I'm no conspiracy nut but I'm always suspicious of the monsters created when people are taken over by greed and lust for power. I've seen over and over how people are willing to sell their soul for money.
I'm not saying the "Avian Flu" or what's more widely known as the "bird flu" doesn't exist - apparently it does, but how much of a threat is it - really? Only 68 people have reportedly died from the dreaded disease in all of Asia and Europe. Does that sound like a pandemic when obviously thousands or millions of people have been exposed? Many epidemiologists question the danger of this new threat-du-jour.
And Nothing about the current effort to cultivate and profit from a widespread medical panic is new. In fact, Americans suffered a similar bout of epidemic promotion 30 years ago with the "swine flu" debacle. Have we failed to remember that? That one also had political implications as this one does. And do you recall the "Legionnaires scare" ? The news media loves a good scary story and political advisors know this. Terrorists, WMD's, flu pandemics, nuclear holocaust, everything but the biggest and most ominous threat which is real - global warming.
Have you heard how many shots of the bird flu drug Tamiflu will be bought and stored by our government with your tax dollars to prepare for this "pandemic"? The push is on for the US government to begin spending $2 billion to purchase 20 million doses of an anti-viral drug called Tamiflu, a drug whose effectiveness appears to be, at best, "questionable." And have you considered that when and if you become frightened enough by our government and the media into getting your shot how much it will cost you - even though you have already paid for it once with your tax dollars? And even if they give it to you free, which is doubtful, more than one shot reportedly will be required. How much profit is going to be made by the pharmaceuticals and their shareholders when the government makes this huge purchase and hundreds of millions of people are convinced they are in danger of dying if they don't get the shots? And how many people will have adverse reactions to the vaccine and become crippled or even die as a result? Probably more here in the US than will actually die from the bird flu worldwide over several years.
And if you don't think adverse reactions to this drug is possible, this pandemic scare and the anticipated use of the drug Tamiflu has prompted the Bush Whitehouse to push for and justify regulation rollbacks and liability protection for the already pampered drug industry before the drug is administered. Protecting the hugely profitable pharmaceutical industry is good politics for those who benefit from those profits - especially those in office.
Do you recall a similar scare in 1976, when a military recruit in New Jersey died from a flu that experts speculated might be the "swine flu" virus of 1918 pandemic fame. Donald Rumsfeld, who was then and is again the nation's secretary of defense, made the imminent "swine flu" a political issue to add some spark to the campaign of President Ford, an uncharismatic candidate that needed help to oppose the challenge by Democrat Jimmy Carter. At Rumsfeld's urging, the administration would ensure that "every man, woman and child" was vaccinated. Huge amounts of vaccine were produced and distributed quickly. This was designed to increase voter sentiment for Ford - and perhaps huge profits for shareholders.
They had a "swine flu" vaccine which suspicious pig farmers had refused to touch, fearful it might wipe out their pigs. The manufacturers had only tried to get $80 million from the pig farmers; but when the pig farmers balked at this sale, they turned to the other market, humans. The President of the United States, Gerald Ford, was enlisted to persuade the public to undergo a national vaccination campaign. The moving force behind the scheme, in addition to being what was thought to be a great political move to strengthen Ford's popularity, was a $135 million windfall profit for the major drug manufacturers. On April I5, 1976, Congress passed Public Law 94-266, which provided $135 million of taxpayers' funds to pay for a national swine flu inoculation campaign. HEW distributed the vaccine to state and local health agencies on a national basis for inoculation, at no charge..
Hardly had the swine flu campaign been completed than the reports of the casualties began to pour in. Within a few months, claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the swine flu vaccine. But there was no "swine flu" pandemic, it was panic over nothing. But an amazing amount of money was made by a pharmaceutical company and its shareholders at the expense and suffering of thousands of people who had adverse reactions to this inoculation. It is now estimated that some 3675 people suffered paralysis from the vaccine.
My family didn't get the shots. - did yours?
Today we have the "chicken flu", or as it's now called the "bird flu". A pharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences in California, the company that developed the bird flu vaccine Tamiflu, has leased the manufacturing and distribution rights to the giant pharmaceutical Roche. Gilead's stock was selling for $7.00 a share in late 2001. It has since split twice and now sells for over $60 per share. If you had invested $7,000 in Gilead in December 2001 it would be worth over $180,000 today - less than five years. Guess who just sold over $5 million of Gilead stock? Amazingly, it's Donald Rumsfeld. Doesn't it make you wonder which company developed the vaccine for the swine flu in 1976 and if Rumsfeld held any of that stock? Like Cheney once chaired Haliburton, Rumsfeld chaired Gilead until 2001 when he joined the Bush administration.
Mr Rumsfeld was on the board of Gilead from 1988 to 2001, and was its chairman from 1997. He then left to join the Bush administration, but retained a huge shareholding and even after his recent sale has much, much more remaining stock in Gilead. Just what role do you think Rumsfeld may have in promoting the scare of "bird flu" today as he apparently did in 1976 regarding "swine flu"?
Reported in the Independent on Sunday the Pentagon said: "Secretary Rumsfeld has no relationship with Gilead Sciences, Inc beyond his investments in the company. When he became Secretary of Defense in January 2001, divestiture of his investment in Gilead was not required by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Office of Government Ethics or the Department of Defense Standards of Conduct Office.Upon taking office, he recused himself from participating in any particular matter when the matter would directly and predictably affect his financial interest in Gilead Sciences."
It's not too difficult to believe that Rumsfeld, as Secretary of Defense, is pushing the "bird flu" pandemic scare as hard as he can. Just as he had Ford do in 1976, he's got George W Bush scaring people by stating "That's when it gets dangerous, when it goes bird-person-person." And of course we all know we can believe Bush - he's never tried to get us to believe anything that was untrue.
These people are absolutely disgusting and reprehensible. The quest for empire has no moral boundaries.
Gary
Check these sites out for more on Rumsfeld and his connection to this issue. The first report is one of the best. There are many more.
http://uncapitalist.com/blog/?itemid=856
http://curezone.com/art/read.asp?ID=45&db=1&C0=1
http://www.whale.to/a/swine_fluq.html
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