a review of the analytical and clinical performances of the tests placed on the market be made, including the virological tests.

Many testing kits are currently used when a significant part of their performances (for example : analytical specificity, especially for the four seasonal coronaviruses) has not been evaluated, which is a serious problem because in addition to cases of false negatives, the literature reports worrying false positives, which may overestimate the number of cases and deaths. According to a professor of microbiology7, the false positive rate can reach 20%. Certain scientific articles which reported these cases of false positives have been censored [15].

Therefore, we say : STOP the obligation of screening tests because of this unreliability and the lack of verification of their performances and because nothing in this coronavirus (which is a benign virus and with a low case fatality rate) justifies it. As we said : The flu infects 1 billion people every year (30 times more than SARS-CoV-2) and yet no test is required for travel.

9. We say to citizens : do not be afraid, this virus is benign unless you are part of the populations at risk. If the TV channels do the same thing with the flu, the figures will be much higher than for the coronavirus ! The TV channels will report to you every day, on average, 3 million cases and 2,000 flu deaths. And for tuberculosis, TV channels will report to you each day, on average, 30,000 cases and 5,000 dead. In fact, the flu virus infects 1 billion people each year and kills 650,000 and tuberculosis infects 10,4 million people each year and kills 1,8 million people. In addition, on TV you are informed about “cases” but they are screenings and not cases. A scientific article, SARS-CoV-2 : fear versus data, published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, has proven that the danger of the virus was overestimated and that fear could be more dangerous than the virus itself.

10. We say to citizens : hand washing is a reflex that we must have throughout our lives, whether there is coronavirus or not, because it is the most effective hygiene measure. But wearing a mask when you are not sick and practicing social distancing, it is not part of hygiene or preservation of public health, but it is madness. Wearing a mask for a long time has several undesirable effects for your health16 and turns it into a microbes nest. “The virus can gather in the mask and when you take it off, the virus can be transferred to your hands and thereby spread further”, state epidemiologist Doctor Anders Tegnell. Asked if people are putting themselves more at risk by wearing masks, Doctor Jenny Harries said :  “Because of these behavioural issues, people can adversely put themselves at more risk than less”.

Even dentists warned, recently, about the serious effects on oral health because they see that wearing masks for a long time leads to diseases like decaying teeth, periodontal diseases or seriously sour breath.

“We’re seeing a lot of people with more inflammation, more cavities and gum disease…We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities in people who have never had them before…About 50% of our patients are being impacted by this”,

says Doctor Robert Raimondi, a dentist.

“People tend to breathe through their mouth instead of through their nose while wearing a mask…The mouth breathing is causing the dry mouth, which leads to a decrease in saliva and saliva is what fights the bacteria and cleanses your teeth…Patients are coming into us like, ‘Wow, my breath smells, I need a cleaning.’ [But] when you smell the bad breath, you either already have periodontal disease or you have a lot of bacteria that’s sitting on your tongue because of dry mouth…Gum disease -or periodontal disease- will eventually lead to strokes and an increased risk of heart attacks”,

says Doctor Marc Sclafani, another dentist.

In addition, many of you complain about these masks, especially in this summer period. You must know that the mouth and the nose are not made to be obstructed. What you wear is a mask, apparently but a muzzle of your freedom, in reality. Especially since the epidemic is over in most countries, as several experts say like Professor Yoram Lass, and those who tell you the opposite are LIARS. By telling you that the epidemic is not over, by talking about the threat of a second wave (which is not based on any evidence), by asking you to wear a mask and to do social distancing, the goal is, in fact, to prolong the fear until a vaccine is made and so that it will be better accepted by you.

11. We say to the airlines compagnies : several scientific studies have shown a link between excess in hygiene and the development of diseases such as allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases or certain cancers. This is what we call in medicine : the hygienist hypothesis. So, stop the disinfection operations and remove the masks and the ridiculous protective suits of your employees that we have seen in the media [17]. Doing this is madness. Airports must also stop taking temperatures and making quarantine. SARS-CoV-2 is not the Black plague. You too, like the citizens, have been manipulated.

12. We say to governments : lift all restrictions and obligations on citizens (state of emergency, lockdown, wearing a mask, social distancing, etc) because they are stupid and purely dictatorial and have nothing to do with medicine or hygiene or the preservation of public health. There is no scientific or medical reason for non-sick citizens to wear a mask5. Doctor Pascal Sacré, anesthesiologist and intensive care physician, said : “Forcing everyone to wear them all the time, while the epidemic disappears, is a scientific and medical aberration”. Professor Didier Raoult says :

“The decision of lockdown as the decision of wearing masks…are not based on scientific data…”.

Dr. Lisa Brosseau and Dr. Margaret Sietsema, experts on respiratory protection, say :

«We do not recommend requiring the general public who do not have symptoms of COVID-19-like illness to routinely wear cloth or surgical masks because : there is no scientific evidence that they are effective in reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission…».

Professor Maël Lemoine precised that the change in the recommendations about masks is : “political, not scientific”.

In some Asian countries, people wear masks all the year (to protect themselves from pollution, for example). Did this widespread mask-wearing in these countries prevent them from having coronavirus epidemics ? Does this widespread mask-wearing in these countries prevent them from having each year epidemics of the flu or other respiratory viruses ?

The answer is of course : No. On the other hand, with the 8 million tonnes of plastic that are already dumped into the oceans every year, masks and gloves add a new threat and constitute a pollution that is particularly dangerous for our health and for fauna. In Italy, if only 1% of the masks currently used were thrown, 10 million masks would end up in the ocean each month18. In addition, the surgical masks have a lifespan of 450 years! Therefore, we say to governments : STOP these illegal and dangerous measures of mandatory mask wearing.

13. We say to the police : the citizens owe you a lot because you are every day the guarantors of their security and the respect of law and order. But this does not mean submitting blindly to unfair orders. It was this mistake that led to the second world war and the death of 50 million people.

So, we tell you : enforce the law but not injustice and dictatorship, refuse to enforce these measures, refuse to verbalize your fellow citizens (when they are not wearing a mask for example), don’t beat them, do not imprison them.

Don’t be the instruments of dictatorship. Be on the side of the citizens and follow the beautiful example of the American police officers who supported the citizens by kneeling with them. We assure you that these measures have nothing to do with medicine or hygiene or the preservation of public health, it is dictatorship and madness.

14. We say to citizens : we must respect the law. But, this does not mean blind submission to madness, injustice or dictatorship.

It was this blind submission of citizens that led to the second world war with the death of 50 million people. You were born free and you must live free, therefore : do not be afraid and if you are not sick : take off the masks, leave your house as you wish and without social distancing, but do it peacefully and without any violence. Professors Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, epidemiologists with a great expertise in evidence-based medicine, say : “There is no scientific evidence to support the disastrous two- metre rule. Poor quality research is being used to justify a policy with enormous consequences for us all”.

15. We say that a total reform of the WHO must be done. WHO’s successes are indisputed : millions of lives have been saved thanks to smallpox vaccination programs and the consumption of tobacco has been reduced worldwide. However, the major problem of the WHO is that, since several years, it is 80% funded by companies (especially, pharmaceutical laboratories) and private donors (especially, a very well-known foundation) and there are many scandals :

  • false alarm on H1N1 flu under the pressure of pharmaceutical lobbies,
  • disturbing complacency towards glyphosate which the WHO declared safe despite the victims of the herbicide,
  • blindness towards the consequences of pollution due to oil companies in Africa,
  • minimization of the human toll of nuclear disasters from Chernobyl to Fukushima and the disasters of
  • the use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq and the Balkans,
  • non- recognition of Artemisia in the treatment of malaria to protect pharmaceutical interests despite the fact that it has been already evidence-based medicine.

The independence of the organization is compromised both by the influence of industrial lobbies -especially pharmaceuticals- and by the interests of its member states, in particular : China. The president of a country said :

“I think that the World Health Organization should be ashamed of themselves because they are like the public relations agency for China”.

The Geneva institution, which had underestimated the Ebola threat (more than eleven thousand dead) is also accused of neglect towards tropical diseases, in favor of juicier markets.

An investigation done in 2016 (WHO in the clutches of lobbyists)[19] showed an edifying radiography of the WHO ; a weakened structure subject to multiple conflicts of interest. This investigation has shown how private interests dominate public health in the WHO.

It is not acceptable that the money which finances it comes mainly from a single person and that it is infiltrated by lobbies. Recently, the WHO became even more discredited by falling into the trap of the Lancet Gate while a simple student could find that it was a fraudulent study

At the time of the H1N1 flu : Dr. Wodarg, the chairman of the Health Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), criticized the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on scientists and officials of the WHO, saying that it has led to the situation where “unnecessarily millions of healthy people were exposed to the risk of poorly tested vaccines” and that, for a flu strain, it was “vastly less harmful” than all previous flu epidemics [20].

He was totally right because, later, the vaccine made 1,500 victims of narcolepsy including 80% were children, as we will see.

He also criticized the WHO for spreading the fear of a “false pandemic“, called it “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century” and he called also for an enquiry.

In fact, the criteria for declaring a pandemic (such as severity) have been modified by the WHO under the influence of pharmaceutical lobbyists so that they can sell the vaccines to countries around the world. According to a report21 done by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe about the way in which the H1N1 influenza pandemic had been managed, including by the WHO :

“waste of large sums of public money and also unjustified scares and fears about health risks…Grave shortcomings have been identified regarding the transparency of decision-making processes relating to the pandemic which have generated concerns about the possible influence of the pharmaceutical industry on some of the major decisions relating to the pandemic. It must be feared that this lack of transparency and accountability will result in a plummet in confidence in the advice given by major public health institutions”.

History repeats itself today with exactly the same actors and the same compaign of fear. The former WHO director of public health department revealed in another investigation (Trust WHO) that at the time of H1N1 nobody was afraid at the WHO and that he didn’t know anyone at the WHO who had himself vaccinated, including the former Director-General : Dr. Margaret Chan [22]. Although he was a leading official at the WHO, he was excluded as well as most of his colleagues from a meeting between the Director-General and the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing the vaccine and the reason was : “it is a private meeting”…

16. We say that an enquiry must be opened and that certain WHO officials must be questioned, in particular the one who made the international promotion of the lockdown, which is a heresy from a medical point of view and a scam that has misled the world. Indeed, on February 25, 2020 : the head of WHO-China joint mission on COVID-19, praised the response brought by Beijing to the epidemic [23]. He said that China had succeeded by “old-fashioned” tools, emphasized that “the world needed to learn from China” and must be inspired by it. He also said that “if he had COVID-19, he wanted to be treated in China” ! Once, he also praised China [24] calling it “very open” and “very transparent”.

Who can believe these statements ? Who can believe that if he had COVID-19, he wanted to be treated in China ? Who can believe that the world must be inspired by China and that the control of the epidemic must be done with “old-fashioned methods” ?

What is amazing is that he made the whole world believe what he said. Because unfortunately : since his declarations and the report overseen by him (where we can read that China methods are : “agile and ambitious”), the countries of the world have taken disproportionate measures and blindly followed the recommendations of the WHO by confining their populations.

Fear and psychosis have been propagated by presenting SARS-CoV-2 as a very dangerous virus or with massive mortality when it is absolutely not the case.

Fortunately, an interview with him showed an important part of the truth and WHO’s conflicts of interest with China when a journalist asked him about the status of Taiwan (which is in conflict with China) in the WHO and whether the WHO would reconsider Taiwan’s membership : he pretended not to hear the question then when he was asked again, he ended the video call ! (The video reached more than 8 million views)[25]. It was also he who said at the end of February : “There is only one drug right now that we think may have real efficacy and that’s remdesivir”. How can he say this even before the results come out ? And why did he say it ?

Canadian Members of Parliament [26] have even issued a mandatory summons to him, after he turned down repeated invitations to testify to a House of Commons committee. Even, the Canadian Conservative Leader has raised concerns about the accuracy of the WHO’s data on COVID-19.

Indeed, saying that China has reduced the number of cases or managed the epidemic well and has flattened the curve thanks to the lockdown is a pure lie and is not based on any evidence because no one is able to give the number of cases or deaths in China if it had not applied the lockdown. In addition, a few months later : the world discovered that the numbers of cases and deaths were not even true !

Recently, three African countries expelled WHO officials because, according to some states, they falsified the COVID-19 case numbers by inflating them.

The people who are behind the lockdown, the global psychosis and terror, when they see : the rush of people to the supermarkets, the people arguing for pasta or toilet paper, the distances of 1 meter as if it was the plague, the people confined as if they were animals, the streets disinfected, the police beating citizens, drones and helicopters mobilized, the people going out with certificates, the wearing of mask despite the end of the epidemic and the fact that people are not sick, it is not excluded that they are laughing because of the ease with which they have manipulated whole countries and may be, they even call them : sheep.

  • The madness has reached the point that in some countries :
  • beaches have been disinfected with bleach,
  • mustached and bearded firefighters have been banned from work,
  • plexiglass barriers have been installed everywhere (even in the classrooms) as if it was the pestilence,
  • a train was stopped because a person was not wearing the mask,
  • families deprived of seeing their dead (as if the virus was going to jump from the body and bite them),
  • women in their seventies fined after going out to throw trash
  • and even coins and banknotes coming from abroad have been “isolated” !

How can countries accept to fall into this level of madness, stupidity and dictatorhip ? Especially those who call themselves democratic countries.

All this for a virus that causes 85% of mild forms and for which 99% of infected people recover.

WHO has urged the world to copy China’s response to COVID-19 and it has succeeded ; every country in the world, blindly following the WHO, has become a certified copy of China.

Only a few countries have refused to imitate others stupidly like Sweden or Belarus that can be congratulated.

The president of a European country was right when he said that :

“it is only a psychosis more dangerous than the virus itself”. World renowned experts have qualified the global alert as “disproportionate”.

Professor Jean-François Toussaint said :

“It seems to me that WHO has a very great responsibility in not being able to establish priority, in having tirelessly repeated that it was a threat to the humanity” (Journal International de Médecine, June 13, 2020).

17. We say that we must stop following blindly the WHO because it is not a learned society and is far from being independent, as we have seen.

Asked about the reason of the decision to make 11 vaccines compulsory, a former health minister [27] of a European country answered :

“It is a public health decision which in fact responds to a global objective of the WHO which demands today from all countries of the world to obtain 95% of children vaccinated for the necessary vaccines”.

We also recommend governments to choose well the experts who advise them and avoid those who have links with pharmaceutical companies ;

An eminent professor in infectiology made this remark on certain experts of a European country:

“An eminent member of the High Council’s Communicable Diseases Commission received 90,741 euros from the pharmaceutical industry, including 16,563 euros from [the pharmaceutical laboratory which produces a competing molecule of hydroxychloroquine]. However, it is this High Council which made the famous decision of prohibiting hydroxychloroquine, except for those who will die…I do not see any trace in this decision of the respect of the procedure for managing conflicts of interest… If a member presents a major conflict of interest, he must leave the meeting and not participate in the debates or in the writing of the decision… However, at the bottom of this decision, there is no mention of conflicts of interest or the number of members qualified who participated in the vote. It’s a serious violation of the rules”.

A former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said :

“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful” 28.

This, of course, should not be generalized to everyone.

18. We say to governments : no longer follow -in epidemics- the mathematical models which are virtual things unrelated to reality and which have misled the world in several occasions and were a justification for the mad policies of lockdown.

Indeed, a European university which has strong links with the WHO said that :

  • -50,000 British people will die from mad cow disease whereas in the end only 177 have died.
  • -Bird flu was going to kill 200 million people while only 282 died.
  • -H1N1 flu was going to kill 65,000 British people while only 457 died [29].

The mortality rate was also exaggerated and the H1N1 flu ended up being milder than originally anticipated motivating some to decry the considerable money, time and resources consumed by the response.

At that time, the press discovered that the rector of this university [30], who advised WHO and governments, received a salary of 116,000 £ a year from the swine flu vaccine manufacturer.

Today, it is on the base of the same faulty model, developed for the planning of the influenza pandemic, that they gave their astrological predictions on COVID-19 ; they said that 500,000 will die in the UK, 2,2 million in the USA, 70,000 in Sweden and between 300,000 and 500,000 in France[31] !

Who can believe these crazy numbers ? That’s why Professor Didier Raoult qualifies these modellings as : “the modern version of divinations”.

Professor John Ashton also denounced these astrological predictions and the fact that they have a kind of religious status. In addition, the press has discovered that the one who, in this university, urged governments to make lockdown does not even respect what he recommended them32. Here, too, an enquiry must be conducted with certain officials of this university. Professor Jean-François Toussaint said about the lockdown :

“We must absolutely prevent any government from making such a decision again. Especially since the instrumentalization of the pandemic with generalized lockdowns for half of humanity has only resulted in strengthening authoritarian regimes and stopping campaigns to prevent major deadly diseases. In France, the simulations estimating that 60,000 lives have been saved are pure fantasies”.

The famous international slogan : “stay home, save lives” was just a lie. On the contrary, lockdown has killed many people.

19. We REFUSE the compulsory vaccination and we REFUSE the compulsory coronavirus vaccination certificate to travel, for the following reasons :

The vaccine is not essential because 85% of the forms are benign, 99% of the infected subjects recover and the children as well as the pregnant women are not subjects at risk. In addition, a large part of the population is already protected against SARS-CoV-2 by the cross-immunity acquired with the seasonal coronaviruses[33].

Saying that we are not sure of this is a LIE and raising doubts on the duration or the effectiveness of this protection is a manipulation aiming to protect the business plan of the vaccine.

-It is an RNA virus, therefore more prone to mutations and there is a risk that the vaccine may be ineffective.

-Vaccine trials are carried out in a rush34 and some call for speeding up the testing procedures and doing them without the usual animal trials, which is risky. Testing vaccines without taking the time to fully understand safety risks could bring unwarranted setbacks during the pandemic and into the future.

-The previous trials of vaccines against coronaviruses are worrying [34] : in 2004, one of the vaccines developed against SARS had caused hepatitis to the animals on which it had been tested. Another vaccine in the testing phase had caused severe lung damage to laboratory animals, making them more susceptible to future infections. Decades ago, vaccines developed against another coronavirus, feline infectious peritonitis virus, increased cats’ risk of developing the disease caused by the virus. Similar phenomena have been seen in animal studies for other viruses, including the coronavirus that causes SARS.

-Some vaccines are tested by companies that have no experience in the manufacture and marketing of vaccines and that use new technologies in medicine of which we know neither the benefits nor the risks for health.

-The search for financial profit of several pharmaceutical companies at the expense of the people’s health (without generalizing, of course).

The head of a pharmaceutical company said to his shareholders during H1N1 flu : “This vaccine, it will be a significant opportunity in terms of income. It is a nice boost for us, for the turnover and for the cash flow” [27] .
The former health minister of a European country declared on May 23, 2020 :

“When there is an epidemic like COVID, we see : mortality, when we are a doctor, … or we see : suffering. And there are people who see : dollars…you have big laboratories that say : now is the time to make billions” [35].

On June 16, 2020, Professor Christian Perronne, a specialist in infectious diseases, said to Sud Radio about the coronavirus vaccine :

“We don’t need it at all … All this is about purely commercial goals”. The website of the magazine Nexus published on August 07 the opinion of Doctor Pierre Cave who said :

“In France, the epidemic is over…as a doctor, I do not hesitate to anticipate the decisions of the government : We must not only refuse these vaccines [against COVID-19], but we must also denounce and condemn the purely mercantile approach and the abject cynicism which guided their production”.

-The scandalous ethical violations in many clinical trials :

As Western countries do not allow them to violate ethical principles, many pharmaceutical companies (without generalizing) carry out their clinical trials of drugs and vaccines in developing or poor countries where experiments are carried out on people without informing them and without their consent.

A report [36] written by Irene Schipper (SOMO briefing paper on ethics in clinical trials) showed shocking and very serious ethical violations ; in a clinical trial, for example, African women became infected by HIV and then ill with AIDS. This clinical trial was funded by well-known foundation and laboratory. In some countries, these scandalous clinical trials were carried out with the complicity of local authorities and with conflicts of interest.

-A pharmaceutical company : AstraZeneca has been granted protection from future product liability claims related to its COVID-19 vaccine, in case of harmful side effects by most of the countries with which it has struck supply agreements. In other words, it is the states and not AstraZeneca that will compensate the victims, that is to say with the money of the citizens ! In this regard, we say to citizens : protest MASSIVELY against this scandalous, shameful and deeply unfair agreement until it will be deleted. You must refuse this IRRESPONSIBLE use of your money. Even Belgian experts were “shocked” by this agreement.

-The scandals of dangerous and even deadly vaccines developed during epidemics and we will mention two examples (we are, of course, not anti-vaccines since it calls into question the discoveries of Edward Jenner).

The scandal of the vaccine against the H1N1 : it has been tested on a small number of people and yet it was marketed as safe in 2009.

But one year later, concerns were raised in Finland and Sweden about a possible association between narcolepsy and the vaccine. A subsequent cohort study in Finland reported a 13-fold increased risk of narcolepsy after vaccination in children and young people aged 4- 19, most of whom had onset within three months after vaccination and almost all within six months.

In 2013, a study published in the British Medical Journal confirmed these results for England, too37. In total, this dangerous vaccine has resulted in 1,500 cases of narcolepsy in Europe alone and 80% of the victims are children. Part of the vaccinated NHS medical staff was also affected by narcolepsy.

Narcolepsy is a chronic and incurable neurological disease where patients fall asleep uncontrollably, they suffer from sleep attacks that last minutes and happen anywhere and at anytime in the day (daytime sleepiness) and are also victims of impressive cataplexy attacks (sudden temporary muscle weakness or loss of muscular control caused by a strong emotion like a laugh, anger or surprise. This can cause weakness in the knees, inability to articulate or sometimes even a fall during a few seconds). This disease damages mental functions and memory and can lead to hallucinations and mental illness. Peter Todd, a lawyer who represented many of the claimants, told the Sunday Times:

“There has never been a case like this before. The victims of this vaccine have an incurable and lifelong condition and will require extensive medication”.

Among the vaccine victims : Josh Hadfield (eight years) who is on anti- narcolepsy drugs costing £15,000 a year to help him stay awake during the school day.

“If you make him laugh, he collapses. His memory is shot. There is no cure. He says he wishes he hadn’t been born. I feel incredibly guilty about letting him have the vaccine”, said his mother [38].

Families suffered an ordeal that lasted 7 years to win their case in court. And instead of the pharmaceutical laboratories compensating them, the states [38,39] did it, that is to say with the money of the citizens !

The scandal of the deadly dengue vaccine in an Asian country [40], in 2018: According to the office of the prosecutor Persida Acosta, 500 children died as a result of this vaccine and several thousand are sick.

Some children need operations to absorb the blood after severe bleedings. Most families cannot pay those operations. According to the prosecutor, the responsibilities are shared between the laboratory which sold “a dangerous vaccine” and the government which set up a “massive and indiscriminate” vaccination campaign, in deplorable conditions. Doctor Erwin Erfe, who worked for the prosecutor’s office, performed two to three autopsies of children per week with always the same results : “Internal bleedings, especially in the brain and lungs…and swollen organs”.

This vaccine, however, promised to be a planetary triumph ; in 2015, the laboratory confirmed with great fanfare the marketing of a revolutionary dengue vaccine. It was a world first, the product of twenty years of research and 1,5 billion euros of investment. Yet from the beginning, voices raised in the scientific community : Doctor Antonio Dans tried to warn about the inconclusive results of the first clinical trials. In the United States, Professor Scott Halstead, a world renowned specialist in the disease, even sent a video broadcasted in the Senate of the country to urge to suspend the vaccination program. The former health minister of the country has been charged in this scandal. “It’s the lure of profit that killed these children”, said prosecutor Persida Acosta.

20. We say : STOP to all these mad, dictatorial measures and certainly not sanitary because of which tragedies occur every day :

  • a teenage girl committed suicide in Great Britain because, for her, the lockdown was to last 300 years [41],
  • a pregnant woman suffered martyrdom during the childbirth in France [42],
  • a teenager in the USA suffered a displaced jaw and will require surgery after he was assaulted by a couple he asked to wear masks,
  • a nurse were also assaulted in France and a bus driver even died due to these illegal measures of mandatory masks,
  • 60,000 cancer patients could die in the UK because of a lack of treatment or diagnosis according to Professor Karol Sikora,
  • 12,000 people could die per day by the end of the year as a result of hunger linked to COVID-19 measures (according to Oxfam),
  • the number of cardiac arrest doubled in some countries43, companies go bankrupt,
  • 305 million full-time jobs have been lost -affecting especially : women and young people- according to the International Labour Organisation, a man is dead because of mask in the USA [44],
  • etc.

Even the birds suffer from these dangerous measures and are trapped and killed because of the masks :

” [the gull could only] stumble and fall as the poor thing had a disposable Covid face mask tangled around both legs…It’s clear the mask was there for some time and the elastic straps had tightened around his legs as his joints were swollen and sore…I’m concerned that this gull could be the first of many victims now that face masks are the norm”,

Employees of the Royal Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals said to the BBC on July 20 and the bird suffered this torture for a week !

It should, also, be noted that the initial and primary cause of George Floyd’s tragedy is the lockdown : if there was no lockdown, he would not have lost his job, he would have been on May 25 at work, he would not have been murdered, the stores vandalism and fires as well as the clashes with the police would not have happened, the chaos in the USA would have been avoided and George Floyd would still be alive among us today.

21. We say to governments : EVERYTHING must return immediately to normal (including the reopening of hospital services, air transport, economy, schools and universities) and this global hostage-taking must stop because you have known, with supporting evidence, that you as citizens, have been the victims of the biggest health scam of the 21th century.

Professor Carl Heneghan said on August 23 that the public fear that is stopping the country returning to normal is unfounded, according to the Express. Professors Karina Reiss and Sucharit Bhakdi released in June, a book called : “Corona : false alarm ?” 45 .

The mayor of a city in Europe declared : “The atmosphere spread on [the subject of the coronavirus] is particularly heavy and becomes suspicious”.

Dr. Olivier Chailley has written a book called :

“The virus of fear, how the whole world became crazy”. Professor Sucharit Bhakdi (he sent, also, a letter to Angela Merkel) described the measures taken, including lockdown, as : “grotesque, absurd and very dangerous…a horrible impact on the world economy…self-destruction and collective suicide…”.

An international and independent investigation must be opened and those responsible must be tried.

22. We say to the citizens : to keep you in the “flock”, it is possible that some will try to discredit us by all means, for example by accusing us of conspiracy, etc. Do not listen to them, they are LIARS because the information you have been given are : medical, scientific and documented.

23. We say to the citizens : this letter should not lead you to violence towards anyone. React peacefully. And if a healthcare professional who signs this letter will be attacked or slandered or threatened or persecuted : support him MASSIVELY.

Dear citizens : a lot of scientists, eminent professors in medicine and health professionals around the world denounced what is going on and it’s time for you to wake up !

If you don’t talk, new dictatorial measures will be imposed.

You must REFUSE this. We assure you that these measures have nothing to do with medicine or hygiene or the preservation of public health, it is dictatorship and madness.

Doctor Anders Tegnell said : «The world went mad» with coronavirus lockdowns which «fly in the face of what is known about handling virus pandemics».

24. We invite health professionals ALL AROUND THE WORLD to be strong and courageous and to do their duty of telling the truth, to join us MASSIVELY in the collective : United Health Professionals and to sign this letter by :

Sending the following 4 pieces of information: first name, last name, profession and country to :

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Sending (to  join.unitedhealthprofessionals@gmail.com ) a video (in English or in your language) between 5 and 10 minutes in which you give your opinion and expertise on COVID-19 or on the measures taken to fight COVID-19.

Your video will be then published on the YouTube channel of the collective.

The list of signatories will be updated regularly.

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Thursday, November 4, 2021

The killing of Gaddafi 10 resulted in the death of Libya!

NATO together with its master killed Qaddafi because of the latter desire to introduce Gold Dinars for oil trades to replace PetroDollar! NATO former Secretary American butt-licker Anders Fogh Rasmussen has blood in his hands for the killing of Qaddafi and turning Libya from a rich peaceful nation to one of chaos and destruction! The African migrant rush to Europe was one of the consequences of eliminating Qaddafi for which Europe is now paying the price!

The killing of Gaddafi 10 years ago has resulted in the death of the nation of Libya and the destruction of its people
Richard Medhurst
20 Oct, 2021

Muammar Gaddafi led his nation to become the wealthiest in all of Africa. A decade after his demise, it is riven by tribalism, terrorism and slavery, all because the West could not allow an Arab leader to succeed.

There was never really an ‘Arab Spring’ in Libya the way there was in Egypt or Tunisia. Protests were much smaller, and as time went on to show, the biggest players turned out to be extremist groups and foreign actors, each trying to get a slice of the country.

NATO’s bombing of Libya and support for rebels seeking to overthrow Gaddafi had little to do with wanting the country to prosper. Under the guise of ‘human rights’ and ‘democracy’, the Western military alliance helped murder one of the Arab world’s most prominent leaders in order to steal Libya’s resources and protect Western hegemony. Later on, as part of Operation Timber Sycamore, the CIA would find additional utility in Gaddafi’s ousting: funnelling Libya’s stockpiles of weapons and ammunition over to Syria to arm Al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups.

Seldom discussed in the news anymore, Libya has become a shadow of its former self, ravaged by 10 years of war and chaos. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the other war criminals who orchestrated its destruction don’t want you to know how badly it’s doing.

From thriving nation to ‘failed state’

Known for his extravagance, Gaddafi boasted a security detail of female bodyguards, lavish outfits, and long, dramatic speeches. He also transformed Libya from one of the poorest countries on Earth into a rich, self-sufficient state, all while managing a tribal society in a country home to the largest oil reserves in Africa.

During his 42 years in power, he increased the country’s literacy rate from 25% to 88%. Libyans enjoyed free healthcare, free education, and a high standard of living. Basic necessities such as electricity and gas were cheap, and the country was guaranteed a strong social safety net and welfare programs.

Libya is 90% desert. Gaddafi sought to provide fresh water to all Libyans for consumption and agriculture – an endeavor in which he succeeded. He built the world’s largest irrigation project, the ‘Great Man-Made River’ in the 1980s. Boasting the world’s largest pipe network, it provides 70% of all the fresh water in Libya. Gaddafi called it the “Eighth Wonder of the World”. Costing over $25 billion, the project was entirely self-financed, without any loans or credits from foreign banks. Libya had grown to be a very wealthy country and had no external debt.

NATO bombed the Great Man-Made River in July 2011, destroying key civilian infrastructure: a war crime.

The United Nations’ Human Development Index provides a summary measure of health, education and income. In 2010, Libya was ranked number one in Africa, and 53rd out of 189 countries and territories. Today, its ranking has sunk from 53rd to 105th worldwide.

After the NATO-backed ‘revolution’, Libya has none of these nice things anymore. There are constant power cuts. The healthcare system has collapsed. There is no infrastructure. The standard of living has plummeted, and after 10 years, Libya doesn’t even have a functioning central government.

In March this year, a government of national unity was formed, after a ceasefire brokered in October 2020. While it has largely held until now, and elections are scheduled for December, infighting persists, and whether anything comes of this process remains to be seen.

Instead of an abundance of water, gold and oil in a thriving country with great infrastructure, Libya now has open slave-trade markets. Smugglers and human traffickers take advantage of migrants and refugees passing through to Europe, selling them off into bondage. Rival tribes and political factions fight over oil and other precious resources, determined to seize power for themselves. Meanwhile, pockets of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), Al-Qaeda and other jihadist fighters lurk in the shadows, plaguing the war-torn country and its neighbors – groups who wouldn’t have dared establish a presence in Gaddafi’s Libya.

Once a prosperous nation, since his fall, it has been taken over by terrorists, opportunists and thieves, and has plunged into chaos. This is what has become of Libya these last 10 years. This is what NATO created.

One of Gaddafi’s best speeches was in 2008 in Damascus, at a meeting of the Arab League. Rebuking the violent invasion of Iraq, he offered Arab leaders a stark reminder of what befell Saddam Hussein, whom the US once considered an ally against Iran.

“An entire Arab leadership was executed by hanging, yet we sit on the sidelines. Why? Any one of you might be next.”

Chuckling at his words, other Arab leaders would have done well to take heed of Gaddafi’s warning, for, indeed, the US would come for Syria and Libya next. And just three years later, Gaddafi himself would be brutally killed at the hands of NATO-backed rebels.

Anti-imperialist, pan-Arabist and pan-African: Why Gaddafi had to fall

The late Libyan leader supported independence and national liberation movements right across the world, including groups such as the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Irish Republican Army, the Black Panther Party, and many more. In the 1970s, he tried to merge Libya with Egypt and Syria to form a unified Arab state. In 2009, he proposed that African nations adopt a single currency: the gold dinar. The Libyan Central Bank, which was 100% state-owned, had reserves of 144 tons of gold that he intended to use for this purpose. Gaddafi proposed that African countries buy and sell their resources exclusively in this new pan-African currency. This would enable them to transition away from the US dollar and the Central Africa (CFA) franc – a colonial currency used in 14 countries and controlled entirely by France.

This was Gaddafi’s biggest sin. In wanting African nations to adopt a single currency, to control their own resources and have true independence, he posed a threat to Western monetary hegemony, so he had to go.

Western governments were well aware of this plan. A look at the emails of then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, show discussions around Gaddafi’s gold reserves and his plans for a single currency. It became clear to the West that African countries switching away from the US dollar or CFA franc, and controlling their own currency and monetary policy, would undermine American and French influence over Africa. It would weaken the Western monopoly over African resources and the international banking system, rendering neo-colonial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund less effective in manipulating developing nations.

Not that we needed further confirmation; but written clearly in those emails was evidence that this plan to provide an alternative to the CFA franc “was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya.”

Sarkozy decided to bomb Libya because he knew full well that West African and Central African countries abandoning the CFA franc would minimise France’s sphere of influence over its ‘former’ African colonies and fulfil its “desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production” – that is, plunder Libya’s wealth.

Gaddafi foresaw this in 2011, when he said, “There is a conspiracy to control Libyan oil and to control Libyan land, to colonize Libya once again.”

All this is a stark reminder that NATO couldn’t care less about protestors and the ‘Arab Spring’. Claims of “respect for democracy” were merely a cover story to protect Western interests and steal Libya’s resources, leaving the country in chaos and crawling with terrorists, just like Iraq and Syria.

Nothing could be more emblematic of how evil the entire affair is, than Hillary Clinton literally jumping for joy on hearing of Gaddafi’s demise, after he was brutally sodomized, lynched and executed by NATO-backed rebels. “We came, we saw, he died,” she said.

Killed for his success

Gaddafi was always a thorn in the side of Western colonial interests. His greatest ‘crime’ was wanting real independence, threatening US and French monetary hegemony, and the international banking system.

Now people look at Libya and label it a ‘failed state’, but Gaddafi’s Libya was not a failed state. It was Africa’s wealthiest and most prosperous nation – a thriving, flourishing state until the West deliberately destroyed it in 2011.

Apologists for Western imperialism love dismissing the achievements of other countries and labelling their leaders dictators, but the truth is, Libya was much better off under Gaddafi. It had oil, gold, water and resource independence.

History is littered with African, Arab and Latin leaders, killed by the United States, for daring to make their countries better and seeking to challenge Western hegemony. Gaddafi is no exception.

There is nothing the West hates more than an Arab leader who opposes imperialism, Zionism and wants his country, and other Arab and African countries, to be self-sufficient. That is why NATO murdered Gaddafi.
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Richard Medhurst is a British journalist born in Damascus. Owing to his coverage of international relations, US politics, the Middle East and Julian Assange extradition he has built a successful YouTube channel and hosts a program on Press TV. Follow him on Twitter @richimedhurst

Who Owns the World?

An eye-opening article everyone MUST read and watch the video located at Rumble.

Who Owns the World?
By Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
October 30, 2021

Until recently, it appeared economic competition had been driving the rise and fall of small and large companies across the U.S. Supposedly, PepsiCo is Coca Cola’s competitor, Apple and Android vie for your loyalty and drug companies battle for your health care dollars. However, all of that turns out to be an illusion.

Since the mid-1970s, two corporations — Vanguard and Blackrock — have gobbled up most companies in the world, effectively destroying the competitive market on which America’s strength has rested, leaving only false appearances behind.

Indeed, the global economy may be the greatest illusionary trick ever pulled over the eyes of people around the world. To understand what’s really going on, watch Tim Gielen’s hour-long documentary, “MONOPOLY: Who Owns the World?” above.

Corporate Domination

As noted by Gielen, who narrates the film, a handful of mega corporations — private investment companies — dominate every aspect of our lives; everything we eat, drink, wear or use in one way or another. These investment firms are so enormous, they control the money flow worldwide. So, how does this scheme work?

While there appear to be hundreds of competing brands on the market, like Russian nesting dolls, larger parent companies own multiple smaller brands. In reality, all packaged food brands, for example, are owned by a dozen or so larger parent companies.

Pepsi Co. owns a long list of food, beverage and snack brands, as does Coca-Cola, Nestle, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars, Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Danone and Associated British Foods. Together, these parent companies monopolize the packaged food industry, as virtually every food brand available belongs to one of them.

These companies are publicly traded and are run by boards, where the largest shareholders have power over the decision making. This is where it gets interesting, because when you look up who the largest shareholders are, you find yet another monopoly.

While the topmost shareholders can change from time to time, based on shares bought and sold, two companies are consistently listed among the top institutional holders of these parent companies: The Vanguard Group Inc. and Blackrock Inc.

Pepsi and Coca-Cola — An Example

For example, while there are more than 3,000 shareholders in Pepsi Co., Vanguard and Blackrock’s holdings account for nearly one-third of all shares. Of the top 10 shareholders in Pepsi Co., the top three, Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation, own more shares than the remaining seven.

Now, let’s look at Coca-Cola Co., Pepsi’s top competitor. Who owns Coke? As with Pepsi, the majority of the company shares are held by institutional investors, which number 3,155 (as of the making of the documentary).

As shown in the film, three of the top four institutional shareholders of Coca-Cola are identical with that of Pepsi: Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation. The No. 1 shareholder of Coca-Cola is Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

These four — Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and Berkshire Hathaway — are the four largest investment firms on the planet. “So, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are anything but competitors,” Gielen says. And the same goes for the other packaged food companies. All are owned by the same small group of institutional shareholders.

Big Tech Monopoly

The monopoly of these investment firms isn’t relegated to the packaged food industry. You find them dominating virtually all other industries as well. Take Big Tech, for example. Among the top 10 largest tech companies we find Apple, Samsung, Alphabet (parent company of Google), Microsoft, Huawei, Dell, IBM and Sony.

Here, we find the same Russian nesting doll setup. For example, Facebook owns Whatsapp and Instagram. Alphabet owns Google and all Google-related businesses, including YouTube and Gmail. It’s also the biggest developer of Android, the main competitor to Apple. Microsoft owns Windows and Xbox. In all, four parent companies produce the software used by virtually all computers, tablets and smartphones in the world. Who, then, owns them? Here’s a sampling:

    Facebook — More than 80% of Facebook shares are held by institutional investors, and the top institutional holders are the same as those found in the food industry: Vanguard and Blackrock being the top two, as of the end of March 2021. State Street Corporation is the fifth biggest shareholder
    Apple — The top four institutional investors are Vanguard, Blackrock, Berkshire Hathaway and State Street Corporation
    Microsoft — The top three institutional shareholders are Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation

You can continue going through the list of tech brands — companies that build computers, smart phones, electronics and household appliances — and you’ll repeatedly find Vanguard, Blackrock, Berkshire Hathaway and State Street Corporation among the top shareholders.

Same Small Group Owns Everything Else Too

The same ownership trend exists in all other industries. Gielen offers yet another example to prove this statement is not an exaggeration:

    “Let’s say we want to plan a vacation. On our computer or smart phone, we look for a cheap flight to the sun through websites like Skyscanner and Expedia, both of which are owned by the same group of institutional investors [Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation].

    We fly with one of the many airlines [American Airlines, Air France, KLM, United Airlines, Delta and Transavia] of which the majority of the shares are often owned by the same investors …

    The airline we fly [on] is in most cases a Boeing or an Airbus. Again, we see the same [institutional shareholders]. We look for a hotel or an apartment through Bookings.com or AirBnB.com. Once we arrive at our destination, we go out to dinner and we write a review on Trip Advisor. The same investors are at the basis of every aspect of our journey.

    And their power goes even much further, because even the kerosene that fuels the plane comes from one of their many oil companies and refineries. Just like the steel that the plane is made of comes from one of their many mining companies.

    This small club of investment companies, banks and mutual funds, are also the largest shareholders in the primary industries, where our raw materials come from.”

The same goes for the agricultural industry that the global food industry depends on, and any other major industry. These institutional investors own Bayer, the world’s largest seed producer; they own the largest textile manufacturers and many of the largest clothing companies.

They own the oil refineries, the largest solar panel producers and the automobile, aircraft and arms industries. They own all the major tobacco companies, and all the major drug companies and scientific institutes too. They also own the big department stores and the online marketplaces like eBay, Amazon and AliExpress.

They even own the payment methods we use, from credit card companies to digital payment platforms, as well as insurance companies, banks, construction companies, telephone companies, restaurant chains, personal care brands and cosmetic brands.

No matter what industry you look at, the top shareholders, and therefore decision makers, are the same: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and/or Berkshire Hathaway. In virtually every major company, you find these names among the top 10 institutional investors.

Who Owns the Investment Firms of the World?

Diving deeper, we find that these major investment firms are in turn owned by their own set of shareholders. One of the most amazing things about this scheme is that the institutional investors — and there are many more than the primary four we’ve focused on here — also own each other. They’re all shareholders in each other’s companies.
At the top of the pyramid — the largest Russian doll of all — we find Vanguard and Blackrock.

“Together, they form an immense network that we can compare to a pyramid,” Gielen says. Smaller institutional investors, such as Citibank, ING and T. Rowe Price, are owned by larger investment firms such as Northern Trust, Capital Group, 3G Capital and KKR.

Those investors in turn are owned by even larger investment firms, like Goldman Sachs and Wellington Market, which are owned by larger firms yet, such as Berkshire Hathaway and State Street. At the top of the pyramid — the largest Russian doll of all — we find Vanguard and Blackrock.

    “The power of these two companies is something we can barely imagine,” Gielen says. “Not only are they the largest institutional investors of every major company on earth, they also own the other institutional investors of those companies, giving them a complete monopoly.”

Gielen cites data from Bloomberg, showing that by 2028, Vanguard and BlackRock are expected to collectively manage $20 trillion-worth of investments. In the process, they will own almost everything on planet Earth.

BlackRock — The Fourth Branch of Government

Bloomberg has also referred to BlackRock as the “fourth branch of government,” due to its close relationship with the central banks. BlackRock actually lends money to the central bank, the federal reserve, and is their principal adviser.

Dozens of BlackRock employees have held senior positions in the White House under the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations. BlackRock also developed the computer system that the central banks use.

Who Owns BlackRock?

While Larry Fink is the figurehead of BlackRock, being its founder, chairman and chief executive officer, he’s not the sole decision maker, as BlackRock too is owned by shareholders. Here we find yet another curiosity, as the largest shareholder of BlackRock is Vanguard.

“This is where it gets dark,” Gielen says. Vanguard has a unique structure that blocks us from seeing who the actual shareholders are. “The elite who own Vanguard don’t want anyone to know they are the owners of the most powerful company on earth.” Still, if you dig deep enough, you can find clues as to who these owners are.

The owners of the wealthiest, most powerful company on Earth can be expected to be among the wealthiest individuals on earth. In 2016, Oxfam reported that the combined wealth of the richest 1% in the world was equal to the wealth of the remaining 99%. In 2018, it was reported that the world’s richest people get 82% of all the money earned around the world in 2017.

In reality, we can assume that the owners of Vanguard are among the 0.001% richest people on the planet. According to Forbes, there were 2,075 billionaires in the world as of March 2020. Gielen cites Oxfam data showing that two-thirds of billionaires obtained their fortunes via inheritance, monopoly and/or cronyism.

“This means that Vanguard is in the hands of the richest families on earth,” Gielen says. Among them we find the Rothschilds, the DuPont family, the Rockefellers, the Bush family and the Morgan family, just to name a few.

Many belong to royal bloodlines and are the founders of our central banking system, the United Nations and just about every industry on the planet. Gielen goes even further in his documentary, so I highly recommend watching it in its entirety. I’ve only summarized a small piece of the whole film here.

A Financial Coup D’etat

Speaking of the central bankers, I recently interviewed finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts, and she believes it’s the central bankers that are at the heart of the global takeover we’re currently seeing. She also believes they are the ones pressuring private companies to implement the clearly illegal COVID jab mandates. Their control is so great, few companies have the ability to take a stand against them.

    “I think [the central bankers] are really depending on the smart grid and creepy technology to help them go to the last steps of financial control, which is what I think they’re pushing for,” she said.

    “What we’ve seen is a tremendous effort to bankrupt the population and the governments so that it’s much easier for the central bankers to take control. That’s what I’ve been writing about since 1998, that this is a financial coup d’etat.

    Now the financial coup d’etat is being consolidated, where the central bankers just serve jurisdiction over the treasury and the tax money. And if they can get the [vaccine] passports in with the CBDC [central bank digital currency], then it will be able to take taxes out of our accounts and take our assets. So, this is a real coup d’etat.”

The Spartacus Letter

Again, I urge you to watch the documentary at the top of this article, and keep an eye out for my interview with Austin Fitts, which will be published in the near future. In closing, I want to highlight a mysterious letter posted by an anonymous individual who goes by the name “Spartacus.”

“COVID-19 — The Spartacus Letter” was originally posted on docdroid.net, but has since been deleted. Another copy can be found on mega.nz.1 The Automatic Earth2 and ZeroHedge3 have also published the letter in full. The letter starts out saying, “My name is Spartacus, and I’ve had enough”:

    “We are watching the medical establishment inject literal poison into millions of our fellow Americans without so much as a fight. We have been told that we will be fired and denied our livelihoods if we refuse to vaccinate. This was the last straw.”

What follows is a compilation of data showing the COVID pandemic was a biowarfare attack that has been kept going using sophisticated psychological warfare tactics. It also reviews the dangers of the COVID shots, noting that the virus and the “vaccines” were made by the same entities.

A summary of Spartacus’ findings is as follows. Each summary point is elaborated upon in later sections of the letter, which you can read in any of the three references provided.

    COVID-19 is a blood and blood vessel disease. SARS-CoV-2 infects the lining of human blood vessels, causing them to leak into the lungs.
    Current treatment protocols (e.g. invasive ventilation) are actively harmful to patients, accelerating oxidative stress and causing severe VILI (ventilator-induced lung injuries). The continued use of ventilators in the absence of any proven medical benefit constitutes mass murder.
    Existing countermeasures are inadequate to slow the spread of what is an aerosolized and potentially wastewater-borne virus, and constitute a form of medical theater.
    Various non-vaccine interventions have been suppressed by both the media and the medical establishment in favor of vaccines and expensive patented drugs.
    The authorities have denied the usefulness of natural immunity against COVID-19, despite the fact that natural immunity confers protection against all of the virus’s proteins, and not just one.
    Vaccines will do more harm than good. The antigen that these vaccines are based on, SARS-CoV-2 Spike, is a toxic protein. SARS-CoV-2 may have ADE, or antibody-dependent enhancement; current antibodies may not neutralize future strains, but instead help them infect immune cells. Also, vaccinating during a pandemic with a leaky vaccine removes the evolutionary pressure for a virus to become less lethal.
    There is a vast and appalling criminal conspiracy that directly links both Anthony Fauci and Moderna to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
    COVID-19 vaccine researchers are directly linked to scientists involved in brain-computer interface (‘neural lace’) tech, one of whom was indicted for taking grant money from China.
    Independent researchers have discovered mysterious nanoparticles inside the vaccines that are not supposed to be present.
    The entire pandemic is being used as an excuse for a vast political and economic transformation of Western society that will enrich the already rich and turn the rest of us into serfs and untouchables.

A Criminal Conspiracy

It’s a long letter, so I won’t reproduce the whole thing here. However, the following sections are of particular interest, with regard to a criminal elite that is orchestrating the destruction of life as we know it, in an effort to usher in a technocracy-led system of global governance and control:4

    “In November of 2019, three technicians at the Wuhan Institute of Virology developed symptoms consistent with a flu-like illness. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, and Ralph Baric knew at once what had happened, because back channels exist between this laboratory and our scientists and officials.

    December 12th, 2019, Ralph Baric signed a Material Transfer Agreement (essentially, an NDA) to receive Coronavirus mRNA vaccine-related materials co-owned by Moderna and NIH.

    It wasn’t until a whole month later, on January 11th, 2020, that China allegedly sent us the sequence to what would become known as SARS-CoV-2. Moderna claims, rather absurdly, that they developed a working vaccine from this sequence in under 48 hours.

    Stephane Bancel, the current CEO of Moderna, was formerly the CEO of bioMerieux, a French multinational corporation specializing in medical diagnostic tech, founded by one Alain Merieux. Alain Merieux was one of the individuals who was instrumental in the construction of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s P4 lab.

    The sequence given as the closest relative to SARS-CoV-2, RaTG13, is not a real virus. It is a forgery. It was made by entering a gene sequence by hand into a database, to create a cover story for the existence of SARS-CoV-2, which is very likely a gain-of-function chimera produced at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and was either leaked by accident or intentionally released. The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 has never been found.

    This is not a conspiracy ‘theory.’ It is an actual criminal conspiracy, in which people connected to the development of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 are directly connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and their gain-of-function research by very few degrees of separation, if any. The paper trail is well- established.

    The lab-leak theory has been suppressed because pulling that thread leads one to inevitably conclude that there is enough circumstantial evidence to link Moderna, the NIH, the WIV, and both the vaccine and the virus’s creation together.

    In a sane country, this would have immediately led to the world’s biggest RICO and mass murder case. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, Shi Zhengli, and Stephane Bancel, and their accomplices, would have been indicted and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Instead, billions of our tax dollars were awarded to the perpetrators.

    The FBI raided Allure Medical in Shelby Township north of Detroit for billing insurance for ‘fraudulent COVID-19 cures.’ The treatment they were using? Intravenous Vitamin C. An antioxidant. Which, as described above, is an entirely valid treatment for COVID-19-induced sepsis, and indeed, is now part of the MATH+ protocol advanced by Dr. Paul E. Marik.

    The FDA banned ranitidine (Zantac) due to supposed NDMA (N-nitrosodimethylamine) contamination. Ranitidine is not only an H2 blocker used as antacid, but also has a powerful antioxidant effect, scavenging hydroxyl radicals. This gives it utility in treating COVID-19.

    The FDA also attempted to take N-acetylcysteine, a harmless amino acid supplement and antioxidant, off the shelves, compelling Amazon to remove it from their online storefront. This leaves us with a chilling question: did the FDA knowingly suppress antioxidants useful for treating COVID-19 sepsis as part of a criminal conspiracy against the American public?

    The establishment is cooperating with, and facilitating, the worst criminals in human history, and are actively suppressing non-vaccine treatments and therapies in order to compel us to inject these criminals’ products into our bodies …

    Conclusions: The current pandemic was produced and perpetuated by the establishment, through the use of a virus engineered in a PLA-connected Chinese biowarfare laboratory, with the aid of American taxpayer dollars and French expertise …

    Either through a leak or an intentional release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a deadly SARS strain is now endemic across the globe, after the WHO and CDC and public officials first downplayed the risks, and then intentionally incited a panic and lockdowns that jeopardized people’s health and their livelihoods.

    This was then used by the utterly depraved and psychopathic aristocratic class who rule over us as an excuse to coerce people into accepting an injected poison which may be a depopulation agent, a mind control/pacification agent in the form of injectable ‘smart dust,’ or both …

    They believe they can get away with this by weaponizing the social stigma of vaccine refusal. They are incorrect. Their motives are clear and obvious to anyone who has been paying attention.

    These megalomaniacs have raided the pension funds of the free world. Wall Street is insolvent and has had an ongoing liquidity crisis since the end of 2019. The aim now is to exert total, full-spectrum physical, mental, and financial control over humanity before we realize just how badly we’ve been extorted by these maniacs. The pandemic and its response served multiple purposes for the Elite:

    Concealing a depression brought on by the usurious plunder of our economies conducted by rentier-capitalists and absentee owners who produce absolutely nothing of any value to society whatsoever …
    Destroying small businesses and eroding the middle class.
    Transferring trillions of dollars of wealth from the American public and into the pockets of billionaires and special interests.
    Engaging in insider trading, buying stock in biotech companies and shorting brick-and-mortar businesses and travel companies, with the aim of collapsing face-to-face commerce and tourism and replacing it with e-commerce and servitization.
    Creating a casus belli for war with China, encouraging us to attack them, wasting American lives and treasure and driving us to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
    Establishing technological and biosecurity frameworks for population control and technocratic- socialist ‘smart cities’ where everyone’s movements are despotically tracked, all in anticipation of widespread automation, joblessness, and food shortages, by using the false guise of a vaccine to compel cooperation.

    … The Elites are trying to pull up the ladder, erase upward mobility for large segments of the population, cull political opponents and other ‘undesirables,’ and put the remainder of humanity on a tight leash, rationing our access to certain goods and services that they have deemed ‘high-impact,’ such as automobile use, tourism, meat consumption, and so on.

    Naturally, they will continue to have their own luxuries, as part of a strict caste system akin to feudalism. Why are they doing this? Simple. The Elites are Neo-Malthusians and believe that we are overpopulated and that resource depletion will collapse civilization in a matter of a few short decades.

    They are not necessarily incorrect in this belief. We are overpopulated, and we are consuming too many resources. However, orchestrating such a gruesome and murderous power grab in response to a looming crisis demonstrates that they have nothing but the utmost contempt for their fellow man.

    To those who are participating in this disgusting farce without any understanding of what they are doing, we have one word for you. Stop. You are causing irreparable harm to your country and to your fellow citizens.

    To those who may be reading this warning and have full knowledge and understanding of what they are doing and how it will unjustly harm millions of innocent people, we have a few more words. Damn you to hell. You will not destroy America and the Free World, and you will not have your New World Order. We will make certain of that.”

Sources and References

    1, 4 Mega.nz The Spartacus Letter
    2 The Automatic Earth September 26, 2021
    3 ZeroHedge September 27, 2021

Airlines race to get planes off graveyards!

It’s been a quiet two years for the world’s airlines - but now they’re in a race against time to get their planes back into the sky, and it isn’t an easy task.

Airlines race to get planes left in California desert flying again
Natalie Wolfe
News Ltd, Nov 3, 2021

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, and the way it brought international travel to a standstill back in March 2020, airlines have had some of their quietest years in history.

But now travel - both international and domestic - is picking up again and people are desperate to fly.

Airlines are now in the thick of the mammoth task of bringing thousands of planes out of what’s called “deep storage” with engineers, mechanics, pilots, cleaners and everyone who is responsible for getting aircraft back in the sky again working overtime.

Massive crews and aircraft certifiers are returning to places like the Mojave Desert in California and the Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage facility at Alice Springs to get these aircraft going again.

But the travel restart isn’t without its hurdles.

Crews have faced snakes on planes, poisonous scorpions, birds nesting in engine covers and insects burrowing in exposed holes.

Airlines have especially struggled with insects making nests in pitot tubes, a tiny tube that helps planes measure airspeed and altitude.

The European Union Aviation Safety Authority discovered this issue when it noticed a surge in incorrect airspeed and altitude readings for planes that were doing their first flight after an extended period in storage.

They’re also grappling with changing tyres, which have gone flat due to the length of time planes have been sitting idle, and oiling up all the necessary parts of the aircraft.

According to figures from aviation analytics company Cirium, obtained by Traveller, more than 16,000 aircraft were taken out of service by April 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

That figure equates to more than 60 per cent of the world’s passenger aircrafts.

Cirium estimated more than 30 per cent of the world’s passenger fleet was still out of service by the end of 2020.

But travel is kicking off again - at a rate that will likely surpass pre-pandemic levels.

Now engineers are ramping up their usual inspection checks, including draining fuel tanks of water caused by condensation, checking the tyre pressures, lubricating bearings and inspecting the fuselage and wings for animal nests.

Aviation regulation authorities across the world enforce strict guidelines to ensure planes are sky-worthy.

The Federal Aviation Administration in the US, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority in Australia and the European Union Aviation Safety Authority (EASA), among others, have massive checklists for airlines to follow.

It takes airlines 300 to 1000 hours of reactivation work to get a hibernating plane the regulatory approval to fly again, according to an American Airlines engineer.

And even when that process is finished, the regulatory bodies require the plane to complete a maintenance check flight to ensure it’s safe to carry passengers.

In June, Qantas revealed that engineers taking care of some of the airline’s super jumbos, sitting in the Mojave Desert, had been tasked with using wheel whacker devices to protect planes from rattlesnakes.

Qantas manager for engineering in Los Angeles Tim Heywood said it was important the aircraft were attended to regularly.

“Aircraft like these are highly technical and you can’t just land it at the storage facility, park it and walk away,” Mr Heywood said.

The airline said the engineers tasked with maintaining its fleet of A380 super jumbos stored in California had to come up with the effective system to protect the planes and also themselves from the area’s venomous rattlesnakes.

In addition to snakes, poisonous scorpions are also concerning during the summer season in the desert.

Mr Heywood said having a team of engineers driving the two hours from LA to Victorville for regular inspections is a vital part of keeping the aircraft in top condition during their downtime.

“The area is well known for its feisty ‘rattlers’ who love to curl up around the warm rubber tyres and in the aircraft wheels and brakes,” Mr Heywood said in a statement.

“Every aircraft has its own designated ‘wheel whacker’ (a repurposed broom handle) as part of the engineering kit, complete with each aircraft’s registration written on it.

“The first thing we do before we unwrap and start any ground inspections of the landing gear in particular is to walk around the aircraft stomping our feet and tapping the wheels with a wheel whacker to wake up and scare off the snakes.

That’s about making sure no harm comes to our engineers or the snakes.

“Only then do we carefully approach each wheel and unwrap them before performing our pressure checks and visual inspections.”

Mr Heywood said that the airline’s engineers have “encountered a few rattlesnakes and also some scorpions” on site, but thankfully, the wheel whacker has so far done its job.

“It’s a unique part of looking after these aircraft while they’re in storage and it’s another sign of how strange the past year has been,” he said.

Abdul Sattar Edhi - Humanitarian to a Nation

Abdul Sattar Edhi, the great philanthropist,  left this life on July 8, 2004. He was 88 years old.

Humanitarian to a Nation: Abdul Sattar Edhi
by Richard Covington
Aramco, November/December 2004 issue

In the cool interior of a mental ward in Karachi, a short, powerfully built man with a flowing snow-white beard and penetrating dark-brown eyes is standing at the bedside of a distraught young woman. She has covered her head with a sheet and is pleading for news of the two children her husband took from her.

“I know you are suffering terribly, but this is no way to bring back your children,” says the man with stern compassion. “You have a college degree. You can do many things to help the other patients.”

Outside the room’s windows of latticed stone, several hundred other women stroll and lounge under pipal trees scattered around a courtyard as big as several football fields. All are here because their families cannot—or will not—cope with their mental illnesses.

“Self-help,” says the man as he walks away from the young mother’s bedside. “That’s the best way to get back on your feet.”

For more than half a century, Abdul Sattar Edhi, now 76 years old, has been living proof that a determined individual can mobilize others to alleviate misery and, in so doing, knit together the social fabric of a nation. Firmly refusing financial support from both government and formal religious organizations, this self-effacing man with a primary-school education has almost single-handedly created one of the largest and most successful health and welfare networks in Asia. Whether he is counseling a battered wife, rescuing an accident victim, feeding a poor child, sheltering a homeless family or washing an unidentified and unclaimed corpse before burial, Edhi and Bilquis, his wife of 38 years, help thousands of Pakistanis each day.

Starting in 1951 with a tiny dispensary in Karachi’s poor Mithadar neighborhood, Edhi has steadily built up a nationwide organization of ambulances, clinics, maternity homes, mental asylums, homes for the physically handicapped, blood banks, orphanages, adoption centers, mortuaries, shelters for runaway children and battered women, schools, nursing courses, soup kitchens and a 25-bed cancer hospital. All are run by some 7000 volunteers and a small paid staff of teachers, doctors and nurses. Edhi has also personally delivered medicines, food and clothing to refugees in Bosnia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. He and the drivers of his ambulances have saved lives in floods, train wrecks, civil conflicts and traffic accidents. After the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, he donated $100,000 to Pakistanis in New York who lost their jobs in the subsequent economic crisis.

Remarkably, the lion’s share of the Edhi Foundation’s $10-million budget comes from private donations from individual Pakistanis inside and outside the country. In the 1980’s, when Pakistan’s then-President Zia ul-Haq sent him a check for 500,000 rupees (then more than $30,000), Edhi sent it back. Last year, the Italian government offered him a million-dollar donation. He refused. “Governments set conditions that I cannot accept,” he says, declining to give any details.

Usually dressed in a simple tunic over gray pajamas, scuffed sandals on his feet and his trademark astrakhan hat on his head, Edhi outlines his philosophy in the Mithadar dispensary where he launched his charity more than five decades ago. “I tell people that, because I am working for you, the money must come from you,” he says. For years, this meant that Edhi would take to the streets to beg on behalf of his growing social programs. Even in his 70’s, he still occasionally begs on the streets, generally for the sake of severely ill individuals in urgent need of expensive medical care that his clinics cannot provide.



Generally, however, donors come in person to one of the 300 centers and clinics across Pakistan. One, who declined to give his name, explained that he gives money regularly to the Edhi Foundation because an Edhi ambulance once rescued his sister from an automobile accident. (The cost of an ambulance call—one of the few services for which the foundation charges—is less than 50 rupees, or around 85 us cents.) “When I give this 1400 rupees to Edhi, I know it goes to people who need it,” says the donor.

Some donors have been very generous. One family donated two villas in the wealthy Karachi suburb of Clifton for use as a residence and school for around 250 girls. A Pakistani expatriate in the UK donated office buildings worth £1.4 million ($2.5 million) that became the British headquarters of the foundation, which organizes local charity services both for expatriates and in support of the foundation’s work in Pakistan. In addition to money and property, contributors donate clothes, appliances, furniture—even goat and chicken meat, sometimes by the ton. The organization uses a portion of these gifts to feed and clothe residents of the homes; the rest is given away to other hospitals, prisons and disaster victims.

For this, Edhi may well be the most widely admired man in Pakistan. In 1986 he received the Ramón Magsaysay Award for Public Service, sometimes referred to as “the Asian Nobel Prize.” In 2000, he was awarded the International Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood. In 2002, he joined former us President Bill Clinton, Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel and others as an honorary board member of the newly founded Daniel Pearl Foundation, created in honor of the murdered Wall Street Journal correspondent. Typically, Edhi pays his own way to receive awards and participate in conferences.

What Edhi is doing is nothing short of a miracle,” explains Z. A. Nizami, former director-general of the Karachi Development Authority.

Hemmed in by a labyrinth of fabric shops, food markets and dusty, cart-filled lanes, Edhi’s three-story Mithadar center is a hive of activity. In the crowded front offices, men and women sit behind donated desks taking ambulance calls, ordering medicines and checking the accounts of clinics and centers across the country. In one room, three women are filling out adoption papers. Bilquis Edhi, who oversees adoptions, has placed more than 16,000 children in adopted homes. Outside every Edhi center there is a cradle—shaded from the sun—where unwanted babies can be left anonymously.

Upstairs, a dozen infants and well-fed toddlers, some rattling across the floor in walking strollers, play and doze as Bilquis chats with a woman who has come to adopt a child for her son and daughter-in-law in the United States.

“The baby she’s adopting was starving when it arrived,” Bilquis remarks. “When you nurse a child back to life, it really hurts to see her go, even after you’ve gone through the process thousands of times. Finding her a loving home makes it worth the feeling of loss.”

Bilquis tells of the 32-year-old woman who showed up recently at the Mithadar clinic looking for her. The woman explained that her parents had just revealed that they had adopted her as an infant from the Edhi center. “I’m a doctor now, with four children of my own,” she told Bilquis. “And I wanted to show my gratitude to the woman who nursed me.”

“We both broke down in tears,” Bilquis recalls.

With her head loosely covered by a brightly patterned yellow scarf and eyes that twinkle behind black-framed glasses, Bilquis’s sunny, lighthearted disposition contrasts with her husband’s severe, sometimes impatient manner. The pair met at the clinic when she arrived as an 18-year-old nurse in 1965. A year or so later, they were married.

Their wedding night set the tone for the relationship. Dropping by the dispensary after the ceremony, Edhi found a 12-year-old girl with severe head injuries. The newlyweds rushed her to the hospital and spent the night supervising blood transfusions and calming down distraught relatives.

“I didn’t mind at all,” Bilquis told Reader’s Digest for an article published in 1989. “Today that girl is married with children; that’s what is really important.”

Even so, Bilquis acknowledges in a playful way, life with Edhi can be trying. “Sometimes I wonder how I stayed my whole life with this man who is a mental case,” she says with a smile. “He won’t even attend the weddings of his own children, but if there’s an emergency somewhere he’ll dash out to help in an instant.”

In a room nearby, a teacher is conducting a class in Urdu, Arabic and counting for around a dozen children three to six years old, some of whom have Down’s syndrome. Next door, a female doctor is showing 10 aspiring nurses how to take blood tests; it’s part of a six-month course that will lead to their certification as nurse’s aides.

“I tell destitute women who come to the centers that they can learn nursing here and later earn their own money as nurses and midwives,” Edhi explains back downstairs in his office. So far, around 1500 women have received this training.

Edhi’s own passion for healing dates back to his childhood. At age 11, he was obliged to care for his mother, who was paralyzed with a severe diabetic condition. “I bathed her, changed her and fed her,” he recalls in his 1996 autobiography, A Mirror to the Blind. “Taking care of my mother made me ponder the misery of others who suffered; from that time on, I began to think of how I could help them, and to dream of building hospitals and a village for the handicapped.”

Born in 1928 in Bantva, a small Indian town of 25,000 inhabitants in Gujarat state, he was “not what I would call an obedient child,” he admits with a grin. A natural leader, when he was not prodding other kids to join him in stealing corn and fruit from wealthy farmers, he was organizing impromptu circuses and performing gymnastic feats for the neighbors. Although his father brokered textiles and other goods and provided the family with a middle-class income, both of Edhi’s parents instilled in him the importance of simplicity and frugal living.

“Every day before school, my mother would give me two paisa and say, ‘Spend one paisa on yourself and give the other away,’” Edhi remembers. “When I came home, she would ask me where I had given away my one paisa. It was her way of creating an awareness in me of the need for social welfare.”

At the same time he began caring for his mother, he also developed a habit of saving, putting aside one rupee for every five he earned working at a fabric shop after school. This thriftiness served him well, prompting him to gradually acquire government securities. Even now, Edhi takes no salary, choosing instead to live parsimoniously on the interest from these securities.

In 1951, four years after the family moved to Karachi following the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, the 23-year-old Edhi used some of his savings to buy a tiny shop, less than three meters (10') on a side, inside what is now the clinic building. Together with a doctor who taught him the basics of health care, he set up a free dispensary, and he persuaded several friends to help him add free literacy classes. To be available at all times, he slept on a cement bench outside the dispensary.

In 1957, a virulent flu epidemic swept through Karachi. Edhi reacted with unselfish daring, using his own money to erect tented camps on the city’s outskirts where people received free immunizations. After the epidemic was brought under control, grateful residents chipped in to buy the rest of the Mithadar dispensary building, enabling Edhi to create a free maternity center and nursing school.

Over the years that followed, Edhi realized that Karachi desperately needed an ambulance service. Impressed by his handling of the flu crisis, a local businessman made a large donation, part of which Edhi used to buy a beat-up van that he converted into a free ambulance and drove himself. “I prided myself on being the first to arrive at an accident,” he recalls. Today, Edhi’s ambulance service has grown to a fleet of more than 600 nationwide, all paid for with donations. Dispatched from call centers scattered around the country’s cities and highways, Edhi ambulances are still usually the first to arrive at the scene, and they have helped cut the fatality toll from road accidents by half, he says.

In 1986, during a hijacking attempt at Karachi airport, Edhi marshaled 54 ambulances at the ready. When negotiations between the hijackers and the government broke down and Pakistani commandos stormed the plane, Edhi and other paramedics entered under fire to try to save wounded passengers and crew.

In 1993, during devastating floods in the Punjab, Edhi ambulances rescued 50,000 people. Using donated planes, volunteers also dropped food, water and supplies to isolated families. Edhi’s air ambulance service now numbers three planes and a helicopter, all donated by the US Agency for International Development—“without conditions,” Edhi is quick to point out.

“The 1993 flood was the biggest operation we’d ever done; it satisfied Mr. Edhi that we could handle major disasters,” explains Anwer Kazmi, a longtime friend and aide, who translates Edhi’s Urdu into English.



A stickler for organizational efficiency, Edhi stands up from his desk and goes over to a wall arrayed with stacked drawers of cardboard boxes, each carefully labeled with a year, a location and a subject. “How do you like my computer?” he asks, smiling, as he pulls out a box containing the expense records of the 1993 flood operation. Like his training in health care, Edhi’s expertise in administration is self-taught, his business savvy acquired over decades of running a foundation that now occupies some 7330 staff and volunteers. Back at his desk, he leafs through one of the oversize accounting ledgers that he fills with ruminations, anecdotes, recollections and plans.

“Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down ideas in these ledgers,” he explains. “And in the morning, everyone groans about all the orders I hand down as I try to follow through on my inspirations.”

Recently one of those nighttime brainstorms involved setting up emergency clinics on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan to treat victims of the 2001 war. Edhi’s son Faisal, 26, who works for the foundation, vividly recalls an incident at one of these clinics that encapsulated his father’s demanding nature.

At the new center in Jamun, Faisal explains, local staff members had purchased a dozen chairs for guests and journalists. When Edhi arrived for his own first visit, he blew up. “Why did you waste money on chairs?” he stormed. “Next, you’ll be buying beds and other things for yourselves instead of spending the money on the people we intend to help.” That night, Edhi himself slept with the ambulance drivers on the floor of the center.

As Faisal finishes his anecdote, Edhi rubs a hand across his balding head and nods in agreement. “People respect me because they see how simply we live and that all the donations go to the people who need help,” he volunteers. Only 10 percent of the foundation’s overall budget goes toward administrative overhead, including salaries, he adds.

Edhi and Bilquis still occupy a cramped, two-room apartment next to his office in the midst of the hubbub of the Mithadar clinic. He remains on call for emergencies 24 hours a day—just as he has for the past 52 years. “I am always available to all, rich or poor,” he says. “Anyone can come into this office and talk to me.”

Despite this open-door policy, growing up the children of such a father was not easy. Although Edhi’s children were raised largely by Bilquis’s mother in a house near the dispensary, they were exposed to pain and misery from an early age. At seven, Faisal recalls accompanying his father to recover the corpse of a murder victim. Edhi brought the body back to Mithadar, washed it and gave it a respectful burial. “I got very sick and couldn’t sleep for a week,” Faisal recalls.

By the time he was 10, however, Faisal had grown accustomed to riding with his father on ambulance calls to bring the dead and injured to morgues and hospitals. Now, Faisal is in charge of the ambulance service, whose costs he is trying to cut to make it self-sustaining. He’s also creating a new dispensary and ambulance center for some 50,000 people uprooted from their Karachi homes by a highway project and forcibly moved to a treeless settlement west of the city where there is no running water, sewage or electricity.

Running the Edhi Foundation is very much a family concern. Edhi, Bilquis and their children meet every Sunday at the girls’ home in Clifton to confer over problems at the centers and plan new projects.

“We discuss each girl individually,” says Edhi’s 36-year-old daughter, Kubra, who is as restrained as Faisal is extroverted. “Before the establishment of Edhi homes, young girls who ran away from their families fell into prostitution and other criminal activities. Now they have a place to take shelter.”

Some girls flee to the center to obtain the education their families deny them, while others are sent by parents eager to have their daughters educated, but too poor to pay school fees.

“When girls first come, they generally pass the first few days with great difficulty, often getting depressed and tense,” Kubra continues. “We involve them in work—taking care of children, mixing with other girls and women. Their lives become more normal after three or four days. If a girl continues to be depressed or has difficulty adjusting, we call a doctor to treat her.”

“This is very difficult work, because of fundamentalism,” Edhi interjects. “Our society does not want to give any facilities to females. When political opponents criticize us, we never fight them—we ignore them.

“Still, it’s very hard to survive if you are working for all the people, not just your particular religious or ethnic group,” he acknowledges. “With so much discrimination and growing religious divisions, my children will have a very, very tough time.”

In 1992, tragedy drew the family closer than ever. A mentally unbalanced woman staying at the Clifton home scalded Kubra’s four-year-old son, Bilal, with bathwater so hot that he died two months later. “Revenge will not bring Bilal back,” Edhi advised Kubra at the time. “You must try to forgive the woman.” Kubra decided to transfer her to another Edhi center, but not to punish her. That Kubra and the rest of the family continued their work with the mentally disturbed and destitute is powerful testimony to their commitment.

Early the next morning, Edhi sets out with Faisal and Kazmi to conduct a surprise inspection of Edhi Village, a home for runaway and abandoned boys with a separate asylum for mentally ill and physically handicapped men. Halfway into the 45-minute drive south of Karachi, Edhi stops the ambulance at a one-room cinder block building with a red roof, one of 35 emergency first-aid outposts he’s created along the 1100- kilometer (700-mi) highway from Karachi to Peshawar.

As he chats with the paramedic on call, a pair of policemen pull up to the center. Seeing Edhi, they greet him warmly and join in the conversation.

“Before we set up these emergency centers, the police were stretched too thin and many people died in accidents,” says Faisal. “Now, they rely on us to respond to 75 percent of road accidents.” Nationwide, the Edhi ambulance service receives more than 6000 calls a day.

At the entrance to Edhi Village, the driveway is lined with tamarisk trees covered with yellow blossoms, eucalyptus and palm trees, and beds of purple and white flowers. The courtyard is sprawling and grassy, surrounded by classrooms and dormitories. It contains a playground, a soccer field and volleyball and basketball courts, all of which are used for competitive games with visiting school teams. “Faisal organized the boys to do the landscaping,” Edhi says proudly. “It’s part of our self-help initiative.”

When Edhi purchased the Village’s 26-hectare (65-acre) parcel in 1985, it was barren land. Now there are kitchens, workshops, recreation rooms and housing for 250 children in one complex and 1500 mental patients in another.

In one of the classrooms, Edhi singles out an alert-looking 10-year-old pupil with a congenitally deformed hand. “When he was a newborn, this boy was abandoned in one of our cradles outside a center in Karachi,” Edhi explains. “Bilquis named him Shazab and took care of him in Mithadar until he was old enough to come here. Now he’s one of our smartest students.” When Edhi asks him what he’d like to do when he graduates, Shazab breaks into a shy smile. “I want to be in charge of Edhi Village,” he says.

Further down the open-air hallway are workshops with sewing machines and stacks of electrical equipment. In one of the rooms, a teacher is demonstrating how to repair a refrigerator motor. Edhi pauses to talk with a 13-year-old boy who explains that he’s an Afghan refugee whose parents were killed in the 2001 war. Police picked him up begging on a Karachi street and brought him to an Edhi center. He was later transferred to Edhi Village.

“The boys install all the electrical wiring in the Village and receive enough training to become electricians,” Edhi explains. “We also teach them how to sew so that they can get jobs as tailors or clothes makers when they leave.”

“Sometimes, parents take their children back home and the kids run away again to come back,” adds Kazmi. “The education they receive here is better than the education even middle-class students receive. Also, we provide them with clothes and plenty of food.”

In the walled sanatorium for the mentally handicapped, physically disabled and mentally ill next door, the scene is more sobering. Several hundred residents lie on scattered mattresses or sit on the cement floor in one bare, cavernous ward. Elsewhere, groups of men mill about outside under straggly bougainvillea trees. Despite the spartan facilities, “the patients live under far better conditions than in other mental hospitals in Pakistan,” maintains Ghulam Mustafa, the senior doctor of a staff of five doctors and eight nurses on rotation.

“We organize games and art activities, and the retarded patients do most of the work themselves, keeping the place neat and clean,” he says. “The better-off patients take care of the ones who are more dependent.”

Back in Karachi, Edhi stops by a men’s psychiatric center to meet with Mohammad Ayaz, a soft- spoken, 40-year-old psychiatrist whom Edhi hired after witnessing his success in rehabilitating mentally ill inmates of the city’s central jail. In the front reception room, former patients are busy answering telephone calls and dispatching ambulances.

“Many of our patients can be cured,” Ayaz explains, “but their relatives reject them, leaving them here to languish unnecessarily in long-term care.

“Our biggest problem is that we don’t have enough trained staff,” he continues. “Twelve doctors in rotation have to look after a total of 3500 patients in Edhi Village and six residential centers in Karachi.”

One of the men manning the phones stands up to introduce himself in American-accented English. A self-possessed character with a shock of swept-back black hair flecked with gray, 53-year-old Tariq Ayubi says he perfected his English in Miami, where he went to business school. Moving back to Karachi, he married, went into business and thrived. Gradually, however, he began drinking heavily, and he soon lost his job and his wife. Severely depressed and penniless, he sought refuge at the Edhi center. Volunteering for work here saved him, Ayubi says.

“The Edhi Foundation is the only social welfare organization in the country that works,” he declares.

Afterwards, Edhi expertly maneuvers the ambulance through teeming streets to the women’s sanatorium in north Karachi. As he ambles down the immaculate marble hallways, residents cluster around him, calling out “Abu-ji!” (“Daddy!”). “This adulation makes me nervous,” he says. “I’m not some kind of saint.”

Seeing one woman sitting on concrete steps distractedly waving flies away from an open sore on her foot, Edhi bends close, asking her gently how long it has been infected. “Two days,” she replies, “but it’s much worse this afternoon.” He calls out for a nurse to attend to the sore. When no one comes, he stalks away impatiently. “Don’t worry,” he calls over his shoulder to the suffering woman. “I’ll be back with a bandage before you know it.”

Later on, after Edhi has disinfected and dressed the woman’s wound, he sits on a stone bench and listens to other residents tell him heartrending stories of cruel husbands and family betrayal. Driving back to the Mithadar center, he vents his long-running frustration with the plight of women in Pakistan.

“Society goes against the teachings of the Qur’an in mistreating women and not giving them equality,” he says with indignation. “Only 10 percent of Pakistani women know how to read and write. That’s why we try so hard to give the girls who come to us a good education. Once they get an education, they can start to take control of their lives.”

Back at Mithadar, a businessman in a crisp linen shirt and polished shoes is waiting for Edhi in his office. “Here’s one who has come around,” he says, gripping the man’s shoulders in a friendly embrace. Edhi explains that the waiting businessman has launched a partnership with the foundation to assist the poor in starting fabric shops, food stalls and other small businesses. “He’s helping them stand on their own rather than giving them handouts that only make them more dependent,” says Edhi.

“That’s the humanitarian revolution we need,” he continues with a weary smile. “But still so few understand. Let’s spread the word."

For more information about the Edhi Foundation:



https://edhi.org

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The Political Power of Facebook!

With ever expanding grip & appeal on the netizens worldwide, Facebook is extending its tentacles to exercise its enormous power to spread a certain type of narratives (while suppressing all opposing views) to influence elections home and abroad. And nobody should forget Facebook's own bias towards Democratic Party in the USA and so-called liberal views supported by that party.

The Political Power of Facebook
By Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
October 14, 2021

In the global imagination, Facebook would be a responsible social network that allows everyone to connect confidentially while censoring messages contrary to local laws. In practice, it is quite different. Facebook collects information about you for the NSA, censors your opinions and mints its own currency. In a few months, this company has become one of the most influential players in world politics.

FACEBOOK AS A SOCIAL NETWORK

The most important political player on the Internet is the social network Facebook. As of January 1st, 2021, it had 2.85 billion monthly active users and 1.88 billion daily active users worldwide. The social network routinely censors posts that include nude photos, sexual activity, harassment, hate speech, forgeries, spam, terrorist propaganda or violence using particularly crude and unfair artificial intelligence. It shuts down accounts that it deems dangerous, either because they have been censored several times or because they are linked to enemies of the United States.

Facebook is a huge company that includes Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Oculus, Workplace, Portal, Novi. It employs over 60,000 people.

FACEBOOK AS A BANK

Facebook now issues its own currency as a state, the Libra. It is backed by a basket of currencies composed of 50% dollars, 14% yen, 11% Serling pounds and 7% Singapore dollars [1].

By becoming a bank whose currency is progressively accepted by Internet sales sites, Facebook is building a parallel economy, both virtual and global, that is larger than the economy of many states.

FACEBOOK AND ITS USERS

Facebook calls on its users to detect accounts that violate its rules. It opens a file on each of its informants and notes them [2].

Facebook, which claims to treat every user equally, has secretly compiled a list of 5.8 million VIPs to whom its rules do not apply. Only they can say and show everything [3].

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AND THE NSA

The personal data of at least 87 million users was targeted and siphoned off by the British company Cambridge analytica (of billionaire Robert Mercer and Steve Bannon) and its Canadian subsidiary, AggregateIQ [4]. They were used at least :

for the election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 [5],
for 44 local elections in the US in 2014,
for Mauricio Macri in the Argentine presidential election,
for Nigel Farage in the UK Brexit referendum in 2016.
And above all during the US presidential campaign also in 2016, successively for Ben Carson, Ted Cruz [6],
and finally for Donald Trump and his campaign manager… Steve Bannon.

According to The Observer, Cambridge analytica employed many figures from the British military-industrial complex and MI6 propaganda services [7]. Perhaps this is just the tip of the iceberg: Edward Snowden revealed that Facebook had joined the ultra-secret PRISM electronic surveillance network allowing the National Security Agency (NSA) to access the personal data of all its customers. But nothing has leaked out about what use the NSA makes of it.

According to Newton Lee, a former researcher at the Institute for Defense Analyses, the PRISM network is the avatar of the Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that Admiral John Poindexter developed under Donald Rumsfeld at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [8].

MARK ZUCKERBERG’S PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL

In 2011, Facebook, at the request of Israel, censored accounts calling for an uprising in the Palestinian territories

In 2012, Mark Zuckerberg, personally committed himself to Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Perez. He oversaw the creation and promotion of the Israeli president’s official page, and created a video campaign called “Be my friend for peace”, featuring Nicolas Sarkozy, David Cameron, Recep Tayyip Erdogan or even Queen Elizabeth II of England, among others.

In 2015, Facebook declared Hezbollah and the Syrian Arab Republic “terrorist organisations”. It closed the accounts of several TV channels including Al-Mayadeen (then the most watched news TV in the Arab world), Sama and Dunia (two Syrian public TVs) and Ikhbariya (a Syrian private channel). At the same time, it provided trainers to the jihadists fighting the Syrian Arab Republic.

In this regard, Facebook does not censor all messages of hatred or violence. For example, it encourages the account of opponents of Syria that collects information (name, address, photo) of Syrian nationalists in order to assassinate them.

POLITICAL PROJECT

In 2010, Nature published a study on “An experiment in social influence and political mobilisation on 61 million people” [9]. Researchers from the University of California show that political messages on Facebook during the US mid-term elections had a very large impact not only on the users of the social network, but also on their friends and even on their friends’ friends.

In 2014, Facebook, without the knowledge of its subscribers, conducted a study on “Experimental evidence of large-scale emotional contagion via social networks” [10].

In 2018, Facebook partnered with the Atlantic Council, an influential think tank funded by NATO, to “promote US leadership and engagement in the world with its allies”. The specific aim of the partnership is to ensure “the proper use of Facebook in elections around the world, monitoring misinformation and foreign interference, helping to educate citizens and civil society” [11].

Ultimately, in 2020, Facebook engaged in colonial politics in Africa with its proposed undersea cable encircling the continent, 2Africa. This network would link the main ports, but would not penetrate inland [12]. It is only a question of serving the elites who participate in the plundering of the continent and the shipping of its wealth to the West.

Internationally, Facebook’s director of public relations is the Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg. He was a deputy to British Prime Minister David Cameron. Facebook France is headed by Laurent Solly, former chief of staff to President Sarkozy and then second in command of the private television channel TF1. He is the husband of Caroline Roux, a star journalist for the public television channel France2.

Facebook is neither in the service of the Democrats nor the Republicans. It is a company that defends the interests of the “American Empire” by using both its knowledge of its users and the emotions it spreads among them.

From this point of view, it is particularly interesting that in 2017 Mark Zuckerberg thought of becoming President of the United States without having to run for office. He had put together a campaign team before giving up. His plan was to lean on the Democratic Party to remove President Donald Trump from office, then get close to Vice President Mike Pence so that Pence would hand over the office to him when he automatically became president, and finally lean on the Republicans to get Pence to resign and become president himself. [13].

POLITICAL ACTION

In 2008, candidate Barack Obama relied on former Facebook spokesman Chris Hughes, director of My.BarackObama.com (MyBO) and designer of Obama’s Online Operation (OOO), to reach and mobilise five million voters via Facebook [14].

In 2010, Facebook censored Wikileaks, the association that revealed the Pentagon’s practices and thus undermined the “American Empire”.

In 2010-11, the platform, officially supported by the US State Department, exploded during the ’Arab Spring’ in the ’wider Middle East’.

In 2018, Facebook banned the intergovernmental TV channel TeleSur, which then included Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela.

In 2020, Facebook closed accounts linked to the French army in Central Africa and Mali. The latter were running a campaign that did not correspond to that of the Pentagon.

In 2021, Facebook closed the accounts of the incumbent presidents of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, and the United States, Donald Trump.

FACEBOOK AND THE MEDIA

A British association, Full Fact, has created a coalition between the competent ministries of the United Kingdom and Canada on the one hand, and information giants (Facebook, but also Twitter, Alphabet and Reuters) on the other, in order to fight misinformation on the English-speaking Net.

Facebook does not limit itself to fighting against Fake News. It has just created a programme, “News Innovation”, to support the written press. It has already been deployed in Canada, Argentina and Brazil. It has signed more than $10 million worth of contracts focusing on media that support Justin Trudeau in Canada or are hostile to Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND FACEBOOK

The Biden administration worried – before the public – about the rise of Facebook, which it sees as a rival. The company sets its own borders, enforces police and justice on its network, and issues its own currency. It may currently serve the Pentagon, but all it needs is an army to become a state.

This is why the Biden administration introduced whistleblower France Haugen to The Wall Street Journal and then to the Senate. The debates focused on the deleterious influence of Facebook on certain children. This is a way to put the social network in its place without asking the political questions we have just listed.

The only person in the US today who is asking the question of the political influence of digital giants is former President Donal Trump. He has just filed a lawsuit against Twitter for taking his account offline while he was still the sitting president of the United States. Trump is relying on the confidences of Democratic senators who have boasted of having pressured Twitter. This proves, he says, that the censorship is not a business decision, but a political one; that it violates the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution on free speech. His lawyers make it clear that Twitter has never censored violent speech. It hosts an account of the Taliban government of Afghanistan.

Ref:

[1] «Fed’s Brainard: Facebook’s Libra faces ’core set’ of regulatory hurdles», Reuters Staff, Reuters, December 18, 2019.

[2] “Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1”, Elizabeth Dwoskin, The Washington Post, August 21, 2018.

[3] « Facebook Documents Reveal Secret Elite Exempt From Its Rules, Jeff Horwitz », The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2021.

[4] Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, Christopher Wylie, Randon House (2019). Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower’s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again, Brittany Kaiser, Harper (2019).

[5] “How Facebook’s Secret Unit Created India’s Troll Armies For Digital Propaganda To Influence Elections”, by Shelley Kasli, Great Game India (India) , Voltaire Network, 23 December 2017.

[6] “Ted Cruz PsyOp”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 8 February 2016.

[7] «The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked», Carole Cadwalladr, The Observer, May 7, 2017.

[8] “The Eye of the Pentagon”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, 18 November 2002.

[9] «A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization», Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, Jaime E. Settle & James H. Fowler, Nature 489, p. 295–298 (2012). doi:10.1038/nature11421.

[10] “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks”, Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory & Jeffrey T. Hancock, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNSA), Vol 111, #24, July 17, 2014.

[11] «Announcing New Election Partnership With the Atlantic Council», Katie Harbath, Facebook, May 17, 2018. «U.S. think tank’s tiny lab helps Facebook battle fake social media», Joseph Menn, Reuters, August 7, 2018. «Facebook’s partnership with the Atlantic Council», Kevin Reed, World Socialist Web Site, September 8, 2018

[12] “Facebook surrounds Africa”, by Manlio Dinucci, Il Manifesto (Italy) , Voltaire Network, 17 June 2020.

[13] “Mark Zuckerberg: a US President in the making?”, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 4 August 2017.

[14] «The Reason for the Obama Victory: It’s the Internet, Stupid», Betsy Schiffman, Wired, July 11, 2008. «Obama’s Wide Web», Jose Antonio Varga, The Washington Post, August 20, 2008.

«How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign», Ellen McGirt, Fast Company, April 1, 2009