Even more infectious than the avian flu – which , to date, has reportedly caused merely 100-some human deaths worldwide in perhaps 200 human cases so far, amid possibly falling rates of infection – is the panic-marketing.
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Catastrophically virulent!
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We're talking about the Homeland Security-CDC-White House fear mongering. The fascistic plans for mandatory inoculation and mass incarceration. Are you ready for your injection of questionably safe vaccine? Your forced roundup if "infected" and, subsequently, your possible separation from your family and internment in "isolation camps"? And who does it benefit? Big Pharma. Big time!
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By now you must have seen the likes of USA Today and other unindicted mainstream media co-conspirators shamelessly pandering to this vile ruse: "Bird flu will hit the United States – it's only a matter of time – and not all states are ready to respond to the deadly virus, Homeland Security's top doctor warns."
Welcome to Bizarro-World – otherwise known as America – a parallel universe of heinous untruths presented as reality.
However, not everyone's buying the bird flu paranoia. Recently, I got the following letter from a broadcaster in Asheville, N.C.:
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- Now that CBS has scared the daylights out of us with their "Bird Flu Pandemic" two-hour atrocity, you might read the following ... sent on to me by a friend.
It was written by a doctor and presents a more sobering view of the threat.
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"Bird Flu"
Do you know that "bird flu" was discovered in Vietnam nine years ago?
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Do you know that barely 100 people have died from it throughout the whole world in all that time?
Do you know that it was the Americans who alerted us to the efficacy of the human antiviral Tamiflu as a preventive?
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Do you know that Tamiflu barely alleviates some symptoms of the "common" flu?
Do you know that its efficacy against the common flu is questioned by a very large part of the scientific community?
Do you know that against a supposed mutant virus such as H5N1, Tamiflu barely alleviates the illness?
Do you know that to date avian flu affects birds only?
Do you know who markets Tamiflu?
ROCHE LABORATORIES!
Do you know who sold the marketing rights for Tamiflu to Roche Laboratories in 1996?
GILEAD SCIENCES INC.
Do you know who was the then president of Gilead Sciences Inc. and remains a major shareholder?
DONALD RUMSFELD, the present secretary of defense of the USA!
Do you know that the base of Tamiflu is crushed aniseed?
Do you know who controls 90 percent of the world's production of this tree?
Roche.
Do you know that sales of Tamiflu were over $254 million in 2004 and more than $1 billion in 2005?
Do you know how many more millions Roche and Gilead can earn in the coming months if this business of "bird flu" fear and panic continues?
So the summary of the story is as follows:
Bush's friends decide that the medicine Tamiflu is the solution for a pandemic that has not yet occurred and that has caused a hundred deaths worldwide in nine years.
This medicine doesn't so much as cure the common flu.
In normal conditions the virus does not affect humans.
Rumsfeld sells the marketing rights for Tamiflu to Roche for which they pay him a fortune.
Roche acquires 90 percent of the global production of crushed aniseed, the base for the antivirus.
The governments of the entire world are threatened by a "possible" pandemic and then buy industrial quantities of the product from Roche.
So we end up paying for medicine while Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush continue to spread pandemic fear in order to do their business ... along with their other big one, oil.
ARE WE CRAZY!? OR ARE WE IDIOTS!?
Please pass this on so that it can be known!
So, my fellow Americans, we already seem to have a "national language," and surely it is Double-Speak. That is, unless you reclaim your power and take drastic steps to return truth to our government. In the meantime, you can build up your immune system with some savvy suggestions from herbal queen Susun Weed, and, if you wish, also arm yourself with Oscillococcinum, a popular, economical, effective homeopathic flu remedy.
As New York state public health practitioner/therapist/nurse Pam Ladds reminds us:
"Bird flu was the 2005/06 disease of the year! Last year was SARS, the year before West Nile, and next year there will be something else. Apparently, we need our adrenalin fix each year, panic about something and then breathe a sigh of relief when it moves on. Of course, our focusing ability is very limited so there needs to be a new wonder-disease each year. It's probably not a recent phenomenon; after all, kids spent years being terrorized about Cooties. So next year it will be anthrax again or smallpox or hoof-and-mouth disease and we can all run around screaming, 'the sky is falling.'"
She points out, "How can we talk about bird flu and not of Chicken Little!? After all, this could have been his demise!"
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