In a world where ‘equity’ is the catch-cry of corporatists accumulating unprecedented wealth, the return of colonialism should not surprise. Colonialism, after all, brings great benefits to those whom it disempowers and pillages. Success requires a highly centralised approach to achieve mass control, restricting freedom ‘for the greater good’ whilst silencing those who disagree.
With the World Health Organisation (WHO) now rebooted to promote just such approaches, and its calamitous Covid response having recently pushed former colonies further into penury, the stage is set for a return of the old order. An army of international health bureaucrats, equipping themselves with an array of rhetoric around ‘infodemics’, ‘vaccine equity’ and with a new-found love of corporate sponsorship, is forming the vanguard. The social order of winners, losers and enablers – all the stuff we naïvely thought we had put aside – was just festering in the shadows.
While European colonialism proved an excellent way to extract the wealth of others, it also had its downsides. One was the inadvertent extraction of pestilence such as cholera and typhus. While smallpox had been a devastating European export, clearing coveted lands for colonial settlement, transmission of disease in the reverse direction upset the colonisers; local laws and expectations applied and mass death and suffering could not be hidden from the public eye.
To address with this problem, 12 European countries met in 1851 for the first international sanitary conference. Most were heavily invested in the colonial enterprise, settling and pillaging other lands to demonstrate a higher form of civilisation. Some were still actively enslaving people to make this greater good even cheaper to impose. Thus, the noble field of international public health (nowadays rebranded as ‘Global Health’) was born. Regular rebranding is important as the past becomes awkward.
A series of such conferences culminated in the first Sanitary Convention in 1892, and the establishment of the permanent Office Internationale d’Hygiene Publique in Paris in 1907. The countries of the Americas had got in first with their own International Sanitary Bureau in 1902, but the world’s centre of gravity was still in Europe. While the great public private partnerships that had exploited the colonial populations, such as the East India companies, had mostly dissolved, colonial governments were still able to starve and abuse the locals without too much reference to the norms of behaviour expected at home. International public health was about keeping the home populations safe, not about dealing with the disease burdens of the colonised.
Colonies could be run with the efficiency of private industry free from the growing expectations of health and welfare in Europe. They were sufficiently distant and profitable for the benefits of extracted wealth to temper any feelings of guilt that such abuse might arouse. The extremes of some late-comers such as systemic mutilation could also serve as outlets for those who wished to vent virtue. This could allowing feelings of philanthropic altruism or ‘White Man’s Burden’ to veil the more routine carnage of the more established powers.
Throughout this, the tropical public health schools of Europe helped keep populations productive and profitable whilst reinforcing this veil of benevolence, dictating healthcare to support the corporate-authoritarian state. They also boosted the egos and sense of adventure of the young health professionals the state recruited. There is not much new under the sun.
Between the two World Wars colonialism remained good business. The League of Nations trialed inclusiveness by adding the rising Asian colonial power, Japan. The pre-antibiotic Spanish Flu had recently wreaked havoc globally with 25 to 50 million deaths between 1918 and 1920, and typhus had continued a deadly path through the First World War. International collaboration made sense, but it would be on the terms of the wealthy and remain primarily focused on threats to their own health.
This elitist view extended to the eugenics movement of the time. Supported by much of the Western public health establishment, this came to be expressed most clearly through its enthusiastic embrace of Nazism in Germany. We usually view Nazism as grey images of jackboots and concentration camps, but this is a distortion; a figment of monochrome film and propaganda. It was considered progressive at the time; people working together in the sun for the benefit of the many, growing prosperity and opportunity. It captured the minds and hearts of students and the young, giving them a cause to stand for, sanctioning their right to denigrate deviants, non-conformers and those considered unhealthy or a threat to social purity. As today, this was all promoted from above by a mix of politicians and corporatists and reflected in the professional societies and colleges. It enables people to view the subjugation of others as virtuous. Fascism and colonialism are faces of the same coin.
The consequent rotting piled corpses of the death trains of the 1940s, and the mutilated skeletal ghosts of the camps they served, gave medical authoritarianism a bad name. The Second World War also gave colonised populations a path and a means to throw off their oppressors. There followed a few decades in which public health did penance. Career paths required acknowledgement of anti-fascist concepts such as equality between countries, community control of health policy and the ever-unpopular idea of ‘informed consent’. Declarations from Nuremberg to Helsinki to Alma Ata promoted this theme, with human rights trending in the media. For corporate authoritarianism and the colonialist ideal to be made friendly again, the former themes would have to be sanitised. ‘Greater good’ is a good place to start; “Protect your community, get your jab” makes forced compliance sound caring. “No one is safe, until everyone is safe” justifies the demonisation of non-compliers. A few generations of forgetting, a bit of rebranding, and it all becomes mainstream again.
Let us dig further into our enlightened present. We pull down the statues of the tyrants, ban the books of racists, then close the markets and schools across low-income countries and expand their debt, ensuring they remain subservient. In wealthy countries, corporatists fund the colleges that train the cadres who then save the ignorant and needy in ‘backward’ states. They arrange for the children to be injected with the medicines the corporatists make, proven effective by the modellers they sponsor and approved by the regulatory agencies they support. The big new public-private partnerships ensure private profit can be driven by public money.
An ever-growing bureaucracy, in an ever-growing list of international agencies, now implements the centrist agenda, removing remaining vestiges of local ownership and control. Thousands of well-salaried ‘humanitarian’ workers are the new East India Company bureaucrats, projecting the same façade of Western largesse to the distant, ignorant and undeveloped. Untouchable international agencies such as WHO, external to national judicial control, do the leg work for those with money and power. Two decades ago, emphasis was on empowering communities. I have sat in meetings in recent years where these same people shamelessly discuss defunding countries that don’t comply with emerging Western cultural norms. Cultural imperialism has become acceptable again.
With the world turning full-circle, post-World War Two concepts of human rights, equality and local agency are exiting the international stage. The veiled colonialism currently dressed up as vaccine equity looks like a bunch of colonial bureaucrats forcing their sponsors’ wares on those with less power, whilst building policies to ensure this imbalance remains. Malnutrition, infectious disease, child marriage and generational poverty are side issues to the East India Pharma and Software Company’s bottom lines. This will stop when those being colonised once again unite and refuse to comply. In the meantime, the enablers could open their eyes and understand whom they are working for.
Dr. David Bell is a clinical and public health physician with a PhD in population health and background in internal medicine, modelling and epidemiology of infectious disease. Previously, he was Director of the Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in the USA, Programme Head for Malaria and Acute Febrile Disease at FIND in Geneva, and coordinating malaria diagnostics strategy with the World Health Organisation. He is a Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute.
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It is not colonialism.
It is not imperialism.
It is, quite simply, anti democratic supranational socialist fascism…..but no-one has the backbone to call it that.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-03-01-arizona-residents-maricopa-county-supervisors-treason-election.html
This is a WOW read.
Thanks to Dr Mike Yeadon
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/regulatory-simulations-at-home-and?triedRedirect=true
Stop taking vaccines.
“Every layer of kill box law identified, supports the actionable conclusion that governments are intentionally sterilizing and killing off their populations, and that vaccines and other biological products are the class of weapons they prefer to use.
The killers prefer biological weapons packaged as medicines because it’s very difficult for targets to see needles, nasal sprays and skin patches as weapons.
It’s very difficult for targets to see pharmacists, nurses and doctors as armed military contractors.
It’s very difficult for targets to see neighborhood retail pharmacies and doctors’ offices as killing floors.”
Sashya Latypova
Here’s a Naked Emperor article arguing that BioNTec not only knew the Lipid Nanoparticles wouldn’t stay in the arm, but actually wanted them to move around.
The long-running Horizon fiasco shows that the natural behaviour of organisations is to cover up, litigate, smear and obfuscate.
I don’t necessarily see one big conspiracy, rather a multitude of smaller conspiracies infused by a heady cocktail of arse-covering, hubris, sanctimoniousness and entitlement.
It’s going to take a while to break this apart, but enough people are aware now that it must surely crumble. When it does it needs to happen loudly and publicly. No backroom deals.
Most of the people I knew who took the injection are completely unaware. Those that have realised are staying quiet and have no idea how bad it actually is, and those that have realised and are not staying quiet are just hoping they aren’t next for cancer or a stroke. It will take the Thinking Box saying it was all XYZ’s fault for most to realise, and the Thinking Box controllers are not going to incriminate themselves.
The substantial point of this article is good, but the contextualising terminology (“colonialism” in particular), needs to be reconsidered.
Yes. There is an inference that the WHO and it’s intentions is an extension of the East India Company and it’s then a short step to imply that it’s the fault of Colonialist Great Britain – again.
The WHO is run by a CCP appointed Marxist. Marxism is a much more virulent form of colonialism.
Couldn’t agree more. The fatal flaw in Bell’s piece.
The WHOs characteristics may be more akin to fascism than Marxism. Its agendas are built and delivered via public private partnership initiatives. PPP is to all intents and purposes fascism.
Marxism tries to distance itself from Fascism by characterising it as right wing. Considering that right wing in the west is usually about the rights of the individual I can see why Marxism might try this, but if one shuts out all the words and look at the actions and results alone then there is no difference with the exception that one emphasises the nation while the other pretends not to. For the individual, the outcomes are the same. To boil it down further it is about power and the control of the individual.
“Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme—collectivism”
Ayn Rand
In my humble opinion PPP has always been around, e.g. the creation of the London sewers by Joseph Bazalgette and the construction of all our schools and urban roads. The trick is how to avoid corruption. When I started working in IT around 2000 we were all sent on a course about selling even though I and my colleagues were not involved in sales. It was very useful, especially about how to negotiate. One of the points for a customer was not to put the money on the table initially as in big projects that can be taken advantage of. About the same time Tony Blair stated how much money the Government was going to spend on IT, which meant it was game over for getting anything at a reasonable price and working – the NHS IT systems come the mind.
https://www.ft.com/content/5683810e-c5b5-4bcc-a861-79c54ffe7427
Ireland rejects the WEF’s plans to redefine the family.
A bloody nose for Varadkar. Methinks the Irish will have to vote again until they give the correct answer.