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Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 September 2020

Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine and profitability of vaccine development

I republish here as a blog post, a link to a youtube video that was sent to me by one of my dear London friends. Dr Carrie Madej alleges that Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine links in with Artificial Intelligence toward making Genetically Modified Organisms of humans, and comes with very nasty side effects. I feel that her claims are quite plausible, given the agendas of the financial backers of this 'initiative'.

From my own standpoint, I believe that vaccines have long tampered too much with the body's immune system, so as to favour 'quick fixes' in a world where too few people have adequate nutrition. I favour homoeopathic medicines that treat the patient and restore balance, over allopathic medicines.



The BBC and World Health Organisation refute the claims made by Dr Carrie Madej,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53525002

Coronavirus: False and misleading claims about vaccines debunked


but I note that both are now heavily funded by billionaires who also finance vaccine development, and the BBC has also been known to delete material from public consumption regarding influence of Unum in 'steering' UK Government 'welfare reform' policies.
https://www.mostewartresearch.co.uk/introduction/

Vaccine development is very lucrative.
https://www.wddty.com/news/2020/03/big-pharma-twice-as-profitable-as-any-other-industrial-sector.html

Big Pharma twice as profitable as any other industrial sector
About the author: 
Bryan Hubbard


The average gross profit margin of a drug company is around 76 percent of revenues compared to just 37 percent of a typical large conglomerate listed on the S&P 500 index.
Researchers at Bentley University compared the revenues and profitability of 35 of the largest drug companies with 357 companies of equivalent size from other industries.
A typical large pharmaceutical was outpacing a company of similar size operating in a different sector across several financial measures; earnings were 13.8 percent against 7.7 percent for other industry sectors, gross profit margins were 76.5 percent compared to 37.4 percent, and earnings before interest and tax were 29.4 percent against a non-pharmaceutical sector average of 19 percent.

Pharmaceutical profits reduced slightly when research and development costs were added back in, but the findings still raise questions about the price drug companies charge for their products, the researchers say.
So, whatever the relative merits or demerits of Dr Carrie Madej's arguments, I believe it is fair to conclude that the development of these vaccines is designed to perpetutate gross imbalances of wealth, while developers such as those behind Moderna claim to be 'superhuman' themselves.



Tuesday, 31 December 2019

There is more to being environmentally friendly than Alan Titchmarsh would like people to recognise

The MailOnline -- and BBC Gardeners' World -- report:




Hypocrites! Alan Titchmarsh blasts green campaigners who block pave their gardens or swell their carbon footprint by eating out-of-season fruit and veg

  • He said saving planet is not matter solely for land management and industry
  • He took aim at those who may criticise the Government for not doing enough 
  • Titchmarsh, 70, also attacked those who buy fruit in the winter months 

Alan Titchmarsh has criticised green activists who lecture others about the environment but then block-pave their own gardens or buy imported strawberries in January.

The TV gardener said saving the planet is not a matter solely for agricultural land management and industry, but for individuals who can do more to 'make a difference to the health of planet Earth'.

'Those of us who cherish that bit of land that comes with our houses have a duty of care that is every bit as vital as that incumbent on the owners of vast estates,' he told BBC Gardeners' World magazine.
He took aim at those who may criticise the Government for not doing enough to curb global warming and climate change, in particular Extinction Rebellion protesters, yet do not do enough themselves domestically. 

'I hope that none of the Extinction Rebellion protesters has a block-paved front garden,' he said.
Note the difference between the headline's "green campaigners who block their gardens" and Titchmarsh's, "I hope that none of the Extinction Rebellion protesters has a block-paved garden."

Alan Titchmarsh's income is largely built around his persona as gardener and TV broadcaster, and he has gone on from that to fronting advertising for Sun Life Funeral Plans https://www.sunlife.co.uk/funeral-planning/funeral-plans/

Sun Life Guaranteed Funeral Plan is fronted by Alan Titchmarsh who says it's
"One of the most affordable ways to cover a funeral."
We might ask how much he is making from that promotion in addition to his income from BBC broadcasting that notoriously showers high salaries on presenters.

I would add that a great many Extinction Rebellion younger supporters have not been taught gardening as a basic skill but they do realise that government policies have let climate crises fester.

We live in the legacy of how the robber barons and Enclosures Acts that helped carve the way to capitalism in which people lose touch with the land. As people have lost touch with the land, we have become more dependent upon others' produce via an increasingly global market, and that was one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution going hand in hand with British colonisation of other lands and import-export arrangements.

If capitalism is the root cause, ecosocialism is the antidote

I believe that the antidote is ecosocialism, and refer readers to the Green Left Blog http://greenleftblog.blogspot.com/ and London Green Left Blog http://londongreenleft.blogspot.com/ on ecosocialism, and Prof. Guy Standing's book Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=ACYBGNRFPlaY8m160tA809ez94dd7WZLrA%3A1577787706249&ei=OiELXor2DoSi1fAPxoWOgA0&q=%22guy+standing%22+%22plunder+of+the+commons%22&oq=%22guy+standing%22+%22plunder+of+the+commons%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i30.9113.11069..14984...0.2..0.154.994.0j7......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i7i30.zyawUCDTC5Q&ved=0ahUKEwiK-4ue1d_mAhUEURUIHcaCA9AQ4dUDCAo&uact=5

accompanied by the communal wonders of community gardening
https://wembleymatters.blogspot.com/search?q=gardening

See also 

https://newsforwardsfromalanwheatley.blogspot.com/2019/11/government-policy-and-global-investment-as-plunder-of-the-Commons.html

Post Script

I especially welcome the comment below from 'Unknown', and point out that comments submitted anonymously are not altogether ruled out for their anonymity:
I remember Alan Titchmarsh writing in the Radio Times about a decade ago questioning the science of climate change, trotting out the tired old cliche that weather has always been variable. He and others in high profile positions (eg David Bellamy) who have questioned climate science over the years have done more to damage our chances of keeping global warming to a safe level than any number of XR activists who might buy fruit out of season or have a paved front garden.

Google search link "alan titchmarsh" "climate change denial" 

The following search link was created by using keywords "alan titchmarsh" "climate change denial"
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22alan+titchmarsh%22+%22climate+change+denial%22
NB: Use of all lower case letters as above in a Google search is quite acceptable, even when using 'proper names'; and quotation marks are a handy device for ensuring that the exact phrase or name combination is located.

Monday, 4 November 2019

'Tax cut' promises for some, thumbscrews for others

Left: General Election propaganda; Right: thumbscrews

The Daily Express front page as reported at today's edition of https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/the_papers flag-waving toward a Tory General Election victory for December, chimes, "Boris: I'll cut taxes for every worker; and boost welfare spending by £5bn."

"Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is looking at plans to give every employee a tax cut worth up to £460 by raising the National Insurance threshold, says the Daily Express. The paper explains that the proposal would be at the heart of a manifesto designed to win over working-class voters, particularly in the Midlands and the North,"
is what BBC News reports.

At what cost to public services and preservation of 'the commons'? one might ask, in line with Prof. Guy Standing's statement cited at https://newsforwardsfromalanwheatley.blogspot.com/2019/11/prof-guy-standing-expounds-upon-plunder-of-the-commons.html
“The commons have been eroded by neglect, in recent times accelerated by budget cuts due to austerity... Often, the erosion has resulted from the deliberate neglect, part of the strategy adopted by the early Thatcherites in which services and industries were starved of investment in order to induce public indifference to, and support for, their privatisation.”
It should be pointed out, as film director Ken Loach does in his new film Sorry We Missed You, that the majority of claimants of 'Universal Credit' (UC) are the working poor.
https://theconversation.com/ken-loachs-new-film-on-the-gig-economy-tells-exactly-the-same-story-as-our-research-125743

 UC incorporates the 'legacy benefits'
  • child tax credit
  • housing benefit.
  • income-related employment and support allowance.
  • income-based jobseeker's allowance.
  • income support.
  • working tax credit
 Source: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=universal+credit+legacy+benefits

The working poor are fleeced both by the cruelties of UC and taxpayer-subsidising of greedy landlords and skin flint employers alike.

Thumbscrews

Meanwhile, Taxpayers Against Poverty founder [retired] Revd Paul Nicolson reports [by e-mail]:

SPINNING THE 'RISE' IN BENEFITS

BBC News. "Benefits freeze to end in 2020, government confirms". This is technically a lie @BBCnews ought not publish. An increase at the rate of inflation is by definition not a "rise".

This is like unwinding a thumbscrew a quarter of a wind after it has been wound up a hundred times and implying the pain will be less or like closing the door of a fridge and saying it has stopped freezing without turning it off.
Single adult JSA £73.10 a week equates to UC £317 a month. Increases were limited to 1% pa 2011 to 2015 then frozen. It is worthless The nightmare of debt & hunger continues.
JSA/UC is paid to about 4 milion people.
It has been losing value since 1979 - yes 1979! (Bradshaw & Lynne). Worth 21% of average earnings in 1979 and 10.5% in 2008.
Too low to tax but since April 2013 290 councils of 326 have been enforcing a proportion of council tax against £73.10pw JSA/UC, with Magistrates Courts and Bailiffs costs added to the arrears. JSA/UC of £73.10 a week pays rent because housing benefit is also cut. Hunger and debt are inevitable.
Tax & rent are enforced by local authorities, rent by all landlords against £73.10 pw JSA/UC, regardless of delayed payments, benefit sanctions or zero hours contracts.
http://taxpayersagainstpoverty.org.uk/…/tap-tell-united-nat…The state damaging health by the Imposition of extreme poverty is morally indefensible
 So, there you have a little more 'balanced reporting' than you are likely to get from the BBC or Daily Express!