Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid … The purpose of the [2009] meeting [of billionaires] was to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population. ibid.
That was the biggest a-ha to Bill and Me … If you start to save this children, will women just keep over-populating the world? ibid. Melinda on 60 Minutes
Did Bill Gates ‘Admit’ Vaccinations Are Designed So Governments Can Depopulate the World? ibid. Snopes online article
‘Little work is in progress on immunological methods, such as vaccines, to reduce fertility, and much more research is required is a solution to be found there.’ ibid. Rockefeller Foundation
Beginning in the 1990s a series of scandals of WHO-led vaccination programmes in the third world led to allegations of Tetanus vaccinations in places like the Philippines and Kenya were being laced with HCG in order to implement population control by stealth. ibid.
Reducing population growth has by Gates’s own admission been a core mission of the Gates Foundation since its inception. ibid.
Being issued a government ID … This human right also has benefits for big business … Control of the population … The real purpose of this identification control grid. ibid.
The nightmarish implications for this type of all-seeing all-pervasive society … is to remove privacy from our lives … is about control. ibid.
As critics of his Foundation have repeatedly pointed out, the nine million people who die every year of hunger would be best served by securing food supplies, running water and other basic necessities, not costly interventions for rare diseases … This is not about charity; it is about control. ibid.
Thanks to the internet hypochondria is on the increase and affects a surprisingly large number of people up and down the country. For those who are abnormally anxious about their health it’s a very real and very trying condition … It’s estimated the NHS spends around £2 billion a year on the worried-well. The House of Hypochondriacs, Channel 4 2015
Some weeks Angela’s worries are so bad she visits her GP every day. ibid.
What if the way we understand the world is wrong. What if it’s not politicians and world events that shape our lives but business deals? Deals made in secret high up in the boardroom or over a drink in a car in the dead of night. Our every waking hour has been transformed by these deals, re-programming us to think and behave in a different way. This is the story of these deals. Who made them, why, and what do they mean for our future. Jacques Peretti, Billion Dollar Deals and How They Changed Your World I, BBC 2017
It was a business plan, a strategy, to make living itself an illness, and patients of every one of us. ibid.
Psychiatrists needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of their practice. But the range of new conditions SMIII offered and the check-list approach to diagnosing them also allowed pharmaceutics companies to create niches for the development of a whole host of new medications which were then relentlessly marketed. ibid.
Deal Two: ‘The higher you score, the more likely you’ll be prescribed an anti-depressant.’ ibid.
Depression rates are known to be higher in deprived areas. ibid.
Many of the pharmaceutical companies marketing ADHD drugs have at one time or another referred to the research of one child psychiatrist prominent in this field. ibid.
Britain is divided: the rich live far longer than the poor. And it’s getting worse: the life expectancy gap is widening. Panorama: Get Rich or Die Young, BBC 2018
The most common factor is low income. Having less money limits your choices. ibid.
The implants that put patients at risk. Millions of people in the UK have a medical device inside them. But these products aren’t always adequately tested. We reveal how potentially dangerous devices get inside our bodies. And how our secretive system of regulation fails to protect patients. Panorama: The Great Implant Scandal, BBC 2018
Across the UK millions of people are waiting for hospital treatment as health services struggle to clear the growing backlog caused by the pandemic. The delays are having a profound impact on people. The government has committed billions to beating the backlog, but is it enough? Panorama: NHS: Wait or Pay? BBC 2021
At the height of the pandemic, many held back from going to their GP. Now, they are seeking treatment. But face to face appointments are still limited. ibid.
One in five people have paid for private treatment. ibid.
We investigate the private clinics diagnosing ADHD online. We reveal a health scandal affecting thousands of people. Private clinics handing out powerful drugs and failing to carry out basic checks. Panorama: Private ADHD Clinics Exposed, BBC 2023
The important distinction between symptoms we can all experience and ADHD often gets lost. ibid.
Support groups say ADHD has long been under-diagnosed. ibid.
The prescriptions cost £52 per month, and I’m told I’ll need following up appointments costing £195 a time. ibid.
‘Worldwide we’re looking at approximately 350 million people with diabetes. There is no question that we’re in the midst of a diabetes epidemic.’ What the Health, Dr Robert Ratner, Netflix 2017
‘Processed meat is clearly linked to an increase in cancer.’ ibid. television news
The World Health Organisation classifies processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen. ibid.
Today with two thirds of Americans being overweight clearly there is a food issue: in the next 25 years one out of every three Americans will have diabetes. ibid.
As destructive as diabetes is, it pales in comparison to heart disease … The leading cause of death around the world. ibid.
‘The number one dietary source of cholesterol in America is chicken.’ ibid. Dr Joel Kahn
Countries with the highest diary consumption have the highest rates of osteoporosis. ibid.
How concerned do we need to be about drugs in our food? ibid.
The very animals we were killing were killing us. ibid.
Before you’re born they use medical devices to find out when you’re gonna be born. When you’re born they use medical devices to find out how healthy you are. When you’re growing up oft-times they use medical devices to enhance what’s going on with you. Medical devices are a way of life in America. The Bleeding Edge, 2018
‘The medical device industry is a three-hundred-billion-a-year industry. This is big business.’ ibid. Dr Michael Carome, director Public Citizen Health Research Group
‘The device industry has much more power than Pharma.’ ibid. expert
‘Over the past ten years nearly 70 million Americans have been implanted with medical devices.’ ibid. Jeanne Lenzer, The Danger Within Us
‘I felt it go into my tube … It was pretty intense. After the procedure I was running fevers a lot, the bleeding was almost continual … a sharp stabbing pain …’ ibid. essure device victim
‘The history of medical devices is odd: there was an explosion in the 1920s and ’30s and ’40s of fraudulent devices …’ ibid. William Hubbard, former FDA associate commissioner
‘Most people probably believe when they get a medical device they implant it, be it a pacemaker or a joint, that those medical devices have undergone appropriate testing to demonstrate that they are safe and effective before they came on the market and doctors started using them. But for more moderate and high risk devices that is not the case.’ ibid. Dr Michael Carome
There have been more than 800 failed pregnancies associated with Essure. ibid.
Medical companies paid doctors more than £2 billion in 2016. ibid.
‘Welcome to the business.’ ibid. sales rep
Women with Essure experienced sterilization failure seven times more often than women who had their tubes tied. ibid. Bouillon, Bertrand, Bader et al 2018
CT scan overdose and overuse gives 50,000 Americans every year. ibid. Korley, Pham et al 2009
I realised I’m not the only one in the dark about it … I’ve been shocked by the level of shame and secrecy. The Truth About the Menopause, BBC 2018
HRT is currently the only effective medical treatment for most menopause symptoms but it’s actually been at the centre of one of the biggest controversies in medicine. ibid.
Only about 20% of menopausal women currently take HRT. ibid.
A new drug aimed at reducing hot flushes. ibid.
There could actually be a male menopause … a relatively new concept. ibid.
‘A worker making minimum wage could work full-time for an entire year [and] not earn enough to pay for a healthcare benefit.’ Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point, Mark Dudzic, healthcare activist, 2016
‘For an average family of four – this year’s numbers: $23,000.’ ibid. Professor Uwe Reinhardt
‘It is running away from us. Healthcare costs have gone up to three trillion dollars.’ ibid. expert
‘We’ve gone from 7% of the economy back in 1971 being healthcare to 18% [2015] today’ … ‘When the rest of the world is spending less than 10% of their economies and getting healthcare to all their citizens.’ ibid.
‘A few sick employees can take down a company.’ ibid.
‘The WHO system is set up to discourage people from using healthcare.’ ibid.
‘Every physician spends $84,000 a year just to interact with the private health insurance industry.’ ibid.