WATCH: Thalidomide – Still with us half a century later
This revealing documentary from German channel DW looks into the Thalidomide tragedy, the people who survived it and the bad science and greed that enabled it.
From the YouTube description:
The German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal marketed thalidomide world-wide starting in 1957. Pregnant women used the sleeping pill, which had been deemed so harmless it was available over the counter in Germany. Yet the drug proved damaging to embryos and caused serious birth defects.
Estimates are that the drug caused thousands of deformities and an unknown number of stillbirths, until it was taken off the market at the end of 1961 when the links became clear.
Filmmaker John Zaritsky has been following thalidomide victims for more than 25 years. He speaks to parents, who tell of the birth of their children and their search for a cause for what had happened. The thalidomide babies have become adults in the meantime.
Their stories tell of a double blow – dealing both with their birth defects and how society copes with them. And the nightmare is far from over. Thalidomide, the effective ingredient, is used today to treat leprosy, cancer and AIDS. Zaritsky shows that above all in Brazil, a lack of information about the drug continues to result in birth defects.
As more and more people become willing test subjects for Big Pharma’s experimental “Covid vaccines”, it’s important to remind as many as we can of the past iniquities of the pharmaceutical industry.
Thalidomide was developed by a literal Nazi war criminal, approved for public use with almost no testing and, once it was revealed to be causing birth defects, the company – far from halting distribution – sent out letters to tens of thousands of doctors defending their product.
When the surviving victims sued the drugs companies later in life, they were offered insultingly small amounts of compensation. Further, the government of Germany agreed to seal evidence so the true extent of the cover-up and malfeasance will never be know.
Rememeber – Big Pharma doesn’t care if their product works. They don’t care if it’s safe. They don’t want you to be well or get better. They just want your money.
It’s worth noting that this documentary was originally uploaded to YouTube in December 20119. Just 18 months later we live in a post-Covid world where pro-pharmaceutical propaganda is promoted every day.
We should ask: would this program have been released today?
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The Autism debate will continue, I’m sure for some time to come.
On the one side, nothing to see hear, move along………………….
On the other side, people willing to push back against consenus with facts.
When challenged, have you ever seen someone so comfortable as the doctor in this clip to play the victim card?
it’s a eugenics tool, not a vaccine and not remotely experimental unless you count the glitch of people dying to soon.
Took me a few days to watch the doco…I lived with a couple of these kids who had been abandoned into cripple children home in nth qld…along with various other children with polio fall out and other difficult stories…always the dark side of humanity regardless of how we like to think of ourselves as civilised…and if anyone thinks compensation is going to be any different from whatever fallout ends with the current jab being stuck into people I suspect they will be grossly saddened in due course….
these people don’t care, the regulators appear to care even less and it is make as much money with as less responsibility as you can…consequences to others is collateral damage..
Horrific to see but not shocking that the US are allowing this based on lying to Canadian victims and African and poor babies have to suffer again.
my mother nearly took it. i grew up with many in the pop, and became aware of their struggles for ”compensation.
A pharmaceutical product called Diethylstilbestrol (DES), a form of estrogen, was routinely prescribed for decades to pregnant women in order to prevent miscarriage and premature delivery. It was eventually banned after it was belatedly discovered to be carcinogenic, and a cause of birth defects.
According to my sister, during the 1950s my mother took DES during her pregnancies. As far as I know, my siblings and I dodged the DES bullet.
But it seems entirely possible that health problems that surface later in life might arise from some DES-related aberration. So I can’t entirely savor the relief or comfort of “no harm, no foul”.
We are not in ‘Post-covid’
This is current covid, and will go on and on and on…
There Is No Variant… Not Novel… No Pandemic. Dr. David Martin With Dr. Reiner Fuellmich (1:22:47)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ik7FKf9nmWYX
I watched this last night. Quite a bombshell.
As a Canadian, I found the actions of our Canadian health agency disturbing. To keep using this drug for four months after it was pulled was despicable. From what I’ve read and heard and especially with regards to the covid shots and Health Canada’s approval process, nothing has changed. The corruption has been going on for years. I just shake my head when I hear people say that “they would never approve a drug/vaccine that would harm us”. People just don’t get it.
Possibly one of the more important videos i’ve viewed in the last week (and i have viewed a lot) .Expect a flurry of things suddenly slipping into place and a lot of suspended pennies to suddenly drop also
Reinner Fuellmich and Dr David Martin
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7lfuIhrGdBI1/
Vaccines are intrinsically poisonous. That is: They are designed to be poisonous. The only difference is that some are more poisonous than others. Be sure to have your children jabbed as soon as possible…
Dirty Vaccines: New Study Reveals Prevalence of Contaminants
Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute
Originally published January 30, 2017
By Celeste McGovern
Global Research, February 04, 2017
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dirty-vaccines-new-study-reveals-prevalence-of-contaminants/5572881
“Contaminants” may suggest causes that are not directly deliberate, e.g. cost-cutting or accidents. The staggering variety of bizarre ingredients shows that this is not so:
http://medcraveonline.com/IJVV/IJVV-04-00072.pdf
The covid jabs are notably diabolic: the most healthy people tend to have the most severe reactions.
Hello mgeo: Excellent post! The sheer number of contaminants is conspicuous, and the ability of nano-particulates to pass directly through biological cell walls, pretty much seals the deal. Most of these “vaccines” are bio-weapons, period.
How many people have to die before these producers are arrested for 1st degree murder?
Thank you for the well constructed research. Bravo!
20,000 deformed babies ? The official death toll from the Poison Prick is already well in excess of that already in just the US, the UK and the EU. The actual worldwide toll is likely to be at 7 times that number and we have barely started.
Thalidomide was meant to help. The damage was unforeseen. There should have been more testing and the regulatory bodies should have done their job. What we are seeing today is completely different. The Poison Prick is meant to harm. There may be mixing with placebos or it may be that the stuff degrades and becomes less lethal. However there is lots of death and serious adverse reaction that is being suppressed by the government and the media. It is inescapable that the Plandemic and the Poison Prick are part of a deliberate premeditated depopulation plan.
I don’t think you watched the documentary before commenting. Thalidomide was developed by an ex-Nazi and ruthlessly promoted despite mounting evidence of its severe toxic effects. It was never about trying help.
That is like claiming the peddlers of asbestos didn’t know in the 1890’s that it killed people, or that dioxin caused cancers, that DDT caused epidemics of breast cancer, that PFAS causes many cancers and poisoned most of the global water supply
The Germans discovered nerve gases in 1938. Hitler funded research for an emergency anti nerve gas drug. That is what Thalidomide is. The birth defects are because it blocks the nerves at certain periods in a foetus development meaning those affected parts did not grow properly, i.e. arms or legs. Thalidomide has side effects in grown adults lie sedation.
And who ordered the bombing of Germany with nerve gas, only to face a mutiny from the air force? Hint: read Prof. David Irving.
I think some things were known but kept back. Chaff or aluminium foil was an example. Both sides knew it could work but did not want the other side to know about it. The Allies held back from using it until 1943.
Don’t understand the closing question – would Thalidomide be released today or the documentary, which we watched last year?
Thalidomide was “caught” because the scientist who had promoted it as a morning sickness drug reacted to the evidence of adverse effects and raised the red flag, admittedly after much damage had been done.
Today, the promoters of gene jabs are complicit in covering up the adverse effects of drugs that they know are risky because the the trials were truncated.
Worse, the circumstantial evidence is that Fizzer and Mod-RNA and Janᛋᛋen expect the shot to do other than it says on the instructions. Oh, silly me. There is no instruction insert. Anyway, they admit it doesn’t offer immunity so it must do something else…
Would the documentary be made, 18 months after its original release. Yes, but it probably faces greater censorship and more take-downs by Penta-Pharma-Google.
What a shocking and enlightening film, thanks. But you do not need to go so far back – you can look at the recent “Billy Gates” polio vaccine in India, or the HPV vaccines (Gardasil 9) and the damage they have done… in fact look at any vaccine.
Normally, when fully approved by the authorities, these vaccines have limits for their adverse reactions and deaths caused by them; but of course these are not approved for emergency use, so not only have the standard, decades old rules, regulations and definitions been modified – there are no limits on either its use nor consequences.
Sorry – forgot to tick the bell, if you did want to respond.
Actually, I doubt the covid jabs are either harmful in most people or effective. They are basically placebos. Their aim is a method of control and delay, so that people neither get too fearful or too hopeful. Governments are likely behind both the pro-vax and anti-vax messages, so they can blame the public for not have the vaccinations and therefore things not getting back to ‘normal’. The best option is not only to opt out of pointless vaccines, but the whole political debate, as it is all completely fraudulent.
Take you doubts to the EudraVigilance record of deaths and adverse events from the poison-stabs, Thom, and see how they fare then. Or, if you think Eudra is one of the captured and subverted agencies spreading falsity, try listening to the testimonies of the damaged themselves. Are they all crisis actors…?
Thom,may i respectfully suggest you view the video i posted up there ^^^^^^^
I feel you may perhaps revise your opinion after doing so
I think there’s a good amount of placebo going around. Just #notall. I’ve known of quite a few people who have gotten injected with Pfizer to basically no ill effect. But there are legitimate reports of horrifying events going around that could not possibly be caused by a saline solution. There is a mix, I believe, to basically kill two birds with one stone, soften the public’s fear of the mRNA experiment, while making some headway on it, for whatever their aims.
Remember, there’s also the booster shots, they can switch out the saline for mRNA anytime they want to I believe.
Remember: they keep track of the batch no. from which your jab came.
Definitely a mix. Or perhaps the stuff degrades and loses lethality. Thus the need for an endless stream of “boosters”.
Frances Oldham Kelsey, the CDC official who denied approval to Thalidomide in the US, should be a ‘woke’ heroine. Where’s the biopic starring Meryl Streep? Where’s the 10 part mini-series ‘Mistress of Safety’? Where’s the musical ‘Kelsey!’?
My older sister would have been a victim if my mother hadn’t had the wherewithall to say no thanks, morning sickness is natural. One of my sister’s friends at college had no arms.
They certainly went to work when people like Frances left the watch to do a total, complete inversion from her informed, and principled stand. We’ve been dehumanised in so many ways it boggles the mind. I begged my other half not to have the vaccine. I told her of all of the huge question marks. I was trying to get through to her from a week into this psychological attack, when I saw through it due to my experience in a former job. And then it became a physical attack. She sat on the fence. All of her friends have been jabbed. All of her colleagues have been. And now so has she. I begged her not to drag me into this thing. I said just tough it out, wait. This thing is going to collapse because a lie this monstrous cannot stand. And it can’t. I honestly believe that. But now I am in it in a way I didn’t wish to be. Broken hearted. So they succeeded in their mission, in my case, of damaging me and mine.
Any aussies interested there is a petition re compulsory vax no En 2753…soon ends…
What’s the go, Edith?
JS.
I think you will get it with house of rep petition with that number …that is the petition no…it came to me via messenger which I find hard to figure out but I did get it signed so somehow it worked,,,and the govt acknowledgement had that number.
‘Scientists’ will say (if they say anything at all): ‘thalidomide is such a long time ago. It’s old hat. Science is far better now than it was in those days and it can be trusted. I am a scientist. I know what I talk about. Trust me!’
Of course these scientists said the same thing in the 50s and so as a group they have learned nothing.
‘scientists’ don’t know what they talk about and therefore can’t be trusted. But they don’t know this, because they received grants and stature and because of that ‘received’ power as if they can be trusted. They are surely treated as such by the media, which is as easy as pie: just parrot the government’s and pharma’s line and both the scientist and the (lazy) journalist will be fine!
I don’t know to what species I can compare ‘scientists’: they are spineless, have delusions of grandeur, and want to be loved by the people who they actually harm.
“I don’t know to what species I can compare ‘scientists’: they are spineless, have delusions of grandeur, and want to be loved by the people who they actually harm.”
Pollies are a fair match for that profile, mate.
Regarding research grants and funding, a few months back I watched a documentary featuring four speakers. One of them – Robert F Kennedy Jr – pointed out that in the US, virtually all grants and funding for research by the government is controlled by Dr Anthony Fauci.
Need I say more?
I don’t think reminding them of thalidomide is going to move too many of the true believers or even fence sitters, just like reminding people of the 2009 Swine flu scam or any of the hundreds of other actions and operations taken by big pharma and others. (“Remember the Gulf of Tonkin!”) But as they say, it doesn’t hurt. But it depends on what you’re after. I’ve asked a number of times on this site and others what we can collectively do about “it”, and the general consensus, including some direct insinuation that talking about organizing a resistance/organization to take them down is crazy talk, has been nothing, it’s up to all of us to prepare ourselves, family and friends as best as possible for the coming whatever. Grow your own, give up your computer, sell your house and move to Montana or Bumfuck, Idaho. Don’t wear a mask, don’t take the jab, don’t cooperate with the m***fkrs.
So what is the purpose of telling others about thalidomide? Is it to try to help one at a time to see the truth so they can move to Montana or Idaho? Is it to build an army to take these bastards down? It’s like Country Joe, man, back in the day, “it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for? I give a damn, unlike back then, but what are we fighting for?
Thanks for listening.
“What’s the use?”
Faith, Hope and Charity. They spring eternal in the human breast. Someone in the 20th century said, Hope is to the human spirit what petrol is to the motor car.
Well said Nick!
”Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
Sorry Nick, just realised you used the same quote. My bad.
Cannot be repeated too often.
Thanks brother
I didn’t say what’s the use? How did you get that? You don’t know who Country Joe was? This place sucks sometimes.
hope is for those without options… what you need is courage and faith..
I think ‘big al’ may be right, it may very well be ‘hopeless’ but at least he has ‘options’ and a plan…
and they are far more useful.. hope and doubt are useless going forward..
get as ‘much’ planned out ‘options’ as you can….. you are going to need them..
you will meet support along the route…
On occasion I have photocopied flyers and handed them out in letterboxes the neighborhood w/ links etc. I am still struggling to find an angle that successfully can get through to people. I have done several on Thalidomide, as it is one horror story that hopefully is able to create enough doubt to open some eyes.
And Thalidomide has been covered in the corporate media, even Wikipedia is not too bad. So it is able to partially bypass the reflexive out-of-hand dismissal of independent media.
Evil hasn’t won yet.
One of the cardinal virtues is courage, which Schopenhauer translated into patience.
This covid nonsense is so stupid that it must come to an end. And the only thing you can do about it to end it, is to have the courage by having the patience to watch it all fall apart.
How long we have to be patient is something I don’t know. But I do know that when the thing falls apart, the sight will be awesome.
Just don’t become collateral damage in the time before it falls apart and try to convince your friends and family and neighbours to not become collateral damage either. Is all I can think of of what one can do as an individual..
Once again, the idea of an organized movement is trashed by Off Guardian comments.
Whatever dudes.
Hey Al, I don’t think an organized movement is necessarily being trashed, it’s just that none of us can see right now how that comes about, particularly due to the fact that anything we attempt to organize online will be either corrupted immediately or used to round up those of us who dissent. And I personally am always highly suspicious of anyone who claims they have THE answer – you aren’t saying that, but those who do seem not only terribly naive to me but perhaps blindly arrogant as well. We do what we can. We try to chip away at the madness where we can, when we can. You yourself from what you’ve related out here do the same, and good on you for attempting to make a dent in the stupid. We are vastly outnumbered by the willfully blind.
I recognize your name from another blog I will not mention, and even that supposedly highly skeptical crowd WILL NOT touch this covid madness. To question this is now seen as RWNJ at that place, and while I read it once in a while to see if anything has changed, I go there a lot less often since I see no change at all and anyone who does post there and question is either ignored or called a loon in so many words. I am so glad I found this place, not sure I even remember how I found it, but it’s the one place I don’t feel like a lunatic and it gives me a small piece of hope. Yes, hope. An overused word, a word with connotations of naivety and sometimes stupidity, but there it is. I don’t know how we get out of this, but I do know all I can do is to try to make a small dent, like you have, with those who refuse to see just where this is going. Will that make a difference? I do not know. But it may be all we have at this moment. That and a righteous anger that sometimes helps motivate me to try. It’s better than despair, which still comes, but now I try to let the anger take over instead and that does help.
Thanks Lizzy, good comment. I remember you also, nice to see you. I guess I’m super frustrated, like most of us are. You’re right, no one has the answer, I just wish more would at least try to talk about it. But it’s the same as it’s been with other things, like antiwar. Easy to talk about what “they” did today or complain about how bad “they” are, but the hard part, as always, is what to do about it. That’s what filters people out.
Hope to see you around.
Anyone who wishes to speak about such matters will be immediately marked by some alphabet agency so its best to never mention anything online
In a rather large well known online forum i frequent there are regular fishing expeditions by anonymous posters proclaiming to be sick and tired of the general apathy and what can we do and how can we do it,it’s best to ignore them or toy with them like a cat with a mouse
Some people are more prepared than others and all will become apparent on the day it is required 😉
You just have to look a little further than perhaps is your normal comfort zone
Hello Big al: As you can see from reader comments, cognitive dissonance is alive and well. Cognitive dissonance > (‘the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.’)
Civilians have been building armies since about 4000 BC. Their armies have destroyed every city and culture many times over. Yet civilians still coddle the most rabid thugs in society, feed them their produce, offer them shelter, and bed down with them at night… I’ve concluded that organising humans is the problem, not the solution.
In that regard, I understand your perspective.
Thanks Paul, appreciate your understanding. I’ll give it up on here.
First of all, your advice to move to Montana or Idaho is not very relevant to anyone who doesn’t live in the US (which is most of the readers of this forum).
Second, it doesn’t pertain to older folks, who seem to be the majority of commenters here (how do I know they’re older? because they’re able to construct a coherent sentence).
Thirdly (and, given my penchant for apocalyptic scenarios, most significantly) if Yellowstone blows – as it could (we’re at the 600,000 year anniversary of the last explosion, according to geologists) – you won’t want to be anywhere near Wyoming/Montana/Idaho/Colorado or any of the US Mountain States.
As an added gift to so many of this site’s readers, if Yellowstone did blow, it would be “Farewell US Empire!” We can only hope the world leaders are all gathered at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for yet another wine and dine and plan the fate of everyone else on the planet catered super-event (problem solved – until the next batch of “world leaders” crawls from the muck).
It was only an example, Howard, for a bigger point. My bad.
Sorry al, you’re a phony persona. Another brand of despair troll. Under the guise of demanding ‘do something’ you actually try to undermine while offering nothing in return beyond simpleminded prepper speak. If you were real and truly thought organising was the way to go you’d be doing it, not coming here spreading pointless despondency.
Here is an interesting look at the connections between Pfizer’s board and other players in the pandemic:
http://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2021/07/pfizers-board-of-directors-and-their.html
bit by bit the pieces come together.
A good friend was an executive for big Pharma. One of the nicest people I ever met. Very wealthy direct descendant of an original founder of the United States. I thought it odd that he chose to cash out of the pharmaceutical industry. Not any more. He never spoke about it. He just got out and did something else.
These people are not all evil profit loving mongrels. I suspect that many of them are trapped and confused as to how they can get out without being eviscerated.
On the other hand there is no doubt others are every bit as evil as could be. Nothing but selfish money loving animals who will not hesitate to experiment on humans.
How can you be ‘very wealthy’ and ‘not evil profit loving’ at the same time?
Where would Mike Yeadon fit in that description, Wayne?
At the top of the “Evil” pyramid stands big Pharma’s consultants and advisors. Like a few years back when Goldman-Sachs advised its client there’s more money to be made from treating Hepatitis B than from curing it.
“They are not selling drugs-they are selling Lies”
The best criminals will name threats to their criminality: criminals.
And as they impose their medical and political tyranny, they will call those who oppose it: radicals, extremists, conspiracy theorists, cranks, selfish, stupid, dangerous, and label them criminals.
We have a pandemic without the bodies piling up, and a Safe “vaccine” that leads to the bodies piling up…
The highly toxic AZT drug was re-purposed to treat AIDS (no virus was ever isolated) – with devastating effects. Thalidomide – repurposed to treat AIDS !!
It’s evident that With the prevailing corruption of medical science and politics,
if thalidomide was marketed today any Evidence of the damage it causes would be dismissed as “Circumstantial”, and the politicians would protect the drug pushers.
Does that use in Brazil for aids whatever coincide with the damages turning up in babies with supposed zeka virus?
The most likely cause of the epidemic of microcephaly cases in Brazil was drinking water contaminated by an anti-mosquito chemical sprayed in the affected areas… Uncensored magazine contained some (speculative) articles back in 2016 and printed an article by Jon Rappoport about the pesticide theory: https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/bang-not-zika-brazilianargentine-doctors-say-pesticides/
i should have checked that Jon’s article was still on line before posting… It was printed by Uncensored in issue #43 March – June 2016.. Might still be available on Jon’s .”No More Fake News” site… May The Force Be With You !…
Thanks
True dat, but we have the added ” Age of Stupid” an average of 90 to 95% that believe the lies, lock, stock and barrel.
There in lies the danger, nothing more dangerous than a mass of people that can be manipulated by a 30 second add repeated on a daily basis.
people dont always believe the lies… if i make an overt racist remark when in conversation with others, all of them will evince stunned shock, and on recovery there’ll be the mandatory “tut, tut !” from the more courageous of them. ..they’re not shocked by the remark but by the temerity of making it… Under social pressure they’re all hunkered down, watching what they say, conforming… they’re unaware of the obviously, but not overt, racist remarks of their own… (to excuse the dog-whistle racism of a former Australian PM when in office, the sycophantic media invented the term “soft racism” – as if Chinese water torture dont hurt so bad if it’s done with love.)…
people dont always believe the lies… no point showing your head above the parapet when you know you can expect someone will play whack-a-mole with it…
When one old codger at my local, the eve of the current NSW lockdown, said loudly “Lockdowns DONT work !”, those sharing his table and those sat nearby were stunned, and the embarrassed titter that ensued when they realized God didnt strike the old coot dead for heresy > yes, they think it – but dont say it….
God didn’t strike the old coot dead for heresy………………………because ……………..THEY ………………… believe in the Covid Faith, hence the Lies
You just contradicted yourself.
Keep in mind I stated 90 to 95%, that means the ” old coot” falls into the tiny minority that doesn’t ” believe the lies”
The remainder in that room( the majority)
had the embarrassed titter that ensued when they realized God didn’t strike the old coot dead.. which means…drumroll.. they believe the Covid narrative, hence the lies
not ‘circumstantial’ must have meant to say ‘coincidental’
yes, you’re correct – ‘coincidental’.(“May The Force Be With You, Too !”)
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2021-07-09. Right to be secure in your person vs mask mandate. Deaths wrongly labelled, even before 2020
https://paulthepaperbear.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/your-alternative-update-on-covid19-for-2021-07-09-right-to-be-secure-in-your-person-vs-mask-mandate-deaths-wrongly-labelled-even-before-2020/