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Origin of Western Medicine - The Flexner Report
It's important to understand the origins of modern Western Medicine and how the standards were established. For this I recommend reading this article about The Flexner Report:
https://www.cancertutor.com/flexner-report/
Vaccines vs Immune Systems
https://consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/5f43b8aca0980b6fc0198f9f/d87b2bc0-0cdb-44cf-9be2-950204555281/ed3ec8b8-d0ac-4599-8426-6f26ba4c9380#ed3ec8b8-d0ac-4599-8426-6f26ba4c9380Temporary authorisation of the supply of unlicensed products:
There is no point in vaccinating against covid-19 just as there is no point in vaccinating against flu. The only sensible course of action is to give people guidance on how to strengthen their immune systems, so their bodies are strong enough to fight flu and covid-19. Viruses can't survive in an alkaline environment, yet the government wants to vaccinate people rather than spending the money on educating people, because that would mean teaching nutrition at school and less people getting ill and therefore less money from their meat and dairy industry and pharmaceutical and oil industry sponsors.
Causes of a Weak Immune System
Chemicals, plastic/petroleum and meat and dairy are the major causes of a weak immune system and illness, yet the government would rather focus on high costing vaccines, rather than dealing with the causes of illness,it doesn't seem very logical does it? Maybe there are other motives at work here
Vaccine promotion:
Vaccines contain chemicals, chemicals are imbalanced substances, so administering chemicals into the body will cause its chemistry to be imbalanced which will also weaken the immune system and the ability to fight off disease naturally, so it doesn't make sense doing that. Nature is naturally balanced and mankind, also being part of nature needs to be balanced to be healthy
Civil liability and immunity:
Viruses can't survive in an alkaline environment, how about teaching people that and how to create an alkaline environment in their bodies instead of using vaccinations, then it will be down to the individual to protect themselves this way rather than worrying about making others liable.
Expansion to the workforce eligible to administer vaccinations:
Spending money on vaccines and staff only makes the pharmaceutical companies supplying such more profits, what's the point of that when we could be spending the money on education so that people know how to strengthen their immune systems and have knowledge of what foods are needed to supply the required nutrients, vitamins and minerals etc to have a healthy body able to fight disease. How about teaching nutrition to everybody in schools instead of supplying vaccines!?
Provisions for wholesale dealing of vaccines:
How about wholesale of healthy foods, hemp containers rather than plastic (which is a known carcinogen and weakens the immune system) and education materials about how to strengthen the immune system, education about nutrition in schools for the same reason, both would be money better spent, rather than just something (vaccines) which makes pharmaceutical companies more profit actually weakens the immune system by introducing chemicals into the body as well as the fact that an immune system that isn't used to fighting disease is going to be weaker too.
The relationship between Vitamin D Deficiency and Covid deaths:
Low Zinc Levels Increase Risk of Mortality from Covid and Predict Covid Severity:
Zinc has an anti-viral effect and helps increase T-cell growth and activate B-cells, so is important for a strong immune system and decreases risk of catching any viruses, including covid-19.
Zinc Deficiency is Common Worldwide
https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0008895
Hemp Seeds, tahini, dark green leafy vegetables, especially parsley and other nuts and seeds are great sources of zinc, as are mushrooms and legumes. Take a look on my home page under 'Hemp'. (click box in top right hand corner for full page index)
Ivermectin Vs Wormwood
Ivermectin has been getting a lot of publicity lately, so you may have heard of it, but you probably don't know the plant that it's derived from called 'Sweet Annie' in this video, but I've always known it simply as wormwood. I'd also prefer to take the natural, whole version, rather than some artificial, doctored version of it any day!
Doctor's Opinions
Here is a top doctor's opinion on how to approach COVID-19, and as you'll see from his transcript below the screenshot of his video, he's not just any old doctor, he's an expert on viruses. More expert doctor's opinions follow this first one:
The Above Video Entitled "Dr Roger Hodkinson Addresses The Edmonton Council Chambers" Was Removed From YouTube Because it is Counter Narrative
Doctor's Quotes
Quote from Dr Roger Hodkinson (pictured above):
"What I'm going to say is lay-language and blunt, it's counter-narrative, and so, so you don't immediately think I'm a quack, I'm going to briefly outline my credentials so that you can understand where I'm coming from in terms of
knowledge base in all of this. I'm a medical specialist in pathology, which includes virology, I trained at Cambridge
University in the UK, I'm the ex-President of the Pathology Profession of the Medical Association, I was previously an
assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine doing a lot of teaching, I was the chairman of the Royal College of
Physicians of Canada Examination Committee in Pathology in Ottawa. But more to the point I'm currently the chairman of a
bio-technology company in North Carolina selling a COVID-19 test, and I might you might say know a little bit about all
this. The bottom line is simply this, there is utterly unfounded public hysteria, driven by the media and politicians,
it's outrageous, this is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. There is absolutely nothing that
can be done to contain this virus, other than protecting older, more vulnerable people, it should be thought as nothing more than a bad flu season, this is not Ebola, it's not SARS, it's politics playing medicine, and that's a very dangerous game. There is no action of any kind needed other than what happened last year, when we felt unwell, we stayed home, we took chicken noodle soup [which I don't advocate, lol] we didn't visit granny and we decided when we would
return to work, we didn't need anyone to tell us. Masks are utterly useless, there is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever, paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signalling... Social distancing is also useless
because COVID is spread by aerosols which travel 30 metres or so before landing. And closures have had such terrible, unintended consequences, everywhere should be open tomorrow, as was stated in the Great Barrington Declaration that I
circulated prior to this meeting. And a word on testing, I do want to emphasise that I'm in the business of testing for
COVID, I do want to emphasise that positive test results DO NOT, underlined in neon, mean a clinical infection, it's simply driving public hysteria and all testing should stop, unless you're presenting to hospital with some respiratory
problem. All that should be done is to protect the vulnerable and to give them all, in the nursing homes under your control, give them all 3[000] - 5000 international units of vitamin D every day which has been shown to radically reduce the likelihood of infection... It's just another bad flu..."
Another doctor, the professional opinion of
Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, medical doctor, infectiologist and medical
microbiologist:
"We all have viruses in our bodies, including all sorts of Corona viruses.
Sometimes they flare up and people get symptoms such as a cough or a fever.
In most cases the symptoms are mild and Covid-19 will behave just like a cold or a flu.
Only old, sick people may experience an accelerating dying process.
Covid-19 is now blamed for everything and noted as cause of death, This is
wrong and dangerously misleading. 99% of the infected people have no
symptoms or just mild symptoms. But we don't see that in the official data,
where infected people are indicated as patients. That is absolutely incorrect! Most infected people never become ill. Yet they are presented as such by the official authorities and that is serious deception.
What the authorities do right now, all these tests... it is grotesque, exaggerated and dangerous. It will lead to far more deaths as a result of
isolation, depression, anxiety attacks, high blood pressure and heart failure."
Another doctor, the professional opinion of:
Dr. med. Claus Kohnlein:
The test are highly unreliable. As a medical doctor I refuse to use them.
Fact of the matter is, there is nothing unusual going on, yet the panic and hysteria are outrageous.
In our hospital we have 20 ICU beds and we are now waiting for the first patients. I'm sure they will never come.
We have already seen that the tests are unreliable. It is a PCA test, a test on PCA basis in which false positives have been programmed. This means that if you have one molecule of something the test can
already be 'positive', but that doesn't mean the person is actually ill, it doesn't mean he has the Corona virus, that is never isolated, they
completely rely on these tests. If you would take away the tests, life would go in like before, you would see nothing unusual - mortality rate, illness progression, there is nothing to see at all at the moment. The state hospital now has 20 beds ready at the ICU. We are now anxiously awaiting the first patients, I'm sure they won't come."
And one more doctor, the professional opinion of
Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, pulmonologist
"When you look at what kind of viruses are actually in the body of someone with a respiratory disease, you will always find Corona viruses. If you would test these patients, they will always be positive for Corona, even
when there are no symptoms. In other words, the Corona viruses didn't
cause the disease but something totally different, for instance lung cancer. If this patient dies, the official cause of death will now be
Covid-19. This gives a completely distorted view of reality!
When the new Corona virus was discovered in China, the German Dr. Drosten
developed a test under severe time constraints. The World Health Organisation adopted it immediately, with no clinical testing whatsoever.
This means the reliability of the Covid-19 tests is highly questionable."
We lack data information. Where were the tests taken, under what circumstances, what were the patients suffering from? You cannot draw conclusions if you don't have the answer to these questions.
This year the mortality rate is much lower compared to previous years. If we wouldn't have tested, we wouldn't have noticed a thing."
- surrounding the government and asking the government for advice, because they can't know themselves - they all played along and joined the hype.
And like this politicians are being courted by many scientists, scientists
who want to be important in politics because they need money for their institutions, scientists who just swim along in this mainstream and also want their part "we can help too!", "We made an app!", "We have a program
for this!" So many people saying "hey, we want to help too!" because they want to earn money with it and become important. And what is missing at the
moment is a rational way of looking at things.
We should ask questions like:
"How have you found out that the virus is dangerous?"
"How was it before?"
"Didn't we have the same thing last year?"
"Is it even something new?"
That's missing. End of quote.
Official Government Reports
So what's the government's opinion on covid 19?
Let's take a look at the government website gov.uk:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19:
As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK.
The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.
The need to have a national, coordinated response remains, but this is being met by the government's COVID-19 response.
Cases of COVID-19 are no longer managed by HCID treatment centres only. All healthcare workers managing possible and confirmed cases should follow the updated national infection and prevention (IPC) guidance for COVID-19, which supersedes all previous IPC guidance for COVID-19. This guidance includes instructions about different personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles that are appropriate for different clinical scenarios.
In the UK, a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) is defined according to the following criteria:- acute infectious disease
- typically has a high case-fatality rate
- may not have effective prophylaxis or treatment
- often difficult to recognise and detect rapidly
- ability to spread in the community and within healthcare settings
- requires an enhanced individual, population and system response to ensure it is managed effectively, efficiently and safely
HCIDs are further divided into contact and airborne groups:
Contact HCIDs are usually spread by direct contact with an infected patient or infected fluids, tissues and other materials, or by indirect contact with contaminated materials and fomites
Airborne HCIDs are spread by respiratory droplets or aerosol transmission, in addition to contact routes of transmission
A list of HCIDs has been agreed by a joint Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England
HCIDProgramme:
Contact HCID Airborne HCID
Argentine haemorrhagic fever (Junin virus)
Andes virus infection (hantavirus)
Bolivian haemorrhagic fever (Machupo virus)
Avian influenza A H7N9 and H5N1
Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) Avian influenza A H5N6 and H7N7
Ebola virus disease (EVD) Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
Lassa fever
Monkeypox
Lujo virus disease
Nipah virus infection
Marburg virus disease (MVD) Pneumonic plague (Yersinia pestis)
Severe fever with thrombocytopaenia syndrome (SFTS)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)*
*No cases reported since 2004, but SARS remains a notifiable disease under the International Health Regulations (2005), hence its inclusion here
**Human to human transmission has not been described to date for avian influenza A(H5N6). Human to human transmission has been described for avian influenza A(H5N1), although this was not apparent until more than 30 human cases had been reported. Both A(H5N6) and A(H5N1) often cause severe illness and fatalities. Therefore, A(H5N6) has been included in the airborne HCID list despite not meeting all of the HCID criteria.
The list of HCIDs will be kept under review and updated by PHE if new HCIDs emerge that are of relevance to the UK.
HCIDs, including viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs), are rare in the UK. When cases do occur, they tend to be sporadic and are typically associated with recent travel to an area where the infection is known to be endemic or where an outbreak is occurring. None of the HCIDslisted above are endemic in the UK, and the known animal reservoirs are not found in the UK.
As of February 2020, 2019, the UK has experience of managing confirmed cases of Lassa fever, EVD, CCHF, MERS and monkeypox. The vast majority of these patients acquired their infections overseas, but rare incidents of secondary transmission of MERS and monkeypox have occurred in the UK.
Adverse Reactions and Deaths from both Covid Vaccines. (AstraZeneca and Pfizer) - Official Government Figures
Here are the latest figures published by the government on the number of deaths and adverse reactions from taking either one of the two covid vaccines available:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions
UK Government Report AstraZeneca vaccine adverse reactions PDF:https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/970505/COVID-19_AstraZeneca_Vaccine_Analysis_Print.pdf
Report run date 16th March 2021
Adverse reaction /total/fatal
* Blood disorders: 1287 / 2
* Cardiac disorders: 2200/38
* Congenital disorders: 19/ 0
* Ear disorders: 1424 / 0
* Endocrine disorders 42 / 0
* Eye disorders 2499 / 0
* Gastrointestinal disorders 25163 /5
* General disorders 80954 / 163
* Hepatic disorders 41 / 0
* Immune system disorders 633 / 0
* Infections 4382 / 40
* Injuries 1086 / 1
* Metabolic disorders 2952 / 2
* Muscle & tissue disorders 27948 / 0
* Neoplasms 21 / 1
* Nervous system disorders 49655 / 20
* Pregnancy conditions 25/0
(includes 5 "abortion spontaneous", apparently that doesn't count as death[?])
* Device/product issues14/0
* Psychiatric disorders 4046 / 0
* Renal & urinary disorders 641 / 1
* Reproductive & breast disorders 354 / 0
* Respiratory disorders 6040 / 12
* Skin disorders 12083 / 0
* Social circumstances 52/0
* Surgical & medical procedures 170 / 1
* Vascular disorders 1843 / 3
TOTAL ADVERSE REACTIONS FOR DRUG:
228,337
TOTAL FATAL REACTIONS FOR DRUG:
289 DEATHS
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions
UK Government Report.
Pfizer vaccine adverse reactions PDF:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/970504/COVID-19_mRNA_Pfizer-_BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print.pdf
Report Run Date: 16-Mar-2021
Adverse reaction/total/fatal
*Blood disorders: 2500 / 1
*Cardiac disorders: 1226 / 27
*Congenital disorders: 5 / 0
*Hearing disorders: 893 / 0
*Endocrine disorders: 14 / 0
*Eye disorders: 1489 / 0 (21 blinds)
*Gastrointestinal disorders: 11113 / 13
*General disorders: 30533 / 120
*Hepatic/Liver disorders: 21 /0
*Immune system disorders: 560 / 0
*Infections: 2210 / 38
*Injuries: 500 / 1
*Continued Investigations: 1142 / 0
*Metabolic disorders: 629 / 1
*Muscle-tissue disorders: 13624 / 1
*Neoplasms: 27 / 0
*Nervous System Disorders: 19142 / 17
*Associated with pregnancy: 39 / 1
(including 23 "abortion spontaneous")
*Psychiatric disorders: 1499 / 0
*Renal / urinary disorder: 227 / 0
*Reproductive disorders: 442/ 0
*Respiratory disorders: 4276 / 15
*Skin disorder: 7308 / 1
*Social circumstances 24 / 0
*Surgical & Medical procedures 67 / 0
*Vascular disorders: 1205 / 1
TOTAL ADVERSE REACTIONS FOR DRUG:
35,325
TOTAL FATAL REACTIONS FOR DRUG:
237 DEATHS
Another Article On Adverse Reactions:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/vaccine-risks-versus-rewards-what-your-gp-wont-tell-you/
CDC Article About Covid-19 Being Identical to Flu:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm
Also, if vaccines were safe, then there wouldn't be any need for vaccine damage payments:
https://vaccinedamagepayment.co.uk/
So there we have the government's opinion on covid 19, so why does everything we hear in the media on TV say different? Well the following article may explain that, let's take a look at who owns the newspapers....
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/five-reasons-why-we-don-t-have-free-and-independent-press-in-uk-and-what-we-can-do-about/
Exerpts from the following [above] article:
Five reasons why we don't have a free and independent press in the UK (and what we can do about it):
1) The billionaires that own the press set the agenda:
Who owns the media shapes what stories are covered and how they are written about. The UK media has a very concentrated ownership structure, with six billionaires owning and/or having a majority of voting shares in most of the national newspapers.
For example:
The Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and the Metro are all Conservatively aligned newspapers owned by Lord Rothmore a Billionaire tax avoider who lives in France...
2) Corporate advertising revenue censors the content:
The media relies heavily on corporate advertising, often for more than 50% of its revenue. Just how much varies for different media outlets...
3) Privately educated white men dominate the media:
There are different studies showing the dominance of a private-school and Oxbridge (Oxford and Cambridge) educated elite at the top of UK journalism, and the trend has been getting worse...
4) The political use of supposedly neutral sources:
The sources which are used by journalists and the range of debate published within the UK media can show us another way in which the corporate media is deeply compromised...
5) The intelligence services manipulate the press:
While it is almost impossible to distinguish between conspiracy theories and to prove the extent to which intelligence services and specialised police units have infiltrated the media, Richard Kemble, professor of evidenced at the University of Lincoln, thinks "from the limited evidence [their influence] looks to be enormous." Keeble has written on the history of the links between journalists and the intelligence services in his book chapter - Hacks and Spooks - Close Encounters of a Strange Kind: A Critical History of the Links Between Mainstream Journalists and the Intelligence Services in the UK...
OK, so we've seen who owns the newspapers, but what about the TV News Channels? Well let's see who owns them.
Here's an excerpt from this article::
https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/biggest-media-companies-world/
The News 50: Tech giants dwarf Rupert Murdoch to become the biggest news media companies in the English-speaking world
By William Turvill Twitter

DECEMBER 3, 2020
The News 50: Tech giants dwarf Rupert Murdoch to become the biggest news media companies in the English-speaking world
By William Turvill

The top 50 biggest news media companies in the English-speaking world are today revealed in an exclusive ranking, based on relevant revenue, compiled by Press Gazette.
Ten years ago, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation was the biggest news media company in the English-speaking world - and it was about to become even bigger with the planned acquisition of broadcast giant BSkyB.
"The Fox News Channel is simply unstoppable," Murdoch wrote in the company's 2010 annual report, which reported revenues of $32.8bn, up 8% on the previous year. "The Sun delivered its highest year ever in advertising revenues in 2010... The Wall Street Journal was the only major US title to grow in circulation."
"Far from killing us off," he said of technological advancements at the time, "I see the great disruptions we are now going through as the prelude to a new golden era for companies like News Corporation."
Today, the biggest three news and information companies in the world are Google-owner Alphabet, Facebook and Apple, according to an in-depth analysis by Press Gazette.
Our News 50 list reveals that the renamed and shrunk-down News Corp has fallen to become the English-speaking world's 17th largest news media company, with annual revenues of $9bn. Fox Corporation, the assets of which were part of the old News Corporation and which retains Murdoch as its largest shareholder, is 12th with an annual turnover of $12.3bn.
How Silicon Valley took control of the news agenda
In 2010, News Corporation was bigger than Google, which reported an annual turnover of $29bn. Facebook, meanwhile, was pulling in less than $2bn annually.
Many journalists at the time would have regarded Google, which now also owns Youtube, and Facebook merely as useful tools for both newsgathering and distribution. Few would have considered them to be competitors in the business of news.
Today, Google (renamed Alphabet at a corporate level) and Facebook are together known as the Duopoly. Their dominance of the digital advertising market makes them the two biggest media (and news) businesses in the world by some margin.
Alphabet's $150bn advertising revenues are more than 15 times greater than the $9bn total turnover of Murdoch's News Corp.
Coming in behind Facebook, which reported ad revenues of $69.7bn last year, is fellow tech giant Apple.
But we have ranked Apple third in the list because of the $53.8bn of revenues from its services business. The tech giant's fast-growing services business includes revenues from its app store, music, arcade, pay and the iCloud, as well as Apple TV and Apple News.
With this approach in mind, Amazon - which operates Prime Video, Kindle and Audible - also makes the top ten for its services offering, as does Netflix, which produces much documentary content in addition to its dramatic content.
Comcast and ViacomCBS - whose media revenues are separated from larger parts of their businesses - also make the top ten along with entertainment giant Walt Disney.
Microsoft, which owns MSN and Linkedin, is in the top ten, while ByteDance - the owner of Chinese social media app TikTok - is the highest-ranking non-American company at number nine.
Decline of news-focused businesses
None of the companies that make up out top ten would describe themselves as news companies - with their focus on social media, tech, entertainment or telecoms.
The biggest news-focused companies are Hearst (12th) and News Corp (15th). Gannett, the struggling US local newspaper publisher that owns Newsquest in the UK, is in 25th, while the UK's largest regional publisher, Reach, does not make the top 50
22. BBC
Top news/information brands: BBC News, BBC Worldwide, regional channels across the UK, various other big-name shows
Total revenues: $6.5bn (£4.9bn)
News/information/media revenues: $6.5bn (£4.9bn)
Source: Annual report 2019/20
Owned by the British government, the BBC is the top publicly-owned entrant on this list. The majority of its income is from the licence fee paid by the British public, though it does also make commercial revenues from its international operation.
24. ITV
Top news/information brands: ITV, Good Morning Britain. Has a 40% stake in ITN, the company behind ITV News and Channel 4 News
Total revenues: $5.1bn (£3.9bn)
News/information/media revenues: $5.1bn (£3.9bn)
Source: Full-year 2019 results
ITV is best known for its entertainment programming, including I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here and Coronation Street, but it also has some of the most popular and trusted news brands in the UK. It owns a 40% stake in ITN, which makes ITV News and Channel 4 News.
Source: Annual report 2019/20
Owned by the British government, the BBC is the top publicly-owned entrant on this list. The majority of its income is from the licence fee paid by the British public, though it does also make commercial revenues from its international operation.
What We Can Do About It:
Alternative media such as openDemocracy, Indymedia, Democracy Now and Red Pepper have existed for years, while The Canary was launched online a year ago.
The Light Alternative Newspaper:
https://thelightpaper.co.uk/
There has also been a resurgence of co-operatively owned media after some failed experiments in the 1970s, with The New Internationalist (now apparently the UK's oldest workers' co-operative) still surviving from that period. These media co-operatives are either owned by their workers, their readers or both as multi-stakeholder co-operatives. Corporate Watch and Strike! Magazine - both workers' co-operatives - have been running since 1996 and 2012 respectively. The Morning Star has been a reader owned co-operative for several years. Ethical Consumer converted into a multi-stakeholder co-operative in 2008. The Bristol Cable has recently been created by local residents as a co-operative. Positive News has recently been crowdfunded by its readers to be a co-operative. STIR magazine is planning to transition to a co-operative structure. In the UK the co-operative movement founded their own publication in 1871 to report on the co-operative movement - the Co-operative Press - which continues as Co-operative News to this day.
There has been a surge in Scottish alternative and co-operative media. The West Highland Free Press was bought out by its employees in 2009. Bella Caledonia emerged before the Scottish referendum, and after it The Ferret was crowdfunded to pursue investigative journalism as a co-operative owned by its subscribers and journalists, and Common Space was established as a crowd-funded rolling news service.
There have also been efforts to support investigative journalism. Websites such as Patreon enable readers to support investigative journalists directly. The Bureau for Investigative Journalism also funds and supports investigative journalism. Wikileaks has also provided a very valuable resource for journalists trying to investigate what is actually going on.
Globally, there are many more examples of alternative and co-operative media. The Media Co-op is a network of local multi-stakeholder media co-operatives providing grassroots, democratic coverage of Canadian communities.
The Real News is a non-profit, viewer-supported daily video-news and documentary service based in the United States. ZNet is a viewer supported alternative media outlet based in the US.
Critical perspectives on the media appear with MediaLens, Spinwatch, Off Guardian and BS News in the UK as well as FAIR and many others in the US.
However, alternative media does vary in quality. As has been much discussed since Donald Trump's election, alternative (as well as corporate) media can be fake, far-right and/or not sufficiently fact-checked. Only if alternative/co-operative/investigative journalism is financially supported by its readers will they be able to research and write high quality articles. Together we have immense resources and power to support non-corporate media if we choose to. The Media Fund - which itself will be a multi-stakeholder co-operative - recently crowdfunded £10,000 to support the UK's media revolution, but much more is needed to ensure its success.
Other information sources (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) - which although are corporations themselves - provide access to different viewpoints, but they can also create bubbles where people with similar beliefs follow each other and they can be compromised and censored by the corporations themselves (censorship of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube exists, including of large numbers of Palestinian posts, pages and accounts). There are also dangers with the idea that everything we say should be connected to a personal profile - there are real benefits to anonymity as shown by the countless people in prison or facing trial in the Middle East for their posts on corporate social media. Ideally, for alternative media to be truly successful, we need to create alternatives to Facebook and Twitter that are open source, collectively owned and which allow anonymity if desired.
As the internet generation gets older, and hopefully less exclusively reliant on the corporate media, maybe things will continue to change. Despite relentless aggressive attacks by the corporate media against Jeremy Corbyn, which unmasked supposedly left-wing newspapers like the Guardian which three academic studies have recently confirmed, he managed to win two Labour leadership elections by a landslide. A poll of those eligible to vote for Jeremy Corbyn at the Labour leadership election a year ago found that for 57 per cent of them social media was a main source of news, as compared to around 40 per cent for the other candidates. Social and alternative media helped lead to the rise of Corbyn and changed the limits of 'acceptable' debate within the Labour party.
The fact that you're reading this means that alternative viewpoints can be sought out, read and shared. Please check out the alternative media above, share it, support it financially and/or become a member if you can. Or consider writing for - or even setting up your own - media co-operative.
Further reading:
* Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
* Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies
* Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media by David Edwards & David Cromwell
* Good News: A co-operative solution to the media crisis by Dave Boyle
* The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything by Joe Trippi
* How Thatcher and Murdoch made their secret deal by Harold Evans
Documentaries on the corporate media:
Outfoxed
Spin
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
Sign the petition: save our Freedom of Information
The UK government is running a secretive unit inside Michael Gove's Cabinet Office that's accused of 'blacklisting' journalists and hiding 'sensitive' information from the public. Experts say they're breaking the law - and it's an assault on our right to know what our government is doing.
Carcinogenic Chemical Used to Sterilise Medical Equipment
According to the World Health Organization, ethylene oxide is a "potent neurotoxin, a known human carcinogen, a potential reproductive hazard, and an allergic sensitizer" that can cause health problems with acute overexposure and chronic exposure. Lymphoma and leukemia are the cancers most commonly linked to occupational exposure to ethylene oxide, although stomach and breast cancers may also be associated, according to the National Cancer Institute.
At the same time, "ethylene oxide sterilization is an important sterilization method that manufacturers widely use to keep medical devices safe," according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Ethylene oxide may sometimes be the only method of effectively sterilizing equipment that would otherwise be damaged in other sterilization processes, the FDA notes
I love how they say in these articles that the chemicals they use are safe, so that the unsuspecting public believe them since they are the "authorities", which makes it "official" now to say chemicals are safe, like this article here:
https://fullfact.org/health/ptfe-masks-symptoms/
According to this headline, "PTFE in masks does not pose a health risk, unless you get it very hot" that's like saying "plastic, although made from carcinogenic mineral oil, does not leach toxic, endocrine disrupting chemicals unless you get it very hot", which we know is not true, because these toxins only have to be leached out and into the blood stream at 1ppt, (1 part per trillion) to disrupt our hormone levels and therefore eventually cause cancer. (Cancer is caused by improper hormone balance)
Here are some articles about that before we get into the article i refer to above which i've reproduced after these 3 links:
https://mindd.org/bpa-plastic/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24388189/
https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/plastics-pose-threat-to-human-health
What Was Claimed:
Blue surgical masks are sprayed with PTFE, which is harmful to humans.
The Verdict:
Some masks contain PTFE, but ordinary surgical masks are often made from other materials. PTFE is not generally harmful to humans.
A post on Facebook has claimed that disposable masks are sprayed with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) - and that exposure to this can lead to symptoms including fever, chest tightness, shortness of breath, headache, cough, chills and a sore throat.
It is true that PTFE is used in some masks, but it is extremely unlikely to cause illness during normal use.
PTFE is found in items such as non-stick cookware, some clothing, and various medical instruments, and is most commonly associated with the brand name Teflon. However, the Teflon brand refers to a number of products, not all of which are PTFE, and not all PTFE is Teflon.
Blue surgical face masks, like the ones featured in the Facebook post, are most commonly made out of a different type of plastic called polypropylene rather than PTFE, although PTFE is used in the making of some reusable masks, and some disposable masks can have PTFE filters.
The post seems to be referring to the symptoms of polymer fume fever, which is a rare ailment caused by inhaling fumes from PTFE heated above 300 to 400 degrees Celsius, such as when a PTFE pan is overheated. Symptoms can resemble flu, like those in the post.
There is no evidence that anyone would suffer from this condition as a result of the normal wearing of a mask made with PTFE.
BOMBSHELL: Disposable blue face masks found to contain toxic, asbestos-like substance that destroys lungs:
https://www.afinalwarning.com/507549.html
Covid-19 face masks: A potential source of microplastic fibers in the environment:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7297173/
The introduction of face masks (Wu et al., 2020) as one of the precautionary measures to slow down the transmission rate of Covid-19 from person to person has resulted in a global shortage of face masks for the most venerable group, which are the HCWs (Wu et al., 2020). According to the WHO estimates, approximately 89 million medical masks were needed to respond to Covid-19 each month (WHO, 2020). This demand has resulted in an unprecedented rise in the global production of face masks which are produced using polymeric materials. Major players in face mask production have therefore scaled up their output. For instance, China increased its daily production of medical masks to 14.8 million as of February 2020 (Xinhua, 2020). Also, according to the Japanese Ministry of economy, trade, and industry (METI), over 600 million order of face masks per month was secured as of April 2020 (METI, 2020).
The environmental implication of plastics and plastic particles pollution have been enumerated and demonstrated by erudite scholars in various literature (Browne et al., 2008; Cole et al., 2014; Galloway et al., 2017; Rist et al., 2018; Wright et al., 2013). Some of these adverse consequences include threat to aquatic lives, which constitute a major part of the food web and support to human existence. Plastic particles are getting into foods meant for human consumption, raising a concern on global food safety (Fadare et al., 2020). Reduction in aesthetic and recreational worth, which are vital to human social and mental stability. The presence of plastics in the environment has also been reported as contributing significantly to climate change due to carbon emission and a greater risk to the global food chain (Reid et al., 2019; Shen et al., 2019).
Another implication of this v indiscriminately disposed face masks in the environment is the possibility of acting as a medium for disease outbreak, as plastic particles are known to propagate microbes such as invasive pathogens (Reid et al., 2019)
Who Stands To Gain From The Billions Of Masks Being Sold?
British Conservative Party Donors have been awarded contracts for PPE (Surgical Masks, Plastic Aprons, Face Shields) worth over £500 Million Pounds:
David Meller donated to the conservative party $60,000 - gets awarded PPE Contract worth over £163 Million Pounds
The longer these lockdowns continue the more money they will all make and once all the businesses go bankrupt they'll buy up all the land and premises cheap using the British Tax Payers own money which they awarded themselves from PPE contracts.
Speaking is 27 year old Zarah Sultana MP for Coventry South - make sure to retweet and share her video
https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1336677067610595330
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarah_Sultana
Covid spending: Watchdog finds MPs' contacts were given priority:
Many people in government or members of the 'elite', speak openly about their wishes to cut the world population down dramatically:
Bill Gates in an open statement, which he repeats a lot of times, including in the above video, talks about the world being overpopulated and using vaccines to cut the population down. His father is a eugenicist by the way, just as Hitler was, and was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood as far as I remember, which is an organisation which was set up to implement the plans of the depopulation program outlined in Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 by Henry Kissinger (and also in his book NSSM-200, aka 'The Kissinger Report')
Then we have Boris Johnson openly talking about the same thing, the World population problem" in articles he wrote some years ago and a video of his father, again talking about cutting the population dramatically! Both are shown in this video:
Leading Corona researchers admit that they HAVE NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A [Covid-19] VIRUS: https://telegra.ph/Leading-Corona-researchers-admit-that-they-have-no-scientific-proof-for-the-existence-of-a-virus-07-31
Article about how long term mask use breeds microbes that contribute to advanced lung cancer.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-01-15-long-term-mask-use-breeds-microbes-lung-cancer.html
To sum up the article, it basically says that the lungs exhale carbon dioxide that allows organs to rid the body of wastes, when this is obstructed long term, this creates an acidic environment and slowly strains the organs.
Microbes that are usually found in the mouth make their way to the lungs to create an environment of cancer...
If you're wondering why government would promote such a harmful thing to the people, then you obviously skipped the section about Eugenics on this page, but when we look at Bill Gates' (and he is already a billionaire remember, and one of the richest mean in the world) and his statement about vaccines being the biggest return on investment for him out of anything, the reason becomes super clear! Governments don't care about people, they care about profits. They always put profits over people.
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