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Aaron Russo's film suggests neo-cons planned 9/11, and also seek to micro-chip all Americans

2009-05-01T13:39:00.001-07:00

Aaron Russo's film suggests neo-cons planned 9/11, and also seek to micro-chip all Americans

Compiled by David Stein

Aaron Russo.

Aaron Russo's film, which runs about 1 hour and 40 minutes, entitled "America: Freedom to Fascism", describes the descent of America from a constitutional republic to a bureaucratic state, where the IRS, police, and other elite-driven institutions run amok.

Hollywood director Aaron Russo goes in-depth for first time on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, including his prediction of 9/11 and the apparently contrived "War on Terror", the Rockefeller's alleged creation of "women's lib", and the elite's ultimate plan for world population reduction as well as a "microchipped society".

Mr. Russo's documentary relates how Rockefeller told him that the elite strategically manipulated the evolution of the women's liberation to destroy the family. Mr. Russo also reveals that elites want to ultimately microchip and control the entire population, in order to execute an elite social control agenda. Mr. Russo also presents that Mr. Rockefeller also told before 9/11 that "an unexpected event" would catalyze the U.S. to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. VIDEO LINK

Aaron Russo's illuminating documentary investigates, in particular, the RFID ("Radio Frequency Identification") chips, the Real ID Act, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. tax code.

Russo also warns his audience of what he calls the dangers of RFID -- miniature chips with antennas a few inches long that are being used to track pallets of goods in warehouses. Joining him is privacy activist Katherine Albrecht, who has co-authored a book that's described as outlining how RFID fulfills "biblical prophesies" in a way that's "uncannily similar to the prophecies of Revelation."

Albrecht and Russo don't seem worried about RFID being used to track bulk goods.

Rather, what they worry about are RFID tags being woven into products like clothes. If that happens, they say, Americans can be tracked surreptitiously without their knowledge--and it's just a short step from that to implanting chips in humans. Wisconsin politicians seem to share these fears: They've apparently approved a law banning the practice .

An overview of broad American attitudes

Most adult Americans share an uneasy feeling that something is very wrong in America today, that it's in deep trouble and things just seem to keep getting steadily worse instead of better.

More and more there is a growing distrust by the American people of the men and women they elect to represent them in Washington. They are perceived by many as being "just a bunch of self serving "crooked politicians", who forget about the people back home the minute they are elected to office.

They hear talk of a satanic New World Order, of a National ID card, and of microchips being implanted in all of us in the not too distant future, Christians consider this to be "the mark of the beast" the Bible foretells of in the "Book of Revelation". They hear and read about government conspiracies, cover-ups, and illegal spying on ordinary citizens. Most have little hope of things getting any better in the foreseeable future, and they seem to have resigned themselves to the inevitability of yet worse things to come. They have a mindset that there is nothing they can do to return America to the kind of country our founding fathers envisioned America as a prospective great democracy.

Aaron Russo presents himself as one of many Americans, who do know why America is caught up in this downward spiral that seems to have no end.

"These people are trying very hard to get the truth out to the American people as to what is causing America to be in such deep trouble, on so many fronts. They are getting through to some but by and large their tireless efforts are met with widespread disbelief and disdain by the average American. They are all too often dismissed as fanatics, purveyors of gloom and doom. So many Americans just can not or will not believe the truth no matter how convincingly it is presented to them or how strong the evidence is that what they are being told is in fact the truth," eloquently states Mary Jones in defence of Aaron Russo's film.

Russo's professional credentials and political background

Aaron Russo has won enough awards in both the music and film industry to impress even the most cynical and harsh critics. Among his many accomplishments in the entertainment business, Mr. Russo was manager of the legendary Bette Midler for seven years, and was the producer of Midler's first major film "The Rose".

Mr. Russo has produced a number of films which have received six Academy Award nominations.

He was awarded an Emmy for a Bette Midler TV special, and a gold record for producing the Soundtrack to The Rose. Aaron Russo has also won a Tony award and several prestigious Golden Globe Awards.

Mr. Russo had turned political in the 1990's and ran for governor of Nevada as a Republican in 1998, coming in second in the party primary with 26% of the vote against three opponents. In January of 2004 he declared his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States as an independent, then later decided to run for the Libertarian Party's nomination.

Ms Jones as an advocate of Mr. Russo's film further says, "This is not a movie of 'theories', this is a documentary movie of 'facts'." Everything was stacked against the making of this movie. No major studio would back this controversial film."

Memo: 9/11 Commission Witnesses Were Intimidated By Government “Minders”

2009-04-30T13:22:00.000-07:00

Somewhat lost within the flu pandemic media hype this week is an important new revelation concerning the cover up of the events of 9/11.

A recently uncovered 9/11 Commission memo dating from October 2003, half way through the panel’s investigation, addresses concerns that government “minders” were intimidating witnesses and shaping their testimonies.

The document was drafted by Kevin Scheid, a senior staffer who led the commission’s Team 2, which was responsible for reviewing the overarching structure of the US intelligence community.

Names also appearing on the memo are those of staffers Lorry Fenner, an air force intelligence officer, and lawyer Gordon Lederman.

The memo, entitled “Executive Branch Minders’ Intimidation of Witnesses,” states the following:

Minders “answer[ed] questions directed at witnesses;”
Minders acted as “monitors, reporting to their respective agencies on Commission staffs lines of inquiry and witnesses’ verbatim responses.” The staff thought this “conveys to witnesses that their superiors will review their statements and may engage in retribution;”
Minders’ notetaking “facilitates agencies in alerting future witnesses to the Commission’s lines of inquiry and permits agencies to prepare future witnesses either explicitly or implicitly.”
Minders “positioned themselves physically and have conducted themselves in a manner that we believe intimidates witnesses from giving full and candid responses to our questions.”
The staffers make it clear that intimidation by minders was widespread and had not only occurred with their team’s witnesses.

The memo was discovered by an independent researcher in the National Archives, to which it was added earlier this year.

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The revelations come in the wake of an admission by the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission - John Farmer - who said that the government agreed not to tell the truth about the events of 9/11.

Farmer’s book about his experiences working for the Commission, set to be released in September, unveils how “the public had been seriously misled about what occurred during the morning of the attacks,” and Farmer himself states that “at some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened.”

Farmer’s statements dovetail with those highlighted in an August 2006 Washington Post report, which stated that “Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.”

The report revealed how the 10-member commission deeply suspected deception to the point where they considered referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.

These statements and testimonies, combined with the swathes of still unanswered questions surrounding the attacks, confirm that the 9/11 Commission was a complete whitewash and intensify the need to establish a new independent investigation.

Baxter To Develop Swine Flu Vaccine Despite Bird Flu Scandal

2009-04-27T20:47:00.000-07:00

A U.S. based pharmaceutical company that just weeks ago was involved in a scandal involving vaccines tainted with deadly avian flu virus has been chosen to head up efforts to produce a vaccine for the Mexican swine flu that has seemingly migrated into the U.S. and Europe.

Baxter confirmed over the weekend that it is working with the World Health Organization on a potential vaccine to curb the deadly swine flu virus that is blamed for scores of deaths in Mexico and has emerged as a threat in the U.S., reports the Chicago Tribune.

Baxter has previously worked with governments all over the globe to develop and produce vaccines to protect against infectious disease or potential threats from bioterrorism. After 9/11 Baxter helped supply stockpiles of a smallpox vaccine and in 2003 the company was contracted to develop a vaccine to combat the SARS virus. In 2006 the UK Government announced plans designed to inoculate every person in the country with Baxter’s vaccines in the event of a flu pandemic.

However, Baxter has a very recent and most disturbing connection to flu vaccines.

As reported by multiple sources last month, including the Times of India, vaccines contaminated with deadly live H5N1 avian flu virus were distributed to 18 countries last December by a lab at an Austrian branch of Baxter.

It was only by providence that the batch was first tested on ferrets in the Czech Republic, before being shipped out for injection into humans. The ferrets all died and the shocking discovery was made.

Czech newspapers immediately questioned whether the events were part of a conspiracy to deliberately provoke a pandemic, following up on accusations already made by health officials in other countries.

Initially, Baxter attempted to stonewall questions by invoking “trade secrets” and refused to reveal how the vaccines were contaminated with H5N1. After increased pressure they then claimed that pure H5N1 batches were sent by accident.

Since the probability of mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible, this leaves no other explanation than that the contamination was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the H5N1 virus to its most potent extreme and distribute it via conventional flu vaccines to the population who would then infect others to a devastating degree as the disease went airborne.

The fact that Baxter mixed the deadly H5N1 virus with a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses is the smoking gun. The H5N1 virus on its own has killed hundreds of people, but it is less airborne and more restricted in the ease with which it can spread. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which as everyone knows are super-airborne and easily spread, the effect is a potent, super-airbone, super deadly biological weapon.

Indeed, some have already suggested that the current scare could represent the use of such a weapon.

Now it has been announced that Baxter is seeking a sample of the potentially lethal never before seen form of swine/avian/human flu virus in order to assist the World Health Organization in developing a new vaccine, reaping billions in the process.

Why should Baxter be trusted, when they have already been proven to be at the very least criminally negligent, and at worst a prime suspect in attempting to carry off one of the most heinous crimes in the history of mankind?

The company has already put the safety of the entire human race at risk, and now, just a few weeks later, we’re expected to invest our confidence in them and take their shots with a smile and a still tongue?

As Mike Adams of Natural News has commented, “If you mail an envelope full of anthrax to your Senator, you get arrested as a terrorist. So why is Baxter — which mailed samples of a far more deadly viral strain to labs around the world — getting away with saying, essentially, ‘Oops?’”

WHO officials are reportedly still closely monitoring the investigation into Baxter’s contaminated flu vaccines, seemingly they are not too concerned. Perhaps we should be.

Horror Emergency Laws Set To Kill - Forced Vaccinations

2009-04-27T17:13:00.000-07:00

Horror Emergency Laws Set To Kill
Gabriel O’Hara, Wise Up Journal, 02/01/2009
The majority of this article is made up from an absolutely horrifying section of the National Medical Bill. Horrors that you’ve not heard about in 70 years are actually written down and are legal. Everything in this article has a link to the official bill. The section in question of the Medical Bill springs from the World Health Organisation standards and recommendations. Most countries are likely to have the same bills because most follow the WHO’s lead, however in some countries these emergency plans can not be seen even by homeland security so this Irish Medical Bill could be a window into what other Governments are also prepared to do.

These specific emergency measures can legally be carried out without the so called emergency ever happening in your country, all that is required is a simple alert from the unelected people at the WHO. As we will see, these psychotic Government actions to a so called “imminent” emergency will actually do more damage than if the emergency hit.

We’ll come to the Medical Bill in a moment but first we’ll look at this 2008 pamphlet from the Government that states a worldwide pandemic would be caused by “a new influenza strain” and they are pretty confident when they state “there will be more pandemics”. It also lets us know who is in control of kicking off the alert and actions when it says, “You will be advised to begin these preparations if and when the World Health Organisation confirms that a pandemic is imminent.” The Department of Health & Children’s National Pandemic Influenza Plan shows the WHO puts our global society currently at phase 3 of a phase 6 global pandemic, “The World Health Organization (WHO) uses six phases of pandemic alert as a system for informing the world of the seriousness of the threat.“ Phase 3: “Human infection(s) with a new subtype, […] We are now in Phase 3 (January 2007).” The power to alert/get nations into implementing WHO actions is further consolidated in to the hands of one person, the current Director-General (Chinese Margaret Chan) and the pandemic plan says, “the designation of alert phases, including decisions on when to move from one phase to another, is made by the Director-General of the World Health Organization. The transition between phases may be rapid and some phases may be skipped. “

National Pandemic Influenza Plan also lists the following:

“A number of legal issues may arise from the public health management of pandemic influenza.”

“The World Health Organization has identified and categorised non-pharmaceutical public health interventions as follows:”

* “Measures to increase social distance”
* “Measures for people entering or exiting an infected area within a country”
* “Section 31 [Health Act] gives power to the Minister to make regulations to prevent the spread of an infectious disease and to treat people suffering from infectious disease. The regulations envisaged by the Act include:”
o “Requirement for adults and children to stay in their homes”
o “Requirement for adults and children to submit to examination, vaccination, immunisation”

It then lists “suspension of travel”, “suspension of other gatherings”, and finally lists “possible security issues” as a wider scope of power given to them.

Lets look at Part IV of the the Health Act which deals with infectious diseases and see how Governments will treat us when the WHO gives the ok. Lets look at how the law will make all our rights evaporate when we need them the most. http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1947/en/act/pub/0028/

Section 38 contains a purposeful loophole to detain anyone. It legalizes the detention of, by force if necessary, people who are not identified as infected but are a “probable” source. The name of section 38 is “Detention and isolation of person who is probable source of infection” and it states the following, “force may, if necessary, be used for the purpose of carrying out any provision of this subsection.”

Part 2 of section 38 redefines the word person into patient: “(2) Where an order is made under this section in relation to a person (in this subsection referred to as the patient), the following provisions shall have effect[….]”. This makes it legal for the government imprison people known not to be infected and label them as patients.

Part K of section 38 tries to pretend that a person or a parent of a detained child can make an appeal to be released but it is entirely up the decision of the minister and this “nice” sounding part actually allows the legal interpretation for people to be detained for what ever amount of time the state demands. The key word of part K is “determination” which has a couple of definitions in the dictionary one being “settlement of a dispute”. Part K states, “if no determination of an appeal under paragraph (h) of this subsection is made by the Minister and communicated to the person in charge of such hospital or other place within twenty-one clear days from the receipt by the Minister of such appeal, such person shall release the, patient”. If a determination/decision is made by the Minister for the status quo then the men, women and children detained will not be released. It also makes it legal for Government officers to detain people even if the Minister has not made any decision because it says if the government officer (”the person in charge of such hospital or other place“) is not told (”communicated to”) that the Minister has not made a decision (or even that there is an appeal) the officer does not have to release the person. If the detention officers are not told there was an appeal, they don’t know to release you based on a “no determination“.

The Health act gives the power of relocating people (persons) to government facilities/camps/accommodation: Health Act section 40, “A health authority may provide accommodation for persons who are compelled to leave their homes on account of any steps taken under this Act or the regulations made thereunder for the prevention of the spread of infectious disease.” It gives the government the right to detain people in government facilities not just hospitals with the following line, “the order to allow for the patient’s isolation in a hospital or other place convenient“.

Health Act section 32 A and B below deals with the entire population not just the infected and uninfected population incarcerated in hospitals and “other places”. It gives the Minister power to order the injection of the entire population (quote: “all adult persons” and “all children”) with a vaccine they believe might immunise against a pandemic “caused by a new influenza strain“. You are probably thinking how could they create a vaccine so fast, doesn’t it take years to prove it is safe? They are prepared to alter the entire population’s immune system and DNA with what would be officially an untested experimental vaccine, are you prepared for that? It’s the law now.

Health Act section 32:
“The Minister may by order declare that-”

“it is necessary, for the purpose of preventing the spread of a particular infectious disease, that all adult persons should submit themselves to a specified measure in relation to their protection or immunisation against such infectious disease”

“The Minister may by order declare that—”

“it is necessary, for the purpose of preventing the spread of a particular infectious disease, that all children should be submitted to a specified measure in relation to their protection or immunisation against that infectious disease”.

Going back to the little public pamphlet that looks like it was designed for children it mentions 8 possible emergencies. All the other emergencies beside a pandemic are played down, even a nuclear incident at Sellafield is nothing to worry about according to the pamphlet as it says “any radioactivity from an incident would be diluted before reaching Ireland.” For other emergencies they use words of possibilities like, “in the event of such an incident”, “you may be asked”, but with the pandemic, which is allocated more pages, they have definite statements such as, “there will be more pandemics”, “if and when”, “every household in the country will receive a leaflet before the pandemic reaches Ireland”, follow “advice from the telephone hotline that will be set up or from official Government announcements to the media.” Months after this pamphlet was released the Irish government performed for the first ever time test announcements over all media as the Irish Times reported in Dec 2008: “the State’s radio and television airwaves fell silent for the first time early this morning as part of a Government exercise on giving urgent messages to the nation.”

The National Pandemic Influenza Plan says when a pandemic is completely over “it may be a long time before the health services recover”. Business, farming, and food supplies will take just as long if not longer to recover. How will a family whom are not incarcerated at a government facility during a WHO pandemic phase feed themselves when public gathering are illegal, when food markets are closed and leaving the home is forbidden? Issuing people masks and gloves, keeping stores open, not injecting the entire population with an experimental vaccine, and not rounding up people into camps would save more lives. The goal of these “legal” measures are clear. “If and when” (as the government say’s) they implement the World Health Organisation measures because of a pandemic or phantom pandemic alert we’ll find that these actions will kill more people than a real pandemic ever could. The legal measures have been adopted for such a disaster to take place and you wont be able to counter them when implemented. You might want to think of getting these laws taken out before the WHO announces it’s alert.

dead microbiologists

2009-04-27T16:59:00.000-07:00

List Of Dead Microbiologists
From Charlene Fassa
1-12-5

Here is at least a partial list of dead microbiologists:

July 18, 2003: Dr. David Kelly, a British biological weapons expert

June 24, 2003: Dr. Leland Rickman, a UC San Diego expert on infectious
diseases

November 12 2002: Dr. Benito Que, 52, was "an expert in infectious
diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School

March 25, 2002: Dead microbiologist: Steven Mostow, 63

March 24, 2002: Dead microbiologist: David Wynn-Williams, 55

February 28, 2002: Two dead microbiologists in San Francisco,Tanya Holzmayer, 46, is shot and killed by a colleague, Guyang Huang, 38, who then apparently shot himself.

February 11, 2002: Dead microbiologist: Dr. Ian Langford, 40

February 9, 2002: Dead microbiologist: Victor Korshunov, 56

January 2002: Two dead microbiologists: Ivan Glebov and Alexi
Brushlinski

December 14, 2001: Dead microbiologist: Nguyen Van Set, 44

December 10, 2001: Dead microbiologist: "Dr. Robert Schwartz, 57

November 24, 2001: Three more dead microbiologists: Dr. Yaakov Matzner,
54, dean of the Hebrew University school of medicine; Amiramp Eldor,
59, head of the haematology department at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv
and a world-recognized expert in blood clotting; and Avishai Berkman,
50, director of the Tel Aviv public health department and businessman

November 21, 2001: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian
defector Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, 64

November 16, 2001: Dr. Don Wiley, 57

November 6, 2001: Jeffry Paris

Now, read the circumstances of the deaths of some of these scientists. It seems microbiology is the most dangerous occupation...

Dr Kelly just the latest in a LONG list..a must read

http://www.global-elite.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=71&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Posted by: outerbongolia on Jul 20, 2003 - 07:02 AM 19 die in
suspicious circumstances in the last 20 months....In chronological
order they are....

November 6, 2001: Jeffrey Paris' body was found sprawled next to a
three-story parking structure near his office. Mr. Wall, 41, had
studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a
biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he also specialized
in patent and intellectual property.
November 16, 2001: Dr. Don Wiley, 57, disappears during a business
trip to Memphis, Tennessee. He had just bought tickets to take his son
to Graceland the following day. Police found his rental car on a
bridge outside Memphis. His body was later found in the Mississippi
River. Wiley was one of the world's leading researchers of deadly
viruses, including HIV and the Ebola virus. He was an expert on the
immune system's response to viral attacks
.

November 21, 2001: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian
defector Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, dies of a stroke. Pasechnik, who
defected to Britain in 1989, succeeded in producing an aerosolized
plague microbe that could survive outside the laboratory. He was
connected to Britain's spy agency and recently had started his own
company. "In the last few weeks of his life he had put his research on
anthrax at the disposal of the [British] Government, in the light of
the threat from bioterrorism.

November 24, 2001: Three more dead microbiologists: A Swissair flight
from Berlin to Zurich crashes during its landing approach; 22 are
killed and nine survive. Among those killed are Dr. Yaakov Matzner,
54, dean of the Hebrew University school of medicine; Amiramp Eldor,
59, head of the haematology department at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv
and a world-recognized expert in blood clotting; and Avishai Berkman,
50, director of the Tel Aviv public health department and businessman

December 10, 2001: Dead microbiologist: "Dr. Robert Schwartz, 57, was
stabbed and slashed with what police believe was a sword in his
farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. His daughter, who identifies herself as a
pagan high priestess, and three of her fellow pagans have been
charged." [Globe and Mail, 5/4/02] All were part of what they called a
coven, and interested in magic, fantasy and self-mutilation. The
police have no motive as to why they would have wanted to kill
Schwartz, who was a single parent and said to be very close to his
children. Schwartz worked at Virginia's Center for Innovative
Technology on DNA sequencing and pathogenic microorganisms.

December 14, 2001: Dead microbiologist: Nguyen Van Set, 44, dies in an
airlock filled with nitrogen in his lab in Geelong, Australia. The lab
had just been written up in the journal Nature for its work in genetic
manipulation and DNA sequencing. Scientists there had created a
virulent form of mousepox. "They realized that if similar genetic
manipulation was carried out on smallpox, an unstoppable killer could
be unleashed,"

January 2002: Two dead microbiologists: Ivan Glebov and Alexi
Brushlinski. Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack and
Brushlinski was killed in Moscow. Both were well known around the
world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.

February 9, 2002: Dead microbiologist: Victor Korshunov, 56, is bashed
over the head and killed at the entrance of his home in Moscow,
Russia. He was the head of the microbiology sub-faculty at the Russian
State Medical University and an expert in intestinal bacteria.

February 11, 2002: Dead microbiologist: Dr. Ian Langford, 40, is found
dead, partially naked and wedged under a chair in his home in Norwich,
England. When found, his house was described as "blood-spattered and
apparently ransacked." He was one of Europe's leading experts on
environmental risk.

February 28, 2002: Two dead microbiologists in San Francisco: While
taking delivery of a pizza, Tanya Holzmayer, 46, is shot and killed by
a colleague, Guyang Huang, 38, who then apparently shot himself.
Holzmayer moved to the US from Russia in 1989. Her research focused on
the part of the human molecular structure that could be affected best
by medicine. Holzmayer was focusing on helping create new drugs that
interfere with replication of the virus that causes AIDS. One year
earlier, Holzmayer obeyed senior management orders to fire Huang.

March 24, 2002: Dead microbiologist: David Wynn-Williams, 55, is hit
by a car while jogging near his home in Cambridge, England. He was an
astrobiologist with the Antarctic Astrobiology Project and the NASA
Ames Research Center. He was studying the capability of microbes to
adapt to environmental extremes, including the bombardment of
ultraviolet rays and global warming.

March 25, 2002: Dead microbiologist: Steven Mostow, 63, dies when the
airplane he was piloting crashes near Denver, Colorado. He worked at
the Colorado Health Sciences Centre and was known as "Dr. Flu" for his
expertise in treating influenza, and expertise on bioterrorism. Mostow
was one of the country's leading infectious disease experts.

November 12 2002: Dr. Benito Que, 52, was "an expert in infectious
diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School. Police
originally suspected that he had been beaten on in a carjacking in the
medical school's parking lot. Strangely enough, though, his body
showed no signs of a beating.

June 24, 2003: Dr. Leland Rickman, a UC San Diego expert on infectious
diseases and, since Sept. 11, 2001 a consultant on bioterrorism. He
was 47. Rickman died while on a teaching assignment in Lesotho, a
small country bordered on all sides by South Africa. He had complained
of a headache, but the cause of death was not immediately known. The
physician had been working in Lesotho with Dr. Chris Mathews, director
of the UC San Diego Medical Center's Owen Clinic, teaching African
medical personnel about the prevention and treatment of AIDS.Rickman,
the incoming president of the Infectious Disease Assn. of California,
was a multidisciplinary professor and practitioner with expertise in
infectious diseases, internal medicine, epidemiology, microbiology and
antibiotic utilization

July 18, 2003: David Kelly, a British biological weapons expert, was
said to have slashed his own wrists while walking near his home. Kelly
was the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific officer and senior
adviser to the proliferation and arms control secretariat, and to the
Foreign Office's non-proliferation department. The senior adviser on
biological weapons to the UN biological weapons inspections teams
(Unscom) from 1994 to 1999, he was also, in the opinion of his peers,
pre-eminent in his field, not only in this country, but in the world.

mass immunization swine flu in USa 1976

2009-04-27T14:34:00.001-07:00

Twenty-six years ago, the United States government got word that a deadly virus nobody had seen for years – and which experts thought was gone forever – was possibly circulating again.

There wasn't any proof it was back, just a few worrisome hints. However, the microbe had killed millions of people earlier in the century, so even a small amount of evidence had to be taken seriously. So, at great effort and expense, the government launched a plan to vaccinate the American population against the virus.

It seemed like a good idea at the time. But it turned into one of the biggest public health debacles in memory.

The disease was swine flu, whose appearance in 1976 was believed to be a reincarnation of the infection that killed tens of millions of people in 1918 and 1919. Today, the U.S. government is engaged in similar deliberations about smallpox, a disease officially eradicated in 1980 but whose virus some experts believe may be possessed by terrorists.

Over the next month, a panel of scientific experts convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will debate the value – and hazards – of making the smallpox vaccine available in the United States for the first time in 30 years. Universal vaccination is out of the question, but widespread distribution is possible. By the end of June, the experts will recommend a course of action to the Bush administration.

Influenza and smallpox – and their vaccines – differ in innumerable ways, making comparisons tricky. Influenza occurs naturally and spreads quickly. Smallpox hasn't existed outside of laboratory freezers since 1978, but might be in terrorist arsenals. The flu vaccine has few serious side effects, while the smallpox vaccine has many.

Nevertheless, the swine flu campaign is the one recent example of a large, government-sponsored emergency immunization program, and as such may offer lessons for today.

Events began with the death, on Feb. 4, 1976, of an Army recruit at Fort Dix, N.J., during an outbreak of respiratory infections following the holidays. Throat washings were taken from 19 ill soldiers, and a majority tested positive for that winter's dominant strain of the influenza virus, which was called A/Victoria. But four samples were different, and New Jersey public health officials sent them to the CDC to be identified.

On Feb. 12, the CDC delivered a chilling report. The four samples – which included one from the dead soldier – were swine flu. As the name suggests, swine flu was endemic to pigs. However, the devastating pandemic of the Spanish flu in 1918 and 1919 is believed to have been caused by a strain of swine flu that, through mutation, gained the ability to infect people.

In 1927, a scholar put the Spanish flu's global mortality at 21.5 million. In 1991, a systematic recalculation raised it to 30 million. The latest estimate, published in the current Bulletin of the History of Medicine, sets the minimum mortality at 50 million, with an upper limit of 100 million.

The possibility that the Spanish flu had reemerged was a matter whose importance is hard to overstate – and wasn't missed by anyone in 1976. Within days of identifying the strain, federal health officials were meeting at the CDC to discuss what to do.

According to various accounts, the idea that a swine flu epidemic was quite unlikely never received a full airing or a fair hearing, although numerous experts apparently held that view. Instead, the notion that an epidemic was likely enough to warrant population-wide vaccination grew from dominant opinion to unquestioned gospel.

At the same time, the rhetoric of risk suffered steady inflation as the topic moved from the mouths of scientists to the mouths of government officials. In a memo prepared for his superiors at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), David Sencer, head of the CDC, talked about the "strong possibility" of a swine flu epidemic. Later, HEW's general counsel commented that "the chances seem to be 1 in 2." A memo from the HEW secretary to the head of the Office of Management and Budget noted that "the projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans in 1976."

A few experts suggested the vaccine be made and stockpiled but used only if there was more evidence of an epidemic. This was considered but rejected early on. The argument was that the influenza vaccine had few, if any, serious side effects, and that it would be far easier (and more defensible) to get it into people's bodies before people started dying.

On March 24, President Gerald Ford announced on television that he was asking Congress for $135 million "to inoculate every man, woman and child in the United States" against swine flu.

Over the next nine months, very little went right – or as planned.

Pharmaceutical companies undertook crash programs to make enough of the vaccine by the start of flu season in October. But it turned out the Fort Dix bug grew poorly in chicken eggs, the growth medium for the influenza virus. This meant that yields were going to be about half of what was planned. In addition, one company used the wrong virus and had to start over.

The insurance industry announced it wouldn't insure manufacturers against liability arising from the vaccine. An act of Congress shifted most of the liability to the government.

Studies of Fort Dix's soldiers showed that about 500 had been infected with swine flu. But with only one death, this called into question the deadliness of the strain. In addition, swine flu didn't appear that summer in the Southern Hemisphere, as would be expected if a pandemic were starting.

Tests showed that single injections of some vaccine formulations didn't protect children. This required time-consuming studies of a two-shot regimen.

Albert Sabin, the father of the oral polio vaccine and a high-profile advocate, broke with the party line and called for stockpiling, but not immediate use, of the vaccine.

Three elderly people in Pittsburgh died on the same day within hours of getting swine flu shots. It was a chance event, but just the sort of guilt by association that arises whenever a public health intervention is done on a mass scale.

What killed the program, though, was the observation in early December that people given the swine flu vaccine had an increased risk of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare, usually reversible but occasionally fatal form of paralysis. Research showed that while the actual risk for Guillain-Barre was only about 1 in 1,000 among people who had received the vaccine, that was about seven times higher than for people who didn't get the shot.

On Dec. 16, the swine flu vaccine campaign was halted. About 45 million people had been immunized. The federal government eventually paid out $90 million in damages to people who developed Guillain-Barre. The total bill for the program was more than $400 million.

There are a lot of lessons to draw, said Harvey Fineberg, a former dean of Harvard's School of Public Health, who co-authored an analysis of the "swine flu affair" for Joseph A. Califano, HEW secretary under President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Ford in January 1977.

Among them: Don't over-promise; think carefully about what needs to be decided when; don't expect the consensus of experts to hold in the face of changing events. The biggest, he said recently, was perhaps the most obvious: Expect the unexpected at all times.

a letter exposing swine flu

2009-04-27T14:25:00.000-07:00

Dr Margaret Chan on notice criminal charges for mass murder against her and WHO (World Health Organization) on Monday in Austria they want to use the pandemic as an excuse to cause mass deaths through vaccinations.

Also an email has been sent to President Obama, via the attorney general’s office, informing him he will named in the charges to be filed on Monday April 27,2009 because he as President is ultimately responsible for planning and implementing pandemic measures.

These guys might not take me that seriously but they should be concerned that 100s or 1000s if not millions of people, including ex pat Americans, could start filing criminal charges or class action lawsuits (if they do declare a pandemic resulting in mass death and economic breakdown) from countries around the world in the near future if there is a pandemic, and such an avalanche of legal cases will spell doom for them. Please see the email below. Cheers, (name withheld for security)

Dear Dr Margaret Chan,

I am sending this email to inform you that I intend to file criminal charges on Monday April 27th against you as well as other employees in the WHO and allied organizations, for your role in exposing the populations of the world to the risk of a pandemic virus that could kill billions of people using laws to fight international racketeering influenced organized crime as well as the UN convention for the prevention and punishment of genocide.

As a public servant employed in an international organization, the Director-General of the World Health Organization based in Geneva, you have the duty as part of your official capacity to act at all times in such a way as to safeguard the health of the world’s population, specifically to prevent the “misuse” of pandemic declaration by organizations, companies, government bodies or other entities intent on unleashing a pandemic virus and then carrying through a mass vaccination program with contaminated material in order to gain political and economic advantages from mass murder.

Media reports indicate that your organization is abusing its administrative structures, personnel and services to play up the danger of the swine flu virus to justify just such a mass vaccination program with an untried and untested vaccine.

The WHO has ordered all WHO officers to man the “Pandemic Control Room” 24/7 for the 1st time in response to the swine flu cases reported in the media yesterday, and is about to declare a “pandemic”.

The WHO “Pandemic Control Room” is designed to map and track the spread of a pandemic virus, and is thus equipped with super-computers tied to all U.N. member government’s security forces.

This “control room” is where any declarations of “pandemic” will originate from, and I would be grateful if you could list the names of the people working in that control room.
When WHO sends such a “declaration” to President Obama, FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security “Pandemic Task Forces” will be deployed according to my information.

Each State Governor will be notified that the provisions of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) will be implemented. This means that
all Americans must consent to mass vaccinations, or be guilty of a FELONY crime.
Would it not, Dr Chan, be better just to ask people who refuse to wear a surgical mask if there is, indeed, a real danger of a pandemic? Why force through a vaccination on pain of being shot?

The legal situation is that anyone who refuses the vaccine, and/or resists forced relocation to a prepared “quarantine compound”, can “legally” be shot and killed. (Justified “deadly force”.) See http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/Informed/RevisedModelState.html
You must be aware of this facts.

This is such a drastic scenario that you in your capacity as a public servant must have real evidence of a dire threat to the population and be prove beyond a doubt that your actions will address that threat and that there is a good reason why you don’t simply recommend people were surgical masks if they don’t want to take the vaccination.

From media reports, it seems that the new strain of swine flu is a synthetic structural recombinant, it contains genes from birds, humans, and pigs from many different continents. It therefore is reasonable to assume it came out of a laboratory, specifically a bioweapons laboratory.

Wouldn’t the WHO be better advised to investigate the lab that manufactured and released this synthetic virus and prosecute them or else recommend people wear surgical masks rather than declare a mass vaccination program?

According to a report in Fox News below, your assessment of the dangers of this swine flu is by far the most pessimistic with the CDC recommending just customary precautions. How do you explain that?

How do explain why you have identified so many fatalities already while the Mexican government has confirmed only 16 from this new flu strain? What is the scientific basis for your identification? Are you using a correct procedure? Can you prove it in court that you are using the correct procedure and that simply recommending people wear surgical masks is not adequate.

Also, I note that the new strain of the swine flu has appeared in Mexico and America simultaneously, and under “mysterious circumstances” also indicating a deliberate, planned and coordinated release of the synthetic laboratory engineered viruses. Shouldn’t you be investigating such a “mysterious” incident? Have you declared an investigation? Who are you investigating? Please give details?

WHO is obliged to exhaust all other avenues before declaring a pandemic and initiating a mass vaccination program because you must — as part of your duties to be informed as the holder of such an office –

know that the 1976 swine flu mass vaccination program

was abandoned by the US government because of the mounting evidence that the risk to the general public was greater from the vaccination program than from the actual swine flu.It is your especial duty, given this precedent in 1976, to make sure no mass vaccination program is implemented unless that causes injury to the general public is implemented under your auspices by your declaring a pandemic prematurely and without having adequate safeguards in place to ensure the high quality and safety of any vaccine material.You also need to show that recommending surgical masks is not a viable alternative approach in dealing with any so-called pandemic. I contend that you are not fulfilling your duty to a) provide accurate information to the public about the threats posed to them by the swine flu and b) to ensure you do not declare a pandemic prematurely as a pretext to rush through a contaminated or faulty vaccine material that could result in death or injury to people as happened in 1976. As a public servant whose body is currently investigation the involvement of Baxter and Avir in the release of bird flu pandemic material in Austria, you are obliged to be fully aware also of the details of this case and the role that a pharmaceutical company, namely Baxter, played in almost triggering a pandemic. You might also be aware of the criminal charges I filed against Baxter and other bodies, including the WHO, in respect of this case on April 8th with the Vienna City Prosecutor since they are available on a blog.

The WHO reference center provided Baxter with the particularly lethal wild type bird flu virus that ended up contaminating ordinary human flu material and being distributed to 16 laboratories in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany under a false label, and so nearly sparking a bird flu pandemic this winter in the estimation of experts and the media.

Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic

6 Mar 2009, 0002 hrs IST, AGENCIES

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4230882.cms

In the Baxter case of this winter, there is therefore a clear, well documented link between WHO and the release of pandemic bird flu material in Europe this winter.

The WHO is, according to reports, conducting an investigation into Baxter and Avir’s role in producing and distributing this material, but has so far not made public the results of its investigation or made recommendations in respect of stricter biosecurity rules for laboratories working with the highly pathogenic bird flu virus. Why not?

I contend your failure to conduct a full and detailed investigation into this incident, and to make those findings public or to make clear recommendations as to how to prevent a repeat of this incident is not merely a failure to perform your duty as a public servant but evidence of your role in covering up the real origin of the pandemic virus, specifically, in WHO’s own reference center.

In my criminal charges filed with the Vienna City Prosecutor on April 8th, 2009, I alleged that Baxter deliberately tried to trigger a pandemic with the aim of profiting from it by sealing in advance lucrative contracts to supply a vaccination for the bird flu with the Austrian Health Ministry in 2006, specifically the contract sealed with Austrian Health Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat involved supplying 16 million vaccine shots in the event that WHO declared a bird flu pandemic.

In Germany, a vaccination bird flu shot is mandatory ensuring more profits for pharmaceutical companies, and adding to the motivation for companies to trigger a pandemic because they will profit from it, and to take steps to exercise undue influence on members of WHO to declare a pandemic without adequate reason.

Referring to laws on racketeering influenced crime organizations, I argued that high offices in organizations such as the WHO have been annexed by criminal elements who are actually helping to further a criminal agenda of committing murder with the motive of robbery – albeit using covert bioweapons programs.

As a result of the actions of Baxter, at least 35 people in Austria and in the Czech Republic were given preventative treatment against bird flu and the ordinary human flu in hospital. This underlines that in the professional opinion of the medical personnel there was a real, concrete and specific danger from Baxter and WHO’s contaminated material to the health of those individuals, such that administering medicines was considered necessary. I understand the Czech laboratory staff who came into contact with Baxter’s contaminated and who first reported it on February 6th material were placed in quarantine.

Given the fact that this incident happened only a few weeks ago and your organization is involved in it in as far as it supplied a) a lethal strain of the bird flu virus and b) is investigating the incident, it is your duty to be aware of all details, allegations of criminal intent, evidence for those allegations and refutations of those allegations because there are so many parallels with this new “swine flu” case, also involving a synthetic structure that has mysteriously appeared in two places simultaneously.

In particular, you are obliged to be informed about the fact that Baxter uses biosafety level 3 regulations when handling the highly pathogenic bird flu virus that WHO sent the company from its reference center, and that under these biosafety 3 regulations an accidental contamination of the deadly bird flu virus strain you sent you’re your reference center to Baxter with a human flu is virtually impossible.

You must also be aware of the research of Jeffery K. Taubenberger of the Department of Molecular Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology into the bird flu virus and specifically his reconstruction of the deadly strain of the bird flu virus from the genetic material retrieved from victims of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919.

Although many researchers and NGOs issued warnings that resurrecting this lethal virus was dangerous to the public, the WHO has been one of the biggest supporters of continuing research into this bio engineered virus and into its “antidotes” spending millions of tax payers dollars on research and prevention programs.

You must be aware that it was only last summer that scientists published in scientific journals evidence that showed that the bird flu can mix with the human flu virus to produce a pandemic virus in a laboratory situation.

You must also be aware of the ongoing criminal investigation in Poland into the deaths of homeless people after they were given a bird flu trial vaccination by doctors and nurses last summer.

There is therefore, I argue, ample evidence within the public domain to show that pharmaceutical companies and government organizations and other agents are knowingly and intentionally creating pandemic virus material and, as we saw in Austria, this winter unleashing it on the population, and trying to cover up their involvement.

Should you and WHO now declare a pandemic for the swine flu in the USA, and should people die as a direct result of the vaccination program you initiate, or should there be significant evidence of harm or injury to people as a direct result of the mass vaccination program you initiate, as happened in 1976, you could find yourself charged not with a conspiracy to mass murder but with mass murder itself.

Furthermore, the WHO, as far as I am informed, has published a study outlining the economic impact of a pandemic virus.

If you as part of your office help criminal organizations who have annexed high offices of state to carry out their crimes, to ignite and then declare a pandemic, that disrupts the economy, then you, other leading individuals working for WHO in an official capacity and WHO, as an organization, could also liable not only for criminal charges but also for damages flowing from class action lawsuits filed not just by citizens of American but by citizens or company around the world that see their revenues decline as a direct result of the pandemic being unleashed, and the subsequent havoc to the economy.

If there is a pandemic declaration by WHO and mass deaths from the vaccination program, I foresee a situation were you and the WHO could find thousands of people are filing criminal charges but also class action law suits.

I contend there is evidence from the pattern of your activities concerning the Baxter case that you, under the color of your office while purporting to act in an official capacity, are actually acting on behalf of hidden crime interests intent on igniting a pandemic and misusing a declaration of a pandemic to gain political and financial advantages, a group which I designate as the Illuminati crime gang.

The declaration of a pandemic by WHO has direct political and financial and other advantages to elements in the US government, especially elements I argue belong to the Illuminati/New World Order/CIA/Freemason crime gang, who are now being considered for investigation for sanctioning torture in Guantanamo in violation of the US and international law, specifically Donald Rumsfeld (who has financial connections with an anti bird flu Tamiflu producer), Richard Cheney and Alberto Gonzales.

The imposition of martial law will help anyone suspected of violating laws to torture to avoid prosecution in the United States, although a case is pending in Spain.

I contend that you are abusing your office as Director General of WHO, knowingly and intentionally, to help the Illuminati achieve their political and financial goals.

I contend there is already today, Saturday, evidence that you are intentionally manipulating information on the swine flu outbreak that allegedly started yesterday to play up the danger of a pandemic in order to justify the implementation of a mass vaccination program while ignoring and suppressing information that indicates this response is not proportionate to the risk.

Finally, I ask you to please provide me by Monday 10am April 27th Central European Time in the form of email attachments, links, legal memos etc the following documentation so that I can review it before submitting fresh criminal charges related to this matter.

Specifically, I ask you to send me or to instruct one of your personnel to send me

1) the studies you have to date on the swine flu vaccination you intend to inoculate the US population with, with clear evidence from respected scientific sources such as clinical trials reported in peer reviewed scientific journals as to their unequivocal safety:

2) information as to the genetic sequence of the swine flu strain detected by WHO in victims of the “swine flu” outbreak in Mexico and America so far;

3) information as to which companies WHO has contracted to provide a swine flu vaccination and under what terms and conditions, including quality assurance, financial terms and conditions;

4) a detailed account of all the safety procedures and independent reviews that WHO has put into place for ensuring any vaccination meets recognized standards of safety and quality;

5) documents proving that you have the legal authority in the case of a swine flu to declare a pandemic and enforce mass vaccinations for the swine flu on the population in the form of legal memos, rulings etc.

Please send all the above documents as email attachments.

If you miss the Monday deadline, I will argue in my submission to the court that you do not have the documents.

I ask you to make sure you keep a copy of the email to me so that you can prove to a court that you a) had all the requisite authority and documents and b) that you had them at hand and available for public and legal scrutiny at short notice in an emergency situation as is your obligation as a public servant.

I will argue that if you have ordered your WHO officers to man the pandemic control room 24/7 from Friday April 24, as reported in the media, then you have an extra obligation to be on duty yourself this weekend and your failure to be on duty in the event of an emergency you have declared is a violation of the rules of conduct of your office.

As you have sufficient personnel at hand, I will argue, you can delegate this job of collecting the documents and materials I request in 1)-5) to a member of your staff and still be available to follow the “pandemic” which you claim is occurring.

If you send me these documents after the Monday deadline, please make sure to keep a copy of the email so that you can prove in a court of law that you had the necessary authority, and documents proving you had that authority at hand, and could present them speedily as is required of a public servant in such an “emergency”.

In case you wish to study the criminal charges I have filed on April 8th and wish to be able to better comprehend the legal basis for the criminal charges that I will file on Monday April the 27th, I attached a copy in German.

I can also suggest my blog where I have published the charges in an English translation, though only the first 20 pages or so have so far been translated.

birdflu666.wordpress.com

The introduction on the blog, however, also gives an outline of my evidence and arguments.

I am also copying in below two media reports that give substance to some of the allegations I make in this email, underlining relevant points, including the information indicating this new strain of a swine flu could be a bioweapon “mysteriously” released.
If you have any comments or would like to point out any facts you think are errors please get back to me as soon as possible. I would be happy to answer any questions.

Regards, Jane

Beijing University speech by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

2009-04-27T14:11:00.000-07:00

THE following is a transcipt of a speech by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to students at Beijing University today.

A conversation with China’s youth on the future

I begin by congratulating Beijing University which this year celebrates its 110th anniversary – making this university three years older than the Commonwealth of Australia.

Beijing University is the most famous in China. And it has played an important part in modern Chinese history.

In the early 20th century, when China was going through a period of rapid transformation, it was Beijing University that led movements for a new era in Chinese educational, cultural and political life.

Beijing University was at the centre of the May 4th Movement. The May 4th era - for I realise that it was a transformative decade from 1917 to 1927 - was one of crucial and lasting importance in the emergence of a modern China.

Many famous figures in this period were active at your university. One thinks, for example, of Cai Yuanpei , Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, Li Dazhao and Lu Xun.

This year, 2008, is the 90th anniversary of some key events of the May Fourth era: through his essays for the major magazine New Youth the writer and educator Hu Shi successfully advocated the use of modern vernacular Chinese in education and the media.

This helped bring about a major change in the way that the young people of China expressed themselves to their compatriots.

Also the writer Lu Xun published the first, and justifiably famous, story in modern Chinese, Diary of a Madman.

I would also note that Lu Xun’s design for the school crest of Beijing University is still in use.

Indeed, you, the students of Beijing University today, are heirs to a great tradition of intellectual engagement with your country.

Studying China

This is not the first time I have visited Beijing University. But it is the first time I have given a speech here. It is a great honour for me.

And it is a great honour for me to address the students of this university because you are an important part of China’s future.

I first started studying China and the Chinese language in 1976. It was a different China back then. Zhou Enlai had just died. Mao Zedong was still alive. And the Cultural Revolution had not concluded -indeed our Chinese language textbooks were still full of class struggle.

Some have asked me why I decided to study Chinese. I had grown up on a farm in rural Queensland where China seemed very remote.

I remember as a teenager following closely the visit of Australia’s Prime Minister Gough Whitlam to China on television in 1973 after the Australia Labor Government recognised China in 1972.

I remember watching the footage of him meeting Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping escorting his party on a tour to the Great Wall.

That visit inspired my interest in this extraordinary country. When I went to university I knew that I wanted to study China. I went to the Australian National University in Canberra.

And for the next four years I studied Chinese language, Chinese history and Chinese literature together with Japanese and Korean history as well.

I even studied Chinese calligraphy, but my calligraphy was ugly then – and it is even uglier now. Later I became a diplomat.

Because I was a graduate in Chinese, the then Australian Government decided to send me to Sweden, where in those days I could barely find a decent Chinese restaurant.

I eventually made it to China in 1984 when I started work at the Australian Embassy. But I did not remain a diplomat. I wanted to enter politics.

I was elected to Australia’s Parliament in 1998 and after serving in parliament for nine years in opposition, my party won the general election last year and I had the honour of becoming 26th Prime Minister of Australia.

Australia and China

Some people think that Australia and China are new friends but in fact our history is already long. Chinese settlers came to Australia first in the nineteenth century.

When gold was discovered in Victoria and Queensland in the 1850s, the first major group of Chinese migrants came to our shores.

We now have over 600,000 people who claim Chinese ancestry. After English, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) is the most widely spoken language in Australia.

The Chinese community has deep roots in Australia and is an important part of modern Australian society.

It includes people like Dr John Yu, one of Australia’s leading surgeons and Australian of the Year in 1996.

And the young mathematician, Terrence Tao, who I met recently.

The flow of people has not all been in one direction. Some Australians – though a smaller number – have made China their home.

George Morrison is one such person. Morrison first came to China in 1894. He lived here for 20 years. In Australia, he was known as “Chinese Morrison”.

And here in Beijing, during the Republic of China, Wangfujing, home to George Morrison, was known as “Morrison Street”.

It is easy to see why people become fascinated with China. China has thousands of years of continuous recorded history, but it is a country of constant change.

When I look at the China of 2008, I see a very different country to the one I studied in the late 1970s and the one I lived in during the mid 1980s.

China and the World

The changes in China since the 1970s have been remarkable. And the change in China has led to a profound evolution in the relationship between our two countries.

China’s policy change 30 years ago this year to “reform and open up” was the start of your country’s re-connection with the world.

China’s companies began trading with others. China’s people began to travel. China’s students began going overseas to study in greater numbers.

The world began to see China, and the people of China began to see the world, in new ways.

This institution, Beijing University, through its teaching, research and search for knowledge has also had a profound influence on China’s changes.

Its graduates have made a big contribution to your country’s engagement with the world.

To many people in China, these changes bring a better and richer life. People are able to make decisions about where they work, how they live and set their own goals.

They can build their own businesses. At the same time, there are still many problems in China – problems of poverty, problems of uneven development, problems of pollution, problems of broader human rights.

It is also important to recognise that China’s change is having a great impact not just on China, but also on the world.

The scale and pace of China’s economic development and social transformation is unprecedented in human history.

Never before have so many people been brought into the global economy in such a short period of time.

Just look at some of the figures. China is now the world’s third-largest trading nation. Its exports are growing at over 30 per cent per year.

GDP per capita has nearly doubled in the past five years. People in Australia and around the world recognise that China’s economic development is having a profound global impact.

They understand that China’s demand for resources is driving global growth. But China’s growth can also cause anxiety. Some people are concerned about their jobs moving to China.

When people overseas are faced with big changes and uncertainties like these they get nervous.
We all need to appreciate these anxieties and their origins.

Today I would like to make a suggestion. I think that you – the young people of China, the generation that will see China’s full integration into global society, the global economy and the overall global order – have an important role to play in the life of the world.

The global community looks forward to China fully participating in all the institutions of the global rules-based order, including in security, in the economy, in human rights, in the environment.

And we look forward to China making active contributions to the enhancement of that order in the future. It is a necessary task of responsible global citizenship.

It is a big responsibility you have. You are the product of China today. And you are the representatives of China’s tomorrow. You will be the ones who define how the world sees China.

“Harmony” was the dream and hope of that great Chinese thinker and activist Kang Youwei. The Hundred Days reform movement, like Beijing University, also marks its 110th anniversary this year.

Kang proposed a utopian world free of political boundaries. China has variously articulated its approach to development as one of “peaceful rise”, “peaceful development” or more recently that of a “harmonious world”.

In 2005 the then US Deputy Secretary of State Bob Zoellick spoke for his part of his concept that China would and could become a responsible global stakeholder.

As I said last week in a speech to the Brookings Institution in Washington, it is worthwhile thinking about how to encourage a synthesis of these concepts of a “harmonious world” and the “responsible stakeholder”.

The idea of a “harmonious world” depends on China being a participant in the world order and, along with others, acting in accordance with the rules of that order.

Failing this, “harmony” is impossible to achieve. “Responsible stakeholder” contains the same idea at its core – China working to maintain and develop the global and regional rules-based order.

This year, as China hosts the Olympics, the eyes of the world will be on you and the city of Beijing.

It will be a chance for China to engage directly with the world, both on the sports field and on the streets of Beijing.

Some have called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics because of recent problems in Tibet. As I said in London on Sunday, I do not agree.

I believe the Olympics are important for China’s continuing engagement with the world. Australia like most other countries recognises China’s sovereignty over Tibet.

But we also believe it is necessary to recognise there are significant human rights problem in Tibet. The current situation in Tibet is of concern to Australians.

We recognise the need for all parties to avoid violence and find a solution through dialogue. As a long-standing friend of China I intend to have a straightforward discussion with China’s leaders on this.

We wish to see the year 2008 as one of harmony, and celebration – not one of conflict and contention.

Harmony in the Natural Environment

Our shared future is not only one about harmony between nations and peoples. It is also about harmony with nature — the “Unity of Man and Nature” — a concept with ancient roots in Chinese thought.

We all share responsibility for the future. One of the big future challenges for Australia and China is climate change.

Australia is committed to strong action domestically and internationally on climate change. Because we know that climate change is the great moral, economic and environmental challenge of our time – one that all nations have to work together to overcome.

That’s why climate change will be an important part of my discussions with the Chinese leadership this week.

It is important that China play an increasingly prominent role on climate change. An effective global response to climate change will require the active participation of all major emitters.

I also believe it is important for China’s own future. Unless we are successful, China will face increasing pressure on its water supplies, changing rainfall patterns and rising sea levels.

A strong relationship, and a true friendship, are built on the ability to engage in direct, frank and ongoing dialogue about our fundamental interests and future vision.

In the modern, globalised world, we are all connected; connected not only by politics and economics, but also in the air we breathe.

A true friend is one who can be a “zhengyou”, that is a partner who sees beyond immediate benefit to the broader and firm basis for continuing, profound and sincere friendship.

In other words, a true friendship which “offers unflinching advice and counsels restraint” to engage in principled dialogue about matters of contention.

It is the kind of friendship that I know is treasured in China’s political tradition. It is the kind of friendship that I also offer China today.

With a Kissinger goodbye, Rudd ends his US visit

2009-04-27T14:03:00.000-07:00

KEVIN Rudd, whose critique of neoliberal capitalism was a show stopper for the cognoscenti, looked at home on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, as he waved cheerily to the travelling media in the gallery above.

Certainly when he dined with the exchange's board, he didn't feel this was the time or place to reprise the harsher lines of his essay in The Monthly. Asked by the travelling hacks whether he had shared his thoughts while he dined, he deftly said he'd talked about the need for better regulation of global financial markets.

While her husband was chatting with the rich — albeit less rich than they once were — wife Therese Rein went to a project for poor children in Harlem. They were seeing in a joint glance the two vastly contrasting faces of America.

It's an exciting time to be in the US. The Obama Administration has brought a new, dynamic atmosphere to the political debate. But of course the Administration can't erase the fear and uncertainty that the financial crisis and slumping economy have brought.

Rudd finished off his US visit among the financiers, and with chats to a couple of prestigious former politicians, one time secretary of state Henry Kissinger and former vice-president Al Gore, now the great climate change activist. Although the bad economic times are making the prospects for international progress on climate change much harder, as Rudd admits, the PM is greatly encouraged by America's new commitment to achieving something.

He departed the same day as President Obama unveiled his long awaited Afghanistan strategy, which includes more forces, greatly increased aid for Pakistan (now seen as almost a joint problem with Afghanistan) and better integration of the military and civil efforts. Rudd enthusiastically welcomed the revamped approach, especially the emphasis on training.

There was another broad hint that whatever further help Australia gives is likely to be with training. Rudd, however, again emphasised that Australia did not want to be by itself among the coalition in boosting assistance. "We need to play our part but we also need to make sure that our friends and partners in Europe are playing their part as well," he said.

The Afghan decision will await Rudd's return to Australia. His immediate concern over the next few days is the G20 meeting in London, and it remains to be seen whether the G20 leaders will sign on to the big economic stimulus with any sort of unanimity.

One of the main changes Rudd says the G20 should endorse is reform of the International Monetary Fund. The argument is that the fund must give more support to prevent the global decline worsening.

But for China to be willing to stump up more money, it needs a greater voting say in the fund, where presently it has much less clout than its contribution to the world economy entitles it to. As Rudd points out, he is hardly the only leader making this argument; indeed the Opposition has said previously that when in government it too supported more say for China. But suddenly Malcolm Turnbull is accusing Rudd of being a roving ambassador for China.

Rudd's China interests and knowledge are a plus for the PM and one of the reasons international leaders have been impressed with him. But domestically, they could turn into a problem if not managed carefully. The latest kerfuffle over Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon's friendship with Chinese-born woman Helen Liu has fuelled the issue of Rudd's China orientations, even though it has nothing to do with the PM himself.

The China issue is complicated for the Government, and not because of Rudd's perfectly sensible advocacy of more clout for China in the IMF. China is making a concerted effort to get more equity in Australian resources, which raises serious questions for resource security.

On Friday, part of a Chinese bid for more equity in Oz Minerals was rejected on national security grounds. Still to be decided is the bid for a bigger slice of Rio Tinto. The Chinese have been putting huge effort into lobbying for their case. When Rudd had a visiting senior Chinese politician to lunch recently the bid was no doubt discussed.

It is a delicate situation for the Government. There are serious reasons for saying no to the Chinese over Rio. No country should cede security over its resources, which has implications for returns and national security.

It will be interesting to see whether the Chinese use the G20 occasion for further high-level lobbying. The odds must be that they will see it as a good chance to bend the PM's ear.

drive-thru vaccination clinics

2009-04-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

By A. True Ott, PhD, ND
4-24-9

On March 20, 2009, this researcher outlined a peculiar "PANDEMIC VACCINE TRAINING" exercise in Texas scheduled to occur on Saturday, May 2, 2009. See complete article at http://www.rense.com/general85/dsd2.htm

I thought it very strange that a rather obscure Texas county would see fit to conduct such a "training exercise" involving Texas National Guard Troops involving "drive-thru vaccination clinics". I also thought it exceedingly strange that these rather obscure county officials would make the public declarations that emergency "pandemic vaccination programs would mean a line of cars 41 miles long" in Guadalupe County, but that San Antonio's drive-thru vaccine's line would stretch from "San Antonio to Calgary, Alberta Canada" --- strange, because this just happens to be the planned route of the AMERO FREEWAY -- connecting the late-great U.S.A. with Mexico and Canada. Could this, too, be a coded message to insiders?

Just as NORAD was conducting "mock" terrorist drills on the morning of September 11, 2001 - could this May 2 event be TIMED to announce the release of the planned pandemic and the eventual advent of martial law in North America?

Today, Friday, April 24, 2009 - according to USA TODAY, the BBC, and the Associated Press, the World Health Organization (WHO) is "very, very concerned" about a very strange "swine flu" outbreak in Mexico City.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-04-23-swine-flu_N.htm?csp=34 The WHO is so concerned, in fact, that it has ordered all WHO officers to man the "Pandemic Control Room" 24/7 for the 1st time.

ATTENTION AMERICA!!!! This is highly significant. The WHO "Pandemic Control Room" is a creation of the Illuminati elite for the final "end-game" killer virus mapping and tracking, and is thus equipped with super-computers tied to all U.N. member government's security forces. This "control room" is where any declarations of "pandemic" will originate. When such a "declaration" is sent to President Obama, FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security "Pandemic Task Forces" will be deployed. Each State Governor will be notified that the provisions of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) will be implemented.

This means that all Americans must consent to mass vaccinations, or be guilty of a FELONY crime (without a TRIAL, mind you!). And why a FELONY and not a mere 'misdemeanor'? Simple. Police agencies know that the use of "DEADLY FORCE" is only approved for felony suspects when they resist arrest. Refuse the government's untested, untried, highly suspect "MADE IN CHINA" vaccine, and you will instantly be labelled a felonious criminal. So, refuse the forced vaccine, and then resist forced relocation to a prepared "quarantine compound" (i.e. concentration/re-education camp) and you can "legally" be shot and killed. (Justified "deadly force".) See http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/Informed/RevisedModelState.html

Never forget that in 2005, the Chinese PLA "defense minister" declared in a speech to the Chinese PLA brass that China must
"possess" North America (Mexico, America, and Canada) and that 15-200 million Americans "must die" by means of a "perfected" biological weapon. What could be more "natural" and deflect suspicion more effectively than a weaponized "killer influenza" that is propagandized into an "act of nature"??

Beginning in the spring of 1918, an "unusual flu" began to emerge, that eventually blossomed into the killer flu pandemic killing millions worldwide. Subsequent research has proven that the "unusual flu" was a "recombinant strain" showing swine viruses mixed with bird viruses mutating with human-specific strains of flu virus. THIS IS EXACTLY THE KILLER VIRUS THAT DR. JEFFREY TAUBENBERGER AND HIS TEAM AT FORT DEDRICK RE-CREATED DURING YEARS 1997 - 2003. Is it just a mere coincidence that the same recombinant virus is once again making its appearance known?

According to Henry Kissinger and Zbignew Brezinsky's "NEW WORLD ORDER AGENDA" - the earth must be cleansed of at least 5 billion human beings in order to create their "Utopia". In 1974, this agenda was outlined in a report called NSSM 200 - and the genocide was to begin in specific 3rd world countries. See http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=90207 However, it is logical that North America (especially Mexico City) would have to be "cleansed" as well. Never forget that both Kissinger and Brezinsky are solid backers of Barack Hussein Obama. Obama makes an official visit to Mexico, and a short week later, Mexico City schools, Universities, and all PUBLIC BUILDINGS are shut down in pandemic fear -- (for the first time since the devastating 1985 earthquake!) Again, is this just a bizarre co-incidence??

SOMETHING WICKED IS NOT COMING, IT IS ALREADY HERE.

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as KILLER VIRUS to lower human population levels."
------ Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, head of the World Wildlife Fund and World FREEMASONRY --- December 1995

"A 'killer virus' is indeed an evolutionary step-up for some of this planet's so-called "elites" ---- hopefully Prince Phillip, Henry Kissinger, Zbignew Brezinsky, et. al. can each achieve this milestone and not return once again as the mutiganeous-primal-pond-scum life-form they currently occupy today."
------ Dr. A. True Ott, Concerned American PATRIOT, April, 2009.

Aids/HIV Vaccines

2009-04-26T18:14:00.001-07:00

The following report takes its place among the mounting evidence of US and multinational corporate incursions on the fundamental rights of the human race to survival itself. The pattern is clear for anyone and everyone who has cared enough to go beyond the drivel from mainstream media and access the wealth of information that has been coming through the pipeline for decades now, to wit: that there is in fact a decision that was taken by a small number of this planet's power elite (yes, a conspiracy) radically to depopulate the planet of all but around 300 million people. This is detailed in a document called "The Strecker Memorandum" and it is available elsewhere to anyone who wants to look for it. By now it has become a very well known document among people who have spent some time researching the origin of AIDS.

Robert Strecker was one of the first to identify the true nature of the AIDS epidemic. He and Leonard Horowitz (who wrote a great book entitled "EMERGING VIRUSES: AIDS AND EBOLA" ) have, in my view, correctly identified the true nature of the conspiracy, and the fact of the matter is that Strecker actually found the memorandum, the smoking gun, from The World Health Organisation.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) (and others) actually in 1972 called for the CREATION of a virus that would attack the immune system itself, and which has all the attributes of the AIDS virus ...

Leonard Horowitz, PhD, actually discovered the interm "progress" reports filed by Dr Gallo et al, as to his efforts to create the AIDS (HTLV 1) virus spliced from the bovine leukemia virus and the sheep visna virus. Gallo was to be hailed as the co-discoverer of the AIDS virus in 1982. For those who have been following the debate and who believe with virologist Dr Peter Deusberg (who had CIA connections himself) that AIDS is the result of a confluence of co-factors, and that the actual AIDS virus has never been identified that is plain disinformation designed to take the heat and light off the people who actually put it together.
See my book SUPPRESSED INVENTIONS AND OTHER DISCOVERIES for more details.

That there is mass genocide going on RIGHT NOW is indisputable, except, perhaps, by a few system apologist diehards who also think that global overheating is still "unproven". The AIDS pandemic was designed to depopulate Africa, (and elsewhere) which it is now doing. The assumption of the power elite is that the world is over populated, which it very well may be, but that is another story. Regardless, they think that the best way to bring down the population is through the dissemination of killer viruses, rather than through birfth control, education, or rising living standards.

Anyhow, how is the development of an AIDS vaccine tied in with this conspiracy? Why, you may well ask, if they want everyone to get AIDS, would they develop a vaccine against it? The answer is that NO VACCINE THAT I HAVE INVESTIGATED ACUALLY WORKS AGAINST THE DISEASE IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK AGAINST. Moreover, if you wanted to spread a disease to millions of people, what better way than to "immunise" them against it.

If you think that this is just "conspiracy theory" nonsense, consider this:
1. Reputable research indicates that the early polio vaccine campaign in Africa was one of the first and main transmission vehicles for AIDS. It perfectly fits the epidemiology, and the vaccine is an acknowledged source of SV-40, a virus which is known to produce brain and other cancers. In fact even today, there is no guarantee whatever that any vaccine you may be allowing to be injected into your or your child's body won't be contaminated by a species-jumping virus.

As for the assumption that the polio vaccine stopped the polio epidemic, think (and look) again. The research is there. Salk said that the Sabin vaccine was dangerous and Sabin said the same about the Salk vaccine. Robert Mendelshon MD said that they were both right.In fact, early studies made in the 1950s showed that given adequate vitamin C, NO CASE OF POLIO EVER BECAME PARALYTIC. It's all in Katherine Smith's new book THE CANCER PREVENTION HANDBOOK. Needless to say, this study was suppressed.

2. The more vaccines that are being created ... the worse our health is becoming. Is there a causal connection? You'd better believe it. Most vaccines contain a cocktail not only of viruses, live and "attenuated" but other garbage as well, including mercury as a preservative. Mercury is the most toxic non radioactive element on the Periodic Table. How much does a child get? Any amount is too much, and the actual amounts vary. However, shot into the body of a days or weeks old baby, it can and does cause "adverse reactions". Do the manufacturers know all this. Of course they do. Do the doctors? Many of them do these days because it has been hard to keep the population completely ignorant, but vaccines actually help their long term "business": they contribute to chronic illnesses. A sick population is also a more compliant.

3. What are some of the "adverse reactions" to vaccines? These can range from mild fevers to autism, brain damage and death. Less than 10% of these are ever reported. Doctors just hate to report "adverse reactions". However, there are millions of adverse reactions every year. There is now an autism epidemic, reliably associated with the MMR and other vaccines. In some places 1 in 150 children are developing this debilitating disease, usually shortly after receiving their vaccinations. Most doctors still call this "coincidence".

4. We are being dumbed down, and quickly, the better to establish the Brave New World of Multinational Corporationism. Here in New Zealand where there is a controlled press, it is difficult to get the real skinny, unless you're on the Net. Consequently most people still think that the pharmaceutical companies and the government have our best interests at heart, rather than money and power. To them I say "good luck to you". Fact is, pharmaceutical companies and governments seem to like killing, maiming or just making millions and millions of people sick. It's just kind of pathetic how many people still trust them.

5. Don't think that the killing will stop with Africa, either. I think that those who would dramatically reduce the world's population are working to do that on a number of different levels. One of them is the cancer epidemic, helped along by known environmental carcinogens, vaccines and the super carcinogen of them all: fluoride. But the human race is proving to have a stronger immune system that I believe the Controllers at first thought. People are not dying off as fast at the schedule called for. So now comes Plan B, the vaccine against AIDS. Only you see, this vaccine not going to be voluntary. It is going to be mandatory. Compulsory. And if that happens, my friends, be careful. Be very very careful.
This kind of thing must be stopped now, in its lethal tracks. In fact ALL VACCINES must now be put on hold as having proven themselves positively dangerous, indeed profoundly debilitating and a menace to the future health of the entire human race. We have been brainwashed, ladies and gentlement, into believing that vaccines are good for the health of our children, when all the impartial evidence indicates the contrary. We have sacrificed our health and the health of millions of our children on the alter of corporate profit and professional greed. Let it stop now.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE FROM:
From: Sheri Nakken vaccineinfo@btinternet.com

Previous Swine Flu Outbreak Originated At Fort Dix

2009-04-26T17:53:00.000-07:00

Previous Swine Flu Outbreak Originated At Fort Dix

Mass vaccination program was halted after hundreds contracted debilitating nerve disease

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, April 24, 2009

Given the reports of the possibility of a swine flu epidemic, it is interesting to note that last time there was a significant outbreak of a new form of swine flu in the U.S. it originated at the army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Hundreds of soldiers on the base, mostly recruits, were infected without becoming ill in 1976.

President Gerald Ford immediately ordered a nationwide vaccination program.

More than 40 million people were vaccinated. However, the program was stopped short after over 500 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a severe paralyzing nerve disease, were reported. 30 people died as a direct result of the vaccinations.

Unanswered questions regarding the outbreak remain to this day. According to a CDC investigation, It is not known why the virus did not extend beyond basic trainees or beyond the military base. The source of the virus, the exact time of its introduction into Fort Dix, and factors limiting its spread and duration remain unknown.

Indonesia’s Health Minister Accuses U.S. Of Bird Flu Bio-Weapon Conspiracy

2009-04-26T17:50:00.000-07:00

Indonesia’s Health Minister Accuses U.S. Of Bird Flu Bio-Weapon Conspiracy
New book endorsed by President accuses U.S. government of seeking monopoly to make vast profits and potentially wage warfare

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Indonesia’s Health Minister has implicated the U.S. government in an international conspiracy to develop the bird flu virus into a deadly bio-weapon in a new book which is also endorsed by Indonesia's President.

Indonesia has been worst hit by the bird flu virus, with eleven people having died from contracting H5N1 this year.

"Indonesia’s uniquely virulent strain of H5N1 gave the country "bargaining power" according to Indonesia’s Health Minister Dr Siti Fadilah Supari, in her new book called "It’s Time for the World to Change" and strangely subtitled "The Divine Hand Behind Avian Influenza," reports ABC News Australia.

In the book, Supari accuses the U.S. government of seeking a monopoly on controlling the virus for two reasons. Firstly to be able to dominate the vaccine market and make vast profits from providing the cure and secondly to potentially develop the strain into a potent biological weapon.

These concerns led to Indonesia halting the sharing of virus samples with the World Health Organization in late 2006 after Supari accused the Australian government of stealing Indonesia’s strain of H5N1 to make bird flu vaccines.

"I never, I never give permission to send sample to the, send a specimen of the virus to Australia," said Supari.

Supari was also alarmed at the fact that the WHO shared samples with the United States national laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where nuclear weapons are developed.

"Whether they use is it to make vaccine or develop chemical weapons, would depend on the need and interest of the US Government. It is indeed a very dangerous situation for the destiny of humanity", she writes and goes on to say ".. it is a matter of choice whether to use the material for vaccines or biological weapon development," said Supari.

President Bush has publicly stated his intention to use the military to impose quarantine zones and martial law in the event of a bird flu outbreak in America.

During an October 2005 White House press conference, Bush stated, "If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country, and how do you then enforce a quarantine? When -- it's one thing to shut down airplanes; it's another thing to prevent people from coming in to get exposed to the avian flu. And who best to be able to effect a quarantine? One option is the use of a military that's able to plan and move."

As Fortune Magazine reported in November 2005, the Bird Flu scare has reaped profits primarily for vaccine companies such as Tamiflu, major beneficiaries of which include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Secretary of State George Shultz.

"As the bird-flu issue heated up earlier this year (2005), according to a senior Pentagon official, Rumsfeld considered unloading his entire Gilead stake to avoid any perceived conflict of interest. He sought the advice of the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the federal Office of Government Ethics. When those agencies didn't offer an opinion, Rumsfeld consulted a private securities lawyer, who advised him to hold on to the stock and be vocal about his earlier recusal from all matters involving Gilead, rather than sell and run the risk of being accused of insider trading. Holding on has paid off—it's made the Pentagon chief, already one of the wealthiest members of the Bush cabinet, at least $1 million richer. In late October, Rumsfeld had the Pentagon's general counsel issue instructions on what he could and could not do in the event of an epidemic," according to the report.

Mandatory vaccinations possible

2009-04-26T17:26:00.000-07:00

Please be aware of the mass hypnosis methods used by government and media by
implementing fear of the "Swine Flu". Get ready for the possibility of mandatory
vaccinations coming soon. Probably the ones that have been shipped across the
country recently. Swine Flu is simply a newly invented designer disease to scare
people. It also is a major profit engine for the corrupt medical industry. Scare
the world about the possibility of massive sickness from an unseen enemy and you
get to sell hundreds of millions in vaccines for billions in profits!

Yes, vaccines will be their answer to their engineered virus and millions of
sheep will line up just as they do now for the latest bio warfare injections.
Can't save those people. But for the rest of us we need to be prepared for
lockdowns of major cities. A rule to apply: If it comes from the medical
industry officials and deceptive mass media don't believe it! It's just another
scare tactic to sell deadly vaccines and depopulate the world. Disregard the
massive deception of Swine Flu, and avoid vaccines.

From Dr. A. True Ott:

The World Health Organization (WHO) is "very, very concerned" about a very
strange "swine flu" outbreak in Mexico City. The WHO is so concerned, in fact,
that it has ordered all WHO officers to man the "Pandemic Control Room" 24/7 for
the 1st time.

ATTENTION AMERICA!!!! This is highly significant. The WHO "Pandemic Control
Room" is a creation of the Illuminati elite for the final "end-game" killer
virus mapping and tracking, and is thus equipped with super-computers tied to
all U.N. member government's security forces. This "control room" is where any
declarations of "pandemic" will originate. When such a "declaration" is sent to
President Obama, FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security "Pandemic Task
Forces" will be deployed. Each State Governor will be notified that the
provisions of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) will be
implemented.

This means that all Americans must consent to mass vaccinations, or be guilty of
a FELONY crime (without a TRIAL, mind you!). And why a FELONY and not a mere
'misdemeanor'? Simple. Police agencies know that the use of "DEADLY FORCE" is
only approved for felony suspects when they resist arrest. Refuse the
government's untested, untried, highly suspect "MADE IN CHINA" vaccine, and you
will instantly be labelled a felonious criminal. So, refuse the forced vaccine,
and then resist forced relocation to a prepared "quarantine compound" (i.e.
concentration/re-education camp) and you can "legally" be shot and killed.
(Justified "deadly force".) See
http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/Informed/RevisedModelState.html

Never forget that in 2005, the Chinese PLA "defense minister" declared in a
speech to the Chinese PLA brass that China must "possess" North America (Mexico,
America, and Canada) and that 15-200 million Americans "must die" by means of a
"perfected" biological weapon. What could be more "natural" and deflect
suspicion more effectively than a weaponized "killer influenza" that is
propagandized into an "act of nature"??

Beginning in the spring of 1918, an "unusual flu" began to emerge, that
eventually blossomed into the killer flu pandemic killing millions worldwide.
Subsequent research has proven that the "unusual flu" was a "recombinant strain"
showing swine viruses mixed with bird viruses mutating with human-specific
strains of flu virus. THIS IS EXACTLY THE KILLER VIRUS THAT DR. JEFFREY
TAUBENBERGER AND HIS TEAM AT FORT DEDRICK RE-CREATED DURING YEARS 1997 - 2003.
Is it just a mere coincidence that the same recombinant virus is once again
making its appearance known?

According to Henry Kissinger and Zbignew Brezinsky's "NEW WORLD ORDER AGENDA" -
the earth must be cleansed of at least 5 billion human beings in order to create
their "Utopia". In 1974, this agenda was outlined in a report called NSSM 200 -
and the genocide was to begin in specific third world countries. See
http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=90207. However, it is logical that North
America (especially Mexico City) would have to be "cleansed" as well. Never
forget that both Kissinger and Brezinsky are solid backers of Barack Hussein
Obama. Obama makes an official visit to Mexico, and a short week later, Mexico
City schools, Universities, and all PUBLIC BUILDINGS are shut down in pandemic
fear -- (for the first time since the devastating 1985 earthquake!) Again, is
this just a bizarre co-incidence?

SOMETHING WICKED IS NOT COMING, IT IS ALREADY HERE. "If I were reincarnated I
would wish to be returned to earth as KILLER VIRUS to lower human population
levels." - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, head of the World Wildlife Fund and
World FREEMASONRY. "A 'killer virus' is indeed an evolutionary step-up for some
of this planet's so-called "elites". Hopefully Prince Phillip, Henry Kissinger,
Zbignew Brezinsky, et. al. can each achieve this milestone and not return once
again as the mutiganeous-primal-pond-scum life-form they currently occupy today

Mexico City launches massive vaccination campaign against swine flu

2009-04-24T19:13:00.001-07:00

2009-04-24 23:06:06

MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Xinhua) -- The government of Mexico City is launching a massive vaccination campaign throughout the city against swine flu, which has possibly killed 45 people and infected 943 nationwide.

The Mexican government confirmed on Friday the outbreak of the swine flu, and warned people to avoid crowds.

"It's a virus which mutated from pigs and transmitted to some human," Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova told Televisa television.

Health officials are now investigating the possible deaths and infections caused by the virus. Virus samples have been sent to laboratories in Canada for testing, they said.

The government also decided to close all schools in Mexico City and the center of the country to avoid spreading of the virus.

The World Health Organization, which has identified swine influenza as a potential source of a human flu pandemic, has also activated its global epidemic operations center

1918 flu Pandemic info

2009-04-24T18:34:00.000-07:00

The Spanish influenza pandemic, which began in 1918, caught every nation by surprise. It infected an estimated 500 million people and killed 50 to 100 million of them in three waves. Governments around the world responded in ways that were reactive and almost ineffective before the pandemic ended in 1919 just as suddenly as it began one year earlier.

The Spanish influenza pandemic differed from previous influenza pandemics in its unprecedented virulence. Its unique characteristics included unusually high case fatality, especially among 20– to 40–year-olds.

Allies fighting in World War I designated this pandemic “Spanish” influenza because Spain’s uncensored press was the first to report freely on its widespread distribution. Elsewhere in Europe, governments feared that such newspaper reports would undermine public morale.

The First Wave of Spanish Influenza in the US

Epidemiological data indicate that pandemic began in the US in March 1918, at a crowded army camp in Fort Riley, Kansas. Subsequently, the transport of hundreds of thousands of infected troops in close physical contact between camps caused influenza to spread quickly even before troops assembled in East Coast ports en route to France. The troops brought the influenza to the trenches of the opposing armies and to other parts of Europe and beyond.

The overall response to the mild first wave of the influenza epidemic in the US was relatively subdued compared with the second and third more deadly waves.

The Second and Third Waves of Spanish Influenza in the US
The second wave struck lethally in September 1918 at a naval facility in Boston and at the Camp Devens military base in Massachusetts. At the nearby US Naval Radio School, located at Harvard University, however, few of the 5,000 trainees contracted Spanish influenza after the first cases were reported on September 6, 1918. Infected trainees were quarantined, and Harvard University took precautions to contain influenza and resume normal operations; nevertheless, six students died.

Nationwide, October 1918 was the most deadly month, when 195,000 Americans died. The supply of health care workers, morticians, and gravediggers dwindled, and mass graves were often dug to bury the dead. Among the survivors was Amelia Earhart.

The third wave of the pandemic, between late 1918 and March 1919, spread unevenly in the US and in parts of Europe, but with similar intensity as the second.

Reaction and Response

The influenza strain was unusual in that this pandemic killed many young adults and otherwise healthy victims – typical influenzas kill mostly infants (aged 0-2 years), the elderly, and the immunocompromised. Another oddity was that this influenza outbreak was widespread in summer and fall (in the Northern Hemisphere). Typically, influenza is worse in the winter months.

People without symptoms could be stricken suddenly and within hours be too weak to walk; many died the next day. Symptoms included a blue tint to the face and coughing up blood caused by severe obstruction of the lungs. In some cases, the virus caused an uncontrollable hemorrhaging that filled the lungs, and patients drowned in their body fluids (pneumonia). In others, the flu caused frequent loss of bowel control and the victim would die from losing critical intestinal lining and blood loss.[citation needed]

In fast-progressing cases, mortality was primarily from pneumonia, by virus-induced consolidation. Slower-progressing cases featured secondary bacterial pneumonias, and there may have been neural involvement that led to mental disorders in a minority of cases

An effort to recreate the 1918 flu strain (a subtype of avian strain H1N1) was a collaboration among the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York; the effort resulted in the announcement (on October 5, 2005) that the group had successfully determined the virus's genetic sequence, using historic tissue samples recovered from a female flu victim buried in the Alaskan permafrost and samples preserved from American soldiers.[34]

On January 18, 2007, Kobasa et al. reported that monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) infected with the recreated strain exhibited classic symptoms of the 1918 pandemic and died from a cytokine storm[35] – an overreaction of the immune system. This may explain why the 1918 flu had its surprising effect on younger, healthier people, as a person with a stronger immune system would potentially have a stronger overreaction.[36]

The swine flu epidemic of 1918 1976 and 2009 - info from WIkipedia

2009-04-24T18:19:00.000-07:00

The swine flu epidemic of 1918

In the spring of 1918, swine influenza mutated into a severe form in just a few months. Eighty percent of the victims became severely ill and died, while the rest suffered from mild symptoms. In the US, the first deaths were recorded among sailors in Boston in August 1918, and the epidemic quickly spread to all parts of the country. Between the autumn of 1918 and the spring of 1919, 548,452 people died of this flu in the US. In the UK, France and Germany, around 600,000 people died. Worldwide, the number of casualties was between 20 and 50 million, or maybe more. The puzzling fact is that the epidemic erupted almost simultaneously at distant locations, therefore it is likely that the virus was incubated in people with only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. Other inexplicable facts are that the disease attacked people in their twenties and thirties, thought to have strong immune systems, and most of the infections were lethal. At the military prison at Deer Island (Massachusetts) in Boston Harbor there was an attempt to develop a vaccine during the 1918 outbreak.

The U.S. swine flu outbreak of 1976
On February 5, 1976, an army recruit at Fort Dix said he felt tired and weak. He died the next day and four of his fellow soldiers were later hospitalized. Two weeks after his death, health officials announced that swine flu was the cause of death and that this strain of flu appeared to be closely related to the strain involved in the 1918 flu pandemic. Alarmed public-health officials decided that action must be taken to head off another major pandemic, and they urged that every person in the U.S. be vaccinated for the disease. President Gerald Ford was confronted with a potential swine flu pandemic. The vaccination program was plagued by delays and public relations problems, but about 24% of the population was vaccinated by the time the program was cancelled. [11]

There is "enough evidence to suggest that" about 500 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome resulting in death from severe pulmonary complications for 25 people was caused by an immunopathological reaction to the vaccine in some people.[11] Other influenza vaccines have not been linked to Guillain-Barré syndrome.[12]

In April 2009, nearly 1,000 cases of swine flu in humans were detected in Mexico, causing more than 60 deaths.[17] The story was broadcast live first in Mexico on 2009-04-23 at around 11 pm and was reported by The Art Dept Chronicles early the next morning. A new swine flu strain has been confirmed in 16 of the deaths and 44 others are being tested as of 24 April 2009.[18] The Mexican cases are said to be mainly young adults, a hallmark of pandemic flu.[19]

On April 24, 2009, schools (from pre-school to university level) were shut down by the government in Mexico City and neighbouring State of Mexico to prevent the disease from spreading further. News sources report the spread as far north as San Diego.[20]

After spreading in Mexico it crossed the border to the U.S., causing eight human cases in Texas and California. The patients have recovered. The acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said that preliminary tests on 7 out of 14 samples from patients in Mexico had matched the virus found in the US, which experts say is a new strain of swine flu.[18] Officials believe that human-to-human transmission has been occurring.[20]

The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement "Because there are human cases associated with an animal influenza virus, and because of the geographical spread of multiple community outbreaks, plus the somewhat unusual age groups affected, these events are of high concern" and "WHO acknowledges the United States and Mexico for their proactive reporting and their collaboration with WHO and will continue to work with Member States to further characterize the outbreak".[21]

Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears

2009-04-24T18:09:00.000-07:00

MEXICO CITY – A unique strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of people in Mexico, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of a global flu epidemic.

The worrisome new virus — which combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before — also sickened at least eight people in Texas and California, though there have been no deaths in the U.S.

"We are very, very concerned," World Health Organization spokesman Thomas Abraham said. "We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human ... It's all hands on deck at the moment."

The outbreak caused alarm in Mexico, where more than 1,000 people have been sickened. Residents of the capital donned surgical masks and authorities ordered the most sweeping shutdown of public gathering places in a quarter century. President Felipe Calderon met with his Cabinet Friday to coordinate Mexico's response.

The WHO was convening an expert panel to consider whether to raise the pandemic alert level or issue travel advisories.

It might already be too late to contain the outbreak, a prominent U.S. pandemic flu expert said late Friday.

Given how quickly flu can spread around the globe, if these are the first signs of a pandemic, then there are probably cases incubating around the world already, said Dr. Michael Osterholm at the University of Minnesota.

In Mexico City, "literally hundreds and thousands of travelers come in and out every day," Osterholm said. "You'd have to believe there's been more unrecognized transmission that's occurred."

There is no vaccine that specifically protects against swine flu, and it was unclear how much protection current human flu vaccines might offer. A "seed stock" genetically matched to the new swine flu virus has been created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said Dr. Richard Besser, the agency's acting director. If the government decides vaccine production is necessary, manufacturers would need that stock to get started.

Authorities in Mexico urged people to avoid hospitals unless they had a medical emergency, since hospitals are centers of infection. They also said Mexicans should refrain from customary greetings such as shaking hands or kissing cheeks. At Mexico City's international airport, passengers were questioned to try to prevent anyone with flu symptoms from boarding airplanes and spreading the disease.

Epidemiologists are particularly concerned because the only fatalities so far were in young people and adults.

The eight U.S. victims recovered from symptoms that were like those of the regular flu, mostly fever, cough and sore throat, though some also experienced vomiting and diarrhea.

U.S. health officials announced an outbreak notice to travelers, urging caution and frequent handwashing, but stopping short of telling Americans to avoid Mexico.

Mexico's Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordoba said 68 people have died of flu and the new swine flu strain had been confirmed in 20 of those deaths. At least 1,004 people nationwide were sick from the suspected flu, he said.

The geographical spread of the outbreaks also concerned the WHO — while 13 of the 20 deaths were in Mexico City, the rest were spread across Mexico — four in central San Luis Potosi, two up near the U.S. border in Baja California, and one in southern Oaxaca state.

Scientists have long been concerned that a new flu virus could launch a worldwide pandemic of a killer disease. A new virus could evolve when different flu viruses infect a pig, a person or a bird, mingling their genetic material. The resulting hybrid could spread quickly because people would have no natural defenses against it.

Still, flu experts were concerned but not alarmed about the latest outbreak.

"We've seen swine influenza in humans over the past several years, and in most cases, it's come from direct pig contact. This seems to be different," said Dr. Arnold Monto, a flu expert with the University of Michigan.

"I think we need to be careful and not apprehensive, but certainly paying attention to new developments as they proceed."

The CDC says two flu drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, seem effective against the new strain. Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, said the company is prepared to immediately deploy a stockpile of the drug if requested.

Both drugs must be taken early, within a few days of the onset of symptoms, to be most effective.

Cordoba said Mexico has enough Tamiflu to treat 1 million people, but the medicine will be strictly controlled and handed out only by doctors.

Mexico's government had maintained until late Thursday that there was nothing unusual about the flu cases, although this year's flu season had been worse and longer than past years.

The sudden turnaround by public health officials angered many Mexicans.

"They could have stopped it in time," said Araceli Cruz, 24, a university student who emerged from the subway wearing a surgical mask. "Now they've let it spread to other people."

The city was handing out free surgical masks to passengers on buses and the subway system, which carries 5 million people each day. Government workers were ordered to wear the masks, and authorities urged residents to stay home from work if they felt ill.

Closing schools across Mexico's capital of 20 million kept 6.1 million students home, as well as thousands of university students. All state and city-run cultural activities were suspended, including libraries, state-run theaters, and at least 14 museums. Private athletic clubs closed down and soccer leagues were considering canceling weekend games.

The closures were the first citywide shutdown of public gathering places since thousands died in the devastating 1985 earthquake.

Mexico's response brought to mind other major outbreaks, such as when SARS hit Asia. At its peak in 2003, Beijing shuttered schools, cinemas and restaurants, and thousands of people were quarantined at home.

In March 2008, Hong Kong ordered more than a half-million students to stay home for two weeks because of a flu outbreak. It was the first such closure in Hong Kong since the outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.

"It's great they are taking precautions," said Lillian Molina, a teacher at the Montessori's World preschool in Mexico City, who scrubbed down empty classrooms with Clorox, soap and Lysol between fielding calls from worried parents.

U.S. health officials said the outbreak is not yet a reason for alarm in the United States. The five people sickened in California and three in Texas have all recovered.

It's unclear how the eight, who became ill between late March and mid-April, contracted the virus because none were in contact with pigs, which is how people usually catch swine flu. And only a few were in contact with each other.

CDC officials described the virus as having a unique combination of gene segments not seen before in people or pigs. The bug contains human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia. It may be completely new, or it may have been around for a while and was only detected now through improved testing and surveillance, CDC officials said.

The most notorious flu pandemic is thought to have killed at least 40 million people worldwide in 1918-19. Two other, less deadly flu pandemics struck in 1957 and 1968.

Seven people in U.S. hit by strange new swine flu

2009-04-24T17:58:00.001-07:00

Seven people in U.S. hit by strange new swine flu
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FACTBOX: New flu strain is a genetic mix
5:33am EDTBy Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven people have been diagnosed with a new kind of swine flu in California and Texas, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday.

All seven people have recovered but the virus itself is a never-before-seen mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans, the CDC said.

"We are likely to find more cases," the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat told a telephone briefing. "We don't think this is time for major concern around the country."

Only one of the seven cases was sick enough to be hospitalized and all have recovered, Schuchat said.

CDC officials are unsure whether the cases are related to an unusually late and severe flu season in Mexico in which 20 people have died.

"Generally the period of infection ends during the last week of February and the first week of March, but this year there was an atypical situation where the transmission period was prolonged until April," Mexico's Ministry of Health said in a statement.

Canadian officials have asked doctors to keep an eye out for cases of respiratory illness among travelers from Mexico.

"Symptoms from those seriously ill in Mexico include high fever, headache, eye pain, shortness of breath and extreme fatigue with rapid progression of symptoms to severe respiratory distress in about five days," the British Columbia Center for Disease Control said in a statement.

In the United States, the CDC reported the new strain of swine flu on Tuesday in a boy and a girl from California's two southernmost counties.

Now, five more cases have been found via normal surveillance for seasonal influenza. None of the patients, whose symptoms closely resembled seasonal flu, had any direct contact with pigs.

Two of the new cases were among 16-year-olds at the same school in San Antonio "and there's a father-daughter pair in California," Schuchat said. The boy whose case was reported on Tuesday had flown to Dallas, but the CDC has found no links to the other Texas cases.

The agency will issue daily updates here

HUMAN TO HUMAN

"We believe at this point that human-to-human spread is occurring," Schuchat said. "That's unusual. We don't know yet how widely it is spreading ... We are also working with international partners to understand what is occurring in other parts of the world."

The CDC's Dr. Nancy Cox said virus samples from the seven appear to carry genes from swine flu, avian flu and human flu viruses from North America, Europe and Asia.

Deadly new flu strain erupts in Mexico, U.S.A

2009-04-24T17:48:00.000-07:00

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and has also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday.

Mexico's government said at least 20 people have died of the disease in central Mexico and that it may also have been responsible for 40 other deaths.

Mexico reported more than 1,000 suspected cases and four possible cases were also seen in Mexicali, right on the border with California.

The World Health Organization said tests showed the virus from 12 of the Mexican patients was the same genetically as a new strain of swine flu, designated H1N1, seen in eight people in California and Texas.

"Our concern has grown as of yesterday," U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director Dr. Richard Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing.

Global health officials were not ready to declare a pandemic -- a global epidemic of a new and deadly disease such as flu. "So far there has not been any change in the pandemic threat level," Besser said.

But the human-to-human spread of the new virus raised fears of a major outbreak and Mexico's government canceled classes for millions of children in its sprawling capital city and surrounding areas. All large public events like concerts were suspended in Mexico City.

Close analysis showed the disease is a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the CDC.

Most of the Mexican dead were aged between 25 and 45, a Mexican health official said, in a worrying sign. Seasonal flu can be more deadly among the very young and the very old but a hallmark of pandemics is that they affect healthy young adults.

Mexico has enough antiviral drugs to combat the outbreak for the moment, Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said.

The WHO said the virus appears to be susceptible to Roche AG's flu drug Tamiflu, also known as oseltamivir, but not to older flu drugs such as amantadine.

"In the last 20 hours, fewer serious cases of this disease and fewer deaths have been reported," Cordova told reporters.

Humans can occasionally catch swine flu from pigs but rarely have they been known to pass it on to other people.

NO CONTAINMENT

The CDC's Besser said it was probably too late to contain this outbreak. "There are things that we see that suggest that containment is not very likely," he said. Once it has spread beyond a limited geographical area it would be difficult to control.

Canada has not reported any cases of the flu and is not issuing a travel warning for Mexico, but the country's chief public health officer David Butler-Jones said the outbreak was "very concerning" and Canada was paying close attention.

The CDC's Besser said it was probably too late to contain the outbreak. "There are things that we see that suggest that containment is not very likely," he said. Once it has spread beyond a limited geographical area it would be difficult to control.

But there is no reason to avoid Mexico, CDC and the WHO said. "CDC is not recommending any additional recommendations for travelers to California, Texas and Mexico," Besser said.

Worldwide, seasonal flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people in an average year, but the flu season for North America should have been winding down.

The U.S. government said it was closely following the new cases. "The White House is taking the situation seriously and monitoring for any new developments. The president has been fully briefed," an administration official said.

In California, where six people have been infected with the flu, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said authorities were monitoring patients with flu-like symptoms and communicating with Mexican health officials.

Mexico's government cautioned people not to shake hands or kiss when greeting or to share food, glasses or cutlery. Flu virus can be spread on the hands, and handwashing is one of the most important ways to prevent its spread.

The outbreak jolted residents of the Mexican capital, one of the world's biggest cities with around 20 million residents. One pharmacy ran out of surgical face masks after selling 300 in a day.

The virus is an influenza A virus, carrying the designation H1N1. It contains DNA from avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses, said the CDC, which is already working on a vaccine.

Scientists were trying to understand why there are so many deaths in Mexico when the infections in the United States seem mild, Besser said.

The CDC said it will issue daily updates here

Surveillance for and scrutiny of influenza has been stepped up since 2003, when H5N1 bird flu reappeared in Asia. Experts fear that or another strain could cause a pandemic that could kill millions.

The last flu pandemic was in 1968 when "Hong Kong" flu killed about a million people globally.

(Additional reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, Maggie Fox in Washington and David Ljunggren in Ottawa; Writing by Kieran Murray)

April 24 (Reuters) - The U.N. World Health Organization has said it is closely monitoring an outbreak of a new deadly strain of swine flu in Mexico and the United States.

The human-to-human spread of the virus has raised fears of a flu pandemic. The WHO has said it needs more information before it changes its pandemic alert level, currently at three on a scale of one to six. [ID:nLO274836]

Here are some facts about pandemic influenza from the WHO's website here

* Flu pandemics are caused by new flu viruses that adapt into strains that become contagious between humans. [ID:nN24420522]

* Flu pandemics occurred three times in the past century: the Hong Kong flu in 1968, the Asian flu in 1957 and the Spanish flu of 1918. [ID:nN2444047]

* Experts agree that another pandemic could come at any time and could involve any one of a number of new strains of flu. Most eyes have been on the H5N1 strain of avian flu that first infected people in Hong Kong in 1997. Since 2003 it has infected 421 people in 15 countries and killed 257 of them.

* To be declared a pandemic strain, a virus must be new to humans, cause serious illness, be easily transmitted from one person to another, and sustain that transmission efficiently.

* All countries will be affected once a fully contagious pandemic virus emerges. Previous pandemics circled the globe in six to nine months, even before international air travel was common. Today, a virus could reach all continents in weeks.

* Widespread illness will occur. Most people will have no immunity to the pandemic virus. A substantial percentage of the world's population will need medical care, but few countries have enough staff, facilities, equipment and hospital beds.

* Supplies of vaccines and antiviral drugs will be inadequate. Many developing countries will have no access to vaccines.

* Many people will die. Based on the 1957 pandemic, the WHO conservatively estimates 2 million to 7.4 million people may die during the next outbreak, but says all estimates are speculative, and will depend on how many people become infected and the virulence of the virus, among other factors.

* Economic and social disruption will be great. High rates of worker absenteeism will impair services like power, transportation and communications.

* Every country must be prepared. The WHO has issued a series of recommended responses to the pandemic threat.

* The WHO will alert the world when the pandemic threat increases, working closely with governments and public health organizations on surveillance. WHO experts say it is too soon now to declare another pandemic. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Maggie Fox and Will Dunham)

Baxter Vaccines

2009-04-24T17:33:00.000-07:00

The New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Study Investigating the Safety and Efficacy of Baxter's Cell-Based Pandemic, Avian Flu Vaccine
Date: 2008/06/11

First scientific, peer-reviewed publication showing the candidate vaccine induced neutralizing antibodies against widely divergent H5N1 virus

DEERFIELD, Ill., June 11, 2008 — Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) announced publication in the June 12, 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of data demonstrating Baxter’s candidate avian influenza (H5N1) vaccine, CELVAPAN, met Phase I/II trial endpoints for safety and immunogenicity (generating a functional immune response). This is the first peer-reviewed publication of study results for CELVAPAN, the first cell culture-derived avian influenza vaccine to undergo clinical evaluation. The primary authors of the manuscript are Hartmut J. Ehrlich, MD, vice president of global research and development for Baxter’s BioScience business, and Noel Barrett, vice president of Baxter’s vaccines research.

“Cell culture technology could represent the future of influenza vaccine production,” said John Oxford, professor of Virology, The Queen Mary School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom. “Baxter has demonstrated the ability to rapidly make large quantities of the vaccine that may protect people against divergent H5N1 viruses.”

Based on manufacturing processes, Vero cell technology may offer several advantages versus conventional egg-based vaccine technology. Baxter’s Vero cell manufacturing process is more rapid due to its ability to use a “native” virus that does not need to be modified to allow growth in chicken eggs, therefore accelerating vaccine production.

“CELVAPAN combines innovative science and breakthrough production technology with the aim of protecting people against an H5N1 pandemic flu infection,” said Hartmut J. Ehrlich, MD. “This is an immunogenic vaccine without the need for an adjuvant to boost the immune response.”

About CELVAPAN

CELVAPAN is manufactured in a cell culture-based system in Bohumil, Czech Republic, at one of the largest cell culture vaccine production facilities in the world. Vero cell technology uses a well-established cell line originally derived from African green monkey kidneys in 1962. A continuous cell line has been derived from these cells so that an unlimited supply of cells is available without the requirement of generating additional cells from animals.

Baxter’s candidate avian flu vaccine is derived from the H5N1 strain A/Vietnam/1203/2004. Its antigen composition and structure are identical to the actual virus circulating in nature without the need to enhance an immune response by including adjuvants, additives that may cause side effects. In this Phase I/II study, CELVAPAN induced an immune response that is similar to the body’s defense against a natural virus infection. Earlier this year CELVAPAN was accepted for licensure review by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use within the European Medicines Agency, making it the first cell culture-based pandemic influenza vaccine to be reviewed by the regulatory authority. The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, is also conducting a trial with Baxter’s CELVAPAN in the United States.

Phase I/II Clinical Trial Results

The randomized Phase I/II study enrolled 284 subjects in Austria and Singapore (ages 18-45) and met its immunogenicity and safety endpoints. The study mainly investigated the ability of the vaccine to induce substantial levels of cross-immunity against divergent H5N1 strains.

The trial tested four different antigen concentrations ranging from 3.75µg to 30µg; 7.5µg and 15µg formulations were studied with and without adjuvant (additive). Statistically, the non-adjuvanted formulations induced the highest rates of subjects with a titer (antibody concentration in the blood) more than 1:20 after the first (40.5 percent and 39.5 percent for 7.5 µg and 15 µg) and second (76.2 percent and 70.7 percent for 7.5 µg and 15 µg) vaccinations, demonstrating this vaccine generates a robust immune response.

Regarding seroconversion (development of antibodies) or the percent of subjects demonstrating a more than four-fold increase in titer after immunization, the highest responses were again seen with the 7.5 μg and 15 μg non-adjuvanted formulations, with 69.0 percent and 68.3 percent seroconversion respectively.

High levels of cross-reactivity were demonstrated against the A/Hong Kong strain with the 7.5 µg and 15 µg non-adjuvanted formulations (76.2 percent and 78.0 percent, respectively, with neutralizing titer more than 1:20). The responses against the clade 2 strain were somewhat lower (45.2 percent and 36.6 percent with NT titers greater than or equal to 1:20 for the 7.5 µg and 15 µg non-adjuvanted formulations, respectively). This demonstrates the ability of the vaccine to induce cross-reactive immune responses against divergent H5N1 strains.

The most common side effects were injection site reactions, headaches and fatigue, and the most common local reaction was pain at the injection site.

Baxter’s Pre-Pandemic Planning Efforts

Baxter works closely with governments worldwide on pandemic preparation. The company has delivered several million doses of CELVAPAN to various governments around the world. In 2006, Baxter entered into a pandemic preparedness contract with the Austrian Ministry of Health to supply 16 million doses of pandemic influenza vaccine in the event a pandemic is declared. The company also delivered a stockpile of two million doses of CELVAPAN to the U.K. Department of Health as part of an agreement announced in February 2006. To improve access to treatment in developing countries, Baxter also supports the World Health Organization’s pandemic planning programs through participation in a planned international stockpile program.

Baxter is also working with the NIAID in partnership with Fisher BioServices Inc., and with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in partnership with DVC LLC, a Computer Science Corporation Company, to further develop Vero cell culture-based candidate pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccines. Baxter is working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with DynPort Vaccine Company LLC, a Computer Science Corporation Company, on a seasonal Phase III clinical trial that is currently underway in the United States and also plans to initiate a pandemic Phase I trial later this year in the United States with an H5N1 Indonesia strain vaccine. Baxter is also working with the NIAID in partnership with Fisher BioServices Inc. on a pandemic Phase I trial in the United States using the H5N1 Vietnam strain.

About Pandemic Flu

A pandemic is a global disease outbreak of a virus for which there is little or no immunity in the human population, causing serious illness and spreading easily person-to-person worldwide. Most cases of avian flu infection in humans have resulted from direct or close contact with infected poultry (e.g., domesticated chicken, ducks, and turkeys) or surfaces possibly contaminated from feces of infected birds. Avian influenza infection follows an unusually aggressive clinical course, with rapid deterioration and high fatality. Primary viral pneumonia and multi-organ failure have been common among people who have become ill with avian influenza.

About Baxter

Baxter International Inc., through its subsidiaries, assists healthcare professionals and their patients with treatment of complex medical conditions, including hemophilia, immune disorders, cancer, infectious diseases, kidney disease, trauma and other indications. The company applies its expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to make a meaningful difference in patients’ lives.

This release includes forward-looking statements concerning the company\'s vaccine products, including with respect to clinical trials, licensures, and the advantages of the vaccine products. The statements are based on assumptions about many important factors, including the following, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements: satisfaction of regulatory and other requirements for timely commencement of additional clinical trials; additional clinical results demonstrating the safety and efficacy of the products; market acceptance of vaccines developed with Vero cell technology relative to egg-based or other alternatives; continued public commitment to addressing avian flu and other pandemic threats including additional experience producing such vaccines at a large scale; and other risks identified in the company\'s most recent filing on Form 10-Q and other SEC filings, all of which are available on the company\'s web site. The company does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.

The VereFlu Chip for detecting bird flu

2009-04-21T15:13:00.000-07:00

STMicro launches chip to detect bird flu
Mon Mar 24, 2008

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Europe's top semiconductor maker, STMicroelectronics, said it has developed a portable chip to detect influenza viruses including bird flu in humans.

The device, which functions as a mini laboratory on a chip, can screen and identify multiple classes of pathogens and genes in a single diagnostic test within two hours, unlike other tests available on the market that can detect only one strain at a time and require days or weeks to obtain results.

The chip can differentiate human strains of the Influenza A and B viruses, drug-resistant strains and mutated variants, including the Avian Flu or H5N1 strain.

There have been 236 human deaths globally from the H5N1 strain, according to the World Health Organisation, though it remains mainly a bird virus.

"ST sees new high growth opportunities in the healthcare market, especially in areas like patient care," said Francois Guibert, STMicro's Asia Pacific chief executive, at a briefing in Singapore on Monday marking the commercial launch.

The VereFlu Chip was developed by the Franco-Italian chipmaker together with Singapore's privately held Veredus Laboratories after more than a year of research. The application underwent extensive evaluation trials at Singapore's National University Hospital last year.

It allows users to process and analyze patient samples -- comprising human blood, serum or respiratory swabs -- on a single disposable thumbnail-sized microchip.

Guibert said revenue contributions from its biomedical chip business would remain "negligible" for at least another three to five years.

Veredus Chief Executive Rosemary Tan said the company had obtained "very promising" sales orders from hospitals and non-hospital customers, but declined to provide details.

Another big potential market is the screening of travelers at airports and border checkpoints, Tan said.

Experts are monitoring the H5N1 virus for signs of mutation into a form easily transmitted from person to person, a development that could trigger a deadly pandemic. So far most human cases can be traced to contact with infected birds.

STMicro and Veredus have set up a joint laboratory in Singapore, where their experts will work on developing new biomedical applications using STMicro's chip platform for other infectious diseases, oncology and heart-disease markers.

Following the success of the evaluation trials conducted at the prestigious National University Hospital of Singapore, Veredus Laboratories and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) today announced the commercial availability of VereFlu, a portable lab-on-chip application for rapid detection of all major influenza types at the point of need.

Unlike existing blu diagnostic methods, VereFlu is a breakthrough molecular diagnostic test that can detect infection with high accuracy and sensitivity, within two hours providing genetic information of the infection that traditionally would take days to weeks to learn. With its high level of automation, users outside the traditional lab environment can easily perform the tests at the point of need.

Combining STMicroelectronics' In-Check lab-on-chip platform with Veredus' bio-application capability, VereFlu is the market's first test which has integrated two powerful molecular biological applications in a lab-on-chip the size of a fingernail. It can identify and differentiate human strains of Influenza A and B viruses, including the Avian Flu strain H5N1, in a single test.

"We are pleased to report that our evaluation trials show the suitability of the VereFlu diagnostic application for field testing and deployment," said Associate Professor Raymond Lin, Head of Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National University Hospital in Singapore. "The diagnostic reliability of this novel device makes it a powerful weapon against future influenza pandemics."

"VereFlu will enable healthcare professionals to effectively monitor mutations of flu viruses and quickly identify the main strain of the season," said Dr Rosemary Tan, Chief Executive Officer of Veredus Laboratories. "This unique capability can significantly increase the effectiveness of flu vaccination and reduce public health risks associated with the emergence of a new flu virus."

"The launch of VereFlu marks a substantial breakthrough in enabling rapid identification of the infectious agent to limit the spread of the disease and speed patients' treatment," said Gian Luca Bertino, Corporate VP and General Manager of ST's Computer Peripherals Group. "The combination of Veredus' diagnostic know-how with ST's microfluidic lab-on-chip technology has bred the market's first solution that detects multiple flu viruses at the point of need in a fraction of the time, cost, and complexity of conventional diagnostic systems."

A miniature laboratory on a chip, ST's In-Check platform allows users to accurately and reliably process and analyze minute patient samples - human blood, serum or respiratory swabs - on a single disposable thumbnail-sized chip. This approach reduces the time and complexity, as well as the risk of cross-contamination inherent in conventional analysis methods.

Encouraged by the success of the VereFlu project, STMicroelectronics and Veredus Laboratories have set up a joint lab, where experts from both companies will work together on the development of new biomedical applications based on ST's In-Check lab-on-chip platform. Future application areas of interest include other infectious diseases, oncology and heart-disease markers. The new ST/Veredus biomedical laboratory, called the Bio-Application Lab, is located at the Science Park in Singapore and will be managed by Dr Rosemary Tan, CEO of Veredus.

flu vaccine contaminated with bird flu

2009-04-21T14:47:00.001-07:00

Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus

March 5, 2009

The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses.

The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn’t die from exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses.

And an official of the World Health Organization’s European operation said the body is closely monitoring the investigation into the events that took place at Baxter International’s research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria.

“At this juncture we are confident in saying that public health and occupational risk is minimal at present,” medical officer Roberta Andraghetti said from Copenhagen, Denmark.

“But what remains unanswered are the circumstances surrounding the incident in the Baxter facility in Orth-Donau.”

The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.

The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn’t die from exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses.

Public health authorities concerned about what has been described as a “serious error” on Baxter’s part have assumed the death of the ferrets meant the H5N1 virus in the product was live. But the company, Baxter International Inc., has been parsimonious about the amount of information it has released about the event.

On Friday, the company’s director of global bioscience communications confirmed what scientists have suspected.

“It was live,” Christopher Bona said in an email.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

The contaminated product, which Baxter calls “experimental virus material,” was made at the Orth-Donau research facility. Baxter makes its flu vaccine — including a human H5N1 vaccine for which a licence is expected shortly — at a facility in the Czech Republic.

People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled in the Orth-Donau facility. That is a dangerous practice that should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted.

Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could have resulted in dire consequences.

While H5N1 doesn’t easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people.

That mixing process, called reassortment, is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created.

There is no suggestion that happened because of this accident, however.

“We have no evidence of any reassortment, that any reassortment may have occurred,” said Andraghetti.

“And we have no evidence of any increased transmissibility of the viruses that were involved in the experiment with the ferrets in the Czech Republic.”

Baxter hasn’t shed much light — at least not publicly — on how the accident happened. Earlier this week Bona called the mistake the result of a combination of “just the process itself, (and) technical and human error in this procedure.”

He said he couldn’t reveal more information because it would give away proprietary information about Baxter’s production process.

Andraghetti said Friday the four investigating governments are co-operating closely with the WHO and the European Centre for Disease Control in Stockholm, Sweden.

“We are in very close contact with Austrian authorities to understand what the circumstances of the incident in their laboratory were,” she said.

“And the reason for us wishing to know what has happened is to prevent similar events in the future and to share lessons that can be learned from this event with others to prevent similar events. … This is very important.”

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Baxter Healthcare

2009-04-21T13:31:00.000-07:00

Baxter Receives Preparedness Contract From Austrian Ministry Of Health For Pandemic Influenza Vaccine

Baxter Healthcare SA today announced that the Austrian Ministry of Health has entered into a preparedness contract with the company that contains an option to purchase 16 million doses of pandemic influenza vaccine, enough to vaccinate the entire Austrian population. The three-year agreement provides the Austrian MOH with future access to the company's cell-based vaccine production capacity in the event of an avian flu pandemic.

"We are proud to provide the advanced science and technology, manufacturing capability and other resources to assist the Austrian Ministry of Health in its efforts to protect citizens from the threat of a flu pandemic," said Joy Amundson, corporate vice president and president of Baxter's BioScience business.

Baxter also is under contract to supply two million doses of H5N1 vaccine to the UK Government. In addition, the company is working with the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a cell culture-based H5N1 candidate pandemic influenza vaccine.

Last month Baxter announced preliminary results of a phase I/II clinical trial in 270 healthy adults with its inactivated wild-type H5N1 pandemic vaccine. Preliminary results from this trial suggest that the vaccine is well tolerated in humans. Most common side effects are injection site reactions, headaches and fatigue. In addition, the preliminary results suggest that the vaccine is highly immunogenic and elicits functional antibodies to H5N1 even at the lowest dose level of 3.75 micrograms. These preliminary data, which must be confirmed in a larger study, suggest that the vaccine may provide wider protection for a larger number of people before and during a pandemic. Importantly, preliminary analysis of serum samples obtained from the study subjects suggests both the neutralization of the pandemic virus contained in the vaccine and cross-neutralization against widely diverse strains of H5N1, including both Hongkong/156/97 and Indonesia/05/05.

Cell-based systems for production of vaccines offer a number of potential benefits over more traditional, chicken egg-based systems. Baxter's vero-cell system is capable of producing high yields of influenza virus without the addition of any animal-derived serum. Through the company's research and development work in Austria, Baxter has been successful in growing wild-type virus in its vero-cell culture, which means that the company could begin vaccine production without having to wait for high-growth or attenuated virus reassortants normally used when vaccine is produced in eggs. Baxter has one of the largest existing cell-culture facilities in the world, capable of manufacturing large quantities of vaccine. Because the facility is engineered for BioSafety Level III production, the facility can utilize wild type pandemic strains to help accelerate production and reduce the total time required to produce vaccine by several weeks. Baxter's technology platform also allows it to implement rapid changes in strains that may be needed for new vaccine formulations.

Baxter Healthcare SA is a subsidiary of Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX). Baxter International Inc., through its subsidiaries, assists healthcare professionals and their patients with the treatment of complex medical conditions, including cancer, hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease and trauma. The company applies its expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to make a meaningful difference in patients' lives.

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2009-04-21T13:05:00.000-07:00

By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff

Scientists, led by a team from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, have discovered what they describe as the Achilles' heel of the influenza virus, a finding that suggests it might be possible to end the ritual of the annual flu shot.

Yearly vaccination is currently needed because different strains of the virus circulate around the world regularly, owing to the germs' rapidly changing genetic makeup. But the researchers reported today that they had found one pocket of the virus that appears to remain static in multiple flu strains, making it an attractive target for a vaccine, as well as drugs.

If the research stands up to further testing, the flu vaccine might one day be more like the shots given to ward off measles, mumps, and polio. Children and adults would be inoculated once in their lives and have a universal shield against the various strains that hopscotch across the world -- even the much-feared bird flu.

Such a vaccine is still years off -- even if the quest succeeds -- so the researchers have begun animal testing of a new medicine that would exploit the virus's weakness and thwart flu infections once someone falls ill. Their early results suggest that the drug would work against the highly virulent avian flu, as well as the lethal "Spanish flu" strain that killed millions during a 1918 global epidemic.

One scientist not involved with the government-sponsored research described it as "trailblazing," and even specialists with more measured reactions agreed that it marked a potentially pivotal advance in understanding a virus that kills an average of 36,000 Americans annually and a quarter-million people worldwide.

The timing couldn't be better, they said, as fears flourish that the world is overdue for a major epidemic, and as once-heralded flu drugs lose their punch.

"It's the first time that a universal vaccine in terms of influenza viruses may really be on the horizon," said Peter Palese, a specialist in respiratory viruses at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He was not involved with the research.

The findings, detailed in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, are very much a made-in-Boston story: The discovery would not have been possible without the blood of 57 New Englanders donated a decade ago, which was used to build a library of 27 billion disease-fighting cells, called antibodies.

Scientists screened those antibodies and found 10 capable of stopping the bird flu. Next they tried the antibodies on the deadly 1918 strain. "Sure enough, it blocked that virus also," said Dr. Wayne A. Marasco of Dana-Farber and Harvard Medical School, who directed the research team. "And at that point, we knew we had something special."

Further analysis showed why: The antibodies targeted a specific spot on proteins that sit on the surface of the flu virus. Crucially, the antibodies landed at the same site on several flu strains.

Greatly magnified, those surface proteins resemble a lollipop. And it is the globular head of the lollipop where the flurry of genetic changes occur that make flu shots an annual event.

"You can imagine one season, it's like a red lollipop. The next season, it's a yellow lollipop. And the season after that, it's a green lollipop," said Marasco, an infectious-disease doctor who specializes in treating cancer patients with compromised immune systems.

Most vaccines work by revving up the body's disease-fighting cells, helping them to recognize and rapidly neutralize invading germs. The researchers realized that the disease fighters generated by existing flu vaccines -- which contain killed or weakened whole viruses -- head straight toward the biggest target, the globular head.

It is, in effect, a Trojan horse that prevents the body's immune system from directing more of its firepower toward the stalk, where the scientists found the pocket that was so static. That site contains machinery that lets the virus penetrate human cells.

"Somehow, they'd have to make the vaccine so that the focus of the immune response would be toward the part that does not mutate," said Dr. Sharon Frey, a vaccine researcher at Saint Louis University. "That is not a trivial task. That is a major challenge."

The current work dealt with just influenza A, one of two predominant types of flu. But the scientists said they believe that a similar strategy could work with influenza B viruses, and that a successful vaccine would consist of a "cocktail" of immune system triggers.

"People tend to emphasize vaccines as the holy grail," said Robert Liddington of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in California, another of the study's authors. But because of the complexity of developing vaccines, he said, it's likely that antibody-based medicines will become available first.

Those drugs, known as monoclonal antibodies, are manmade clones of natural antibodies that act like guided missiles against invaders. The flu antibodies identified in today's report have been used to make monoclonal antibodies that target the static stalk region.

So far, the medication has been shown to protect mice against multiple flu strains, though not all that were tested. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that if the drug works in other animals and, then, humans, he will conclude, "Wow, now you've really got something."

The research team, which also included scientists from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said it believes the drug could be ready for human testing by the 2011-2012 flu season. The researchers have not yet had extensive conversations with drug companies about making the medicine. Dana-Farber holds patents on the monoclonal antibodies and the discovery of the static region.

Such a drug, scientists said, could be crucial if a novel strain ignited a global flu epidemic, especially since a growing number of flu strains are becoming resistant to the main drug now available, Tamiflu. The new medicine, which would likely be far more expensive than current flu drugs, might initially be given to doctors, nurses, and patients whose disease-fighting capacity was already compromised.

If the drug is proved safe and effective, one flu specialist said strategies should be adopted to prevent overuse that might give the virus a chance to outwit this treatment, too.

"If we keep it in reserve," said Dr. Paul Biddinger of the Harvard School of Public Health, "we may have something of a silver bullet when the next pandemic strain comes."

Population Control

2009-04-19T14:25:00.001-07:00

"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
- Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '96

Ted Turner used his Southern charm to calm worries that he longed for 95% decline from current population levels during a question and answer session– as the billionaire eugenicist was quoted in Audubon magazine more than a decade ago.

“That’s not really true,” Turner told members of Philly 9/11 Truth. He instead cited 2 billion as the target– a mere 2/3 reduction of the human population – which he claims would allow ’everyone’ to have a decent standard of living, including a “refrigerator and air conditioner.”

The 9/11 Truth activists probed the billionaire on how he would achieve these population goals– citing policymakers like Henry Kissinger who advocate using ’food as weapon.’

Turner commented, “The way I think we should get there is have a voluntary one child per family for the next hundred years… like they do in China now.”

Despite the fact that Turner himself has 5 children, he has put forward this view a number of times before. “We’re too many people; that’s why we have global warming,” he told PBS’s Charlie Rose in April. “Too many people are using too much stuff.”

“On a voluntary basis, everybody in the world’s got to pledge to themselves that one or two children is it,” Turner added during the April 2008 interview.

China’s policies have been heavily criticized not only for the gross human rights violations against its dehumanized population, but also for its peer-pressure affect on the rest of the world to adopt similar polices. China, too, started with a so-called ’voluntary’ policy which then led to fines and only later to more extreme punishments for having more than one child.

In the name of global warming and environmentalism, children have now been blamed as ’part of the problem’ and calls to limit children have now saturated the Western World.

In the third world, Turner has contributed literally billions to population reduction, namely through United Nations programs , leading the way for the likes of Bill & Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett (Gates father, for one, has long been a leading board member of Planned Parenthood and a top eugenicist).

These same figures have also donated vast sums of money for vaccination programs that many have identified as part of the problem.

Members of Philly 9/11 Truth also asked Turner about being the largest land owner in North America. Turner suggested that his vast acreage– estimated at more than 2 million acres– was being put to good use, deflecting claims of hypocrisy.

Turner has also been criticized recently for advocating the production of corn-based ethanol, which has now been blamed by the U.N. and others for causing food shortages and increased poverty, particularly in the 3rd World.

Quotes on Population Control

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it." - Jacques Cousteau

"The world has a cancer, and that cancer is man." - Merton Lambert, former spokesman for the Rockefeller foundation

"...The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size." - Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, p.130-131

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." - Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund - quoted in "Are You Ready For Our New Age Future?," Insiders Report, American Policy Center, December '95
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"Even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable." - Sir Julian Huxley, first director general of UNESCO (1946-1948)

"In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."
- Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, as quoted in the Courier, a publication of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Population Control Quotes

"In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went with them when they were arrested and remained with them as they were subjected to mind-bending psychological torture. And I accompanied them as they went in tears to the local clinic to have their pregnancies aborted."
- Steven W. Mosher

Quotes on Population Control

"Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license ... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
- David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club; founder of Friends of the Earth; and founder of the Earth Island Institute - quoted by Dixie Lee Ray, Trashing the Planet, (p.166)

Population Control Quotes

"Forget sex and watch television to control the number of children you have. Our view is that you should only have the number of children you could support"
- Prime Minister Patrick Manning

Population Control Quotes

"One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death."
- Psychologist Barbara Marx Hubbard - member and futurist/strategist of Task Force Delta; a United States Army think tank

Population Control Quotes

"The doctor finds that while he cannot save the life of a woman dying of a simple pneumonia because he does not have a vial of penicillin which costs only a few cents, he could if he so desired, fit her with as many IUDs as he liked in her death throes. An IUD costs many times the price of penicillin."
- Dr. Margaret A. Ogola, Testimony on International Population Control Activities, 1994

Population Control Quotes

"A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use the ultrasound technique. and, if it reveals. a girl, they'll abort her. If it reveals the baby is a boy, they'll celebrate."
- Steven W. Mosher

Population Control Quotes

"African nations are forced to accept as a precondition for funding, family planning and all its attendant projects - abortion, contraception, sex education etc. A lot of money is expended by Western agencies, particularly Planned Parenthood of America, on contraceptives for Africa... In villages where there is no portable water, no electricity, and no health care services, the major concern of these world population control agencies is not development but family planning clinics."
- African Caucus, Report on negative effects of population control on Africa Testimony on International Population Control Activities, 12 April 1994, sponsored by Population Research Institute

Population Control Quotes

"In October 1994, HLI received a communication from its Mexican affiliate, the Comite Pro Vida de Mexico, regarding that country's anti-tetanus campaign. Suspicious of the campaign protocols, the Comite obtained several vials of the vaccine and had them analyzed by chemists. Some of the vials were found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), a naturally occurring hormone essential for maintaining a pregnancy. when introduced into the body coupled with a tetanus toxoid carrier, antibodies will be formed not only against tetanus but also against hCG. In this case the body fails to recognize hCG as a friend and will produce anti-hCG antibodies. The antibodies will attack subsequent pregnancies by killing the hCG which naturally sustains a pregnancy; when a woman has sufficient anti-hCG antibodies in her system, she is rendered incapable of maintaining a pregnancy."
- Are New Vaccines Laced with Birth-Control Drugs?

"The myth of overpopulation is one of the most powerful in the world... in reality it is nothing more than a rationalization for a worldwide war against the poor - a war which inhibits legitimate development and social justice.... The Netherlands has four times the population density of its former colony Indonesia, but it is Indonesia and not the Netherlands that is said to have a problem of overpopulation."
- Michael Schwartz , Overpopulation and the War against the Poor

Vaccine Damage Immunity for Drug Companies

2009-04-19T10:59:00.001-07:00

Senate Moves Towards Forced Vaccinations, Vaccine Damage Immunity for Drug Companies
Associated Press | December 2, 2005
By ANDREW BRIDGES

RELATED:
Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 (Introduced in Senate)[S.1873.IS]

Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 (Reported in Senate)[S.1873.RS]

CONGRESS SET TO PASS LAW ELIMINATING LIABILITY FOR VACCINE INJURIES

By creating a federal agency shielded from public scrutiny, some lawmakers think they can speed the development and testing of new drugs and vaccines needed to respond to a bioterrorist attack or super-flu pandemic.

The proposed Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency, or BARDA, would be exempt from long-standing open records and meetings laws that apply to most government departments, according to legislation approved Oct. 18 by the Senate health committee.

Those exemptions would streamline the development process, safeguard national security and protect the proprietary interests of drug companies, say Republican backers of the bill. The legislation also proposes giving manufacturers immunity from liability in exchange for their participation in the public-private effort.

"We must ensure the federal government acts as a partner with the private sector, providing the incentives and protections necessary to bring more and better drugs and vaccines to market faster," Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., said when the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions approved the bill.

The agency would provide the funding for development of treatments and vaccines to protect the United States from natural pandemics as well as chemical, biological and radiological agents.

But it is the secrecy and immunity provisions of the legislation that have alarmed patient rights and open government advocates. The agency would be exempt from the Freedom of Information and Federal Advisory Committee acts, both considered crucial for monitoring government accountability.

"There is no other agency that I am aware of where the agency is totally exempt either from FOIA or FACA," said Pete Weitzel, coordinator of the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government. The coalition is an alliance of journalism groups, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Associated Press Managing Editors, that wrote to lawmakers seeking amendments to the bill. "That is a cause for major concern and should raise major policy concerns," Weitzel said.

Burr spokesman Doug Heye said the provisions would keep competitors from gaining proprietary information through FOIA. However, confidential business information already is exempt from FOIA.

"There's no secrecy involved in BARDA," Heye said. "That is absolutely false. This is an agency that will be putting out information daily."

Some Democrats question whether the public would accept drugs or vaccines developed in conjunction with the agency, citing the abortive 2003 effort to vaccinate 500,000 front-line health care workers against smallpox. Only about 40,000 workers ultimately received the vaccine amid concerns about the vaccine's safety, which health authorities initially downplayed.

"Republican leaders in Congress are now proposing a plan that would make exactly the same mistake," Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., said in a statement. "Their plan will protect companies that make ineffective or harmful medicines, and because it does not include compensation for those injured by a vaccine or drug, it will discourage first responders and patients from taking medicines to counter a biological attack or disease outbreak."

The bill does provide for limited compensation. However, another provision would grant drug companies immunity unless "willful misconduct" can be shown.

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America said it was reviewing the bill. Another industry group, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, declined comment.

The National Vaccine Information Center, an advocacy group, called the legislation "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare."

The proposed law comes amid growing concern about pandemics and the government's ability to meet such threats. For instance, the United State needs another three to five years to develop the manufacturing capacity to produce 300 million doses of flu vaccine, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

The agency would improve on Project BioShield, a barely two-year-old program also meant to encourage production of vaccines and drugs, Heye said.

"While some progress has been made, we still haven't seen the participation from companies, universities and research institutions in developing vaccines we might need to protect us from the next threat, whatever that might be," Heye said. "One of the reasons is (they) don't want to put their very existence on the line."

Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, said the agency as proposed would represent a setback to decades of progress in opening up to the public the process of testing the safety and efficacy of drugs.

"These provisions are extremely dangerous," Wolfe said. "The fact that they are being proposed, really exploiting people's fears about pandemics and epidemics, is outrageous and goes backward on the progress on the use of the Freedom of Information Act and Federal Advisory Committee Act to increase public scrutiny and increase the correctness of decisions that are made."

Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike agree the drug industry needs some protections to encourage it to produce emergency stocks of vaccines and drugs, but Democrats have balked at providing blanket immunity without first establishing a compensation fund for patients.

Republicans are pushing for liability protections for vaccine manufacturers on other fronts as well. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is seeking to add such protections to a defense appropriations bill.

Frist spokeswoman Amy Call said drug company concerns about liability are real.

"There's really no financial incentive for them to get into the market, sell to the government at a reduced rate and then open themselves up to losses that could potentially bankrupt them," Call said.

The push for liability exemptions may force the Burr bill to the sidelines until the next session of Congress, Republican and Democratic aides said. But Call said Frist intends to pursue the legislation.

CONGRESS SET TO PASS LAW ELIMINATING LIABILITY FOR VACCINE INJURIES

National Vaccine Information Center | October 16, 2005

Washington, D.C. - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take, whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency.

The legislation's architect, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, told the full HELP Committee yesterday that the legislation" creates a true partnership" between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and academia to walk the drug companies "through the Valley of Death" in bringing a new vaccine or drug to market. Burr said it will give the Department of Health and Human Services "additional authority and resources to partner with the private sector to rapidly develop drugs and vaccines." The Burr bill gives the Secretary of DHHS the sole authority to decide whether a manufacturer violated laws mandating drug safety and bans citizens from challenging his decision in the civil court system.

The bill establishes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), as the single point of authority within the government for the advanced research and development of drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks such as the flu. BARDA will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become public.

Nicknamed "Bioshield Two," the legislation is being pushed rapidly through Congress without time for voters to make their voices heard by their elected representatives. Co-sponsored by Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg (R-NH), the legislation will eliminate both regulatory and legal safeguards applied to vaccines as well as take away the right of children and adults harmed by vaccines and drugs to present their case in front of a jury in a civil court of law.

"It is a sad day for this nation when Congress is frightened and bullied into allowing one profit making industry to destroy the seventh Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing citizens their day in court in front of a jury of their peers," said Barbara Loe Fisher, president of NVIC. "This proposed legislation, like the power and money grab by federal health officials and industry in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Project Bioshield Act of 2004, is an unconstitutional attempt by some in Congress to give a taxpayer-funded handout to pharmaceutical companies for drugs and vaccines the government can force all citizens to use while absolving everyone connected from any responsibility for injuries and deaths which occur. It means that, if an American is injured by an experimental flu or anthrax vaccine he or she is mandated to take, that citizen will be banned from exercising the Constitutional right to a jury trial even if it is revealed that the vaccine maker engaged in criminal fraud and negligence in the manufacture of the vaccine."

The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is legally responsible for regulating the pharmaceutical industry and ensuring that drugs and vaccines released to the public are safe and effective. Drug companies marketing painkillers, like Vioxx, and anti-depressants, which have resulted in the deaths and injuries of thousands of children and adults, are being held accountable in civil court while the FDA has come under intense criticism for withholding information about the drugs' dangers from the public. Since 1986, vaccine makers have been protected from most liability in civil court through the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in which Congress created a federal vaccine injury compensation program (VICP) that offers vaccine victims an alternative to the court system. Even though the the program has awarded nearly $2 billion to victims of mandated vaccines, two out of three plaintiffs are turned away.

"The drug companies and doctors got all the liability protection they needed in 1986 but they are greedy and want more," said Fisher. "And the federal health agencies want more power to force citizens to use vaccines without having to worry about properly regulating them. If the Burr bill passes, all economic incentives to insure mandated vaccines are safe will be removed and the American people are facing a future where government can force them to take poorly regulated experimental drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" or go to jail. The only recourse for citizens will be to strike down mandatory vaccination laws so vaccines will be subject to the law of supply and demand in the marketplace. The health care consumer's cry will be: No liability? No mandates."

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was founded by parents of vaccine injured children in 1982 and co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

Scientists re-create 1918 flu pandemic virus

2009-04-18T16:43:00.000-07:00

By Scott Allen, Globe Staff | October 6, 2005

Scientists have re-created the virus that caused the horrific 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, then sickened mice with the synthetic virus to gain chilling insights into what made the 1918 flu such an efficient killer.

Federal officials said the breakthrough, based on bits of DNA taken from tissue samples of the flu's long-dead victims, will help them detect signs that emerging flu strains could be particularly dangerous. But critics warned that the researchers may have inadvertently handed terrorists a potential weapon.

The 1918 flu, which killed 30 million to 50 million people worldwide, bears some similarity to the avian flu now circulating in Southeast Asia, said researchers with the Influenza Genome Sequencing Project. But in a telephone briefing, project leader Jeffery K. Taubenberger stressed that current flu strains would have to undergo several important genetic mutations to become as dangerous as the Spanish flu.

Officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency that re-created the 1918 virus, said their work will allow other researchers to develop more effective medicines and vaccines.

''We have been able to unmask the 1918 virus, and it is revealing to us some of the secrets that will help us prepare for and predict the next pandemic," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the CDC, during a press briefing on Tuesday.

But the resurrection of the 1918 flu in a federal laboratory -- where it proved at least 100 times more lethal to mice than other flu strains -- set off alarms among some public health specialists, who warned that the world remains unprepared for such an outbreak.

The 1918 flu ''went like Sherman went through Georgia" during the Civil War, said Barry R. Bloom, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. If a similar strain of flu returns, he added, ''we are very, very vulnerable."

The Influenza Genome Sequencing Project, coordinated by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been controversial almost since it began in 1995. No samples of the Spanish flu virus remained, but Taubenberger and other researchers believed that they could still find genetic information about the disease if they could find remains of people who died from it.

They located preserved lung autopsies from victims of the flu as well as tissue from a female flu victim who was buried in the frozen ground of northern Alaska. Researchers from government agencies and New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine then painstakingly re-created the virus's DNA. The team published its findings on the last three virus genes in the journal Nature today, and placed detailed genetic information on the Internet.

A separate group, led by the CDC in Atlanta, used the genetic blueprint to re-create the virus in a lab, and test its potency against other flu strains. Their results are being published tomorrow in the journal Science. The researchers found that the Spanish flu could grow without a key chemical ingredient required by other flu viruses, allowing it to burrow deeply into the lungs with lethal results, especially among young, otherwise healthy people.

Critics said it was shortsighted to resurrect such a killer disease, warning that the genetic blueprint could potentially be used to create a bioweapon, and that the flu samples in the lab could be lost, stolen, or accidentally released to the public. ''They are throwing open a door that should remain shut," said Edward Hammond, US director of the Sunshine Project, a group concerned with the proliferation of bioweapons.

Federal officials said they minimized risk to the public by handling the virus under strict safety precautions, including self-contained breathing devices for the researchers. They noted that the Spanish flu is less dangerous to the public than it was in 1918 because people have built up partial immunity through exposure to similar, though less dangerous, flu strains. In addition, they said, two antiviral medicines not available in 1918 appear to be at least partially effective.

Flu viruses require constant monitoring because their genetic structure can mutate rapidly, suddenly allowing the disease to jump from animals to people or giving it new powers to infect or kill. Taubenberger, a geneticist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Maryland, said the 1918 Spanish flu probably became able to infect people only a couple of years before the global outbreak.

The avian flu strains in Southeast Asia ''could go down a similar path" to cause a major human outbreak, said Taubenberger, but ''they are early on in this process" of genetic mutation. Since 1997, global disease trackers have found strains of avian flu that contain three of the roughly six key genetic changes that launched the 1918 virus, Taubenberger said, but seldom more than one mutation in any single strain.

New Pandemic designed by NWO

2009-04-18T15:55:00.000-07:00

From the September 2008 Idaho Observer:
The perfect pandemic storm predicted but the weatherman is usually wrong—right?
Since 1998, The IO has been reporting developments as the U.S. government, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (more accurately described as the Centers for Disease Creation and Propagation) (CDC), has been preparing for an "inevitable" influenza pandemic.
As a logical consequence of imaginary Arabs hijacking two chimerical airplanes to cause the Twin Towers and WTC 7 to collapse and two more allegedly hijacked airplanes to disappear into the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, PA, the nation must also prepare to prevent a biological attack by more imaginary Arab bioterrorists.
In 2002, billions of state and federal dollars began pouring into pandemic preparedness as part of the post-9/11 "war on terror" to "protect the homeland."
As of this moment, the perfect pandemic storm is gathering: The public is suitably frightened of bird flu, has been reminded about how the 1918 "Spanish" flu killed an estimated 20 million to 100 million people worldwide and, the government reports, at least 100 million doses of "bird flu" vaccine is ready for deployment. The people are not being told, however, that all the major influenza pandemics, including the 1918 "Spanish" flu pandemic, were vaccine induced. Nor are they being told that the vaccine is being tested in humans with deadly results, has no agency approval and is available only to governments.
While the Beijing Olympic Games did not spark the "avian flu" pandemic as anticipated, signs that preparations for a global influenza outbreak are in the final stages abound in the corporate news through government sources. There is little doubt that, when the time comes, cases of "avian" influenza will be reported, a medical emergency will be declared and the mass vaccination machinery will be set in motion.
If you have been reading The IO and checking our pending pandemic articles over the last decade against the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act and the Bioshield Act, you will realize that the medical emergency and pandemic preparedness plans are in place at every level of government in the U.S.
Many communities in America have openly conducted city and county-wide pandemic preparedness plan exercises with public participation. Ask any cop, EMT, fireman, nurse, physician or national guardsman and they will tell you that they have been receiving pandemic preparedness training.
The plans outline quarantines, roadblocks, commandeering of facilities and supplies, mandatory vaccination, curfews and detention—all of which will be enforced at gunpoint.
There is no doubt that the intent, for a variety of reasons ranging from corporate profit, population reduction and power consolidation, is to cause a global, vaccine-induced pandemic. While it would appear impossible for us to prevent such a huge and well-funded, militarily-backed inevitability, it has an Achilles heel:
We learned during the phony smallpox threat in 2002-2003, which caused the government to begin vaccinating first responders and medical personnel, that mass vaccination campaigns fail if the administrators won’t administrate.
Read the model letter above and consider amending and sending it to first responders, medical personnel, political and community leaders in your area with a copy of the DVD indicated (to obtain copies, see the One Dollar DVD Project link on the homepage).
Our only hope in derailing the coming (vaccine-induced) influenza pandemic is to convince our local professional pandemic preparedness players not to participate when the time comes.

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Sept. ___, 2008
To: First responders, medical professionals, public officials and community leaders
It is of vital importance for you to take the time to view and carefully consider the information in the DVD presentation by Dr. A. True Ott on pandemic influenza preparedness. Dr. Ott’s research provides balance to information you have been receiving on pandemic preparedness. When you determine that the evidence presented is provable, you will realize the following:
• That all influenza pandemics (1918, 1956, 1968 and 1977) were provably vaccine-induced. (Read documentation from historical records.)
• Pandemic-creating influenza vaccines have been developed by people in league with those actively bioengineering influenza variants. The next "planned for" influenza pandemic will also be vaccine-induced and is planned for this flu season.
• Since at least 1998, you have been told that the next influenza pandemic is not a matter of "if" but "when." In the wake of 9/11/01, we had the anthrax scare, the SARS scare and the "weaponized" smallpox scare.
By 2002, legislatures from the several states began passing versions of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act. You have been receiving pandemic preparedness training ever since. In fall, 2002, the Bush administration, without the consent of Congress, "bought" 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine and began a mass vaccination program beginning with 500,000 healthcare workers. The program was halted for the following reasons:
• The first wave of vaccine recipients were first responders, many of whom became ill and a few died after being vaccinated. There was no insurance coverage or federal program in place for vaccine recipients to be compensated for disability or death due to the smallpox vaccination.
• The adverse affects became widely known, as did knowledge that the vaccinated first responders and emergency medical personnel were infectious for up to 21 days and could spread the disease to anyone with whom they had contact.
• It became common knowledge that there were at least 62 biological agents available to "terrorists" that would be more effective than smallpox.
By March 7, 2003, only 12,690 of our nation’s 500,000 healthcare workers and first responders had received the experimental smallpox vaccine—a 97 percent refusal rate.
There is an extreme likelihood that the pandemic you have been told is inevitable and, indeed, have been preparing for, could begin any day now. You will then be asked to play the role you have been trained to play. The question you must ask yourself is, "Will I be serving the interests of my family and community or serving some other purpose?"
Your only duty, as first responders, medical professionals, public officials and community leaders, is to protect the health of the public you serve. When the time comes—and it will, soon—do the right thing: Refuse to participate in unleashing an "influenza" pandemic through forced vaccination. It is important to remember that to inject anyone with an experimental vaccine that can cause permanent injury or death, without any legal recourse or liability on the part of our federal government implementing this program, is not only inhumane but a gross violation of basic human rights.

World ill-prepared for next flu pandemic: UN
Oct 21, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Despite widespread awareness of the risks of the next flu pandemic, the world needs to drastically improve cooperation in preparing for what would be a major global crisis, a UN report said Tuesday.
The report by the United Nations and the World Bank said that while most countries are planning for a flu pandemic, the worry was that "many plans have not been tested and may well fail once the next influenza pandemic starts."
"Coming on the heels of a World Bank study suggesting that the economic cost of a pandemic could top a staggering three trillion dollars, this continuing lack of preparedness remains a cause of concern," it noted.
According to the World Bank, a flu pandemic of moderate intensity could cut global gross domestic product by two percent, while a severe flu pandemic would slash global gross domestic product by nearly five percent, or more than three trillion dollars.
The report said that even a mild flu pandemic might kill 1.4 million people worldwide, while the death toll from a severe global outbreak could reach 70 million.
"Considering that pandemic preparedness was largely unaddressed by the world's nations three years ago, the widespread awareness and action seen today is a major achievement," said David Nabarro, a Briton who is the UN System influenza coordinator.
"But more needs to be done to ensure that we are ready for this kind of major global crisis," he added.
He made the remarks ahead of an international ministerial conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza scheduled for Friday to Sunday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The parley is to review global progress and plan future efforts for pandemic preparedness and bird flu control.
No countries reported new infections of their poultry by the H5N1 bird flu virus in the first nine months of 2008, as compared with four in the same period last year, the UN report said.
Nabarro noted that the bird flu virus was entrenched only in two countries: Egypt and Indonesia.
The study also pointed out that only 20 countries which have previously reported infections experienced outbreaks between January and September 2008, down from 25 in the same period last year.
It added that to date 245 people have died of bird flu.
"The pace of sporadic human infections and deaths from H5N1 has slowed since last year, with 28 confirmed deaths in 2008 compared to 59 in 2007, but the threat of an influenza pandemic remains," it added.
The UN is coordinating a drive by governments, donors, international agencies and corporations to stop the spread of bird flu while preparing for a fast-spreading human influenza pandemic.
There have been three such pandemics in the past century.

Bird Flu Pandemic in USA

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Health and Human Services Pandemic Influenza Plan The HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan is a blueprint for pandemic influenza preparation and response. In particular, the HHS Plan provides guidance to national, state, and local policy makers and health departments. The goal is for all involved to achieve a state of readiness and quick response.
The HHS Plan is based on the knowledge that once a pandemic is triggered by the emergence of a novel influenza A virus subtype, it is a global event and all countries are at risk. The U.S. will work in concert with the World Health Organization and other international partners on containment and response activities abroad that also will assist the planning and monitoring for disease outbreaks in the U.S.
The HHS Plan includes an overview of the threat of pandemic influenza, a description of the relationship of this document to other Federal plans and an outline of key roles and responsibilities during a pandemic. In addition, the HHS Plan specifies needs and opportunities to build robust preparedness for and response to pandemic influenza. The preparations made for a pandemic today will have lasting benefits for the future.
Major components of the critical preparedness and ready response actions include:
Intensifying surveillance and collaborating on containment measures – both international and domestic;
Stockpiling of antivirals and vaccines and working with industry to expand capacity for production of these medical countermeasures;
Creating a seamless network of Federal, state and local preparedness, including increasing health care surge capacity; and
Developing the public education and communications efforts that will be so critical to keeping the public informed.
Strategies outlined in the HHS plan are based on an understanding of pandemics and influenza disease, and are guided by several overarching principles.
Preparedness will require coordination among Federal, state and local government and partners in the private sector.
An informed and responsive public is essential to minimizing the health effects of a pandemic and the resulting consequences to society.
Domestic vaccine and production capacity sufficient to provide vaccine for the entire U. S. population is critical.
Quantities of antiviral drugs sufficient to treat 25 percent of the U.S. population should be stockpiled.
Sustained human-to-human transmission anywhere in the world will be the triggering event to initiate a pandemic response by the U.S.
When possible and appropriate, basic public health measures will be employed to reduce person-to-person viral transmission and prevent or delay influenza outbreaks.
At the start of a pandemic, vaccine, which will initially be in short supply, will be procured and distributed to state and local health departments for immunization of predetermined priority groups.
At the onset of a pandemic, antiviral drugs from public stockpiles will be distributed to predetermined priority groups.
For a copy of the HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan visit: http://www.pandemicflu.gov/.
The Public Health Guidance for State and Local Partners (Part 2 of the HHS Plan) provides 11 supplements on specific aspects of pandemic influenza planning and response..
Surveillance (Supplement 1) provides guidance on monitoring for influenza viruses and the health impact of influenza.
Laboratory Diagnostics (Supplement 2) provides guidance on the use of diagnostic tests to detect, characterize, and monitor novel subtypes of influenza, including avian influenza A (H5N1) and other viruses with pandemic potential. Occupational health issues for laboratory workers are also covered.
Healthcare Planning (Supplement 3) provides guidance for plans to include pandemic influenza surveillance, decision-making structures for responding to a pandemic, hospital communications, education and training, patient triage, clinical evaluation and admission, facility access, occupational health, distribution of vaccines and antiviral drugs, surge capacity, and mortuary issues. Planning for the provision of health care in non-hospital settings is also addressed.
Infection Control (Supplement 4) provides guidance on principles of infection control for limiting the spread of pandemic influenza including on the selection and use of personal protective equipment, hand hygiene and safe work practices, cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces, handling of laboratory specimens and post-mortem care. The guidance also covers infection control practices related to the management of infectious patients, the protection of persons at high-risk for severe influenza or its complications, and issues of occupational health.
Clinical Guidelines (Supplement 5) provides a guide related to clinical procedures for the initial screening, assessment, and management of patients as well as an assessment of locally available resources, such as rapid diagnostics, antiviral drugs and hospital beds.
Vaccine Distribution and Use (Supplement 6) provides guidance on the elements of a pandemic vaccination program, including planning for vaccine distribution, vaccination of priority groups, monitoring of adverse events, tracking of vaccine supply and administration, vaccine coverage and effectiveness studies, communications, legal preparedness, and training.
Antiviral Drug Distribution and Use (Supplement 7) provides guidance on the distribution and use of antiviral drugs for treatment and prophylaxis during an influenza pandemic. This section also covers the use of antiviral drugs in managing and containing infection with novel strains of influenza, including avian influenza A (H5N1) and human strains with pandemic potential.
Community Disease Control and Prevention (Supplement 8) provides guidance on the use of disease containment strategies to prevent or decrease transmission.
Managing Travel-Related Risks of Disease (Supplement 9) provides guidance on travel-related containment strategies that can be used during different phases of an influenza pandemic, ranging from distribution of health alert notices, to isolation and quarantine of new arrivals, to restriction or cancellation of nonessential travel.
Public Health Communications (Supplement 10) outlines key influenza pandemic risk communications concepts and addresses how CDC will provide timely and accurate information.
Workforce Support: Psychosocial Considerations and Information Needs (Supplement 11) focuses on psychosocial support services that will help workers manage emotional stress during an influenza pandemic and resolving related personal, professional, and family issues.

Draft Guidance on Allocating and Targeting Pandemic Influenza Vaccine
Goals and Objectives
The goal of the pandemic influenza vaccination program is to vaccinate all persons in the United States who choose to be vaccinated.
It is recognized that vaccine supply to meet this goal will likely not be available all at once, but rather, develop at varying rates depending on both vaccine characteristics (antigen required) and production capacity. Given that influenza vaccine supply will increase incrementally as vaccine is produced during a pandemic, allocation decisions will have to be made. Such decisions should be based on publicly articulated and discussed program objectives and principles. The overarching objectives guiding vaccine allocation and use during a pandemic are to reduce the impact of the pandemic on health and minimize disruption to society and the economy.
One of the most important findings of the working group analysis, and the strongest message from the public and stakeholder meetings, was that there is no single, overriding objective for pandemic vaccination and no single target group to protect at the exclusion of others. Rather, there are several important objectives and, thus, vaccine should be allocated simultaneously to several groups. Each of the meetings came to the same conclusions about which program objectives are most important:
Protecting those who are essential to the pandemic response and provide care for persons who are ill,
Protecting those who maintain essential community services,
Protecting children, and
Protecting workers who are at greater risk of infection due to their job.
In addition to these, working group discussions highlighted the important Federal objective of maintaining homeland and national security.

General Guidance on Pandemic Vaccination
General guidance of the working group includes the following:
The need to target vaccine to maintain security, health care, and essential services will depend on how severe the pandemic is, as rates of absenteeism and the ability to supply essential products and services will differ between more and less severe pandemics. As a result, groups targeted for earlier vaccination will differ by pandemic severity.
Allocation of pandemic vaccines to States will be in proportion to the State’s population.
Whereas States should follow the national guidance, they will have some flexibility in defining the target groups and implementing the guidance to best fit their local situations.

Within the parameters of the guidance, a small proportion of each State’s vaccine allocation may be maintained at the State level for distribution based on the specific needs of that jurisdiction.
In past pandemics, groups at increased risk for serious illness and death have differed by age and health status.

Because the high-risk groups in the next pandemic are not known, this guidance will be reassessed and may be modified at the time of the pandemic.
Guidance on pandemic vaccine allocation and targeting will be re-assessed periodically to consider the potential impacts of new scientific advances, changes in vaccine production capacity, and advances in other medical and public health measures.

Framework for Targeting Pandemic Influenza Vaccine
Guidance for targeting vaccination was developed in a structure that defines target groups in four broad categories – people who: 1) protect homeland and national security, 2) provide health care and community support services, 3) maintain critical infrastructure, and 4) are in the general population.
Within categories, vaccination target groups are clustered into levels. In general, all groups within a category and level will have the same priority for vaccination. Within a category, levels are listed in descending order of priority for vaccine. Levels across categories are not necessarily comparable in terms of vaccine prioritization.
Allocation and targeting of vaccine integrating categories occurs in tiers. By design, groups in a tier (cutting across categories) are vaccinated simultaneously unless vaccine supply is so limited that sub-prioritization is needed. Finally, groups in vaccination tiers differ depending on pandemic severity, defined as severe, moderate, and less severe as described in the Pandemic Severity Index.

The Pandemic Severity Index (PSI)
The Pandemic Severity Index defines categories of pandemic severity based on the proportion of individuals with pandemic illness who die (the “case fatality rate”). Pandemic severity will be determined soon after its initial outbreak based on surveillance of cases and their outcomes before large areas of the world are affected. Government organizations will use the PSI to determine how best to implement responses such as vaccination and community strategies to reduce disease transmission. For a diagram and additional information on the PSI, please refer to Appendix B.
Pandemic Vaccination Categories and Levels within Each Category
Target groups for pandemic vaccination are defined in four categories corresponding to major objectives of the pandemic vaccination program, which are to protect:
Homeland and National Security,
Health Care and Community Support Services,
Critical Infrastructures, and the
General Population.
Everyone in the United States is included in at least one of these categories. Where persons are included in more than one category, defined by their occupational role as well as their age and health status, they would be targeted for vaccination with the earliest group in which they are included.
Groups within each category are clustered into priority “levels” based on national pandemic response and vaccination program goals (Table 1). Within each category, groups in level A will receive vaccine first, in general followed by those in levels B, C, D, and E. All groups included in the same level within a vaccination category have equal priority. The exceptions are in the General Population, Level B, where because of the large number of children, sub-prioritization is proposed, and in Level C where younger persons would be targeted first when vaccine supply is very limited because of the greater vaccine effectiveness in this group.
Vaccination target groups in the Homeland and National Security, Health Care and Community Support Services, and Critical Infrastructure categories include only persons who are deemed critical to provide services that are essential to maintain during a pandemic, not the entire workforce. Identification of the functions considered to be “critical” was partly based on an analysis of critical sectors and workforces conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) (www.dhs.gov/niac), along with input from Federal agencies. Because a pandemic differs from other national emergencies in the threats it poses and the duration over which it will affect our nation and communities, target groups within each sector may be different from those defined in other emergency response planning. Further work is being undertaken to more specifically define critical occupations whose members should receive early vaccination.
It should be emphasized that the primary objective of vaccinating persons in critical infrastructure sectors is not to reduce absenteeism generally, through an incremental reduction in pandemic illness afforded by vaccination. Rather, vaccination is targeted to protect workers with critical skills, experience, or licensure status whose absence would create bottlenecks or collapse of critical functions, and to protect workers who are at especially high occupational risk.

Other pandemic response strategies (e.g., avoiding close contact with others, use of personal protective equipment such as facemasks, good handwashing, etc.), and worker education are likely to have greater overall effects in decreasing absenteeism.
For additional information on the definition of groups in each category, the rationales for how groups are ordered, and the estimated size of the target population, please refer to Appendix C.
Table 1. Categories and target groups for pandemic vaccination (see Appendix C for more specific definitions of priority groups and rationales). In each category, levels cluster target groups having a similar priority for vaccination. Occupation-based groups include only persons deemed essential to support the critical functions of the group.

All persons in the United States are included in at least one targeted group.
LEVEL
Homeland & National Security (HNS)
A
Deployed and mission critical personnel
B
Essential support and sustainment personnel
Intelligence services
Border protection personnel
National Guard personnel (who are not already included in Level A)
Other domestic national security personnel
C
Remaining active duty military and essential support personnel
LEVEL
Health Care & Community Support Services (HC/CSS)
A
Public health personnel
Inpatient health care providers
Outpatient and home health care providers
Health care providers in long-term care facilities (LTCFs)
B
Community support services and emergency management personnel
C
Other important health care personnel
LEVEL
Critical Infrastructure (CI)
A
Emergency Medical Services personnel
Law enforcement personnel
Fire services personnel
Manufacturers of pandemic vaccine, antiviral drugs, and other key pandemic response materials
Key government leaders
B
Energy sector personnel (electricity and natural gas)
Communications personnel (telephony and IT)
Water sector personnel (potable and waste water)
Government personnel
C
Transportation sector personnel
Food and agriculture sector personnel
Banking and finance sector personnel
Pharmaceutical sector personnel
Chemical sector personnel
Oil sector personnel
Postal and shipping sector personnel
Other important government personnel
LEVEL
General Population (GP)
A
Pregnant women
Infants and toddlers, 6 – 35 months old
B
Household contacts of infants under 6 months old
Children 3 – 18 years old with high-risk medical conditions
Children 3 – 18 years old without high-risk medical conditions
C
High risk persons 19 – 64 years old
Persons 65 years and older
D
Healthy adults, 19 – 64 years old, not included in other categories

Integrating Priorities for Pandemic Vaccination in Pandemics of Different Severity

Recognizing the need to address several important objectives for a pandemic vaccination program, vaccine should be allocated simultaneously to target groups across categories. To do so, target groups from different categories are integrated into tiers for vaccination.
The order in which target groups in Table 1 are vaccinated is defined separately for severe, moderate, and less severe pandemics (see Table 2). All groups designated for vaccination within a tier have equal priority for vaccination (see Figure 1 as an example of vaccination tiers for a severe pandemic). In general, vaccine allocation within a tier will be proportional to the populations of the targeted groups, though changes in this allocation scheme at the time of the pandemic may occur based on the impacts of the pandemic and the specific needs identified at that time.
Defining vaccination tiers differently by pandemic severity reflects differences in the threats more or less severe pandemics pose to society and individuals. Pandemics with higher case fatality rates are more likely to disrupt essential services, increase workplace absenteeism (due to illness, caring for family members, or to decrease risk of exposure), threaten public order and homeland security, and disrupt international and domestic supply chains compared with less severe pandemics. Thus, tailoring strategies to pandemic severity will best achieve national pandemic response goals and objectives. Pandemics are defined as “severe” (PSI categories 4 or 5), “moderate” (PSI category 3), and “less severe” (PSI categories 1 and 2).
It should be noted that members of occupational target groups are defined by the functions individuals within that target group are anticipated to perform over an extended period of time during the pandemic outbreak; it does not distinguish among staff performing these duties as part of their usual functions, those being reassigned to perform the function as a new response role, or those performing the function as a volunteer. It should also be noted that vaccine does not replace, but adds to other measures taken to protect the workforce and general population.

Bird Flu Pandemic in New Zealand

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6 December 2007
Front-line workers prioritised for pandemic vaccine
Nearly 100,000 front-line personnel in health, police and other essential services are in line to receive the two-dose vaccine against the current H5N1 strain of avian influenza, if it is required.

The vaccine, which is now in the country, will remain in storage until needed.“This vaccine would only be offered to front-line workers in eight priority groups who provide essential services and are likely to have direct contact with people exposed to pandemic influenza,” Health Minister David Cunliffe said.“Even though we don't know when we will face the next influenza pandemic, our aim is to be as prepared as possible,” Mr Cunliffe said

.It is planned that priority for the vaccine would be given to about 60,000 health personnel, 10,000 fire service emergency staff, 7000 policemen, 6000 defence personnel and 2300 NZ-based international aircrew. "By offering early protection to these workers, it will help us to continue providing essential response services during a pandemic," Mr Cunliffe said.

The vaccine is made from a currently circulating strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus.

Mr Cunliffe said the best protection will be from a specific pandemic vaccine that can be used to immunise all New Zealanders.

"We have contracts in place to get priority access to such a vaccine once it's available, and we'll be getting enough to offer vaccination to all New Zealanders," he stressed.

"This again emphasises the importance of our future efforts to stop or slow down the entry of the pandemic strain into New Zealand, and to try to stamp out any early cases or outbreaks," Mr Cunliffe said.

As part of an ongoing drive to further improve New Zealand's ability to meet existing health threats and counter new ones, laboratories will be required starting December 18 to report to the Medical Officer of Health when they have any case of 49 different diseases. Health professionals are already required to notify health authorities of any case of infectious diseases."Early warning of the presence and extent of these threats is essential for their prevention and control," Mr Cunliffe explained. "These small steps can help stop the spread of disease early."

ENDS
Questions and Answers:

1. What is the difference between a pre-pandemic vaccine and a specific pandemic vaccine?
A pre-pandemic vaccine is made from a current strain of influenza (in this case, a currently circulating strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus) that may or may not cause any eventual pandemic. A specific pandemic vaccine, on the other hand, is developed from a strain of the virus that is actually causing a pandemic. This difference is important because vaccines against influenza only protect against the particular strain of virus they are made from. No vaccine protects against all influenza strains.
2. What is this pre-pandemic vaccine made from? Who developed the vaccine?
The vaccine is made by Swiss company Baxter Healthcare S.A. using a currently circulating strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus.
3. What level of protection against a human H5N1 influenza virus or an emerging pandemic influenza virus will the vaccine provide?
This is a pre-pandemic vaccine. Therefore, the level of protection the vaccine will provide against any human H5N1 influenza virus or an emerging pandemic influenza virus will depend on how close (in the evolutionary sense) the eventual virus is to the virus the vaccine is made from. If the next pandemic is caused by a different strain of influenza (that is, not H5N1), then the vaccine won't be effective.Although the vaccine’s effectiveness against a future pandemic cannot be determined in advance, the Government believes that it is sensible to keep some stocks of H5N1 vaccine in case that strain triggers the next pandemic.The vaccine was bought to ensure there is enough vaccine to help protect key workers in health and other strategic areas (such as police, defence and border control) who will provide essential response services during a pandemic and who may be exposed to pandemic influenza due to their work.
4. How long will the protection from the pre-pandemic vaccine last?
The vaccine would provide protection from infection with H5N1 for many years.
5. How long does immunity develop after vaccination?
Effective vaccination requires two doses of the vaccine given at least three weeks apart. When both doses are given correctly, the vaccine produces a level of immunity to that strain of the virus that meets standards for seasonal influenza vaccine in about six weeks from the first dose. A single vaccination (that is, only one dose of the vaccine instead of two) will not provide any significant level of protection.
6. What are the pre-pandemic vaccine’s possible side effects?
The vaccine does not contain any live influenza virus so it cannot give the person receiving the vaccination influenza.Possible side effects include redness, tenderness or hardness at the injection site for a day or two; a mild fever, muscle aches or headaches within the first two days.On rare occasions, an allergic reaction can occur.
7. Is this the same vaccine that will be used to immunise the general population in case of a pandemic?
No, this pre-pandemic vaccine would be offered:to key response personnel who are likely to have close and direct contact with people exposed to influenza, andif a developing pandemic is caused by an H5N1 strainA specific pandemic vaccine to immunise the general population will be developed from the actual strain of the influenza virus that is causing a future pandemic.
8. Has the Government negotiated and awarded advance purchase contracts for a specific pandemic vaccine? If so, will there be enough stocks to cover the entirepopulation?
The Ministry of Health holds a contract with CSL (Australia) to provide enough pandemic vaccine for the entire population. However, because of the time it will take to manufacture the pandemic vaccine, deliveries are expected to be received at least six months after the pandemic virus has first been recognised.
9. Who would receive the pre-pandemic vaccine?
It is planned that the vaccine would be offered only to front-line staff in priority groups, which include health, police, defence, border management and NZ-based international aircrew.
10. How many front-line staff in health and other priority groups would receive the pre-pandemic vaccination?
If a pandemic due to H5N1 influenza begins, about 100,000 front-line staff would be offered the vaccination. This includes personnel from health (60,000), fire service emergency (10,000), police (7000), defence (6000), corrections (4,500), social support (3000), NZ-based international aircrew (2,300) and border management (2000).
11. Are priority groups for pre-pandemic vaccination final or will they be reviewed in the future?
The priority groups for pre-pandemic vaccination were drawn up for the purpose of planning New Zealand’s pandemic response. They are provisional. If there is a pandemic, other at-risk groups may be identified and subsequently determined as alternative groups.
12. How long will the pre-pandemic vaccine last?
The vaccine currently expires in March 2009. It may be possible to extend this date, but a decision will be made only in late 2008.If a pandemic due to H5N1 influenza has not occurred by that time, options at the end of the vaccine's lifetime include the offer of vaccination to the priority groups while the vaccine remains unexpired or destruction of the vaccine stocks on final expiry.
13. How is the pre-pandemic vaccine stored?
The vaccine is stored in a secure controlled temperature facility. As with ordinary seasonal influenza vaccines, the vaccine must be maintained between 2-8 degrees Centigrade until it is administered to the patient.
14. What other protection will be offered to the public?
The pre-pandemic vaccine is only one of the many strategies to protect New Zealanders from pandemic influenza. The "keep it out" phase of the plan aims to keep pandemic influenza out of New Zealand in the first place by using health checks, quarantine and other controls at the border. If outbreaks do begin to occur, public health authorities and district health boards will work to "stamp out" the disease to prevent it from spreading. Measures that will be adopted include providing anti-viral medicine to patients and their families, isolating sick people and putting affected households and communities under quarantine. The public will be advised about social distancing measures, hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene and other ways of staying safe.
15. How many treatment courses of Tamiflu are in the national reserve? What is the supply's value and expiry date?
There are over 1.22 million treatment courses of Tamiflu in the national reserve. Each treatment course is 10x75mg capsules of Oseltamivir. The total supply cost is approximately $36 million (GST exclusive). The main supply will last to at least 2012/2013. It may be possible to extend this date, but the decision on this will need to be informed by testing at the time. The medication is very stable in storage. There are no drugs other than Tamiflu held in the national reserve of anti-viral medicines.
16. What can the public do now to prepare?
It is important to prepare for emergencies of all kinds. Many of the preparations that the public should make in case of influenza will be useful in other kinds of emergencies as well. Advice is provided on the Ministry of Health's website at http://www.moh.govt.nz/pandemicinfluenza, and in the back of the phone book. Some practical tips include:plan what you will do if schools or your workplaces are closed. ensure you know how to provide basic nursing care to people with influenza. (During a severe pandemic, the health services will be unable to provide care for everybody who becomes ill.) have enough basic supplies at home to keep going for a week or so in case you or your family gets ill. make sure you have supplies of basic medications such as paracetamol, and don't let your prescription medicines run out before restocking.know who you might be able to call on for help, and who might call on you for help; have a plan.
17. Why do laboratories now need to report these diseases?
Laboratory-based reporting helps give comprehensive and timely information about the presence and level of disease. Many years’ experience with surveillance of diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and meningococcal disease) in New Zealand has shown the value of an integrated approach of both clinician and laboratory-based reporting.Both surveillance methods are needed and achieve different things: Notification by clinicians provides in-depth data on risk factors, case treatment, and outcomes. It also establishes a dialogue with public health agencies over the follow-up of contacts and outbreaks. Laboratory reporting helps identify cases that have not been notified, and provides supporting data on organism characteristics where these are important.
18. Will personal health information be safe despite this new reporting requirement on laboratories?
Yes. All personal health information is governed by the Health Information Privacy Code 1994 (www.privacy.org.nz). This code sets rules for agencies in the health sector to better ensure the protection of individual privacy. The code addresses the health information collected, used, held and disclosed by health agencies. Existing law places the responsibility for ensuring the protection of that information on the organisation that collects and holds the information.
19. Who are authorised to look at personal health information?
Information about an individual who is suspected or confirmed as having one or more notifiable diseases is passed from either their GP or the diagnosing laboratory to the Medical Officer of Health. In certain circumstances, such as where gastrointestinal or environment-related diseases require investigation, local territorial authorities (city or regional councils) will also be informed of any information required for them to take appropriate action in order to mitigate or prevent the spread of a disease.
For further information, please contact Luz Baguioro, Media Advisor (04 496 2349, 021 802 622)

Bird Flu Pandemic in Australia

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CANBERRA, Jan 31 (Reuters) -

Australia will be able to vaccinate its entire 20 million population against bird flu within six months, drug manufacturer CSL Ltd. said on Wednesday, after successful completion of clinical trials.

Developed with government backing, the new vaccine is the first to be registered in the Southern Hemisphere and could later be made available for supply and stockpile in Asia, CSL said.

"With the current strain we're looking at, the Indonesian and Vietnamese strains, the ones that are a problem in this region, we should be able to vaccinate the Australian population within six months," CSL spokeswoman Rachel David said.

"We have committed to being able to do that, and we will look at other areas later."

CSL, the world top plasma products maker, said trials just completed showed two 30 microgram doses of its vaccine delivered three weeks apart produced a strong immune response against the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus in adults aged 18 to 65.
Results of a subsequent study on infants, young children and the elderly would be available later this year, David said.
The new vaccine would be registered with Australia's drug safety watchdog, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which had promised to accelerate assessment given the potential threat posed by bird flu.

Mass vaccinations would not occur yet in Australia because the Indonesian strain used in trials could still change if a pandemic became reality, David said.

But the company was gearing up to produce the vaccine in large quantities at very short notice.
The H5N1 virus has killed at least 164 people worldwide since 2003, most of them in Asia, and experts fear it could spark a global flu pandemic if it mutates into a form that passes easily among humans.

Last week, authorities in Hong Kong confirmed a third case of H5N1 virus found in dead birds, while six people have died of bird flu in Indonesia since Jan. 1.
CSL's announcement comes after rival GlaxoSmithKline Plc this week said it had applied to register its own bird flu vaccine in Europe following a 80 percent success rate in trials.

FDA License for Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1 approved after 12 days

2009-04-16T18:19:00.000-07:00

April 17, 2007
Our STN: BL 125244/0
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.Attention: Gary K. Chikami, MDDirector, Vaccines EstablishmentU.S. Regulatory AffairsDiscovery DriveSwiftwater, PA 18370
Dear Dr. Chikami:
We have approved your Biologics License Application (BLA) for Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1, effective this date. You are hereby authorized to introduce or deliver for introduction into interstate commerce, Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1, under your existing Department of Health and Human Services U.S. License No. 1725; however, we acknowledge your statement provided in your submission of April 5, 2007, that Sanofi Pasteur Inc. does not intend to license this product for commercial distribution, since it was produced under contract to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of national pandemic preparedness initiatives. Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1, is indicated for active immunization of persons 18 through 64 years of age at increased risk of exposure to the H5N1 influenza virus subtype contained in the vaccine.
Under this authorization you are approved to manufacture Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1 at your Swiftwater, PA facility. Final product filling, labeling, and packaging will be performed at your above facility. The vaccine will be supplied as a suspension in 5 mL multi-dose vials.
The dating period for Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1 shall be 18 months from the date of manufacture of the final container vaccine. The date of manufacture shall be defined as the date on which this monovalent vaccine is filled; thus, the 18-month shelf life is inclusive of the time that the product is held in filled final containers at 2-8oC prior to packaging.
We note that you have submitted samples and Batch Release Protocols for Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1, bulk Lots U2148, U2149, and U2150. For any other bulk lots that you may have produced or will produce in the future, please submit final bulk samples of the product together with lot release protocols in the proper format showing results of all applicable tests. You may not distribute any lots of product until you receive a notification of release from the Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).
You must submit information to your BLA for our review and written approval under 21 CFR 601.12 for any changes in the manufacturing, testing, packaging or labeling of Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1, or in the manufacturing facilities.
All applications for new active ingredients, new dosage forms, new indications, new routes of administration, and new dosing regimens are required to contain an assessment of the safety and effectiveness of the product in pediatric patients unless this requirement is waived or deferred. We have reviewed your submission dated February 9, 2007, and we deny your full waiver request for pediatric assessment. However, we grant a deferral of your pediatric studies for Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1, in children less than or equal to 16 years of age.
Postmarketing Studies subject to reporting requirements of 21 CFR 601.70
We acknowledge the postmarketing clinical commitments outlined in your submission of April 5, 2007. These commitments, along with any completion dates agreed upon, are listed below and will provide additional clinical data for the Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1.
You agreed to submit data to assess safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1 administered in children.
Protocol submission: Study DMID 04-077: "A randomized, double-blinded, phase I/II, study of the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of intramuscular inactivated influenza A/H5N1 vaccine in healthy children aged 2 years through 9 years."
Final study report submission: September 30, 2008.
Please note that although your pediatric studies required under section 2 of the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA) are deferred, the deferred status of these required postmarketing studies should be reported as such annually according to 21 CFR 314.81. We will reassess the deferred status of your pediatric studies upon review of the data from the completed pediatric study which you have agreed to submit as a postmarketing commitment listed above.
You agreed to provide the final study reports on or before June 30, 2008, as additional data to support immune responses and safety of the Influenza Virus Vaccine, H5N1.
Study DMID 04-076: "A randomized double-blinded, placebo-controlled, phase I/II, dose-ranging study of the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of intramuscular inactivated influenza A/H5N1 vaccine in healthy elderly adults."
Study DMID 05-0043: "Revaccination of healthy subjects with intramuscular inactivated subunit influenza A/Vietnam/1203/2004 (H5N1) vaccine representing a drifted variant."
Study DMID 05-0090: "Evaluation of a booster dose of A/Vietnam/1203/04 (H5N1) vaccine administered at 6 months to healthy adult subjects after a two dose schedule at 0 and 1 month."
Study DMID 05-0129: "Open label evaluation of H5N1 vaccine at vaccine manufacturing facilities."
Study DMID 05-0130: "A single center, open label, phase I/II study of the safety and immunogenicity of two 90 µg doses of intramuscular inactivated influenza A/H5N1 vaccine in healthy adult subjects."
Postmarketing Studies not subject to reporting requirements of 21 CFR 601.70
We acknowledge the postmarketing commitments outlined in your submission of April 5, 2007 to submit updated stability data as follows.
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Please submit non-clinical and chemistry, manufacturing, and controls protocols and all study final reports to your BLA, STN BL 125244. Please use the following designators to label prominently all submissions, including supplements, relating to these postmarketing study commitments as appropriate:
Postmarketing Study Protocol
Postmarketing Study Final Report
Postmarketing Study Correspondence
Annual Report on Postmarketing Studies
For each postmarketing study subject to the reporting requirements of 21 CFR 601.70, you must describe the status in an annual report on postmarketing studies for this product. The status report for each study should include:
information to identify and describe the postmarketing commitment,
the original schedule for the commitment,
the status of the commitment (i.e. pending, ongoing, delayed, terminated, or submitted), and
an explanation of the status including, for clinical studies, the patient accrual rate
(i.e., number enrolled to date and the total planned enrollment).
As described in 21 CFR 601.70(e), we may publicly disclose information regarding these postmarketing studies on our Web site (http://www.fda.gov/cder/pmc). Please refer to the April 2001 Draft Guidance for Industry: Reports on the Status of Postmarketing Studies - Implementation of Section 130 of the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (see http://www.fda.gov/cber/gdlns/post130.htm for further information.
Please submit adverse experience reports in accordance with the adverse experience reporting requirements for licensed biological products (21 CFR 600.80) and distribution reports as described in (21 CFR 600.81). Under 21 CFR 600.80(c)(2) [Periodic Adverse Experience Reports], you must report each adverse experience not reported under paragraph (c)(1)(i) of this section at quarterly intervals for the first 3 years following approval, and then at annual intervals. Since your product is characterized as a vaccine, you must also submit these reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) using the pre-addressed form VAERS-1. Furthermore, we acknowledge your agreement stated in your pharmacovigilance plan and submitted on April 5, 2007, to work with U.S. federal government agencies to design epidemiological studies to assess safety and efficacy of the vaccine and to collaborate to fill gaps in the collection and analysis of important safety, and possibly effectiveness, data in a pandemic situation.
You must submit reports of biological product deviations under 21 CFR 600.14. You should promptly identify and investigate all manufacturing deviations, including those associated with processing, testing, packing, labeling, storage, holding and distribution. If the deviation involves a distributed product, may affect the safety, purity, or potency of the product, and meets the other criteria in the regulation, you must submit a report on Form FDA-3486 to the Director, Office of Compliance and Biologics Quality, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, HFM-600, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448.
Please submit all final printed labeling and implementation information on FDA Form 356h. Please provide a PDF-format electronic copy as well as one original paper copy.
Since, as stated in your April 5, 2007, submission, you do not intend to market this product for commercial distribution, we understand that you will not be distributing promotional advertising or promotional labeling materials. However, should you develop any advertising and/or promotional labeling related to this product (for example, educational brochures), we request that you submit two draft copies with an FDA Form 2253 to the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Advertising and Promotional Labeling Branch, HFM-602, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448.If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Rakesh Pandey at 301-827-3070.
Sincerely yours,
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Norman W. Baylor, Ph.D.DirectorOffice of Vaccines Research and ReviewCenter for Biologics Evaluation and Research

Spanish Flu 1918

2009-04-16T18:02:00.002-07:00

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.

In the fall of 1918 the Great War in Europe was winding down and peace was on the horizon. The Americans had joined in the fight, bringing the Allies closer to victory against the Germans. Deep within the trenches these men lived through some of the most brutal conditions of life, which it seemed could not be any worse. Then, in pockets across the globe, something erupted that seemed as benign as the common cold. The influenza of that season, however, was far more than a cold. In the two years that this scourge ravaged the earth, a fifth of the world's population was infected. The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby). 1918 would go down as unforgettable year of suffering and death and yet of peace. As noted in the Journal of the American Medical Association final edition of 1918: "The 1918 has gone: a year momentous as the termination of the most cruel war in the annals of the human race; a year which marked, the end at least for a time, of man's destruction of man; unfortunately a year in which developed a most fatal infectious disease causing the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Medical science for four and one-half years devoted itself to putting men on the firing line and keeping them there. Now it must turn with its whole might to combating the greatest enemy of all--infectious disease," (12/28/1918).

Bird Flu

2009-04-16T18:02:00.001-07:00

Scientists rule out spreading of bird flu by migrant birds in India
NEW DELHI, April 14 (Xinhua) -- International researchers have recently ruled out the spreading of avian influenza or bird flu virus by migratory birds through a review of migratory bird movement, reported local daily Mail Today Tuesday.
All samples studies for virus strain H5N1 on migrant birds so far were found to be negative, said the report.
The researchers monitored in real time the movement of migratory birds from India in a northward direction using satellite tracking technology. They ruled out the possibility of involvement of migratory birds in avian influenza spreading in India, said the report.
The satellite monitoring gave valuable data about the movement of migratory birds in the region and has enabled scientists to determine whether the locations of these birds and outbreaks of bird flu are related along the birds' migratory pathways, according to the report.
The project began last December when scientists captured, sampled and marked 70 water birds with "satellite tags" at Chilika Lagoon in India, where over 8,900,000 migratory and resident water birds used to live as their temporary or permanent residence, said the report. Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have found that just two small changes in the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic stopped it from jumping between mammals in the laboratory.Dr. Terrence Tumpey, who led the research says they believe their finding could help determine what will cause the next pandemic.
The researchers who have been studying a reconstructed version of the 1918 virus found it very easy to stop it from spreading from one infected ferret to another, although the altered viruses still quickly killed the animals.
Although the finding does not reveal whether or how the dreaded H5N1 bird flu virus would change to be able to pass between humans, it does illustrate that a certain type of biological change may be crucial in causing pandemics.
CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding says such research is vital as the more that is learned about what may have contributed to the spread and deadliness of the 1918 pandemic will mean better preparations can be made for the next pandemic.
World experts have been concerned for some time that a pandemic could happen at any time and the most likely suspect is H5N1 avian influenza currently circulating.
The H5N1 strain of the virus has to date killed over 160 people worldwide, and resulted in the deaths either by infection or by preventative culling, of millions of birds and poultry.
Influenza presents such a problem because the virus mutates regularly, is easily spread and kills people.
According to the World Health Organization seasonal flu claims the lives of between 250,000 and 500,000 people a year and every 30 years or so, along comes a strain which will make a big mutation and suddenly become more deadly.
The 1918 pandemic, caused by the H1N1 virus, was responsible for 50 million deaths worldwide over a two year period.
The current strain of H5N1 has killed more than half of its human victims.
The only positive at present is that its current form does not infect people easily and as been almost always been transmitted via infected birds or poultry.
If the scientists can establish which mutations would render H5N1 able to pass easily from person to person they might then be able to predict or even control the spread of the virus.
When the CDC team reactivated the 1918 H1N1 virus they infected caged ferrets with either the original flu virus (reconstructed two years ago) or the altered form.
The cages of the infected ferrets were later placed next to healthy animals to see if the virus would spread through the air.
Tumpey says they found that the 1918 virus spread very efficiently while the altered virus did not spread at all.
Tumpey, a senior microbiologist at the CDC, says by using genetic engineering they made a modest change of two amino acids in the hemagglutinin protein (the "H" in an influenza virus name) that stopped the transmission of the virus between the ferrets.
Therefore it is possible that the hemagglutinin, found on the surface of flu viruses, is what enables it to transmit efficiently from one person to another.
In order for an influenza virus to spread efficiently, it needs to attach itself to the cells in the human upper airway instead of to cells in the gastrointestinal tracts of birds and somehow the H1N1 bird virus adapted itself to humans.
H5N1 is a bird virus that has not as yet made this change and Tumpey suspects changes in more than one virus protein would be needed for the H5N1 virus to be transmitted among humans.
The researchers say the mutations that enabled H1N1 to move from birds to people do not make H5N1 shift in the same way.
The research is published online in the February 1 issue of Science.
Drug companies have increased their capacity to make bird flu vaccines by 300% in the past two years but will still need four years to meet global demand in the event of a pandemic, a study says.
It also said doses of vaccine tailored to the actual strain of pandemic influenza that emerges will not be available until four months after that strain is identified.
"We found that considerable progress has been made to enhance the production capacity of pandemic influenza vaccine," Adam Sabow, partner at consultanting firm Oliver Wyman which conducted the study, said in a statement.
"While capacity still falls short of global need during a pandemic, the surplus capacity during the inter-pandemic period creates opportunities for preparedness efforts," he said.
Oliver Wyman carried out the study with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA).
Manufacturers hunting for the best vaccines to stop the deadly disease face a race against the clock if the H5N1 strain of influenza now circulating in birds mutates and starts spreading easily among humans, as many researchers fear.
In the most likely case, manufacturers could produce 2.5 billion doses of pandemic vaccine in the 12 months following receipt of the production strain, requiring four years to satisfy global demand, the study said.
AdvertisementIn the current best-case scenario, 7.7 billion doses could be produced in the first 12 months, requiring 1.5 years to satisfy global demand, it said. Production was expected to increase significantly over the next five years.
Effective coverage through mass immunisation is based on two doses per person for a global population of 6.7 billion.
GlaxoSmithKline , Europe's biggest drugmaker, and Sanofi-Aventis , whose vaccines arm is Sanofi Pasteur, and Swiss drugmaker Novartis are among at least 16 companies working on pandemic vaccines.
"The findings suggest that the early use of stockpiled H5N1-based vaccines, followed by pandemic vaccines as soon as these become available, offers a realistic strategy to address this significant threat," IFPMA Director-General Alicia Greenidge said in a statement.
Geneva-based IFPMA links 26 leading international companies and 44 national and regional industry associations. Oliver Wyman also talked to 11 other current or potential vaccine makers in developing countries who are not members of IFPMA.
The bird flu virus has killed 254 people out of 408 infected worldwide since 2003, according to the WHO, a United Nations agency which has warned that a pandemic could kill millions.
A challenge in producing a vaccine for millions of people around the world is how to make the maximum number of shots from the minimum amount of antigen, or active ingredient.

Gates and Rockefeller Foundation

2009-04-16T17:57:00.000-07:00

Gates, Rockefeller Charities Join to Fight African Hunger

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's richest charity, joined with the Rockefeller Foundation yesterday to launch a new development initiative for sub-Saharan Africa that they said would revolutionize food production and reduce hunger and poverty for tens of millions of people.
Modeled on the Rockefeller-pioneered "green revolution" that transformed farming methods and staved off widespread famine in much of the developing world nearly a half-century ago, the initiative coincides with a new round of Western concern about the long-intractable problems of the poorest continent.

Bill Gates said his foundation wants to reduce extreme poverty.

Home to 16 of the 18 most undernourished countries, Africa is the only part of the world where food production has decreased in recent years. At the same time, political upheaval and conflict there are seen as providing fertile ground for extremists. Widespread famine in Africa has spurred high-profile relief efforts over the years, from United Nations programs to celebrity fundraising concerts such as Live Aid in the 1980s and Live 8 last year.

Sponsors of the new "Alliance for a Green Revolution" said yesterday they are looking for a more systematic, long-term solution to African hunger.
The alliance is the first Gates venture into poverty and development after years of focusing largely on global health and education. The effort follows a doubling of the foundation's $30 billion endowment, drawn largely from Bill Gates's Microsoft Corp. fortune, with investment guru Warren Buffett donating an additional $31 billion earlier this year. Gates has said he will step down from direct management of Microsoft in 2008 to work full time on foundation activities.
"We've been looking into the causes of extreme poverty and how we might make a contribution to reducing that," Gates said during a conference call with journalists yesterday. "If we can work on health and poverty issues concurrently, there is a lot that can be done to improve the quality of life. . . . Today no country of any size has been able to sustain a transition out of poverty without substantially raising productivity in the agricultural sector. It can have a transformative impact."
Melinda Gates, who serves on the board of The Washington Post Co. along with Buffett, said she and her husband studied development problems over the past three years before deciding to move beyond their health initiatives.
The Africa program will begin with a relatively small Gates contribution of $100 million over five years, plus $50 million from Rockefeller, to fund development of more robust disease- and drought-resistant seeds for primary African foodstuffs, enhanced distribution networks for seed and fertilizer, and university-level training for African crop scientists.
The new partners are still exploring how to make sure their initial steps do not overwhelm the continent's capacity to absorb assistance, Rockefeller President Judith Rodin said. Although future investments are likely to "scale up significantly," she said, "all of us intend to be mindful of really measuring outcomes and learning as we go and then providing the necessary resources."
Nancy Birdsall, president of the Washington-based Center for Global Development, said the mere fact that the world's biggest philanthropist is joining with the preeminent foundation working in agricultural development is "going to make a difference," adding: "It's a real shot in the arm."
Bill Gates agreed that the initial investment pales when compared with his contributions to the development of an AIDS vaccine. But he said that he expects the program to continue for decades.
"The first green revolution took a long time," said Gates program manager Roy Steiner. "It started in the 1940s with investment and made an impact in the 1960s. That takes committed partners that are going to be there for the long term and are willing to focus on what's going to help small-scale farmers" who produce most of Africa's food.
Program planners readily acknowledged that Africa's problems today far outstrip even those confronting Asia in the 1960s, including a lack of roads and irrigation, primary food crops that vary widely from region to region, degraded soil, unstable governments and tenuous security. The Rockefeller Foundation, which started shifting the bulk of its development funding from Asia and Latin America to Africa several years ago, recently shut down its program in Zimbabwe because of political strife there.
Although the Gates/Rockefeller program will be available throughout Africa, Rodin said, the partners are still studying which 10 to 20 countries to select for initial funding.
Following the pattern of its health initiatives, Gates will provide money and results-based expertise, building on existing seed development programs begun by Rockefeller and African agencies, such as a new strain of rice produced in West Africa that promises to increase yields fivefold. A concurrent goal is the expansion of seed and fertilizer distribution networks through small entrepreneurs in rural areas. Both partners hope to prime the pump for participation by both African and donor governments.
The Bush administration has increased U.S. aid to Africa significantly over the past five years, though much of it consists of food shipments and military assistance. This year's G-8 conference of the world's wealthiest nations brought agreement to cancel much of Africa's debt, but pledges to double development aid were acknowledged to be largely symbolic.

9/11

2009-04-08T20:00:00.000-07:00

The rate of the Twin Towers collapse and the law of falling bodies, Larry Silverstein's admission of a
controlled demolition at WTC 7, the disparity between the temperature that kerosene aviation fuel burns and
that required to melt structural steel, various witnesses testimony that contradict the cover story, and so forth.
Stories about the WTC janitor who pulled survivors out of Tower One after a BASEMENT explosion, the tail
numbers of flights 175 and 11 are still in use, the Cincinnati TV station that reported flights 93 and 175
landed due to bomb threats
The Pentagon CCTV footage was clearly altered, even if you ignore the incorrect date. Pentagon controversy
began in part when firemen stated that they saw no airplane wreckage. Local sources reported a truck bomb
and a plane the size of a small commuter jet. Subsequently, an FBI spokesman stated that they "had the
plane" which was then discounted. A slick, often televised film by the ASCE shows how the 757 passed
through internal Pentagon architecture, but neglected to include the engines and empennage on the plane or
an external hole of sufficient size. Despite the eagerness of many "mainstream" media mouthpieces to quiet
conspiracy theories, previously confiscated security video from the Doubletree Inn shows what many have
long suspected: no plane. Photographic analysis of the alleged 757 wreckage show multiple indications of
Photoshopping. There were allegedly 80 or so cameras capable of confirming the 757's impact. If there was
a 757 (and thus sufficient wreckage) why is the government still suppressing CCTV footage to prove it?
It looks like the the government is trying to hide the truth.

CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.
#1.Sudden onset.#2.Symmetrical collapse{Straight down}#3.Near free fall speed.#4.Total collapse{Not partial or localized}#5.Slice steel.#6.Pulverization of concrete.#7.Pyroclastic dust clouds.#8.Horizontal ejections.#9.Demolition rings.#10.Eyewitness testimony of explosions.#11.Molten metal.EACH ONE OF THESE 11 CHARACTERISTICS HAPPENED TO ALL 3 TOWERS!!
Physicist Steven Jones agrees, saying:
The likelihood of near-symmetrical collapse of WTC7 due to random fires (the "official" theory)---requiring as
it does near-simultaneous failure of many support columns---is infinitesimal. I conclude that the evidence for
the 9/11 use of pre-positioned explosives in WTC 7 (also in Towers 1 and 2) is truly compelling.[

Some of the alleged "suicide hijackers" are still alive and well. Fire has never - either before or after 9/11 - caused a steel-framed structure to collapse, let alone at free-fall
speed. Squibs (explosives that cause puffs of pulverized concrete and steel), such as those you would see in a
controlled demolition, were caught on tape during the collapse of all three towers. In January of 2008, 9/11 Commissioners Kean and Hamilton stated, "We had no way of evaluating the
credibility of detainee information..." adding they were "stonewalled by the C.I.A." To this day, the FBI does not accuse OBL of the attacks. The collapse of 7 WTC - which was not hit by an
aircraft - was not even mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report. Furthermore, why was not one official or civil servant fired for their actions that day? Was no one negligent?
Why were 70 percent of the victims' family members' questions not answered by the 9/11 Commissioners? I, for one, no longer delve into where to place blame for the events of September 11. My reasons for
participating in Canadian 9/11 Truth are no longer about putting Bush, Cheney or Osama Bin Laden in jail.
Nor is it about justice for the victims. It is about seeing the world once and for all for what it really is. It is about
realizing how we are lied to by our government and by corporate journalism, and how we accept those lies. It
is about seeking truth in all we do, and learning the importance of educating ourselves, for ourselves.
The nature of steel is the property around which they design steel frame buildings, because they retain their
structural integrity in case of fire. No steel-framed building has ever collapsed due to fire. I make that
statement knowing that NIST recently concluded that Bldg 7 was the first in history to do so. They are lying,
and the news conference in which they trotted out their "dog ate my homework" story last month shows the
tortured logic by which they justified their ruling out of explosions that many people on the scene heard and
reported. Ready for this? The sound was not loud enough to have been caused by the amount of explosives it
would have taken. They didn't say that examination of the steel or the debris showed no trace of explosives or
incendiaries (professor Stephen Jones has documented residue of thermate). They did not look for any
explosive residue, because "why look for what is not there". That a person posing as a spokesperson for a
scientific body would make a statement of that nature is almost beyond belief until you remember that NIST
has shown themselves time after time to be a bunch of toadies, willing to do and say anything to back up their
thuggish masters.
the propagandist, in the case of 9/11 is the government who tried to pass off the Zelikow Kean commission
as an independent body charged with investigating 9/11. They did no such thing. They began with the story
pounded into the shell-shocked American people from day one about 19 box-cutter armed hijackers and a
6'4" Saudi in a cave in Afghanistan that did not begin to explain huge amount of evidence seen by millions of
people of explosions where none should occur, destruction that could not have happened the way it was
described, and behavior of officials in the admin
philosopher at the Claremont School of Theology, Griffin scrutinizes the time line and physical evidence of
September 11 for unresolved inconsistencies. Griffin draws heavily on three similarly skeptical examinations,
by Nafeez Ahmed, Paul Thompson and Thierry Meyssan, whose The Big Lie was a bestseller in France, and
which the New Republic has called "thinâ€"and thinly argued." Based on these sources, Griffin maintains that
a full investigation of the events of that tragic day is necessary to answer such questions as whether
American Airlines Flight 77 did crash into the Pentagon (though many will find it impossible to doubt this) and
how United Airlines Flight 93 was downed. He claims that if standard procedures for scrambling fighter jets
had been followed, the hijacked planes should have been intercepted in time, and that structurally, the
collapse of the World Trade Center towers most likely was caused by explosives placed throughout the
towers, not from the plane crashes. He strongly implies that the Bush administration had foreknowledge of
the attack and sought to conceal what Griffin suggests was the Pakistani intelligence agency's involvement in
the planning for the attacks. His analysis is undergirded by the theory that a significant external threat, on the
scale of Pearl Harbor, was very much in the interest of the Bush administration, which he believes is intent on
self-interested aggressive foreign policies. Even many Bush opponents will find these charges ridiculous,
though conspiracy theorists may be haunted by the suspicion that we know less than we think we do about
that fateful day. a former journalist, I am incredulous that this overwhelming abundance of evidence, all of which points to a
story of incredible magnitude, has not been seriously and thoroughly investigated by the press. Watergate,
exposed by Woodward and Bernstein, potentially pales into insignificance in comparison with the
implications of the data and arguments offered in this extraordinarily well-researched and clearly written
book. Prof. Griffin's courage and tenacity must be admired.
Until reading this book I have despised any conspiracy theory that involved persons in any American
administration doing harm to their fellow Americans. But Dr. Griffin, a noted professor at the prestigious
Claremont School of Theology, has written a dispassionate study of the many inconsistencies that are
involved in the official version of what happened on 9/11, our surveillance of Middle Eastern terrorist networks
before that time, and our pursuit of the true perpetrators since then. For example, when Flight 11's
transponder went off at 8:20 a.m. and flight attendants reported at 8:21 a.m. that it had been hijacked when it
turned 90 degrees to the south, F-16's are routinely supposed to scramble and head it off within ten minutes-
-long before it reached the North Tower. There is an average of 100 scramblings per year. We went zero for
three on 9/11. How could we not protect against a plane going directly towards the Pentagon or the White
House? One starts this book, wanting with all one's heart to believe that it was incompetence or surprise that
day, but there are just too many other really strange things (about twenty more) noted by Griffin that warrant an
even more complete investigation than what is going on now (April 2). Why? Because a lot of these
elements, briefly captured by one media source or another, were swept away in our focus on the war and not
brought back into the national consciousness. I must agree with the professor who wrote that "it is rare,
indeed, that a book has this potential to become a force of history."
One of the most critical challenges confronting Americans today is to grasp the true nature of the current
Bush administration. After four traumatic years in office, G.W. Bush and his handlers, have shown a taste for
the aggressive accumulation, and exercise of power, that is unprecedented in U.S. history.
In spite of the seemingly irrefutable official government account of 9/11, the question of government
complicity is now no longer in doubt. Three years of diligent civilian research has uncovered hidden facts that
clearly show that 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror', are not what they appear to be!
The Bush administration has effectively used, ironclad secrecy, outright deception, and a compliant
mainstream media, to push an official story of 9/11 that effectively conceals the truth. It is not surprising then,
that the most vigorous opponent of any type of post 9/11 investigation, was the Bush Whitehouse. What were
they trying to hide? A few facts to consider:
a. Prior to the attacks, key alleged hijackers were protected from FBI field investigations, by FBI
headquaters.
b. All hijacked plane passenger lists, are five passengers short of the official count, and contain no Arabic
names.
c. The fires caused by planes on the upper floors of the twin towers effectively burned out, before the towers
fell.
d. FDNY personnel escaping the WTC north tower, reported explosions going off as the tower collapsed.
e. The 40 story WTC building 7 collaped exactly like the twin towers without ever being struck by a plane.
f. All steel from the WTC collapses was hurriedly shipped out of the country without the usual investigations.
g. The FAA destroyed vital 9/11 tape recordings, instead of using this information in the usual investigations.
h. On 9/11/2001, federal agencies including FAA, NORAD, and FEMA, were running hijack simulations
including some where planes strike buildings.
i. After 9/11, the Bush administration publicly stated that prior to the attacks, it had felt no need to guard
against the threat of planes used as missiles.
j. The technology that will make it possible to use cell phones on commercial airliners, won't be available until
2006.
k. The 'war on terror' decreases U.S. constitutional liberties, but increases terrorist activity.
Mr. Griffin's 'The New Pearl Harbor', is a good place to start coming to grips with the difficult truths of 9/11. It
does not go as deeply into the case as others have, but It treats the areas that it does cover objectively,
methodically, and does not shy away from asking the tough questions that abound in this national tragedy.
The more one coldly examines the available evidence from 9/11, massive deception and government
involvement becomes clear.
The collapse of the twin towers didn't look right to me, but so much was happening that I had to let it go. There
was the antrax attacks that was "military grade" thought to come from Ft. Dietrick. There was a killer in my
neighborhood called the DC sniper. Oh yeah, lets not forget the invasions of Afganistan and Iraq. Everything
happened so fast it made me forget about the stolen 2000 presidential elections. Then one day I heard David
Ray Griffin discussing his book on CSPAN and it was like waking and finding I was living in a nightmare. Most people are aware that the attack on Pearl Harbor was a LIHOP(Let it happen on purpose) operation as
documented in Robert Stinnson's "Day of Deceit" and John Toland's "Infamy". Apparently this action or
inaction was taken so that the isolationist American public would be suffiently enraged and easily led into
war. In 2000, a neo-con think tank called the Project for a New American Century wrote a white paper that called
for invasions of Central Asia but felt that a catalyzing event would be needed to gain public support, "A New
Pearl Harbor." David Ray Griffin recounts the terrible events and systematically deconstructs the official story by simply
asking valid questions. The questions are haunting and the testimony of survivors and first responders is most damning. Have courage and read this book.
Prof. David Ray Griffin presents a persuasive & realistic scenario, which, in short, suggests that (rogue)
factions within the U.S. government were complicit in "terrorist attack(s)" on 9/11. And to reflect on the
heedlessness of the official account, consider that the Clinton-Lewinsky investigation initially received more
funding than the 9/11 (commission) investigation. That's right, the greatest structural malfunction in the world's
history receives less cash than a petty inquiry into the promiscuity of our former President, Bill Clinton. Not
only was the funding inadequate, but the evidence - steal beams, rubble, debris - was all removed from the
scene and shipped to scrap yards. The evidence was destroyed and less than 1% of the steel actually exists
today.
My only problem with this book is that Griffin did not take the time to verify all the facts that he cites in his 168
pg book. He instead takes a large amount of the 'facts' from the books & essays by Nafeez Ahmed, Michel
Chossudovsky, & Thierry Meyssan. Regardless of this, if you are interested in learning about the
inconsistencies and implausibilities found in the official account, this book is worth your time & money. Griffin
thoroughly covers the majority of the issues - the NORAD "stand-down" (fighter jets stayed on the ground for
60 "decisive" minutes), the Standard Operating Procedures, the "implosion" (as used by NIST) of WTC 1, 2,
& 7, the Pentagon damage area, Shanksville crash site, cell phone calls at 20+k altitude, etc. However, the
information provided on the collapse(s) is less than stellar. I expected to see questions such as - "If the
official account is true, then explain how gravity (and pockets of air) cause 4-ton steel girders to be launched
600 ft away from the WTC building?" Griffin focuses on a rather weak, but still valid point; ALL of the concrete
turned into dust and formed a pyroclastic flow (which contained asbestos and many other deadly toxins).
Overall, Griffin's book serves as a great introduction to the (lesser-known) facts of 9/11. Buying this
paperback will not dissatisfy, nor will it disillusion you from "reality"; instead, by the time you reach the heart of
the book, you'll be gnashing your teeth in contempt at our nation's obdurate acceptance of the "official
account". When you arrive at the book's conclusion, you will undoubtedly discover that the "official account",
as supported by NIST, 9/11 Comission Report, U.S. government, the general populace & the US media,
stinks to the high heavens!
was a low level IntelGrunt funnelling TOP Secret crap to big daddy, NSA a long time ago; plus, after that very interesting, very educational stint in what we called 'The
Association of Presidential Whipping Boys,' I became a first responder---a firefighter with DeKalb County Fire Dept. in Georgia. Plus, for two quarters, I worked for Law Engineering which tested building materials.
During Disaster Pre-Plan classes, we discussed:
1. Trade Towers collapse predicted since 1974! 2. Terrorists using commercial airliners as human guided missiles have been predicted since WWII. 3. Commercial Pilots carrying US Mail were required to carry firearms AND be proficient in their use since
early days of Airmail. 3. Terrorist profiling put in place in late '60s by Johnson Administration---primarily targeting Muslims. etc... 4. Presidents Eisenhower and Truman in the late 40s and early 50s set a goal for the US to become totally
energy independent by YR2000 so as to empower the US, prevent Islam from gaining power due to flood of US petro Dollars AND to prevent a nuclear world war between Christians and Muslims. Unfortunately for US AND nations of Persian Gulf, the Military Industrial Complex wanted war.
From 1969 onwards, Nixon, Kissinger, Ford, Carter, Bush, Sr., etc... wanted war, put a stop to US energy independence, stopped profiling Muslim terrorists, outlawed effective fire suppression systems for Commercial high rise buildings (Except for 'critical' Government buildings like The White House, Pentagon,
911 Comm Centers), destroyed the Shah, encouraged Muslim radicals, betrayed Kuwait by giving green light to Iraq to invade, betrayed Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc...
Michael Chertoff lied to my face in a room filled with >100 People.He lied about the fact that the ATF, FBI, Cong. Ben Gilman, and Dateline NBC accused a man of being an
Al-Qaeda financer, who then Chertoff became his defense counsel, and got off all charges. FBI and ATF had
them caught on tape, illegal weapons, threatening to take down the Towers.
Chertoff admitted defending the guy, which he did at the same time as he was running a DoJ Op against
terrorist financing. Chertoff implied it was only an Internet rumor that his Egyptian client, Dr. Magdy Elamir,
was with Al-Qaeda and personally knew Osama Bin Laden.
But he's not the only one. James Baker blocked access to Saudi records, defending the Saudis in a damage
claim brought by 9-11 victims, not on legal grounds but on the basis of "diplomatic immunity". I.E, they got a
free pass. Everyone here should know Baker was Bush's attorney in 2000 in the Supreme Court, and family
attorney for 40 years.
And Michael Ledeen and others were in favor of a "LUCKY" and MIRACULOUS ("providential") attack on
America, in Ledeen's own words. Richard Perle, Kristol, etc. signed a paper which only said that such an
attack was NECESSARY.
Normally, air disasters turn on evidence such as Flight Data Recorder data, and such. But in this case, the
NTSB provided the data file from the Pentagon plane to Pilots for 911 truth ( http://pilotsfor911truth.org/ )
under FOIA, thinking, I suppose, that they would not be able to read it. After obtaining the meta-file, they
discovered that the government's own data did not support the government story. The aircraft that carried that
flight data recorder could not have struck the pentagon. It was too high, too fast, and too far to the north to
have maneuvered to hit the light poles, skim the lawn in the famous 5 frame video, nor even hit the Pentagon.
Further, an eyewitness corroborated this by relating how AFTER the explosion, he ran outside to see a large
passenger jet overflying the South parking lot, which could only mean one thing. It was an elaborate ruse to
make people think the building had been struck by the aircraft. David Ray Griffin, in 9/11 Contradictions provides plenty of evidence that would justify a new investigation. L.
Harris is proof of only one thing: If you live in a permanent state of denial, you won't ever see any credible
evidence of anything you don't want to see.
NB: The Pilots organization WERE able to read the data. A technician from a FDR manufacturer met with
them and provided the meta-data. They had to do it unofficially, but it enabled the complete decoding of the
information. They wound up with a big spread-sheet with all the relevant parameters laid out. You can
download the data yourself from the pilots site, and view the resultant videos - Pandora's Black Box - that
explains what the data means.
We don't hear as much from them lately, but we used to get a couple people a week starting discussions with
titles like "Irrefutable/absolute/indisputable proof planes didn't take down the WTC/fly into the Pentagon." So
I'd read their argument, go to the web page, or watch the YouTube video they claimed had proof, and you
know what? None of them were even close to proof. The videos, for example, were low resolution videos of
the towers collapsing with some narrator claiming that this or that puff of dust proved something when it
obviously didn't *prove* anything. The written proofs were equally worthless, invariably relying on some
argument with clear holes in its logic. This is one way in which the truthers squandered their credibility in my
eyes. I gave them chances to convince me and they squandered them on nonsense. There are only so many
times I'm going to let you tell me, "Okay, but what about this?"
But that's not the only way they screwed themselves. I also determined that some of their claims were patently
false. One example that comes to mind is the claim that George Bush's brother Marvin was head of security
at the WTC until the day before 9/11. They used this as part of their theory about how explosives could be
planted in the building, but it was simply not true. Lies do not enhance your credibility.
Another problem: They do not have evidence in need of an explanation, they have a belief in need of
supporting evidence. This is why they have no cohesive theory. One truther will propose one theory while a
different truther will promote another, conflicting theory. Avraham used to claim it was obvious explosives
were used to take down the WTC towers. Later he started claiming explosives were not used and suggested
a directed energy weapon (big ray gun) in space was used (even though the notion is absurd given the laws
of physics). Some speculate explosives were planted well in advance and others that they were planted just
days before. Some claim the planes were flown remotely while others don't. So with all the evidence they
claim to have, they still can't come up with a cohesive theory.
When asked about how certain things can be explained the truthers resort to an ever-widening conspiracy
including high level government officials, high and low level military personnel, private contractors, employees
of two airlines, and sundry other people to the point where scores, if not hundreds of people were involved, all
willing to commit a heinous treasonous act. How did they find all these traitors without revealing their plan to
anyone who wouldn't go along with it and expose it? No one has every come forward saying he was part of
this conspiracy, not even anonymously. The truthers just dismiss that by suggesting they're all afraid for their
lives (which widens the conspiracy even further).
If you believe the controlled demolition theory, in less than nine months, the attack and deception was
planned, people recruited, explosives were planted, and the whole thing coordinated flawlessly leaving no
real evidence behind. A perfect operation. In less than nine months. When CDI demolished the Hudson
department store, the largest building ever demolished at the time -- but much smaller than the three WTC
towers that collapsed on 9/11 -- it took 12 men 24 days just to plant the charges, and large engineering team
several months prior to that to plan and prepare. But truthers want me to believe this enormous conspiracy
was planned and executed flawlessly in less than nine months with no evidence and no leaks, even though
Bill Clinton couldn't get a little sex on the side and Nixon's people couldn't bug a hotel without people finding
out.
So here's the conclusion I drew after examining what I examined: If you want to believe there's a conspiracy,
then you'll dismiss the flaws in the "proofs" and accept them at face value. So spare me your allegations that
I'm not willing to think for myself. On the contrary, I *have* thought for myself and the above is what I thought.
On the other hand, you have people like Avraham who can't even begin to explain the stuff he accepts as
proof, and when challenged immediately starts insulting people because he knows he doesn't understand the
stuff he's promoting.
Some physicists and many witnesses, including firemen at the scene, are pretty skeptical that it was the
result of impact + fire. At least several physicists have disputed the incomplete NIST theory on solid grounds,
such as that NIST had to "re-engineer" the building in the computer model to make the silly "pancake theory"
work. Would you like maple syrup with that or blueberry? One or more physicists have offered alternate
theories.
Most people by now have seen or should have seen the astonished NY firemen talking about how joints were
popping "boom boom boom" as they made motions of successive collapse, and said they'd never seen
anything like it. In other words, it did not make sense.
I did not see that at first, but other people familiar with engineering saw it on TV and instantly recognized a
CD.
But resolving that mechanical issue is NOT that important. It does not necessarily matter. It is tangential to the
question of WHO planned it and WHO carried it out and HOW they got away with it without being stopped. It
is part of the legal court record that FBI agents submitted multiple warnings, Harry Samit submitted
SEVENTY warnings. Colleen Rowley stated that it seemed like there was an Al-Qaeda mole in FBI HQ.
Nor is the fact that there were no Air Force intercepts of 4 hijacked planes, and no serious effort for some 90
minutes. Even some military taunters I met could not argue their case in FAVOR of military incompetence.
We spent $12 Trillion on military and security tech since 1945. And where was that on Sept 11? All away
from home on "drills", drills which involved flying planes into the World Trade Center. Rumsfeld and Myers,
when confronted with questions about that, stated that the similtaneous drills actually gave them a better
response time (than infinity).
I know, there are perfectly legitimate reasons the Air Force could not intercept a single flight, despite
enormous lead times. Such as, many Air Force planes were away training. Rumsfeld admitted that. Also,
there was some confusion as to whether it was drill or real world. Anyone can make that mistake (if they were
unlucky enough as to have planned a drill for 9-11 that ran parallel to the actual events -- bad luck). As for the
reported mysterious FAA official who picked up the Flight Controllers tape recording from Boston (as I
recall), and shredded it into multiple waste baskets around the facility, well that might be a little harder to
explain, but I'm sure it's explainable.
One question I have long had: How is it that more than one (but especially one) top "counter-terrorism expert"
wrote "we could always get lucky" and how it would be "providential" if America was attacked, and the media
has NEVER mentioned this. What if you or I had stated that it was lucky and a blessing from God that
America was attacked? You think FBI would investigate this? What if we also had past connections to Islamic
Radicals, for example in Afghanistan? What if we were also previously investigated by the FBI for spying for
Israel? How much would it take for us to become targets of an FBI probe, for O'Reilly or CNN to start
convicting us, for us to be renditioned to Syria.
Yet when Michael Ledeen says that, he gets to be a "made man" as head of National Security, and gets
book-selling opportunities on Fox, and NOBODY, not even the most rabid Bush-hating Liberal, even
mentions his own words to him.
"...of course, we can always get lucky. Stunning events from outside can providentially awaken the enterprise
from its growing torpor, and demonstrate the need for reversal, as the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor in 1941 so effectively aroused the U.S. from its soothing dreams of permanent neutrality."
"One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please."
"Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those
dreaded `extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ."
I've seen some "extraordinary measures" implemented, far more than I'd have liked to have seen.
The 9/11 terrorists attack is the most influential event of this last half century. The controversies that loom
around these attacks are shocking.
One piece of evidence Mr. Shelton presents is the improbability of a steel framed sky scraper being downed
by an airliner crash. If the building were the Empire State Building, he would have been correct, as the outer
walls of that skyscraper are indeed steel framed. The world trade center towers, on the other hand, had an
inner core of steel, and the outer walls were really not much more than curtains dropped from the frame
cantilevered out from the central core. This was explained in detail shortly after the event, and irony of ironies,
there is even a video of Osama bin Laden's explaining how he expected the towers to fall the way they did
because of that construction. In that very same video, it is quite obvious that bin Laden is delighting in the fact
that he and his organization in fact planned and executed the attack. Another piece of evidence is the complete absence of videos of the plane crashing into the Pentagon, in
contrast to the many films of the World Trade Center attacks. This is not convincing, as the Pentagon is
relatively isolated from large crowds with lots of video cell phones and the like, while downtown Manhattan is
probably newshound central, with a very high probability that a dozen or more cameras would catch the event,
and they did. The premise that the attack could not have been made by a commercial jetliner, and was,
instead done by a drone plane is simply too improbable for words. First, where did that jetliner, with the loss
of over 60 passengers actually crash, if not into the Pentagon. One serious flaw in the author's argument is a faith that anything which appears on the internet somehow has
the stamp of truth on it. I suspect exactly the opposite is true. Since anyone, at any time, can post statements
on both a web site of their own creation or on a public web site such as Wikipedia or, can we believe it,
Amazon.com means that you quote from the internet at your own risk, unless it happens to be a site such as
`The New York Times' site, where published material is edited and checked for accuracy.
Too many historical and technical facts are simply wrong, such as the statement that TNT is an ingredient in
cordite (they are two different types of explosives), and that the `neo-conservative' movement somehow
started with Averill Harriman and other Kennedy era `cold warriors'. I may be wrong, but I'm virtually certain
that the thing which most people call `neo-conservatism' was born among the supporters of Ronald Reagan
during his Presidency. It's fun to see how Mr. Shelton manages to bring in virtually every pie-eyed conspiracy theory of the last 50
years, while ignoring the one TRUE conspiracy, Watergate!
Tall buildings shatter in 10 seconds; steel beams buckle as if crushed by Superman; a volcano of ash
darkens the sky. Can jet fuel perform such a feat?

911 Mysteries is a careful deconstruction of the official story set alongside clean, clear science. It is ninety-
minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with eye opening witness testimonials.

The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics: How do
you get a 10-second,110-story pancake collapse of a major structure?

This is the film that might actually reach out to mainstream America-no agenda, no finger-pointing-just the
facts and "mysteries." It is a story of people. Willie Rodriguez's recollection of strange noises on the 34th
floor, and Scott Forbes' similar story. Who was up there bumping around just weeks before the towers fell?

This is also the story of blasting itself; how shaped charges are strategically placed to slice through steel
beams, allowing total control of how a building falls. This information helps give a better understanding of how
a building can be purposely set to collapse and shed insight into what happened on the fateful day of 9/11.

Of all the so-called 9/11 conspiracy films, "9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions" provides the most compelling facts
along side the most professional production, and has thus been widely praised by film critics and academics
alike.
Refreshingly, the film refuses to participate in the emotional sparring that so often surfaces in this highly
charged subject. Rather, in honor of those who lost their lives on that fateful day, the film sets out to discover
the full truth through an objective, even-handed look at physical evidence, eyewitness testimonials and expert
analysis. You will find no name-calling, politicking or crass appeals to emotion.
Through its careful investigation of the facts, the film shows how the official story not only fails to adequately
explain the events of 9/11--it actually flies in the face of hard science. How can a 110-story building collapse
at near free fall speeds? What happened to the undamaged steel core columns? How was it possible that
molten steel simmered under Ground Zero for months after the collapses, when jet fuel fires could not have
melted the steel? These questions are not even addressed in the 9/11 Commission Report.
Another mystery is WTC-7, a building that housed the United States Secret Service, the DOD, the
Immigration and Naturalization Service, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Mayor's Office of
Emergency Management, the IRS and the CIA and damning documents pertaining to the Enron Scandal.
Although virtually ignored by mainstream media, WTC-7 also collapsed at near free fall speeds on 9/11.
However, it was not hit by an airplane, and only suffered minor damage.
Many questioned raised by this film have just recently begun to surface, brought forth by brave individuals
who face persecution by a public who uncritically mob against so-called 'conspiracy nuts'. This is quite
ridiculous when one considers that the official story of 19 Middle Eastern hijackers promulgated by the
government was itself a conspiracy theory--a conspiracy theory with more holes than the complicity and
demolition hypotheses put forward by scientists and academics like professors Steven Jones and David Ray
Griffin.
It is my firm recommendation that you watch this documentary and read Griffin's "The New Pearl Harbor"--if
only to counter balance any preconceived views you might have on the subject. Clearly, there is more to the
9/11 story than is being portrayed in mainstream media.
This DVD systematically and logically covers the power blackout that turned off the security camaras and
access devices, the withdrawal of the bomb-sniffing dogs, the heavy dust each morning in the days
preceeding 9-11, the secondary explosions that strongly suggest a planned demolition of three buildings
(one of them, WTC 7, not hit at all), and--quite interesting--the asbestos problem that made the buildings, built
in the 1960's--a real loser unaffordable to fix or take down. 9-11 was literally a $7 billion bonanza for its
owners, at one stroke destroying the bulk of the complex to be cleaned up at taxpayer expense, and paying a
DOUBLE insurance premium (in court, the claims that the two airplanes were two separate incidents rather
than one coordinated attack, doubled the money paid out by the insurance companies). Bottom line: I think
the US Government "let it happen" for its own reasons, and Larry Silverman was tipped off and it was Larry
Silverman, not the US Government, that brought the buildings down. If this is obvious to me after a cursory
examination of public materials, I have to ask myself: 1) how much did Rudy Guliani get for scooping and
dumping to destroy the crime scene? and 2) is the insurance company part of the scam, or just stupid?
I have to say, on the basis of all my reading and my own past experience as a professional intelligence
officer, that I am certain of one thing: this has not been properly investigated; and I am fairly certain of a
second thing: 9-11 was known to be happening by a handful in the US Government and a handful in Israel as
well as Pakistan, and it was welcomed as a cataclysmic event that would also be financially profitable to
another handful. All of the suspicious activity began when Larry Silverman took possession of the complex.
Although I am less inclined to believe--without a proper investigation--that 9-11 was in fact made to happen at
the instigation of Dick Cheney among others, I do believe there is enough evidence about neo-conservative
views that such an event was needed, to *demand* a public investigation. The 9-11 Commission was a
whitewash, actually criminal in its negligence.
One of the best parts of the film is how they went into details of the chemestry involved with the materials
used in all types of controlled demolitions. There is already a growing number of physicists who are looking
into these matters and are coming to the same conclusions, that the only way these towers could have
mangled themselves to the bottom so fast on their own footprins was a direct result of a controlled demolition.
One of the best parts of the film is how they went into details of the chemestry involved with the materials
used in all types of controlled demolitions. There is already a growing number of physicists who are looking
into these matters and are coming to the same conclusions, that the only way these towers could have
mangled themselves to the bottom so fast on their own footprins was a direct result of a controlled demolition.
First, the producers of LOOSE CHANGE endow the Bush Administration with a level of intelligence which
would render them capable of formulating and then carrying out in absolute secrecy a huge, coordinated, and
successful plan to disrupt the very Military-Industrial Complex that they control. This is the same bureaucracy
that can't manage to mail out a universal tax stimulus check without losing tens of thousands of them. The
existence of such intelligence among them is a condition for which there is no proof.
Second, the creators of LOOSE CHANGE are not structural engineers, nor aircraft engineers, and their
criticism that the mass of wreckage at the crash sites doesn't match the mass of the destroyed planes
doesn't hold up in the face of physics. Immense kinetic energy was generated by the crashes, energy which
vaporized the planes, the people, and critical portions of the massive structures of the World Trade Center
and The Pentagon as though they were struck by a supernova. Simply put, the usual remnant evidence of a
random plane crash is a chaos of flaming, twisted wreckage, but few plane crashes match these: Prior to
9/11, fully-laden jets were never intentionally aimed at and rammed into targets at 500 mph or more. The
physical consequences of such collisions are something previously never seen. To say what should or
shouldn't have occurred requires a level of omniscience these boys will never have.
They tackle everything from the late start of the actual investigation to the omission of key events such as
the beautiful and clean collapse of Building 7; they even go so far as to dig up flight history reports and voice
pattern analyses of the alleged callers from the doomed flights.
The book suggests that the 9/11 attacks were self-inflicted: a covert operation aimed at influencing domestic
opinion and to persuade Americans to support the invasions of Afghanistan and of Iraq. It is written in a
speculative style, laden with terms such as "could", "might", "maybe" and "if",[1] and does not directly accuse
the Central Intelligence Agency of direct responsibility for the attacks.[2] It does, however, attempt to
demolish the "conventional" account of the 9/11 attacks, and while it does not build up a substantive account
to replace it, it leaves insinuations and rumours to suggest possibilities. For instance, while it is argued that
such well-organized attacks could only occur with "the support of the intelligence agencies", the exact details
of that support are left unspecified. The book suggests that no plane crashed into The Pentagon and none in
Pennsylvania on 9/11, and that the alleged mobile phone calls on United Airlines Flight 93 were not real. [1]
It states that the theory of the Arab hijackers was created by the CIA, and that these Arabs may not even have
been aware that the planes were going to crash. Seven of the alleged hijackers are claimed in the book to
have been found alive and well after the attacks. The book explores the possibility that the various aircraft
could have been remote-controlled. It cites observations in support of the theory that the collapse of the World
Trade Center might have been due to explosives. Von Bülow does not believe that Osama bin Laden and al
-Qaeda are responsible for the 9/11 a
Why didn't NORAD protect the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, two known terrorist targets? Why did the intelligence and security services fail to prevent the attacks from taking place despite numerous
apparent warnings? Why was President George W. Bush allowed to stay in a Florida school classroom for over 10 minutes after
being told that America was under attack? No previous steel-framed skyscrapers had ever totally collapsed due to anything except controlled
demolition, so why did it happen three times on September 11?
President Bush had initially appointed former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to head the commission,
but he withdrew shortly afterward because he would have been obliged to disclose the clients of his private
consulting business.[2
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Former Top German Minister Rejects Official Story Of 911 Attacks
15/16 January 2002
Former German Cabinet Minister Attacks Official Brainwashing On September 11 Issue Points at "Mad Dog" Zbig and Huntington Source: Tagesspiegel, 13 Jan 2002
In a full-page interview with the Sunday edition (Jan. 13) of the Berlin Tagesspiegel daily, former German
Minister of Technology, Andreas von Buelow, said he does not buy any of the official theories that have been
presented to date, on the events of September 11.
The apparent failure of the U.S. Administration including its 26 secret agencies with an annual budget of $30
billion, to come up with any convincing assessment, was one big problem that von Buelow addressed, in
quite some detail.
He then addressed the role of the official "brainwashing of the Western mass democracies" on the Sept. 11
issue, in promoting the new enemy image of "Islamic terrorism," along lines developed earlier, by senior
advisors of the U.S. Administration:
"I am not the origin of the idea of the enemy image. It originates with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel
Huntington, two pioneers of American secret intelligence and foreign policies.
"Already in the mid-1990s, Huntington opined that people in Europe and the USA needed someone they
could hate -- that would strengthen the identification with their own society. And Brzezinski, that mad dog,
already at his time as advisor to President Jimmy Carter, campaigned for the sole right of the USA to all the
world's raw materials, especially crude oil and natural gas."
Von Buelow also addressed the role of Brzezinski, personally, in setting up the afghani operation of armed
"Islamic" guerilla warfare against the USSR Afghanistan invasion in and after 1979 -- the Taliban being
generated by the same operation, after all.
As for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as such, von Buelow remarked: "Planning the attacks was a master
deed, in technical and organizational terms. To hijack four big airliners within a few minutes and fly them into
targets within a single hour and doing so on complicated flight routes! That is unthinkable, without backing
from the secret apparatuses of state and industry."
He added that laying false tracks of investigation has been an accompanying feature of covert operations
ever since they have been launched by influential agencies, so that he is convinced that the full truth behind
Sept. 11 still has to be sought.
A partial translation follows.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: You seem so angry, really upset. Andreas Von Buelow: I can explain what's bothering me: I see that after the horrifying attacks of Sept. 11, all
political public opinion is being forced into a direction that I consider wrong. Q: What do you mean by that? Von Buelow: I wonder why many questions are not asked. Normally, with such a terrible thing, various leads
and tracks appear that are then commented on, by the investigators, the media, the government: Is there
something here or not? Are the explanations plausible? This time, this is not the case at all. It already began
just hours after the attacks in New York and Washington and -- Q: In those hours, there was horror, and grief. Von Buelow: Right, but actually it was astounding: There are 26 intelligence services in the U.S.A. with a
budget of $30 billion-- Q: More than the German defense budget. Von Buelow: --which were not able to prevent the attacks. In fact, they didn't even have an inkling they would
happen. For 60 decisive minutes, the military and intelligence agencies let the fighter planes stay on the
ground, 48 hours later, however, the FBI presented a list of suicide attackers. Within ten days, it emerged that
seven of them were still alive. Q: What, please? Von Buelow: Yes, yes. And why did the FBI chief take no position regarding contradictions? Where the list
came from, why it was false? If I were the chief investigator (state attorney) in such a case, I would regularly
go to the public, and give information on which leads are valid and which not. Q: The U.S. government talked about an emergency situation after the attacks: They said they were in a war.
Is it not understandable that one does not tell the enemy everything one knows about him? Von Buelow: Naturally. But a government which goes to war, must first establish who the attacker, the enemy,
is. It has a duty to provide evidence. According to its own admission, it has not been able to present any
evidence that would hold up in court. Q: Some information on the perpetrators has been proven with documents. The suspected leader,
Mohammad Atta, left Portland for Boston on the morning of Sept. 11, in order to board the plane that later hit
the World Trade Center Von Buelow: If this Atta was the decisive man in the operation, it's really strange that he took such a risk of
taking a plane that would reach Boston such a short time before the connecting flight. Had his flight been a
few minutes late, he would not have been in the plane that was hijacked. Why should a sophisticated terrorist
do this? One can, by the way, read on CNN (Internet) that none of these names were on the official
passenger lists. None of them had gone through the check-in procedures. And why did none of the
threatened pilots give the agreed-upon code 7700 over the [Steuerknueppel: STEERING NOB?] to the
ground station? In addition: The black boxes which are fire and shock proof, as well as the voice recordings,
contain no valuable data-- Q: That sounds like-- Von Buelow: --like assailants who, in their preparations, leave tracks behind them like a herd of stampeding
elephants? They made payments with credit cards with their own names; they reported to their flight
instructors with their own names. They left behind rented cars with flight manuals in Arabic for jumbo jets.
They took with them, on their suicide trip, wills and farewell letters, which fall into the hands of the FBI,
because they were stored in the wrong place and wrongly addressed. Clues were left like behind like in a
child's game of hide-and-seek, which were to be followed!
There is also the theory of one British flight engineer:
According to this, the steering of the planes was perhaps taken out of the pilots' hands, from outside.
The Americans had developed a method in the 1970s, whereby they could rescue hijacked planes by
intervening into the computer piloting [automatic pilot system]. This theory says, this technique was abused in
this case. That's a theory.... Q: Which sounds really adventurous, and was never considered. Von Buelow: You see! I do not accept this theory, but I find it worth considering. And what about the obscure
stock transactions? In the week prior to the attacks, the amount of transactions in stocks in American
Airlines, United Airlines, and insurance companies, increased 1,200%. It was for a value of $15 billion. Some
people must have known something. Who? Q: Why don't you speculate on who it might have been. Von Buelow: With the help of the horrifying attacks, the Western mass democracies were subjected to
brainwashing. The enemy image of anti-communism doesn't work any more; it is to be replaced by peoples
of Islamic belief. They are accused of having given birth to suicidal terrorism. Q: Brainwashing? That's a tough term. Von Buelow: Yes? But the idea of the enemy image doesn't come from me. It comes from Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Samuel Huntington, two policy-makers of American intelligence and foreign policy. Already in
the middle of he 1990s, Huntingon believed, people in Europe and the U.S. needed someone they could
hate-- this would strengthen their identification with their own society. And Brzezinski, the mad dog, as
adviser to President Jimmy Carter, campaigned for the exclusive right of the U.S. to seize all the raw
materials of the world, especially oil and gas. Q: You mean, the events of Sept. 11-- Von Buelow: --fit perfectly in the concept of the armaments industry, the intelligence agencies, the whole
military-industrial-academic complex. This is in fact conspicuous. The huge raw materials reserves of the
former Soviet Union are now at their disposal, also the pipeline routes and-- Q: Erich Follach described that at length in Spiegel: ``It's a matter of military bases, drugs, oil and gas
reserves.'' Von Buelow: I can state: the planning of the attacks was technically and organizationally a master
achievement. To hijack four huge airplanes within a few minutes and within one hour, to drive them into their
targets, with complicated flight maneuvers! This is unthinkable, without years-long support from secret
apparatuses of the state and industry. Q: You are a conspiracy theorist! Von Buelow: Yeah, yeah. That's the ridicule heaped [on those raising these questions] by those who would
prefer to follow the official, politically correct line. Even investigative journalists are fed propaganda and
disinformation. Anyone who doubts that, doesn't have all his marbles! That is your accusation. Q: Your career actually speaks against the idea that you are not in your right mind. You were already in the
1970s, state secretary in the Defense Ministry; in 1993 you were the SPD [Social Democratic Party] speaker
in the Schalk-Golodkowski investigation committee-- Von Buelow: And it all began there! Until that time, I did not have any great knowledge of the work of
intelligence agencies. And now we had to take note of a great discrepancy: We shed light on the dealings of
the Stasi and other East bloc intelligence agencies in the field of economic criminality, but as soon as we
wanted to know something about the activities of the BND [German intelligence] or the CIA, it was
mercilessly blocked. No information, no cooperation, nothing! That's when I was first taken aback. Q: Schalck-Golodkowski mediated, among other things, various business deals abroad. When you looked
at his case more closely-- Von Buelow: We found, for example, a clue in Rostock, where Schalck organized his weapons depot. Well,
then we happened upon an affiliation of Schalck in Panama, and then we happened upon Manuel Noriega,
who was for many years President, drug dealer, and money launderer, all in one, right? And this Noriega was
also on the payroll of the CIA, for $200,000 a year. These were things that really made me curious. Q: You wrote a book on the dealings of the CIA and Co. In the meantime, you have become an expert
regarding the strange things related to intelligence services' work. Von Buelow: ``Strange things'' is the wrong term. What has gone on, and goes on, in the name of intelligence
services, are true crimes. Q: What would you say determines the work of intelligence services? Von Buelow: So that we don't have any misunderstandings: I find that it makes sense to have intelligence
services.... Q: You don't think much of the earlier proposals by the Greens, who wanted to dismantle these agencies? Von Buelow: No. It is right to take a look behind the scenes. Getting intelligence about the intentions of an
enemy, makes sense. It is important when one tries to put oneself into the mind of the enemy. Whoever wants
to understand the CIA's methods, has to deal with its main tasks, covert operations: below the level of war,
and outside international law, foreign states are to be influenced, by organizing insurrections, terrorist
attacks, usually combined with drugs and weapons trade, and money laundering. This is essentially very
simple: One arms violent people with weapons. Since, however, it must not under any circumstances come
out, that there is an intelligence agency behind it, all traces are erased, with tremendous deployment of
resources.
I have the impression that this kind of intelligence agency spends 90% of its time this way: creating false
leads. So that, if anyone suspects the collaboration of the agencies, he is accused of the sickness of
conspiracy madness. The truth often comes out only years later. CIA chief Allen Dulles once said: In case of
doubt, I would even lie to the Congress! Q: The American journalist Seymour M. Hersh, wrote in the New Yorker, that even some people in the CIA
and government assumed, that certain leads had been laid in order to confuse the investigators. Who, Herr
von Buelow, would have done this? Von Buelow: I don't know that either. How should I? I simply use my common sense, and-- See: The terrorists
behaved in such a way to attract attention. And as practicing Muslims, they were in a strip-tease bar, and,
drunken, stuck dollar bills into the panty of the dancer. Q: Things like that also happen. Von Buelow: It may be. As a lone fighter, I cannot prove anything, that's beyond my capabilities. I have real
difficulties, however, to imagine that all this all sprung out of the mind of an evil man in his cave. Q: Mr. von Buelow, you yourself say that you are alone in your criticism. Formerly, you were part of the
political establishment, now you are an outsider. Von Buelow: That is a problem sometimes, but one gets used to it. By the way, I know a lot of people,
including very influential ones, who agree with me, but only in whispers, never publicly. Q: Do you still have contact with old SPD companions, such as Egon Bahr and former Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt? Von Buelow: There are no close contacts any more. I wanted to go to the last SPD party congress, but I was
sick. Q: Can it be, Mr. von Buelow, that you are a mouthpiece for typical anti-Americanism? Von Buelow: Nonsense, this has absolutely nothing to do with anti-Americanism. I am a great admirer of this
great, open, free society, and always have been. I studied in the U.S. Q: How did you get the idea that there could be a link between the attacks and the American intelligence
agencies? Von Buelow: Do you remember the first attack on the WorldTrade Center in 1993? Q: Six people were killed and over a thousand wounded, by a bomb explosion. Von Buelow: In the middle was the bombmaker, a former Egyptian officer. He had pulled together some
Muslims for the attack. They were snuck into the country by the CIA, despite a State Department ban on their
entry. At the same time, the leader of the band was an FBI informant.
And he made a deal with the authorities: At the last minute, the dangerous explosive material would be
replaced by a harmless powder.
The FBI did not stick to the deal. The bomb exploded, so to speak, with the knowledge of the FBI. The official
story of the crime was quickly found: The criminals were evil Muslims. Q: At the time Soviet soldiers marched into Afghanistan, you were in the cabinet of Helmut Schmidt. What
was it like? Von Buelow: The Americans pushed for trade sanctions, they demanded the boycott of the Olympic games
in Moscow.... Q: .... which the German government followed... Von Buelow: And today we know: It was the strategy of the American security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
to destabilize the Soviet Union from neighboring Muslim countries They lured the Russians into Afghanistan,
and then prepared for them a hell on earth, their Vietnam. With decisive support of the U.S. intelligence
agencies, at least 30,000 Muslim fighters were trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a bunch of good-for-
nothings and fanatics who were, and still are today, ready for anything.
And one of them is Osama bin Laden. I wrote years ago: ` `It was out of this brood, that the Taliban grew up in
Afghanistan, who had been brought up in the Koran schools financed by American and Saudi funds, the
Taliban who are now terrorizing the country and destroying it Q: Even though you say, for the U.S. it was a matter of raw materials in the region, the starting point for the
U.S. aggression, was the terrorist attack which cost thousands of human lives. Von Buelow: Completely true. One must always keep this gruesome act in mind. Nonetheless, in the analysis
of political processes, I am allowed to look and see who has advantages and disadvantages, and what is
coincidental. When in doubt, it is always worthwhile to take a look at a map, where are raw materials
resources, and the routes to them? Then lay a map of civil wars and conflicts on top of that --they coincide.
The same is the case with the third map: nodal points of the drug trade.
Where this all comes together, the American intelligence services are not far away. By the way, the Bush
family is linked to oil, gas, and weapons trade, through the bin Laden family. Q: What do you think of the Bin Laden films? Von Buelow: When one is dealing with intelligence services, one can imagine manipulations of the highest
quality. Hollywood could provide these techniques. I consider the videos inappropriate as evidence. Q: You believe the CIA is capable of anything, [wouldn't stop at anything]. Von Buelow: The CIA, in the state interests of the U.S., does not have to abide by any law in interventions
abroad, is not bound by international law; only the President gives orders.
And when funds are cut, peace is on the horizon, then a bomb explodes somewhere. Thus it is proven, that
you can't do without the intelligence services; and that the critics are nuts, as Father Bush called them, Bush
who was once CIA head and President.
You have to see that the U.S. spends $30 billion on intelligence services, and $13 billion on anti-drug work.
And what comes out of it?
The chief of a special unit of the strategic anti-drug work declared, in despair, after 30 years of service, that
in every big, important drug case, the CIA came in and took it out of my hands. (Rosalinda: Michael Levin) Q: Do you criticize the German government for its reaction after Sept. 11? Von Buelow: No. To assume that the government were independent in these questions, would be naive. Q: Herr von Buelow, what will you do now? Von Buelow: Nothing. My task is concluded by saying, it could not have been that way [according to the
official story]. Search for the truth!
Former German Defense Minister Confirms CIA Involvement in 9/11: Alex Jones Interviews Andreas Von
Buelow
Please understand that this is a transcript made directly from a live radio interview. It may not conform to
exeplary standards of grammar. Mr. Von Buelow's first language is German.
Alex Jones: All right my friends. We are already into the third and final hour of this global transmission against
tyranny. And, in the last hour we had Hutton Gibson, expert on the New World Order and of course father of
Mel Gibson, on talking about the different key issues. In this hour, we are joined by Andreas von Bulow and
he was the federal Minister of Defense, or the equivalent of our Secretary of Defense, been in the German
government since the 70s. And up until just a few years ago he was also the Minister of Technology and he
has written a book that according to Reuters is the best seller in Germany that translates into ?9 11 and the
CIA.? And he?s not the only German minister who has said we are looking at world fascism here and a
powerful military industrial complex institution engineering terror attacks to scare us into submission. And,
Andre von Bulow, err Andreas von Bulow, we are so honored to have a man of your stature and obvious
intelligence and your courage on this show. Thank you for joining us.
Andreas von Bulow: Hello and it?s wonderful speaking, yes.
AJ: Uh, we?re going to break here in a few minutes and come back in a longer segment but for those who
just joined us, tell us a little bit more about yourself and your book please.
AvB: Well I...I have spent over twenty-five years in politics and now I am out. And in the end I was Minister of
Technology before I was Secretary of Defense. Then I had to deal in a commission on East-West
transactions about the secret service of East Germany. And this was very interesting inside story because of
the Western side doing deals violating the laws in Eastern Eur, err, East Germany, European Community and
the United States. It was always two parts dealing with East and West and this bought me a lot of insights in
the secret service business.
AJ: And in fact I remember reading about the huge investigations you did that was massive international
headlines concerning the Stasi and how different governments had actually been working with these people.
If you would like you are of course welcome to get into that as well. Again folks, the equivalent secretary of
defense, minister of defense of Germany, and of course technology, the head of that. Just absolutely
amazing. Your best selling book, and I wish there was an English translation because I would certainly buy
one. My wife does read German. But please, tell us about your book.
AvB: Well I was writing another book and then 9 11 happened. And it was strange to me watching- we all
were horrified what was going on and said well that?s impossible, how could a crew of people manage do
such horrible things? At the first hours, we didn?t know who was it, then within hours it came out that probably
Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda was behind it. And then within two or three days these 19 people came out.
And my objection was- my looking at it- to whom does it bring good? And I found out that it is rather
damaging to the Islamic world and perhaps it might be not only be a terrorist attack but perhaps it might be a
covert operation. I watched the scenery, what was going on, what the American government-
AJ: Minister, minister, we?ve got to break; we?ll be back in three minutes. Absolutely, we?ll go into this in
great detail. We are honored to have you. We?re talking to Andreas von Bulow. We?ll be back. (Fade to
bumper music)
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AJ: That?s right my friends it?s eight minutes ten seconds into this 3rd hour of global transmission. I am so
honored to have on Andreas von Bulow former German defense minister, head of their defense department
and of course until just a few years ago, head of their technology system which is, that is a very high level
post, just as high level as defense minister there in Deutschland. And he?s written a best selling book and
I?ve read some quotes out of it that have been translated into English. And the title translated is ?911 and
the CIA.? And he lays out the evidence of the military-industrial complex carrying out the attacks. Also we
have lined up Michael Micher. And he of course was the English environmental minister who resigned over
Tony Blair?s fraud. He has written articles saying that if they didn?t carry it out, they certainly funded and
allowed them to take place. So, if you?ve got a brain, it?s clear, and Mr. von Bulow, very intelligent individual
has gone over this. So, sir, you?ve said that on the day of the event you began to look at it, you began to
research it. And, from your specific expertise in intelligence and military and technology, you know heading
up entire sectors of the world?s third largest economy. Please discuss for us your research and how you
wrote the book and what really happened on 9 11.
AvB: Err, 9 11, I just watched the scenery. And I said there must have- gone something very [wrong]. I
watched the TV for example and in the same minute that the TV showed the planes driving into the World
Trade Center, you found these Palestinians dancing and laughing. And a few days later one could find out
that this was fake. It was made by a TV crew of the defense ministry in Israel and they gave candies to the
people and they laughed about it. And, nobody told it. And the question for me was who brought this TV stuff
right in time into the national networks like CNN and CBS and so on and so on. And then we look for the, the
story came out that this had been done by bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda and these 19 people of Muslim
background, which did this. And you could watch the Persian journalist, and nobody showed up. Not one
Arabic name was showing up there. And then one is interested to see video because all these 19
passengers must have passed the video, a lot of video cameras in Dallas, and New York, and Logan in
Boston, and Portland in the North. You don?t get this stuff. And then we?re looking for the black boxes and
we don?t get them. And the story how these, these World Trade Center buildings broke down, they were
constructed against an approach by airplanes. And, the firemen of New York, they were able to come to the
floor where the fires were burning, and they said, the fire commander said he needed two teams, small, to
fight these fires and then it?s finished. So the heat, it is impossible that the heat was as high as it has been
written in the papers and in all the media.AJ: And then, and then the feds declared that all firefighter tapes malfunctioned, turns out that wasn?t true;
we?ve got copies of them. And it did say that the firefighters said the fires were out or almost out. There is
video of people standing in the holes of the buildings with no fire around them. And we?re going to go over
the evidence that?s in your book, sir, and why you came to these educated conclusions.
AvB: Yeah.AJ: But, first I want to ask you: have you heard the new developments, the owner of the World Trade Center
slipped up on TV and said that they blew Building Seven up. The forty-seven story building that wasn?t even
hit by an aircraft. This just broke two weeks ago, have you heard this?AvB: Sure, I have heard this. I follow the whole scenery. Normally, it?s coming out in Germany, but it?s
coming out in your country. It?s a fascinating background to, to do research via Internet because all this stuff
is broadly spread over the Internet. So it?s very easy to follow, but in the main media you don?t get to hear
about this.
AJ: Well tell you what, later this hour, it?s only three minutes of audio clips, we will air from the PBS
documentary ?America Rebuilding,? where they admit they blew up WTC 7. Now, that?s important because
they said that building fell from fire even though it wasn?t hit by a plane. And now, he slips up and says we
decided to demolish it on 9-11, but then the mainstream media just ignores that. This is a public admission,
sir.
AvB: Yeah, yeah especially that the CIA headquarters in New York was in, was within this building. I think the-
how do you call it- the emergency center for the governor, the major, err, mayor was-
AJ: Mayor and governor.
AvB: -mayor was in this building. So, it was not hit by a plane, and the fire was very low. And the surrounding
steel constructions were left over and didn?t collapse. But, the Building 7 collapsed in late afternoon at 5 o?
clock I think.
AJ: Well, from our internal sources, they were running the attacks sir, out of the building and so conveniently
got rid of the evidence in one fell swoop.AvB: This is one theory, it might be. It?s convincing but one has to get the whole proof. But the problem is
that the elements for proof are destroyed.
AJ: Also-AvB: You will find them in Japanese cars and in ships of the American Navy.
AJ: Also, sir, we have NORAD standing down for an hour and twenty five minutes but when we had the golfer
Payne Stewart went off course for fifteen minutes, he was surrounded in eighteen minutes by five F-16s so
why did NORAD stand down?AvB: Well, this is a big question because it happened in 2001 more than 60 times. That, fighter[s] went up to
clear what has been done to airplanes that showed some irregularities. At 9 11, four planes for two hours
were able to drive around, fly around even one hour in the direction going toward the west and then turn
around and then comeback. The military air force was not able to interdict them. It?s [un]imaginable. And
the whole story is totally unclear what happened between the Federal Aviation Agency (Administration) and
NORAD.
AJ: Absolutely, now I don?t know if you?ve seen the associated press but the CIA was running a drill 15 miles
from the World Trade Center that day of flying jets into buildings in New York and DC. My internal sources
inside the Pentagon, the lawyers who represent them have said on this show that they were told to stand
down because it was quote ?just a drill.? That?s how you get the good military to stand down; you tell them
it?s just a drill. And, that drill was going on at 830 in the morning. Is that not obvious, sir?
AvB: It?s quite obvious, yeah. It?s quite, it?s so strange and the most strange thing for me is that after two
years you don?t have a white book which is documenting everything. If you are looking for the timetable for
example you have to make a medium between two or three or five newspapers and radio and TV
announcements. So everything is unclear. On the other hand, the American government is running as the call
it a world war against possibly sixty nations without really showing the background of 9/11. It?s- for me, it?s
impossible.
AJ: Now by that they admit that nine of the nineteen hijackers, the BBC says seven but it?s nine, are still alive.
Bin Laden has not been convicted, bin Laden is known CIA, you?ve got [George H. W.] Bush meeting with
the head bin Laden that morning in DC at the Ritz Carleton, you?ve got the General of Pakistan, the head of
their intelligence, meeting with the House and Senate chairs of the intelligence committee at 8:30 that
morning, his second trip in his life to the United States. You?ve got the FBI paying for the houses, the cars,
the credit cards of the supposed hijackers. I mean, sir, you start- you?ve got public officials, Mayor Willie
Brown, Joint Chiefs of Staff told not to fly to New York that day. That?s all admitted; what do you say to that?
AvB: Well, it?s all admitted. So for me, since the official version- it?s not credible at all, it?s totally incredible.
The second solution for me is a covert operation. And this is a way to influence, to brainwash the American
people into long, long, ongoing conflict with the Muslim world and all that you get to, for example the oil
companies, the last oil reserves which we need for the next decades before the oil age is going out. And
probably behind this is a geopolitical thinking that finally China has to be taken out. China is too big and you
have to be able to- this is put down in the New American Century, which has been written by a lot of people
who are now in government like Cheney, like Rumsfeld and others.
AJ: And now, sir, we?ve got to break. We?re going to get into the Project for a New American Century and
Operation Northwoods. Were you aware of a US government plan to carry out 9 11 style attacks?
AvB: You mean, Northwoods?
AJ: Yes, sir.
AvB: Yeah sure I know.
AJ: Is that not a key piece of evidence?
AvB: Well, this is a key piece, a key piece of evidence of the thinking of probably the military in dialogue with
politics. Probably, I think Kennedy decided not to do it but I think it was, it was all of the-
AJ: Tell you what, stay there. We?ve got to break; we?ll be right back folks. (Fade to music)
(Commercial Break)
AJ: All right my friends, I?m Alex Jones your host. For the rest of the hour we are honored to have Andreas
von Bulow, former Defense Secretary and former head of technology, Department of Technology in Germany.
And he?s just gotten out of government a few years ago and he?s just written a best selling book ?9 11 and
the CIA? and we have info on that at Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com. We will also be posting this
interview on the Website in the next few days as well. There are so many facets to this- Mr. von Bulow,
continuing with you waking up to what happened on 9 11 and researching it, what are some of the other key
points that clearly show that it is impossible that these nineteen people did this; we know that is a fraud. It is
a conspiracy theory to say that they did it alone. From your intensive research and your understanding of
high-level government activities, what do you think really happened on 9 11?
AvB: Well, nobody can prove what happened 9 11 directly because it has been a covert operation and you
don?t find proof; you will find only indications. And one of the indications- the indication that everything is
right with these nineteen people and Usama bin Laden is that the government is free to show all the prove
that is on the table that is on the street that lays on the ground of the World Trade Center and so on and so
on. If you have a covert operation the probability is always that the leftover pieces of proof are taken away
immediately and a lot of secrecy, a band of secrecy, has taken over everything. And, this has happened with
9 11.
AJ: And that also happened- where you aware the New York Times and Chicago Tribune reported this in ?
93, the FBI cooked the bomb and trained the driver[s] and had an Egyptian security agent doing it for them,
had two retarded Muslims, literally retarded, drive the truck and park it, let the bombing go forward. At
Oklahoma City, the same company that destroyed the remnants of the World Trade Center, blew up the
remnants of Oklahoma City [and] had that buried under machine gun guard at a private landfill to this day.
And they hauled the rubble away from the W T C to China! They wouldn?t let you take photographs. Yes,
exactly.
AvB: Yeah, then at the beginning the engineers weren?t allowed to go up to the steel truss [debris] and had a
lot of problems- there was very scarce money. And you know, to clear up the story with Bill Clinton and
Monica Lewinsky, the Republican majority gave out sixty million dollars, I think it?s seventy now, and they
started out with 600 000 dollars to try to figure out what happened on 9 11. And, they were taken away from
doing research and so on and so on and they are upset. And, Fire Engineer Magazine said it was totally
unbelievable what happened with this examination of 9 11.
AJ: Well, they say it was a criminal cover up and now, sir, we?ve turned into a police state. They can secretly
arrest citizens, secretly execute us. They are building admitted prison camps all over the country, this is in
our news. We?re turning into something like the Soviet Union here.
AvB: Well, I can?t comment on this but what?s going on in Guantanamo is like that. I think the problem is that
if you put people, who ever you like in Guantanamo in Cuba, you take them away for one or two years without
letting a lawyer to them, without showing them what you are reprising to them, without having contact from
their family- they tell in all court processes what the FBI is wanting from them-
AJ: Well, sir-
AvB: And so you get fake evidence from these kinds of people, if you behave like that.
AJ: And sir, sir. Our mainstream news says that torture is good and they say they are torturing people, that?s
the Washington Post. Is that a concern that our government now admits it?s torturing?
AvB: Well, I?m informed- I don?t know whether they are torturing, keeping them is a kind of a torture, but I am
told there is an agreement with a lot of states to put these people to Egypt and other states where torture is
accepted and is done and you get the final outcome of this torture and you can produce this in front of
German courts and American courts and try to bring about final judgment.
AJ: Well that?s it. We?ll be back; long segment coming up and we?ll get more into your book. We?re
honored to have you, Andreas von Bulow. Stay with us. (Fade)
(Commercial Break)
AJ: All right folks. We?re talking with Andreas von Bulow and to make this clear, up until about two years ago
he was the head minister over the Department of Technology and before that he was the head of his party?s
group on defense. Now, we?re going to take calls coming up here in just a few minutes, your chance to talk
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some of the other key points that you would like to go over. You mentioned the CIA and insider trading and
the Anthrax attacks. Please discuss it.
AvB: Well, the insider trading, everybody knows that there [was] news about insider trading. I think altogether
fifteen billion dollars. And, there was speculation about going down, of United Airlines and American
Airlines; both airlines which were attacked by 9 11 and other things. So, normally you could find out because
I think the American- the CIA together with the financial department, the Treasury, they developed this ?
watching the markets to find out speculation about going on terrorist attacks. So, they could immediately find
out if there were something going on- and they could find out. And, in this case, they- 9 11- the NSA people
which are the guys watching via satellites the whole of the transactions going on, on Earth, they said, they told
the people to destroy the tapes. They had tapes about this interior trading and they said they had to destroy
them so they are not any longer proof.
AJ: Now again, interior trading that?s a good term for it, insider trading. So again, insider trading or interior
trading going on here and fifteen billion dollars, I think that?s a low estimate. It came out the first week,
Germany reported on it, France reported on it, the US, ?we?re going to catch them!? Record put options
against United and American; not against other airlines but specifically against these and it leads back to the
CIA and suddenly they destroy the evidence. Again, again another smoking gun. Then, you get into anthrax
attacks; Bush on Cipro, the most weaponized anthrax ever seen. Tell us about that.
AvB: Well, there the question just is who has the responsibility for this! You know, it overlaid the whole public
debate of what was the background and reason for 9 11 for weeks because these attacks were going on for
weeks and weeks and weeks. And, finally nothing came out. We have no report on who was responsible,
who did it and this again is amazing. I think it belongs probably to the cover up of the psychological cover-up
of the whole scenery. And then, the vice-President and the President asking Congress not to go into too
much detail about the background of 9 11. What does this mean? And until now it?s what the President
knew before 9 11 is a total secret. I think there is no secret service around the world which gave no hints to
the American secret service community, the CIA, the DIA and so on and so on. They did nothing out of it.
The most disturbing thing is that these guys that knew about something in coming up 9 11, were cutout
before. I mean the local level of the FBI offices, they knew quite a lot and they tried to force the central
organization to go into the details about Arabs taking lessons in flight schools and so on. And, the guy who
decided on top, I think the second man who was in the FBI he [said] ?no we don?t do this? and he got
promoted after 9 11.
AJ: By the way, the US embassies that allowed supposed Al- Qaeda back in got record cash bonuses. The
FBI agents who ordered other FBI agents not to stop Al-Qaeda, they go bonuses. Bush signed W199I
months before 9 11 ordering FBI not to stop Al-Qaeda. They threatened to arrest FBI Robert Wright if he tells
us what he knows. I?ve interviewed his lawyer David Schippers who knew about the attacks beforehand. He
went to Bush; Bush wouldn?t talk to him, Ashcroft wouldn?t talk to him. And you said something very astute,
sir, you talked about the anthrax being a psychological cover-up of the scenery. That is, all these questions
coming out in the early days about 9 11 got blacked out by the anthrax attacks and that?s absolutely why that
happened. We?ve tracked that back to Fort Detrick, Maryland. And they said it wasn?t weaponized anthrax,
it turned out it was the most weaponized ever seen.
AvB: Yeah, that?s absolutely correct and the wars which were reasoned to be fights against terrorism, the
war against Afghanistan to put out the Taliban it was decided long before and I think in June before 9 11.
The Afghanistan government- no, the Pakistan government and the Indian government [were] told there would
be an intervention in October.
AJ: Also, 44 000 US troops, 18 000 US troops were in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Bush had the battle launch
orders on his desk two days before 9 11.
AvB: That?s exact, that?s exactly-
AJ: And sir, I want to digress back to torture for a minute because you have been, you?ve impressed by, I
mean you know so much about this, you?ve researched it so well- On the torture issue, General Rick Baucus
quit Guantanamo because he quote ?refused to torture the people there? and the CIA section chief bragged
in the Washington Post that they fly them to foreign countries and then the CIA tortures them themselves so
they do admit the torture.
AvB: (Pause) Sure. I can?t comment on this [but] it?s obvious; all the court proceedings against for example
against Moussaui I think it was the 20th nominally- it was supposed in each aircraft to have five hijackers and
this one was taken into prison by the FBI. I think the process was made in Alexandria, Virginia and I think the
judge said that if you don?t give the proof [of] these guys who are running Al- Qaeda and give these people
for cross-examination then I can deliver a judgment. The same is true in Germany; we have people who are
related to Al-Qaeda-and probably Al-Qaeda is an artificial, err, [de]nomination of-
AJ: CIA fiction.
AvB:- a ruse of elements of Islamic people. In Hamburg, the trials are failing because the American
government is not delivering the proof.
AJ: Absolutely and look, we?ve had military officers and many others on, it is clear that Al Qaeda is a CIA
creation. A foggy boogie man so the military-industrial complex can carry out attacks and then pin it on them
and I mean we know when bin Laden blows up a building supposedly, our government pays his family to
rebuild it.
AvB: Yeah.
AJ: I mean there?s the payoff right out in the open.
AvB: Yeah, the whole background of- the whole personalities like bin Laden, like Al Qaeda, like Taliban, even
Saddam Hussein, these are all figures that were handled by the CIA in former times. So probably they are
recycled in the system now as bad guys. Before, they were the good guys taking away the Russians out of
Afghanistan and dealing with this, getting money for this, getting paid for this now they are used as bad guys.
Usama bin Laden has been, in ?95, in the Balkans in an operation the Americans were with the UKG in
Albania. You find these guys all over; you find these guys in Chechnya for example. There are also ?former
Afghanis? as they are called and they are [driven] in loaded planes of the CIA for example.
AJ: Absolutely so they provide the crisis so Big Brother could provide the police state solution. Andreas von
Bulow it is clear that if we do not expose at least who stands to gain from this terror and who was involved in
it, that is the large financial interests that own our government, they are going to be able to use America as
the engine of quote imperial mobilization and world domination. As ZbigniewBrzezinski and the PNAC documents said, how important is it to expose this for the future of free humanity?
AvB: I think it?s, for everybody outside of the United States it?s extremely important because it?s a question
of whether democracy will survive and whether the state of law is kept up or we?ll be driven by public
relations and financial interest. And I think the main thing for the Americans is who pays for all this. Because,
if the oil companies get more cheap oil and make their money out of it, the American taxpayer has to pay for
the military machine. The oil companies aren?t paying for that. It?s not the military-industrial complex paying
for that, it is the American taxpayer so it?s extremely important.
AJ: Absolutely and now we are paying record amounts for fuel for petrol in this country while they have record
supplies and the oil companies are posting record profits. I want to get into W T C 7 because I want people
to hear these clips. These are from the PBS documentary, and this will just take a minute sir, and then I want
to get your comment on it, where they describe how Building 7 fell and how they removed it first because
quote ?nobody died in it.? It?s the owner, Larry Silverstein who pulled it, gave the order to demolish it on the
afternoon of September 11th, so, Mark, go ahead and hit that clip for us please.
PBS Documentary (narrator): World Trade Center 7 had always been considered the starting point for
rebuilding. Located north of the slurry wall, Building 7 had been cleared faster than the rest of the site. There
had been no bodies to recover. Pelted by debris when the North Tower collapsed, Seven burned into the late
afternoon allowing occupants to evacuate to safety.
PBS Documentary (Silverstein): I remember getting a call from the, err, Fire Department commander telling
me that they were not sure they would be able to contain the fire. I thought we had such terrible loss of life,
maybe the smartest thing to do was, was pull it, and they made the decision to pull and we watched the
building collapse.
AJ: We made the decision to pull, and we watched the building collapse. Now here?s Dan Rather, seconds
after it collapses and this is what Dan Rather had to say and then we?ll get von Bulow?s comment.
(Voice of Dan Rather): What you are seeing are high shots, now here we?re going to show you a videotape
of the collapse itself. Now we go to videotape of the collapse of this building. (Associate- ?it?s amazing?)
Amazing, incredible, pick your word. For the third time today, it?s reminiscent of those pictures we?ve all
seen too much on television before when a building was destroyed by well-placed dynamite to knock it down.
AJ: Now, again, the seismographs show multiple explosions, the firefighters were told to get back. Von
Bulow, how important is this piece of evidence?
AvB: The explosions, well the government has to explain it! They have to prove their case. They have to this
conspiracy theory that these nineteen Muslims under the direction of Usama bin Laden. It?s not my business;
it?s only ?if there are explosions, if it?s true, can it be that the heat out of kerosene is able to destroy these
huge buildings in a manner that they are collapsing in a?
AJ: Symmetrical.
AvB: ?free-fall in a very short- in a few seconds, that they broke together. It?s nearly impossible. So
everything that is on the table is telling that the government story is not true. And there must be another story
and it must be explosions and the spikes in geological institutions in five states, 2.2 on the Richter scale, you
have to find out what?s the background. And five or seven days later the temperature on the ground was five
hundred degrees, or a little bit more than 450, if just fires were-
AJ: We?ve got to break. We?ll be right back.
(Commercial Break)
AJ: We?re talking with Andreas von Bulow. Former minister at the highest levels of the German government.
Former Technology Minister. And I know we have a lot of callers but we only have time to take maybe one or
two, Dan in Oklahoma. I just want to commend Andreas von Bulow for writing this book 9 11 and the CIA and
I would hope a publisher would get a hold of it and translate it and publish it here because I would definitely
carry it. You can find information on the book for those who read and speak German at Infowars.com and
PrisonPlanet.com. Andreas von Bulow let?s take a call, let?s talk to Dan in Oklahoma. Dan, you?re on the
air go ahead.
Dan: Yes, thanks Alex. Mr. von Bulow my question is following this disaster of 9 1 1, I understand Germany,
France, and Russia and why they didn?t want to get involved because of the money they had invested with
Iraq. With the military-industrial complex like it is, what do you understand the New World Order to be
especially since they said they could us this event to-
AJ: Yes, who are, who are the forces behind government-sponsored terror?
AvB: Who are the forces behind government? I do not understand this.
AJ: Well we know this global government is forming. We know that powerful financial interests are
engineering terror attacks, who are the forces behind the military industrial complex?
AvB: Well, it?s always interesting. If you look at who owns the munitions factory in the East-West conflict or
the Near-East conflict, they are always trying to sell their material to both sides. And, they are always
interested in conflict and they would like after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the noble thing would be to
cut down this military-industrial complex, which costs the American taxpayer a huge amount of money.
Exactly the same time the Soviet Union breaks down, this new terror thing comes up. The first terrorist
attacks were I think the World Trade Center one and you find out the leading guy of this bombing, this time an
agricultural bomb, he was going immediately to FBI and saying ?I?ll tell you everything about this? and they
agreed finally twenty-four hours before the attack in 1993, they would change the powder, the dangerous
powder against the [non] dangerous powder and the FBI didn?t come up to do this so-
AJ: Yeah, they cooked the bomb and trained the drivers and that?s another patsy.
AvB:-people were [injured] and six people were dead. In Oklahoma you had nearly the same thing. You had
two attacks. One was perhaps McViegh and this other guy but there was another attack much more strong
than this agricultural bomb and there is an American general, an Air Force general who for I think ten years or
fifteen years in charge of this explosive institute and he said never could this agrarian bomb bring about such
damage. There must be something else and they found that within the building there were demolition
charges.
AJ: Absolutely, Dan thanks for the call. I hope we can get you on in the future again, Andreas von Bulow,
you?ve been so kind. You have such amazing courage to stand up and tell the truth and we?ve been honored
to have you on the show from Germany. God bless you.
AvB: Thank you.
AJ: Thank you very much and have a good evening.The thesis of Webster Tarpley’s 911 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA has been enthusiastically received with
its working model of the 9/11 plot: a rogue network of moles, patsies, and a commando cell in the privatized
intelligence services, backed by corrupt political and corporate media elites. Buttressed by historical examples like the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the Gunpowder Plot, this model makes
it clear how such a monstrous false-flag or self-terror exploit is possible even under a largely benign
government. That paradox is the incredibility gap that has made most Americans reject the evidence about
9/11 as paranoid fantasy.
Tarpley brings decades of expertise to the 9/11 issue. Already in 1978 he had exposed the terrorist Red
Brigades as patsies of Italy's fascist P2 shadow government, and 9/11 is on the same pattern. The forthright
subtitle, Made in USA, is backed up by an analysis of key figures who behave like moles working for the
rogue network or parallel government.
9/11 Synthetic Terror highlights the salient points of sheer physical impossibility of the official 9/11
conspiracy theory. It then analyzes the psychological traits which make Anglo-American society gullible to
artificial enemy images and unable to grasp the truth of 9/11.
Understanding how synthetic terror works, we see the weakness of the muddled "blowback" theories of
terrorism and the spurious leads to Pakistan or Saudi Arabia that have marred many critiques of 9/11.
Tarpley's model makes it clear that figures like Osama bin Laden are patsies or double agents who were
selected for their ethnic coloring as the basis for launching a "Clash of Civilizations," and it is absurd to
imagine that such tools of US intelligence agencies could turn around and infiltrate or overwhelm US
defenses unaided.
9/11 Synthetic Terror is also firmly grounded in Great Power geopolitics. It shows that the wars on the Islamic
world, the Soviet-Afghan, Kosovo and Chechen conflicts, as well as US-UK-NATO synthetic terror incidents
like 9/11, Beslan or 3/11 in Madrid, have been contrived to continue the Cold War, in pursuit of the centuries-
long campaign for Anglo hegemony over Eurasia and the world.
For a principled refutation of the 9/11 propaganda myth in all its parts, Tarpley's work is indispensable.
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328 of 397 people found the following review helpful: Among Hundreds of Books, The Strongest Approach to Truth, October 7, 2006 By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition (Paperback) EDIT of 3 Feb 07: With thanks to Josh for pointing out the confusion, I wish to clarify the distinction between
my summary of what the author says, and my own conclusions from the many other books and DVDs I have
reviewed.
1) 9-11 was planned and executed by Bin Laden with direct assistance from elements of the Pakistani
government.
2) No fewer than 9, some say 11, governments warned the US at the highest levels. I believe that Dick
Cheney saw this as a gift of heaven, and organized the 9-11 exercises so as to have complete operational
control of the U.S. government, and he "let it happen."
3) I believe that Larry Silverstein, new owner of the World Trade Center, NOT the U.S. Government, was
briefed on this by the Mossad, and saw an opportunity to solve his asbestos problem at taxpayer expense. I
believe that Larry Silverstein, in partnership with the security firm managed by a Bush family member,
installed the controlled demolitions and "pulled" all three buildings, murdering the people in them, in order to
clear the area for rebuilding and get the $7 billion in insurance money. I believe that he paid Rudy Gulliani as
much as a billion to "scoop and dump" the crime scene into oblivion, and I believe that the insurance
company executives are in cahoots with Silversten and got major kick-backs, because there is no way a
serious insurance company investigation could have ignored the evidence of thermite being briefed to the
Senate this very week.
4) Finally, I do think there is evidence of CIA and FBI blundering about and aiding "assets" who participated
in the first World Trade Center car bombing, but it is very important to distinguish between bureaucratic
incompetence; Dick Cheney's deliberate decision to let it happen; and Larry Silverstein's alleged dmurder of
all those people including firefighters.
This has NOT been properly investigated, and it needs to be.
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It is with great sadness that I conclude that this book is the strongest of the 770+ books I have reviewed here
at Amazon, almost all non-fiction. I am forced to conclude that 9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a
pretext for war (see my review of Jim Bamford's "Pretext for War"), and I am forced to conclude that there is
sufficient evidence to indict (not necessarily convict) Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and others of a neo-
conservative coup d'etat and kick-off of the clash of civilizations (see my review of "Crossing the Rubicon" as
well as "State of Denial"). Most fascinatingly, the author links Samuel Huntington, author of "Clash of
Civilizations" with Leo Strauss, the connecting rod between Nazi fascists and the neo-cons.
This is, without question, the most important modern reference on state-sponsored terrorism, and also the
reference that most pointedly suggests that select rogue elements within the US Government, most likely led
by Dick Cheney with the assistance of George Tenet, Buzzy Kronguard, and others close to the Wall Street
gangs, are the most guilty of state-sponsored terrorism.
The author draws on historical examples of US fabrication of threats (e.g. the bombing of the USS Maine in
Havana Harbor) and many others (Jim Bamford publicized Operation Northwoods). It is an undeniable fact
that the U.S. Government has been willing to kill its own citizens and fabricate attacks as part of moving the
public.
The author suggests that there is no conclusive evidence that 9/11 was of foreign origin, and to the contrary,
quite a bit of evidence that the hijackers had been trained at US military bases, protected by the CIA and FBI,
and that the end result of their actions--including controlled flying into buildings and controlled demolitions
bringing down three towers, one of which was not hit at all, all suggest a US-based conspiracy.
The author is compelling in his review of the conflicts of interest for each of the 9/11 Commissioners and key
staff; he is conclusive in his damnation of their performance and their refusal to be tough with NORAD, the
FAA, and many other Executive organizations that refused to cooperate; and he is conclusive on his
suggestion that all actual evidence points to the Pentagon being hit by a missile rather than an airplane.
The author is especially compelling in condemning Rudy Guilliani as part of the conspiracy, and as the "bud"
of the extreme right charged with cleaning up the crime scene. Instead of making the area off-limits, Gulliani
moved aggressively to "scoop and dump" to the point that firefighters rioted.
I believe it enough to want a full investigation that passes the smell test of the 9/11 families as well as
objective outside observers. I believe it sufficient to indict Dick Cheney and other neo-cons. Sadly, the
Executive is now in the service of corporations that benefit from high crimes and misdemeanors, rather than
in the service of the American people who suffer great ill from these terrible mis-deeds.
My bottom line: justice has NOT been done, and this book, together with Crossing the Rubicon, is a major
reason why I believe that eventually, Dick Cheney and others will be brought to justice. The people now have
a digital memory and collective intelligence. Bin Laden Dead or Alive? Mission Accomplished? Civil liberties
at home, democracy abroad? Just who are we kidding? More to the point, who are we betraying if not
ourselves?
In fairness to Dick Cheney, I also wonder if he is not the fall guy for Wall Street and the gnomes of Zurich. I am
waiting for him to have a heart attack while getting a routine medical check-up....the Ken Lay defense, but
imposed by those who are willing to assassinate the John Kennedy's and Bobby Kennedy's of our world.
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253 of 302 people found the following review helpful: A tour de force of critical analysis, June 15, 2005 By Black Kaweah (The invisible Gulag) - See all my reviews
A remarkable look under the skin of the lurid scarecrow figure of modern terrorism to reveal the bones and
sinews of a man-made monster, one with very direct genetic links to the Bader-Meinhof gang and the
"strategy of tension" deployed after WW-II to justify the militarization of society and the targeting of selected
groups. Once society gets used to the idea that odd little groups or demented individuals occasionally pull off
spectacular attacks, the mask of any desired target group (leftists, hippies, Arabs) can be easily fitted to the
patsy who will be blamed for the attack.
The National Security State needs its terrorists, and leaves nothing to chance in their care and feeding. By
revealing the mundane operational details of these programs, and the continuity over time of both the
strategies and the personnel involved, Tarpley brings these deliberately shadowy enterprises into the realm
of normal human activities. In this view, the series of staged events leading up to 9-11 (Waco, the Murrah
building and all the rest) comes into clear focus as the successive elaborations of the same schema on an
ever larger scale.
The use of visible patsies to focus blame, the networks of moles that protect and manage them, the
aggressive coverups with blatent destruction of evidence and violent suppression of potential whistle-
blowers, the fake investigations and popular press debunking... the pattern repeats with remarkable
consistency, and the growing boldness of a cabal that has tasted success and has so far crushed all those
who have tried to reveal the extent of their crimes.
Tarpley's deep knowledge of the Bush family and NATO secret terror operations in Europe make him the
ideal historian to put the distinctly post-WW-II phenomenon of synthetic terrorism in it's proper historical
perspective, and in so doing he in effect does create a new field of historical inquiry. This is truly an important
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184 of 219 people found the following review helpful: GO FURTHER...FURTHER, June 12, 2005 By a reader in the U.S. - See all my reviews
Tarpley does pay homage to other authors of alternative scenarios, such as David Ray Griffin - who logically
dismantled the myth of lack of Government complicity in 9/11 - but he also goes much, much
deeper...dismissing both Barbara Honneger's assertion that Khalid Sheikh Mohommed was the triple agent
responsible for enabling the plotters to threaten Air Force One ("Angel Is Next") with codes that would show
unequivocally that the plotters had access to all Gov't codes and meant business, and also dismissing Mike
Ruppert's "Peak Oil" theory as too much of a rational approach (under the circumstances...) Let it be said
that Tarpley is his own man, and his assertion that 9/11 was a "Neocon" putsch, aided by the still active
'Dulles-Landsdale-Lemnitzer" networks, is eerily documented piece by piece and makes perfect sense. He
feels that the message sent threatening Air Force One (the "Angel Is Next" message sent in that day's
specific code) is the key to unraveling who the plotters were. As a previous review stated...step up to the big
leagues.