The Rot of the Bloodsucker Megacorporates
How corporate greed is devouring Western societies - and threatening our health.
This morning I ran into an article by one of my favourite writers about modern society and macro-economics, Charles Hugh Smith, on Zerohedge, my go-to website to see what is happening in the world of politics and finances.
Quoting from the article:
This isn't about profit, it's about hiding the rot that has seeped into every nook and cranny of Corporate America. The foundation of the stock market's extreme valuations is corporate profits, and the stock market bubble is now the precarious foundation of the entire U.S. economy: should the bubble pop, everyone knows the economy and the financial system will both crash.
And before you dismiss this as just another lamentation about American politics and how it doesn`t affect us in New Zealand: The rest of the article revolves mainly around the shameful, fraudulent behaviour and malfeasance, driven by corporate greed, of pharmaceutical giants, specifically Pfizer, the supplier of the vaccine that New Zealanders are now forced to take under government coercion.
Here`s Hugh Smith in the article:
Now it's Pfizer's fast and loose treatment of supposedly rigorous protocols that's been heavily documented. The prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) stated that the whistleblower provided "The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails." BMJ Investigation: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer's vaccine trial.
The article further refers to and has a link to a facsinating online spreadsheet, a remarkable data base of Corporate Fines and Settlements from the early 1990s to the present compiled by Jon Morse. I followed the link to the website (do yourself a favour and do the same) and went one further: I scorolled to the reports on Pfizer specifically. The group of fines paid my Pfizer for shameful acts of malpractice at the cost of its clients and society, was too big to get on one screenshot, so I just show a selection, with the worst and biggest fines indicated. Worth a look:
A little hard to see, but Pfizer`s list is 50 lines long, billions of dollars` worth of fines paid to settle out of court in order to escape the kind of justice that ordinary people would have had to face, not having an army of lawyers to defend them. The last 2 highlighted are both in excess of a billion US dollars. These are the people and companies that the government, the media and the “experts” want us to believe are professional, competent and good companies that should be trusted when they say that this experimental vaccine is safe and will have no adverse long-term effects.
Hugh Smith`s conclusion:
The once solid timbers of America [the West?] are now so rotted that you can push your finger right to the centres of power and find nothing but the crumbling remains of ethics, accountability, competition, transparency, regulatory oversight or responsibility to anything beyond maximizing private gain and masking the rot with cleverly designed narratives full of pretty sentiments.
Amen to that, I say. And to Jacinda and her government, “your sole source of Truth and trusted information”: If these are the corporations whose vaccines you want to force upon a whole population, of which roughly 500 000 don`t want to take it - do you really want us to believe them, or you, if you say “It is safe”? Really!?