BIRD FLU The Pandemic Some Want To Have

[Guest guest]

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/Bird%20Flu%20or%20Cash%20Cow.html

The Pandemic Some Want To Have

 

 

 

By Eve Hillary

 

 

 

Bird Flu or Cash Cow?

 

The Pandemic Some Want To Have

 

 

 

By Eve Hillary

 

I’d finally lost my taste for TV. Its gaudy ads. Its manufactured news, mind

numbing sitcoms and titty-tainment. I’d successfully avoided TV for the entire

year, until one night my finger strayed onto the button and flicked around the

channels. Graphic footage of dead birds and masked “health” workers spraying

people with chemicals triggered a bad case of déjà vu.

 

I recalled the time I’d flown to South America to give a

presentation at an international Human Rights conference. A few months

previously, on March 4th, 2003, the first person had been diagnosed with SARS, a

brand new disease. It was Professor Liu Jianlun, a microbiologist working in a

laboratory involved in secret, government-sponsored work in China’s Guangdong

province.1 Incredibly, he had also been “researching” the H5N1 virus, now known

as the “Bird Flu.”

 

This was closely followed by two other deaths; a Singaporean

researcher working in a laboratory of the Singapore Environmental Health

Institute and a post doctoral student working on West Nile virus. Singaporean

Health Minister Mr. Balaji Sadasivan, stated that the researcher’s exposure to

the SARS virus “is most likely linked to that laboratory... where the SARS virus

is [also] cultured.”2 It made me wonder just how many bio-hazard labs were in

operation and what other new germs they were engineering.

 

I’d barely made my flight. My husband and I had been very busy in

our Integrative (wholistic) medical clinic which offered patients a variety of

orthodox as well as complementary and reliable alternative medical treatments.

People traveled long distances to get treatment for cancer and other serious

diseases. For most it was the first time they had been able to make lifestyle

changes and receive physical, emotional and spiritual healing. They literally

got a new lease of life. They felt better and looked better.

 

Lately, since the media had whipped up fear of a worldwide epidemic,

dozens of patients visited the clinic because they were worried about SARS. The

health department had issued a SARS bulletin to all doctors which listed only

three criteria for making the diagnosis of SARS: Cough, fever and a recent trip

overseas. That could include almost anyone, and I immediately became suspicious.

 

It troubled me that authorities did not list a specific disease

profile for a brand new illness that seemed to one minute reside exclusively

inside biohazard laboratories and the next minute allegedly spread into human

populations. I’d also noticed drug company shares rise from the sale of drugs

for respiratory illness.

 

In our practice we found very few drugs were in fact necessary

for healing and disease prevention. Our patients who had taken regular doses of

vitamins, minerals, omega oils, antioxidants and other natural supplements had

rarely come down with colds, flu, and other infections. I hadn’t had a cold or

flu for over ten years since I had started taking regular supplements. After

much illness and many attempts at personal healing, I finally realised the fact

the only thing that would keep me healthy was a functional immune system.

 

The day I boarded the aircraft two passengers were plucked from

Sydney airport and quarantined in a Sydney hospital. Media reports showed masked

Asian airport personnel prowling around terminals with fever detector gadgets,

hauling hot and bothered travellers off into quarantine areas. Having finally

made it on board I had a chance to think again about the emergence of diseases

for profit, an issue which I had just published in my second book Health

Betrayal.

 

I thought about AIDS – a previously unheard of disease entity which

emerged in the early 1980’s. A few years earlier Merck pharmaceutical company

had developed an experimental hepatitis vaccine which was given to gay men and

Africans. By 1980 the AIDS epidemic started in those populations which had

received the experimental vaccine.3 Since then the WHO (World Health

Organisation) with its close ties to pharmaceutical companies, has strictly

mandated billions of doses of various types of vaccines to Africans and other

third world residents where AIDS has spread like wild fire. Governments have

vaccinated unwilling populations at gunpoint. One African activist, Kihura Nkuba

writes:

 

“The enthusiasm of government to give vaccines to a people that it

normally gives nothing [to] was seen as very suspicious. The forcing of them to

take a vaccine against a disease they know to be harmless and which they know

how to cure in its harmful state was seen as government hell bent on killing its

own population for the benefit of… white world. All village people know that

once you have recovered from measles you will never catch it again, but here

they were telling people to vaccinate even those who have recovered from

measles. In other villages police armed to the teeth moved from house to house

searching for children to immunise.”

 

In 2002 Nkuba wrote this after a vaccination campaign: “…there was

one mother who had four children, and she hid one and took three other children

for vaccination, and three children died and that one survived.”

 

It is noteworthy that of over 45 million people afflicted with

HIV/AIDS worldwide, 39 million of them are in third world countries. In 2003 the

average AIDS patient, who could afford it, paid US$15,000 per year for AIDS

drugs which have not been shown to be effective in the treatment of the

disease.4

 

In late 2001 someone mailed anthrax bacillus to several key

individuals and news organisations in the US. Two people subsequently died of

anthrax. The strain was identified as originating from Fort Detrick – a military

bio-weapons facility. The anthrax had been weaponised, its potency increased for

use in biological warfare. There are few facilities known in the world to have

that capacity. They include US military laboratories and a government

contractor.5

 

While the mainstream media whipped up anti-Muslim sentiment, drug

company cash registers started ringing. Almost immediately, sales for Cipro, an

antibiotic made by Bayer, hit the roof as 30,000 Americans started taking the

drug, just in case. Terrified Americans thought nothing of paying US$700 for a

two month supply of Cipro despite its potentially serious side effects. Other

generic versions of the drug were available but not widely publicised. The

anthrax scare resulted in lucrative new drug company contracts to manufacture

both anthrax and smallpox vaccinations for the military and general population.

 

It also gave rise to the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act,

giving the government wide powers to quarantine, drug and inject vaccinations

into persons at gunpoint in the event of a “public health emergency” being

declared. Many US states passed this Bill after September 11, which included an

exemption to drug companies and vaccine makers for any vaccine deaths or

injuries that would occur.6 Public advocacy groups have already started work on

having the Bill repealed, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.

 

On the long flight I had a chance to think about the West Nile Virus

(WNV) which first broke out in a poor, predominately black section of New York

City (NY) in August 1999, when it had never been known to exist in the US. The

virus had only ever been known in East Africa where it resulted in a mild

disease that did not affect other animal and bird populations to any significant

degree. However, the new NY strain of the WNV is able to jump the species

barrier. Since the year 2000 over 10,000 wild birds have died, countless horses,

primates and the human death toll exceeds 146 Americans. Only the most

vulnerable people die, however. As many as 200,000 people are infected and are

clinically well, posing a good argument for keeping the immune system

functioning well. The new strain has spread over most eastern US states. While

health officials claim the WNV virus jumped into the US from Africa, the new

virulent NY strain had been cultured and engineered in biohazard facilities for

years and sold to labs around the world.

 

Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies including OraVax have made

millions in WNV vaccine research and products. Thomas Monath, Vice President of

Research and Medical Affairs at OraVax, is one of the world’s leading

arbovirologists. He became an advisor to NY Mayor Giuliani when the WNV problem

first emerged in the city. Monath had previously developed genetically

engineered vaccines against WNV type organisms in his capacity as the Chief of

the Virology Division, US Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

 

Since the 1950s the US military began developing bio-warfare

weapons at Fort Detrick by cooking up germs from exotic animal diseases intended

to cripple the Soviet or other enemy economies by killing horses, cattle, birds

and swine with crippling new epidemics. By the 1970s new advances in genetic

engineering allowed the creation of new designer viruses that jump species

barriers and even cause cancer. Since then many analysts have claimed these

germs have been used for population control as well as commercial purposes with

the assistance of high level US government agencies.

 

In fact plagues of animal diseases had badly affected the UK which

had slaughtered almost four million animals after an outbreak of foot and mouth

disease (FMD). Internet-based encyclopedia Wikipedia defines the disease as a

highly contagious but non-fatal viral disease, meaning it is similar to the

common cold in humans. If left to their own devices animals recover from the

disease with permanent immunity to it. However, laboratories licensed to

manipulate or engineer the FMD virus can create forms that differ from the wild

virus strain. The UK animals were infected with type O pan Asia strain, which is

not normally found in the UK. Foot and mouth virus “research” was carried out by

Merial Animal Health. This facility, owned by Merck and Aventis, is also a

vaccine production laboratory located near Pirbright, Surrey, not far from

Britain’s own government Institute for Animal Health.

 

According to the Sunday Express, a routine audit into the

government’s bio-warfare research laboratory Porton Down revealed that a

container of foot and mouth virus went missing two months before the outbreak in

early 2001.7 While it is still unknown who was responsible for the outbreak,

there were certainly many who profited from it. Merck’s Merial is the leading

supplier of foot and mouth disease vaccine.8 After the UK beef market collapsed

overnight, Tyson Foods, the US based largest meat and poultry producer and

packer in the world, expanded its international market into the UK. The outbreak

proved to be catastrophic to UK agriculture and rural families but a lucrative

cash cow to multinational slaughter houses, food processors and pharmaceutical

companies.

 

My flight arrived at midnight in Panama City, where I disembarked

and waited for another flight to Columbia. I was tired and wanted nothing more

than to get on board and catch a few hours sleep, but I was about to learn a

lesson about the political benefits of unleashing fear. Unbeknownst to me, a

flight from Tokyo had arrived at San Jose International Airport on red alert

after the cabin crew informed US ground officials of five people aboard

suspected of having SARS. The reason for the alert, as it later turned out, was

that the passengers had simply coughed. Official fear mongering included few

actual facts about SARS, an atypical pneumonia virus, which had only ever lived

in a bio-lab before it appeared in several Asian countries simultaneously.

 

Of the alleged 2960 cases of SARS worldwide, 119 people died, a

death rate of 4% from the virus. In comparison, 3-5 million people are affected

by seasonal influenza virus, having identical symptoms, resulting in between

250,000 and 500,000 deaths every year around the world, mainly affecting high

risk groups such as the elderly, poorly nourished or chronically ill.10

 

Dr. Loraine Day MD, a distinguished US physician states: “The

supposed disorder of 'SARS': A. CANNOT be distinguished, by its symptoms, from

virtually ANY other mild or severe respiratory disorder! And B. CANNOT be

distinguished by any specific microorganism! If I, a highly trained physician,

CANNOT distinguish SARS from ANY OTHER type of routine pneumonia based on ANY of

the government’s published information, how are lay people going to do it?”12

 

The atmosphere seemed unusually tense around the Panama terminal

during the early hours of the morning. I drank from my bottle of water, and

cleared my throat after the dry air on the plane had irritated it. This caught

the eye of several uniformed health department personnel scanning the crowd in

the transit lounge. I looked away as I felt two sets of dark eyes scanning me

suspiciously. When a passing crowd of travellers obscured the officials’ view of

me I hastily moved away to another lounge. Why? Because, new public health

legislation around the world modelled on the US Model State Emergency Health

Powers Act means force is allowed in detaining and quarantining anyone, using

the latest disease as a reason, whether it actually exists or not. That means

fasten your seat belts travellers, because now flight attendants, cleaners,

teachers, general informants and bureaucrats will be practicing medicine without

a license. Personally, I’d rather take my chances with a real doctor than an

airport employee.

 

Bird Flu – Pandemic of Greed

 

Since my trip I wondered why the first SARS deaths involved Asian

scientists working in a biohazard lab with West Nile Virus and bird flu. The

bird flu has made its rounds yearly, severely affecting Asian countries where

117 people have allegedly been infected and 60 have allegedly died since 1997.

Most deaths occurred in Vietnam, where scientific facilities are barely adequate

to make a definitive diagnosis.

 

Prior to 1997, the wild bird flu was a rare and relatively mild

virus affecting only birds. The first case of bird flu affecting a human

appeared in Asia in 1997. Apparently the wild virus had mysteriously changed to

H5N1 strain, a variety that could very rarely affect humans when ingesting

infected meat or in very close contact with birds. The “high path” H5N1 strain

appeared suddenly and has been known to be located in many bio-hazard labs

around the world.

 

When the Associated Press reported the death of a 60-year-old woman

allegedly of bird flu, the US government halted “all chicken imports from China

in a move to curb the spread of the virus.” Shortly after, the first wave of

slaughter began with 1.2 million Asian chickens. By 2003, 40 million birds had

been slaughtered and Tyson foods, the Arkansas based largest meat producer and

packer in the world has been making steady inroads into the previously closed

Asian poultry market, filling the gap in production.

 

The “high path” H5N1 strain hit the Asian countries hardest,

such as Thailand, Japan, Vietnam and China who rely on poultry products for

export and pose a real competition to giant US based meat processing

corporations. These countries have had strong independent markets catering to

domestic poultry needs, traditionally impenetrable to Western imports.

 

Meanwhile the US reported a “low path” H5N2 outbreak of bird

flu in Texas in 2004, which has not disrupted US exports. Tyson Foods chief

administrative officer Greg Lee is reported by Reuters to have said: “We are

seeing and do expect to see some positive benefit as a result of disruptions in

some of the Asian production.”11 Meanwhile, since May 2005, new outbreaks of

high path H5N1 bird flu strain has cut a swathe across poultry in Russia,

Greece, Holland, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Romania, Mongolia and Croatia, where

massive poultry exterminations have begun. The poultry infection near Eastern

Europe has caused widespread suspicion. A member of the Liberal Democratic

faction of the Russian State Duma, Aleksei Mitrofanov, has said in a

parliamentary speech that bird flu was invented by Americans who wanted to

dominate the world’s poultry markets.13

 

US independent public health expert Dr. Len Horowitz notes:

 

“According to USA Today (October 9, 2005), ‘European health

officials are working to contain the [avian flu] virus, which so far has not

infected anyone in the region.’ Although, allegedly ‘more than 140 million birds

have died or been destroyed,... and financial losses to the poultry sector have

topped $10 billion.’ This propaganda actually admits, ‘the current virus, known

as H5N1, has not yet mutated to the point at which it can easily spread from

person to person.’ In fact, it is likely to have never spread from person to

person other than during laboratory handling!”

 

He further states: “In not a single case has human-to-human

communicability been confirmed. So long as that remains the case, there is no

bird flu threat to the human population of places such as Vietnam, much less the

United States.”

 

Dr. Nancy Cox, Chief, Influenza Branch, CDC (Centers for Disease

Control) has said during a February 2004 news conference, “…As you’ve already

heard, avian influenza viruses usually do not infect humans.” Meanwhile, the

prestigious British Medical Journal editorial of October 2005 says: “The lack of

sustained human-to-human transmission suggests that this H5N1 avian virus does

not currently have the capacity to cause a human pandemic.”

 

Despite the scientific evidence to the contrary, US and global

health officials insist on calling the bird flu a human pandemic. A UN spokesman

David Nabarro said in late 2005: “5 million to 150 million people ‘could’ be

killed ‘if’ the virus mutated and jumped to humans.” While US Health and Human

Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said: “If it isn’t the current H5N1 virus that

leads to an influenza pandemic, at some point in our nation’s future, another

virus will.”

 

Meanwhile panic is being spread globally. An October 31, 2005

article in the Australian Age newspaper states: “Disaster experts from the

Asia-Pacific region will meet in Brisbane today to discuss how to cope with a

global outbreak of deadly bird flu, amid warnings that international travel

would be virtually wiped out in a pandemic.” While the Canberra Times reported:

“Health Minister Tony Abbott yesterday said overseas travel would almost cease

for a ‘significant period’ if avian flu broke out in the region.”18 Australia,

regarded by some as the Asia Pacific regional policeman for implementing global

policies, has not had a case of bird flu to date.

 

Without signs of a human epidemic, on October 28, 2005 the US Senate

passed an $8 billion emergency bill to fund research, drugs and vaccines, based

on no scientific evidence that bird flu constitutes a significant human threat

and overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The administration is seeking an

additional $6 billion to $10 billion from US taxpayers, according to a current

Business Week report.

 

“President Bush this week asked the leaders of the world’s top

vaccine manufacturers – Chiron, Sanofi-Aventis, Wyeth, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck

– to come to the White House on Friday to discuss preparations for pandemic

flu,” reports the New York Times in October.

 

Meanwhile taxpayer billions will also flow into the coffers of

selected pharmaceutical giants such as Roche, which holds the sole license to

manufacture Tamiflu, an anti viral drug that is meant only for reducing the

symptoms of the seasonal influenza and has never been tested for use for the

bird flu. Thousands of Americans are lining up for their dose when there has not

been a single case of H5N1 bird flu in the US. Without a single human case of

H5N1, Tamiflu is in such demand that a new US factory is being planned to ensure

there is more of the drug available by the 2006 flu season.

 

President Bush is discussing the use of the military to enforce

quarantine of suspected bird flu carriers. The US plans to install a new

quarantine station at Logan International Airport to diagnose travellers.

Preliminary discussions include plans to impose 10 year jail terms on people who

breach orders to stay at home, in hospital or within their city during an

influenza outbreak. This has resulted in heavy opposition among independent

thinkers.

 

The Boston Globe reported on October 8, 2005: “On Tuesday, the

president suggested that the United States should confront the risk of a bird

flu pandemic by giving him the power to use the US military to quarantine

‘part of the country’ experiencing an ‘outbreak’. So we have moved quickly in

the past month, at least metaphorically, from the global war on terror to a

proposed war on hurricanes, to a proposed war on the bird flu.”14

An editorial on Freemarketnews.com notes: “President Bush’s recent

remarks about mandating vaccinations for avian flu is further evidence of the

militarisation of public health care and would also seem to reflect a dangerous

misunderstanding about disease and palliative methodologies.” Many qualified

doctors would agree, including Dr. Lorraine Day MD who states: “It is virtually

IMPOSSIBLE to get sick if your immune system is functioning properly.”

Solutions Are Already Here

A Culture Change is spreading around the world, albeit largely

unreported by mainstream media. However, more people now source their news and

health information from the Internet and alternative new publications than from

the mainstream media which is funded by corporate advertisers and reflects

corporate rather than public interest.

Fresh knowledge and truth is blowing a wind of change through every

country, profession, corporation and corridor of power on the planet. The truth,

in fact, is astonishingly powerful. It empowers people to act, to challenge

wrongs, to make informed choices, to create authentic lives, to have better

options, to resist deception, to have more power, confidence, better

communication, more faith, hope, and love. In contrast to creating wars, the

truth makes for better families, better communities and more freedom.

For example, it is increasingly known that mainstream medicine is

becoming the leading cause of death because it is dominated by improper drug

company and bio-tech influences. Health professionals and ethical scientists are

now reporting truth in medicine and science from independent websites and

alternative news publications, and millions are clicking on to get important

health and scientific information. Lawyers are now tracking legal and

constitutional abuses. Activists and independent consumer advocates are now

reaching millions of people, spawning a host of information and support

organisations, ethical companies and investment opportunities.

Scores of former mainstream journalists are becoming independent,

reporting news on alternative news sites, with some creating their own popular

identities as ethical broadcasters, investigative writers and filmmakers. This

alternative media is attracting millions of readers each day who have abandoned

mainstream media sources. This has caused a massive resurgence of grass roots

health care, activism, literature, democracy, family values, morality and

spirituality, which is threatening to rattle the cages of those in power.

“Things have changed,” writes Ignacio Ramonet in Le Monde. “Even

the ‘masters of the world’ are not free of trouble... the G8 leaders were

besieged and publicly upstaged by upwards of 200,000 demonstrators… people are

not impressed. Democratic election does not justify presidents when they betray

their electoral promises and the public interest, or embark on wholesale

privatisation… Nor does it entitle them to move heaven and earth to service the

demands of the companies that financed their electoral campaigns.”

Footnotes:

1. Original story appeared on April 4, and only in the Italian newspaper La

Repubblica under the title: ”Da super scienziato a grande untore il paziente

zero del virus killer” by Marco Lupis.

2. Channelnewsasia report April 2003.

3. Death in the Air: Globalism Terrorism and Toxic Warfare by Dr. Leonard

Horowitz. Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 2001

4. FindLaw.com, November 26, 2003

5. " Anthrax Attacks Pushed Open an Ominous Door " , by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg,

Chair, Federation of American Scientists Working Group on Biological Weapons, 22

September, 2002.

6. www.whale.to/a/kihura.htm

7. www.greens.org/s-r/27/27-16.html

8. www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/facts.htm

9. www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=1320

10. www.masternewmedia.org/2003/04/24/sars_separating_fact_from_fiction.htm

11. www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067203/posts

12. www.drday.com/sars.htm

13. MosNews, Moscow, 21 October, 2005.

14. " Bush’s Risky Flu Pandemic Plan " , by George J. Annas, Boston Globe, October

8, 2005.

15. " Presidents under pressure " , by Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde, August 2001.

16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_State_Emergency_Health_Powers_Act

17. “The Rise of Global Activism,” a feature article by Eve Hillary 2004,

www.evehillary.org

18. Canberra Times, 30 October 2005.

Some Independent Sources

1. Seek a balance of information from independent media sources:

www.michaelmoore.com, www.fintandunne.com, www.indymedia.org,

www.independent-media.tv and many other alternative media sources.

2. Public health information and health freedom sites: Try www.mercola.com,

www.drday.com, www.mercola.com/2005/oct/25/avian_flu_epidemic_is_a_hoax.htm,

www.evehillary.org, www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/v-kaiser.htm,

www.credence.org and many others include information on how to stay healthy

naturally, despite increased manufactured illness and official misinformation.

3. Before consenting to any vaccine, check the information from National Vaccine

Information Centre www.nvic.org or www.avn.org.au or

www.tetrahedron.org/articles/vaccine_awareness.html

4. Information on vaccine exemptions: www.thinktwice.com. Also everyone has the

right to make contracts or agreements with others. You may hold your health care

provider legally accountable in any jurisdiction for any administered

vaccination or invasive medication or treatment by requiring them to sign a

private agreement to accept full legal liability for any damages that may occur

as a result of the vaccination/medication/treatment. See

www.vaclib.org/legal/accept1.htm or www.vaclib.org/exempt/australia.htm for a

sample agreement. Vaccine exemptions are also possible in Africa. Or enroll your

child into the newly forming vaccine free preschools.

5. Support the Institute of Science in Society who want independent science

supported “to establish broad funding criteria that put public interest ahead of

‘wealth creation’, and to include ethical and safety considerations before the

research is funded.” www.i-sis.org.uk/ISPF7.php . Sign up for their excellent

newsletter.

6. Judiciary watchdog: www.judgewatch.org/top/search.htm

______________________________\

_

Eve Hillary is based in Sydney, Australia. She has been a freelance

investigative writer for over ten years and the author of Health Betrayal and

Children of a Toxic Harvest. As an internationally published writer and speaker,

Eve specialises in documenting the human impact of multinational medical and

biotech corporations, emerging epidemics, gene pollution, chemical pollution,

government regulators, CODEX and their implications to human health. Eve has

spent 25 years in health care as a health practitioner where she has observed

the medical industry at first hand from the inside. In 2005, Eve conducted a

Health Freedom campaign in Australia to preserve natural health supplements from

the influence of CODEX Alimentarius. Knowledge is power, and Eve’s primary

objective is to return this power to the individuals whose lives depend on it.

She uncompromisingly believes that knowing the truth is a right that belongs to

the public. Her web site is www.evehillary.org.