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  • The Secret History & Modern Legacy of HP Lovecraft

    The Secret History & Modern Legacy of HP Lovecraft

    From New Dawn 198 (May-June 2023)

    As an example of militant action in favour of the greatest possible degree of open-mindedness, and as an initiation into the cosmic consciousness, the works of Charles Fort have been a direct source of inspiration for the greatest poet and champion of the theory of parallel Universes, H.P. Lovecraft…
    – Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians

    Many people know of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s (1890–1937) existential and otherworldly horror stories – or at least have seen some adaptation. Lovecraft’s influence across fiction, film, gaming, and beyond is vast and immeasurable, and celebrated artists cite the author as a major creative inspiration, from novelist Stephen King (IT, The Shining), graphic novelist Alan Moore (V For Vendetta, Watchmen), and author Jorge Luis Borges, Japanese writer Chiaki J. Konaka (Serial Experiments Lain, Marebito), manga artist Junji Ito (Uzumaki, Tomie), and directors Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water) and John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween, They Live) – the list goes on and on.

    Despite his influence, few people know that HP Lovecraft was a prolific political writer who railed against both the soulless greed of American capitalism and the culture-destroying wrecking ball of Soviet communism.

    In Lovecraft’s early political writings, published in his amateur journal The Conservative, the primary target of his tirades was bolshevism. This ‘aristocrat of the soul’ feared communism would destroy high art and culture by demolishing the aristocratic (or, in the case of the United States, WASP pseudo-aristocratic) hierarchy.

    Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937)

    Lovecraft also criticised the concept of democracy, making similar observations to those that the Italian philosopher and occultist Julius Evola offered more than a decade later in his 1934 book Revolt Against the Modern World.

    “There is no such thing – there will never be such a thing – as good and permanent government among the crawling, miserable vermin called human beings,” Lovecraft declared in an October 1921 article titled Nietzscheism and Realism. 

    “Aristocracy and monarchy are the most efficient in developing the best qualities of mankind as expressed in achievements of taste and intellect; but they lead to unlimited arrogance,” he continued. “That arrogance in turn leads inevitably to their decline and overthrow. On the other hand, democracy and ochlocracy [‘mob rule’] lead just as certainly to decline and collapse through their lack of any stimulus to individual achievement. They may perhaps last longer, but that is because they are closer to the primal animal or savage state from which civilised man is supposed to have partly evolved.”

    In the same article, Lovecraft called for a Roman-style aristocracy that would accept any man who could prove himself “aesthetically and intellectually fitted for membership,” before channelling Schopenhauer and the future works of nihilist philosopher Emil Cioran with the line: “Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world – we rejected it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death – the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”

    Later, as the Great Depression crippled Americans and Lovecraft became increasingly ill and destitute, he altered his worldview – ridiculing the out-of-touch laissez-faire mentality of politicians and industrialists and warning that some form of American socialism would be necessary to prevent the rise of communism in the US.

    In a 1933 piece, Lovecraft criticised the “artificial finance-and-business tradition” which had become dominant in the US and argued that the capitalist class was willing to do anything – including kill off the masses through war – to “save the sacred cultural principles of ‘sound business’, ‘rugged individualism’, and bigger profits for people who do not need them.”

    “It is by this time virtually clear to everyone save self-blinded capitalists and politicians that the old relation of the individual to the needs of the community has utterly broken down under the impact of intensively productive machinery,” Lovecraft observed before warning that America would have to make radical changes – including guaranteed work for every American and the limitation of private property – to deter a revolution he claimed would start with good intentions, but ultimately result in “ruthless destruction of cultural values which such an upheaval would bring.”

    In another article, dated November 1933, Lovecraft complained that industrial laissez-faire capitalism had led only to America’s resources becoming concentrated in the hands of an increasingly small few.

    On the “pompous financiers” and politicians who had caused such a state of affairs, Lovecraft said that the “Americanism” and “freedom” they spoke of no longer meant anything more than “certain technical business principles” which “enable 2% of the population to corral 80% of the national resources and condemn an ever-increasing minority to unemployment and starvation.”1

    He lambasted the “capitalistic class” for regarding “the now-passing economic order” – as the Great Depression ended – to be “a good one.” 

    Lovecraft attacked: “All our smug ‘solid men’ and ‘best citizens’ have habitually condemned thousands to slow starvation and hundreds to actual death through industrial policies designed to give a few luxurious stockholders the added profits enabling them to keep three motor cars instead of two.”

    Many of Lovecraft’s observations and criticisms are eerily relevant today, nearly a hundred years on. With the ongoing decline of the US empire, the same out-of-touch cliches and policies that Lovecraft cited as responsible for the destruction of the American community back in his day still repeat today.

    Politicians on both the left and right use the same calls for “freedom” and “Americanism” as they did in the early 20th century, only this time to justify expensive, far-away wars while ordinary Americans suffer the effects of inflation and plummeting quality of life.

    Although Lovecraft started out politically conservative and later advocated some socialist positions in response to the devastation wrought by the Great Depression, for the most part, he remained a social conservative and continuously supported the concepts of aristocracy and hierarchy throughout his life.

    Lovecraft believed that the “old aristocracy” – which still held sway in 1930s America – would ultimately support the necessary changes to avoid communism due to their indifference to the “moneyed bourgeois element” with the most to lose. Ironically, he cited the British fascist leader Oswald Mosley and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt as two examples of aristocrats “who actively lead the quest for a workable social order.”

    Lovecraft laid out his vision for men like Mosley and Roosevelt:

    Indeed, the salvation of society really depends on the faithful and diligent services of disinterested gentlemen – since the inflamed masses without leaders can only tear down without building up. The people as a whole are densely and hopelessly ignorant – mere blind forces either cowed to silent suffering or bursting into resistless fury under too much goading – hence democracy is and always has been and will be a joke… or a tragedy. Salvation rests wholly with the trained man of vision and cultivation without the profit motive – namely, the fascistic leader.

    At the time of Lovecraft’s article, Mosley had recently launched the British Union of Fascists and – despite his aristocratic connections – was interned in 1940 in a British concentration camp for more than three years due to his beliefs. Roosevelt led America into World War 2 before passing away just months before the detonation of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    Ultimately, Lovecraft never saw the war or the era of prosperity that the US would experience in the decades following. He would never see the fall of fascism or the fall of the Soviet Union, and he would never see American capitalism reach new levels of horror. Even his own creative mind would have struggled to foresee it. He would never see his work – widely ignored and maligned during his lifetime – become some of the most popular stories in horror and science fiction history.

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    Lovecraft died in his native Providence, Rhode Island, from intestinal cancer on 15 March 1937, age 46. He left this world in poverty and in severe pain.

    While Lovecraft died more than 86 years ago, his work and the intricate world he created continue to inspire and fascinate new generations. Despite the fact that the bulk of Lovecraft’s legacy can be seen in the cinema, comic books, video games, and other entertainment, it also appears in more serious fields such as the occult and even the military.

    In a September 2022 article for 19FortyFive titled “Read H. P. Lovecraft To Understand War,” James Holmes – chairman of Maritime Strategy at the US Naval War College and a former US Navy officer – argued that reading Lovecraft and other weird fiction “primes military practitioners and analysts to notice weird or eerie anomalies in the profession of arms.”2

    “Detecting a phenomenon is the first step toward adapting to it or turning it to advantage,” he wrote, adding that Lovecraft’s stories could help military strategists “make sense of the past, survey the world around us, and potentially glimpse the future.”

    Could that same argument be made for the study of conspiracies, cover-ups, and Fortean activity? Could this also be why Lovecraft’s ideas are so ingrained in much of the modern occult?

    Charles Fort and his investigations into the paranormal influenced Lovecraft, who was also obsessed with the unknown, the unexplained, and the concept of forbidden knowledge. Lovecraft referenced “the extravagant books of Charles Fort with their claims that voyagers from other worlds and outer space have often visited the earth” in his 1931 science-fiction horror story The Whisperer in Darkness.

    In his article, Holmes cites examples of how Lovecraft’s work could help NATO and Ukraine in their conflict against Russia – an interesting observation since Russia is among the countries where Lovecraft’s tales are most widely read.

    Shelf of Lovecraft titles in a Moscow bookstore.

    Russian translations of Lovecraft can be found in abundance in Moscow bookstores, with some outlets holding dedicated shelves to his weird fiction – a rare sight in even English-speaking countries. Remarkably, Russian President Vladimir Putin himself addressed the topic of Cthulhu, the fictional cosmic entity that appears in several of Lovecraft’s stories, after questions about the apocalyptic awakening of the sleeping, underwater tentacle god were the fourth most popular at a Q&A in 2006!

    While some critics of the Russian president have accused him of holding a “dark pact” with Cthulhu, Putin told Lovecraft-mad Russian youth: “I am generally suspicious of any otherworldly forces. If someone wants to turn to true values, then it is better to read the Bible or the Koran. It will be more useful.”3

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    1. hplovecraft.hu/index.php?page=library_etexts&id=771&lang=angol
    2. 19fortyfive.com/2022/09/read-h-p-lovecraft-to-understand-war/
    3. majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/07/vladimir_putin_.html

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  • The Men Who Run the World: Inside the Global Power Elite’s Quest for Domination

    The Men Who Run the World: Inside the Global Power Elite’s Quest for Domination

    From New Dawn 196 (Jan-Feb 2023)

    On the surface, the men who rule the world are central and investment bankers: those who print money and create money from thin air in the form of loans. I say “men” because almost all of them are male. In addition, the men who run the world are law and private enforcement agencies. The central and private bankers cannot survive without the judges, police, and hired goons that enable their system: arrest for non-compliance, fines for failure to pay debts, etc.

    The men who run the world are, on the surface, also the founders, CEOs, and majority-shareholders of multibillion-dollar monopolies, including the internet monolith Alphabet, the tech behemoth Apple, the software monopoly Microsoft, the drug giant Pfizer, and BlackRock – the asset manager that owns the bulk of those firms’ shares. The CEOs of these companies meet several times a year at the Bilderberg Group and the World Economic Forum.

    Many of these elites operate in the even-smaller circles of secret societies and fraternal orders. In 2011, BlackRock’s co-founder and current CEO, Larry Fink, sat in the United Grand Lodge of England’s Freemasonic Hall and urged the European Union, of which Britain was then a member, to inject $2 trillion worth of central bank money into the global economy to head off recession.1 Fink’s colleagues in Wall Street and the City of London Corporation had crashed the economy in 2007-08 with their reckless gambling. Their intervention led to more than a decade of low-growth, low-wages and enormous top-down profits.

    The men who rule the world control thought with their privately-owned media. CNN and other broadcasters are owned by Warner Bros Discovery, which in turn is owned by BlackRock and other asset managers. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post (WashPo), eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar owns The Intercept, and centibillionaire Elon Musk owns Twitter.

    With campaign donations and propaganda, these and other rich men own politicians. A record-breaking one billion dollars in lobbying in the US was spent in the first quarter of 2022 alone.2

    I say these men run the world “on the surface” because, as we shall see, an enormous secret apparatus operates in the name of national security which seeks to control the direction of these men and their investments.

    CENTIBILLIONAIRES

    In 2018, Jeff Bezos’s estimated wealth surpassed $100 billion, making him the world’s first centibillionaire for two decades. Bezos made his money, in part, by enjoying US federal government subsidies in the form of tax breaks – literally paying nothing in some years3 – and basing his business on computers and the internet, both of which were developed with public money after WWII. Generally, Amazon is notorious for not paying staff a living wage, hiring corporate spies, busting potential unions, and controlling warehouse staff with CCTV-linked to algorithms that punish transgressions, such as going to the toilet. In 2000, Bezos founded his space venture arm, Blue Origin, which in 2021 won millions of dollars worth of taxpayer money from the Pentagon’s Space Force to develop cryogenic fluid management systems for the New Glenn rocket – a heavy-lift orbit vehicle.

    Technically, Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates became a centibillionaire briefly in 1999, with the so-called “.com” bubble, before seeing his wealth dip below that figure. All that changed in 2019 when his wealth surpassed $100 billion, where it has remained ever since. Like Bezos, Gates enjoyed handouts from the nanny state in the form of procurement contracts, low taxes, and early dibs on innovations in non-computing fields, like geo- and genetic engineering, and particularly injectable products. Under cover of saving black children from malaria and other diseases, Gates’s Foundation has made a fortune pedalling genetically-modified crops and alleged vaccines, which need to be cooled in order to “work.” The lucrative, patented cooling technology is the most profitable part of the new jab technology, which interests Gates the most.

    Like Bezos and the rest of them, government responses to the pandemic led Gates to double his wealth4 as people were locked down and used his Microsoft products. Gates also bet on various “vaccine stocks.”5

    The world’s richest man, at the time of writing, is Elon Musk: a person born into wealth6 and who, through his Neuralink company, thinks it’s “cool” to torture primates by snatching them from their mothers, raising them in cages, and forcing them to participate in experiments that include wiring their brains to microchips, which will one day be implanted into humans. Musk’s lithium battery firm, Tesla, relies on minerals acquired from Third World countries. In the style of the more right-wing elements of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Musk tweeted about the US-backed putsch in Bolivia: “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”7 Like Bezos’s Blue Origin, Musk’s SpaceX has enjoyed Pentagon contracts to save it from ruination. Musk recently supplied satellites to Ukraine in its war with Russia. Like Bill Gates buying favourable media coverage of himself and Bezos purchasing WashPo, Musk has taken over Twitter, branding himself as a saviour of the kind of speech that the neoliberal elite has gradually censored over the last few years.

    But these men are not free to do as they wish, despite the godlike status they try to portray.

    Melinda Gates implied during a TV interview that she left her husband partly because of his association with the child rapist and trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, who was part of an intelligence agency plot to entrap and blackmail wealthy and influential people. US intelligence has had to deny plausible rumours that it is investigating Musk as a threat to national security because he reinstated former US President Trump’s Twitter account.

    SHADOW GOVERNMENT

    The men with the most influence over national politics and economics are those who work in the shadows. For instance, the “magic wall” of CNN gives Americans the supposed results of democratic elections. But not only are the candidates of elections bought by lobbyists, the “magic wall” that purports to show election results was the product of the company Perceptive Pixel, a start-up funded by the Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel.8 CNN’s then-head of politics, David Bohrman, first saw the “magic wall” at a military-intelligence event.9 In other words, CNN viewers receive their election data indirectly from the CIA. Bill Gates’s Microsoft acquired Perceptive Pixel in 2012. (In-Q-Tel is named after Q in the James Bond movies. The original Bond novels were written by the British Naval officer, Ian Fleming. Bond’s cypher was 007: the real-life cypher of the occultist and cryptologist, John Dee, a spy for Queen Elizabeth I.)

    Unlike CEOs and corporate co-founders who have their own private intelligence units and investigators,10 the military and intelligence apparatus can and does murder and threaten to murder whoever it deems a threat to “national security” – a vague phrase that, in reality, does not mean the security of you or me, but rather, the given elite’s grip on power. The controlled media complex is quick to say that the Russian state murders rival politicians and dissident journalists but claims “accident” or “suicide” when Western states do the same to irksome citizens.

    For instance, after the journalist Gary Webb exposed CIA cocaine trafficking in the 1980s, he supposedly killed himself with two bullets to the head. Agencies rely on a gullible culture and media plants to tell the public that any investigation into foul play is crazy conspiracy theorising.

    During his stint at the LA Times, Ken Dilanian worked closely with the CIA, asking for their approval for stories and to suggest stories.11 In mid-2021, Dilanian, then at NBC, downplayed the lab-leak theory of SARS-CoV-2.12 It turns out that the US had outsourced dangerous gain-of-function experiments to China via a non-profit called the EcoHealth Alliance [for more on this, see the interview with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 6].

    In part, intelligence agents also rule the world by taking over local investigations. After 9/11, for example, New York police arrested Israelis who were seen appearing to celebrate the attacks. The case was transferred to the FBI, then run by the longest-serving director Robert Mueller, who let them flee to Israel.

    Intelligence agencies and their political supporters compel judges to drop certain cases. In 1989, US Attorney General Dick Thornburgh prevented evidence against a former CIA station chief from being heard in a federal court under the Classified Information Procedures Act. This led the judge to dismiss all charges.13 The agencies can do anything they like while protecting their agents from exposure under legislation like the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Even if the higher-ups disagree with a particular operation, they protect the given agency’s reputation by shielding the rogue agents from public scrutiny.

    But agents and officers are not all-powerful. They merely exert influence by having a de facto license to kill. The public execution of John F. Kennedy in 1963 was a display of who runs the United States. In those days, it was Freemasonic networks operating in the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence. Freemasonry as an institution did not necessarily condone or have anything to do with the murder, but rather, the agents and individuals involved in the assassination happened to be high-ranking Masons: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Kennedy’s replacement Lyndon B. Johnson, and Abraham Zapruder who captured the killing on camera.

    Today, multimillion-dollar companies and the people running them are already powerful, so it does not take much for agents to threaten non-compliant CEOs into doing the bidding of the intelligence agencies. This mafia form of politics makes agents operating in intelligence circles more powerful than CEOs, who become those agents’ puppets. It has been five decades since the Church Committee of the US Congress attempted to launch a serious investigation into agencies’ structures and operations.

    Ex-agents hope to become – or have become – politicians: for example, in the US, Matt Castelli (Democrat), Will Hurd (Republican), Elissa Slotkin (Democrat), and Abigail Spanberger (Democrat).

    In an interview with the multimillionaire podcaster Joe Rogan, the billionaire Facebook (Meta) co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said that his company’s decision to limit information favourable to US President Donald Trump was due to pressure from the intelligence agencies, which claimed that Trump and his supporters were a threat to US national security – again, meaning to the interests of certain elites. “Liberal” legacy media ignored the story, and the right wing focused upon it as proof of a political agenda against Trump.

    Zuckerberg was saying nothing new. In December 2020, weeks before the 6 January events, he had testified to Congress and made the same remarks. Zuckerberg: “In the weeks leading up to the election, the Director of National Intelligence, the Head of the FBI, and the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reminded Americans about the threat posed by foreign influence operations… Along with their public warnings, and as part of the ongoing cooperation that tech companies established with government partners following the 2016 election…”14 Hardly anybody noticed. Twitter co-founder and billionaire Jack Dorsey said virtually the same thing during his Congressional question and answer session.

    In addition, Meta has hired ex-CIA and FBI agents to police content. Here is a small sample: CIA contractor Hagan Barnett; US Army Officer Joey Chan; CIA analyst Cameron Harris; Department of Defense project manager Sherif Kamal; DoD Intelligence Officer Suzanna Morrow; FBI threat investigator Ellen Nixon; Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Neil Potts; CIA targeting officer Scott Stern; CIA senior analyst Mike Torrey; FBI supervisory special agent Emily Vacher; and CIA counterintelligence specialist Bryan Weisbard.15

    This tells us several things. First, no matter how wealthy and powerful somebody may be, in this case Zuckerberg and Dorsey, they are usually afraid of intelligence agencies and bend to their will, even when doing so is economically harmful to the corporation (in this case downgrading and limiting content). Second, the given President’s power depends on whether or not the media support him (“him,” because at the time of writing, no women have entered this office in the US). Third, major influence can be wrought upon an election by politically-motivated intelligence agencies – in this case, killing a damaging story about the opposition candidate’s son (Hunter Biden). Fourth, their influence over corporations often involves having words with the CEOs. This is usually sufficient to push them in the desired direction.

    There is an entire network of corporate-intelligence operatives influencing business and politics.

    A few years ago, the business press reported that Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and JPMorgan were hiring former intelligence and military operatives, ostensibly to stop rogue traders. These include employees of Britain’s spy agency, GCHQ (which the NSA allegedly used as a conduit to spy on Trump), and the CIA. Big banks buy politicians with campaign donations and intelligence agencies work for those banks and influence politics.16

    BlackRock is the biggest asset manager and institutional investor in the world. Together with State Street, Vanguard, and others like Fidelity, it has a controlling institutional stake in Alphabet (which owns Google and YouTube), Amazon, Facebook (Meta), and America’s other giant corporate monopolies, as well as big pharma, big oil, big real estate, and much more. President Obama selected Tom Donilon as National Security Advisor. Donilon went on to chair the BlackRock Investment Institute. President-elect Biden even considered picking him to head the CIA.17

    Biden also filled the Treasury with BlackRockers. “BlackRock is becoming one of Wall Street’s key D.C. conduits,” says the business journal Bloomberg. Biden’s Treasury choice as senior advisor on Russia and Ukraine is Eric Van Nostrand, former BlackRock managing director. Biden already wanted former BlackRock “Sustainability” head, Brian Deese, to head his National Economic Council. Vice President Kamala Harris’s Chief Economic Advisor was another ex-Obama flunky, namely Mike Pyle who before working for Harris was BlackRock’s Chief Investment Strategist.18

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    These are the kind of people who meet annually at the World Economic Forum, Bilderberg Group, and other exclusive dining clubs to chat, off the record, about the direction of the world they are trying to impose on the rest of us in the name of democracy and security.

    They have already succeeded in undermining real democracy, in injecting billions of people with an experimental product under the guise of countering a global health emergency, and are now using taxpayer money and the cloak of national security to create a new era of biological manipulation to shift from the data economy to the biotech economy.

    In addition to the multitude of behind-the-scenes players like intelligence agents, the men who rule the world have some public faces, too, like Bill Gates – the so-called philanthropist buying America’s farmland and openly using “charity” as a way of making more money for himself.

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    Footnotes

    1. www.fnlondon.com/articles/blackrock-larry-fink-financial-news-awards-for-excellence-asset-management-2011-20111013.
    2. www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/05/unprecedented-1-billion-first-quarter-lobbying-haul-puts-2022-on-track-for-record-year/.
    3. www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/amazon-had-to-pay-federal-income-taxes-for-the-first-time-since-2016.html
    4. www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ten-richest-men-double-their-fortunes-pandemic-while-incomes-99-percent-humanity.
    5. www.fool.com/investing/2020/09/24/4-coronavirus-vaccine-stocks-the-bill-melinda-gate/.
    6. https://sites.imsa.edu/acronym/2021/03/04/elon-musk-is-not-an-entrepreneur-hes-a-rich-deceitful-hack/.
    7. https://twitter.com/panoparker/status/1318157559266762752?lang=en.
    8. www.businessinsider.com/25-cutting-edge-companies-funded-by-the-central-intelligence-agency-2012-8?r=US.
    9. www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/arts/television/22king.html.
    10. https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-spies-are-watching-organized-labor/.
    11. https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication/.
    12. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fauci-s-emails-don-t-prove-wuhan-conspiracy-raise-further-n1269650.
    13. www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-25-mn-226-story.html.
    14. https://web.archive.org/web/20210329134044/https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Zuckerberg%20Responses%20to%20QFRs.pdf.
    15. www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebook-content-policy/281307/.
    16. www.businessinsider.com/banks-hire-former-spies-to-try-and-prevent-misconduct-2016-2.
    17. www.politico.com/news/2020/11/25/biden-leans-toward-donilon-as-cia-chief-440669
    18. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-11/biden-ties-to-blackrock-deepen-with-latest-treasury-hire.

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  • Lies of Our Times: Fake News & the Weaponisation of (Dis)Information

    Lies of Our Times: Fake News & the Weaponisation of (Dis)Information

    From New Dawn 173 (Mar-Apr 2019)

    According to an aphorism attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and later popularised by Mark Twain, there were three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics. To this might be added a fourth category: the lie by omission.

    They may, of course, be linked. An initial lie is told, but when information later comes to hand that discredits the initial untruth, that information is concealed or withheld from publication, or alluded to, but discredited with some epithet such as ‘it’s just a conspiracy theory’.

    The past 100 years have seen multiple examples of this form of information management. So prevalent has it become that ‘news organisations’ are no longer properly labelled as such, but rather more accurately referred to as ‘news management’.

    The first Great War, 1914-18, owed more to the machinations of the British and the French seeking to thwart Germany as a competitor to their colonial ambitions, as McGregor and Docherty1 comprehensively reveal, than it did to any assassination of a minor royal in an obscure Bosnian city. Yet we are still regaled with folk mythology, variously blaming the Turks, the Germans and even the Russians. Military disasters, such as Gallipoli, are lauded as a colonial coming of age.

    The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 gave rise to a ‘Red Scare’ campaign that persists to this day. One early illustration of this, which as we will see has contemporary echoes, was the Zinoviev letter. This was a letter allegedly written by Gregory Zinoviev, the head of the Comintern (Communist International) in 1924, outlining a Bolshevik plot to paralyse the UK Army and Navy and plunge the UK into civil war.

    The faked Zinoviev letter was published in the Daily Mail on 25 October 1924.

    The UK Daily Mail, to this day a regular source of fake news, released the letter four days before the UK general election in October 1924. The aim was clearly to discredit the minority Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald. The letter was a fake, most likely written by Ivan Pokrovsky, an anti-Bolshevik former Tsarist officer with connections to British Intelligence.

    According to a new book by British scholar Gill Bennett,2 the most likely leakers of the letter to the Daily Mail were Desmond Morton and Joseph Ball, the then heads of what were to become MI6 and MI5 respectively. Again, there are echoes with relevance to the present day.

    UK intelligence agencies made similar attempts against Harold Wilson (UK Prime Minister 1964-70 and 1974-76), Michael Foot (prominent Labour frontbencher) and Jeremy Corbyn ([former] UK Labour leader), all smeared as “Russian agents,” “puppets of the Kremlin” or, ironically borrowing Lenin’s phrase, “useful idiots.”

    The Big Lies of the 60s

    The 1960s provided a number of classic examples of the big lie, the illicit involvement of State agencies, and an extended cover-up of the truth in which the so-called mainstream media were more than willing accomplices.

    On 22 November 1963 US President John F. Kennedy was shot by multiple gunmen. The fatal shot was fired from in front of Kennedy, blowing out the back of his skull.4 The evidence is now overwhelming that the CIA was the chief plotter against Kennedy, although multiple others were involved, and none of them by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald.5

    All of this is now well documented in many scholarly studies,6 yet those books are not reviewed in the mainstream media, and the forensic, medical and other proofs established are never discussed in the mainstream media. Although most of the principals involved are now long dead, the cover-up continues, including the blatant refusal of the CIA to release documents mandated for release under the JFK Records Act.

    Five years later, on 5 June 1968, JFK’s younger brother Bobby was also assassinated in Los Angeles while celebrating his victory in the California primary race. As with his brother, a patsy was readily identified and languishes in jail to this day.

    On 5 June 1968, US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. 

    Sirhan Sirhan was in front of Kennedy, and it is not disputed that he fired several shots. He was certainly influenced by some external forces, a classic Manchurian candidate. More shots were fired than Sirhan’s gun was capable of firing. The fatal wound was from a bullet of a different calibre than Sirhan’s gun.

    The LA County Coroner, Thomas Naguchi, concluded from the post mortem examination that the fatal shot to Senator Kennedy’s head was from behind at a distance of less than 5 cm. The firer of that fatal shot was identified as Thane Eugene Cesar, a security guard and right-wing extremist with known CIA ties.7 His gun was recovered from a lake some years later and forensically matched with Kennedy’s fatal head wound.

    Naguchi’s report with its damning evidence has never received the attention it deserved. Neither has the fact that the LAPD destroyed the crime scene, including removal of the evidence of multiple gunshots from different guns.

    Two months before Bobby Kennedy’s death, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Again, a patsy, James Earl Ray, was blamed.

    Thane Eugene Cesar

    Thanks to the efforts of the King family and a British barrister William Pepper, a civil trial (King v Jowett) was held in Memphis, Tennessee in 1999. After a three-week trial, which heard from 70 witnesses, the jury took less than three hours to find for the King family as plaintiffs. They effectively exonerated Ray and found that a conspiracy existed that included agents of the city of Memphis, the State of Tennessee and the US government.

    Only two news media representatives attended the trial. One was Wendell Stacey, the local Memphis anchorman. None of his reports from the trial were broadcast or published. The other was James Douglass, later the author of the seminal book on the JFK assassination.8 The mainstream media, which ignored the trial, immediately attacked the verdict, criticising the judge, the defence counsel and the jury. Well-known apologists for the government such as Gerald Posner were given huge air and TV time. It was yet another classic example of news management at the expense of the truth. In this case, yet again, the government had violently removed a troublesome critic or threat to its agenda.9

    The pattern was repeated in the attacks on 11 September 2001 (‘9/11’). The government expounded a fantastic tale. That key elements of the official conspiracy theory10 were literally impossible was ignored. When the FBI gave evidence at the trial of Zachariah Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, that evidence destroyed key parts of the government’s version, especially the alleged phone calls from the planes that formed a substantial portion of the 9/11 Commission Report.11 That evidence was not reported.

    This false flag attack was used to justify the ‘war on terror’ that thus far has resulted in the invasion and destruction of at least four countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya); the creation of terrorist groups (many as proxies of the US and its allies) and the deaths and injuring of millions; as well as creating a refugee crisis of unprecedented proportions.

    But the official mythology lives on. The mainstream media refuse to publish anything that contradicts the government’s version of what happened on 9/11 and belittle and denigrate those who raise well-founded objections. This cannot be by chance.

    Dangerous Statecraft Plots & Lies

    Double agent Sergei Skripal was once a colonel in Russian military intelligence.

    In March 2018, former Russian spy and traitor Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found in an incapacitated state on a park bench in Salisbury, England. Within a very short time, UK Prime Minister Theresa May was making a statement in the House of Commons that the Skripals were the victims of a dastardly Russian plot involving the use of nerve agent Novichok.

    As a result of these allegations, for which there is no evidence that would withstand examination, sanctions were applied to Russia, and the already substantial vilification of that country was stepped up, following the reabsorption of Crimea into the Russian Federation.12

    More than 20 countries allied to the UK (including lapdog Australia) expelled Russian diplomats. Each and every element of the UK government’s allegations against Russia has collapsed. The story itself has descended to farcical proportions. The UK government continues to offer different and conflicting versions of what allegedly happened.

    As with the Kennedy and King assassinations, and 9/11, the absurdities and impossibilities in the official stories were simply ignored by the mainstream media.13

    The significance of one event, the prompt issuing of a D Notice by the British government suppressing the naming of one of the parties involved, Pablo Miller, was only appreciated in the light of subsequent revelations.

    Miller was a friend and neighbour of Skripal. He was the link man to Skripal for MI6 when Skripal worked for Russian intelligence and betrayed his country. Miller worked on the Skripal betrayal with his friend and colleague Christopher Steele. Steele is the supposed author of the dossier commissioned (through cut-outs) by the Hillary Clinton campaign to discredit Trump in the unlikely event – so they thought – that he would win the 2016 US presidential election.

    Far from being retired and living quietly in Salisbury (where he went after a spy swap with the Russians), Skripal appears to have been actively working for MI6. According to at least one scholar, a native Russian speaker wrote the “Steele dossier.”14 That person may have been Skripal who was undoubtedly linked with all the principals involved in that dossier, as well as having contacts in and knowledge of Russian intelligence. Russian sources were used for some of the more lurid allegations made in the dossier.

    That much is no more than informed speculation and is likely to remain so as the Skripals have in essence been kidnapped and remain incommunicado, not least to Russian consular authorities, a breach of international law.15

    There continue to be further twists to the Skripal tale. In January 2019 it was revealed that a person described as a “nurse” who “happened” to be at the scene where the Skripals were found incapacitated, was not just a “nurse.” She was, in fact, Colonel Alison McCourt, the head of the Nursing Unit of the British Army and a senior consultant to the Ministry of Defence.16

    Colonel McCourt is the holder of an OBE, awarded for services in combatting the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. In that role, she had regular contact with the biological unit at Porton Down, the British facility for chemical and biological warfare research, which just happens to be close to both Salisbury and Larkhill where McCourt lives.

    Sunday Mail newspaper story about leaked documents that revealed the Integrity Initiative – which is funded by the UK Foreign Office and run by military intelligence specialists – led a disinformation attack on UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

    At about the same time as these revelations came to light, an anonymous leaker disclosed details of a hitherto unknown organisation called the Institute for Statecraft (“I for S”), and its subsidiary arm the “Integrity Initiative.” The “I for S” is a charity registered in Scotland, although its address in official records is an abandoned derelict building in Fife. The real headquarters are in Temple Place, the Embankment district of London, a decidedly more expensive piece of real estate.

    The “I for S” and the Integrity Initiative claim to be set up to promote “western values” and to counter Russian and other unfriendly countries’ “propaganda and disinformation.” In a written reply in the House of Commons, a Foreign Office Minister, Sir Ian Duncan, admitted that the “I for S,” “whose work seeks to improve governance and national security,”was financed in part by the Foreign Office to the tune of just under two million pounds sterling in the 2018-2019 financial year.

    We now know that this Institute has other sources of income, including from NATO, the US Department of State, and the Lithuanian government. The Director of the Institute is Christopher Donnelly who holds the rank of Colonel in British Intelligence. Members of the advisory board include Howard Body, Assistant Head of Scientific Support at Porton Down; Helen Boaden, a senior executive with the BBC; Duncan Allen from the Foreign Office; Zachary Harkenrider (likely CIA station chief in London), and no less a person than Pablo Miller.

    In the Bond film ‘Goldfinger’, based on Ian Fleming’s book of the same name, the eponymous villain says to Bond: “In Chicago they have a saying: once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time is enemy action.”

    The interplay of various characters, only some of whom are named here,17 definitely puts the events into the realm of enemy action.

    Contrary to its protestations, the “I for S” is not just seeking “to improve governance and national security.” As admitted by its head Donnelly,18 it relies on “clusters” of individuals in various countries, including academics, journalists, military personnel and politicians, to conduct campaigns.

    These campaigns include the blocking of dissenting voices, overt attacks on critics of government policy (including smearing people such as Jeremy Corbyn as noted above), promoting anti-Russian propaganda, and what Donnelly refers to as “waging a new kind of warfare in which everything becomes a weapon, including disinformation which gives conflict a third dimension.”19

    The Institute for Statecraft also has links with a US company with similar aims, the Rendon Group, which played a prominent role in ‘selling’ the Iraq war.20

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    A Catastrophe “to wake people up”

    A further extraordinary coincidence is found in a briefing paper prepared for the Institute in early 2015 in which they called for “a catastrophe to wake people up and demand a response.”21 This is reminiscent of the 2001 Project for the New American Century (PNAC) paper, ‘Rebuilding America’s Defences’, which called for a New Pearl Harbor. That paper was immediately followed by 9/11.

    The 2015 Institute paper called for steps to be taken in the event of this “catastrophe” occurring, including the mass expulsion of Russian diplomats and other actions against the Russian government. An attack on individuals or institutions in the UK was seen as a possible trigger.

    Those steps were taken following the “catastrophe” of an alleged nerve agent attack on persons in the UK by or at the instigation of the Russian government. That those steps were taken without a shred of evidence that Russia was indeed involved (as seems the remotest of possibilities) is as telling as the fact that immediately before the Skripal incident then Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was in the UK.

    Notwithstanding the legal training both he and the (then) Foreign Minister Julie Bishop have, they were remarkably quick to condemn Russia for its alleged involvement. Their disregard for basic legal principles such as the presumption of innocence, and the requirement of admissible evidence to a high standard as prerequisites for conviction, is on a par with their alleged adherence to international law when joining illegal ventures such as attacking Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

    The Institute for Statecraft is far from benign. Its agenda, personnel, its connections and its modus operandi, all point to it being a malign influence on the flow of information, respect for international law, and the proper conduct of relations between nations.

    A Google search in the Guardian Australia, ABC, SBS, News Corporation and Fairfax Media websites reveal not a single mention of the Institute for Statecraft or the Integrity Institute. This is unlikely to be a coincidence. This is an important story, the surface of which has barely been scratched. As with the long history of the suppression of vital information, some examples of which are cited above, this is another illustration of that fourth type of lie: the lie by omission.

    If the current remnants of our democracy are not to be completely demolished, this latest version of Operation Mockingbird22 – where the mainstream media were thoroughly infiltrated by ‘journalists’ whose primary role was to faithfully reflect whatever version the government of the day proffered – must be exposed for the insidious danger that it is – and destroyed.

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    Footnotes

    1. G. Docherty & J. Macgregor, Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War,MainstreamPublishing 2014
    2. G. Bennett, The Zinoviev Letter, Oxford University Press 2018
    3. S. Cohen, War with Russia?, Hot Books 2018
    4. C. Crenshaw, JFK: A Conspiracy of Silence, Mass Market 1992; J. de Eugenio, Reclaiming Parkland, Skyhorse 2013
    5. J. Armstrong, Harvey & Lee, Quasar 2003
    6. J. De Eugenio, Destiny Betrayed, 2nd ed., Skyhorse 2011
    7. www.maryferrell.org for copious citations
    8. J. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable, Simon & Schuster 2010
    9. W. Pepper, The Plot to Kill King,Skyhorse 2016
    10. www.ae911truth.org
    11. D Griffin & E. Woodworth, 9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation, Olive Branch Press 2018
    12. M Kramer, ‘The Transfer of Crimea from Soviet Russia to Soviet Ukraine’, www.wilson
    center.org, 19 March 2014
    13. R. Slane, ‘Summing Up the Official Claims in the Salisbury Poisonings’, www.theblogmire.com, 9 January 2019
    14. J. Gilbert & J Cashill, ‘Did Christopher Steele Write His Dossier or did a Russian Associate’, www.americanthinker.com, 19 January 2019
    15. Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963
    16. ‘Coincidence?’ www.moonofalabama.org, 19 January 2019
    17. For a comprehensive listing, see P. McKeigue, et al., ‘Briefing Note on the Integrity Initiative’, www.syriapropagandamedia.org, 21 December 2018
    18. T. Kevin, ‘Dad’s Army’s Cover Blown’, www.off-guardian.org, 8 January 2019
    19. Ibid
    20. www.private-eye.co.uk, 10 January 2019
    21. K. Klarenberg, ‘Anonymous Exposes UK Hybrid Warfare Project’, www.sputniknews.com, 4 January 2019; T. Secker, ‘Was the Integrity Initiative Behind the Salisbury Poisoning’, www.themindrenewed.com, 4 January 2019
    22. C. Bernstein, ‘The CIA and the Media’, www.rollingstone.com, 20 October 1977

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  • The Crimes of Big Pharma: Why Are We Still Turning a Blind Eye?

    The Crimes of Big Pharma: Why Are We Still Turning a Blind Eye?

    From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 17 No 2 (Apr 2023)

    More than a decade ago, the US drug giant Pfizer was described as a “habitual offender” by the journal, Healthcare Policy. Between 2002 and 2009, the company had forked out $3 billion in civil and criminal penalties.

    But Pfizer is far from being the only one. At the end of 2019, the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) fined the UK-based multinational, Mundipharma, more than $300,000 for 24 infringements over the company’s relations with medical professionals in its efforts to promote opioids, which were marketed as TARGIN. “[A]dvertising to health professionals was misleading, imbalanced and otherwise inaccurate,” says the TGA. It was “in breach of the requirements of the Medicines Australia Code of Conduct regarding promotional materials directed to health professionals.” According to TGA guidelines, opioids should not be advertised as a core element of managing non-cancer pain, yet the company’s promotional material did exactly that.

    Pharmaceutical giants have a long history of criminal behaviour, some of which involve killing people by selling dangerous products for profit, while others involve killing people by raising prices on life-saving medicine and suing for the production of generics. Regulators tend to give companies a financial slap on the wrist and thus enable them to continue their gangster operations while appearing to take public health seriously. Mundipharma generates an annual $2 billion, so a $300k fine is hardly a deterrent.

    Smaller pharmaceutical companies, particularly those developing drugs derived from natural substances and not synthetic chemicals, are receiving comparable fines. In September last year, the TGA fined three domestic firms specialising in cannabinoid-based products: Cannatrek, Little Green Pharma, and MGC Pharmaceuticals, which shares its headquarters with Europe. The companies were accused of promoting prescription-only medical cannabis, including products not on the Register of Therapeutic Goods.

    Why are regulators going after natural and natural-based producers? ABC Australia reported on the “secretive relationship” between companies and government advisors, which the report said “is enough to make you sick.” But I thought conspiracies were just a theory and you’d be a fool, a weirdo, and even a menace to society to believe and promote them? In 2012, Bond University’s Ray Moynihan said: “The TGA has confirmed to me there is no public disclosure of the financial relationships between drug companies and the professionals who advise Australia’s drug regulator.” In 2017, Dr Wendy Bonython and Associate Professor Bruce Arnold of Canberra University’s Health Research Institute told the Senate that the TGA needed a complete overhaul. They said: “There needs to be a clear break between the regulator and the parties they’re trying to regulate.” In August last year, the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) cited professionals who advocated changing the “TGA’s structure and function, arguing that the agency has become too close to industry.”

    One could reasonably assume that the New York Times, with all its bias and spin, would at least cover penalties imposed by courts on major drug companies. Yet, from 1970, when Pfizer and others won major court appeals, to the early-2000s when increasing numbers of fines were imposed, the archive contains hardly any information. This suggests that successfully suing drug giants is a relatively new phenomenon. Most of the information contained in this article, therefore, comes from the post-Millennium period. What follows are the top ten global (mostly US-based) pharmaceutical and biotech companies, by market capitalisation, and a sample of their criminal history.

    ABBVIE

    AbbVie was founded in Chicago in 2013 as a spinoff from Abbott Laboratories. The parent company has a sordid history. The earliest fine I can find dates back to 1975 when the company’s lawyers accepted guilt but entered a no plea in a case where the corporation was fined just $1,000 for adulterating and misbranding intravenous solutions. Since then, Abbott and its subsidiaries have been fined millions of dollars in the US for committing various crimes, including environmental, consumer and labour violations, and false claims and the promotion of unapproved or off-label products.

    The fines have become increasingly steep. In 1999, Abbott had to pay $100 million over its production of diagnostic devices that did not meet federal regulations. The biggest was a near-record $1.5 billion in 2012 for illegally marketing the anti-epileptic drug Depakote as a dementia drug.

    Abbott’s spin-out, AbbVie, has an even worse record, given its nascence. For instance, in 2016 a company called Teva Pharmaceuticals bought another company called Allergan. In 2020, Allergan was purchased by AbbVie. But Allergan was bogged down in lawsuits relating to its alleged role in America’s opioid crisis. In 2022, AbbVie agreed to clear the lawsuits for Teva to the tune of $2.37 billion so that AbbVie and Teva could agree a deal worth $6.6 billion.

    ASTRAZENECA

    The Anglo-Swedish firm AstraZeneca is known for its COVID “vaccine” being withdrawn from more than a dozen countries over fears that it causes blood clots. In June 2021, after previously being described by the Australian government as building a “pathway to normal,” it was announced that the government would withdraw the product in favour of Pfizer’s jab.

    The company was formed in 1999 when Sweden’s Astra AB merged with Britain’s Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). Between 1948 and 1960 with intermittent help from Australia, Britain invaded and fought “communists” in Malaya (now Malaysia and Singapore), during which time the military engaged in chemical warfare, spraying defoliant over swathes of jungle in order to identify the hidden enemy and drive villagers into British-run concentration camps. The Colonial Office reckoned that ICI saw it as “a lucrative field for experiment.”

    In the 1970s, ICI fabricated toxicology and efficacy reports into its PP796 chemical, an additive to the paraquat pesticide. ICI scientist Jon Heylings described it as “a conspiracy within the company to keep this quiet.” Company documents show that 1980s’ efforts to introduce a diluted and less deadly compound were rejected, as they would “destroy Group profit from paraquat.” In 2010, as AstraZeneca, the company paid $520 million after it “illegally marketed the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel for uses not approved as safe and effective by the [US] Food and Drug Administration.”

    BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB

    BMS was founded in 1989 when Bristol-Myers merged with the Squibb corporation. In 1937, for instance, Bristol-Myers was ordered by the US Federal Trade Commission to stop presenting its hair tonic, Vitalis, as a baldness cure. In 1941, to give another example, E.R. Squibb and other companies were accused by the US Department of Justice of fixing insulin prices.

    But they did much worse. In the 1940s, Bristol Laboratories, the Squibb Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Johns Hopkins University tested their new penicillin products on Guatemalans: over 400 of whom were deliberately infected with syphilis without their knowledge or consent.

    This spirit of deception has followed the company into more recent history. In 2007, BMS was fined $515 million for illegally marketing drugs. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida said that the company “fraudulently inflated the cost of a drug used primarily to reduce the side effects of cancer treatments and other generic drugs without regard to the increased costs borne by government health care programs or elderly and indigent patients.”

    GLAXOSMITHKLINE

    Now stylised as GSK, the British company was formed in 2000 when Glaxo Wellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham. For 40 years, Glaxo scientists warned in secret that chemicals used in the production of the company’s ulcer drug, Zantac, were potentially carcinogenic, but the company covered it up. The story broke in 2019 when researchers found potentially significant cancer-causing elements in the drug. One year later, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled the product.

    In the ‘90s, SmithKline Beecham was fined by the Hungarian government for exaggerating the efficacy of its hepatitis B vaccine. In the US, the company billed the federal government for unnecessary lab tests, some of which were not even performed. The company was fined $325 million for these fraudulent practices, as well as for bribing doctors. In 2012, the merged GSK was at it again. This time, the company was fined $3 billion in the US for bribing doctors to overprescribe the anti-depressants Paxil and Wellbutrin, as well as the asthma drug, Advair.

    The antidepressants were unlawfully marketed to children, despite not being approved by the FDA. In 2020, the Federal Court of Australia fined GSK and Novartis $4.5 million for marketing what amounts to the same product, Osteogel and Emulgel, at unjust prices.

    JOHNSON AND JOHNSON

    For decades, J&J knowingly sold talcum powder contaminated with asbestos. To avoid litigation, J&J created a new company called LTL Management and then placed LTL into bankruptcy. Prior to the filing, the company paid $2 billion to women who claimed that their cancers had resulted from J&J’s products. The BBC covered for the company, saying that the volumes of asbestos were “small.”

    In 2013, J&J was fined $2.2 billion by US authorities for promoting the mental health drugs Risperdal and Invega for non-approved uses and for bribing doctors. In 2019, Australia’s Federal Court awarded damages after J&J’s subsidiary, Ethicon, failed to warn professionals about the risks to women using vaginal mesh implants to treat pelvic floor damage. Hundreds of women endure “debilitating pain” as a result of various injuries related to the product. Justice Anna Katzmann said: “While the law does not require that goods be absolutely free of risk, it does require that manufacturers and suppliers disclose the risks.”

    Another J&J subsidiary, Janssen, attempted to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. In December 2021, the US FDA ordered a halt after six women developed blood clots, one of whom died. In May last year, the FDA imposed more restrictions over further clots, limiting the Janssen jab as a shot of last resort.

    MERCK

    Merck is the world’s oldest drug company. Set up in Germany in the 17th century, it is now owned by US asset managers, like all the giants, such as BlackRock and State Street. In 2017, the Union of Concerned Scientists wrote that Merck had “skewed the results of clinical trials in favour of the arthritis drug, Vioxx,” which was approved in 1999, “to hide evidence that the drug increased patients’ risk of heart attack.”

    Internal documents reveal that the marketing team developed what they called Assessment of Differences between Vioxx and Naproxen to Ascertain Gastrointestinal Tolerability and Effectiveness. This was a doctrine for manipulating clinical trial results. For example, the company compared trial data to the existing drug Naproxen instead of comparing it to placebos. They hid the fact that Vioxx increased the risk of heart attack by 400 per cent. Instead of neutral scientists, articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals submitted by Merck listed company employees as the lead authors of original drafts. Merck looked for prominent scientists willing to use their names on the pre-written articles. The Union alleges that 100,000 people died as a result of the product in the seven years that it was available.

    More recently, France launched an investigation into Merck’s failure to inform patients about potentially damaging changes to its thyroid drug, Levothyrox.

    NOVARTIS

    Novartis is a Swiss pharmaceutical giant created in 1996 when Sandoz merged with Ciba-Geigy. During the 1970s, the latter company “conspired to defraud and deceive [US] government agencies by concealing the nature of the chemical waste in order to obtain and keep certain disposal permits,” says the Associated Press, reporting on a fine imposed a decade later.

    Ciba-Geigy was fined again in 1992 for dumping waste from its Toms River chemical plant in New Jersey (now owned by BASF). Local authorities attribute elevated rates of leukemia among girls in the area to the pollution.

    As noted above, in the year 2020, Australia’s Federal Court fined GSK and Novartis for marketing what amounts to the same product at different prices. In February this year, Novartis, Roche, and Gentec (now owned by Roche) won an appeal in France against a record fine of more €500 million. The companies developed a drug called Lucentis to combat macular degeneration. To promote the product, the companies were alleged to have colluded to discredit the rival drug, Avastin.

    PFIZER

    When it comes to fines, Pfizer is in a league of its own. Little has been reported on Pfizer’s criminality in Australia and information is hard to find. In 2005, Pfizer Australia violated the industry’s supposed code of conduct when it sent a letter to health professionals in defence of its anti-inflammatory drug, Celebrix, following the recall of its predecessor, Vioxx. Pfizer claimed that Celebrix, which it said could aid in the treatment of arthritis, had no significant impact on cardiovascular systems. But in 2004, Dr Peter Mansfield, then-Director of Healthy Skepticism, wrote to Medicines Australia to alert them to Pfizer’s unfounded claims. In early-‘05, Medicines Australia issued Pfizer with a paltry $25k fine. The report casually mentions at the close of the article two previous Pfizer Australia fines: One in 2003 relating to the promotion of Viagra and another in 2004 for undisclosed violations.

    In 2014, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) took Pfizer to the Federal Court for profiting from the cholesterol treatment drug, Lipitor, when the product became a generic in 2012.

    [Editor’s Note: Read the shocking truth about Pfizer – and its numerous legal cases – in an article published in New Dawn 197 (Mar-Apr 2023)].

    ROCHE

    Switzerland’s other drug giant, Roche, was founded in 1896, making it one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in the world. In 1999, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) sentenced Roche’s Swiss marketing director, Dr Kuno Sommer, to four months’ US jail-time and issued the company with a then-record $500 million fine. For those who think it’s stupid and weird to have an interest in conspiracy theories, the short DoJ press release used the word “conspiracy” and derivations of the word 17 times. But the DoJ protects US companies that were involved by not naming or investigating them. These “unnamed co-conspirator companies in the US” allocated contracts to supply vitamins for human and animal consumption and then rigged contract bids.

    In 2008, Australia fined Roche $110,000 for violating the country’s ban on direct consumer drug advertising. The company promoted approved drugs for unapproved indications. For instance, it promoted the results of its clinical trial for trastuzumab, even though the drug was not approved for treating early-stage breast cancer.

    Roche promoted Tamiflu, claiming through its funded research published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, that the drug reduces the risk of death from H1N1 by 19 per cent and up to 50 per cent if taken within two days of contracting the flu. Based on these data, the US government spent $1.5 billion stockpiling the drug. But a whistleblower working undercover, the British epidemiologist Tom Jefferson, has brought a lawsuit against Roche to reclaim the $1.5 billion. At the time of writing, the suit is ongoing, despite Roche’s efforts to get it quashed.

    SANOFI

    In 2021, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi were fined $834 million by a Hawaiian court for dangerous marketing of the blood thinner, Plavix. Ethnic Chinese and black people are generally less able to metabolise the product than whites, yet the companies did not update their product information to warn non-white patients of this fact.

    Dengue fever kills 22,000 people a year, mostly children in the southern hemisphere. Sanofi claimed to have developed a vaccine for the disease. But in 2017, the company’s so-called Dengvaxia was withdrawn over safety concerns. Rose Capeding was head of the dengue department of the Philippine’s Research Institute for Tropical Medicine. Capeding was principal author of a 2014 Lancet publication promoting the safety and efficacy of the injection. The very notion of vaccinating against dengue fever alarmed some virologists because secondary, not primary, infection risks fatality. Virologists feared that being injected would produce a similar immune response to the first infection. So, if a vaccinated child caught their first dengue infection, their immune system would respond as if it was the second and thus heighten the risk of death. By that year 130 injected Filipino children had died.

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    OPEN CRIMINALITY

    A tiny minority of Westerners – typically ten per cent of any given population – were opposed to being injected with experimental COVID-19 products, mandated or not. Roughly the same percentages remain unjabbed. For the rest of the population, however, it’s a different story. The majority wanted the injection and got double-jabbed and, later, majorities or significant minorities took three or more doses.

    The public did this despite Big Pharma’s long history of criminality. The criminality is not a secret: it is just that the media only report the crimes when they happen. The media do not return to the crimes, make them central news stories, or make a point of reminding viewers that they occurred. They present Big Pharma context-free, as if it exists for health not profit.

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    Footnotes

    1. Robert G Evans (2010) “Tough on Crime? Pfizer and the CIHR,” Healthcare Policy, 5(4): 16-25
    2. “Mundipharma fined for misleading advertising of opioids to health professionals,” 20 December 2019, tga.gov.au/news/media-releases/mundipharma-fined-misleading-advertising-opioids-health-professionals
    3. Kane Wu, “Sackler-owned Mundipharma seeks bids for China unit in over $1 bln deal -sources,” Reuters, 5 May 2021
    4. “Three medicinal cannabis companies fined almost $1 million for alleged unlawful advertising,” 27 September 2022, tga.gov.au/news/media-releases/three-medicinal-cannabis-companies-fined-almost-1-million-alleged-unlawful-advertising
    5. Ray Moynihan, “The unhealthy alliance between drug companies and regulators,” ABC News, 23 October 2012
    6. Quoted in Joanne McCarthy, “Australia’s health watchdog accused of ‘too close’ relationship with industry,” Sydney Morning Herald, 5 November 2017
    7. BMJ News, “Are drug regulators sufficiently independent from the companies they regulate?,” August 2022
    8. nytimes.com/search?dropmab=false&query=%22pfizer%22%20%22fined%22&sort=oldest.
    9. New York Times, “Abbott Pleads No Contest In Adulterated Drug Case,” 14 August 1975
    10. Good Jobs First, Violation Tracker, “Abbott Laboratories,” violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org
    11. Department of Justice, “Abbott Laboratories to remedy deficiencies…,” justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/1999/November/522civ.htm
    12. Department of Justice, “Abbott Labs to Pay $1.5 Billion to Resolve Criminal & Civil Investigations of Off-label Promotion of Depakote,” justice.gov/opa/pr/abbott-labs-pay-15-billion-resolve-criminal-civil-investigations-label-promotion-depakote
    13. Jan Hoffman, “Allergan Reaches Tentative $2.37 Billion Deal to Settle Opioid Suits,” New York Times, 29 January 2022
    14. Al-Jazeera, “Which countries have stopped using AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine?,” 15 March 2021, aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/15/which-countries-have-halted-use-of-astrazenecas-covid-vaccine
    15. Nick Sas and Sophie Scott, “Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine result gives Australia pathway to ‘normal’, Government says,” ABC, 24 Nov 2020
    16. Frances Mao, “Covid vaccine: Why are Australians cancelling AstraZeneca jabs?,” BBC, 22 June 2021
    17. Quoted in Mark Curtis, “Malaya—Britain’s forgotten war for rubber,” Economic History Malaya, ehm.my/publications/articles/malaya%25E2%2580%2594britains-forgotten-war-for-rubber
    18. Quoted in Sharon Lerner, “The paraquat poisoning problem,” The Intercept, 24 March 2021
    19. Cited in Crispin Dowler, “The Paraquat Papers: How Syngenta’s bad science helped keep the world’s deadliest weedkiller on the market,” Green Peace Unearthed, 24 March 2021, unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/03/24/paraquat-papers-syngenta-toxic-pesticide-gramoxone
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    21. New York Times, “Hair Tonic and Perfume Claims Will Be Discontinued,” 20 June 1937
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  • Psychiatric Spirit Release & the Survival of Consciousness

    Psychiatric Spirit Release & the Survival of Consciousness

    From New Dawn 198 (May-June 2023)

    When, at fifty-nine I finally returned, after twenty years, to clinical psychiatry, I had no idea that I was on the verge of an inconceivably strange adventure. Treating patients by talking to troublesome earthbound spirits could not have been further from my thoughts. And yet, three years later, I was doing just that. My decision to write a book on survival after physical death came out of my work with earthbound spirits and their connection to the dying process.

    To clarify the situation, I’ll give a brief explanation of what, to my knowledge, happens at death, when the soul passes for further development to the Light, the entrance to the spirit world.

    It fits what souls report to therapists during spirit release. Mediums may receive similar information. This transition is not invariable. If the soul has no concept of survival or if death is traumatic and unexpected, the Light may not be visible, and attachment may occur to someone at the scene.

    Sometimes attachment occurs by design. Addiction to alcohol, drugs, some otherworldly activity, or an intense relationship with another person can result in a soul remaining earthbound by intention. This may become a parasitic connection that is difficult to break.

    A soul may also be stranded in some familiar location and produce effects, such as haunting, or it may attach to another living individual, either knowingly or unknowingly. Such a spirit may move on of its own accord, but there may be a need for release.

    The practice of spirit release – or exorcism, as it is called when part of a religious practice – goes back thousands of years and continues to be used by religions worldwide. In Brazil, Spiritism, founded by Allan Kardec, born Hyppolite Rivail, has many hospitals and thousands of treatment centres, where spirit release by mediums is a main feature of the treatment. There are many other regions, especially in India and Africa, where it is an important part of the social fabric for practitioners of spirit release using local techniques to remove harmful spirits induced as curses (spirit interference).

    My personal knowledge and experience concerns spirit attachment in the industrialised Western world, where the condition, although prevalent, is rarely acknowledged. Except for its use by mediums who need spirit guides for their work, attachment is usually an unwished-for condition in which spirits interfere with the healthy functioning of individuals. I have been concerned mostly with the earthbound souls of those who have died. Some nonhuman spirits (entities) or demonic spirits can also cause problems.

    How does one make a diagnosis of spirit attachment in such cases? Since most patients are ignorant of the condition, the most important step is for them to become aware that such a condition may be present.

    Any of the following symptoms may manifest: low energy level, character shifts or mood swings, impulsive behaviour, memory gaps, poor concentration, sudden onset of anxiety or depression, abuse of alcohol or drugs, hearing a negative inner voice.

    It is very rare for attached spirits to take full control, but such cases have been described. Nearly always, the intrusion shows only moderate effects, as in my patient, Pete who you will shortly be meeting.

    The concept of spirit interference raises many questions, such as how do spirits gain entry, and how can we protect ourselves against these secret intruders? While there is no doubt that some people are far more open to spirit interference than others, those who lead healthy lives, without extremes of abuse or indulgence, are the least likely to be troubled.

    Attached spirits should be encouraged to go to the Light. Even if not harmful, they may be doorways for harmful spirits to enter. Dealing with them requires special skill.

    To assist the transition, I ask for the help of a deceased relative of the patient or, if none is apparent, a spirit guide. Such help is often perceived by the patient and leads to effective release. Remote spirit release may be used by therapists with psychic abilities. They scan clients for attached spirits and clear them with or without the aid of spirit guides.

    Talking to inner voices is not part of regular psychiatric practice, and I need scarcely say that it did not feature in my formal training. It was only after my meeting with Lance Trendall, the hypnotist whom I mention in the introduction to Psychiatry and the Spirit World, and subsequent training in hypnosis and spirit release, that this door opened for me.

    I used it first with my nonpsychotic patients at Fairfield Hospital, especially those who had treatment-resistant depressive and anxiety states. Most of them were keen to use hypnosis and glad of an opportunity to change from the usual medication.

    Without mentioning the possibility of attached spirits, I would have them, while in hypnosis, look into an imaginary mirror or imagine being filled with light and look for shadowy areas. I would then ask, “If that area could make a noise (or speak) what might it say?” A response would usually lead to a verbal exchange, with the possibility of exploring the history of an attached spirit. However, in the absence of a verbal response, it was often possible to communicate by finger signals.

    I would ask the spirit if it could relate its own experience of physical death, and why it had joined the patient. Attached spirits usually have their own problems that need to be resolved. Sometimes a spirit has a past-life connection to the patient that needs to be explored before a release can occur.

    Physical Symptoms Resulting from Spirit Attachment

    Innumerable hospital investigations had failed to reveal the cause of Pete’s trouble. He worked as a senior manager and professional trainer and had a very successful career. Pete came to me as a last resort after being offered a marvellous job opportunity abroad. It was a chance that, at fifty, he couldn’t afford to lose.

    Before he came, e-mails from both husband and wife had delivered a daunting catalogue of complaints: abdominal pain, joint pains, retching and diarrhea, wide fluctuations in temperature, and periods of severe prostration. Life had become a misery. Had it not been for a wonderfully sustaining and rich marital relationship, he might not have survived.

    There were two important clues to the cause of the problem. One had come to light a year before when, during hypnotic regression, Pete had experienced a life in Tibet. As a boy, while being schooled to be a lama, he had been bayoneted to death by a Chinese soldier.

    The other clue was his conviction of being possessed. How this came about he could not say. He had first felt it after the death of his mother years before. In Pete’s words, “This thing lives in my descending colon. This is its lair. I can show you the exact place. It can be small or large. When it’s really at rest it’s about the size of a big marble. When it’s fully active it penetrates and permeates my entire body, including my brain. At its worst I feel that it’s killing me by draining all my energy and by consuming my cells and preventing my mind from functioning. It is almost never absent.”

    I had Pete relax through visualisation and imagine his body filled with light. He described “a dark, triangular kind of shape” on the left side of the abdomen. What follows in the next account is the verbatim dialogue between me, Pete, and the entity speaking through Pete:

    Alan: If it could make a noise, what noise would it make?

    Pete: Constant, intense; a raging scream.

    Alan: And if that scream could find words, what words would come?

    Pete: Hatred.

    [A nonhuman entity then identifies itself as Askinra; in appearance, it’s “like a dark flame.”]

    Askinra (speaking through Pete): I shouldn’t be in here. I feel trapped like this.

    [Askinra becomes aware of voices and light.]

    Angels: Come back! Come out!

    [Askinra feels blocked.]

    Askinra: I can only come through him.

    Alan: Tell me, Askinra, what effect are you having on Pete?

    Askinra: I’m destroying him. If I destroy him then I can be free.

    Alan: Become aware of the angels that are calling your name and tell me what you see.

    Askinra: It is as if a pathway goes up through the heart, to the top of the head.

    Alan: And where does it lead beyond the head?

    Askinra: Into another place that’s very different from this one. It is outside this reality. It’s the place I’m trying to go, but I can’t get there, I can’t get through. Every time I try to get out, I can’t get through.

    Alan: At what point are you stopped, Askinra? Try and get through and tell me what your experience is.

    Askinra: It’s like a closed door… like something that’s locked.

    Alan: Describe the closed door.

    Askinra: It’s round and white, like bone.

    Alan: Askinra, speak to the closed door that’s round and white, like bone. Ask the closed door, “May I come through?” How does it respond?

    Askinra: No.

    Alan: Ask the closed door, “What must I do, so that you will open for me?”

    Askinra: Die!

    Alan: Askinra, are you telling me that you are able to die? You are an immortal spirit, Askinra, how can you die?

    Askinra: That’s what the door is for; it’s for the time of death.

    [This path of inquiry seemed to be blocked. I decide on another approach.]

    Alan: Askinra, tell me, how old was Pete when you joined him?

    Askinra: Twelve.

    [Askinra entered at the time of the fatal bayonet wound, during the Chinese invasion of Tibet when Pete was twelve in that incarnation, preparing to become a lama. It seems that Askinra was there and was taken by surprise.]

    Askinra: Hatred pushes me in there and fixes me in there.

    [Pete gives permission for me to speak to the soldier.]

    Alan: I’m speaking to the soldier who is putting the bayonet into this boy of twelve, who feels so much hatred. You, the soldier, what do you have to say? You can speak to me. You’re feeling anger, aren’t you? What do you say to the little boy?

    Soldier: You have to be destroyed!

    Alan: And you hate this boy.

    Soldier: I hate everything he stands for.

    [The soldier, who on questioning reveals that his name is Chen Ling, now regrets his action. With angelic help, Chen Ling removes his anger from the bayonet thrust. As an indication of his regret, Chen Ling gives the boy a tiny pearl. Askinra is now able to pass through the door in the head, which opens onto a place of mountains and light. Spirit guides are requested. The hand of the guide feels “like a cool stream.”]

    Askinra: Sorry, I never meant to be there. Come and find me in the new place.

    Afterward, Pete experienced some parting spasms in the left abdomen, but felt much lighter. Healing spirits were called in to cleanse and heal the whole subtle energy system, leaving Pete feeling good.

    A month later, Pete described the experience: “The physical symptoms have gone. It was just as distinct as if you were carrying something and it weighed a certain amount and it had a certain texture and a certain feeling to it and that thing was removed from you. With that thing out of the way, I’m free to think and feel and to be aware in ways that I wasn’t before. It has made a huge difference.”

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    At a ten-year follow-up Pete wrote the following:

    The immediate result of Alan’s work with me was that I was instantly relieved of a wide range of intensely debilitating physical symptoms upon which all other approaches, both “allopathic” and “alternative” had been ineffective. My mental and emotional stance also changed for the better. I had more clarity and felt more contented and happy with my present circumstances and substantially more positive about the future. It is not the case that everything in my life was perfect after this event, or that I never suffered again from either physical illness or emotional upset, but it is for me a fact that this was one of the major turning points in my life and that, in many ways, I never looked back. My experience was, essentially, that of being freed from “something” that had trapped me in a limited and painful version of my Self. Since then, my life and work have been successful in a number of ways that I did not, previously, anticipate.

    The case of Askinra is a white crow,* waiting to be acknowledged. And it was a beautiful crow, wasn’t it? I loved the gift of the small pearl and the hand of the guide feeling “like a cool stream,” and Askinra’s invitation to Pete to come and find him in the new place. “Caw!”

    * Professor William James was convinced that an unseen world existed and gave much thought to how it could best be demonstrated. Here is his much-quoted statement: “If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.”

    My take on what the professor meant is this: white crows are rare, and so are, to sceptical scientists, anomalous events. We only need to prove the existence of a single white crow (or anomalous event) to disprove the black crow “law.”

    The above is reprinted with permission of the publisher from chapter 3 of Dr. Alan Sanderson’s new book Psychiatry and the Spirit World: True Stories on the Survival of Consciousness after Death (Foreword by Edith Fiore, PhD), © 2023 Park St Press, an imprint of Inner Traditions International. www.InnerTraditions.com. The book is available from all good bookstores. A review of the book can be read on page 65.

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