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The hidden story about vaccines, autism, drugs and food… Americas health has been BOUGHT. Your health, your family’s health. Now brought to you by Wall Street… “If you thought they hurt us with the banks, wait till you see what they’re doing to health care.” Vaccines. GMOs. Big Pharma. Three big, BIG, okay… HUGE topics in one film. Why? Why not 3 films, why put all this in one movie? Great question, 2 answers. 1st and most importantly: We need to band together. We need a mainstream film, not another radical movie that only interests the “already converted”. Over 5 million people supported Prop 37 in CA. Reportedly, over 2 million worldwide marched against Monsanto in a global protest. There are thousands of actively involved parents focused on vaccine safety truth. We’re going to use multiple groups to make sure the critical message in this film “crosses the chasm” and makes it into mainstream. We’ve already allied with some of the most successful voices in these areas. We can’t afford to stay “silo’ed”, focused on only one key issue. These causes are directly related, and we need to harness all of us to draw close to the level of noise put out by the medical-industrial conglomerate. Combining all three topics makes wonderful storytelling, because it’s the same villain! You peel back the layers and see what’s really driving our industrialized food, our insane vaccine expansion, and our love affair with pharmaceuticals- it’s the same villain. It’s a risky story to tell, but would be a tragedy to passively consent to with silence. There is something horribly wrong with health care today. Huge money, billions and billions of dollars flowing into the same pockets. Meanwhile, MD’s aren’t being allowed to actually practice the art of medicine and anyone who questions vaccination safety, pharmaceuticals, factory farms, etc. is ridiculed and belittled. Meanwhile, the billions keep flowing, carried on a river of pain and anguish. Huge corporations funded by individual misery, one broken life at a time. Three huge stories, each worthy of multiple films, but each brought together by one staggering fact: it’s the same villain. These three story lines converge on Wall Street, in a tale of corruption, greed and shocking lack of conscience.

what you don't know can hurt you

In the United States, medical care (doctor and hospital mistakes, unnecessary treatment, and/or expected side effects) is the 3rd leading cause of death.
Hmmm, something about that doesn't seem right. 

Communicable diseases have plagued (pun intended) humanity for eons - some say since the dawn of agriculture (no source, I remember reading that once a long time ago.)  In 19th century France, Loius Pasteur (chemist and microbiologist), Claude Bernard (physiologist), and Antoine Bechamp (biologist and chemist) were among the scientists searching for a cause, and therefore a cure, for disease and sickness.  (The material reductionist paradigm from which they, and all of modern science, operate is another topic entirely.)

Most people want to think of science and medical research as "pure", unbiased, immune to social influence, and trustworthy.  However, most scientists rely on grant money for their research.  Competition doesn't always bring out the best in people, and Pasteur occasionally lied or stole the work of others in order to get ahead.  He plagiarized work by Bechamp and Bernard, who were studying pleomorphism in germs and bacteria inside living cells.  Unfortunately, Pastuer was not as bright as his contemporaries, and his simpler understanding of germ theory - germs being static and unchanging entities we must fight off - won the day over the more complex theory of the everchanging relationship between host and microbe.  Not coincidentally, Pastuer's version of the germ theory allowed pharmaceutical companies to develop medicines to fight germs and make money.  (for more reading on this topic, see here and here and here)

These days, the pharmaceutical companies fund two-thirds of the biomedical research done in the United States.  You don't need to be a genius to see a conflict of interest here.  A for-profit company does not look kindly on research results that won't make money.  Vaccines, designed with the assumption that bacteria and viruses are static and unchanging rather than living, evolving organisms, make a shit ton of money.

People sometimes say things like "I remember when the kid down the street was deathly ill/hospitalized with [insert disease of the day], and you're too young to know!".  They're right, many diseases were uncommon when I was a kid vs when my parents or grandparents were kids, but I'll trust the facts and numbers more than their memory.  And btw, you know what wasn't common way back when, but is common in kids now?  Ear infections, asthma, autism, adolescent arthritis, diabetes . . . I'm not pointing fingers (actually, I am, but you can't see me), just saying.

Vaccines are almost universally viewed as the greatest miracle of modern medicine.  This idea is supported by cultural propaganda, medical and scientific bias, and a lack of evidence and critical thinking.  Most people, doctors included, are unfamiliar with the fact that the numbers do not support this idea, and they are openly and aggressively hostile to any mention that vaccines are not quite what they're touted to be.
Anaïs Nin said “It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.”  Let us familiarize ourselves with the facts, shall we?

(all graphs, unless otherwise noted, are from the book Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History by Suzanne Humphries, MD, and Roman Bystrianyk.  The numbers are derived from publicly recorded statistics culled from U.S. and U.K. governmental organizations and all original sources, as well as links to purchase the book, can be found at www.dissolvingillusions.com)

As we can see from this slice of data from the last 100 years, illness is quite an issue!  Yet with all the deaths, look how many people lived.  How does the germ decide who to attack?

Here we have the smallpox vaccine in the UK.  I'm not even going to get into the arrogance and fraud perpetrated by Edward Jenner, the developer of the smallpox vaccine, as well as the medical establishment of the time.  You can see for yourself: not only did the vaccine not quell outbreaks, it coincided with increased death.  While I am a staunch defender of logical analysis, and correlation does not equal causation, the pattern is fairly clear. 

Here (above graph) we have more evidence of the ineffectual smallpox vaccine. 

Interestingly, scarlet fever - a bacterial infection for which a vaccine was never developed - declined alongside smallpox.  

Oh look, all diseases decreased together.  Helpful arrows show when respective vaccines were introduced.  Can you see the effects of mass inoculation?

Massive declines (upwards of 90% eradication for each common illness) BEFORE vaccines.  Very interesting.  The reason they say we must vaccinate is because vaccines saved us from all these dreaded diseases.  But what should we do if that's just not true?

We'll throw tuberculosis into the mix.  Dramatic decline, no vaccine.  

Let's take a closer look at pertussis, aka whooping cough.  Check out how instrumental that vaccine was (why, oh why is there not a sarcasm font?!).

What a lovely down slope.  Widespread use of the vaccine doesn't seem to upset the curve. 

Check out the increasing rates of whooping cough!  Don't blame aPertussis.  Oh, wait, yes, let's blame aPertussis, which is a slightly different strain of the bacteria, causing the same (though often more severe) symptoms as pertussis.  This is a vaccine failure.  NOT a failure to vaccinate (as the rates, despite media complaints, are plenty high) but a failure in understanding the true effect of vaccines, which encourage growth of alternate germ strains, just like antibacterial soap.  It's funny how we keep learning new things!  It's not funny when outdated assumptions are clung to with fiercely arrogant ignorance, simply because they are profitable.  Damn you, capitalism!

Everyone has a story of someone who almost died as a baby from measles.  My first question is "was that baby breastfed?"  Did you know you can cure measles quickly and without side effects with intravenous vitamin A?  Vitamin A is a major disease fighter.  Breastmilk is positively loaded with vitamin A.  Score: breastmilk-1, vaccine-0. 

(source: Vital Statistics in the U.S., www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/vsus.htm)

This graph shows data BEFORE the measles vaccine was introduced.  

Looks like Americans were a bit healthier than the Brits. 

Another graph with helpful arrows. 

This is how they get you.  A quick glance at this graph above and you are likely to think "wow, check out how well that vaccine worked!"  But this graph is disingenuous.  Look at the y axis (numbers on the left): the numbers are logarithmic.  Who counts logarithmically?  That makes no visual sense for this data.  The graph below is a more honest representation, using the same exact numbers. 

And now to diptheria, a respiratory disease caused by bacteria.  These days, nobody worries too much about diptheria, though they still vaccinate against it.  That's a hell of a spike in deaths when the antitoxin came into general use!

Another spike in deaths, this time following the introduction of the vaccine.  Gee, that never happened before (again with the sarcasm font).

Scurvy - another disease people don't talk much about unless recounting tales of spending months at sea in times long gone.  There's no vaccine because it's simply a nutritional deficiency (and we know other diseases are made worse by key nutrient deficiencies) and it sounds like a truly horrid way to die, but for most of us it'll never be a problem because we get enough vitamin C.

Did you know you can treat pertussis quickly and without side effects with megadoses of vitamin C?  Makes perfect sense when you see the similarity in rates of deaths by pertussis and scurvy. 

This is my favorite graph.  We've all had diarrhea, and we all know when we eat rotten or unclean food and drink unclean water and don't have sanitary places to put our poop, diarrhea and disease are a possibility.  It's amazing how closely they're linked!

Dreaded polio.  Iron lungs and FDR.  

But wait, according to recorded cases of polio, less than 1% had paralysis.  What ... ?  We need to look at the next few pictures to see a wider perspective. 

Let's spray our food crops with pesticides - blanketing our environment with a chemical meant to attack and destroy the nervous system of insects couldn't possibly have ill effects on our health, right?

Oops.  Maybe it's not so good for you.  Is it mere coincidence that as the pesticide production increased, so did the cases of polio?  The peak of polio happened right after the peak of neurotoxic pesticides?  Who'd've thunk it?

I know how we can eradicate polio - call it something else!  

Polio has been renamed several times, and over- and mis-diagnosed.  In fact, it's now thought FDR had Guillain-Barré syndrome, a viral illness that causes immune cells to attack the myelin sheaths of the nervous system, causing paralysis.  Not polio.

And those photos of rows of kids in iron lungs?  Only a small handful of hospitals around the country had iron lung wards where kids - the less than 1% of polio cases - were shipped for care. Some of the photos were staged for various media or film purposes, and some were used as propaganda in newspapers to promote vaccines despite the paralysis and death caused by the first wave of polio vaccinations. Why would they do that?  Follow the money.  There's a whole secret history of the polio vaccine that's messy, scary, and has serious implications regarding the trustworthiness of our medical system. 

(source: Vital Statistics in the U.S., www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/vsus.htm)

The next graphs show declining infant mortality (above) and a slightly slower decline in maternal mortality (below).  Did vaccines help?  No, I doubt it.  Nutriotion?  Very likely.  What was probably the biggest help was the medical profession finally acquiescing to the idea that hand washing helps stop the spread of germs.  Somehow midwives knew this, and the doctors who were early adopters of hand washing were mocked and derided for their behavior.  I don't know about you, but I've never met an arrogant doctor (again, sarcasm font)

(source: Vital Statistics in the U.S., www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/vsus.htm)

(source: Vital Statistics in the U.S., www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/vsus.htm)

My final chart shows the increase in life expectancy over the last century, not - dare i say - thanks to vaccines, but to better access to balanced nutrition (and people often add healthcare here, but if you reread the first line of this post, you'll understand why I left it out).

Now may be a good time to ask yourself:  do the numbers and graphs show vaccines to be the miracle cure modern medicine says they are?  Where is the evidence to back up the claim that they are necessary?

Considering the United States Supreme Court has labeled vaccines "unavoidably unsafe" - a designation given to no other drug or medicine ever - and the side effects could range from a mild rash to death (and are full of truly disgusting ingredients like bovine and aborted human fetal tissue, monkey kidney cultures, viral fragments, and unknown bacterial phages, not to mention the heavy metals and other neurotoxic contaminants), I think questioning the risk is the only sane thing to do. 

Bill Gates wants to spend $10 billion dollars in the developing world to vaccinate every child.  Imagine how much good could come from spending $10 billion to ensure every child has access to clean water, fresh food, and a modern sanitary sewage system?  Maybe Bill Gates is not as smart as he thinks he is.