Bird Flu 2007 - An NWO Production

[Fintan]

A lot of people are by now familiar with the Rumsfeld & Tamiflu motivation for the bird flu hype. But this post from another forum exposes another hidden motive:

[Fintan]

The Onion should be given a public service award of some kind.

[hawkwind]

After 3 sleepless nights trying to nurse my Polly back to health, I realized there was no hope ... the endless sneezing, coughing and wheezing was getting too much for me to handle. To make matters worse, my insurance refused to pay for her Tamiflu prescriptions. I had to make a big decision and I'm making a plea to the group for some advice ...

Is it, red wine with meat and white with poultry or fish ... is it the other way around?? I can never remember ...

- Hawk

[scoreless]

The East Bay Express is a free “alternative” paper out of Oakland, CA, now part of the New Times chain.

In November 2005, they published a feature article called, “Endangered Species: Free-Range Poultry May Be the First Casualty in Our War on Avian Flu.” Here’s the link (by the way, the buttons at the bottom for clicking to the “Next” page weren’t working, but the “Show All” button did work):

http://eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-11-30/news/feature.html

The scary parts of this article—about the “avian flu” pandemic that’s surely on the way, and about how hopeless people are for thinking they can just keep on growing chickens in their back yard like it was 1950 or something—read almost like that Onion piece that Fintan posted!

Back in November, when I read the article, I angrily thought, “This is the first major piece of deliberate propaganda in this newspaper since it became a New Times acquisition.”

However, as I just discovered when I looked the article up online, it’s written by the paper’s food critic.

Before typing this note I glanced at the titles of the first one-third of the writer’s online articles for the Express (over 300 pieces in total), and they’re all local restaurant reviews and short columns about food topics—except for three full-length feature articles: One on the chocolate business, one on the wine business, and this one about “avian flu.” No history of producing articles that have any kind of political slant.

I mention those facts because it really looks to me like this writer is someone who has unknowingly absorbed an entire propaganda creation (“avian flu is about to become a pandemic that will require poor people everywhere to stop growing their own food!!!”) and is relaying it with perfect fidelity, without realizing he’s doing that.

The article is interesting for its quotes from public health officials and its interviews with free-range chicken growers.

[Janama]

[capt w]

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19th Jan 2006 WHO- Girl In Iraq Did Not Die Of Bird Flu

The World Health Organization says the teen did not have the bird flu.

- Geneva, Switzerland -- The World Health Organization says the bird flu virus is not being blamed for the recent death of a 15-year-old girl in Iraq. The agency says its Eastern Mediterranean office has "dismissed" the theory that the virus caused the girl's death. The girl died earlier this week near Iraq's border with Turkey, which is the site of a recent bird flu outbreak.

Iraqi health authorities agree that preliminary results of tests taken at the girl's home also suggest she did not die from avian flu. However, officials there say it's too early to offer a definitive conclusion.

The investigation into the girl's death follows concerns that the virus could spread from Turkey to neighboring countries. - wfmy.com
http://www.wfmy.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=55636
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January 31, 2006 - Teen Girl Who Died May Have Had Bird Flu
From Times Wire Reports

A 14-year-old girl who died in northern Iraq this month had bird flu, Iraq's health minister said. A World Health Organization official said preliminary results from a U.S. military laboratory in Cairo showed the H5N1 bird flu virus, but it was seeking further tests.


If confirmed, it would be the first known human case of the virus in Iraq, whose northern provinces border Turkey, where more than 20 people have been diagnosed with the virus. - latimes.com/
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs31.2jan31,0,2738995.story?coll=la-headlines-world
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January 31, 2006 - IRAQ: First bird flu case confirmed

- The Ministry of Health has announced that a 15-year-old girl who died on 17 January in the northern town of Raniya, close to Sulaimaniyah, was a victim of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, despite earlier reports to the contrary.

"We are sorry to inform the Iraqis and the world that the case of bird flu in northern Kurdistan has been confirmed as being the first case in Iraq," said Abdel Mohammed, Iraqi minister of health on 30 January. "We alert the population to be aware of migratory birds."

The announcement was made after a sample was tested at a US Naval Medical Research Unit laboratory in Egypt. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is awaiting its own tests to be confirmed in the United Kingdom. - alertnet.org
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/d5448d7087e68e8c8dbf33dd4e375785.htm
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January 31, 2006 - WHO Puzzled with Young Turkish Bird Flu Victims

By Cihan News Agency Published: Tuesday, zaman.com

The World Health Organization on Monday expressed puzzlement at the young age of bird flu victims in Turkey during the recent outbreak of the virus in the country.

The WHO's laboratory in Britain has so far confirmed 12 of the 21 H5N1 bird flu cases reported by the Turkish Health Ministry.

The figure includes the deaths of four children from the town of Dogubayazit in the eastern Turkish province of Agri which borders Iran. - zaman.com

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20060131&hn=29234
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spot that?

"An announcement was made after a sample was tested at a US Naval Medical Research Unit laboratory in Egypt. "

"(WHO) is awaiting its own tests to be confirmed in the United Kingdom"



my analysis
http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/murder_inc/site/flutruth.html

[Fintan]

From that Onion article above:

"The bird flu could cause a global influenza pandemic similar to the Spanish Flu that killed more than 20 million people in 1918," medical alarmist Dr. Preston Douglas said.

What is even funnier is that the claim of 20 million is very uncertain.

It's a wild guesstimate extrapolated from the U.S. and European mortality data.
And even there, we have no way of being sure what was actually caused by "Flu" or not.
Most of the claimed deaths were in areas of the world where the deaths are estimated and unconfirmable.

Another Pharma scare/hype to underpin their importance as our defenders.

[capt w]

"Some experts suspect that the 1918 pandemic was caused by a type A virus which moved from pigs to humans. Known as Spanish Flu it wiped out whole communities."

take note of the exhumation of Phyllis Burn
http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/murder_inc/site/texts/virus.pdf

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23rd Jan 2003

VO COMMENTARY Modern travel and population growth increase the threat of a faster spread of a virus when it occurs. To prepare for such a pandemic the answer lies in the 1918 virus. Professor Oxford can only produce a genetic map if he finds clean samples of the 1918 flu virus. His research is largely centred on isolating the virus from tissue samples of 1918 victims kept at the Royal London Hospital and exhumed bodies.

VO/Sync Professor Oxford: When we started the project, we thought there were two ways of looking for influenza genes from 1918. One was to take small paraffin blocks of people who died in hospital for example, small blocks of their lungs which had been carefully preserved, thats one way of doing it. And the other way of doing it was to get frozen bodies from 1918, people who died in the Arctic regions.

VO COMMENTARY Until now all exhumations have failed to reveal a pure strain of the virus. Professor Oxford hopes to find the all important key sample at Twickenham cemetery in the grave of Phyllis Burn, a young nurse who died during the outbreak.

VO/Sync Professor Oxford: People who die and are buried in lead coffins can be very well preserved so we began to look for victims of the 1918 flu pandemic who were buried in lead coffins, thats how we uncovered Phyllis Burn.

VO COMMENTARY At the moment Professor Oxford is still waiting for the approval of the church to go ahead with the exhumation. But his research so far has already cast new light on the 1918 virus.

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a year later they roll out the same psyop
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Flu victim exhumed after 85 years
Friday, 30 January, 2004

"Scientists are preparing to exhume the body of a woman who
died of flu 85 years ago to find out how the virus killed millions across Europe.

Phyllis Burn died aged 20 in 1918, a victim of the 20th Century's worst flu epidemic,
which killed more than 30 million people.

She was buried in a lead coffin, thought to be virtually airtight, in Twickenham, south-west London. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3446389.stm
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names of diseases are useful for politic/economic reasons
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The nations of the Allied side of World War I called it the "Spanish Flu" because Spain was not involved in the conflict and the pandemic received greater press attention there than in the rest of the world.

In Spain it was called "The French Flu". Spain did have one of the worst early outbreaks of the disease, with some 8 million people infected in May of 1918.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Flu
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Of, course THIS sort of thing wouldn't happen now-a-days...
No one would just spin the cause of a 'disease'...for geo-political reasons, would they?


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Historical Review
World War I may have allowed the emergence of ?Spanish? influenza


The 1918 influenza pandemic caused 40 million deaths, and so dwarfed in mortality and morbidity the preceding pandemic of 1889 and the 1957 and 1968 pandemics. In retrospect, much can be learnt about the source, the possible subterranean spread of virus, and the genetic basis of virulence.

The World Health Organization has urged every nation to prepare a pandemic plan for the first global outbreak of the 21st century. We present an appraisal of epidemiological and mortality evidence of early outbreaks of respiratory disease in France and the UK in the years 1915 to 1917. Certain of these earlier focal outbreaks-called epidemic bronchitis rather than influenza- occurred during the winter months when influenza was known to be in circulation, and presented with a particular heliotrope cyanosis that was so prominent in the clinical diagnosis in the world pandemic outbreak of 1918-1919 (the Great Pandemic).

The outbreaks in army camps at Etaples in France and Aldershot in the UK in 1916-1917 caused very high mortality in 25-35 year olds. Increased deaths from bronchopneumonia and influenza were also recorded in England. We deduce that early focal outbreaks of influenza-like disease occurred in Europe and on the balance of probability the Great Pandemic was not initiated in Spain in 1918 but in another European country in the winter of 1916 or 1917. We suggest that the pandemic had its origins on the Western Front, and that World War I was a contributor.

Professor JS Oxford [the very same] LINK

he also is quoted as saying this:
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"We may eventually look back with bemusement on this strange interlude when public health strategies became muddied by international politics, and at least decide that we were taught a lesson that hysterical responses and talking up of threats help no-one."

Smallpox Bioterrorism Unlikely: Populations are easily protected
http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Notes/2003Smallpox.htm
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What's the TRUTH?

Last night, WNED in New York (a PBS member-supported TV station) broadcast a gripping documentary: "Secrets Of The Dead: The Killer Flu".

A number of experts working in the field said clearly that they expected the return of the horrific 1918 Spanish Influeza vrus, or a variant of it - one British expert predicted that event as occurring within the next 5 or 10 years.

[my note: what's the odd that this expert is Prof John Oxford?]

When you reflect on the fact that the 1918 flu pandemic swept away 40-60 million people around the globe in three separate waves over just six months and THAT before the dawning of mass air travel!), you can envisage both the scale of the potential calamity and how utterly unprepared we are to deal with it.

Every continent would be visited with the same deadly scythe - Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia.

The anguish would probably also be accentuated by the resulting collapse of the world economy (a very real possibility: the 1918 Flu almost had that effect in England and Germany, but disappeared just before their economies and production went over the brink because of deaths, disruption and sickness absenteeism).

One intriguing note, though: the documentary appeared to state clearly that NO samples of the 1918 flu had been recovered from the bodies of victims buried in the permafrost.

But if you go to the news reports on the excellent '1918 Flu' page at http://www.survivalistskills.com/1918FLU.HTM, they appear to state exactly the opposite - and that, furthermore, the samples thus obtained were sent to the US Army's Biological Warfare section (now re-named) at Fort Detrick and to the equivalent British biological warfare centre! [Porton Down] That appears to be a puzzling and potentially disturbing discrepancy, since the expedition which apparently recovered the tissue samples from Svarlbard Island, in Arctic Norway, was mounted three or four years ago at least.


comment on JON RAPPOPORT [cia fake?] article via Josef hasslberger
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/02/07/the_avian_flu_and_drugless_doctors.htm

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[kathy]

Although avian influenza A viruses usually do not infect humans,
more than 100 confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza viruses have been reported since 1997
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/avian-flu-humans.htm

The 1998 NHTSA report "Traffic Safety Facts 1998 Annual Report"
reports 41,471 fatalities and 3,192,000 injuries, 414,960 of them serious.

Canada's 1998 Annual Report lists the 1997 injury total as 221,186 with
a reported 3,064 fatalites

UK motor vehicle accidents accounted for 327,544 injuries in 1997 with 42,967 serious injuries and 3,599 fatalities

Japan's estimated 1998 fatalities numbered about 12,000 with approximately 129,000 serious injuries

Germany 1998 7,792 citizens were killed in motor vehicle accidents,
with 497,000 injuries reported. We estimate that 65,000 of the reported injuries were serious

http://www.safecarguide.com/exp/statistics/statistics.htm

H7N7, Netherlands 2003: 89 people were confirmed to have H7N7 of
those there were 78 cases of conjunctivitis (eye infections) only;
5 casesof conjunctivitis and influenza-like illnesses with cough, fever,
and muscle aches; 2 cases of influenza-like illness only; and 4 cases
that were classified as “other.”

H5N1, Hong Kong, 1997: Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1)
infections occurred in both poultry and humans.This was the first
time an avian influenza A virus transmission directly from birds to
humans had been found. During this outbreak, 18 people were
hospitalized and six of them died. To control the outbreak,
authorities killed about 1.5 million chickens to remove the source
of the virus.

Cumulative Number of Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A/(H5N1) Reported to WHO 9 February 2006


WHO Page on Avian Flu
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/index.html

Getting cause of death into perspective: Leading causes of deaths throughout the world for 2002

At present, H5N1 avian influenza remains largely a disease of birds.
The species barrier is significant: the virus does not easily cross from
birds to infect humans.

Despite the infection of tens of millions of poultry over large geographical
areas for more than two years, fewer than 200 human cases have been
laboratory confirmed. For unknown reasons, most cases have occurred in
rural and periurban households where small flocks of poultry are kept.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/avian_influenza/en/

[Damian Flynn]

here's a podcast on bird flu you might like http://www.redflagsdaily.com/podcasts.html

[Janama]

I just watched a 1 hr Oprah scare episode on the bird flu.

story here

It was basically an interview with Dr. Michael Osterholm - I typed this into google

"Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert from the University of Minnesota"

you can see he's been spreading the faith.

On my news this morning they said that so far there appears to be no birdflu in Australia.

That's interesting because we should have it - every year we get a new strain of influenza because many of our birds migrate to and from SE Asia annually. All our olds are advised to have a flu shot yearly as the virus mutates.

[Fintan]

[Fintan]

[Fintan]

[Fintan]

Interesting motive to factor into all this:

“Once we have regulatory approval, we believe it will only take between
four and five years to breed enough chickens to replace the entire world
population,” Professor Tiley said.