A private-public partnership that created a pandemic: Part 1

Written by Dr Urmie Ray on January 3, 2021. Posted in Current News

Part 1: The Rise of the partners  In 2010, the British government set up a seven-member Behavioural Insight Team, whose aim is “finding intelligent ways to encourage, support and enable people to make better choices for themselves”[1] or to quote its website, “improve people’s lives and communities”.[2]

This it purports to do by changing their behaviour towards “the right direction using psychology”.[3]  Since then it has grown into “a global social purpose company with offices around the world”. [4] The latest one was opened in Paris on 27 October 2020.  In the UK, the Nudge Unit, as it is called, is at present “working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care”.[5]  Elsewhere, similar teams, which “have proliferated across the globe” are equally active.[6]

Who are the Behavioural Insight Team?

Among the first members of this team, which “reports to key government figures” can be found its director Dr David Halpern, a former Cambridge University social psychology lecturer,[7] and Aix-Marseilles university Professor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Olivier Oullier, member of France’s Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (OPECST) and High Council for Strategic Education and Research (CSFRS), former Head of Strategy in Global Health and Healthcare and Member of the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum, and former director of the Neuroscience and Public Policy Program at the French Prime Minister’s Center for Strategic Analyses.[8]  Since 2014, it is “jointly owned by the UK Cabinet Office, innovation charity Nesta and its employees.”[9]

1. Democracy as a means to facilitate profit-maximization

The less the type of society necessary for the implementation and maintenance of a particular vision is compatible with the unalterable conditions making human life possible, the more sophisticated the methods to this end must be.   In the 20^th century psychology was added to the usual tools, notably legislative ones.  The Third Reich is well-known for its social engineering.[10]  In the postwar period, as profit-maximization rapidly reached unsustainable levels, it has been developed into a far more powerful tool through the partnership of the private sector with public authorities and institutions, in particular academia.

So let us briefly summarize some main aspects of the early evolution of this partnership.

In 1905, the French State passed a law, which, while guaranteeing the freedom of conscience and religious practice, put an end to any State financing of Churches.  This is fundamental.  In a democracy, an unelected special interest group should certainly have the right to participate openly in societal debates and voice its opinions, but must remain fully separate, so that the interests of society do not become equated to those of a small cabal.  In France, the secular State had emerged in opposition to the Catholic Church, from which it had wrenched power through a protracted fight.  Hence, more than any other nation, it was aware of the issues involving any integration of religious authorities within the State structure.  However this awareness did not extend to the profit-oriented private sector.

In effect modern democracies emerged once they became congenial for the shift from merchant to financial capitalism, which a perspective of profit-maximization is bound to lead to unless checked.  The land-based perspective of monarchies and oligarchies is an obstacle for the abstraction and virtualisation of the economy.  The emergence of democracies based on majority rule had as much, if not more, to do with capitalist requirements than with idealistic concerns.  They can be swayed and controlled through propaganda.  Indeed, from the very beginning propaganda was used to send an entire generation to be butchered on battlefields for the sake of profit-making.  No attempt to stop the senseless killing was successful, pacifists were derided and even imprisoned; but at the demand of industry, the Briey basin in the East of France, right in the middle of the region where war was raging, was left in peace for most of the duration of the conflict.

Thus from the outset, public policies profoundly affecting the lives of each and every citizen, justified as being the wishes of the majority embodied in its elected representatives, have in effect all too often be made for the sake of private profit-oriented interests.   These are not however wedded to modern democracy.  Whenever and wherever forces have threatened their continuation, they have engineered more favourable totalitarian regimes.[11]

2. Profit and Control

Profit-maximization requires constant growth and more and more energy.  Hence controlling resources and the production of energy is a sine qua non.  This means wars, making the armament industry one of the most profitable source of wealth.  It also entails redistributing agricultural land to industry, which was until recently heavily dependent on manpower.  Hence food production rapidly became another lucrative venture through the synthesis of ammonia.  However the manmade versions of molecules are obtained using methods dissimilar to natural ones, and so the geometry of their natural counterparts cannot be replicated.  Without ever considering the basic question as to possible harmful consequences of artificial molecules on human health because of this fundamental difference, pesticides and herbicides have come to be increasingly used, enabling both big industrial farming based on mono-cultures, and the population growth needed to sustain production.

It however became rapidly obvious in the post-war period that physical reality could check the continuance of profit-making, that by keeping to this path, we would reach a stage where resources would be squeezed to their limits.   The problem is we cannot increase the amount of matter available on our planet. This is one of the constraints of the reality we are part of and which we cannot alter. We cannot produce matter from nothing, we can only transform matter. And compared to human timescales, matter is produced at a very slow rate by the biosphere from the energy it gets from the sun. If we consume matter at a quicker rate than this natural rate of production, namely retransform it into unusable diffused energy too rapidly, we invariably deplete the available material resources.

Alongside, a debt driven monetary system, namely one where banks create new money out of nothing whenever a loan is made, but no new money is created for the interest payment, had been established. In this system, paying interest amounts to “using someone else’s principal” as “there isn’t enough money to pay the interest on all the loans”, leading inevitably to an increasing accumulation of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.[12]

Early rumblings of an approaching storm due to both a depletion of resources and social discontent were heard in the early 70s.  A solution maintaining the pursuit of ever more profit had to be found.

Now, consequent to the growing centrality of industrial production, mathematics had come to acquire unprecedented primacy within science –  the transfer between science and technology is via measurement.  The outcome was the birth of computer science. The creation of this new subject was critical. While there is no desire to reintegrate science and philosophy, because of the demands of technology, physics, mathematics and technology were amalgamated into one.  This synthesis has certainly proved constructive, but because it was made within a profit-oriented perspective, it has also contributed to the latter’s furtherance.

Shaped accordingly, it has enabled the virtualization of finance and its takeover of the economy, and the severance of the economy not just from production, but from a natural reality no longer able to sustain this course, as well as the control of money by a small coterie.  Present fortunes increasingly rest not on constructive productivity, but on the generation of millions of replication of one-time written software programs, or merely on applications of already existing programs permitting the centralised control of networks.

However virtual wealth requires increasing energy –  speculation with bitcoin, the latest virtualisation of money, consumes more power than a country like Morocco –  and, being insubstantial, must be converted into real wealth. Regular conversions cause worsening crises since there is no longer sufficient material goods to sustain wealth, thereby worsening the pauperisation of civil society, which in turn increases social discontent, and thus the necessity to control populations.

All this requires a highly efficient internet.  This has been built by incorrectly generalizing quantum mechanics.  Natural electromagnetic waves are known to be both quantized and non-polarized.  These properties were extended to manmade ones without any experimentation.  This has come to be accepted as dogma over the decades, giving the pretence that we could with impunity live immersed in artificial EM radiation.  After all natural ones are pervasive and inescapable and have not harmed us.  This provided the alibi for moving from cable connections to wireless ones, and thereby enabling a growing virtualization, greater militarization as well as pervasive surveillance.   Only in 2015, was it experimentally realised that manmade EM waves are not quantized.  Because of this and because they are polarized, they affect us at cellular level, and thus are a serious threat to human health.[13] [14]  But by then it was too late, 4G had become widespread and 5G was on its way.  It is easier to prevent than reverse course.

Information technologies were also shaped to enable the next critical step: the development of bio-engineering, which could not have happened without huge genetic databanks.   By the 70s, the toxicity of pesticides and herbicides had begun to be seriously questioned.  However manpower continued to be needed.  Thus population growth remained congenial, but this raised the question of how to feed it.   If external inputs cannot increase yield, then the obvious solution enabling the continuation of profit is to modify living organisms internally to increase efficiency.  Bio-engineering gave the illusion that a machine-made virtual world could actually be made to bring our natural reality in harmony with it.

This process has now reached another stage with the development of artificial intelligence, finally making manpower redundant.  Yet, population is constantly growing.   Despite bio-engineering, as land is continuing to be fast converted from agricultural use to profit-making domains, in particular is being built on, feeding everyone as well as taking care of the weak is becoming more and more problematic within our context of profit-maximization.  And there is now no point to bear this cost.

Such an evolution has been orchestrated by a private sector whose control over civil society has become more and more pervasive.  As early as 1954, the leaders of the private and public sectors, including heads of State and academics, came together to form the Bildeberg group.  According to Professor of governance, Andrew Kakabatse: “Its much smarter than conspiracy. This is moulding the way people think so that it seems like there’s no alternative to what is happening.”  To continue quoting him, the aim was “to bolster a consensus around free market Western capitalism and its interests around the globe”.[15]  The march towards a uniformized globalization, a sine qua non for profit-making beyond a certain stage, was accelerated.   In the same spirit,  the world economic forum was founded in 1971 based on the ideas of Klaus Schwab, and the Trilateral Commission in 1973 by David Rockefeller with the help of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Jimmy Carter.

Consulting firms in particular have played a role in the imposition of a very specific vision and business model as the norm, first in America and then in the rest of the world.  For instance Microsoft was transformed from a start-up into a very specific type of monopolistic venture and Monsanto into a giant bio-technology agrochemical by Bain and Company, one of the top consulting firms founded in 1973,[16] whose partners regularly sit on the board of the Federal Reserve.[17] [18] [19]

From advising industry, these firms rapidly came to advise governments and public institutions, evidently in the latter case paid for by the taxpayer.  For instance, the National Health Service, British Rail and the Bank of England were reorganized in the 1960s under the guidance of McKenzie & Company.

To use former American Senator Barry Goldwater’s remarks regarding the Trilateral Commission, these unelected bodies,  represent “a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved”.[20]  In effect, they are the secular heirs of the Roman Church, which after the fragmentation of the Roman Empire, was far mightier than any monarchy limited by frontiers could be, managing its wealth through a complex network of banks and money-changers, with the capacity of moving it around international according to its needs.

Like the Church formerly, the activities of multinational corporates and organizations are veiled in secrecy though they lead to major policy decisions that now affect billions across the planet, especially billions living in democratic nations – a critical difference from the past.    Covertness is by definition contrary to the spirit of democracy.  So what conclusions should be drawn from a 1975 report by the Trilateral Commission asserting that “the effective operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and non-involvement on the part of some individuals and groups”?[21]

Is it because, as Henry Kissinger famously said, “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world”, and this can only be accomplished without the knowledge of populations since it is against their interests?

3. Fabricating a vaccine craze within an epidemic perspective: Phase 1

Kissinger however forgot a major sector, which has increasingly played a central role both in profit-making and in bringing about greater control: healthcare.

Indeed, John D. Rockefeller had long since successfully engineered the implementation of a medicine favourable to profit-making based on the scientifically unsubstantiated ethos of a specific chemical drug for a specific disease assumed to be of a purely chemical nature, and which Paul Ehrich had revived at the start of the 20^th century.  That his ‘magic bullets’  for syphilis, which he developed in 1910 with funding from the Institute of Medical Research founded in 1901 by Rockefeller, had severe side-effects did not deter the latter.   He successfully established the pharmaceutical industry on firm grounds with the help of Andrew Carnegie who agreed to commission a school teacher without any medical or scientific training, Abraham Flexner, to write a report on medical education.  The aim was to put an end to the competing age-old holistic medicine and to establish a medicine based on laboratory research and patents by artificially giving the illusion of a problem and thereby scaring people to implement a pre-planned solution.[22]  The recommendations of this 1910 report, imposed by force by the authorities when necessary by jailing dissident doctors, brought medical teaching under centralized control,[23] [24] and was instrumental in replacing the universal and time immemorial tradition of decentralised and individualised drug-making by apothecaries and doctors by standardisation – the same (petrochemical) drug for all, thereby stalling the growth of preventive nutrition and lifestyle-based medicine.  Rockefeller was thereby ensured his fortune.

The standardization of medicine to one form may be highly profitable, but it amounts to a distortion of the nature of science.  It suggests science is unique and therefore mirrors reality.   Rather, the form taken by science at a particular place and time is heavily dependent on our metaphysical and religious beliefs.  Namely, we must first establish a relation with the universe, before we can even begin to investigate it.   Notably a different form of experimental culture was being developed in ancient India, oriented towards enhancing the processes of nature, rather than isolating specific processes in artificially created laboratory conditions.[25]

Notwithstanding its unscientific character, the report’s tenor has been enshrined in the constitution of the World Health Organization founded in 1946,[26] an organization  “profoundly shaped” by the Rockefeller Foundation from the outset, “playing a crucial part behind the scenes”.[27]  A 2000 WHO Bulletin article lauded the report as  “remarkable”.[28]   Adverse drug reaction was in 2009 the leading sixth cause of death worldwide,[29] responsible for about 106,000 deaths in the U.S. alone annually around the turn of the century.[30]

The WHO’s initial constitution includes the eradication of epidemics as one of its goals.  This goal was further emphasized within five years and the International Sanitary Regulations (ISR) were signed to eradicate epidemics.    The assumption was that various disorders are of a contagious nature and thus responsible for epidemics, whereas former medical schools, especially in China and India, had emphasized local environmental and hygienic conditions as the main cause, and hence advised notably escape to healthier climes.    The radical shift of the perception of health was now well ensconced: from the maintenance of the global equilibrium of body and mind, and thus of cure as its restoration,  as had long been held especially in these cultures, it was now one where infecting agents had to be killed instead of their harmfulness neutralised — a perception which presupposes that health cannot be restored while the germs are present, thus that health is the absence of germs.

Now, previous to the rise of this ethos, the small pox vaccine had already opened vistas of a financial Eldorado where not just the sick, but the healthy could be turned into a source of profit.   The ISR in particular introduced the idea of vaccination certificates, and enabled local health authorities to require international travellers coming from infected areas failing “to produce a valid certificate of vaccination against” a certain number of diseases “to be so vaccinated or to be placed under surveillance”  for the duration of the incubation period.   Although it stipulates that a “person under surveillance shall not be isolated and shall be permitted to move about freely”, it allows  “isolation” in the case of an “infected vessel or aircraft”.[31]

In 1955, the Rockefeller Institute together with the Roosevelt Warm Springs Foundation and The National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis led “a PR campaign to turn polio into a major health crisis and promote the need for vaccines”.   A scenario similar to that of smallpox[32] unfolded: “by the time the vaccine began to be used on Americans the number of polio cases had declined to 28,985 with 1,043 deaths. Polio cases in England and Wales were also dropping precipitously, with no vaccine.”   Rather cases began to rapidly increase “despite — or rather because of — the polio vaccine program” and many suffered serious side-effects, in this case paralysis.  However, the “Rockefeller-controlled pharmaceutical companies — … benefitted financially”.[33]

In 1969, the ISR’s dispositions were consolidated and became the International Health Regulations (IHR).  Health authorities in an infected area were now allowed to  “require a valid vaccination certificate from departing travellers,”[34] in the case of “a disease subject to the Regulations”.[35]   The door was now open for the legalization of forceful medication of individuals without their consent, including healthy individuals.

In 1979, the WHO endorsed the [1978] Report and Declaration of Alma-Ata, which next to laudable aims, includes “immunization against the major infectious diseases”.[36]

But in the 1981 revision of the ISR, vaccination of smallpox was discontinued, and only very few areas in the world qualified as having any “disease subject to the Regulations”.

Hence, gradually vaccination fell into disuse, aided by a widespread distrust.

[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nudge-nudge-wink-wink-how-the-government-wants-to-change-the-way-we-think-2174655.html

[2]https://www.bi.team/about-us/

[3]See 1.

[4]See 2.

[5]https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/nudge-unit

[6]https://www.bi.team/international-approaches-to-applying-behavioural-insights-europe-and-the-americas/

[7]See 1.

[8]https://www.weforum.org/people/olivier-oullier

[9]See 2.

[10]Steber, M. and B. Gotto. (Eds). Visions of Community in Nazi Germany: Social engineering & private lives.  Oxford: OUP.  2014.

[11]Preparata, G. C. Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America made the Third Reich.  Oxford: OUP.  2005.

[12]Lietaer, B. A. and J. Dunne. Rethinking money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. 2013.

[13]https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/107282190822431/Panagopoulos-Man-Made%20EMR%20is%20Not%20Quantized-Nova%202018-chapter.pdf

[14]https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14914.pdf

[15]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13682082

[16]https://principia-scientific.com/how-a-private-corporation-controls-our-public-health/

[17] https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/corporate/governance/craver/

[18]https://www.bostonfed.org/news-and-events/pressreleases/2002/boston-fed-announces-2002-board-of-directors.aspx

[19]https://www.bostonfed.org/news-and-events/pressreleases/2004/boston-fed-announces-2004-board-of-directors.aspx

[20]Goldwater, B. With No Apologies. New York: William Morrow. 1979.

[21]Crozier M. J., S. Huntington and P. J. Watanuki. Crisis of Democracy, Report on the governability of democracies to the trilateral commission. New York: New York University Press, 1975. p. 114.

[22]https://eraoflight.com/2019/04/03/john-rockefeller-created-big-pharma-and-destroyed-alternative-medicine/

[23]https://www.weblyf.com/2020/05/the-flexner-report-and-the-world-health-organization/

[24]https://www.cancertutor.com/flexner-report/

[25]Ray, T. and U. Ray. On Science: Concepts, Cultures, and Limits.  New Delhi: Routledge.  2020.

[26]   https://www.jus.uio.no/english/services/library/treaties/03/3-01/world-health-organization.xml

[27]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003335061300396X

[28]https://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/80(7)592.pdf?ua=1

[29]https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/adverse-drug-reaction

[30]https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-interactions-labeling/preventable-adverse-drug-reactions-focus-drug-interactions

[31]https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/85636/Official_record37_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

[32]Ray, T. and U. Ray.  On Science: Concepts, Cultures, and Limits.  New Delhi: Routledge. 2020.

[33]https://personalliberty.com/rockefellers-coopted-modern-medicine-used-polio-create-vaccine-mythology-profit/

[34]https://www.paho.org/en/documents/international-health-regulations-1969-0

[35]https://www.who.int/csr/ihr/ihr1969.pdf

[36]https://www.who.int/publications/almaata_declaration_en.pdf

About the author, Urmie Ray: Dr Ray read mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained her B.A. (M.A.), Mmath, and PhD. After 23 years as an academic, several articles and a book in the field of algebra, she resigned her professorship in France – the country of her childhood – to dedicate herself to her lifelong interests in current issues, notably those related to science. Her second non-mathematical book “On Science: Concepts, Cultures, and Limits” (Routledge, Dec. 2020) in particular examines why and how science has been increasingly transformed into its exact opposite, a dogma which claims to speak in its name.

Dr Ray’s new book is available to order online at www.routledge.com

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