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What if I told you that #BigTech and #SocialMedia platforms are manipulating you, steering you toward #Health information that they think is right, rather than letting you evaluate content for yourself?

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Accredited professionals, meanwhile, who stand for #Health freedom and who criticize Big Anything, are losing posting privileges, getting banned, being buried, finding themselves deranked, and getting digitally assassinated.

Content is literally disappearing from the Internet along with our #Health choices.

It sounds conspiratorial because it is. Independent #Journalists and health experts are blowing the whistle. But it’s become a silent one.

“The censorship that is being applied to alternative health is nothing less than demonic,” said Zach Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac), who worked as a #Google software engineer for 8½ years before coming out as a #Whistleblower.

“That may seem extreme, but I’ve been following the happenings in the new cures that are being suppressed.”

According to Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac), in the last 3 years, #Google has rolled out changes that purposely down-rank independent #Health websites, even extremely…

…high-quality and independent #Medical articles that are written by credentialed #Healthcare professionals.

“At the same time, establishment, big corporate pharma websites like WebMD are monopolizing the first page of results,” added Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac).

“What’s terrifying is that many of these establishment medical articles landing on the first page do not even have a stated author and make assertions that are contradicted by science.”

Consider that “people use Google to search for about 1 billion health questions a day,” states author and #Health professional Joe Cohen.

“Eighty percent of Internet users have searched for a health-related topic online, according to a recent study.”

High-quality online #Health sites that have been negatively affected include @Greenmedinfo, @DrJoshAxe, Erin Elizabeth of Health Nut News (@unhealthytruth), @SelfHacked, Dr. Joseph #Mercola, and @HoneyColony (my website).

@GreenMedInfo @drjoshaxe @unhealthytruth @Selfhacked @Honeycolony #Censorship and #FreedomOfSpeech vis a vis #Politics is being discussed, but no one in the #MainstreamMedia is covering the impact on the #Health space.

As Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac) reminds us, #Google’s stated mission statement was to organize the world’s information and…

…make it universally accessible. “But in the last three years, it has betrayed those values by intervening in the search algorithm to tunnel users toward big corporate establishment players,” he said.

In late June 2019, @Project_Veritas and Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac) proved…

…#Google is manipulating search results, filtering content, and dubbing information news based on Google’s agenda. Vorhies & @Project_Veritas released 950 pages that insinuate that the search engine secretly boosts or condemns content on a platform that was supposedly neutral.

@Project_Veritas #Google’s latest trick? Autosuggestions.

It’s bad enough that Google is effectively scrubbing previously high-ranking sites from their search results, now they are actually “suggesting” what you should search for.

Here’s @Google’s official statement:

From a psychological point of view, autosuggestions are arguably the simplest yet strongest tool for #MindControl. Incredulously, #Google states that the autosuggestions are actually “predictions,” not “suggestions.”

Sayer Ji of reputable #Health site @GreenMedinfo, writes:

@GreenMedInfo The articles we publish at HoneyColony.com all reference studies published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature — the commonly recognized gold standard for research.

But that doesn’t matter now that #BigPharma #Propaganda is disseminated via #Google.

Don’t believe you are being bamboozled? View the disparities in volume yourself by going to #GoogleTrends. Compare the actual search volume with #Google’s amazing new “predictions” feature.

These actions trump the principles of #Truth & #Justice. It’s called social engineering…

…Human experimentation even. What it isn’t is a #SearchEngine synonymous with looking for and finding objective answers. The @Project_Veritas video was promptly removed by #YouTube (owned by #Google) and then by #Vimeo.

Many of these acts can be classified as “#Technofascist.”

@Project_Veritas Four years ago, #ChetBowers, a now-deceased author, lecturer, and environmental activist, described #Technofascism as “an increased reliance upon computer-mediated learning at all levels of education [to spur] conformity of thinking.”

As Bowers put it, the populace assumes…

…they're being given accurate info and over time are only able to digest short explanations.

In addition to conformity, #Fascism necessitates “the loss of historical memory and a perceived crisis or endpoint that requires the collective energy and loyalty of the young and old.”

The #Internet has certainly “shorten[ed] people’s attention spans to the point where slogans and sound bites conveniently serve as the basis of political decision-making. Masking disinformation as models of factual accuracy and objective reporting,” the prevalence of…

…#Disinformation and #FakeNews facilitates the ability to condition “millions of Americans to accept ideologically driven propaganda, which further reduces the likelihood of mass resistance to the techno-fascist agenda.”

It’s 2019. Or wait, is it “1984”?

#SocialMedia platforms — toxins for the mind and intellect — now feed the masses processed manufactured information while omitting or fudging whatever doesn’t jive with #BigPharma, aka Sick Care.

The future is now. The zombies are here.

We’re being reduced to robots obsessively gazing at blue-lit screens, like in a twisted version of the Greek myth of Narcissus where we never recognize who we truly are: a magnificent species worthy of complete health and vitality.

Instead of debating with civilized decorum, we’re being polarized and we’re engaging in red herrings and ad hominem attacks.

For instance, if you begin talking about the negative impacts of #5G technology, someone on social media will call you a tin hat-wearing loon and discredit you, instead of focusing on all the experts that have spoken up and shared scientific evidence against this #Technology.

In this balkanization, we become part of sub-tribes, making it easier for corporations and government to manage and manipulate us.

Smoke and mirrors. Cloak and daggers. Crowd control.

All sickness. No #Health.

#Google is no longer an unbiased platform. They’re not only the most powerful search engine; they’re also a drug company. Google is a beautifully crafted Trojan horse for #BigPharma.

Simply put, Google’s parent company, #Alphabet, owns #Pharmaceutical subsidiaries.

In 2013, #Google founded #Calico, with the mission to understand the biology that controls lifespan. 2 years later, #Alphabet founded #VerilyLifeSciences (previously Google Life Sciences).

Both #Pharma companies are partnering with others and having babies of their own.

#Verily joined forces with the European #Pharmaceutical giant #GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world’s leading #Vaccine manufacturers. They formed a new drug company, #GalvaniBioelectronics.

In January 2019, @BusinessWire reported that Mary Ellen Coe, #Google’s president of customer solutions, was joining #Merck’s board of directors. Merck is another huge #Vaccine producer.

But the real clincher is that GV, the venture capital arm of #Google’s parent company, #Alphabet, has also invested in #Vaccitech — a company described as “the future of mass vaccine production.”

“The Vaccitech trial marks the first time a universal flu vaccine has progressed beyond phase one clinical testing,” wrote @Independent.

Yet to others, a one-size-fits-all #Flu shot sounds like a disastrous future on several levels.

This invention doesn’t take into account or respect #Biodiversity. Not every body system reacts to “medicine” in the same way.

Not to mention we are sovereign humans; we should not be forced to subject ourselves to questionable #Medicine.

Is it just coincidence that #Vaccine safety has become so maligned in the media as of late? We’re being divided by design.

People are being ostracized like never before for merely questioning alternative views. It’s to pave the way for what is coming — mandatory #Vaccines.

#Vaccines are a billion-dollar business. In 2012 alone, the world’s 11 top #Pharmaceutical companies generated $700 billion-plus in profits on vaccines.

Stated another way: #Google and Friends stand to earn a lot of money from vaccinating whomever they can stick a needle into, multiple times over.

And letting people have access to valid questions about #Vaccine safety might damage their bottom line.

Commenting on the United States’ National Vaccine Plan, Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny, wrote:

How about the $4 billion-plus paid out to those who have been impacted by #Vaccine injuries? The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was started as a result of a law passed in 1986, giving #Pharmaceutical companies total legal immunity from being sued due to injuries…

…and deaths resulting from #Vaccines, according to Health Impact News.

Said another way, #BigPharma can create as many shots as they want with no accountability involved. It’s a liability-free market.

Given what’s in the pipeline, isn’t it a bit odd that simply engaging in an educated conversation/exploration, or presenting opposing evidence, results in being 86’d from the Internet? Oftentimes, opposers do not have informed arguments nor are they scientifically literate.

One #Health influencer I spoke to pointed out that other platforms like #Vimeo and #MailChimp are also helping to shut down the discussion.

In early July, @Vimeo announced that it will no longer publish sites critical of #Vaccines, or sites that question #Vaccine safety.

#Facebook, whose committee members include former #BigPharma employees, has censored legitimate scientific inquiry and debate regarding #Vaccine safety.

No matter what your view is on #Vaccines, the point I’m illustrating is that Big Pharma’s tentacles   now extend to #BigTech…

…and prohibiting the sharing of info   is wrong—unless you don't believe in the #FirstAmendment.

If you bother to look, the conflicts of interest are obvious. #Google has a clear agenda that serves #Pharmaceuticals, and its success is directly built into its search algorithms.

Back in the good ole’ days, #Organic search results closely matched the user’s search query. The algorithm was based on relevance and popularity unless you paid #Google extra to get listed on top as an obvious ad.

What happened? Google changed its #Algorithms.

Updates on #Google aren’t new. But until now, there’s been nothing as sinister as the recent updates, which are powerful enough to do serious damage to a #Health site’s revenue, alongside the site’s #Organic #Traffic.

Especially if Google doesn’t agree with what they’re saying.

In the past, #Google claimed their updates were actually beneficial to pages that weren’t getting as many views. But it’s becoming clear that Google has other aims — to control what information is most accessible to searchers.

In August 2018, traffic to HoneyColony.com dwindled 30%.

We proverbially scratched our heads during marketing meetings, wondering what we were doing wrong. And then, we learned we had been impacted by what would be referred to as the “Medic Update.”

The focus of the changes centered around the #Medical & #Health space, as well as the areas referred to as “Your Money Your Life,” defined by #Google as: “[T]ypes of pages [that] could potentially impact the future happiness, health, financial stability, or safety  [of users].”

When asked how to ensure their sites don’t lose #Traffic, a #Google employee named John Mueller said in a Webmaster Hangout, “There is no specific thing where we’d be able to say you did this and you should have done that and therefore we’re showing things differently.”

This kind of vagueness and evasiveness is something I’ve encountered when interviewing government or big corporate lackeys who excel in the language of gobbledygook (or in this case, Googlygook) who speak from pre-approved PR texts.

#Google claims that sites can improve their rankings by improving their “EAT”: Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness.

But what criteria are they using to decide these?

We’re witnessing a slow, sneaky purge where crowdsource relevance is now seemingly irrelevant. The definition of what constitutes credible has drastically changed.

Then, in June 2019, #Google rolled out yet another #Algorithmic change.

Sites impacted in previous updates were once again affected. “On average, the impact was smaller than the August ‘Medic’ update,” as measured by @MozCast.

“Devastating” may be a more appropriate word; for some, content went from page 1 to being buried on page 6.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth,” said #GeorgeOrwell in “1984.”

The new updates make it so searchers have to know the site name to find us.

#Shadowbanned. Ostensibly scrubbed.

#Google used to rank pages based on whether an author could prove his/her expertise, on how many people visited a page, or on the number of other reputable sites that linked to that page.

How about when an author has a degree? Doesn’t seem to matter anymore.

Google now buries expert views if they’re deemed “harmful” to the public, explains The SEM Post:

Who decides? What qualifications do #Google quality checkers possess? Who is deciding what’s harmful?

Who exactly defines “#FakeNews” at #Google? According to Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac), “If one was expecting an open and transparent group then they would be wrong: It turns out it’s the hyper-partisan left-wing group Media Matters.”

@Perpetualmaniac Given this, what do we do with a search engine we’ve taken for granted and trusted a bit too much? The cyber realm is sadly no longer the place to look for valid information.

Consider that in his book “1984” Orwell describes how history and facts are recalled and rewritten…

…again and again, invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made. #Journalists have witnessed information go missing before their eyes while doing research. I now use different search engines to conduct research and often find opposing narratives.

1 in every 2 Americans today suffers from a chronic illness, according to @CDCgov.

Americans pop more pills than anywhere else in the world. Yet we’re still the sickest country on the planet. And all these drugs are often just adding to the problem.

According to a 2011 report by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, in that same year, drugs were associated with 2 million to 4 million people in the US experiencing serious, disabling or fatal injuries, including 128,000 deaths.

Meanwhile, the US also ranks pretty low when it comes to life expectancy. In 2019, the US will spend about “$3.5 trillion on health care, in addition to a $1.5 trillion loss in work and wages due to illness,” according to Gale and Null.

Prescription #Medicines such as xannys and SSRIs are a part of our culture, woven into narratives, songs, movies, and casual conversation.

We’ve come to accept these as part of everyday normal life—what Erich Fromm would have described as a “socially patterned defect.”

So let’s put things into perspective: #OpioidCrisis. #Antibiotic-resistance epidemic. Grotesque #Obesity stats. Rising rates of #Metabolic syndrome. Skyrocketing #Autoimmune conditions.

According to @NYTimes, cities are “suing major drugstore chains and Walmart, contending…

…they distributed billions of painkillers that devastated communities.”

To heck with the #HippocraticOath of do no harm; profits trump the long-term care of patients.

“Instead of making efforts to fund disease prevention and educate the public, prevention has been abandoned altogether.”

There is no money in cures. Management of #Symptoms is what keeps #BigPharma in business. Curing patients isn’t a sustainable business model.

With all these facts laid out, can we safely say — both figuratively and literally — that Western #Medicine may not have all the answers? It’s no wonder so many are going elsewhere for answers.

Sectors such as #Nutrition, preventative #Medicine, and personalized holistic…

…#Health have grown by leaps and bounds. In 2016, #AlternativeMedicine industry revenue was estimated to be at about $14.3 billion in the US. (Of course this industry also has its own host of issues.)

What is the US gov — agencies such as the @US_FDA — doing about all this, you may ask?

While some politicians have spoken out against #BigPharma and the lack of proper oversight, it’s all ultimately useless.

Big Pharma doesn’t just own #Google. It owns #Congress, too.

As one reporter wrote in The @Guardian, “Drug money is coursing through the veins of Congress.”

Dr. Raeford Brown, a pediatric anesthesia specialist at the UK Kentucky Children’s Hospital and chair of the FDA Committee on Analgesics and Anesthetics, told @YahooFinance:

Overall, #Congress gets paid to grant #BigPharma carte blanche. The billions of lobbying dollars Big Pharma has spent over the years, and the different lobby groups involved, is enough to make a woke person nauseous.

#Lobbying is how big business controls the government. #BigTech is now spending millions on lobbyists (paid persuaders), too, joining the top “Usual Suspects,” which predominantly include #BigPharma.

“With Amazon spending $4.2 million, Facebook shelling out $4.1 million and Google chipping in $3.2 million on second-quarter lobbying, this marks the first time all three companies ranked among the top 15 lobbying spenders in a single quarter,” wrote @OpenSecretsDC.

Currently, #BigTech companies like #Google are “indemnified against lawsuits for manipulating content on their platform,” says @GreenMedInfo’s Sayer Ji.

“Until this act is repealed, [tech companies] will continue to operate with impunity, essentially above the law.”

@GreenMedInfo Meanwhile, on Sept. 9, most US states officially announced an #Antitrust investigation of #Google (rather than an actual lawsuit).

In an earlier press release, Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David N. Cicilline (D-R.I.), stated:

Meanwhile, @TheJusticeDept announced in late July that it’s launching an #Antitrust probe into online platforms. (Given the agency’s track record of allowing perverse unjust mergers, I wouldn’t hold my breath.)

What is happening is that #SocialMedia platforms are getting fined. But so what?

#Facebook was just hit with a record $5-billion fine from the @FTC and a $100-million fine from @SEC_News, in late July.

The EU, meanwhile, fined #Google billions of dollars 4 separate times in recent years for violations of #European #Monopoly policies.

Fines are paltry in comparison to the power being gained and the profits that #BigTech/#BigPharma/Government/Elites stand to make.

Can we expect any real accountability, given #BigTech is sleeping with all-powerful #BigPharma?

In a recent letter to #Google and #Facebook, Chairman of the #HouseIntelligenceCommittee #AdamSchiff wrote:

What is this “strong evidence”? Why not let the people decide and allow veritable independent journalists to do their job?

#Schiff, who audaciously and wrongfully has stated that “there is no evidence that vaccines cause life-threatening or disabling diseases,” writes:

Yet who decides what is “misinformation”? #BigPharma?

This cuts both ways, or at least, it used to. Instead, #BigTech is taking an unequivocal stance on what constitutes #Health freedom and safety, blaming the openness of #SocialMedia as the reason for a #Measles outbreak.

This #FakeNews narrative is manufactured to push an agenda that involves pills and needles, while smearing credible people, hiding information, and vaporizing sovereignty.

“Google is playing both sides of the game,” Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac) told @Project_Veritas.

Most people don’t understand the power of #Google in their lives, nor do they have any idea that Google has rolled out impactful updates and has more in the works.

But when I ask, I get a, “Yeah, you know what, I did kind of notice something was different about Google.”

And then there is the glut of #FakeNews confusing the public. Take for instance this quote on @ThinkProgress concerning evidence of #Google’s preferential leanings:

Nonsense. Don’t believe that the #Algorithmic changes are being made only to protect you from another “rigged” election or to save you from 4 more years of #Trump.

This is a perfect example of both a red herring and a false narrative.

In his book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us And Them,” Jason Stanley writes, “Shouldn’t liberal democracy promote a full airing of all possibilities, even the false and bizarre ones, because the truth will eventually prevail in the marketplace of ideas?”

You likely have never heard of me, even though I’ve directed an award-winning documentary about colony collapse disorder and #Honeybees. And now my chances of penetrating the #Mainstream have been compromised. voyagela.com/interview/meet…

If I’m a mere worker bee, not worthy of high rankings, why have I been banned for life from #PayPal, scrubbed off #GoFundme, had the company’s #Facebook ads temporarily shut down on several occasions, have had videos removed from #YouTube, and have been buried by #Google?

In truth, I can write a whole series or book about #Technofascist acts in the #HealthAndWellness space.

As #Mercola writes:

Will we stand up for rights for #Health freedom and sovereignty?

Bowers asks:

“Anytime you are truly free, there is a cost to pay,” Dr. Cornel West recently told Joe Rogan.

I agree. But the alternative is ghastly. Perhaps, as Stanley says, we need to look to John Stuart Mill, who defended the importance of free speech in his 1859 work “On Liberty”:

“We have to let people know that if Google is going to censor us, let’s censor them,” said Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac).

“Together we are going to confront Google; were going to hold them to their own standards and justice.”

I believe we don’t have to be slaves to #BigBrother. If this message finds you, muster the courage to speak out and share. Use #SearchEngines such as @QwantCom. Stand for your sovereignty and #Health freedom.

The revolution is underway.

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