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ARE WE FACING ANOTHER PANDEMIC SCAM?

According to mass media hype we are on the verge ‘again’ of a global pandemic even though more sober experts point out there is no evidence the so-called Swine flu is as deadly as depicted or that the strain differs very much from ordinary flu.

More puzzling still, there is no evidence that those fatalities reported died from ‘swine-flu’ and not ordinary flu which also takes its annual death toll, though rarely reported. And there is lots of evidence that if treated early this latest ‘flu’ symptom is not deadly at all.

In the meantime however certain pharmaceutical companies are making massive fortunes as health authorities around the world - prompted by media hysteria - stockpile their exclusive and patented anti-flu serums.

Who does not remember the chicken (Avian) flu outbreak and the anthrax scare?
April 30, 2009

ARE WE FACING ANOTHER PANDEMIC SCAM?

By Uli Schmetzer
www.uli-schmetzer.com

According to mass media hype we are on the verge ‘again’ of a global pandemic even though more sober experts point out there is no evidence the so-called Swine flu is as deadly as depicted or that the strain differs very much from ordinary flu.

More puzzling still, there is no evidence that those fatalities reported died from ‘swine-flu’ and not ordinary flu which also takes its annual death toll, though rarely reported. And there is lots of evidence that if treated early this latest ‘flu’ symptom is not deadly at all.

In the meantime however certain pharmaceutical companies are making massive fortunes as health authorities around the world - prompted by media hysteria - stockpile their exclusive and patented anti-flu serums.

Who does not remember the chicken (Avian) flu outbreak and the anthrax scare?

The pharmaceutical company that developed the antidotes to those much publicized pandemics-in-the-making was California’s Gilead Sciences whose chairman until 2001 was former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He resigned his chairmanship after entering the Bush administration in 2001 but remained apparently Gilead’s largest shareholder. In October 2005 the Pentagon (under Rumsfeld’s leadership at the time) ordered all U.S. military personnel worldwide to be vaccinated against Avian Flu (H5N1) with the drug Oseltamivir which is sold under the brand name Tamiflu and, surprise, surprise, was produced by Gilead. And it was Secretary Rumsfeld who announced he had budgeted over a billion dollars to stockpile the Avian flu remedy.
(Ironically it was also Gilead which produced the anthrax antidote during that unsubstantiated terrorist hysteria a few years earlier.)

Tamiflu seems to be a fix-it for all occasions because once again this month governments are stockpiling the drug in vast quantities to confront what the mass media claims will be an imminent pandemic of ‘Swine-flu’

(The Swiss pharma-giant Roche has since bought the rights to Tamiflu but Gilead and its shareholders are still earning 10 per cent of every dose sold.)

Secretary Rumsfeld was part of a Bush administration which has still much to answer for in the manipulation of finance markets and turning blind eyes to obvious profiteering scams.

Investigative writer F. William Engdahl, author of ‘Seeds of Destruction’ and ‘The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation’ today labels these past pandemic scares ‘frauds’ and points out the Bush administration and the World Health Organization (WHO) blamed free-roaming chicken owned by small farmers for the virus strain instead of attributing it to the abominably congested caging and hormone-feeding of mass-produced chicken.
Engdahl writes that this blame “had devastating economic consequences to the farmers whose chickens were raised in the most sanitary natural conditions while Tyson Foods of Arkansas and CG Group of Thailand (major poultry industries based in Thailand where the virus originated) smiled all the way to the bank.”

The pandemic scam might be on a repeat track with the Swine Flu.

Mexican authorities have already found only seven people, not 150 as constantly reported in the mass media, have died of Swine Flu, mainly because it was not treated early. The rest of the ‘suspected cases’ were ordinary flu victims.

The Times of London conducted an interview with four year old Edgar Hernandez of La Gloria town in the Mexican state of Veracruz where the virus apparently originated. The boy was the first known and documented case of swine flu. He has fully recovered and was playing among dogs and goats roaming the streets of La Gloria, the Times reported.

La Gloria’s nearby pig farm produces about a million pigs a year. The owners, Granjas Carroll de Mexico (GCM) are in a 50/50 joint venture partnership with the world’s largest pig-producing industrial company, Smithfield Foods of Virginia, U.S.A.
Nearly all of GCM’s pigs, conceived by artificial insemination, injected with antibiotics to make them grow faster and kept in pens someone compared to concentration camps, are destined for the U.S. market.

Since March this year the residents of La Gloria have complained of respiratory problems due to the odor from pig waste. The residents held a public demonstration which prompted the state legislature of Veracruz to demand Smithfield’s Granjas Carroll provide documents about its waste-handling practice. The company has not complied.

(Smithfield which supplies McDonald’s and Subway fast-food chains was fined $12.3 million in 1997 for violating the Clean Water Act in the United States after which, like many major industrial agribusinesses, it outsourced its facilities to third countries where scrutiny is less rigid).

Today, while governments spent billions in stockpiling drugs that most likely will not be needed but have often detrimental side effects (respiratory problems and dizziness) the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) is already issuing the kind of double-speak warnings that have accompanied similar pandemic warnings.

On its website the CDC says: “Swine influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. Swine flu viruses have been reported to spread from person-to-person, but in the past, this transmission was limited and not sustained beyond three people…..CDC has determined that this swine influenza (H1N1) virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human. However at this time, it is not known how easily the virus spreads between people….”

We have no idea how fast the virus spreads and so far we have no idea how many of those reported dead were actually killed by the virus related to Swine flu.
We do know however most of those affected recovered when treated for normal bouts of influenza.

In the meantime the shares of certain drug companies are going through the roof. while hysteric commentators and sudden-experts are calling for countries to close their doors to outsiders - even though the U.S., which is in the frontline of the virus peril, has so far refused to close the ‘doors’ to neighboring Mexico, the core nation of the alleged ‘killer virus.”

Instead of becoming once again the perpetuators of another ‘imminent pandemic’ scare should not our kowtower to big business, the ineffective World Healthy Organization, finally turn its attention to the outrageous mass production of livestock food with breeding, feeding and caging methods dead certain to produce a true mass-killer virus one of these days - soon?

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