- According to information from within the World Health
Organization in Geneva, the UN organization supposedly monitoring global
health dangers, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan plans to declare a Phase
6 Official Pandemic Alert in the coming days. This bizarre act if declared
would come at a time that the country which had to date reported far the
latest number of suspected H1N1 cases, the USA, has simply arbitrarily
stopped reporting new cases.
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- If you consider to let your family get scared into taking
drugs like Tamiflu that not only do not prevent or even ameliorate symptoms
of flu, but in some cases are so toxic they cause severe paralysis, breathing
problems and even death, you should at least know the facts before.
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- The report that WHO may declare an official Pandemic
global alert any time is all the more bizarre given the fact that the global
wave of cases reported to date to WHO from around the world reportedly
have been so mild as to be indistinguishable from the symptoms of ordinary
flu.
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- And the relatively small number of deaths alleged tied
to swine flu as it originally was named, appear in no way definitely tied
to to H1N1 causes. In a May 28 CDC press briefing, the CDC reported, 'When
we look at our deaths, we have information on 11 of the 12 deaths that
have been reported to us so far. And it appears that 10 of those fatalities
occurred in people who had an underlying condition that put them at greater
risk for severe complications of influenza.' That is what epidemiologists
call correlation not causality or 'opportunistic infection' deaths.
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- European epidemiologists privately believe that there
is no proven link between supposed H1N1 Influenza A illness and the deaths,
rather that the deaths are 'coincidence' or what health professionals term
'opportunistic infections.' The CDC report would seem to strengthen that
argument.
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- US CDC stops regular reporting?
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- Even more bizarre for a supposed pandemic 'threat to
all mankind' the official monitoring agency in the nation with so far the
largest number of reported case counts, which notably include 'probable'
ad well as 'confirmed' H1N1 cases, namely the United States, the CDC announced
en passant, on that May 28 press briefing that, 'beginning next week, we're
going to shift to a different schedule. We'll be updating our case count
information less frequently.' That statement came from Dr. Anne Schuchat,
Deputy Director for Science and Public Health Program of the US Centers
for Disease Control. She declined to say what 'less frequently' was or
even why such a decision was reached at the same time the US Government
is dedicating billion dollars fast track funds to drug makers to produce
H1N1 vaccines.
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- Oops! Wait a minute. I thought we were teetering on the
edge of declaring a global Pandemic Emergency, Phase 6 where travel restrictions,
mandatory quarantine and other extreme steps would be implemented. Then
the responsible national agency in the country with something like 67%
of all reported cases of H1N1 Swine Flu decided casually not to report
so often?
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- Another anomaly in the increasingly bizarre situation
is the release of new WHO Pandemic guidelines on April 20, 2009, conveniently
enough just in time to affect the current world pandemic scare. According
to a WHO official responsible for the report, the revision of revised 2005
WHO Pandemic guidelines was begun 'well before the Mexican flu cases were
first reported.' The official spoke off record.
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- Even more curious is the fact that the latest April 2009
WHO Pandemic response guidelines prescribe the exact same response for
Phase 5 (sub-pandemic) and Phase 6 (so-called Pandemic), namely 'implement
actions as called for in their national plans.' For that we need WHO?
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- Drug giants gearing up
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- The situation is becoming a golden harvest for the giant
pharmaceutical makers as they receive samples from the CDC to begin producing
possible vaccines as well as so-called antiviral drugs like Tamiflu.
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- The US government recently made available one billion
dollars to help big vaccine makers like Sanofi-Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline
ready production of new vaccines. Novartis leads the herd with $289 million
in federal support, followed by Sanofi Aventis with $191 million and GlaxoSmithKline,
which gets $181 million. In addition the US Government had decided to 'de-risk'
the vaccine production, presumably removing usual safeguards for new vaccines.
The US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) is placing orders with
manufacturers with which it already has contracts to produce a pandemic
vaccine for the never-pandemic H5N1 avian flu. More than $3 billion in
federal funds since 2005 have gone toward developing, building manufacturing
and stockpiling a vaccine to fight that disease. How long do such vaccines
hold in stock?
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- Fittingly given the bizarre nature of the entire Flying
Pigs panic being spread by WHO and CDC, the CDC reports that it expects
the first H1N1 approved vaccines to be ready by Halloween. Trick or Treat?
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- In Australia the government has ordered 10 million doses
of a new vaccine being developed by CSL. CSL plans to start producing a
new vaccine in the next days that can be used for human testing. A vaccine
based on the California strain of the virus is being tested in ferrets.
China says that it will have samples of swine flu on hand by June and plans
to start manufacturing a new A/H1N1 vaccine in July.
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- Many drugmakers are using techniques of genetic manipulation
to produce their new vaccine offerings in a race to market. The Maryland
drugmaker Novavax which reported severe annual income losses prior to the
current Swine Flu scare, now is preparing a genetically modified vaccine
they claim is suitable for H1N1 flu.
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- The 1976 Swine Flu fiasco
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- Once WHO declares a Phase 6 Pandemic Alert, all hell
could break loose with governments and population going into panic, cancellation
of international travel, severe domestic travel restrictions and other
emergency measures resembling martial law.
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- In 1976 President Gerald Ford issued an Executive Order
calling for every man woman and child in the USA to be vaccinated against
a suspected outbreak of swine Flu at the Fort Dix US military base. Within
months more than forty million unknowing Americans had been vaccinated,
some 20% of the then total population despite the fact that no pandemic
ever appeared. The flu was restricted to Fort Dix.
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- Interestingly, aside from severe weather and crowded
barrack conditions at Fort Dix, every recruit coming in had immediately
been given multiple vaccinations as routine, similar to what US soldiers
are given today before being shipped to Iraq or Afghanistan, or similar
to what US and European soldiers were given in 1918 during the spread of
the misnamed Spanish Influenza of 1918. Was the Fort Dix wave of illnesses
and one death a consequence of the vaccinations? We may never know as no
government agency was interested in pursuing the notion.
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- In that 1976 US swine flu panic, aided by a nervous President
eager to win re-election, there were thirty deaths due to adverse vaccine
reactions and dozens if not hundreds of cases of the rare Guillain-Barre
syndrome which led to halting of a national vaccination that was being
given for a non-existent pandemic.
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- Free from liability?
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- There was one very significant difference between 1976
and today however. In 1976 US insurance companies refused to insure vaccine
manufacturers against lawsuits for vaccine-related illnesses or deaths.
Today drugmakers need have little fear of damages from product liability
lawsuits. They can unleash whatever substances the FDA lets them, and indications
are that under Pandemic declaration safety standards would be dropped in
the rush to stab the population as widely as possible with vaccines.
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- Under rulings made under the Bush Administration, vaccines
can be labelled as "unavoidably unsafe" meaning that when a product
is 'carefully designed, manufactured and marketed, but is dangerous nonetheless,'
it is not a defective product, even though it might cause injury. Clear?
It certainly is clear to the pharmaceutical industry which lobbied hard
for the determination.
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- A decisive victory for the drug industry came in January
2006 when Bush Administration Health and Human Services Secretary Michael
Leavitt announced a new ruling in defiance of established precedent and
the expressed intent of Congress. The new FDA rules pre-empted any state
laws that allow citizens to sue drugmakers for producing unsafe drugs under
the dubious claim that the FDA, an agency under HHS, had national responsibility
for certification of drug safety and state lawsuits impinged on that national
responsibility. As several Congressmen at the time pointed out the FDA
track record for timely response to clear drug dangers as in the Vioxx
cases was hardly to the benefit of the health and welfare of citizens suffering
needless heart attacks and death as a side effect of the drug.
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- It would be relevant to ask if the Democratic Congress
that protested the 2006 FDA liability-free ruling has plans to change that
free ride for vaccine makers. That might do more than anything to reduce
the effects of Swine Flu. Then people might realize where the real swine
danger lies.
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- F. William Engdahl is author of the just-released book
Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.
He may be reached through his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
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