Rumsfeld To Profit FromAvian Flu Hoax

[Sheri Nakken]

Rumsfeld To Profit FromAvian Flu Hoax

http://www.mercola.com/blog/2005/oct/19 ... n_flu_hoax

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Finally, the pieces of the puzzle start to add up. Last week, President
Bush sought to instill panic in this country by telling us a minimum of
200,000 people will die from the avian flu pandemic but it could be as bad
as 2 million deaths in this country alone.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/200 ... emic_x.htm
This hoax is then used to justify the immediate purchase of 80 million
doses of Tamiflu, a worthless drug that in no way shape or form treats the
avian flu, but only decreases the amount of days one is sick and can
actually contribute to the virus having more lethal mutations.

So the U.S. placed an order for 20 million doses of this worthless drug at
a price of $100 per dose. That comes to a staggering $2 billion.

We are being told that Roche manufactures Tamiflu and, in yesterday's New
York Times, they were battling whether or not they would allow generic drug
companies to help increase their production.

http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http: ... 9/business
/worldbusiness/19roche.html&OP=3a5d16cQ2F1Nxt12gQ60Q2BQ3BggJH1HDDs1Q5BD1Q5BO
1tnQ2BQ3EAxQ2BQ2B1NgQ3BZ2tnQ2BQ3EAxQ2BQ2B1Q5BOQ3BgQ60@xR@JSZ

But if you dig further you will find that a drug was actually developed by
a company called Gilead that 10 years ago gave Roche the exclusive rights
to market and sell Tamiflu.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... DE8LG1.DTL

Ahh, The Plot Thickens...

If you read the link below from Gilead, you'll discover Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld was made the chairman of Gilead in 1997.

Since Rumsfeld holds major portions of stock in Gilead, he will handsomely
profit from the scare tactics of the government that is being used to
justify the purchase of $2 billion of Tamiflu.

For more on the nonsense of the avian flu hoax, you'll want to review my
post from yesterday.
http://www.mercola.com/blog/2005/oct/18 ... _is_a_hoax
http://www.gilead.com/wt/sec/pr_933190157/

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"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will likely profit handsomely from the
announcement the government is purchasing $2 billion of Tamiflu, the drug
developed by Gilead Sciences when Rumsfeld was president of the company. He
is reported to hold major portions of stock in Gilead"

"Ida Honorof wrote, "the most brazen, obscene electioneering ploy" ever and
added that it was proposed by the President "and his coterie of scientific
hacks, fabricated to cause pure unadulterated panic and guarantee political
capital, rammed through without consideration of people's health and lives
and approved by a band-wagon Congress" eager to make the nation's "health"
a bipartisan concern." (actually written about SWINE FLU hoax years ago)

"First step for anyone caught up in this avian flu hype nonsense is to take
a deep breath and relax and realize the truth here. Unless you are full
time bird handler in a third world country that has a seriously challenged
immune system you probably have a much better chance of wining the lottery
than dying from the proposed avian flu epidemic."

http://www.mercola.com/blog/2005/oct/18 ... _is_a_hoax
Avian Flu Epidemic Scare is a Hoax

"If you have been viewing the media you must have seen the scare the media
and the president are seeking to orchestrate on you and the public.
According to a draft of the government's plan to fight a potentially
cataclysmic pandemic this new avian super-flu could kill nearly TWO MILLION
Americans.

But I nearly fell out of my seat in the airplane as I was flying back from
a conference in Ft. Lauderdale when I read that in the BEST-case scenario,
only 200,000 people might die.

Then they post the frightening picture from the 1918 flu epidemic to
heighten the fear. It just amazes me how they can get away with this type
of reporting that is so obviously manipulated by the government and drug
companies to scare you into taking the flu vaccine.

The popular media continues to reinforce this unbased fear. In the
editorial section of the October 17, 2005 issue of the Wall Street Journal,
Dr. Henry Miller, former director of the Office of Biotechnology at the
FDA, seeks to frighten the US public by telling us that the avian flu virus
can jump from birds to humans and produce a fatal illness in 50% of those
infected.

Ah there's the rub. 50% fatality rate sounds pretty scary to me. What Dr.
Miller and the other experts fail to explain is how these numbers were
derived. Did they examine everyone who contracted the avian flu and use
those numbers or did they examine the sickest of the sick who had come down
with the avian flu and determine the mortality from there?

Of course it was the later, and from the 60 people who have died from this
in THIRD world countries we are being told that anywhere from 200,000 AT
BEST to two million people at worst will die from the avian flu.

This is shody science at best and beyond belief that any reputable
scientist could get away with such nonsense.

Daily Show Parody

Fortunately contemporary comedians can see right through this nonsense.
Here are the links to Jon Stewart's scathing and brilliant Daily Show piece
on bird flu. But I have to warn you that it may cause you to hurt yourself
from laughing so hard, especially the World Health expert comments on the
avian flu killing 150 million people and even funnier comment of George
Bush on bird to people transmission.

Quicktime Link (106 MB)
http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/oct ... ianflu.mov
MP3 Link (6.7 MB)
http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/oct ... ianflu.mp3
What Happened to Common Sense?

The avian flu epidemic hoax reminds me just how uncommon "common sense" is.
Folks where is the sound basic science here? How do they make the giant
leap of faith that 60 deaths will translate to 2 million or even 200,00
deaths in the US from a virus that does NOT readily spread from birds to
humans or humans to humans?

Most of the people who acquired this infection were bird handlers who were
in continuous contact with these sick birds. Does anyone in their right
mind envision similar circumstances in the US?

Research like this would typically be thrown in the trash if it did not
strongly support some ulterior purpose.

What might the purpose of these scare tactics be you ask?

Well how about the US purchasing huge quantities of antiviral drugs and an
increase in flu vaccine production along with purchasing 20 million doses
of the highly questionably effective Tamiflu. Guess how much one treatment
of Tamiflu costs? Give yourself a slap on the back if you guessed $100.

Donald Rumsfeld to Profit Big Time

So those 20 million doses the government has authorized will cost US
Taxpayers 2 BILLION dollars.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will likely profit handsomely from the
announcement the government is purchasing $2 billion of Tamiflu, the drug
developed by Gilead Sciences when Rumsfeld was president of the company. He
is reported to hold major portions of stock in Gilead

Not very different from his previous experience with aspartame where he was
president of Searle and was able to get asparatame approved after being
blocked by the FDA for more than a decade.

Now I think very few of us would mind if this drug actually worked and
prevented even a few people from dying. But does it do that? Not really.
About all anyone can expect from this drug is that it might make the
symptoms a bit less severe. On the downside (aside from setting you back
$100) Dr. Tenpenny explained in her Flu Tele Clinic last week Tamiflu can
actually cause the virus to mutate into a more dangerous and potent viral
strain.

Yesterday US Congress asked Roche, the maker of Tamiflu to suspend its
patent and have others make it because they could not likely keep up with
the demand, but of course Roche refused saying Tamiflu is hard to make and
it would take another company three years to "get up to speed".

What they were really saying is they could care less about the public, what
their primary focus on was to not share their windfall profits mandated by
the US Congress.

Worthless Flu Shots

Of course let us not forget the flu shots which many will use get when they
confuse avian flu with the regular flu. Please understand even if you
believe the flu shots work, the flu shot you can now purchase is in no way
shape or form designed to protect you against the flu. They are completely
different strains. (Avian flu is H5N1 strain).

But rest assured the makers of flu vaccines will not lose this unusal
opportunity to rape the American public of even more profits. Today we
learned that those getting the flu shotsmay see a 25% increase in prices at
clinics, doctors' offices and medical centers because of increases in the
wholesale cost of the vaccines.

History Repeats Itself

Investigative journalist Ida Honorof for decades published a consumer
newsletter and broadcast a regular radio program. Honorof received a first
prize award from Associated Press for investigative journalism. The Los
Angeles Times and other publications credited her with breaking some of the
biggest horror stories of our time.

Ida Honorof wrote, "the most brazen, obscene electioneering ploy" ever and
added that it was proposed by the President "and his coterie of scientific
hacks, fabricated to cause pure unadulterated panic and guarantee political
capital, rammed through without consideration of people's health and lives
and approved by a band-wagon Congress" eager to make the nation's "health"
a bipartisan concern.

The above quote was not written about the avian flu epidemic but the 5
million swine-flu vaccine program of 30 years ago. The hastily contrived
program for swine flu resulted in hundreds of Guillain Barre Syndrome
paralysis victims as well as countless deaths for a flu pandemic that never
materialized.

The pocketbook purloining proposed by the Senate is more than 3,000 per
cent greater than that of 30 years ago! Has your paycheck increased 3,000
per cent in the last 30 years?

Practical Options

First step for anyone caught up in this avian flu hype nonsense is to take
a deep breath and relax and realize the truth here. Unless you are full
time bird handler in a third world country that has a seriously challenged
immune system you probably have a much better chance of wining the lottery
than dying from the proposed avian flu epidemic.

Review the simple lifestyle measures I outlined earlier this year that will
serve to boost your immune system to not only address any form of the flu
but also other infectious illness like the cold. When you have a healthy
lifestyle and follow basic steps of the Total Health program, for the most
part you just don't get sick.

This is the routine surprised comment that most patients tell me after they
have been on the program. The Total Health program works for me, most of my
patients and can work for you. Just give it a try and let's stop enriching
the drug companies for toxic alternatives that don't solve the problem.

For more information about the avian flu you can obtain the Flu Tele Clinic
I did last week with Dr. Tenpenny.

USA Today October 8, 2005
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Friday, October 21, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com

NEWS AND ANALYSIS

Readers can be helpful, and one just wrote in to inform us of a link that
we had never imagined - Donald Rumsfeld, until he resigned and joined the
Bush Administration, was the chairman of something called Gilead which just
happened to make something called Tamiflu.

Now anyone who hasn't been on Mars for the last month or two, knows that
there were only two things that were going to stop the human version of
bird flu. One was a bird flu vaccine (which probably would work better if
you were a bird) and the other was something called Tamiflu. Yes, that
Tamiflu. In such short supply that the hundreds of millions of orders that
have been pouring into Gilead probably won't be filled for another 12
months or so. But everyone has got to have it because somehow or other it
became established that Tamiflu really worked.

This was the party line, anyway, for about a week, until word began
trickling back in that maybe Tamiflu didn't work. In fact, the word on
Tamiflu has always been positive at first and then eventually negative.
It's a kind of pattern. We even find corroboration of it here on the
Democrats.com, in what appears to be either a chat room or news roundup as
follows, "Rummy was CEO of Gilead Sciences until named to the Bush cabinet
and, like Cheney, still has ties that bind to the 'old company.' Now isn't
it an 'amazing coincidence' that the drug Tamiflu patented by Gilead
Sciences is being pushed by the National Institutes of Allergies and
Infectious Diseases as the NUMBER ONE choice for flu, which, wonder of
wonders, is sweeping through in one epidemic after another."

The post from January '04 adds, "Tamiflu is now also being recommended to
fight avian flu ... Scroll through this NIAID page and you will find
Tamiflu listed as ahead of all other recommended drugs for both prevention
and treatment of flu. Trouble is, Gilead has been accused of rigging the
trials of Tamiflu as a preventive treatment. Meanwhile Gilead is making a
killing."

The post then gives the following link:
http://12.31.13.115/HealthNews/reuters/ ... 200324.htm)

We bet Gilead is still making a killing as is Big Pharma. Please notice now
that the orders are in, the hysteria has died down a bit. Perhaps everybody
is too busy counting the money. Or perhaps it was never about anything BUT
the money. We weren't entirely sure, but we knew that none of it passed the
old "smell test." In fact, in serial articles we claimed that bird flu
probably wasn't going to turn into human flu anytime soon, that even if it
did, it didn't mean that the world was in for a dose of 1918 influenza all
over again. We just couldn't believe that the people bringing us Spanish
Influenza Redux - with all the hype and horror - were remotely qualified to
bring us even the opening of an envelope.

We questioned everything, even whether 1918 was all just the fault of a flu
virus. Didn't seem likely to us then and doesn't now - especially since
we've come to understand what hygiene was like for the soldiers coming back
from the war, how vaccine providers apparently unloaded their stock after
the war, lowering immunities, etc. and, finally how the new miracle drug,
aspirin, was all the rage, prescribed by medical parishioners everywhere.
Aspirin lowers fevers and allows flu to build until it bursts out all over
the body with renewed and potentially mortal violence.

And that brings us to today. Bird flu still rages and, yes, it may mutate
into human flu at some point and cause death, many deaths, or fewer deaths,
no one knows. It may indeed sweep around the world. But of more worry
immediately were moves of civil authorities to float trial balloons about
mandatory vaccination and to start sending vials of superflu bugs around
the world in the name of science. We demanded that our viewers call the
Capitol Hill and get out the word that the government was to cease testing
new vaccines, cease ordering TamiFlu and bird flu vaccine, neither of which
work or will work against whatever it is that bird flu will turn into.
Which at least some in government would love because then they could turn
the President's apparent yen for martial law into reality. And Bush could
use some martial law about now. Hell, he could use anything, maybe even a
good book.

We hoped that this latest epidemic of hysteria would finally force the
government to come clean about other remedies - super doses of Vitamin C
and even the use of silver as an antidote. We're still waiting. Sigh.

staff reports - Free-Market News Network
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=1443

[Tanya Marquette]

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