President Eisenhower Saw it All Coming
We’re publishing an original essay today by Cephas Alain – the pseudonym of a retired lawyer – about President Dwight G. Eisenhower’s extraordinarily prescient Presidential Address when he left office in 1961 in which he warned of the growing power of the military-industrial complex. As the LBC radio host and commentator Maajid Nawaz has pointed out, if you substitute ‘Big Pharma industrial complex’ then many of Eisenhower’s warnings have come to pass.
Just as Eisenhower could say back in 1961: “This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.” We might say the same of Global Big Pharma. Eisenhower recognised the way in which the military-industrial complex operated: “The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.” Lots of businesses, lots of employees, lots of shareholders (both individual and institutional), lots of lobbying and financing and funding makes influence inevitable. Eisenhower warned: “We recognise the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.” We should take careful note of his use of the word “grave”. That is this something that can place a nation in danger of serious harm. More specifically: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
Once more we can see how this might easily occur in the context of Big Pharma, especially as the scientific and knowledge community is so clearly interlinked and operates both alongside and indeed within the responsibilities that modern Governments have taken on in the name of maintaining and improving public health – as broadly defined.
Eisenhower was clearly extremely concerned: “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
Worth reading in full.
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PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY SPEECH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viNtNYzTKb0&t=15s
Great quote, I was literally just thinking about this speech. I think JFK knew exactly what was going on, but probably underestimated what he was up against. His NSAM 55,56,57 also indicated he was trying to cut the CIA somewhat out of the loop & transfer a lot of their responsibilities to the Military, Joint Chiefs.
What would happen if the CIA was disbanded? I think America would be much safer.
What would happen if America had no CDC or NIH? I think America’s public health would be the same or better. How did people stay healthy before these agencies existed?
I once worked in a building where the Alabama Department of Pubic Health was located. Their employees took up about 12 floors of a 25-floor building! So these public health agencies at the state level have grown massively, and now of course have more power than ever.
The same applies to local public health agencies. Is there one city in America with a population greater than 2,000 that does not have a “public health” agency?
“Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. “
This excerpt is an apt description of the few professional athletes who refuse to get vaccinated. They are attacked and villified for taking a position that is both perfectly reasonable and principled.
The mob does tend to rule and the few who stand up for principles are punished and impugned. The freedom to dissent is in serious jeopardy.
An interesting description of the military industrial complex in operation.
Having worked for a while for a former MSM health journalist in Primrose Hill, London who was editing and running her own health journal I could see the power of Big Pharma from the reps and allies who would frequently visit her office/home. No names, no pack drill.
GPs of course are also heavily influenced/bribed by Big Pharma.
It’s a total mess. The Augean stables need a thorough clean out.
Oh it’s come to pass?
I thought it was all just a big ol’ cock-up Toby?
So actually there was a plan. Who’d a thought.
President Eisenhower’s Warning From 1961 – YouTube
YEP
Money Vs. Science – YouTube
The Vaccine Business
Watch from 2 min 20 sec point. Book written by the daughter in law of Warren Buffet.(Extremely rich block)
Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite
That was as politically prescient as the prediction the river tiber was “foaming with blood” during the UK’s first disastrous attempt to push down wages with subsidised migration.
The “science industrial complex” is bigger than Big Pharma and maybe even bigger than the military industrial complex. For example, It includes just about every university in the world. And almost all scientific research is now funneled through universities.
There is a reason there is either a military base or a military contractor (or both) in probably EVERY Congressional district in America.
But there are also colleges and universities in every district. These college presidents and boards of trustees know which way the wind blows when it comes to doing what their benefactors want.
I think, but might be wrong, that Eisenhower also warned about this growing science complex. Anyway, both “science” and “education” (K-12 and secondary) have been completely co-opted by the forces that have co-opted practically every major institution in America.
P.S. These institutions are also completely “woke” and politically correct as well. The U.S. military brass has by now been completely purged of higher ranking officers who resisted this trend.
…he just sounds like another one of those goddam ‘conspiracy theorists’ 😊
The only information worth reading in full:
By LCAHub / 9 September 2021
Never mind the military-industrial complex: it’s the prison-industrial complex (qv) we need to worry about now. Perhaps we should broaden that concept to say “punishment” in the wider sense rather than just imprisonment. I take that to include cautions, suspended sentences, fines, fixed penalties but also the imposition of lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine passports, surveillance and all the petty limitations to us just getting on with our lives without let or hindrance.
In a nutshell, the control freaks are farming us like livestock assets.
A timely reminder of a real insight.
The only needed amendment is an expansion of the areas from which danger comes. This is not now just about Big Pharma. It also should include Big Tech and the reach of global corporate finance in general.
And don’t forget the absurd ‘gender ideology’ which convinces children and young people that they are really the opposite sex before hooking them into a lifetime of opposite sex hormones and mutilating surgery. The pushing of that scam across the western world is entirely driven by the pharmaceutical industry, with academia and the ‘progressive’ middle class left as its useful idiots.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/p1QALi41zqq4/
In this 30 min video with Robert Malone is he discussing this agenda about Big Pharma’s enormous expansion aided by lawmakers in the US.In the beginning of the video is a clip from Eisenhower’s speech discussing this more general issue than just the military industrial complex.
Er, Ayn Rand anticipated this before him and gave much more coherent details of what was happening.
PNAC Project for a New American Century.
One of the ways to make up for the big dollars from war is Big Pharma.
I suggest you all read it and see the other tricks they will pull out of the bank.
This is the document that talks about another catastrophic event, like pearl harbour, and how it can be used to implement their plans for the world..
No prizes for guessing with catastrophic event they went for, anniversary tomorrow..