You have to find another wife, Giovanni. A good woman, the girl needs a mother. I don’t care about dying. I want to rest. I can’t fight any more. Gomorrah s4e2: Episodio II, cancer wife to husband farmer, Sky Atlantic 2019
The idea that this cluster of cancers is evidence of a CIA plot is not accepted by many mainstream historians. Conspiracy s1e8: Assassinations, History 2019
GcMAF summary: The body’s way of treating cancer and 50 other diseases; A human protein, a human right with no side effects; the king of immunotherapies; discovered in the human body 26 years ago; 300 GcMAF scientists from 8 nations; 150 scientific research papers; 12,000 patients treated; can successfully treat 90% of cancers. Ian Crane, lecture Alternative View Conference 9.1, ‘Democracy in Chains’, caption
The impact of the pandemic on people with cancer has been enormous … I want to find out what the real cost of Covid19 can be for fellow patients with cancer. And how Britain may be lunging from one health crisis straight into another. Panorama: Britain’s Cancer Crisis, BBC 2020
In every area of life throughout Britain we’ve lived with a highly conspicuous creature, a being that is sociable with well-defined habits and quite simple needs. Timeshift: The Smoking Years, BBC 2012
American industrialist James Albert Bonsack invented the first cigarette rolling machine. The date was 1880. Smoking would never be the same again. ibid.
Women started to challenge conventions. ibid.
Bernays’ research suggested that the cigarette was a symbol of male power and of the penis. ibid.
Over 80% of British troops returned home from the war as smokers. ibid.
Lennox Johnson who was conducting his own research into smoking – as early as the 1920s he was speculating on the likely long-term health effects smokers were exposing themselves to. ibid.
He had also devised a nicotine replacement therapy. ibid.
Within two years of starting their research Doll & Hill discovered there was a clear link between smoking and lung cancer. ibid.
Smokers displayed a remarkable reluctance to accept the science. ibid.
The tobacco lobby quickly found ways to counter the findings. ibid.
Cigarettes were also seen as essential fashion accessories. ibid.
More than half the British population smoked. ibid.
The smoker today is a diminished, anguished, exhausted creature. ibid.
Now I’m being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. Kate Moss
I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, Where is that? If I offer a clue by referring to Bikini, they say, You mean the swimsuit?
Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 – the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years.
Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Nothing moves. There are no birds. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. My shoes registered ‘unsafe’ on a Geiger counter.
Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called Bravo. The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever.
On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women’s Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: You, too, can have a bikini body. A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different ‘bikini bodies’; each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers. John Pilger, article March 2016, ‘A World War Has Begun: Spread the News’
Breast cancer: unfortunately not bullshit. According to the American Cancer Society it kills roughly forty thousand women in the US alone. Penn & Teller, Bullshit: Breast Hysteria s5e3, Showtime 2007
Secrecy is the Word to Remember. Atomic Homefront, sign over entrance, Sky Documentaries 2022
North St Louis County, Missouri: Elevated levels of radioactivity. ibid.
In 1942 the US Government chose St Louis, Missouri, as a processing center of uranium for the first atomic bombs. Over the next 25 years, the radioactive waste from this processing was moved to sites throughout the northern suburbs of St Louis. The radioactive waste was then dumped into a landfill in Northern St Louis County. ibid. captions
It’s stinking. That’s how it is down here. ibid. resident
The Bridgeton side of the landfill contains an underground fire known as a Subsurface Smoldering Event or SSE. ibid. caption
The West Lake side of the landfill contains 47,000 tons of radioactive waste including Uranium 238, Thorium 230 and Radium 226. ibid.
In 1990 the West Lake landfill was designated as a Superfund site. ibid.
Proposed site of isolation barrier north quarry area chart. ibid.
‘We’re just mums and we’re scared.’ ibid.
Louis Gibbs founded the Lake Canal Homeowners Association to fight dioxine poisoning in the community. ibid. caption 1980
We had all of those cancers. Every single one. ibid. resident
They used to dump up there up to twelve o’clock [midnight] ibid.
In October 2015, four school districts near the West Lake landfill send letters to parents explaining their emergency action plan in case of a radioactive incident. ibid.
‘She [Nicole Elkabbas] told me she had cancer … She said she would need to go abroad … I fell for the oldest trick in the book.’ The Big Swindle s1e5: The Fake Cancer, Jo Mapp, QuestRed 2023
‘Nicole tries to position herself with people who are prosperous, who are successful.’ ibid. expert
In 2016, Nicole asked Jo to help her sell tickets to a comedy and music night, promoting herself and local bands. ibid. caption
The GoFundMe crowdfunding page was launched in February 2018. ibid.
Leukaemia, cancer of the blood, is an ominous disease … Much of the experimental treatment is not widely known. World in Action: A Girl Called Sharon, ITV 1967
When Australian cancer survivor Belle Gibson published a book about her journey to health by rejecting traditional treatment methods, a whole community of terminally ill readers were there to cheer her on … Sounds too good to be true? That’s because it absolutely was. True Crime Recaps: Cancer Con Artist Scams a Nation! Youtube 16.08, 2022
She picked up an international deal for The Whole Pantry cookbook. ibid.
The alternative medicine industry had found its fresh-faced darling. ibid.