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

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[s] 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

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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.

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