- Latest reports of what is being called a deadly Swine
Flu outbreak in Ukraine according to on sight reports appear to be a political
concoction by a threatened government to avoid election defeat and possibly
declare martial law. The details indicate how convenient the current WHO
"Swine Flu" H1N1 "pandemic" scare is for regimes in
trouble.
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- Worldwide media reports in recent days have painted a
picture of Ukraine as being under the Black Plague or worse. One of the
most egregious panic-mongers has been Pittsburgh Swine Flu "mapper"
Dr Henry Niman who earlier falsely predicted H5N1 Avian Flu would mutate
into a deadly human-to-human pandemic. It didn't.
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- Niman's map of the spread of alleged H1N1 Swine Flu since
April has given WHO, the US Government and CNN and major media a convenient
graphic to create the image of a new type of "bubonic plague"
threatening mankind unless we react with massive doses of untested vaccines
from such unscrupulous pharma bigs like GlaxoSmithKline or Novartis or
Roche with its dangerous Tamiflu drugs.
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- Early on Niman reported about events in Ukraine: "The
rapid rise in reported infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in the
past few days raise concerns that the virus is transmitting very efficientlythe
spike in fatalities and the frequency in hemorrhagic cases in Ukraine have
raised concerns." Niman added the alarming note, "The number
of infected patients has almost doubled to just under million, compared
to the report two days ago."
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- That's pretty scary stuff. It conjures images of the
reports of the Black Death in 1348 which is said to have killed up to 60%
of Europe's population. Though that history has been challenged, the image
as well as the equally terrifying if incorrect panic image of the so-called
Spanish Flu of 1918, are being applied in Ukraine.
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- Reality check?
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- The WHO, the de facto criminal organization responsible
for declaration of the H1N1 Pandemic last summer, allowing Governments
like the USA and Ukraine to declare martial law and a national state of
emergency, suspending all rights and imposing arrests and detentions, has
validated the dubious Ukraine claims of out-of-control spread of Swine
Flu. A WHO press statement November 3 declared, "Laboratory testing
in Ukraine has confirmed pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in samples taken
from patients in two of the most affected regions. As the pandemic virus
has rapidly become the dominant influenza strain worldwide, it can be assumed
that most cases of influenza in Ukraine are caused by the H1N1 virus."
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- The WHO added, "The outbreak in Ukraine may be indicative
of how the virus can behave in the northern hemisphere during the winter
season, particularly in health care settings typically found in Eastern
Europe. Given the potential significance of this outbreak as an early warning
signal, WHO commends the government of Ukraine for its transparent reporting
and open sharing of samples." The samples have been sent to the WHO
Mill Hill Influenza Reference Lab in London, not exactly inspiring confidence
in a scientifically honest report given the record of UK health authorities
in manipulating data to please the vaccine giants like GlaxoSmithKline.
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- WHO "strongly recommends early treatment with the
antiviral drugs, oseltamivir or zanamivir, for patients who meet treatment
criteria, even in the absence of a positive laboratory test confirming
H1N1 infection." That means Tamiflu, the highly dangerous drug whose
major shareholder includes former Pentagon head Don Rumsfeld. And it means
GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the reportedly equally dangerous rival Relenza
drug. The drugs produce precisely the symptoms of severe lung complications
found in flu and in some cases have reportedly caused death.
- Ukrainian election geopolitics
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- The bizarre developments in Ukraine over the past two
weeks are being blamed inside the country on intense Ukrainian election
politics. In four months national elections in Ukraine are due. Among rival
candidates are Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her chief rival, Arseniy
Yatseniuk.
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- Since Washington financed and organized the 2004 Orange
Revolution that brought a pro-NATO Victor Yushchenko in as President, Ukraine
politics has been a geopolitical tug-of war between Moscow and Washington.
How the current political games around allegations of H1N1 panic play into
that tug of war is not yet clear.
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- The recent speech in Warsaw by Vice President Joe Biden
offering Poland and the Czech Republic a "new and improved" version
of US anti-missile defense against Russia only four weeks after Obama announced
the US was backing out of a controversial earlier missile defense plan
for the two eastern European countries underscores the shambles of US strategic
policy towards Russia. Russia has been quick to take advantage as might
be expected, as a US missile shield on its borders, as I detail in Full
Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order, gives
the US a long-sought nuclear primacy over its only potential strategic
rival on the planet. At that point the resistance of the rest of the world
to incalculable or objectionable US policies, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Georgia or wherever, becomes moot.
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- It's clear Moscow has been working quietly to bring Ukraine,
an original part of Kiev Rus, and a strategically essential part of the
Russian economy, back into a more friendly "NATO-free" relationship
after five years of Orange Revolution chaos in Ukraine under Yushchenko.
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- Yatseniuk, a 35 year old former banker and aide to Washington's
darling, President Viktor Yushchenko, has charged that Tymoshenko is deliberately
fostering unnecessary panic in order to impose martial law and suspend
elections that she might well lose to Yatseniuk.
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- There definitely are political games going on by one
or another faction in the economically devastated Ukraine. Oleksandr Bilovol,
Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Health, claims the outbreak of flu cases in
Ukraine has been essentially contained in 11 out of 25 Ukrainian regions,
with the number of people allegedly stricken with H1N1 only 15% higher
than figures reported in previous years. "Figures in other the regions
are in line with 2007 and 2008," Bilovol said. As well the number
of reported deaths is also in line with deaths annually attributed to ordinary
influenza.
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- Tymoshenko declared the outbreak as the threat of the
third level the highest possible to unlock spending of up to
3 billion hryvnias to combat the swine flu. Among measures imposed by the
decree include shutting down schools and public gatherings for three weeks
across Ukraine, with the government also considering introducing restrictions
on movement of people between the regions.
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- Yatseniuk said the ban on public gatherings spreads fear
and panic helping Tymoshenko to promote herself on television, while hindering
other presidential candidates to campaign.
- Yatseniuk is Tymoshenko's biggest rival as both compete
for votes in western regions of Ukraine. He is perhaps the only candidate
that may challenge Tymoshenko in the first round of vote on January 17,
2010 to enter the runoff with opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych.
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- Yatseniuk said the panic spread by the government helps
overshadow issues politically damaging to Tymoshenko, including pedophile
and the murder scandals involving Tymoshenko lawmakers, and Ukraine's dismal
economic performance.
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- Prime Minister Tymoshenko, whatever the real facts of
the case, is using the WHO Swine Flu panic scenario to the hilt. In a recent
statement, she stated, "We cannot relax even for a moment because
the World Health Organization predicts two more waves of flu, including
the bird flu, are expected in Ukraine. There is no alternative to vaccination.
The entire world is going this way" A day earlier she admitted she
was not vaccinated and that she prefers "like all other people"
plans to rely on garlic, onion and lemon as a way of preventing the flu.
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- Ukraine Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn accuses Tymoshenko
as well, declaring, "You've organized the flu epidemic in order to
avoid responsibility for not supplying heat to houses, schools, higher
educational establishments, and kindergartens," he said in Parliament.
And Orange Revolution President, Yushchenko has declared there was no reason
for declaring an emergency in Ukraine. "There are no such reasons,"
Yushchenko said. "I am not a supporter of measures that freeze the
country, restrict its operation to levels that is hard to justify."
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- Ihor Popov, Deputy Chief of Staff to Yushchenko, said
that in case of emergency the election, which is due on Jan. 17, 2010,
would have to be "rescheduled."
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- Germany joins Swine Flu corruption
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- Not only is the Ukrainian government apparently using
fears of Swine Flu pandemic to change the domestic political calculus,
and President Barack Obama using the fears to impose an unnecessary state
of emergency. Now it comes out that the responsible German health authorities
are caught in a corrupt conflict of interest with the very pharma giants
profiting from government decisions on "anti-swine flu" vaccines.
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- The recent issue of the German weekly Der Spiegel, reports
that members of the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza (ESWI),
which claims to be an independent scientific advisory body advising EU
member governments on policies regarding H1N1 influenza, is anything but
independent. It's being financed by Big Pharma. ESWI claims it brings together
scientific "key opinion leaders in influenza." However the sole
financial backers are 10 pharmaceutical companies, including GlaxoSmithKline
-- manufacturer of the German swine flu vaccine -- and Roche -- producer
of the antiviral drug Tamiflu.
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- The group lists Walter Haas as one of its scientific
advisors. Haas coordinates Germany's flu pandemic preparedness measures
at the Robert-Koch-Institut (RKI), the federal institute for disease research.
ESWI portrays itself as an independent group of scientists. But even the
organization's own statute tells a different story, describing its role
as advising politicians and health authorities on "the benefits and
safety of influenza vaccines and antivirals" and initiating "a
policy for antiviral provisions."
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- The degree of fraud, deceit, official coverup and outright
criminal endangerment of the broad population by the current Swine Flu
hysteria is seemingly without precedent.
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- * F. William Engdahl is author of Full Spectrum Dominance:
Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. He may be contacted through
his website, HYPERLINK "http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net"
www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.
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