February 14, 2022 Larry Kirkpatrick
This is a review of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s #1 best-selling November 2021 book.
Kennedy’s book is the mother of all exposes against the “medical cartel.”
His volume shows how the largest pharmaceutical companies (big pharma) have become primary agents in “the 2020’s historic coup d’etat against Western democracy.”(1) Coup d’etat is a French phrase meaning the seizure and removal of a government and its powers.
We’re not merely beset by pharma; most in the political tribes are complicit along with the multi-letter agencies. We are miles downstream from that fabled time when, in some measure, an independent media guarded our civilization against itself. Look out your window and see; it is as though the whole world is taken captive, riding aboard a speeding train, and headed toward a technocratic rainbow destination it is doomed to learn is mirage.(2)
Trust misplaced can have devastating effects; it can lead to desperate atrocities in our world, spiritual danger, and physical death. Having a realistic view about how much trust we can safely place in institutions is important.
Anyone could turn literally to any 20-page stretch in Kennedy’s book and gather substantial, well-documented knowledge. The book includes more than 2200 references, many of them web links. While Anthony Fauci is a central figure, his problematic history is a jumping-off point for Kennedy’s sweeping critique of the global medical cartel. Kennedy writes,
From the moment of my reluctant entrance into the vaccine debate in 2005, I was astonished to realize that the pervasive web of deep financial entanglements between Pharma and the government health agencies had put regulatory capture on steroids. The CDC, for example, owns 57 vaccine patents' and spends $4.9 of its $12.0 billion-dollar annual budget (as of 2019) buying and distributing vaccines. NIH owns hundreds of vaccine patents and often profits from the sale of products it supposedly regulates. High level officials, including Dr. Fauci, receive yearly emoluments of up to $150,000 in royalty payments on products that they help develop and then usher through the approval process. The FDA receives 45 percent of its budget from the pharmaceutical industry, through what are euphemistically called "user fees." When I learned that extraordinary fact, the disastrous health of the American people was no longer a mystery…(3)
Kennedy’s just getting started.
During the COVID pandemic, Dr. Fauci served as ringmaster in the engineered demolition of America's economy. His lockdown predictably shattered the nation's once-booming economic engine, putting 58 million Americans out of work, and permanently bankrupting small businesses, including 41 percent of Black-owned businesses, some of which took generations of investment to build.(4)
