The truth about the Rockefeller drug empire
The Drug Story  - by Hans Ruesch

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In the 30's, Morris A. Bealle, a former city editor of the old Washington
Times and Herald, was running a county seat newspaper, in which the local
power company bought a large advertisement every week. This account took
quite a lot of worry off Bealle's shoulders when the bills came due.

But according to Bealle's own story, one day the paper took up the cudgels
for some of its readers that were being given poor service from the power
company, and Morris Bealle received the dressing down of his life from the
advertising agency which handled the power company's account. They told him
that any more such "stepping out of line" would result in the immediate
cancellation not only of the advertising contract, but also of the gas
company and the telephone company.

That's when Bealle's eyes were opened to the meaning of a "free press", and
he decided to get out of the newspaper business. He could afford to do that
because he belonged to the landed gentry of Maryland, but not all newspaper
editors are that lucky.

Bealle used his professional experience to do some deep digging into the
freedom-of-the-press situation and came up with two shattering exposes -
"The Drug Story", and "The House of Rockefeller." The fact that in spite of
his familiarity with the editorial world and many important personal
contacts he couldn't get his revelations into print until he founded his own
company, The Columbia Publishing House, Washington D.C., in 1949, was just a
prime example of the silent but adamant censorship in force in "the Land of
the Free and the Home of the Brave". Although The Drug Story is one of the
most important books on health and politics ever to appear in the USA, it
has never been admitted to a major bookstore nor reviewed by any
establishment paper, and was sold exclusively by mail. Nevertheless, when we
first got to read it, in the 1970s, it was already in its 33rd printing,
under a different label - Biworld Publishers, Orem, Utah.

Examples, as Bealle pointed out, a business which makes 6% on its invested
capital, is considered a sound moneymaker. Sterling Drug, Inc., the main cog
and largest holding company in the Rockefeller Drug Empire and its 68
subsidiaries, showed operating profits in 1961 of $23,463,719 after taxes,
on net assets of $43,108,106 - a 54% profit. Squibb, another
Rockefeller-controlled company, in 1945 made not 6% but a 576% profit on the
actual value of its property.

That was during the luscious war years when the Army Surgeon General's
Office and the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery were not only acting as
promoters for the Drug Trust, but were actually forcing drug trust poisons
into the blood streams of American soldiers, sailors and marines, to the
tune of over 200 million 'shots'. Is it any wonder, asked Bealle, that the
Rockefellers, and their stooges in the Food and Drug Administration, the
U.S. Public Health Service, the Federal Trade Commission, the Better
Business Bureau, the Army Medical Corps, the Navy Bureau of Medicine, and
thousands of health officers all over the country, should combine to put out
of business all forms of therapy that discourage the use of drugs.

"The last annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation", reported Bealle,
"itemizes the gifts it has made to colleges and public agencies in the past
44 years, and they total somewhat over half a billion dollars. These
colleges, of course, teach their students all the drug lore the Rockefeller
pharmaceutical houses want taught. Otherwise there would be no more gifts,
just as there are no gifts to any of the 30 odd colleges in the United
States that don't use therapies based on drugs -- but this just represents
"good" business strategy and a "healthy" return for investors.

"Harvard, with its well-publicized medical school, has received $8,764,433
of Rockefeller's Drug Trust money, Yale got $7, 927,800, Johns Hopkins
$10,418,531, Washington University in St. Louis $2,842,132, New York's
Columbia University $5,424,371, Cornell University $1,709,072, etc., etc."
And while "giving away" those huge sums to drug-propagandizing colleges, the
Rockefeller interests were growing to a worldwide web that no one could
entirely explore. Already well over 30 years ago it was large enough for
Bealle to demonstrate that the Rockefeller interests had created, built up
and developed the most far-reaching industrial empire ever conceived in the
mind of man. Standard Oil was of course the foundation upon which all of the
other Rockefeller industries have been built. The story of Old John D., as
ruthless an industrial pirate as ever came down the pike, is well known, but
is being today conveniently ignored. The keystone of this mammoth industrial
empire was the Chase National Bank, now renamed the Chase Manhattan Bank.

Not the least of its holdings are in the drug business. The Rockefellers own
the largest drug-manufacturing combine in the world, and use all of their
other interests to bring pressure to increase the sale of drugs. The fact
that most of the 12,000 separate drug items on the market are harmful is of
no concern to the Drug Trust...

The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation was first set up in 1904 and called the General
Education Fund. An organization called the Rockefeller Foundation,
ostensibly to supplement the General Education Fund, was formed in 1910 and
through long finagling and lots of Rockefeller money got the New York
legislature to issue a charter on May 14, 1913. It is therefore not
surprising that the House of Rockefeller has had its own "nominees" planted
in all Federal agencies that have to do with health. So the stage was set
for the "education" of the American public, with a view to turning it into a
population of drug and medico dependents, with the early help of the parents
and the schools, then with direct advertising and, last but not least, the
influence the advertising revenues had on the media-makers.

A compilation of the magazine Advertising Age showed that as far back as
1948 the larger companies in America spent for advertising the sum total of
$1,104,224,374, when the dollar was still worth a dollar. Of this staggering
sum the interlocking Rockefeller-Morgan interests (gone over entirely to
Rockefeller after Morgan's death) controlled about 80 percent, and utilized
it to manipulate public information on health and drug matters - then and
even more recklessly now.

Censorship

"Even the most independent newspapers are dependent on their press
associations for their national news," Bealle pointed out, "and there is no
reason for a news editor to suspect that a story coming over the wires of
the Associated Press, the United Press or the International News Service is
censored when it concerns health matters. Yet this is what happens
constantly."

In fact in the '50s the Drug Trust had one of its directors on the
directorate of the Associated Press. He was no less than Arthur Hays
Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times and as such one of the most
powerful Associated Press directors.

It was thus easy for the Rockefeller Trust to persuade the Associated Press
Science Editor to adopt a policy, which would not permit any medical news to
clear that, is not approved by the Drug Trust "expert", and this censor is
not going to approve any item that can in any way hurt the sale of drugs.

This accounts to this day for the many fake stories of serums and medical
cures and just-around-the-corner breakthrough victories over cancer, AIDS,
diabetes, multiple sclerosis, which go out brazenly over the wires to all
daily newspapers in America and abroad.

Emanuel M. Josephson, M.D., whom the Drug Trust has been unable to
intimidate despite many attempts, pointed out that the National Association
of Science Writers was "persuaded" to adopt as part of its code of ethics
the following chestnut: "Science editors are incapable of judging the facts
of phenomena involved in medical and scientific discovery. Therefore, they
only report 'discoveries' approved by medical authorities, or those
presented before a body of scientific peers."

This explains why Bantam Books, America's biggest publisher, made a colossal
mistake in its initial enthusiasm and optimism sending review copies of
SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT to the 3,500 "science writers" on its list,
instead of addressing them to the literary book reviewers who are not
subject to medical censorship. One single censor decreed NO and SLAUGHTER OF
THE INNOCENT sank in silence.

Thus newspapers continue to be fed with propaganda about drugs and their
alleged value, although according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
1.5 million people landed in hospitals in 1978 because of medication side
effects in the U.S. alone, and despite recurrent statements by intelligent
and courageous medical men that most pharmaceutical items on sale are
useless at best, but more often harmful or deadly in the long run. The truth
about cures without drugs is suppressed, unless it suits the purpose of the
censor to garble it. Whether these cures are affected by Chiropractors,
Naturopaths, Naprapaths, Osteopaths, Faith Healers, Spiritualists,
Herbalists, Christian Scientists, or MDs who use the brains they have, you
never read about it in the big newspapers.

To teach the Rockefeller drug ideology, it is necessary to teach that Nature
didn't know what she was doing when she made the human body. But statistics
issued by the Children's Bureau of the Federal Security Agency show that
since the all-out drive of the Drug Trust for drugging, vaccinating and
serumizing the human system, the health of the American nation has sharply
declined, especially among children. Children are now given "shots" for this
and "shots" for that, when the only safeguard known to science is a pure
bloodstream, which can be obtained only with clean air and wholesome food.
Meaning by natural and inexpensive means. Just what the Drug Trust most
objects to.

When the FDA, whose officials have to be acceptable to Rockefeller Center
before they are appointed, has to put an independent operator out of
business, it goes all out to execute those orders. But the orders do not
come directly from Standard Oil or a drug house director. As Morris Bealle
pointed out, the American Medical Association (AMA) is the front for the
Drug Trust, and furnishes the quack doctors to testify that even when they
know nothing of the product involved, it is their considered opinion that it
has no therapeutic value.

Persecution

Wrote Bealle: "Financed by the taxpayers, these Drug Trust persecutions
leave no stone unturned to destroy the victim. If he is a small operator,
the resulting attorney's fees and court costs put him out of business. In
one case, a Dr. Adolphus Hohensee of Scranton, Pa., who had stated that
vitamins (he used natural ones) were vital to good health, was taken to
court for 'misbranding' his product. The American Medical Association
furnished ten medicos who reversed all known medical theories by testifying
that 'vitamins are not necessary to the human body'. Confronted with
government bulletins to the contrary, the medicos wiggled out of that one by
declaring that these standard publications were outdated!"

In addition to the FDA, Bealle listed the following agencies having to do
with "health" - i.e., with the health of the Drug Trust to the detriment of
the citizens - as being dependent on Rockefeller: U.S. Public Health
Service, U.S. Veterans Administration, Federal Trade Commission, Surgeon
General of the Air Force, Army Surgeon General's Office, Navy Bureau of
Medicine & Surgery, National Health Research Institute, National Research
Council, National Academy of Sciences.

The National Academy of Sciences in Washington is considered the all-wise
body which investigates everything under the sun, especially in the field of
health, and gives to a palpitating public the last word in that science. To
the important post at the head of this agency, the Drug Trust had one of
their own appointed. He was none other than Alfred N. Richards, one of the
directors and largest stockholders of Merck & Company, which was making huge
profits from its drug traffic.

When Bealle revealed this fact, Richards resigned forthwith, and the
Rockefellers appointed in his place the President of their own Rockefeller
Institution, Detlev W. Bronk.

America's Medico-Drug Cartel

The medico-drug cartel was summed up by J.W. Hodge, M.D., of Niagara Falls,
N.Y., in these words: "The medical monopoly or medical trust,
euphemistically called the American Medical Association, is not merely the
meanest monopoly ever organized, but the most arrogant, dangerous and
despotic organization which ever managed a free people in this or any other
age. Any and all methods of healing the sick by means of safe, simple and
natural remedies are sure to be assailed and denounced by the arrogant
leaders of the AMA doctors' trust as fakes, frauds and humbugs. Every
practitioner of the healing art who does not ally himself with the medical
trust is denounced as a 'dangerous quack' and impostor by the predatory
trust doctors. Every sanitarian who attempts to restore the sick to a state
of health by natural means without resort to the knife or poisonous drugs,
disease imparting serums, deadly toxins or vaccines, is at once pounced upon
by these medical tyrants and fanatics, bitterly denounced, vilified and
persecuted to the fullest extent."

The Lincoln Chiropractic College in Indianapolis requires 4,496 hours, the
Palmer Institute Chiropractic in Davenport a minimum of 4,000 60-minute
classroom hours, the University of Natural Healing Arts in Denver five years
of 1,000 hours each to qualify for a degree. The National College of
Naprapathy in Chicago requires 4,326 classroom hours for graduation. Yet the
medico-drug cartel spreads the propaganda that the practitioners of these
three "heretic" sciences are poorly trained or not trained at all - the real
reason being that they cure their patients without the use of drugs. In
1958, one of those "ill-trained" doctors, Nicholas P. Grimaldi, who had just
graduated from the Lincoln Chiropractic College, took the basic science
examination of the Connecticut State Board along with 63 medics and
osteopaths. He made the highest mark (91.6) ever made by a doctor taking the
Connecticut State Board examination.

Colonization Rockefeller's various "educational" activities had proved so
profitable in the U S. that in 1927 the International Educational Board was
launched, as Junior's own, personal charity, and endowed with $21,000,000
for a starter, to be lavished on foreign universities and politicos, with
all the usual strings attached. This Board undertook to export the "new"
Rockefeller image as a benefactor of mankind, as well as his business
practices. Nobody informed the beneficiaries that every penny the
Rockefellers seemed to be throwing out the window would come back, bearing
substantial interest, through the front door.

Rockefeller had always had a particular interest in China, where Standard
Oil was almost the sole supplier of kerosene and oil "for the lamps of
China". So he put up money to establish the China Medical Board and to build
the Peking Union Medical College, playing the role of the Great White Father
who has come to dispense knowledge on his lowly children. The Rockefeller
Foundation invested up to $45,000,000 into "westernizing" (read corrupting)
Chinese medicine.

Medical colleges were instructed that if they wished to benefit from the
Rockefeller largesse they had better convince 500 million Chinese to throw
into the ashcan the safe and useful but inexpensive herbal remedies of their
barefoot doctors, which had withstood the test of centuries, in favor of the
expensive carcinogenic and teratogenic "miracle" drugs Made in USA, which
had to be replaced constantly with new ones, when the fatal side-effects
could no longer be concealed; and if they couldn't "demonstrate" through
large-scale animal experiments the effectiveness of their ancient
acupuncture, this could not be recognized as having any "scientific value".
Its millenarian effectiveness proven on human beings was of no concern to
the Western wizards. But when the Communists came to power in China and it
was no longer possible to trade, the Rockefellers suddenly lost interest in
the health of the Chinese people and shifted their attention increasingly to
Japan, India and Latin America.

The Image

"No candid study of his career can lead to other conclusion than that he is
victim of perhaps the ugliest of all passions, that for money, money as an
end. It is not a pleasant picture... this money-maniac secretly, patiently,
eternally plotting how he may add to his wealth... He has turned commerce to
war, and honeycombed it with cruel and corrupt practices... And he calls his
great organization a benefaction, and points to his church going and
charities as proof of his righteousness. This is supreme wrongdoing cloaked
by religion. There is but one name for it - hypocrisy."

This was the description Ida Tarbell made of John D. Rockefeller in her
"History of the Standard Oil Company", serialized in 1905 in the widely
circulated McClure's Magazine. And that was several years before the "Ludlow
Massacre", so JDR was as yet far from having reached the apex of his
disrepute. But after World War II it would have been hard to read, in
America or abroad, a single criticism of JDR, nor of Junior, who had
followed in his father's footsteps, nor of Junior's four sons who all
endeavored to emulate their illustrious forbears. Today's various
encyclopedias extant in public libraries of the Western world have nothing
but praise for the Family. How was this achieved?

Ironically, the two apparently most NEGATIVE events in the career of JDR
brought about a huge POSITIVE change in his favor, to a degree that he
himself could not foresee. To wit:

In the year when according to the current Encyclopedia Britannica (long
become a Rockefeller property and transferred from Oxford to Chicago),
Rockefeller had "retired from active business", namely in 1911, he had been
convicted by a U.S. court of illegal practices and ordered to dissolve the
Standard Oil Trust, which comprised 40 corporations. This imposed
dissolution was to provide his Empire with added might, to a degree that was
unprecedented in the history of modem business. Until then, the Trust had
existed for all to see - an exposed target. After that, it went underground,
and thereby its power was cloaked in security, and could keep expanding
unseen and therefore unopposed.

The second apparently negative experience was a certain 1914 event that
persuaded JDR, until then utterly contemptuous of public opinion, to gloss
over his own image.

"The Ludlow Massacre" The United Mine Workers had asked for higher wages and
better living conditions for the miners of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company, one of the many Rockefeller-owned companies. The miners - mostly
immigrants from Europe's poorest countries - lived in shacks provided by the
company at exorbitant rent. Their low wages ($1.68 a day) were paid in
script redeemable only at company stores charging high prices. The churches
they attended were the pastorates of company-hired ministers; their children
were taught in company-controlled schools; the company libraries excluded
books that the Bible-thumping Rockefellers deemed "subversive", such as
"Darwin's Origin of the Species." The company maintained a force of
detectives, spies and mine guards, whose job it was to keep the camp
quarantined from the danger of unionization. When the miners struck, JDR,
Jr., then officially in command of the company, and his father's hatchet
man, the Baptist Reverend Frederick T. Gates, who was a director of the
Rockefeller Foundation, refused even to negotiate. They evicted the strikers
from the company-owned shacks, hired a thousand strikebreakers from the
Baldwin-Felts detective agency, and persuaded Governor Ammons to call out
the National Guard to help break the strike.

Open warfare resulted. Guardsmen, miners, their women and children, who
since their eviction were camping in tents, were ruthlessly killed, until
the frightened Governor wired President Wilson for Federal Troops, who
eventually crushed the strike, The New York Times, which then already could
never be accused of being unfriendly to the Rockefeller interests, reported
on April 21, 1914:

"A 14-hour battle between striking coal miners and members of the Colorado
National Guard in the Ludlow district today culminated in the killing of
Louis Tikas, leader of the Greek strikers, and the destruction of the Ludlow
tent colony by fire."

And the following day: "Forty-five dead (32 of them women and children), a
score missing and more than a score wounded is the known result of the
14-hour battle which raged between state troops and coal miners in the
Ludlow district, on the property of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, the
Rockefeller holding. The Ludlow is a mass of charred debris, and buried
beneath it is a story of horror unparalleled in the history of industrial
warfare. In the holes that had been dug for their protection against rifle
fire, the women and children died like trapped rats as the flames swept over
them. One pit uncovered this afternoon disclosed the bodies of ten children
and two women."

Thorough Facelift

The worldwide revulsion that followed was such that JDR decided to hire the
most talented press agent in the country, Ivy Lee, who got the tough
assignment of whitewashing the tycoon's bloodied image.

When Lee learned that the newly organized Rockefeller Foundation had $100
million lying around for promotional purposes without knowing what to do
with it, he came with a plan to donate large sums - none less than a
million - to well-known colleges, hospitals, churches and benevolent
organizations. The plan was accepted. So were the millions. And they made
headlines all over the world, for in the days of the gold standard and the
five-cent cigar there was a maxim in every newspaper office that a million
dollars was always news.

That was the beginning of the cleverly worded medical reports on new
"miracle" drugs and "just-around-the-corner breakthroughs" planted in the
leading news offices and press associations that continue to this day, and
the flighty public soon forgot, or forgave, the massacre of foreign
immigrants for the dazzling display of generosity and philanthropy financed
by the ballooning Rockefeller fortune and going out, with thunderous press
fanfare, to various "worthy" institutions.

The Purchase of Public Opinion

In the following years, not only newsmen, but also whole newspapers were
bought, financed or founded with Rockefeller money. So Time Magazine, which
Henry Luce started in 1923, had been taken over by J.P. Morgan when the
magazine got into financial difficulties. When Morgan died and his financial
empire crumbled, the House of Rockefeller wasted no time in taking over this
lush editorial plum also, together with its sisters Fortune and Life, and
built for them an expensive 14-story home of their own in Rockefeller
Center - the Time & Life Building.

Rockefeller was also co-owner of Time's "rival" magazine, Newsweek, which
had been established in the early days of the New Deal with money put up by
Rockefeller, Vincent Astor, the Harrimann family and other members and
allies of the House.

The Intellectuals - A Bargain

For all his innate cynicism, JDR must have been himself surprised to
discover how easily the so-called intellectuals could be bought. Indeed,
they turned out to be among his best investments.

By founding and lavishly endowing his Education Boards at home and abroad,
Rockefeller won control not only of the governments and politicos but also
of the intellectual and scientific community, starting with the Medical
Power - the organization that forms those priests of the New Religion that
are the modern medicine men. No Pulitzer or Nobel or any similar prize
endowed with money and prestige has ever been awarded to a declared foe of
the Rockefeller system.

Henry Luce, officially founder and editor of Time Magazine, but constantly
dependent on House advertising, also distinguished himself in his adulation
of his sponsors. JDR's son had been responsible for the Ludlow massacre, and
an obedient partner in his father's most unsavory actions. Nonetheless, in
1956 Henry Luce put Junior on the cover of Time, and the feature story,
soberly titled "The Good Man", included hyperboles like this:

"It is because John D. Rockefeller Junior's is a life of constructive social
giving that he ranks as an authentic American hero, just as certainly as any
general who ever won a victory for an American army or any statesman who
triumphed in behalf of U.S. diplomacy."

Clearly, Time's editorial board wasn't given the choice to change its tune
even after the passing of Junior and Henry Luce, since it remained just as
dependent on House of Rockefeller advertising. Thus, when in 1979 one of
Junior's sons, Nelson A. Rockefeller died - who had been one of the loudest
hawks in the Vietnam and other American wars, and was personally responsible
for the massacre of prisoners and hostages at Attica prison - Time said of
him in it obituary, without laughing: "He was driven by a mission to serve,
improve and uplift his country."

Perhaps it was all this that Prof. Peter Singer had in mind when telling the
judges in Italy that the Rockefeller Foundation was a humanitarian
enterprise bent on doing good works. One of their best works seems to be
sponsoring Prof. Peter Singer, the world's greatest animal friend and
protector who claims that vivisection is indispensable for medical progress
and for more than 20 years refuses to mention that legions of medical
doctors are of the opposite view.

Millions of Dollars Worth of Free Publicity

Another interesting revelation in the article of Time was that many years
ago already Singer "was pleasantly surprised when Britannica approached him
to distill in about 30,000 words the discipline that is, at its heart, the
systematic study of what we ought to do." So now we touch the subject of
sponsorization and patronage. They don't always mean immediate cash but,
more important, long-term profits.

From the Time article, we also learn that Singer's mother had been a medical
doctor in the old country, which could mean that little Peter started
assimilating all the Rockefeller superstition on vivisection with his
mother's milk.

Taken from the CIVIS Foundation Report number 15, Fall-Winter 1993 CIVIS:
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