Flu Pandemic The Big Picture 

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Cui prodest?By the question cui prodest – which literally means: who is that good for? – Latin people wondered which interests hid behind laws and decrees. This famous locution was then used again by Seneca in his Medea where the protagonist states: “cui prodest scelus, is fecit” (the person who takes advantage of a crime, is the one who committed it). Since then, the question has been marking the investigation methodology about crime instigators and now, being aware that every political action is related to particular instances and interests, it is the guideline for both our political intelligence and lobbying.

Who benefits from a flu pandemic?


A little propaganda to get you started


              November 8, 2009 islandonlinenews.com and 
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           The H1N1 Conspiracy Part 1

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The H1N1 Conspiracy Part 3 featuring David Icke and Rauni Kilde

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November 26, 2009
World Health Organization ‘Manufactured’ The Global Swine Flu Scare

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Novye Izvestija
November 26, 2009
Translated from Russian by Infowars Ireland

The Swine Flu Pandemic which Novye Izvestija has written about many times, may be the most ambitious scam and corruption of our time. In any case, the enormous commercial aspect of the “swine flu scare” is already evident.

The same conclusion was reached by Danish journalists who expertly examined the links between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, who gained wealth by selling drugs to counter the disease. It turns out, for example, that many scientists who sit on various committees of WHO, carefully concealed the fact that they receive money from the giant pharmaceutical companies of the world.

According to the international investment bank JP Morgan, the pharmaceutical industry will make more than 7 Billion Euros this year on the sale of A/H1N1 vaccines. Leading western countries have ordered enough doses to vaccinate either their entire population (such as Australia) or one third (Germany and several other EU member States). Factories making the vaccines and pills are working around the clock, in four shift rotations, with a backlog of orders …they are not experiencing the global economic crisis as others might.

For the first time in many years flu pandemic ‘panic’ has affected the EU. The vaccine has been produced without a sufficient number of clinical and laboratory tests.

Is such a panic justified? a growing number of specialists are examining the issue by comparing the mortality statistics from the swine flu virus and it’s ‘conventional’ varieties, each Autumn they begin their march across the planet. So far, according to WHO, six thousand people have fallen victim to A/H1N1, while the average annual death rate during epidemics of ‘traditional’ varieties of flu reaches half a million.

The main cause of the hysterical response to the swine flu epidemic, according to reporters from the Danish newspaper ‘Information’, is not because it is so dangerous, but because of a strong public relations campaign by experts from WHO. Some of them [WHO experts] are literally in the service of the vaccine manufacturers. “It is disturbing that many of the scientists who sit on various committees of WHO, are presented as ‘independent experts’, but they carefully conceal the fact that they receive money from pharmaceutical companies”, Professor of epidemiology, Tom Jefferson, who works at the Cochrane Center in Rome, told reporters.

WHO announced the swine flu pandemic under pressure from a panel of advisers, headed by a Dutch doctor, Albert Ostenhaus, nicknamed ‘Dr. Flu’ (from the name ‘Tamiflu’) because he was active in promoting mass vaccination of the population through WHO and the Western media. Now the government of the Netherlands is conducting an emergency investigation into the activities of ‘Doctor Flu’, as it became known that he receives a salary from several vaccine manufacturing companies. Many other WHO advisers sit ‘on two chairs’ (conflict of interest) like Ostenhaus, and while dealing with the swine flu pandemic on behalf of WHO, they do not like to advertise that they are paid advisers to pharmaceutical giants Roche, RW Johnson, SmithKline and Beecham Glaxo Wellcome, who have received the lion’s share of orders for manufacturing of vaccines. The result of pressure from these experts was the resolution of WHO on 7th July this year, which called for an unprecedented campaign of mass vaccination.

“The WHO is biased in their recommendations – says Professor Tom Jefferson. – Normal hygiene measures provide much greater effect than these little-studied vaccines, and at the same time WHO refers to the use of masks and hand-washing as a means to combat swine flu only twice in their documents. Vaccines and other medications are referred to 42 times!” Dr. Jefferson and several of his colleagues believe that paid advisers of the pharmaceutical companies should be removed from their positions and not allowed to give recommendations to the WHO, but the organization itself is in no hurry to carry out such a reform. WHO spokesperson, Gregory Hertl, commenting on the article in ‘Information’ (Danish newspaper) said it is impossible to deny the services of the world’s leading experts on the sole ground that they have a financial interest in the promotion of a strategy to combat various diseases.

It should be noted that this is not the first year that ’scope for corruption’ in pharmacology has been the focus of the Western media. The New England Journal of Medicine published ‘The Whistleblower’ several years ago. In a series of articles the Whistleblower showed the inside life of the ‘medical mafia’. According to them, only 11-14% of pharmaceutical companies budgets are spent on research, but 36% of funds are spent on PR. Much of the money ends up in the pockets of doctors, scientists, and the accounts of various organizations working in health care.

November 24, 2009
Has Hemorrhagic “Black Lung” Arrived in America?

KCCI 8
November 23, 2009

Editor’s note: The corporate media in the United States is not reporting on the “black lung” virus in the Ukraine. Last week, the Daily Mail reported on the mysterious pandemic. British scientists suspect that swine flu virus has mutated in Ukraine. Some doctors say that flu in the country has shown unprecedented symptoms, creating the effect of burnt lungs. “Over the last month, only a handful of news outlets have reported on the recent health crisis occurring in Ukraine, which has now infected.4 million people with the mysterious influenza and now three viruses have mutated into a plague,” reports Digital Journal.

Is it possible this deadly plague has arrived in America?

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa has officially recorded 21 H1N1 deaths, including seven in Polk County alone. But the county’s medical examiner said he has performed autopsies on some residents who were never diagnosed with H1N1, but actually had it.

“In the autopsy, what we’re seeing is very heavy, wet hemorrhagic lungs, lungs with a lot of blood in them,” said Dr. Gregory Schmunk.

He said the official count of seven H1N1 deaths is inaccurate, but patient rights laws prohibit him from giving specific numbers.

He said there are two reasons for the discrepancy. First, not all sick patients get tests and second, the virus is difficult to detect. Some patients may be too sick to receive the most accurate H1N1 test.


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More H1N1 Indoctrination For Children


22 November 2009 

• This discussion, led by Dr Henry L. Niman, is worth following closely. To translate it into simple terms, it's now been officially confirmed by WHO (but isstill not in the mainstream media) that an H1N1 gene mutation very similar to that which killed tens of millions in 1918 has been identified in the Ukraine, Norway and Canada. The forum is for serious researchers who are well-informed and who generally dismiss "conspiracy theory". Yet they are now very alarmed and are debating whether they should start taking personal precautions for their families in the light of possible infrastructure breakdown.

See below for our own insider source's information - stated to us as fact - that there would be waves of pandemic hitting us all next year and that things might [my paraphrase] get pretty tricky.

Click here for one of the best summary articles of the problem that I have read - written by a virologist, and connecting ALL the dots.

Click here for a VERY informative interview with a Ukrainian coroner.

November 21, 2009
Major Victory in H1N1 Vaccine Scandal

Joseph Mercola
Lew Rockwell
November 21, 2009



European scientists and health authorities are facing angry questions about why H1N1 flu has not caused death and destruction on the scale first feared, and they need to respond deftly to ensure public support. 

Accusations are flying in British and French media that the pandemic has been “hyped” by medical researchers to further their own cause, boost research grants and line the pockets of drug companies.
Britain’s Independent newspaper this week asked “Pandemic? What Pandemic?”

France’s Le Parisien newspaper ran the headline: “Swine flu: why the French distrust the vaccine” and noted a gap between the predicted impact of H1N1 and the less dramatic reality.

“Although some 30-odd people have died…the disease is not really frightening,” it said. “Dangerous liaisons between certain experts, the labs and the government, the obscurity of the contracts between the state and the pharma firms have added to the doubt.”

In response, scientists are walking a fine line. They say that although the virus is mild, it can still kill, and that the relatively low fatalities in Europe are in part, the result of official response to their advice.

However, in Britain, health authorities’ original worst-case scenario – which said as many as 65,000 could die from H1N1 – has twice been revised down and the prediction is now for around 1,000 deaths, way below the average annual toll of 4,000 to 8,000 deaths from seasonal winter flu.

Sources:

Reuters November 12, 2009
The Flu Case November 5, 2009
Examiner November 3, 2009
 
New American November 12, 2009


Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

There is plenty to be optimistic about as it seems the tide may be slowly turning on this swine flu debacle, showing it for the hoax it really is. 

European scientists are now demanding answers to the growing inconsistencies.



And, while many so-called scientific experts have criticized me and others who have spoken out about this senseless mass-vaccination campaign, more of the scientific community is now coming to the same conclusions we’ve been talking about for months.

It looks as though the swine flu pandemic of 2009 will go down as one of the biggest government and pharmaceutical scams ever, renewing a healthy, and necessary, skepticism about the swine flu vaccine and the dubious dealings behind the implementation of worldwide mass-vaccination programs.

On the upside, it has also created a more open debate about vaccinations in general.

The childhood vaccination schedule is in dire need of an overhaul, and the swine flu hysteria has actually opened many people’s eyes to the unhealthy practices behind our vaccine policies. The public is finally starting to wonder and question, en masse, what’s being injected into them and their children.

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November 13, 2009

‘Poisoning attempt’ charges filed against French H1N1 campaign

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Michael Cosgrove
Flesh & StoneMonday, Oct 26th, 2009

In what is being seen as the first of many such actions to come, nine individuals have filed formal charges claiming that the H1N1 campaign is a deliberate attempt to poison the French population.

These charges, which were filed yesterday, could not come at a more inopportune moment for the government and health specialists. The vaccination campaign got underway last Tuesday in a climate of national skepticism as to the vaccine’s safety and efficiency, and this news will surely boost the morale of the increasing number of anti-vaccine lobbyists who are beginning to organize their resistance to any attempt to vaccinate the population against H1N1.

Nine inhabitants of the Isére region of France are cited as joint plaintiffs in the case, including a health sector worker, a teacher and a radio talk show host. They met each other at various public meetings held to denounce the vaccine’s alleged health risks.

The charges take the form of a ‘plainte contre X’ which means that the perpetrator of an alleged crime or felony is not known, or is not named, in the charge sheet. This is a commonly used manner of filing complaints in France, particularly where the charges relate to supposed government implication in alleged breaches of the law. In cases where those trials proceed after prior examination of the facts, the specific persons or organizations concerned are designated and charged as the trial proceeds.

Jean-Pierre Joseph, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, describes the vaccination campaign as “A veritable attempt to poison.” He confirmed that the charges were filed at the High Court in Grenoble before the court’s senior examining magistrate. He said other court cases involving other plaintiffs would begin soon

The various charges filed included one of “Attempting to administer substances…of a nature which could result in death.”

“The aim is to put a stop to what we consider to be an act of poisoning,” according to Joseph. “The interest of this action is that people in France now have a means by which to express their concern as citizens by saying publicly “We are aware that the vaccination campaign is a swindle.”

Similar court actions are planned in other areas of the Isére, as well as in Paris, Pau and Nantes, and several hundred vaccine opponents are beginning to organize themselves on the internet with a view to filing class action charges.

The government and health authorities are currently battling to persuade people to get vaccinated against increasingly difficult odds. Opposition to the campaign has been increasing steadily, and various polls taken over the last few days put the figure for those who do not intend to get vaccinated as high as 70 percent.

Their task is being made even more arduous by the fact that while authorities believe on the one hand that vaccination is essential despite negative public reaction, the French have traditionally proved to be very quick to condemn and file charges in cases where not enough was said to be done to prevent other medical mishaps such as the Mad Cow outbreak and an AIDS contamination case, in which several people died and many more became HIV positive after receiving AIDS-contaminated blood transfusions in hospitals.

That signifies that the authorities have very little room to maneuver and are more or less obliged to continue the campaign in order to avoid similar charges should they decide or be forced to abandon the campaign and high numbers of people die as a result of not being vaccinated.



November 6, 2009

 Video: Barcelona Nun and M.D. Theresa Forcades speaks out about the Swine Flu pandemic and classification by the WHO. In Spanish with English subtitles. Also to be found in Spanish at http://timefortruth.es/

November 5, 2009

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the strange case of Joseph Moshe returns

In August, 2009, we reported the strange case of Joseph Moshe the Israeli microbiologist who is allegedly connected to Mossad, Moshe said Baxter International had manufactured a bioweapon in the Ukraine. Moshe was arrested for supposedly making threats against the White House. “Shortly after his arrest there were reports that he had called into a radio show with a warning about a biological weapon being prepared in the Ukraine by a company called Baxter International. According to these reports, Mr Moshe said that the weapon would be spread via a flu vaccine.


click here  for the youtube video of arrest.

Moshe phoned Dr True Ott Show who has a radio show on Republic Broadcasting and said he was a microbiologist who wanted to hand over evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 vaccines being produced by Baxter pharmaceutical. 

Thats it. He made no threat against Obama, nor said anything about bombs or any attack.



  • Dr. Bill Deagle disclosed a story that occurred August 11-13 in Los Angeles involving Joseph Moshe, a bio-scientist with a dual USA/Israel citizenship.
LISTEN to Bill Deagle discuss the Moshe incident on Project Camelot Radio. The complete interview is here.

August 11, Tuesday—
  • Moshe called into the Dr True Ott Show on Republic Broadcasting (see Dr True Ott's reply further down in this post).
LISTEN to Dr True Ott on the Dr Bill Deagle show detailing the phone call Ott received from Moshe on Tuesday, August 11.



FAST FORWARD TO THE FUTURE (NOW)

Martial Law, Forced Vaccinations May be Unfolding in Ukraine

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
November 5, 2009



The darling of the globalist NGO “color revolution” in the Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, has issued an official statement suggesting as president he will impose martial law on the country, force citizens to take toxic vaccinations, and outlaw demonstrations by the political opposition.
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“I instruct the Government and the Ministry of Health to immediately start preventive and promotional work in areas where there is no epidemic, targeting primarily the special risk groups,“ declared Yushchenko. “This means that medical aid must be urgently reinforced by emergency, critical care treatment. It is generally known that the only way to prevent any infection is vaccination.”

In his declaration, Yushchenko made the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council “the center of decision-making” and said that “failure to comply with its orders will immediately result in application to the law enforcement authorities.”

In addition, Yushchenko said demonstrations against the government during the growing flu epidemic would be considered acts of “criminal irresponsibility,” a hint that the government will crack down on opposition under the cover of protecting the public. “I have addressed the Prosecutor General of Ukraine with the request to institute criminal charges of negligence” against government officials “who, despite having daily information on the epidemic situation in the country, neglected it in pursuit of political dividends and ambition,” said Yushchenko.

On November 4, Yushchenko accused rival Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, ex-prime minister Viktor Yanukovich and parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn of ignoring the growing epidemic and organizing mass rallies for their own campaigns. “The first and most effective method of prevention is not to allow mass gatherings of people. But, ignoring this rule, hundreds of thousands of people were brought to Kiev for various events from different regions,” Yushchenko said in a televised speech, according to Reuters.

In late October, the government imposed a quarantine around the country and public events were banned, including the elections. Police enforced the compulsory wearing of protective face masks and citizens caught not wearing a mask faced harsh legal penalties.

On November 3, Ukraine shut down its schools, universities and cinemas, and banned public gatherings for the foreseeable future. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said “special regimes” designed to limit the movement of Ukraine’s citizens were being introduced in an attempt to prevent the spread of the mystery virus.

On November 2, Infowars Ireland reported that authorities in Kiev were spraying of “aerosolized medication” by aircraft over city. “The office of Emergency Response in the district of Desniansko, Kiev, are tonight (30th Oct.) strongly refuting reports that light aircraft were spraying a substance over the city intended to counter a ’swine flu pandemic’ in Ukraine,” Infowars Ireland explained. “It was reported that light aircraft were seen over the Forest market area of the city (close to the Forest metro station) and they were spraying an aerosol substance intended to ‘counter swine flu,’ this of course would constitute forced medication of the population.”

The office of Emergency Response in the district of Desniansko strongly refuted the accusation.

After the UN’s WHO sent an emergency team to Ukraine to monitor the outbreak which as so far infected 450,000 people and killed more than 80, it was determined the illness has been caused by H1N1 swine flu. British scientists are examining samples of a strain to determine whether the virus has mutated, Sky News reports.

Other health experts believe that the virus may actually be a different pathogen, not H1N1, with some observers suggesting it may be a return of the pheumonic plague, a bacterial infection that can be 100% deadly if not treated quickly.

Earlier today, an outbreak of pneumonic plague was reported in China. “Chinese authorities have put a whole town in quarantine after an outbreak of horrifying pneumonic plague,” notes Health Freedom Alliance. “Two people have died from the highly contagious disease, an even more powerful brother of The Black Death – the bubonic plague believed to have wiped out a quarter of the population of Europe in the 14th Century…. Pneumonic plague is one of the most virulent and deadly diseases on earth, usually fatal within 24 hours.”

In August, 2008, the Israeli microbiologist Joseph Mosse, who is allegedly connected to the Mossad, said Baxter International had manufactured a bioweapon in the Ukraine. Mosse was arrested for supposedly making threats against the White House. “Shortly after his arrest there were reports that he had called into a radio show with a warning about a biological weapon being prepared in the Ukraine by a company called Baxter International. According to these reports, Mr Mosse said that the weapon would be spread via a flu vaccine,” Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported on November 3. “Credence is being given to these reports because Mr Mosse’s qualifications as a microbiologist are confirmed by his research profile” on the BiomedExperts website.

Is it possible the events in Ukraine are a precursor of things to come in the rest of Europe and the United States? If the virus currently spreading in Ukraine is a new and more deadly mutation of H1N1 or pheumonic plague, we may very well see enforced quarantines and forced vaccination in the United States.


November 3, 2009

IBM Knew About Pandemic in 2006

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
November 2, 2009

A document has surfaced revealing IBM was aware of the current H1N1 “pandemic” in 2006. Excerpts from “Services & Global Procurement pan IOT Europe, Pandemic Plan Overview,” an official inter-departmental document distributed to upper-level management of IBM in France during 2006 are posted on the Prevent Disease website. The document predicts a 100% chance of a “planned” pandemic occurring within five years.


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October 30, 2009

The Goal of Every H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine: Immunotoxicity, Neurotoxicity and Sterility

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Vaccine ingredients have been scientifically proven to cause immunotoxicity, neurotoxicity, sterility and cancer.


Prevent Disease
October 30, 2009

Science dictates that only a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study can generate unbiased results in any clinical trial. In the history of vaccine development, no such study has ever been performed. It is only unscientific opinions and pharmaceutical propaganda which have propelled the mythological validity, safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Dozens of controlled studies have scientifically verified the immunotoxicty, neurotoxicity and sterility of common vaccine ingredients which destroy human health, yet they are all ignored by conventional medicine.

There should be a public outcry and challenge to every public health official, medical specialist or scientist (from any country) who justifies the inoculation of their population without providing the evidence of safety and effectiveness of the respective H1N1 vaccine in their country.

The public should be demanding that their governments materialize at least one vaccine trial which is randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled that can scientifically validate the assertions of public health officials.

Since the pharmacokinetic properties of vaccines are not studied, vaccine manufacturers cannot deny any of the toxic effects listed below. The reason they never analyze the absorption, distribution, metabolism or excretion of these ingredients is because it would eradicate the vaccine industry. However the individual effects of each ingredient and their toxic effects on cells are well documented.

Every Physician, Nurse or medical personnel who administers the H1N1 vaccine (or any vaccine) should be asking themselves why they are injecting the following ingredients into patients that have been scientifically proven to cause immunotoxicity, neurotoxicity, sterility and cancer:

 Novartis Focetria Adjuvanted H1N1Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin

Squalene: Neurotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

 Novartis H1N1 Monovalent Influenza  Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen

Polymyxin: Neurotoxin

Neomycin: Immunotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

 GlaxoSmithKline Arepanrix AdjuvantedH1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Formaldehyde: Carcinogen

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin

Squalene: Neurotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

 GlaxoSmithKline Pandemrix AdjuvantedH1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Octoxynol 10: Immunotoxin

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin

Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin

Squalene: Neurotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

 GlaxoSmithKline Fluarix 2009-2010Formula Ingredients/Toxicity

Formaldehyde: Carcinogen

Octoxynol 10: Immunotoxin

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin

 Sanofi-Pasteur H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Formaldehyde: Carcinogen

Polyethylene Glycol: Systemic Toxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin



 MedImmune H1N1  Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Monosodium Glutamate: Neurotoxin

Gentamicin Sulfate: Nephrotoxin

Monobasic Potassium Phosphate: Immunotoxin

 FLUARIX 2009 Latest Package Insert Ingredients/Toxicity

Formaldehyde: Carcinogen

Gentamicin Sulfate: Nephrotoxic

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin



 CSL PANVAX H1N1  Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen

Neomycin: Immunotoxin

Sodium Taurodeoxycholate: Carcinogen/Immunotoxin

Polymyxin: Neurotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

 CSL Afluria H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen

Neomycin Sulfate: Immunotoxin

Polymyxin B: Neurotoxin

Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin

Sodium Taurodeoxycholate: Carcinogen/Immunotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

Note: An additional CSL H1N1 Vaccine is Undergoing Trials with AS03 Adjuvant which contains Squalene.

Adverse Reactions of Vaccines



Serious adverse reactions are as follows:

* Pain

* Redness

* Swelling

* Fatigue

* Headaches

* Arthralgia (joint inflammation)

* Myalgia (muscle inflammation)

* Shivering

* Sweating

* Swollen lymph nodes

* Fever

* Vomiting

* Tingling or numbness of the hands or feet

* Shortness of breath

* Vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels)

Serious adverse reactions are as follows:

* Blood and lymphatic system disorders (lymphadenopathy)

* Psychiatric disorders (insomnia)

* Nervous system disorders (dizziness, paraesthesia, inflammation of the central nervous system, inflammation of nerves, autoimmune disorders affecting myelin sheaths of nerves such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome)

* Ear and labyrinth disorders (vertigo)

* Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders (dyspnoea)

* Gastrointestinal disorders (nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, dyspepsia, stomach discomfort)

* Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders (pruritus, rash)

* Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders (back pain, musculoskeletal stiffness, neck pain, muscle spasms, pain in extremity)

* General disorders and administration site conditions (bruising, asthenia, chest pain, malaise)


October 29, 2009 

Obama Administration Launches Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda Blitz


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Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null
Infowars
October 29, 2009


President Obama and his top health officials are engaging in a major public relations effort to divert attention away from whether its swine flu vaccine is effective and safe – to whether there is enough of it to go around. And the media, as always, is cooperating fully. This echoes the way media debate was manipulated during the Vietnam and Iraq Wars. Instead of debating whether we should even be fighting those wars, the media debated only whether we were using the correct military strategy.

Increasing numbers of scientists and doctors are issuing harsh criticisms of the Government’s plan to vaccinate (forcibly if necessary) virtually the entire U.S. population with what they claim is a poorly tested vaccine that is not only ineffective against swine flu, but could cripple and even kill many more people than it helps.


click on title for full article at infowars.com

October 27, 2009

Ron Paul on "swine flu emergency"

Congressman Ron Paul has questioned why, despite his efforts to encourage the general public to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus, President Barack Obama has refused to allow his own daughters to take the swine flu shot.

Despite the fact that Obama on Friday declared a national emergency in response to the H1N1 outbreak, he apparently doesn’t deem it enough of a threat to have his two daughters vaccinated against the virus.



Obama Declares H1N1 Flu ‘National Emergency’

Reuters
October 24, 2009

Well surprise, surprise

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a proclamation declaring 2009 H1N1 swine flu a national emergency, the White House said Saturday.

The proclamation, which Obama signed Friday night, will make it easier for U.S. medical facilities to handle a surge in flu patients by allowing the waiver of some requirements of Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health insurance programs as needed, the White House said in a statement.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that H1N1 swine flu has become widespread in 46 of the 50 U.S. states, a level comparable to the peak of ordinary flu seasons but far earlier and with more waves of infection expected.



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Government Hijacks Kids TV To Propagandize For Swine Flu Shots

Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.com
Thursday, October 22, 2009

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The federal government has accelerated its $16 million dollar PR campaign to brainwash and coerce increasingly suspicious Americans into taking the swine flu vaccine by weaving their propaganda into a popular pre-school show for children currently airing on PBS Kids.

Sid the Science Kid is a half-hour series produced by Jim Henson Productions and KCET in Los Angeles, California. The program is bankrolled in part by The Boeing Company, a titan of the military-industrial complex.

During an episode of the show set to air on Monday, the computer-generated characters are shown dancing around and singing about how their are taking their flu vaccine.

Indeed, the entire episode is devoted to pro-vaccine propaganda and was created in association with Health and Human Services. The episode is entitled, “Getting a Shot: You can do it!”

According to a 
press release, “Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Lisa Henson, CEO of the Jim Henson Company, will join Washington-area school children for a screening of the new “Sid the Science Kid” special episode on the flu at the U.S. Department of Education Auditorium.”

Children will also be directed to the 
Sid the Science Kid website to play games focused around the issue of vaccines.

“In this special episode, Sid explains how vaccines work and shows millions of children what they can do to prevent the spread of the flu,” said Secretary Sebelius. “Sid will be a great messenger as we continue to find new and creative ways to reach out to children, adults, and families about how to stay healthy during flu season.”

As we have reported, the government is 
openly embedding propaganda about its health care agenda into the plots of major network shows all this week. We also discovered a separate example of almost subliminal brainwashing where the watching audience are told to get the flu shot via a deceptive and insidious insert during an episode of FlashForward, a sci-fi series currently airing on ABC.

What ‘Sid the Science Kid,’ the pharmaceutical lobby and Kathleen Sebelius won’t tell you about the swine flu vaccine is that 
children are already dying after taking similar vaccines, that healthy young women are getting brain disorders after being injected with flu vaccines, that the H1N1 shot containsdangerous additives like mercury which cause autism, and that a child is 40 times more likely to be struck by lightning than have their life saved by a swine flu vaccine.

While children are having this crap shoved down their throats on television, the 
New York Times‘ educational division is teaching them in schools across the country that openly admitted facts about the dangers of the swine flu vaccine are all in fact “myths”.

Some of the “myths” claimed by the Times include manifestly provable facts such as the potential that flu shots will have side-effects. This is
 clearly stated on the inserts of vaccine batches by the pharmaceutical companies themselves, but the NY Times is teaching children in American schools that it is a myth!

According to the Times, it is also a myth that any of the batches of H1N1 vaccine contain thimerosal, a mercury based preservative, despite the fact that this again is 
openly admitted by the pharmaceutical companies who produce the vaccines.

If none of the vaccines contained mercury, then maybe the 
NY Times can tell us why top officials in the German government, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as German soldiers, have been given an additive-free version of the vaccine that doesn’t contain thimerosal?

With rapidly 
expanding numbers of parents refusing to allow their children to take the seasonal or swine flu shot, the government has a problem on its hands having already bought over 300 million doses of the vaccine. This is manifesting itself in the form of bellicose and fearmongering propaganda being gleefully spewed out by the compliant networks as the feds start to panic about the fact that the idiot public are waking up to the real agenda behind the toxic vaccines and the record windfall profits currently being reaped by pharmaceutical companies who are laughing all the way to the bank.

Watch the clip from 
Sid the Science Kid below.


October 22, 2009 
Vancouver Sun Propaganda

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Craig McInnes: "Getting the H1N1 vaccine is a no-brainer"

editors note: the following article from the Vancouver Sun has been posted in full as it is a good representation of the mainstream media propaganda circulating about the swine flu and vaccine.
Watch for the phrase "no brainer" to appear on tv and radio as well as other key propaganda phrases such as "civic  responsibility". Here at islandonlinenews we believe that it is NOT your responsibility to blindly follow the mainstream media pied piper on this one but rather it is your responsibility to educate yourself on this and other important topics using the internet and other alternative media outlets.

BY CRAIG MCINNES, VANCOUVER SUN OCTOBER 22, 2009 9:20 AM

Now it's your turn. The pharmaceutical company has produced the vaccine against H1N1, also known as swine flu. Federal health officials have pronounced it safe and effective and the province is rolling it out over the next few weeks.

So what should you do?

For the first time, the health officials are urging everyone, not just the most vulnerable to serious illness, to roll up our sleeves, but not all at once.

They want those most at risk -- pregnant women, people under 65 with chronic conditions, people living on first nations reserves or in remote communities, to line up first, starting next week, for the limited doses of vaccine already available.

A week later, they will be ready for children from six months to five years old, health care workers, people who come into regular contact with infants and people with compromised immune systems.

By mid-November, health officials expect to be able to throw the doors open and take everyone else, first come, first served.

So you have a decision to make. Health officials say it's a no-brainer, especially for those most at risk, and some of the points they make are irrefutable.

The H1N1 virus is spreading quickly in British Columbia. The so-called second wave is already washing over the province at a time when seasonal influenzas rarely make an appearance.

This is a "novel" virus, with an unsettling habit of striking young people particularly hard. It has killed people who apparently had no pre-existing conditions, including a 26-year-old mother from Mission.

Still, for most people, even if you are stricken by the virus, the result will be a mild case of flu. Nasty, but not dangerous. And how safe are the vaccines themselves?

For most people, the worst side effect with an influenza vaccine will be a sore arm. There is also a theoretical risk, estimated to be one in a million, of a severe, perhaps fatal complication.

People who have had bad reactions in the past, or who are allergic to eggs, should consult a doctor.

Nine people have already died in B.C. from H1N1, more than a hundred have been hospitalized with complications, so it doesn't take very advanced math to show that the risk of not being vaccinated is vastly greater than the risks inherent to the vaccine.

Health officials also discount concerns about the adjuvant, or booster being added to the vaccine to make it more effective, arguing that it has already been tested safely on 45,000 people.

A version of the vaccine without the adjuvant is scheduled to be available by mid-November for pregnant women and children under three. But since the risk of adjuvant is theoretical -- the concern is that it hasn't been tested on pregnant women -- and the risk of H1N1 is real, health officials are urging women in the second half of their pregnancies not to wait for it but to get vaccinated with the already available adjuvanted vaccine.

Still, even in the worst pandemic, the odds are pretty good that you won't get sick. So why get vaccinated?

For me, aside from my aversion to spending a week hanging around a bathroom with a fever and chills, it comes down to an issue of civic responsibility.

The more people get vaccinated, the fewer hosts there are available to carry the H1N1 virus.

Some people, infants under the age of six months for example, can't be vaccinated. For others, the vaccine will not be effective for various reasons.

Their best chance of avoiding serious illness is to not come in contact with anyone carrying the virus.

cmcinnes@vancouversun.com

Flu Vaccine Brainwashing In Prime Time ABC Show

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A prime time ABC drama show that aired last week featured an almost subliminal example of brainwashing that encouraged people to take the swine flu shot, proving that the propaganda campaign to sell people on the government’s health agenda is widespread and not just confined to this week’s admitted campaign to implant suggestive messages in network TV broadcasts.

October 14, 2009

Take Your Damn Vaccine: The Swine Flu Conspiracy
Swine Flu Propaganda goes into overdrive


October 6, 2009

Doctors Concerned FluMist Vaccine Could Spread Live H1N1 Virus

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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, October 6, 2009


Doctors and hospitals are expressing concern that the FluMist vaccine could endanger people because it contains live H1N1 virus, unlike the injectable shot that contains antibodies. With no less than 60 per cent of the U.S. population immunodeficient in one way or another, could FluMist be a pandemic waiting to happen?


click on the title to read the full article at infowars.com

Sept 29, 2009

Center For Disease Control Drafts "Isolation Order" for H1N1

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
September 29, 2009

The following draft of an “isolation order” was discovered on the  CDC’s website. It is a template for state and local officials to impose quarantines and what would effectively be martial law.

“Your illness [as determined by state and local officials] requires that you be isolated and requires further public health investigation and monitoring.”

Failure to obey will result in imprisonment without bail prior to trial and the possiblity of a two year prison term.

In other words, according to this document, officials can impose quarantine without evidence that somebody is actually infected with a virus that is now negligible at best. It may also be used to quarantine potentially millions of people suffering from any number of illnesses — or not suffering from any disease at the discretion of the state — that have nothing to do with H1N1. It is basically a carte blanche for martial law under the cover of protecting the public from a communicable disease that is demonstrably a manufactured and weaponized threat.
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Forced Vaccination and Quarantine Laws in Canada

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SkyWatch Canada Infowars September 29, 2009

After the mainstream media ran numerous stories on mass vaccination plans in Canada and the US there has been a large outcry from health care workers as well as the general public. Although the media never came out and plainly said that the ‘H1N1 Vaccine is mandatory for everyone’, they did allude to it. A story was published in the National Post that plainly stated “Under Canada’s official pandemic plan, the entire population would ultimately be immunized against the H1N1 swine flu.”. This is basically equivalent to saying that the H1N1 vaccine is compulsory for all Canadians. But after the public expressed disdain for this, the government started to back pedal. Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones started making statements like ,“ Immunization will not be mandatory and not all Canadians are expected to want it.” More news articles were later published making it seem like only enough vaccine is being ordered for the 75% of the population that are expected to want it. But then the results of the vaccine ‘trials’ ‘demonstrated’ that only one dose will be needed as opposed to two.  This implies that Ontario has ordered more than enough vaccine to inoculate the entire population. So in light of all of the mixed messages, what’s the real story on forced vaccination in Canada? In 1996 Ontario passed the Health Care Consent Act, which allows treatment such as vaccination to be administered without consent of the individual in the case of a loosely defined “Emergency”. In Quebec the Public Health Act clearly states: “Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, while the public health emergency is in effect, the Government or the Minister, if he or she has been so empowered, may, without delay and without further formality, to protect the health of the population, (1) order compulsory vaccination of the entire population or any part of it against smallpox or any other contagious disease seriously threatening the health of the population and, if necessary, prepare a list of persons or groups who require priority vaccination. ” Clearly it is not unforeseeable that mandatory vaccination could be a reality in Canada during this pandemic. Recently, Greg Evensen a former Kansas State Trooper reported that he has state troopers across America telling him that to enforce vaccination orders this fall, road blocks will be set up along with a system to identify travelers who have received the vaccine. Metal shackle like bracelets with embedded RFID chips will be attached to those who receive the shot. Those who refuse to be vaccinated will be loaded on a bus and sent to a quarantine facility/FEMA camp. Templates for quarantine orders for  Iowa ,  Florida and  North Carolina have been found on the CDC web server, that tell a similar story. Get the H1N1 vaccine or get sent to a quarantine/detention facility. The question should be asked, are there similar plans in the works in Canada? In 2005 a new Quarantine Act was passed to deal with the transmission of communicable diseases by travelers entering or leaving Canada. Powers are awarded under this act to a Quarantine Officer to issue an order for a traveler who may have come in contact with someone with a communicable disease, to comply with treatment (ie. vaccination) or any other preventative measure (Section 26). If the traveler refuses to comply with the order he or she may face detention at a quarantine facility, until they decide to comply with treatment (ie. vaccination) or no longer pose a risk (Section 28). The threat posed by this act is diminished by the fact that it only applies to people leaving or entering Canada. Unfortunately there is a real possibility that the definition of a traveler may be expanded to include internal travelers (ie. everyone). The 2004 Public Safety Act (Bill C-7 (2004) formerly Bill C-42 (2002)) amends the Quarantine Act , and in doing so grants powers to the Minister of Health to make an interim order without Parliamentary oversight, to expand the definition of a traveler to include anyone residing in Canada. This sets the stage for a grim situation much like the one depicted by Greg Evensen. Is it likely that despite all the legislation allowing mandatory vaccination in Canada that they will be optional this fall ? The mainstream media is trying to make it seem like that will be the case. But what if the NWO crime syndicate intends to advance their population reduction agenda through a mass vaccination campaign? Opposition to forced vaccinations would be more than enough reason to round up resistors and send them to quarantine facilities/ concentration camps. If that is to be the case, lets hope things don’t go according to plan.

Sept, 19 2009

Forced vaccinations: a whistleblower's clear warning - reposted by Project Camelot

The original poster of the video was endtimes777 - a very brave young woman. She is (as far as we know) a 37 year old Army Engineer and over the weekend of Sept 12-13 in the LA are attended a drill with colleagues, including California Highway Patrol, LA County Sheriffs, and LAPD.

One of these colleagues told her that he had recently been training to establish roadblocks in the LA area. She references the testimony of former State Trooper Greg Evensen here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P3DpNBToYl4

...and shows clearly readable documentation and a photo (taken by her colleague) of what she states is an RFID tracking device, more information about which is here:

http://cejayeng.com/products.php?id=59

http://sovereign-publications.com/s-l...

http://blutube.policeone.com/Clip.asp...

http://soldiersystems.net/tag/cejay-e...

It's a little unclear what information she has learned at first hand and what she's learned from others whom she trusts. She states that she knows that the dates for the two waves of forced vaccinations are October 15 and November 15. It's not stated how she knows this. However: the information reported seems credible and if true, could not be more important.

SWINE FLU UPDATE SEPT 11, 2009 
ONCE VACCINATED YOU MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR RFID BRACELET


Sept 10, 2009

Project Camelot interviews Jane Burgermeister

David and Goliath might be an appropriate title for this video. Because Jane Bürgermeister, as a committed Christian, possesses an almost unreasonable amount of courage in her single-handed stand - against what many perceive as being a giant that few people are equipped to fight.

Jane is a young woman living in Vienna who, while working as a medical editor, was horrified to learn in early 2009 of the fiasco in which a Baxter International research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria, sent a quantity of human H3N2 viral material to 18 European laboratories.

Such a supply of experimental material would have been totally normal - except that in this instance the H3N2 had been somehow contaminated with live H5N1... the far more lethal Avian Flu.

As a medical editor, Jane immediately realized the import of what had happened - and what had nearly happened - and raised the alarm. But no-one in the Austrian media was interested. She then took matters into her own hands and filed legal charges against those who she considered the perpetrators to be.

Very soon after, Jane was dismissed from her job without explanation. Undeterred, she sought support on the internet and continued her campaign. In the months since then she has attracted committed followers - and critics - all over the world. She is not alone in suspecting that there exists a literally diabolical plan which is nothing less than the genocide of potentially hundreds of millions of people worldwide. 

Project Camelot can understand how she has inspired many others to wake up and take action: it's a little harder to understand some of her critics. When we learned that a number of serious accusations had been leveled against her, the obvious thing to do was to seek her out and talk to her on camera - one of the things that Project Camelot is equipped to do best.

So, this we have done. The result speaks for itself. We bring you the real Jane Bürgermeister: feisty, determined, passionate, articulate, and authentic.



written by Kerry Cassidy
Project Camelot

Ottawa orders 50 million vaccine doses "There will be enough for every Canadian and more", health minister says.


 BY MEAGAN FITZPATRICK, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEAUGUST 7, 2009  

Every Canadian in the country will be able to get at least one shot of the swine flu vaccine, federal health officials said Thursday as they announced an order is to be placed for 50.4 million doses.

"This will ensure
sufficient vaccine is available to immunize every Canadian who needs and wants protection from the H1N1 virus," Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq told reporters.

The order, worth more than $400 million, will be placed "soon" with
GlaxoSmithKline, the minister said. The federal government is picking up 60 per cent of the tab; the provinces and territories will cover the rest.

Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer, said the results of
clinical trials, predicted to get underway in September, will determine whether one dose or two will be required for those who receive the vaccine. Ordering 50.4 million doses means there will be enough vaccine for one dose for 100 per cent of the population and enough for two doses for 75 per cent of the population, said Butler-Jones.



Do we really need to connect the dots here? ok,  just for fun...

- 50.4 million doses of untested vaccine ordered.
- $400 million dollars for GlaxoSmithKline, the worlds second largest pharmaceutical corporation.
- enough vaccine for every person in Canada.

Scientists Refuse Swine Flu Vaccine


Ten things you're not supposed to know about the swine flu vaccine



#1 - The vaccine production was "rushed" and the vaccine has never been tested on humans. Do you like to play guinea pig for Big Pharma? If so, line up for your swine flu vaccine this fall...

#2 - Swine 
flu vaccines contain dangerous adjuvants that cause an inflammatory response in the body. This is why they are suspected of causing autism and other neurological disorders.

#3 - The swine flu vaccine could actually 
increase your risk of death from swine flu by altering (or suppressing) your immune system response. There is zero evidence that even seasonal flu shots offer any meaningful protection for people who take the jabs. Vaccines are the snake oil of modern medicine.

#4 - Doctors still don't know why the 1976 swine flu vaccines paralyzed so many people. And that means they really have no clue whether the upcoming vaccine might cause the same devastating side effects. (And they're not testing it, either...) 

#5 - Even if the swine flu vaccine kills you, the 
drug companies aren't responsible. The U.S. government has granted drug companies complete immunity against vaccine product liability. Thanks to that blanket immunity, drug companies have no incentive to make safe vaccines, because they only get paid based on quantity, not safety (zero liability).

#6 - No swine flu vaccine works as well as vitamin D to protect you from influenza. That's an inconvenient scientific fact that the U.S. government, the FDA and Big Pharma hope the people never realize.

#7 - Even if the swine flu vaccine actually works, mathematically speaking if everyone else around you gets the vaccine, 
you don't need one! (Because it can't spread through the population you hang with.) So even if you believe in the vaccine, all you need to do is encourage your friends to go get vaccinated...

#8 - Drug companies are making billions of dollars from the production of swine flu vaccines. That money comes out of your pocket -- even if you don't get the jab -- because it's all paid by the taxpayers.

#9 - When people start dying in larger numbers from the swine flu, rest assured that 
many of them will be the very people who got the swine flu vaccine. Doctors will explain this away with their typical Big Pharma logic: "The number saved is far greater than the number lost." Of course, the number "saved" is entirely fictional... imaginary... and exists only in their own warped heads.

#10 - The swine flu vaccine centers that will crop up all over the world in the coming months aren't completely useless: They will provide 
an easy way to identify large groups of really stupid people. (Too bad there isn't some sort of blue dye that we could tag 'em with for future reference...)

The lottery, they say, is a tax on people who can't do math. Similarly, flu vaccines are a tax on people who don't understand health.


article courtesy of David Ickes website.

Wednesday, August 19 2009

Bill Deagle presents valuable inside information regarding chemtrails, flu pandemic and cosmic war.

copy and paste the link below to hear the full radio interview by project camelot

http://www.projectcamelot.org/Bill_Deagle_19_August_2009.mp3



Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld owns stock in the company that makes Tamiflu

Do you know that 'bird flu' was discovered in Vietnam 9 years ago?


Do you know that barely 100 people have died in 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 preventative?

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 great 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 bought the patent for TAMIFLU from 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 former Secretary of Defence of the USA.

Do you know that the base of TAMIFLU is crushed aniseed?

Do you know who controls 90% 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 $1000 million in 2005?

Do you know how many more millions ROCHE can earn in the coming months if the business of fear 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 9 years.

This medicine doesn't so much as cure the common flu.

In normal conditions the virus does not affect humans.

Rumsfeld sells the patent for TAMIFLU to ROCHE for which they pay him a fortune.

Roche acquires 90% of the global production of crushed aniseed, the base for the antivirus.

The governments of the entire world threaten a pandemic and then buy industrial quantities of the product from Roche.

So we end up paying for medicine while Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush do the business.


As to the first, it is true Donald Rumsfeld does indeed have stock holdings in Gilead Sciences, Inc., the California biotech company that developed Tamiflu (a product now manufactured and sold by the pharmaceutical giant Roche), and so he benefits financially from increases in that company's stock price. (Gilead receives a royalty from Roche equal to about 10% of sales.) Rumsfeld was a member of Gilead's board of directors between 1988 and 2001, and he was its chairman from 1997 until he joined President George W. Bush's cabinet as Secretary of Defense in 2001. According to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld, he has Gilead stock holdings valued at between $5 million and $25 million. 
The Secretary of Defense is not the only politically-connected person to have ties to Gilead. Former Secretary of State George Shultz, who is on Gilead's board, has sold more than $7 million worth of Gilead stock since the beginning of 2005. Another Gilead board member is the wife of former California governor Pete Wilson. 


  Rumsfeld is in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" position because of his stock holdings, even though he apparently has no say in what Gilead does (he's no longer on its board) and has removed himself from being part of governmental decisions that affect it (he's recused himself). In a statement to The Independent in March 2006, the Pentagon said: "Secretary Rumsfeld has no relationship with Gilead Sciences, Inc. beyond his investments in the company. When he became Secretary of Defense in January 2001, divestiture of his investment in Gilead was not required by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Office of Government Ethics or the Department of Defense Standards of Conduct Office. Upon taking office, he recused himself from participating in any particular matter when the matter would directly and predictably affect his financial interest in Gilead Sciences." 

  If Rumsfeld holds onto his stock and its share price rises (which one would expect it to do if an avian flu pandemic becomes a reality, or if concerns about such a pandemic continue to grow), he will be seen to be profiting mightily from sales of a product the U.S. government has been buying in large quantities. If he sells his stock and so divests himself of further interest in Tamiflu sales, he will be accused of locking up profits from the rise in share price that has already occurred. (In 2001, shares of Gilead Sciences, Inc. traded in a range between $6.64 and $17.93. Between January and April 2006, its price range has been $53.00 to $65.62.) 

  As to the second aspect of the e-mail, whether Tamiflu is effective against influenza (especially the specific H5N1 strain now referred to as avian or bird flu), the e-mail's dismissive "This medicine doesn't so much as cure the common flu" is misleading in that Tamiflu isn't meant to be a flu cure. Positioning the drug as a medicine that flopped obscures that fact. 

  Tamiflu does not cure the flu, but if taken soon after symptoms appear, Tamiflu can reduce the flu's severity. As to how well it's going to match up against bird flu, that is not yet known and indeed it may well not be knowable until the time comes. However, it is anticipated Tamiflu will have at least some effect against bird flu, and with that in mind, more than 60 countries (including the U.S.) have so far ordered large stocks of it. Such stockpiling is likely going to appear highly prudent if the bird flu pandemic, a worldwide medical disaster the United Nations estimates could kill 150 million people, does materialize. 

  Influenza is not a straightforward disease, as it is constantly mutating. While media attention has now conditioned us to regard "bird flu" as a particular entity, in truth there are many forms of "bird flu." The one now the focus of so much concern, the H5N1 strain, was first noted in Asian birds in 1997. That first year, 18 people in Hong Kong were diagnosed with the contagion, 6 of whom died. Since 1997, there have been approximately 206 known human cases bird flu (of which 114 died), but as the CDC points out: "It is possible that the only cases currently being reported are those in the most severely ill people, and that the full range of illness caused by the H5N1 virus has not yet been defined." 

  Viewed from one angle (114 deaths over the course of nine years), avian flu is not worth being much concerned about. But viewed from a more informed standpoint about the nature of influenza, there may indeed be great cause for alarm. Influenza can jump species and move from birds (and other animals, such as pigs) into humans. During the process of that move — and afterwards, as one person infects another — the virus changes form. What at one moment can be a containable and well-understood virus can in the space of hours or days become almost an entirely new virus. For this reason, flus are hard to combat: they change as they are passed along, staying well ahead of science's attempts to contain them. 

  Most strains of flu are not deadly to humans, save for members of groups especially at risk to all forms of contagion (e.g. the very young, the very old, and the infirm of all ages). Bird flu, however, is a killer, and if it jumps species and mutates on the fly into a form that humans can easily pass to each other, it could take the lives of millions in the space of weeks, ultimately making the United Nations' projected death toll of 150 million worldwide look like wishful thinking.