People have different views on how the Jews operated in the time of Christ. In my view the Sadducees were much the same as the rich today. They have money and connections which give them power. That power can be used to derail the official power of the state in order to accomplish their own ends.

This is one of a series of four articles that I have written dealing with covid-19 in an effort to help people who are searching for some biblical and scientific light in all the madness. I am not sure whether or not the order in which they are read is important but this in the order in which I wrote them:

• Pandemic - No_King_but_Caesar
• Pandemic - Conspiracy_theories
• Pandemic - The Real Conspiracy
• Pandemic - Wonderfully and fearfully made

From a religious perspective Satan comes in many forms and it is our responsibility to recognise him through the disguise. No king but Caesar was the answer that the masses gave to officially excuse their behaviour in murdering Christ, It sounded right. They could have said we don't really know, which would have been the truth, but they wanted to pretend to know the motives of the elite and so preached their gospel. In fact the elite were railroading Christ. In their view He was expendable in order to preserve their vision of a future.

The mob were people who were manipulated into an erroneous belief and whipped into a state of hysteria. Nobody but the elite actually knew the facts. The rest wanted to appear important so even though the argument had serious flaws that the Romans quickly found and pointed out, the rank and file was convinced of the righteousness of their masters. These crusaders were the ones who would go to any lengths to support the state sponsored action. The disciples that actually knew, had been scattered and were later maligned. The rest did not have a clue. They could have said that since we don't actually know let us look to God in prayer, but they preferred to murder the innocent in their misguided belief that they were their nation's salvation.

Truth took a back seat

Christ's support system was crippled by the assault on truth. It broke down and ran in the confusion.

They were more righteous than many today who not only run away but join the mob in their hostility to righteousness against the example of Christ.

The masters of the society were not looking for truth but for evidence to support what they wanted.

The people like Peter (Mark 15:54) that actually knew would later be maligned and false information would be circulated to cover up the evidence of the misdeeds of the masters of the society.

Zedekiah

The fear of such ruthless people in powerful places can petrify even king who knows better.

Zedekiah was the king in Judah leading up to the destruction of the Temple. He feared the political power of the ones leading the rebellious charge against the Babylonians at that time. God had told them that He was sending them into captivity and He told them that they were to remain there for seventy years. The ones who claimed to be closer to God than Jeremiah opposed Him and ridiculed Him. He was not from the elite so he was not important enough to have God's word. Zedekiah had enough insight to know that Jeremiah was right but was unwilling to oppose the elite. When God eventually brought down the resistance Zedekiah suffered this judgement by God.

In modern society Zedekiah could be the prime minister or president or it could be a professional person in fear of being sued or being professionally ostracised, so instead of speaking up they hope that it will go away on its own just like Zedekiah did. Fat chance.

Getting back to Christ

He had no personal gripe with Caesar and they knew it.

The Chief priest would have been a Sadducee. They were the ones with pedigree, the upper crust by birth, but they were actually more interested in money and prestige than anything else. They were supposed to be the priestly and hence the most righteous class, yet they were the ones chiefly behind Jesus' murder. The principle seems to be that the chief person that you should be able to look to becomes the instrument of Satan.

Pilate washed his hands of the whole matter. He did not accept responsibility for his actions.

Pilate sought to make sure that he did not have to indemnify anyone.

They use a Judas and a mob but they fear sound minds

Then as now there is typically a Judas that is paid to sell out the innocent and a mob to carry out their misdeeds. The payoff for the Judas was a secret deal and today it may be something like opportunities for advancement and higher salaries or money from an international agency etc. You can read the full details of Judas in (Mark 14:4352). When the Judas wakes up he is expendable.

With reference to the Sanhedrin Wikipedia says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin

Function and procedures

The Sanhedrin as a body claimed powers that lesser Jewish courts did not have. As such, they were the only ones who could try the king, extend the boundaries of the Temple and Jerusalem, and were the ones to whom all questions of law were finally put. Before 191 BCE the High Priest acted as the ex officio head of the Sanhedrin,[13] but in 191 BCE, when the Sanhedrin lost confidence in the High Priest, the office of Nasi was created. After the time of Hillel the Elder (late 1st century BCE and early 1st century CE), the Nasi was almost invariably a descendant of Hillel. The second highest-ranking member of the Sanhedrin was called the Av Beit Din, or 'Head of the Court' (literally, Av Beit Din means 'father of the house of judgment'), who presided over the Sanhedrin when it sat as a criminal court.[14]

Editors of WikipediaSanhedrinWikipedia, the free encyclopediaWEB03:25, 20 April 2022

The Sanhedrin was the supreme court in Jewry which ultimately settled all questions of law. When the office of Nasi was created the other heads resigned their position as Nasi (President) in favor of Hillel who had shown outstanding judgement in settling a point of law. Hillel, a Pharisee, was then recognized as the highest authority among the Pharisees. After the time of Hillel the Elder, the Nasi was almost invariably a descendant of Hillel. So Annas and Caiaphas were ringleaders in what appears to be breach of authority hence the apprehension by night. When the real court was seated at the time when Peter was arrested in Acts 5 we see different minds.

Sound minds

In the book of Acts the story continues with what happened to the disciples.

So again we see who was behind the travesty. Now the same malevolent group set their sights on murdering the disciples.

They were able to derail the true counsel with their backhanded dealings. They were not the real counsel because they brought them to the counsel and accused them and there we see different people. This is the first time that you encounter a pharisee and see the disciplined mind and thinking. The Pharisees were by no means perfect but they lived by a higher code of morality than the Sadducees and were more noted for their minds than their money and pedigree. With such sound minds now involved they could not sustain their objectives.

Compare Jesus before Annas and Caiaphas, He was first accused of threatening to destroy the Temple, but they could not find evidence to support it. Caiaphas then tried to convict him on blasphemy and resorted to theatrics like tearing his clothes draw in the council. His theatrics worked it seems. The group turned against Jesus, but it appears that the actual charges that went to Pilate (Mark 15:12, 26) were centred on the accusation that Jesus claimed to be king of the Jews implying that He was planning a coup.

Caiaphas and his advisers undoubtedly knew that Christ was not a demolition expert, and that He and his disciples posed no serious threat to the Temple or to Caesar but Caiaphas saw his future success in remaining in the good books of the Romans and did not want to take the chance of dissidents rallying to Jesus. Even so there is no direct evidence that Jesus ever said, I am the king but his preaching on the kingdom of God was inflammatory as Caiaphas saw it. That is all that it takes. Their vision of the future conflicted with His so their solution was to kill Him.

To me it makes sense to seek out people who were noted for truth, honesty, integrity and the like before the crisis and see their position. On the other hand examine the background of those in the forefront to determine if they have a track record of holding such values.

Looking for Gamaliel and Caiaphas

The Pharisees were the learned or educated and they were associated with the scribes.

The Biblical evidence is that state officials can be bought.

There is no reasoning with unsound minds. They have no mental capacity for participating in thought experiments. A thought experiment is a device with which one performs an intentional, structured process of intellectual deliberation in order to speculate, within a specifiable problem domain, about potential consequents (or antecedents) for a designated antecedent (or consequent) (Yeates, 2004, p. 150). This type of analysis requires being able to construct the scenario from the ground up and present the evidence clearly showing which is irrelevant and which is crucial. Minds that are weak in the areas essential to the analysis cannot be relied on especially if they have already made up their minds no matter how wrong they are.

They looked for a Pilate rather than a Gamaliel to settle the issue. They knew of the people like Hillel and Gamaliel but they sought out Pilate instead. Pilate was a powerful man but he did not have the background for dealing with the matter at hand. He was not an expert on Judaism and he was not backed by experts on Judaism, even though he had the access. His priorities were political.

What they did to Jesus was not an isolated case. They used the same line with Paul.

Are there parallels with the vaccine industry?

Lots of people believe that the problem with the so called epidemic starts and ends with SARS COV2. That is not what the evidence out there suggests. Could it be that the issue is getting used to Caiaphas instead of Gamaliel and Hillel? The approach of Caiaphas caused Christ to be abandoned by His support system and denied him due process. In this COVID system people are forced to abandon others and get used to abandonment. Visiting the sick and being by their side is now prohibited in an effort to quarantine.We are not hearing directly from those who are able to construct the scenarios from the ground up and explain what is important and what is not.

I believe that the main reason why people are abandoned by their support system is the state. For example the state believes that old people should be shut up in homes so the the productivity of the young is not impaired. Because everybody does it does not mean that it is right or best. It is just that it is the position supported by the sate. The vaccine industry has enormous clout that can bias the state in supporting their position. People would rather submit to the state, and support the state, than God.

In Matthew 27:24we saw that Pilate sought to make sure that he did not indemnify anyone. Can we say that the vaccine industry has behaved like Pilate. Pilate had the highest authority in the matter but he was more concerned about his professional future, his economic success, that in taking responsibility for his actions. Is that good or evil. The bible states that we should Abstain from all appearance of evil. So the question becomes should we be wary of the vaccine industry?

No king but Caesar was the answer that the masses gave to officially excuse their behaviour. It was politically correct. The masters of the society removed any language and practices which could offend politically. The masses could have said we don't really know, which would have been the truth. Instead they followed what typically happens, which is that people resort to following their authority figure. Is that what we are doing too? In fact the elite, the authority figures, were railroading Christ.

Here we see another example of the sickening minds of the Sadducees (chief priests, the ones who were supposed to be most righteous). Their representative Caiaphas, was the one in the forefront of murdering Christ.

When these sanctimonious bigots turn against you (as they also later did with Paul) there is no reasoning with them.

The mob were people who were manipulated into an erroneous belief and whipped into a state of hysteria. Nobody but the elite actually knew the facts. The religious community and the sound minds like Hillel and Gamaliel were out maneuvered. The rest of the elite, the supposedly educated, I imagine did not want to appear ignorant so they said to themselves that these important, prominent, and famous people in our country would never do anything so underhanded. The mob were the people who supported the state sponsored action. The disciples that actually knew, had been scattered and were later maligned. The rest did not have a clue. They could have said that since we don't really know let us look to God in prayer, but they did not. This is exactly what I see with COVID. Their mistake cannot be allowed to be ours. We must do what the mob did not do: pray and fast and humble ourselves before the only almighty God. Seek His guidance and deliverance instead of following the ignorant proud, that believe they are smart and have power over or with the elite who are empowered by Satan. Elohim must fight elohim. Men do not have the nature to compete here.

Does recent history apply?

Recent history (the global economic crash) has shown that the state is ridiculously biassed, easily manipulated, secretive and inconsistent. It is blind support for the state that killed Christ. If you had to look around for Christ in our society where would He be? What would He be promoting? Are we promoting His behaviour or behaviour that would kill Him? SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) is treated at the cost of $750,000 US first year and $375,000 US each year after. It is that price because drug companies want to know what it is worth to you. When Insulin was invented the three inventors sold the patent for $1 each. Jonas Salk (attributed with the invention of the polio vaccine) gave away the patent to the world. Does that tell you anything about a change in the medical profession? If the elite (including the medical fraternity) were really interested in people, could they not do something to bring back that magnanimous attitude. Are they resolutely behind first do no harm? Are there no medical professionals who can influence the attitude of government against providing health care for US general public. Is Jesus in the medical profession? Is He in the state that allows this situation to prevail.

Consider Ben Carson

Ben Carson

Occupation: Politician, professor, surgeon, physician, author

Net worthUS$29 million (2016)

Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom (2008)

A member of the Republican party. Does he fight to provide healthcare of fight to reverse the provision of healthcare by the state for the general public in the US? Is that morally and ethically right or wrong?

Consider the story of Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 October 4, 1951) was an African-American woman[4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line[A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.==Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumour biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research.[7] As was then the practice, no consent was required to culture the cells obtained from Lacks' treatment. Consistent with modern standards, neither she nor her family were compensated for their extraction or use.==Even though some information about the origins of HeLa's (henrietta Laxs) immortalized cell lines was known to researchers after 1970, the Lacks family was not made aware of the line's existence until 1975. With knowledge of the cell line's genetic provenance becoming public, its use for medical research and for commercial purposes continues to raise concerns about privacy and patients' rights. . . wikipediaHenrietta LackswikipediaWEB2021-09-12

Is it right to hold up the medical profession as some paragon of virtue or does that description apply only to some individuals in the profession?

Consider heart surgery

I begin with a black Dr.: Daniel Hale Williams.

The son of a barber, Daniel Hale Williams founded the first black-owned hospital in America, and performed the world's first successful heart surgery in 1893.

If the morally and ethically elite medical profession knew that since 1893 why would a black man, 50 years later, be treated as Vivien Thomas was?

I found his story at washingtonian.com and last accessed it on 2021-Sep, 14, https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/06/19/the-remarkable-story-of-vivien-thomas-the-black-man-who-helped-invent-heart-surgery/

Vivien Thomas, the Black Man Who reinvented Heart Surgery to save blue babies followed Daniel Hale Williams in the 1940s. He taught the medical Doctors heart surgery at John Hopkins but the esteemed professionals at John Hopkins could not see their way to give him credit or assist him in becoming certified.

Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and the CDC

Can a black person, or for that matter any person, have complete faith in the CDC? This is what wikipedia says about the CDC and the Tuskegee experiment at  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study.

The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the "Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment", the "Tuskegee Syphilis Study", the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the African American Male", the "U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee", or the "Tuskegee Experiment") was an ethically abusive study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). . .

wikipediaTuskegee Syphilis StudywikipediaWEB19:30, 11 September 2021

Is the CDC worthy of unbridaled praise and compliance?

The WHO

What about the World Health Organization (WHO)? Have you read these?

What about Tedros ,WHO and China covered Tedros’ past — but what is worrying is how India fell for it , https://theprint.in/opinion/who-and-china-tedros-past-worrying-how-india-fell-for-it/400945/, by Abhijit Iyer-Mitra 13 April, 2020 7:56 pm IST

or about the misuse of Ebola funds while people were dying that was written about by The Guardian over two years ago? Senior WHO official accused of using Ebola cash to pay for girlfriend's flight, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jan/18/senior-world-health-organization-official-accused-of-using-ebola-cash-to-pay-for-girlfriends-flight-corruption-racism-sexism.

How much do you actually know about the person in charge and who or what influences that person's behavior. Did you read this article on The Atlantic website ( The WHO Shouldn’t Be a Plaything for Great Powers  https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-world-health-organization-failed/610063/, By Zeynep Tufekci ) and do you condone their actions as outlined in the article?

The father of modern gynecology

The father of modern gynecology J. Marion Sims performed experiments on Black female slaves without anesthesia. A statue of J. Marion Sims stood across from the New York Academy of Medicine in Central Park from the 1890s until 2018. Sims contributed revolutionary tools and techniques to the medical field, like the modern-day speculum and the Sims position. His breakthroughs emerged from experiments on enslaved Black women without the use of anesthesia.

Did the medical profession do anything on their own to provide redress? A Facebook post from 2017 depicts a group of women standing in front of the Sims statue in Central Park, robed in hospital gowns splattered with red paint. The activists from Black Youth Project 100 demanded that the statue of Sims be removed.

On April 17, 2018, the statue came down after New York Citys Public Design Commission voted unanimously to do so, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered its removal. Where was the medical fraternity?

While all these things are going on are there any medical professionals in positions to influence government on these issues?

A new day dawning

There is a a new day dawning, or has already dawned, and most people do not have a clue. The biohackers have good intentions. They say you need to be your own doctor, science is your hope, be your own hope. There are also people that are striving to move diagnosis to the internet either as a community of people or as software in the cloud. With the advances in big data this is becoming closer and closer to reality. The elite fear losing control. Are they doing anything about that?

The most recent craze is the Corona virus. The masters of the world say that vaccine is our only hope. Is it true that God has unleashed a deadly plague on the world and only the vaccine corporations have the solution? If we support that and it is not true then how should God respond to us falsely accusing Him?  Is Christ there? Suppose the corporations do succeed with eradicating Corona and HIV and all these other diseases that God refuses to as they see it, what then? There is strong evidence that the world is getting people to believe in your own self and rely only on your own self. If it turns out that the doctors lied, the priests said nothing, the schools tried to kill our children, the government took away our right to chose and our friends have distanced themselves from us and viciously ridiculed us for not joining with them in a dangerous experimental craze, then how will society proceed?

The technologies and people behind them out there are scary and it is frightening how most of the Christian community just calmly goes along with it without following the rules that God laid out in Revelation 2 and 3 or anywhere else in the Bible for that matter. I just mentioned big data. The Police Cloud system in China aims to enable police to visualize hidden trends and relationships between people in the cloud of data. The system can also be trained to alert police of people, relationships, and events of interest based on the data and patterns it analyses. British surveillance just video captures everybody and builds up their big data repository. Around the world, only a few years ago it was a problem to move about with your face covered. Then it became the preferred practice because of Covid. Then they asked people to remove their masks when going into certain buildings. Why? So that the camera can see you, not a person. Do you understand how machine learning algorithms work? Do you even know where that data goes? NOBODY understands why big data works but we know that it has errors. When people object they become persona non grata.

The Bible tells us that our support system will throw us under the bus for the state in the end time (Mark 13:11-13, Matthew 10:21, John 15:18, I John 3:11-13). Real support will come from some unexpected places e.g. from a stranger like Simon the Black. For me I see a lot of what happened to Christ in how Covid is being dealt with and it is scary.

One of the things that I have heard Christians say is that if you don't have that vaccine passport you should have this or that done to you. In most cases they don't even understand if it is a true vaccine or not, according to the historical definition. It seems to me that it is a phase 3 genetic trial:

Stages of vaccine trials

Phase 1 - Preclinical Stage: How will this vaccine work?

Phases 1/2a and 2b: Is it safe, and what's the right dose?

Phase 3a: How effective is the vaccine?

Phase 3b: Regulatory approval and licensure: Is it ready for the world?

Phase 4: Will it stay safe down the road?

You can find more details on this at places like https://www.jnj.com/innovation/the-5-stages-of-covid-19-vaccine-development-what-you-need-to-know-about-how-a-clinical-trial-works

What were the results of the Preclinical trials? What would be a rationl reaction to those results? Are we being rational? Many people are already very concerned by how loose vaccine trials are compared to other drugs but they claim that big pharma is pushing their own agenda. They are not held accountable for any of the risks because they have lobbied the state to take on the cost of any compensations. In the mean time we have Christians who present themselves as COVID authorities but don't know if DNA and RNA are based on sugars, acids or salts. Their recommended response ranges from forcibly administering it to incarceration to God knows what else. Doctors and the state have a heinous record of playing God and lying to people while pursuing sinister objectives and gross misrepresentation against the medical truth (Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment). How do we know how to proceed? Should we join the clamor of crucify Him or the equivalent phrase for the current situation? Is that where Christ is?

Today ethical voices replace Pilate's in crying out to the mob that the people they want castigated for not taking the jab are innocent. Can it be that the mob is saying: crucify them, crucify them; We have a law and by our law they ought to die because they made themselves the sons of God?

We have been warned

It seems to me that enough has happened in recent history for us to safely evaluate whether or not the corporations have our best interest at heart.

WALL STREET CRASH

I believe that the issue has been well summed up in the article How Wall Street’s Bankers Stayed Out of Jail ,https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/how-wall-streets-bankers-stayed-out-of-jail/399368/ , By William D. Cohan. He wrote, . . . for financiers, justice is just a check someone else has to write . If we accept that as our ethos then it is reasonable to say that big business has no fear of being caught. Nobody has to face the consequences of their actions. The Bible puts it this way in Ecclesiastes 8:11 [KJV], Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Could the state and the rich knowingly conspire to do devastating damage to citizens for money? If the state has adopted a position that corporate white collar criminals will not be speedily prosecuted to the full extent of the law then It seems to me that we have the evidence that the heart of the big executives in corporations and state officials is fully set in them to do evil.

THE CDC COVERUP

I think that many of us would have watched VAXXED THE MOVIE. It certainly pointed to the CDC as the clear criminal in the MMR vaccination scandal as I see it. Since then we have had CDC officials (five at least) admitting under oath that they shredded documents. It is alleged that there were documents at the CDC that prove the connection between autism and the MMR vaccine but that they were shredded. We will never know for sure it seems. What we do know is that The oversight committee at the Maine Center for Disease Control got testimony that there was shredding in the CDC. According to Dr. William Thompson they knew that the MMR vaccine gave black children autism at t rate 240% greater than their white counterparts, which of course means that both white and black children are are risk. Under those circumstances would you expect that the vaccine industry should be protected from prosecution by the state? In 1986, Congress passed a law that protects vaccine manufacturers from being sued in civil personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits resulting from vaccine injuries.

VOLKSWAGEN

Volkswagen (VW) eventually admitted that their cars had been engineered to deceive emissions testing. They had lied to consumers from 2009 through 2015 as some cars were polluting 50 times more than advertised. The VW beetle was probably the most loved car in the world. VW was the largest factory in the world producing between 3,000 to 3,500 cars per day. VW became synonymous with peace and freedom culture. Because of lack of innovation VW sales began to drop and it was close to insolvency. By 1993 they sold about 38,000 cars per year in the US out of 16-17 million cars sold in the US. Ferdinand Pich was CEO from 1993 to 2002 and the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group from 2002 to 2015. He began to focus on diesel cars and sales recovered. Diesel is more fuel much more efficient than gas and produces much less CO₂ but it discharges NOx, a particularly nasty type of fumes that causes air pollution and damages lungs and is associated with cardiac problems, asthma and the like. NOx traps reduced the pollution but were expensive. Martin Wintercorn set the goal of becoming the pre-eminent car manufacturer in the world by 2018 and so he had to sell diesel cars in the US which everybody knew was incredibly difficult with their emissions standards. They came up with selling a VW green diesel car which apparently solved the NOx problem. By 2011-2012 reports were coming out about emissions problems but JRC Scientific and Technical Reports was ignored in their assessment. Defeat devices were not a novelty and manufacturers had been previously fined up to a million dollars. The one in VWs caused the car to show different results in the lab than it would on the road and in some cases it was 80 times the limit. VW dismissed the reports as inaccurate but behind the scenes the corporate machinery was seeking to deceive the public. They promised to do a recall and fix the problem. What they actually did was introduce another defeat system. From evidence like that It seems like VW intended to reach their objective at any cost and systematically set about to obstruct the truth. VW was forced to pay over $25 Billion in fines and buy back 550,000 cars. The situation that prevailed in Europe and specifically Germany was just as illegal, however that government was said to be allowing loopholes and not challenging and validating the claims of the companies using the loopholes. In Europe, in spite of the German scandal, manufacturers were still selling cars that could potentially kill people, because enforcement is done on the national level, not the international level and countries were unwilling to harm their car industry. The pollution of diesels in Europe were 6-7 times higher than the standard. The manufacturers did not want to admit the dangerous levels to their customers and VW set about to do prove the benefits of clean diesel cars by doing testing on human beings. They had not actually done any improvements but set up a phony research company which duped a genuine research company, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI), into believing that they were doing genuine research on clean exhaust that they would do the testing. When Dr. Mc Donald, who ran the company, discovered that he was fooled he would not allow the study to be published. The US had enacted laws to clean up the very bad smog that killed people in the 1960s and 70s and now corporate America was trying to erode them for profits. In spite of it all VW has succeeded in becoming the world's largest car producer. Does that say anything about the value of human life in comparison to profits in large corporations? The BBC has done a condensed report on the scandal, Volkswagen: The scandal explained, https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772, By Russell Hotten, Business reporter, BBC News, Published 10 December 2015.

MARTIN SHKRELI AND VALEANT

Martin Shkreli was the the small guy but the big gun was Valeant CEO Mike Pearson. Valeant was a smalltime pharma company in California worth $2.1 Billion. Some saw opportunity. Valiant merged with Biovail of Canada in 2010 and the rise began as Mike Pearson took over. His interest was in creating shareholder value. It went from $13.24/share in Feb 2008 to $252.62/share in August 2015. All of Wall Street and the news media were carrying one story but there were a few really smart people out there: Fahmi Quadir in the US, John Hempton in Australia, Andrew Left in the US were short sellers who spotted the rot. All that the investors wanted to hear was the Wall Street metrics but nobody wanted to hear the short story. Instead of doing R&D Valeant decided to buy up companies and grow that way. It would consolidate the support functions and increase the prices exponentially so the sales volumes would drop as customers were unable to pay but those who could pay would pay a lot more. One medication for Wilson's disease was Syprine. It used to cost about $30 per month. For 20 years MERK sold it for about $1.00. By 2010 Valeant owned the company that produced it. By 2015 the price per month went up to over $21,000. If patients could not get it they would die. Valeant had bought the company that produced it and their approach was if you did not pay their price they would not make the drug. Valeant went after Allergan with the assistance of Bill Ackman, a good businessman. In spite of questionable business ethics by Bill Ackman they lost in the effort but Allergan was sold and he, along with the other investors made a significant profit. The problem was that he stuck with Valeant. Enter Philidor. Philidor was a pharmacy mail order business that was grossly overcharging and it was the economic engine of Valiant. It was not charging individuals because they would immediately react but it was charging insurance companies. As the insurance companies got wise and declined the prescriptions Philidor would buy another suburban pharmacy and siphon the scripts through that. When they ran out they began to invent fake pharmacies. It turned out that Philidor was owned by KGA. R&O pharmacy was a cutout (a mutually trusted intermediary) with KGA and was controlled by Valeant.

WELLS FARGO

You can easily find information on the Wells Fargo scandal. Much of it is on wikipedia. In my case I found Netflix documentaries valuable.

The major criticism is that Wells Fargo presents this image of the little corner store bank but it was actually one of the largest banks in the world. They present this image of caring and sharing but their real concern was the numbers. One employee (Yesenia Guitron) revealed that as the day began the manager would want to know how many new accounts do you commit to opening today. They expected to hear eight. At noon the manager would ask how many so far? It would be repeated at three and again at six. This was confirmed by one of the managers because it was what their regional heads would ask them to report during the day. The emphasis was on numbers.

The banker interviewed lived in a town called St. Helena which had 5,000 residents. there were 5 bankers opening 8 accounts each = 40 accounts every day. 5000/40 = 125 days hence in a year everybody in the town would have opened an account. How could they continue to be opening accounts?

cross selling is about how many products can you tie a consumer into. Wells Fargo had eighty different businesses. Their business model was cross selling as much as that as possible. Shareholders want to hear about growth. Wells Fargo was then the largest bank in the world. Where would the growth come from? Bankers were paid commissions for new accounts and managers got their bonuses based on that, level by level all the way to the top. From teller right up were threatened and pressured constantly to attain unrealistic sales goals. Bankers resorted to things like opening accounts without full disclosure, making up random social security numbers and applying for credit cards on behalf of customers without their knowledge. A new account shows that Wells Fargo sold something even if that account is unfunded, and hence the share price would go up. Those who raised alarms were dismissed for trumped up reasons. In its push for growth profits superseded the legal rights of customers. The bank fought the lawsuits tooth and nail. One seriously damaging claim for their image is that they preyed on people who spoke little English, college students and the elderly. This was in a place that was supported by people like Warren Buffet. They kept saying that it was the lower level employees and 5,300 people were fired over the wrongdoing over five years. In spite of everything Wells Fargo continued to do well as a stock. When Trump gave the tax cuts they made around a $3.7 billion dollar gain but laid off 26,500 of its employees. The shareholders were more interested int the profits than concerned about the consumers. John Stumpf was a well known good guy. He was the CEO of CEOs but yet it happened under his watch. These people can be out of touch with the reality of what they are doing. The are briefed by bulldogs who want money not the little guy like Yesenia Guitron who was fired. Then came Frank Chavez who opened another can of worms by revealing the Mortgage scams to congress. John Stumpf soon resigned with a compensation package of over $130 million. Timothy Solan who took over seems to also have been a good guy but he was there all along and apparently did not know. In 2017 the auto lending section of the bank was exposed for improper charging. One by one every subsidiary of the bank was incriminated. The Federal reserve eventually stepped in to cap Wells Fargo's size and the stock took a dive. Wells Fargo was THE trusted bank. You trust them because they dress well and of course they are the experts. The mom and pops bank Wells Fargo betrayed that trust so what about the others? Timothy Solan could not fix it and resigned. Was Wells Fargo a warning?

Could money be behind the current vaccine craze

The current world population is close to 7.9 billion. If you could vaccinate the world once per year for just $1.00 then you could gross $7.9 billion. If you could make them do it three times then it becomes over $20 billion. Considering the amounts that people have behaved unethically over in the above reports then I think that $20 billion is good incentive.

Vaccine Efficacy

When you give a vaccine outside a clinical trial, we then refer to vaccine effectiveness compared with efficacy which is what is reported when in a trial. Effectiveness takes into account all the complexities of the real world. Efficacy is hard enough to assess since it requires such large numbers but effectiveness requires even larger numbers an that is why it takes such a long time.

https://www.afro.who.int/news/what-covid-19-vaccine-efficacy
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S1473-3099(20)30773-8/fulltext

Could this be what is driving the current frenzy? Each drug company wants to be first and it requires numbers. Most people don't even know that they are in trials (which is illegal in international law if we go by the Nuremberg convention) and it is being promoted by the medical fraternity and local governments. Common sense and real science demands that a sizeable proportion in any trial is held as a control but the masters o society is demanding that everybody be injected. These shenanigans ensure that we cannot know the long term side effects.

Is Christ in the medical fraternity and drug companies? In the last century they have had covert national campaigns of sterilization and eugenics (see Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/ where it is claimed that the campaign in California that began in 1909 was so bad that it inspired Nazis. You cannot do this without the medical profession.

Nowadays we have the rise of the anti-vaxers that add to the confusion. Can vaccination can cause autism?

In 1998, U.K. doctor Andrew Wakefield published a study in The Lancet suggesting that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine could trigger autism. Some research now claim that this is false. Can mercury in vaccines act as a neurotoxin? In 2005 the magazines Rolling Stone and Salon co-published a story by environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (nephew of former President John F. Kennedy) alleging a government conspiracy to cover up evidence that Thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative once used in vaccines, can cause brain problems, including autism. Both epidemiological and biological studies fail to support these claims behind autism but what does that mean?

We still have the autism problem. Autism rates in developing countries have risen astronomically in the past 20 years. It is difficult to compare autism rates from the 1990s and later with rates from the 1940s through the 1980s because of various improvements in medicine and reporting but we know that there is a tremendous problem because we have the autistic children and for all of the claim to trust science and medicine the leading candidate for the cause the MMR vaccine. Researchers and worried parents alike have speculated pointed to it as the common factor. Vaccines in general have perhaps received more scrutiny that any other speculated cause of ASD, and the great majority of scientists, physicians, and public health researchers have come to the conclusion that there is no association between vaccines in general and autism but the MMR vaccine and mercury in some others is still considered to be the leading cause. The reason for all the research was because they (the people administering these treatments) did not actually know what they were purporting to be true and after all of the years of use they then had to carry out studies to know. Some believe that it is just luck that that we have been spared because the testing of vaccines is considered to be very lax compared to other medications. The capstone of the situation is the revelation by Dr. William Thompson in 2014 that the CDC have suppressed incriminating evidence against the MMR vaccine and has damaged the careers of leading scientists through their deceit. Most websites on the MMR vaccine still refer to data from 2008 but that would have been debunked by Dr. Thompson since he would have taken that data into consideration.

However you look at it doctors are culpable in the confusion. The profession seems to want to pretend that there are isolated cases but doctors are not immune to money and reputation as a driving motivation, and meanwhile children and poor people are suffering. This same connection is was proposed to be behind the medical insurance scandal of the 1980s and 90s where the insurance companies had levied controlling power over the behavior of doctors through legal technicalities in the contracts of these companies with patients. It began to supersede first do not harm. The priority became reducing the cost of patient care and hence the cost to the insurance companies.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

people (this probably includes you and me) tend to think that we know. This is the cognitive bias of illusory superiority. How do you know what to believe? Whom do you trust? Only yourself? Flat earth theory is a recent example. It is not about smart vs. dumb or educated vs. uneducated. What is your anchor to truth? The difference between skeptical and being in denial is the willingness to test your hypothesis, which is what the Bible says in Revelation that we must do. But what do you call someone who condemns other people's hypotheses that they provide evidence that they have tested, but can't be bothered to rigorously test it themself? You can do various experiments to prove the curvature of the earth but there are some people who will refuse to participate and there are some that whatever the outcome will continue to believe what they always have.

HORROR STORIES IN PATIENT CARE

Horror stories about CT scan, Da Vinchi robot and Essure, or Johnson and Johnson Vaginal Mesh, increase suspicion about what is going on in the medical fraternity. A big concern is the revolving door. According to Netflix documentary the Bleeding Edge, the number of FDA officials that come from industry and then go back to industry is cause for concern. Almost all the heads go on to work in the industry: Commissioner Henney 1999-2001 served on the boards of six medical companies after leaving the FDA, McClellan 2002-2004 served as board member or advisor to eight medical companies after leaving, Crawford 2005 convicted of falsely heporting hed did not own stock in medical companies while at FDA, Von Eshenbach 2006-2009 served on the board or worked for twelve medical companies since leaving, Hamburg 2009-2015 married to a hedge fund CEO who invested in medical companies while she was commissioner, Calif 2016-2017 began working for a medical company less than a year after leaving office, Dr. Scott Gottlieb has a background of working for a range of medical companies and has worked for a venture capital company that specialized in investing in medical companies including Essure. Then we are supposed to believe that they act independent of bias to the medical industry and that the lobbyist for the medical companies do not gain their favour.

It is doctors that have developed gene modifiers that target a specific race. By and large these atrocities are linked to poor countries or marginalized people, where the people had no access to information and no recourse. Could the courts and doctors and the highest religious and most prestigious people in society be involved in things like these? Do we believe that Christ would join with them? The state has taken over more and more of the thinking of and for people. We live in a world of democracy and politics, and in such a world winning the campaign is what counts. From the example of Jesus the elite in the establishment think that they have the right to their concept of future, and sacrificing a few good people to accomplish it is for a just cause. When you look at history the record is clear that the majority is typically manipulated by the rich elite to preserve their interests. The righteous is always a maligned minority. Affordable healthcare has been the dream of common Americans for years and it is the richest country that the world has ever seen. Why is it that the same people (the doctors and statesmen and lawyers and businessmen etc.) that resist it tooth and nail are the same ones who are pushing a vaccine? How is it that their hearts have suddenly been won over? Will they now wholeheartedly support affordable healthcare? Who really stands to benefit? Are they just good hearted?

So we get back to the question that we started with. Is Christ in any of these places like the FDA, the CDC, the medical profession, the vaccine industry etc. or is He already dead because they do not want any king but Caesar?