Monday, July 27, 2020

Did You Know?




Did You Know?
Junious Ricardo Stanton

“If you are not a conspiracy theorist, you are a coincidence theorist” Catherine Austin Fitts

            Did you know that a handful of people control most of the assets, media, food processing conglomerates and corporate holdings in this country? Imagine the power a small group of people could weld working together in cooperation, collusion and concert to get what they want, how they want it and how they could use this power to shape the world in their own image?
            Take the media for example, did you know only six conglomerates control almost all we watch, listen to and read whether it’s over the air, digital or hard copy?  “In modern America, it feels like you have an unlimited variety of entertainment and media options right at your fingertips. Television, film, and video game companies seem to come out of the woodwork in today’s startup-centric economy. Who knows what they’ll do next? But while it may seem like you have limitless options, most of the media you consume is owned by one of six companies. These six media companies are known as The Big 6. While independent media outlets still exist (and there are a lot of them), the major outlets are almost all owned by these six conglomerates. To be clear, ‘media’ in this context does not refer just to news outlets — it refers to any medium that controls the distribution of information. So here, “media” includes 24-hour news stations, newspapers, publishing houses, Internet utilities, and even video game developers.” The Six Companies That Own (Almost) All Media – The WebFX Team https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/.
This means a handful of CEOs totally control the flow and content of information and programming most of us consume. No wonder there is so little diversity in the news or programming. We think there is variety and of course there is quantity and volume but when you critically analyze the media it is really quite shallow and limited. This means we are being programmed and brainwashed by a small group of people.
            Did you know a handful of companies control our food and beverage supply as well as almost all of our consumer products? “A small number of companies control almost everything Americans buy. From food to fashion to beer, choice is more often than not simply an illusion. Brands that seem to share nothing in common, like Gerber baby food and Hot Pockets, are often actually owned by the same company (in this case, Nestlé). As a result, a handful of multibillion-dollar companies control everything from what we eat to how we dress.” A handful of companies control almost everything we buy, beer is the latest victim Kate Taylor https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-control-everything-we-buy-2017-8#:~:text=10%20companies%20control%20almost%20everything%20we%20eat.&text= Nestlé%2C%20PepsiCo%2C%20Coca-Cola,dollars%20in%20revenue%20every%20year.  
The same situation exists in the pharmaceutical industry. This means that if they wanted to poison us using GMOs, chemical additives, unsafe and untested medicines and vaccines they easily could. You say but what about the FDA?  I hate to be the one who tells you this; the FDA is in their hip pocket! https://michaelrocharde.com/is-the-fda-trying-to-kill-us/
Lastly did you know three investment companies: BlackStar, Vanguard and State Street control 88% of all shareholdings of the top S&P 500 firms and they vote as a block and almost always on the side of management? “Through an analysis of proxy vote records we find that the Big Three do utilize coordinated voting strategies and hence follow a centralized corporate governance strategy. However, they generally vote with management, except at director (re-)elections. Moreover, the Big Three may exert ‘hidden power’ through two channels: First, via private engagements with management of invested companies; and second, because company executives could be prone to internalizing the objectives of the Big Three… In 2008, Gerald Davis pointed at the historically unique situation in the United States that had emerged when a small number of active mutual funds, such as Fidelity, became large shareholders in a surprisingly high number of firms. This situation was reminiscent of the early twentieth-century system of finance capital when business was under the control of tycoons such as J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller.” Hidden Power of the Big Three Passive Index Funds- Reconcentration of Corporate Ownership and New Financial Risk https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-and-politics/article/hidden-power-of-the-big-three-passive-index-funds-reconcentration-of-corporate-ownership-and-new-financial-risk/30AD689509AAD62F5B677E916C28C4B6/core-reader?fbclid=IwAR3GGT39X79CeJ0OA5pMlF0NyTAZuBB9Kl5-pzRkEP8I3Gx1W-bFGe_AVMg
So what? What does this mean, you ask. It means a very small handful of people control our view or reality, our entertainment, our food and beverage supply and they hold huge influence and check in the financial system, in corporate board rooms and the government! It means that the policies and agendas that impact our daily lives are set by or greatly influenced by this handful of people who own or control almost everything. How does this make you feel?
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Monday, July 06, 2020

Foolishness or Worse Passing for Scientific Data from "Experts"




Foolishness or Worse Passing for Scientific Data from “Experts”
Junious Ricardo Stanton

“Social isolation during the pandemic was never meant to thwart social connections, but many family members, friends and neighbors of older adults are staying away to avoid exposing their loved ones to the virus. While that protects older adults from some health risks, the limited physical interactions reduce feelings of connectedness with others. It can also exacerbate other health risks. Without frequent and meaningful social interactions and stimulation, older adults’ cognitive functioning can decline. As the days of isolation wear on, older adults are especially susceptible to depression and anxiety, and even suicidal thoughts. Remaining at home also makes it harder to engage in healthy lifestyles, including physical activity and eating well.” https://theconversation.com/social-isolation-the-covid-19-pandemics-hidden-health-risk-for-older-adults-and-how-to-manage-it-141277

The so called experts who set policy for dealing with the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak made numerous errors and miscues from the exorbitant predictions of infection and death to creating panic and hysteria over the virus, to shutting the economy down and advocating medical martial law.
When the news of the Coronavirus first spread, being in the media I noticed the tone and tenor of the reporting tended to be one of sensationalist fear mongering rather than levelheaded reporting.  Early on I was lead to the Website https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ which kept a real time running account of the infections, severity, recoveries and deaths due to the novel virus. I was excited to see them put all the data into the fuller context of the global population rather than harping on deaths.
The “reporting” in the corporate media generated fear and panic which was not good for the psyches of the masses being targeted and bombarded with their gloom and doom figures. We are not dependent upon the gloom and doom figures and narrative of the .001% owned corporate media.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ provides a broader more global and comprehensive picture of the outbreak and unlike the corporate media and monopoly social media giants offers a clearer picture on the number of people who recover and rebound which as of this writing is 92% ! https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ This is a far cry from the gloom and doom figures reported by the people pushing the bogus notion SARS-CoV-2 is the plague.
Government officials, public health authorities and policy makers depended upon several sources for their information and policy recommendations. It turns out these “sources” are all connected. A biological mathematician who worked at the Imperial College of London England named Neil Ferguson created infection and death predictions based on computer algorithms. The Imperial College of London receives major funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ferguson predicted 2.2 million Americans would die from the coronavirus and 500,000 in the UK would die from it!
Let’s look at Neil Ferguson’s record. Since 2001 Neil Ferguson has had a history of hyperbolic fear mongering. He made Chicken Little type predictions on the Mad Cow, bird flu, and swine flu viruses. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/so-the-real-scandal-is-why-did-anyone-ever-listen-to-this-guy/ Yet this man was touted as an expert by the World Health Organization and the US CDC, all of whom are funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation! Thankfully he has resigned due to a personal scandal.
But people used his model to lock down the Western economy! Public health officials used his predictions to formulate public health policies that ran counter to conventional therapies and modalities like: quarantining well people, locking down whole countries and discouraging traditional treatments like vitamins and herbal supplements.
Worse they championed social isolation when it is a known fact human beings need social interaction and stimulation to feel healthy, connected and well adjusted.  Mandating social isolation created problems that exacerbated the situation and the “authorities” should have known better!
 “According to a meta-analysis co-authored by Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University, lack of social connection heightens health risks as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or having alcohol use disorder. She’s also found that loneliness and social isolation are twice as harmful to physical and mental health as obesity.” The Risks of Social Isolation- Amy Novotney https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/05/ce-corner-isolation .
These are long known and documented facts. “As demonstrated by a review of the effects of perceived social isolation across the life span, co-authored by Hawkley, loneliness can wreak havoc on an individual’s physical, mental and cognitive health (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Vol. 370, No. 1669, 2015). Hawkley points to evidence linking perceived social isolation with adverse health consequences including depression, poor sleep quality, impaired executive function, accelerated cognitive decline, poor cardiovascular function and impaired immunity at every stage of life.” Ibid  
Reach out to your family members, get out, get fresh air, exercise, meet and mingle with people. Do not allow fools or wicked people to make you afraid of life and living.

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