Ukraine, WHO And The Geopolitics Of Swine Flu Panic

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Ukraine, WHO And The Geopolitics Of Swine Flu Panic

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F.William Engdahl

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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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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 efficiently, the spike in

fatalities and the frequency in hemorrhagic cases in Ukraine have raised

concerns.â€

Niman added the alarming note, “The number of infected patients has almost

doubled to just under million, compared to the report two days ago.â€

 

 

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.

 

 

Reality check?

 

 

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.â€

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

Tymoshenko declared the outbreak as the threat of the third level & shy;

the highest possible & shy; 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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.â€

 

 

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.â€

 

 

Germany joins Swine Flu corruption

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.â€

 

 

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.

 

 

* F. William Engdahl is author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian

Democracy in the New World Order. He may be contacted through his website

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