Daily Archives: October 16, 2024

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A book review

In my zeal to get to the bottom of everything I often uncover stuff that blows my mind. This is what happened this morning when I read this book review. This info doesn't apply to my female readers because it's about prostate cancer, but you may find it interesting and informative, particularly if you have an older male partner.

I have heard my friends Mark and Victor and Craig talking about their PSA levels (prostate-specific antigen) and thought nothing of it. My doctor doesn’t test for this so I thought it was unimportant. However, last spring my friend Mark actually got invasive surgery to remove his prostate, and I now wonder whether it was even necessary.

The PSA test has remarkable similarities to the PCR test, which was used to diagnose COVID even though Dr. Kerry Mullins, its inventor, said specifically that his test could not be used to diagnose anything. (The PCR test cannot distinguish between live virus and dead fragments, so the PCR test for COVID is useless. The CDC stopped recommending its use at the end of 2021.) Anyway, here it is, a book review about prostate cancer.

This book review excerpt is from the excellent Unbekoming substack, in an article titled “The Great Prostate Hoax.”

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Analogy

Imagine you're the owner of a large orchard filled with thousands of apple trees. You know that some of these trees might have a disease that could potentially kill them, but it's rare - only about 3% of your trees will actually die from this disease. The rest will live out their natural lives, disease or not.

Now, a salesman comes to you with a new "revolutionary" test that he claims can detect this disease early. He suggests testing all your trees regularly. It sounds great at first, but there's a catch:

The test often can't tell the difference between healthy trees, trees with harmless spots, and trees with the actual deadly disease. In fact, it's wrong about 80% of the time. When the test says there's a problem, you're forced to cut off large branches from the tree to check if the disease is really there.

For every 1,000 trees you test, you might save one tree from dying of the disease. But in the process, you'll unnecessarily damage hundreds of healthy trees. Many of these trees will never produce apples again, some will be permanently stunted, and a few might even die from the damage caused by your well-intentioned but overzealous pruning.

What's worse, the salesman and the pruning company are making a fortune from all this testing and pruning, which costs you millions every year. They're so invested in this process that they resist any suggestion to change it, even when other orchard experts start to question its value.

This is essentially what's happened with PSA screening for prostate cancer. The test, like our hypothetical orchard test, is often inaccurate. It has led to millions of men undergoing unnecessary biopsies and treatments, which frequently result in life-altering side effects. All of this for a disease that, in most cases, would never have caused them harm. Meanwhile, the medical industry has profited enormously from this process, creating a powerful incentive to maintain the status quo despite mounting evidence of its flaws.

The book's main message is a call to recognize this situation for what it is – a public health disaster driven more by profit than by sound medical science – and to advocate for a more measured, evidence-based approach to prostate cancer detection and treatment.

“The Great Prostate Hoax”

Unbekoming’s 12-point book summary

Here's a 12-point summary of the book, including key data and statistics

PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) is not cancer-specific. It's present in normal, benign, and cancerous prostate tissue. There is no specific PSA level that definitively indicates cancer.

Routine PSA screening leads to significant overdiagnosis and overtreatment. For every 1,000 men screened, only 1 man may avoid death from prostate cancer, while many others suffer unnecessary biopsies and treatments.

Prostate cancer is age-related. About 40% of men aged 40-49, 70% of men 60-69, and 80% of men over 70 have prostate cancer. Most of these cancers are slow-growing and unlikely to cause death.

The lifetime risk of dying from prostate cancer is only 3%, meaning 97% of men will die from other causes, even if they have prostate cancer.

Radical prostatectomy, a common treatment resulting from PSA screening, often leads to significant side effects. Up to 60-80% of men experience erectile dysfunction and 10-20% have long-term urinary incontinence.

PSA screening has not significantly reduced prostate cancer mortality. Studies show similar death rates between screened and unscreened populations.

The PSA test has a high false-positive rate of up to 80%, leading to many unnecessary biopsies and treatments.

Active surveillance is increasingly recognized as an appropriate option for many men with low-risk prostate cancer, potentially avoiding unnecessary treatments and their side effects.

The U.S. healthcare system spends an estimated $3 billion annually on PSA tests alone, with billions more on subsequent procedures and treatments.

New technologies like robotic surgery and proton beam therapy, while heavily marketed, have not shown superior outcomes to traditional treatments but are significantly more expensive.

Conflicts of interest are prevalent in prostate cancer care. Many researchers and physicians promoting PSA screening have financial ties to companies that profit from increased screening and treatment.

The FDA approved the PSA test for screening in 1994 despite significant reservations from its own advisory panel. This decision, along with aggressive marketing by medical companies, led to widespread adoption of PSA screening before its benefits and harms were fully understood.

“The Great Prostate Hoax”

I hope you found this informative, I sure did. I’m sure that 99% of doctors who prescribe prostate surgery using the PSA test are sincere folks.

There’s an old saying: “Never assign to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.” Nevertheless, I’m beginning to wonder if some of this stupidity is deliberate. It’s not coming from the grassroots, it’s coming from the top of the pyramid.

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Why the U.S. government, and global institutions, are implementing a policy of population reduction

“Permissable Assistance”

The Twitter Files have exposed rampant censorship within the U.S. government. FEMA’s actions to physically interdict private citizens from supplying relief to victims of Hurricane Helene is a sign that the totalitarians within our federal government have taken their gloves off and are actively working against the people. I’ll let Tulsi Gabbard describe the current attitude at the top of the U.S. government toward its people in her testimony to Congress.

And now, the issuance of DoD Directive 5240.01, September 24, 2024, which is essentially a workaround of the Posse Comitatus Act (Section 1385 of Title 18, United States Code) that forbids civil authorities from using the military to attack citizens. DoDD 5240.01 authorizes this under a newly created (made up) doctrine called “permissible assistance.” (Thanks to George Webb and his research group for discovering this.) Check this out:

Permissible assistance allows for the Secretary of Defense to employ “(c) Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated.

“Such use of force must be in accordance with DoDD 5210.56, potentially as further restricted based on the specifics of the requested support.

“(d) Provision or use of DoD unmanned systems in the United States except as delegated by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to the October 31, 2023 Secretary of Defense Memorandum.” [emphasis mine]

DoD Directive 5240.01

So – local law enforcement can call in the military – and military drones – to attack the civilian population if a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and, say, a protest group regarded as a threat – is “reasonably anticipated.”

DoDD 5240.01 allows the use of lethal U.S. military force against inconvenient citizens who disagree with government policies. At the very least this is a form of population reduction – using the military to project lethal force against civilians.

Where did the idea of “population reduction” begin? How did it ever gain enough legitimacy to justify our government turning against its own people?

Thomas Malthus

In order to answer these questions we have to revisit the life and work of Thomas Malthus, an English political economist. His widely read and acclaimed work, An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, was published in 1798 during the French revolution (1789–1799), and just after the American revolution (1775–1783).

Malthus was aware of the problems of supplying the growing British population, and he anticipated the rise in the global human population. In his essay, he argued that the population would always increase at a geometric rate, faster than the ability to produce enough food, which only grows at an arithmetic rate. Malthus argued that misery and vice were caused by a fundamental law of nature that is impervious to new social systems and legislation.

It would be necessary, then, to find ways to reduce the growth of the human population, and impose limits on human reproduction.

At the time Malthus wrote this, it seemed an entirely logical and reasonable supposition, for this was well before improvements in agriculture ginned up the food supply, and industrialization created products that made life easier.

However, today many argue that Malthus was right all along, for hundreds of millions live without enough to eat. This, I believe, is largely a distribution problem brought about by trade wars, economic sanctions, and competition among governments for resources. Nevertheless, Malthus’ policy of population reduction found a wide audience in his time, and to this day is the backbone (I believe) for governments and global institutions to justify the implementation of attacks on the population.  

The ideas of Malthus, in my opinion, led to the development and popularity of the eugenics movement, which began to be applied widely in the 20th century.

The Eugenics Movement

Malthus argued that self-interest is the basic impulse of individuals, and, therefore, a society based on universal benevolence is not attainable. Therefore, if human beings are destined to overpopulate the planet, a way of forcibly regulating population growth is necessary.

Eugenics is supposedly a method of creating biologically superior human beings, and it has historically done this by trying to eliminate the “lower orders.”  In the 20th century, eugenics was gruesomely practiced by the Japanese military in their war against China during WW 2, and, of course, by the Nazis.

Here in America, the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was an enthusiastic eugenicist. According to TIME magazine, in a 1921 article, she wrote that, “the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”  However, Sanger was just one of many who believed this. During the 1920s and 1930s, eugenics enjoyed widespread support from mainstream doctors, scientists, and the general public.

IMHO a certain section of the human population still believes this. Unfortunately, this idea has found its way into today’s medical bureaucracies.

Genetic Engineering

In the 21st century, eugenics morphed into its modern form, genetic engineering, which has the same goals but cloaks or disguises itself as “health care.” Modern genetic engineering is encapsulated within the U.S. military’s bioweapons programs (DARPA), and has resulted in the new mRNA “vaccines.” These medical products were researched and created within the U.S. military. They are more accurately described as medical countermeasures to weaponized viruses and pathogens within the Pandemic Preparedness programs. It seems that the goal of bioweapons – along with lockdowns, and the massive overuse of childhood vaccination – is to create a reduced and more docile human population.

Check out the CDC’s vax schedule for children, a document titled “Your child needs vaccines as they grow!” (Really?)

(Click on the image for a more readable version)

The CDC (as of August 14, 2024) recommends as many as 20 vaccines for babies up to 6 months old, and up to 36 vaccinations by the age of 6! (Count them yourself.) Is it any wonder that, according to Children’s Health Defense, 60% of children in the US have a chronic disease? And that Americans are the un-healthiest nation among all democratic countries, even though we spend more on health care than any nation in the world?

Transhumanism and Transgenderism

Genetic engineering and CRISPR technology (gene editing) are a part of the growing Transhumanist program, whose ultimate goal is to eliminate the need for human biology in human reproduction – thereby eradicating the distinction between men and women. Transhumanist Avi Roy, for example, calls the human body wetware. “Next generation transhumanists want us to think about wetware as past. They think about the future as the blending of man and machine, the upgrade of humans from this wet and squishy vulnerable clothing to something far beyond that can expand and move at the speed of light.”

Sure thing, mate!

Transhumanism’s offshoot, transgenderism, asserts that biological sex is a mere construct, an identity that can be changed. This is the reason for crude, Josef Mengele-like “gender alteration” surgeries, which destroy the human body’s ability to procreate. Needless to say, a species that cannot procreate is on an evolutionary path to extinction.

 Genetic engineering is a far subtler and more effective method of population reduction than messy things like eugenics, war, or genocide. It is done by non-threatening people in lab coats in our federal health bureaucracies, which partner with institutions like the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the massive UN bureaucracy in Geneva, Switzerland.

“Pandemic Preparedness”

Using medical countermeasures developed by the military that masquerade as helpful vaccines is an insidious global method of population reduction. An article by the Brownstone Institute describes how gain-of-function research has proliferated under the smokescreen of Pandemic Preparedness:  

Pandemic Preparedness, and the gain-of-function research that underlies it, operates under a grand deception, a big lie.

“The Biological Weapons Convention, which every major nation has signed, “prohibits the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of biological and toxin weapons.” As a result, gain-of-function research – the process of taking viruses and other pathogens found in nature and making them more transmissible and dangerous in humans – must be justified by defining it as something other than what it really is – namely, the creation of biological weapons and countermeasures for those weapons.

“The grand deception – the big lie – used to justify gain-of-function research goes something like this: “We need to alter pathogens in the lab to anticipate the mutations that just might occur in nature, and to promote the production of vaccines to protect humanity from these theoretical superbugs.”

“In truth, there is no legitimate reason to create superbugs in the laboratory. One does not save Tokyo by creating Godzilla. Unfortunately, science can be both complicated and confusing, especially when the “experts” are intentionally untruthful. This grand deception has therefore worked for decades, and a gigantic, profitable, and frankly terrifying pandemic preparedness industry involving governments, non-governmental organizations, Big Pharma, and universities has grown as a result.”

https://brownstone.org/articles/monkeypox-evidence-of-the-pandemic-preparedness-lie/

Fear is the mechanism used to scare people about potential pandemics and the militarized medical countermeasures used to “solve” them. Fortunately, We the People have recognized that something is very wrong with the NIH, the CDC, the FDA, and in NAIAD. More and more people are thinking for themselves and not blindly trusting “experts” and “authorities.”

 Conclusion

The population reduction idea of Malthus has evolved dramatically from his simple essay published in 1798. It has now been encapsulated and formalized scientifically into a military-biological program that, under the guise of “health care,” is being weaponized against the human race by a very small group of psychopaths.

The public has recognized the dangers of the new medical countermeasures. mRNA vaccine uptake has fallen precipitately and the profits of Pfizer, Moderna, and other vax distributors are declining. But the ideas of Thomas Malthus are alive and well within our federal medical bureaucracy, which is now (in my opinion) just a subset of the gain-of-function research within the military’s bioweapons programs. All mRNA vaccines are just shields to the sword of manufactured bioweapons.

Fortunately, a weaponized federal government is leading to an acceleration of the mass awakening of humanity, particularly here in the US. Elizabeth Nickson’s hard-hitting article details this.