7 August 2018

Zionism is Anti-Semitic: Zionism is Pure Capitalist and Anti-Everyone


As the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, tries to fight accusations of anti-Semitism from Zionist terrorists, it behoves us to not fall into the trap of arguing with Zionists.  Unlike Corbyn, we happily declare that we are 100% opposed to Global Zionism.  We support the rights of all people to live unmolested.  We do not bar Jews or people with Jewish ancestry from membership.  Our Party is opposed to the racism which targets people because of their origins or origins of their forebears.  We identify Global Zionism as an ideology of terror, built on a sickening appropriation of a religious system which is ardently ethno-nationalist, turning it into a dogma of supremacist hatred.  Zionism does not represent the Jewish people, and our attacks on Zionism are not anti-Jewish.

Zionist Crimes in Palestine 

The Zionist crimes in Palestine came to prominence in 1917 with the Balfour Declaration. The British Empire had lost the Great War. Germany had offered to declare the War over and to return the European continent to the situation before the War, with no-one benefiting form the conflict. The British Government refused to take up this magnanimous offer, which would have saved the lives of many men and women from both sides. Instead, British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, wrote a begging letter, known subsequently as the Balfour Declaration, to the infamous banker, Lord Rothschild, committing the British Empire to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. In return, the Rothschild banking dynasty funded the British war against Europe and the ongoing carnage which ensued.

The full text of the letter as published in The Times of London follows here:
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Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild:

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's
Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:

His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge
of the Zionist Federation.

Yours,
Arthur James Balfour
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This sycophantic letter committed the slaughter of British men from all over the Empire in return for finance produced by Usury, all for the benefit of Zionist money power and territorial conquest. It paved the way for the destruction of Europe in the 'great' War. This one short letter condemned millions to death and torment.

Following the Second World War, Zionist atrocities in Palestine were increased in ferocity and frequency, culminating in the 1945-48 War. During that war, over 1,000 British men and women were butchered. Atrocities of note include the King David Hotel bombing in which Irgun and Stern Gang terrorists dressed as Arabs murdered 91 and maimed 45, and the Deir Yassin massacre in which over 100 Palestinians were murdered in cold blood. The terrorist responsible for these outrages, Menachem Begin, went on to become Israel's Prime minister in 1977.

The British Mandate ended on the 14th May 1948, with the British surrendering to the Zionist terrorists. The following day the Zionist state was declared by Ben Gurion. The systematic destruction of Palestine has continued with tacit British and American support ever since.

The British Ruling Class is thoroughly Zionised

The grip of the Zionist banking cartel has grown stronger, ensuring the nations of the west dare not criticise the crimes committed by the Zionist State. Indeed these murderers are rewarded by the sick British Monarchy.

On every Remembrance Day, the victims of the 1945-48 war are ignored for fear of upsetting the Rothschild-Zionist rulers of Great Britain. This highlights the absolute control the Zionists have over this once sovereign nation. The refusal to address the slaughter of British servicemen between 1945 and 1948 is no oversight. On the 12th October 2007, Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the National Armed Forces Memorial to commemorate the British servicemen who have been killed in wars or as the result of terrorism since the end of the Second World War. This memorial has its start date as 1948, even though the Second World War ended in 1945.  For information of the British servicemen murdered by Jewish terrorists in the 1945-48 War for the establishment of the criminal state of Israel, visit:
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/cgi-bin/palestine.cgi


The post-1933 NSDAP - a Zionist instrument? 

Was Hitler a Zionist? Was Europe duped by the Zionist elite into fighting a war for her own destruction? Were we herded like cattle in a manner deserving the epithet 'Goyim'?

When one considers the result of the Nazi experience in Europe - the destruction of the entire continent, the financial bleeding to support Israel, the fully subservient Israel-supporting EU imposed on people who were told that the war was to prevent control of Europe by a Superstate...is it not possible that Zionists manipulated the German Workers Party into the National Capitalist NSDAP war machine, forced a war which Europe lost by design, which enabled the total capture of the continent by Capitalists, and of course allowed for the now obvious implementation of a policy of mass migration to destroy all vestiges of sovereignty, as written in the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan?

Would the Zionist elite take a natural hostility of Europeans to Usury and turn it into a vehicle of repression and discrimination against the Working Class Jews of Europe, in order to achieve their long sought after goal of the creation of Israel as a base to gain mastery of the world? Would the Zionist Ruling Class use a puppet regime under the Hitlerists to destroy the Jewish resistance to Zionism?  In what is termed the 'Holocaust', rich Jews emigrated to Palestine and elsewhere, but poor Jews were sent to Concentration Camps.  Would Zionists sacrifice the Working Class Jews in Europe, then hiding behind the same Jewish label, capture Palestine for the Rich (mainly atheist, and ethnically questionably Jewish) Zionist criminals?  Considering how they have brutalised Palestine, of course they would - and of course they did.

German Socialism under leaders such as the Strassers, was the ideology of a radical republican workers movement. After the 1934 murders of the Socialist leaders, the NSDAP moved from a movement for the social well-being of the people into a military formation.  The Strasserites were not racists.  Like the National Bolsheviks of Ernst Niekisch and the thinker, Ernst Junger, the philosophy was what was good for the Workers - Hitlerism became what was good for the Capitalists.  Hitler was good for Zionism, the Strasserites were good for all the Working Class, regardless of origin or faith - that is why the Socialist NSDAP was liquidated and replaced by the National Capitalist Zionist terror state.

Corbyn's Folly - Apologising to Zionists

Corbyn has spoken about the machinations of Zionism.  Now the Zionists are coming for him.  They are liars who are scared of a Labour Leader who is willing to discuss the Zionist deals with the Hitlerist Nazis.  They want a leader who will serve Israel, unquestioningly; a leader who will ignore the crimes against Palestine; a leader who will pay lip service to Socialism, but in the implementation of policies, will be a toady to Capitalism.

The Zionists WILL destrpy Corbyn.  His weakness will see to that.  When he is gone, a neo-Blairite will be put in charge and Zionist rule will be back with a vengeance.  When that happens, good Socialists in the Labour Party who are anti-Zionist, will need a new home.  They are welcome to apply to SMPBI.

6 August 2018

David Parry's podcasts on Alan Cox's Understanding Spirit Radio Show


David William Parry (born 25 August 1958), is a published author, poet, dramaturge, Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, active Libertarian and Wiccan.[1] He was the founder and chair of Gruntlers' Group.

In the early eighties he moved to London from Fareham in Hampshire.[2] After living in South London for a few years, he graduated in religious studies at King's College London (1990). Later, in 1996, he obtained a Master's degree in Pastoral Theology at Heythrop College, London.
Parry was teaching contemporary English literature, drama, language and semantics. He has given readings as a poet and practising Pagan; delivered lectures, offered sermons and performed public rituals across the United Kingdom since 1996.

Parry founded Gruntlers' in 2008 as a loosely connected group of "Imagist" writers. By November 2009 this group had developed into "Gruntlers' Arts Group", which staged regular multimedia events at the Poetry Place in Covent Garden.

Also, as producer, director and an actor in Gruntlers' Cabaret, he helped to develop Gruntlers Theatre, which performed the "The Botanist Monsieur Jordan and The Sorcerer-Dervish Mastali Shah", written by Mirza Fatali Akhundov, in 2010 at the "Arts Educational School", where he played the character of "Lord Hatamkhan".[4][5] In the late autumn of the same year, Gruntlers' introduced Imadaddin Nasimi to the English speaking public at Pushkin House, London.[6] In December 2011, he directed the first English language production of "Shakespeare: a comedy in ten scenes, both serious and tragic" (by the Azerbajiani playwright Elchin Afandiyev).[7] Gruntlers' were a three pronged Arts Collective, consisting of a Theatrical Company, a literary salon and an international multimedia cabaret. In the tradition of DaDa, Absurdism and Surrealism, the principal intention of Gruntlers' Theatre was to promote Fringe arts in a contemporary setting.[8]

Gruntlers' finished in 2012 and Parry started "Allting UK", to promote Literature and the Arts. Following financial problems, however, this company has now become Theo-Humanist Arts Ltd.[9]

Recently, he wrote "A preface with smoke and mirrors" as an introduction to Elchin's first collection of plays in English.[10]

Since 2013, David started additional career as a producer at The Azerbaijan Russian State Theatre.

On 3 June 2013 David Parry co-convened an academic conference "Quest of the Heart" with Dr. Minna Koivuniemi, where he read an academic paper, entitled "Henrik Ibsen, Love and the Staging of Kierkegaard's World View".[11] The conference was co-sponsored by the University of Helsinki and University of London.

In July 2013 David Parry produced Elchin Afandief's theatre play "Citizens of Hell", which was reviewed by Digital Journal.[12]

In January 2014, David was made a celebrant for the Fellowship of Independent Celebrants (FOIC).[13] This makes him the first recognised Godhi in United Kingdom with authority to officiate at weddings, funerals, and Child Namings.

On top of this, David has recently extended the reach of Theo-Humanist Arts by co-hosting on the alternative podcast show THA Talks with Paul Obertelli.[14] Furthermore, reviving his credentials in British Surrealism, David has started to co-produce, occasionally write, and direct, for Inlight TV, internet television station.

In December 2014, Parry made history by staging a scene from his play "A Day in the Light" (based on the meeting between Albert Schweitzer and James Cameron) at the British House of Lords.

On top of all this, he has hosted and appeared on Alan Cox's Understanding Spirit Radio.  Here are the podcasts:

5 August 2018

Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 22

We do not struggle for the past that has passed, but for the eternity that was reflected in the traditional society.

Alexander Dugin

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A common myth that pops up in my news-feed is the belief that Germany 'died' in 1945 and was given over to degeneracy and collective national self-loathing. This is of course true of West Germany, but the GDR flourished and provided its people with health and a healthy sense of patriotism as this lovely little video shows:
Donald Perkins

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“We are socialists. We are enemies, deadly enemies, of today’s capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, its unfair wage system, its immoral way of judging the worth of human beings in terms of their wealth and their money, instead of their responsibility and their performance, and we are determined to destroy this system whatever happens!”
― Gregor Strasser

4 August 2018

Paedophile Alert: Educate everyone about their symbols; Annihilate Paedophiles



Paedophiles are the scum of the Earth. They prey on children, destroying the lives of the innocent forever.  Some are murderers, disposing of their victims.  They come in all races, all sexual orientations, from all religions (and none).  What they all have in common is that they fantasise about raping children.  Some of them follow through their fantasies in actually raping children.  Others prefer to look at images and videos on-line, of children being raped by other disgusting scum (kidding themselves that they aren't harming anyone if they only look at the imagery - denying the reality that they are driving the business forward by being a part of the demand for such imagery).  

Below are screen shots from Twitter. The first is by a proud paedophile, using the euphemism 'Minor Attracted Person' rather than the more accurate Child Rapist:


The rest of the screen shots are information from concerned people, exposing these bastards. We need to learn the symbols the Child Rapists use. We need to educate everyone we know, so that parents can protect their children.  And most importantly, knowing that the police happily covered up for Jimmy Savile - even taking tea with him every week, perhaps putting in orders for the procurement of children - and of course the disgusting incidences of police returning children to paedophiles when parents had attempted to rescue them, and in other ways protecting them, we cannot turn to the authorities to deal with these monsters.  We have to deal with paedophiles ourselves. We have to protect children, because the police rarely bother, and when they do, the courts give them risible sentences.  

Defend the Children. Destroy the Rapists.




Thank you to Dr Sal for alerting us to the use of symbols by paedophiles/child-rapists.  Spread far and wide.  If we make their secret code well known, we can save lives.

3 August 2018

Whining Windsors complain of media attention as they bleed the country dry


The so-called 'royal' family are the most ungrateful of all parasites.  They sit in their palaces, getting fat from the riches extorted from the Working Class by the Middle Class tyrants who work hand-in-glove with the Ruling Class to wrench every penny from us to support their obscene decadent and degenerate lifestyles.

The newest member of the clan, Rachel 'Meghan' Markle, has complained to the media (!) that she is tired of getting so much media attention.  The ACTRESS who has lived her adult life in the spotlight, getting paid to show her wares to the camera, is now suddenly shy.  Bless her hypocritical bones.  The new bride of Henry 'Harry' Hewitt, the half-brother of future king, is happy to live like a pig, getting her designer clothes, palaces, permanent luxury holiday lifestyle, etc, but whilst she is content to piss away the taxes of the Working Class - leaving many of us literally wondering how to feed and clothe our families after our incomes are taxed to pay for the parasites - she isn't happy that the media want to take her picture.  Aw, shame.  Well, the good news for Rachel, Henry, and the rest of the royal rats, is that when the Socialist Republic dawns, they won't have to worry about the media intruding in their lives.  They will join the rest of us in living a normal life, where ancestry and class mean nothing - either that or they can take their ungrateful over-privileged selves out of our lands.  Either way, their days of sponging are numbered.

Since at least 1066, the Monarchy of this country have acted in a manner which can only be described as arrogant betrayal of the needs of the non-Ruling Class population.

Under the First Queen Elizabeth, ordinary people (including children) were press-ganged into the Queens Navy.  They were enslaved to make the Royals rich.  The English Empire, and the British Empire which followed, were built on the exploitation of the native people.

The Royal Family claim the ‘divine right’ to rule over us.  For religious people, this is blasphemy.  There are no chosen people, and the idea that 'god' has a special affinity for the royal rubbish comes from King James who ordered the rewriting of the English translation of the Bible to give him non-existent God-given authority.  It is from the foul Henry VIII and his murderous daughter that the heresy known as the Church of England arose.  It is a consequence of Henry VIII's selfish and cowardly actions that the Church was split and it is thanks to the Royal family that all the troubles and sectarianism in Ulster, Belgium, Germany and elsewhere have come.

The British Monarchy has pushed the globalist agenda relentlessly.  It was the Royal Family who encouraged General Kitchener in his policy of murdering farmers and their families in Southern Africa.  The tyrannical Queen Victoria presided over the invention of Concentration Camps, the burning of Pretoria, the rape and murder of entire Working Class farming families – men, women, children and babies – all for the pursuit of increasing her despotic family’s wealth.

The young Princess Elizabeth, (now Queen) proudly posed with her parents as the RAF, under their direction, committed unprecedented atrocities including the wholesale slaughter of civilians in Dresden, Hamburg and other cities.  The present Queen once knighted Robert Mugabe for his contribution to majority rule in erstwhile Rhodesia.  Mugabe's achievements amounted to the brutal murder of Rhodesian civilians of British and European descent, which were really but a continuation of the crimes committed at the whim of the 'royals' in the Boer War.

The present wars for oil and empire in the Middle East. Asia and elsewhere all fit the Globalist agenda, which the Royals not only support, but revel in.  Prince Charles has proclaimed his desire to be 'defender of All Faiths'.  This is sheer lunacy, which even manages to make a mockery of the King James farce which the royalty cling to as justification of their domination over us.  The royals are not only parasites, they're a bit thick too!

The Monarchy have profited immensely from globalism. Their profit is gained purely at the loss of all the people they have subjugated.  How can anyone support the focal point of this 'elite' mafia and their figurehead, the monarchy?  There is no justification for anyone, especially those who want the best for their people, giving any loyalty to a family who have been demonstrably disloyal to the people of this nation, a people they purport to serve.

Let Rachel, Henry and the rest cry over the loss of privacy which goes with a lifestyle of plenty at the expense of the Working Class who have a life of struggle and poverty.  Perhaps the new 'princess' should consider returning to Hollywood, taking all of the in-laws with her?  One thing is certain, unless they change their ways and become ordinary citizens of the coming Republic, none of them will be tolerated to remain in these Isles a moment longer.

2 August 2018

Socialism And Sovereignty belong together: Just as Globalism and Capitalism do


Mention that you are a Socialist, and the automatic assumption is that you are an Open Borders fanatic.  The idea that opposition to Capitalism means opposition to Sovereignty, is as widespread as it is idiotic.  Capitalism thrives on open borders: it needs for borders to be eroded so that it can make profit out of the free movement of goods and people.  Socialism promotes the well being of the Working Class, and by doing so, promotes self-sufficiency in all areas where that is possible.  Socialism promotes understanding between Sovereign Nations, with absolute control of the borders, and of all that crosses them (or doesn't).  Internationalism is the very opposite of Globalism, and it is only through the manipulation of the media and mis-education system, that the two have become confused.

When people think that Socialism means an end to Nations, they are confusing authentic Socialism with the liberal impostor pushed by the George Soros funded SJW lunatics.

Those who have fallen for the liberalist propaganda which links Socialism with the Globalist policies of Capitalism that are destroying the lives of the Working Class, consider the following words of great Socialists who fought for International Understanding, and against any erosion of our beloved borders:

A Chinese Perspective (Mao Tse Tung)

"Chinese Communists must therefore combine patriotism with internationalism. We are at once internationalists and patriots, and our slogan is, "Fight to defend the motherland against the aggressors." For us defeatism is a crime and to strive for victory in the War of Resistance is an inescapable duty. For only by fighting in defence of the motherland can we defeat the aggressors and achieve national liberation. And only by achieving national liberation will it be possible for the proletariat and other working people to achieve their own emancipation. The victory of China and the defeat of the invading imperialists will help the people of other countries. Thus in wars of national liberation patriotism is applied internationalism."

-  "The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War" (October 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 196

A French View (George Marchais)

An interesting article that makes reference to the anti-immigration stance of George Marchais, former leader of the French Communist Party. Here are some of Marchais' quotes from the article:

"Due to the presence in France of almost four and a half million immigrant workers and their families, the pursuit of immigration is a serious problem today. We must stop official and illegal immigration, " said Georges Marchais, January 6, 1981.

"We think that all workers are brothers, regardless of the country where they were born (...)" But "in the current crisis, it [immigration] is for the bosses and the government a way to aggravate unemployment , low wages, poor working conditions, repression against all workers, both immigrants and French. That is why we say: we must stop immigration, or we will throw new workers out of work. "

"We must solve important problems posed in the French local life by immigration [...] are piled up in what we must call ghettos, workers and families to traditions, languages, ways to live different. This creates tensions and sometimes clashes between immigrants from different countries. This makes their relations with the French difficult. When the concentration becomes very important [...], the housing crisis worsens; HLMs are badly needed and many French families can not access them. The social welfare burdens for impoverished immigrant families are becoming unbearable for the budgets of communes populated by workers and employees. Education is unable to cope ... "

A British Take (Bob Crow)

A Russian Perspective (V.I. Lenin)

”You make the cause of the nation the cause of the people and the cause of the people will become the cause of the nation.”

A View from Burkina Faso (Thomas Sankara)

"Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity....We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity....Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal."

Thoughts from Cuba (Ernesto Che Guevara)

Each time a country is freed, we say, it is a defeat for the world imperialist system, but we must agree that real liberation or breaking away from the imperialist system is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. Freedom is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.

Thoughts from a certain German

"The proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must itself constitute the nation."
Karl Marx


To the liberal SJW idiots who have misappropriated the Red Flag, and promote Globalism, Open Borders, Mass Migration and all the other deeds of Capitalism, the above quotes must be unpalatable.  Socialism is unique in each country, and is unique for each people.  Those who try to universalise it, are the coca cola fakers who would be happy for a world in which no countries exist; McDonald's poison shops are in every town; where everyone dresses the same, watches the same TV, listens to the same music, has the same 'culture'; where nothing exists apart from a mass of consumers buying the same shit and slaving for the same global corporations - that is where Capitalism is taking us.  Globalism IS Capitalism.  The secure borders and absolute sovereignty of an Inter-national cooperation of free independent states, adhering to their own unique variations of Revolutionary Patriotic Socialism, is the only way of stopping it.

1 August 2018

Wilberg on Wednesday - The Illness Is The Cure pt 4/46



On Biological Medicine

Medicine and Meaning


Modern medical science largely considers the human body to be a kind of mechanical model, a sort of vehicle like a car that needs to be checked by a garage every so often.”
from The Way Toward Health by Jane Roberts

A driver who for some reason is in a hurry to get somewhere decides to ‘run the red light’ at a junction, and has an accident. Yet would we even think of seeking to explain their consequent injuries purely as a result of automobile mechanics, for example suspecting the possibility of ‘faulty pedals’ or some other mechanical defect – seeing this as what ‘caused’ the car to go through the red light (and then subjecting the car to a whole series of diagnostic tests).* This would seem absurd to common sense – and yet it is no less absurd than seeing the body as a mechanical vehicle – like a car – and treating illness as something caused by a technical fault in some part of that vehicle.

For cars also have drivers. To be sure, the driver in our example made a choice, whereas we do not normally think of ourselves as ‘choosing’ to get ill. Yet the driver’s choice itself was no doubt a response to a current or overall life situation. The driver might have been in a hurry for some reason, for example late for work or for a job interview. The decision to run the red light may not even have been a fully conscious or premeditated decision – simply a more or less aware bodily reaction to the specific life situation itself. Nevertheless shooting the red light was a choice.

What if the same applies to illness? Namely that there is a way in which we do not so much consciously ‘choose’ as subconsciously ‘accede’ to getting ill, albeit in a particular life context and for particular life reasons that are quite conscious to us: for example a pressing need to get a job – or even a subconscious desire to use the illness as a way of taking ‘time out’ from the pressures of life and/or receiving care and attention. Whatever the possible meaning of the accident/illness might be for a specific individual there is one thing we can be sure of however – there is such a meaning – and that just seeking, however thoroughly, for a mechanical fault in the individual’s bodily ‘vehicle’ will never reveal it.

Indeed even were such a mechanical fault to be discovered or diagnosed, it might itself be the result of a subconscious decision on the part of our ‘driver’ in response to a situation arising in their life journey i.e. something that in some way drove them to neglect that vehicle or ignore its warning signs. Simply taking the vehicle to a garage and repairing the fault will therefore not address its true meaning or that of its possible consequences. For these have to do with the life circumstances of the human being and not the mechanics or ‘biology’ of his bodily vehicle alone. Simply to say, for example, that the driver got a dodgy vehicle with an inherited ‘fault’, that they neglected it or abused it through mishandling – or that they failed to put it through a regular medical ‘MOT’ – is not enough. For the question ‘why?’ still remains – a question of life motive and meaning and not a mere matter of some inherited biological or mechanical ‘defect’, ‘accident’, or sequence of ‘cause and effect’.

Even for our hypothetical driver who ends up in hospital due to a serious ‘accident’ the result might be a highly meaningful and life-changing one in a positive sense, allowing him or her to re-think their life and not just receive treatment for their body. Yet this simple but basic distinction – between the life of the human being and its expression in the life of the human body – is consistently ignored by medical science and biological medicine – which by seeking explanations for illness purely in terms of defects of our bodily ‘vehicle’ blocks all forms of research into the meaning of illness. For even if a defect is found in the form of some medically recognised ‘disease’ or ‘disorder’, biological medicine cannot yet explain the cause of the disease or disorder itself – except in terms of some genetic defect. Yet not even any form of genetic explanation can actually explain why one individual and not another should contract a particular disease. For just as not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, and not everyone falls ill from an epidemic, neither does everyone with an errant gene end up with the disease associated with it.

*acknowledgement to Andrew Gara for this significant analogy

What Biological Medicine Can’t Explain



The more biological medicine seeks to ‘scientifically’ explain illness – the more it leaves unexplained.

Examples:
Why medical treatment itself is a leading cause of death – ahead of cancer and heart disease.
Why most pharmaceutical drugs do not work on most of the patients they are designed for.
Why there is hardly a single class of pharmaceutical medication that doesn’t have as a possible or even common ‘side effect’ a short- or long-term worsening of the symptoms it was prescribed for.
Why the majority of patients seen by doctors are made up by what they call ‘the worried well’ – in reality ordinary people who really wish to share psychological problems – life problems – with a professional, but wouldn’t think of going to see a psychologist.
Why ‘successful’ drug treatment or surgery illness often precipitates mental psychosis or precedes the emergence of new symptoms just as serious as the original ones.
Why the greatest danger period for the mental and physical health patients occurs after finishing a’ successful’ course of medical treatment and being told that they are well.
Why social isolation is a greater risk factor for health and lowers life expectancy more than smoking, diet or obesity.
Why support groups for women with breast cancer patients have been found to double their life expectancy.
Why support from a spouse dramatically improves survival rates from heart transplants.
Why so many illnesses occur after or often on the exact anniversary of significant life events – such as bereavements, the end of a relationship, the start or loss of a job, taking an exam, retirement or even just going on holiday.
Why there is an 80% correlation between stressful life events and the onset of an illness in the two years following those events.
Why the chances of simply getting a cold are increased by life difficulties or disappointments, in particular those to do with employment or relationship problems.
Why the incidence of previously widespread, common and dangerous diseases was decline long before the use of antibiotics to treat them or the use of mass vaccinations to prevent them.
Why a study has shown that only 3.5% of the decline in mortality from infectious diseases can be attributed to drug treatments.
Why chemotherapy for all types of cancer is still used even though it has been shown by countless reports and admitted by many cancer specialists to be ineffective even in increasing life expectancy, and why death rates from cancer have actually increased with the increased use of chemotherapy.
Why, despite the Nobel Prize winning ‘discovery’ that the ‘cause’ of stomach ulcers was not ‘stress’ but a specific bacterium it was then found that between one and two-third of the world population carry this bacterium in their stomachs without developing ulcers.
Why 20-40% of children and 10% of adults carry the tuberculosis bacillus without contracting tuberculosis, and why only a minority of those exposed to the bacillus will develop TB.
Why children allergic to household dust at home showed no allergic responses when this dust was distributed in the hospital rooms.
Why Whitehall civil servants who are given orders by their superiors have twice the chance of contracting diabetes than those who give them their orders.
Why counselling for cardiac patients can prevent recurrence of heart attacks or even reverse arterial blockages, and why half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels.
Why patients whose surgeons talk to them whilst under anaesthesia are at less risk of dying, and why patients whose surgeons openly discuss post-operative pain before surgery experience it less.
Why someone with sensitive skin can work for years with materials they are sensitive too, and yet only develop allergic reactions when emotional problems in their relational life flare up.
Why soldiers whose armies suffered defeat in battle were more likely to develop dysentery or typhus.
Why autopsies of thousands of young and otherwise healthy soldiers revealed atherosclerotic plaques of the sort generally associated only with older people, long-term smokers and others thought to be at risk of heart attacks and strokes from developing these plaques over time.
Why ‘placebos’ or fake surgery can be just as effective as ‘active’ drugs and real surgery.
Why people smoke, take illegal drugs, over- or under-eat, eat foods ‘bad’ for their health.
Why off-the-counter medications and legally prescribed drugs are a cause of greater and more widespread addiction – and often more difficult to come off – than illegal drugs.
Why people become obsessed with changing to or pursuing supposedly healthy ‘lifestyles’ through diets or fitness regimes – yet without ever really examining their lives as such and the health of their relationships.
Why both medical journals and the press are full of reports of new medical research and newly discovered dangers or aids to health – without ever asking what it means to be ‘healthy’.
Why doctors will always ask patients ‘how long’ they have had a particular symptom but almost never ask WHEN it started, let alone what was going in the patient’s life at the time – or in the days, weeks, months or years before the symptoms or symptoms appeared.
Why patients given home treatment after a heart attack have a lower mortality rate than those given impersonal, hi-tech hospital care.
Why patients with severe dementia, inability to speak and move – or despite almost complete destruction of their brains through cancer – have often been observed to sit up, move their limbs and speak with total clarity and rationally in the hours preceding their death.


Acknowledgements:
Why People Get Ill? by Darian Leader and Michael Cornfield, Hamish Hamilton 2007, for several of the examples included.