Eliminating Healthcare Competition

The Rockefeller Medical Monopoly
(this is an abbreviated version of a chapter from my Sandy Hook book)

In June 1901, John D. Rockefeller Sr. had founded The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first such institution in America, dealing with eugenics. Rockefeller and others saw unique possibilities in a pharmaceuticals market. In 1909, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching funded Abraham Flexner’s investigative tour of 155 medical schools in America and Canada. He concluded that medical education in America was abysmal. ^[1] Abraham Flexner submitted his 364-page report, Medical Education in the United States and Canada (Carnegie Foundation Bulletin Number Four), to the Carnegie Foundation, a Rockefeller collaborator, which published it in 1910. He called for a drastic reform of America’s medical education. ^[2]

Flexner emphasized the need for the increasing importance of the AMA’s Council on Medical Education and its inspection and ratings of medical schools. However, the Council had to maintain a fragile balance, as the AMA then only represented a very small percentage of America’s physicians. ^[3] He determined that any instruction that failed to utilize the new progressive drugs to treat their patients amounted to quackery. AMA officials informed medical schools that included studies in bioelectric Medicine, Homeopathy or Eastern Medicine that they would have to discontinue these courses or forfeit their accreditation. Ultimately, the majority of the schools either closed their doors or adapted.

The purpose of Flexner’s so-called survey and subsequent report was to create a medical monopoly based on “their scientific medicine.” Dr. Nancy Banks states, the report did point out many of the inadequacies of medical education at the time…but from the beginning the emphasis was placed on pharmacology, radiation, and surgery.” [4]

Members of Congress, always happy to acquiesce to the demands of deep-pocketed industrialists, readily accepted his recommendations and the alleged need for “public protection.” Congress decided that the AMA would function as the ever-vigilant doorkeeper and authorized it to officially approve or disapprove of any of the nation’s medical schools based on its criteria. In 1906, there were 160 medical schools in America. By 1920, there were only be eighty-five and by 1944, there were only sixty-nine. Dr. Nancy T. Banks said, “Medical schools are experts at psychological conditioning of white coat repeaters who have been trained by long years of study and chronic fatigue to engage comfortably in totalitarian behaviors that would be criminal without the sanction of the state…Enormous iatrogenic mischief and health damage have been caused by intentionally creating a widespread belief among ordinary people that they cannot cope with their own illnesses except by calling on the ministrations of a trained and duly state licensed medical ‘expert.’” [5]

Rockefeller’s General Education Board, part of the Rockefeller Foundation, controlled the distribution of about $50 million. Philanthropic grants would stimulate competition among the nation’s medical schools. Naturally, when schools received foundation funds, they were obligated to support a certain “scientific” track even if it countered previous proven methods. AMA members controlled the licensing boards and designed the examination questions to differentiate students who graduated from “unscientific” schools. ^[6]

Further, Dr. Banks stated, “The loss of faith in the healing power of nature and a dose of common sense has given the medical and pharmaceutical industries a license to kill…over 100,000 people are killed on an annual basis by their products…over the last ten years…over a million died as the consequence of taking a pharmaceutical drug. [7]

Dr. Banks wrote, “Beginning in 1913, the Rockefeller backed General Education Board gave millions of dollars to medical schools that disregarded naturopathy, homeopathy and chiropractic or any non-toxic healing modality in favor of medicine based on the use of surgery, radiation and especially chemical drugs. Aided by the AMA, a medical monopoly was created. One of the most cleverly diabolical schemes was the ingenious marketing technique of training a cadre of unsuspecting physicians as a sales force for the drugs manufactured by the Rockefeller Trust. The system allows the doctor to remain aloof from the dirty business of selling while giving him the special privilege of being able to write prescriptions for nostrums he has been trained by the very drug companies who manufacture them to prescribe. They are not meant to cure… (and) have multiple deleterious effects including death. The effects lead to thousands of deaths a year and untold disabilities. [8]

In 1916, the Rockefeller Foundation started the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. By 1922, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale universities had established schools of public health. Between 1914 and 1933, the Rockefeller Foundation provided $2.6 million to support county health departments and sponsored medical education reform. The National Tuberculosis Association promoted TB treatment and prevention. In the 1920s, the National Consumers League would support maternal and infant health. In the 1930s, the American Red Cross promoted nutrition programs. In the 1940s and 1950s, the March of Dimes supported research that spawned the polio vaccine. [9]

In the early 1900s, there were few local public health boards and no county health departments. In 1910-1911, in Yakima County, Washington, a county sanitation campaign to control a typhoid epidemic gained public support and led to the establishment of a permanent health service, and a local health department on July 1, 1911. At the same time, the Rockefeller Sanitary Committee began supporting county hookworm eradication efforts. By 1920, officials had established 131 county health departments and by 1931, there were 599 county health departments to serve one fifth of the American population. In 1950, eighty-six percent of the American population had access to a local health department. These public health agencies had 34,895 full-time employees. [10]

Influenza during World War I

Millions of Americans participated in World War I including Smedley D. Butler who went to France as commander of the Thirteenth Marines. On September 24, 1918, Butler’s men arrived at Brest, and although they were Marines, they were placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army. [11] Butler was promoted to a Brigadier General on October 7, 1918 [12] and, after two weeks, Commander General John J. Pershing relocated Butler and his men to the army debarkation camp at Pontanezen, France, a filthy, 1700-acre pestilence-infested mud flat where 75,000 American soldiers were crammed together, forced to share inadequate sanitation facilities.

At least 16,000 of those soldiers were suffering from influenza. An average of twenty-five soldiers died each day from that and other diseases. In usual Butler fashion, he turned the camp into a model of efficiency. His treatment of the troops was admirable – he gave them double rations of food, an adequate number of blankets and provided them with a dry sleeping area. He cared more about the men than the regulations he broke to make them comfortable. He always favored his men, who had very little, if any power, against their so-called superior officers. [13]

Towards the end of the war, technicians had gathered up all of the vaccines on the lab shelves and vaccinated every single U.S. soldier, the first time in history that a government has mandated compulsory inoculations in the military. This poisonous medical assault, the Schick diphtheria vaccine, outlawed years before in Austria due to the deaths of several children, killed more American soldiers than the war. The Austrian government banned the use of Béla Schick’s vaccine and banished him from the country. [14] By 1923, Schick directed the Pediatric Department at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. In 1936, he became a professor at Columbia University. He headed the Pediatric Department of Beth-El Hospital, Brooklyn (1950-1962). Doctors still use the Schick test, invented (1910-1911) to determine whether a person is susceptible to diphtheria.

Despite recruiting propaganda, the military were and are now underpaid, used as medical guinea pigs, exposed to death and disease and often abandoned as POWs or MIAs. Butler, torn by what he witnessed, wrote, “The wounded and maimed pass through Pontanezen, some with their nervous systems irreparably shattered…Gradually it began to dawn on me to wonder what on earth these American boys are doing getting wounded and killed and buried in France.” He began to doubt “the ethics of his chosen calling.” [15]

The American Medical Monopoly Association

The AMA, a doctor’s labor union, or perhaps secret society, established itself as the pharmaceutical industry’s advocate, along with its products. The two entities formed a symbiotic relationship to exploit the public and create a customer base for the doctors who, with their handy-dandy drug book could prescribe the drugs produced by the drug companies. This “unhealthy” alliance enhanced the physician’s credibility as he was authorized and knowledgeable on what drugs to prescribe for his patients. The 1938 Food and Drug Cosmetics Act soon altered the way that the retailing of drugs was handled in the United States. It mandated that the FDA had to validate the safety, but not the efficacy, of drugs produced by the industry. The FDA stipulated individuals could buy certain drugs only with a doctor’s prescription. In 1951, with the Durham -Humphrey Amendment, most new drugs, such as antibiotics, and any refills, were only obtainable with a doctor’s prescription which elevated them to a privileged position. Essentially, physicians, touting the newest or most effective drugs, became agents for the pharmaceutical companies with the pharmacists as the intermediaries. ^[16]

Physicians, supported and licensed by the AMA, and the drug industry were allies. In 1952, the AMA discontinued publishing its annual book listing the most useful drugs and began allowing drug companies to advertise in its journal those drugs approved by the AMA Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry. By 1957, the AMA decreased the budget for its Council on Drugs and it, along with its licensed physicians, was now actively working with the drug companies to stimulate the sales of new drugs. Doctor’s salaries began to increase dramatically, doubling from 1950 to 1970. Advertisements for drugs increased the AMA’s revenues from $2.5 million in 1950 to $10 million in 1960. In 1959, a researcher reviewed the drug advertisements in six medical journals and discovered that eighty-nine percent of the ads failed to mention any side effects. The first psychiatric drugs were introduced to a very receptive public in the 1950s. ^[17]

The polio vaccine was contaminated with the deadly carcinogenic SV40 virus which is found in the kidney cells of the rhesus monkey, the cells that they used to grow the polio virus. In the mid-20th century, we were told that polio was a major health crisis that took the lives of over 50,000 people in America. Dr. Jonas Salk developed the Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine or IPV in 1953 and Dr. Albert Sabin developed the second polio vaccine, the Oral Polio Vaccine, in 1957. Federal agencies began mass vaccinations in 1955. Over ninety million people, worldwide, were vaccinated with the IPV by 1961. Two years later, scientists discovered that it contained SV40, which could infect and cause cancer in human cells. [18]

The American Journal of Medicine reported that many studies show the evidence of SV40 from the polio vaccine in brain tumors, bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and other cancers. The FDA, given the controversy, alerted drug companies that they would not approve of potentially SV40-contaminated polio vaccines after June 30, 1961. However, the FDA allowed the drug companies to sell their vaccines for two years after the June date to save the drug companies from the financial loss on millions of doses. Some vaccine makers added rabbit anti-SV40 antibodies to their viral cultures to counteract the simian virus which may not even be effective in eradicating the SV40. The FDA did not ascertain whether the drug companies actually destroyed their millions of dollars’ worth of contaminated stocks. The CDC conceded that about ten to thirty million Americans received the SV40-contaminated IPV. [19] Dr. Maurice Hilleman admitted that Merck’s vaccines were contaminated and he knew that their vaccinations were producing cancer in the field-trials in Russia involving millions of people.

Quite possibly, the polio vaccine itself caused polio epidemics. The infection rate was high in areas where the people failed to practice good hygiene and sanitation, and where housing and nutritional standards were sub-standard. Paralysis only occurred in about 0.1 percent of all polio infections. Other symptoms were similar to viral infections like influenza. Unethical drug companies, promoted by the government and its pro-vaccine propaganda, simply vaccinated massive segments of the population because it was profitable. In the United States, following mass vaccination, the incidence of polio increased by fifty percent between 1957 and 1958, and by eighty percent from 1958 to 1959. In at least five states, the incidence of polio doubled after the vaccine operation. When people improved their hygiene and sanitation, the disease disappeared. These historical facts establish a causal connection between vaccination and its consequences. A healthy immune system is the deciding factor in whether an individual becomes ill. Vaccines destroy the immune system which allows disease to develop. Vaccines do just the opposite of what their manufacturers’ claim. [20]

Returning to the polio issue, “Live virus vaccines against paralytic poliomyelitis, for example, may in each instance produce the disease it is intended to prevent; the live virus vaccines against measles and mumps may produce such side effects as encephalitis. Both of these problems are due to the inherent difficulty of controlling live viruses in vivo (after placed in a live person).” – Jonas and Darrell Salk, Science, March 4, 1977 [21]

In 1977, Dr. Jonas Salk, as noted in the medical journal Science, admitted to a senate committee that mass polio vaccinations caused most of the polio cases throughout the country since 1961. He said, “Live virus vaccines against influenza or poliomyelitis may in each instance produce the disease it intended to prevent… the live virus against measles and mumps may produce such side effects as encephalitis (brain damage).” A case of the measles, chickenpox or scarlet fever usually provides lifelong immunity and a person rarely, if ever, gets the disease again. [22]

Until 1962, drug companies did not have to submit proof of the effectiveness of their new drugs to the FDA. Therefore, it was up to the NIMH to determine whether Thorazine, a new drug, was safe. In September 1956, the NIMH convened a conference to “consider carefully the entire psychotropic question.” Participants addressed the question, “How could psychiatry adapt, for its own use, a scientific tool that had recently proven its worth in infectious medicine: the placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized clinical trial?” [23]

The 1963-1974 AMA Committee on Quackery targeted chiropractors, attempting to discredit them. Many psychiatrists, who reject chiropractic methods and their non-chemical practices, belong to the AMA. [24] This was during the same period that corporate-sponsored television featured shows such as Dr. Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Marcus Welby, MD and other trust-your-allopathic-doctor shows. We would never see a television show featuring an alternative doctor who saves lives using natural methods or a commercial advocating that temporarily depressed people speak with a therapist. It is all about marketing an often addictive chemical product.

From 1930 to 1980, cancer mortality increased from nine per 100,000 to eighty per 100,000 or 900%. Dr. Charles E. Page, of Boston said, “No conceivable thing could have caused this increase but the universal blood-poisoning (vaccination) now existing.” [25]

Beginning with the early invasion of the Philippines and the mandatory vaccine programs, the U.S. military later decimated Japan, Germany, and Vietnam, followed by the soft invasions of central and South American countries. In August 1990, the United States military besieged Iraqi’s electricity production facilities, nuclear reactors, port facilities, telecommunications equipment, oil refineries and distribution, railroads and bridges. The Pentagon later admitted in a report on June 23, 1991 that their targets were not limited to military targets but that they “deliberately did great harm to Iraq’s ability to support itself as an industrial society.” [26] Interestingly, the CDC altered and greatly increased the number of vaccines in its schedule twice, once in 1991 with the First Gulf War and again in 2001, in conjunction with the PATRIOT Act and the second invasion of Iraq. Of course, those CDC changes would affect the US military that were going to be fighting in that war.

By the end of the war, Iraq had only four percent of its prewar electricity. Invading forces had damaged or rendered unusable fifty railroad and highway bridges between Basra and Baghdad. Bombs destroyed eight multi-purpose dams, four of the seven pumping stations and thirty-one municipal water and sewerage facilities, twenty in Baghdad, which resulted in sewage pouring into the Tigris, Iraqi’s water source. Water purification plants were incapacitated throughout Iraq. [27] A UN report from mid-March described “near apocalyptic” damage to the nation’s infrastructure which has left the country in a “pre-industrial age.” In addition, “according to the survey team report, the destruction of 9,000 homes has left some 72,000 Iraqis homeless.” [28]

General Merrill “Tony” McPeak, Air Force Chief of Staff, declared in a March 15, 1991 briefing that this war was “the first time in history that a field army has been defeated by air power.” He estimated that 88,500 (only 7.4 % were precision guided) tons of bombs had been dropped in 109,876 aircraft sorties. This was more intense than the 34,000 tons per month during the Vietnam War or the 22,000 tons per month during the Korean War. [29]

The results of the allied bombing campaign were obvious when Dr. David Levenson visited Iraq immediately after the Gulf War, on behalf of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. He said: “For many weeks, people in Baghdad, without television, radio, or newspapers to warn them, brought their drinking water from the Tigris, in buckets.” People were “dehydrated from nausea and diarrhea, craving liquids, they drank more of the water that made them sick in the first place.” He estimates that “many thousands died from polluted water.” [30]

After the obliteration of the infrastructure and the accompanying pollution of the water supply, the UN Security Council then inflicted strict economic sanctions on Iraq, with Resolution 661, which began August 6, 1990 and continued until May 22, 2003. Sanctions ended after the American “shock and awe” invasion on March 19, 2003. Sanctions for over a decade prohibited the importation of all products and the exportation of products originating in Iraq or Kuwait. Punitive sanctions critically restricted the import of the basic essentials to sustain life, which severely effects the most vulnerable in any society, the children, of which 500,000 perished during that period. The general mortality rate increased dramatically. The sanctions predictably deindustrialized what remained of the country, now dependent on others for agricultural products. The Pentagon admitted that their targets were not limited to military objectives, indicative of a total war. In a total war, infrastructure is deliberately destroyed which renders a country incapable of supporting itself as an industrialized society. [31]

Then there was the US military invasion of Afghanistan followed by a second invasion of Iraq. The United States is still in Iraq, once a progressive self-sustaining country whose citizens enjoyed a high living standard, which is now a desperately impoverished country whose healthcare system is now non-existent. On April 10, 2014, UNICEF, which purchases forty percent of the vaccines for third-world or apparently war-torn countries began a polio vaccine campaign after the discovery of the first confirmed case of polio. This is actually the second national immunization campaign, the first one being in March. Marzio Babille, UNICEF’s representative in Iraq, indicated that the organization wanted to vaccinate every child in Iraq with the three WHO-recommended doses of the vaccine, especially the “five and half million children under the age of five.” [32]

One must ask, has the US military and does the US military continue to invade the world’s countries for various reasons, in order to establish the WHO and the provably unhealthy western health system which often replaces more natural, more effective health-enhancing medical modalities. Given America’s health statistics, shown later in the book, why would anyone willingly embrace America’s medical protocols. Willingly is the operative word. A sick, highly-medicated, chemically-lobotomized population is incapable of fighting tyranny, of retaining and protecting a nation’s natural resources. Many people believe that the US military invades other countries in order to establish a central bank and seize intellectual and natural resources. I suggest that it is also to medically decimate the native population in the name of long-term guaranteed profits. There are numerous countries that the legitimate, not to mention the illegitimate drug industry now does business within, including Japan, China, Vietnam, Germany, and many Middle East countries.

For over six decades, the pharmaceutical industry has concealed the dangers of vaccinations in the name of profit. Under normal circumstances, the body’s natural defenses and immune system neutralize diseases as they enter the body through the nose, mouth skin or lungs. However, vaccines are injected directly into the bloodstream and bypass the body’s very effective defense system. [33]

Dr. Viera Scheibner wrote, “The documented truth is that the incidence of and mortality from any infectious diseases which used to decimate populations of Europe only some one hundred years ago declined by up to 90% before any vaccine has ever been used in mass proportions. Also, diseases, like bubonic plague or scarlet fever disappeared without any vaccination programs at all. The mortality from the dreaded diphtheria declined decades before Corynebacterium diphtheria had even been discovered and isolated.” ^[34]