Posts Tagged ‘swine flu’
Leaked CFR file: how to get the public to take the H1N1 vaccine
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicine
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Prepare to have your world rocked. What you’re about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time. You’re about to be treated to some little-known information demonstrating why seasonal flu vaccines are utterly worthless and why their continued promotion is based entirely on fabricated studies and medical mythology.
If the whole world knew what you’re about to read here, the vaccine industry would collapse overnight.
This information comes to you courtesy of a brilliant article published in The Atlantic (November 2009). The article, written by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, isn’t just brilliant; in my opinion it stands as the best article on flu vaccines that has ever been published in the popular press. Entitled Does the vaccine matter?, it presents some of the most eye-opening information you’ve probably ever read about the failure of flu vaccines. You can read the full article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/2009
Perhaps its impressive narrative shouldn’t be too surprising, though, since writer Shannon Brownlee is also the celebrated author of a phenomenal book on modern medicine entitled Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (http://www.amazon.com/Overtreated-M…) (http://www.naturalpedia.com/book_Ov…).
While I’ve never done this before, I’m going to summarize this article point by point (along with some comments) so that you get the full force of what’s finally been put into print.
This information is so important that I encourage you to share the following summary I’ve put together. Email it to family, friends and coworkers. Or post it on your blog or website (with a link and proper credit to both NaturalNews and The Atlantic, please). Get this information out to the world. People need to know this, and so far the mainstream media has utterly failed to make this information known.
(The really good information begins after around a dozen bullet points, so be sure to keep reading…)
Does the vaccine matter?
What follows is my point-by-point summary of this groundbreaking article by Shannon Brownlee, originally published in The Atlantic. My opinion statements are shown in brackets and italics
• Vaccination is the core strategy of the U.S. government’s plan to combat the swine flu.
• The U.S. government has spent roughly $3 billion stockpiling vaccines and anti-viral drugs.
• The CDC is recommending that 159 million Americans receive a swine flu vaccine injection (as soon as possible).
• What if vaccines don’t work? More and more researchers are skeptical about whether they do.
• Seasonal flu (that’s the regular flu) currently kills an estimated 36,000 people each year in the United States. [But most people who die are already suffering from existing diseases such as asthma.]
• Most “colds” aren’t really caused by the flu virus. As few as 7 or 8 percent (and at most, 50 percent) of colds have an influenza origin. There are more than 200 viruses and pathogens that can cause “influenza-like” illnesses (and therefore be easily mistaken for the flu).
• Viruses mutate with amazing speed, meaning that each year’s circulating influenza is genetically different from the previous year.
• The vaccine for each upcoming flu season is formulated by health experts taking a guess [a wild guess, at times] about what strain of influenza might be most likely to circulate in the future.
• The 1918 Spanish Flu infected roughly one-third of the world population and killed at least 40 million.
• In the U.S., the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology predicted that H1N1 influenza could infect up to one-half of the U.S. population and kill 90,000 Americans.
[Keep reading, the good part is coming...]
• Of those who have died from the Swine Flu in the U.S., roughly 70 percent were already diseased with some serious underlying condition such as asthma or AIDS.
• Public health officials consider vaccines to be their first and best weapon against influenza. Vaccines helped eradicate smallpox and polio. [I don't agree with that assessment. Vaccines did relatively little compared to improvements in public sanitation.]
• Each year, 100 million Americans get vaccinated, and vaccines remain “a staple” of public health policy in the United States.
Why the research is bogus
• Because researchers can’t exactly pin down who has influenza and who doesn’t, the research conducted on the effectiveness of vaccines simply calculates the death rate from all causes among those who take the vaccine vs. those who don’t. [This includes deaths from accidents, heart attacks, medications, car wrecks and everything.]
• These studies show a “dramatic difference” between the death rates of those who get the vaccines vs. those who don’t. People who get vaccinated have significantly lower death rates [from ALL causes, and herein lies the problem...].
• Flu shot propaganda cites these studies, telling people that if they get their flu shots every year, they will have a significantly reduced chance of dying. But this is extremely misleading…
• Critics question the logic of these studies: As it turns out, compared to the number of deaths from all causes, the number of people killed by influenza is quite small. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, deaths from influenza account for — at most — 10 percent of the total deaths during the flu season (and this includes all indirect deaths aggravated by the flu).
• This brings up a hugely important dilemma: If influenza only accounts for roughly 10 percent of all deaths during the flu season, how could an influenza vaccine reduce total deaths by 50 percent? (As is claimed by the vaccine manufacturers.) [It doesn't add up. Even if the vaccines were 100% effective, they should only reduce the total death rates by 10%, given that only 10% of the total deaths are caused by influenza.]
• Here’s a direct quote from the story: Tom Jefferson, a physician based in Rome and the head of the Vaccines Field at the Cochrane Collaboration, a highly respected international network of researchers who appraise medical evidence, says: “For a vaccine to reduce mortality by 50 percent and up to 90 percent in some studies means it has to prevent deaths not just from influenza, but also from falls, fires, heart disease, strokes, and car accidents. That’s not a vaccine, that’s a miracle.”
Read article (free registration required): http://www.naturalnews.com/027239_vaccines_flu_vaccine_.html
Call for written assurances on swine flu vaccine ingredients
Monday, October 5th, 2009AV3 Conference organisers call for written assurances on swine flu vaccine ingredients.
Alternative View team concerned that H1N1 shots alarmingly contain mercury derivatives (1), squalene (2) and nano-technology tagging (3).
Isolated stories in the mainstream media have called into question whether untested swine flu vaccines will cause more illness and deaths than by abstaining from the jabs (4). In addition, the Government’s new taskforce, the JCVI, has been given the powers to effectively make the vaccinations mandatory in the UK population, regardless of issues such as vegetarianism (the vaccines are based on animal products), religious beliefs, or lack of trust in the safety of such enforced medication (5).
The hysteria being generated bears frightening similarities to the 1976 swine flu outbreak in the USA (6), a time in history remarkably absent from all commentary being made in the mainstream media, where more deaths were due to the vaccine rather than the flu itself.
Founder of the Alternative View conference, Ian R Crane, noted: “Whistle blowers are coming forward at an alarming rate to describe what the truth is behind these lethal and untried vaccines (7). Nearly half of the British medical profession has already declared they will NOT be taking the jab (8). This is all the evidence that the man in the street needs to make a decision whether to opt in or opt out of this extremely suspect Government-generated panic.”
Also of much concern is that the American Government has declared that the pharmaceutical manufacturers behind the vaccines have been granted immunity from prosecution by those taking the vaccines (9), should it become the case that legal action is attempted against them if people are crippled or killed from taking their flu shots. In the UK, assurances are also being sought that individual human rights will not be compromised by any move towards mandatory vaccination, as has been legislated for in the States of Massachusetts and Oklahoma in the USA (10).
Mr Crane concluded: “If the UK Government is so sure of its facts, then we call upon the Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, to go on record and specifically declare that none of the alleged ingredients, to be named one by one in writing within his response, are present in the vaccines. Should the worst then happen and such additives are not only found but also lead to human harm, then litigants will have a specific person to register their legal actions against. The time for pontificating is over, let’s see the man in charge put his future ‘on the line’, just as he is expecting those who take the vaccine to do.”
The background to swine flu will be one of the topics covered by speakers at November’s “Alternative View 3″ (http://www.av111.co.uk) conference in Bristol, which anyone is welcome to attend (11). (Continues below)
References:
(1). ‘Thimerosal is a mercury-containing organic compound (an organomercurial). Since the 1930s, it has been widely used as a preservative in a number of biological and drug products, including many vaccines, to help prevent potentially life threatening contamination with harmful microbes. Over the past several years, because of an increasing awareness of the theoretical potential for neurotoxicity of even low levels of organomercurials and because of the increased number of thimerosal containing vaccines that had been added to the infant immunization schedule, concerns about the use of thimerosal in vaccines and other products have been raised. Indeed, because of these concerns, the Food and Drug Administration has worked with, and continues to work with, vaccine manufacturers to reduce or eliminate thimerosal from vaccines. Thimerosal has been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine.’
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228
(2). ‘Oil-based vaccination adjuvants like squalene have been proved to generate concentrated, unremitting immune responses over long periods of time according to a 2000 article in The American Journal of Pathology. A 2000 study published in the American Journal of Pathology demonstrated a single injection of the adjuvant squalene into rats triggered “chronic, immune-mediated joint-specific inflammation,” also known as rheumatoid arthritis. The researchers concluded the study raised questions about the role of adjuvants in chronic inflammatory diseases.’
http://www.yourspine.com/Chiropractic/Swine+Flu+Squalene+Adjuvant.aspxFurther research: http://www.whale.to/vaccine/west_edda.html
Incidentally, the USA is not approving any vaccines containing adjuvants, yet the UK Health Authority has already given approval to an adjuvant H1N1 vaccine.
(3). ‘Vaccines which have been approved by the responsible government authorities for vaccination against the alleged H1N1 Influenza-A Swine Flu have been found to contain nanoparticles. Vaccine makers have been experimenting with nanoparticles as a way to “turbo charge” vaccines for several years. Now it has come out that the vaccines approved for use in Germany and other European countries contain nanoparticles in a form that reportedly attacks healthy cells and can be deadly.’
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/4790-nano-particles-use-in-untested-swine-flu-vaccines.html
(4). A few weeks ago a British mother was threatened with her daughter being taken into care for daring to suggest that her 13 year-old daughter’s partial paralysis was related to the HPV vaccination; on Wednesday 30 September it was reported that Natalie Morton, a 14 year old girl from Coventry has died, most probably as a direct result of being vaccinated with Ceravix, the cervical cancer vaccine produced by Glaxo-Smith-Kline. GSK is making millions out of this vaccination programme thanks to Paul Blackburn, the senior vice-president and Financial Controller of Glaxo-Smith-Kline, who was a member of the OFSTED board when the decision was taken to commence the HPV vaccination programme. How many more teenage girls and their respective families will have to suffer for the sake of Big Pharma’s profitability?
‘Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic. The claim holds weight because, according to the very laboratory protocols that are routine for vaccine makers, mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible.’
A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter. The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked to The Mail on Sunday, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins. It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the vaccine. GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal.
The letter, sent to about 600 neurologists on July 29, is the first sign that there is concern at the highest levels that the vaccine itself could cause serious complications. It refers to the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the United States in 1976 when:
* More people died from the vaccination than from swine flu.
* 500 cases of GBS were detected.
* The vaccine may have increased the risk of contracting GBS by eight times.
* The vaccine was withdrawn after just ten weeks when the link with GBS became clear.
* The US Government was forced to pay out millions of dollars to those affected.’
(5). ‘The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) have taken over the control of the UK vaccination schedule and now have the power to bring in new vaccines without government approval even if they haven’t been safety tested. Prior to this, all new vaccines would have to pass through parliament and be voted on before they were introduced. Now the government is compelled to agree with anything JCVI say, even if there is no science to back it up. JCVI are also exploring whether to get a ‘guardian of the state’ for all unvaccinated children and sue their parents to FORCE them to vaccinate – this means that vegetarians will be forced to take animal products via vaccines, people will be forced to be injected with cancer-causing chemicals and those people who have already had vaccine reactions and disabilities will have their lives put at risk.’
http://www.vaccineriskawareness.com/Vaccination-And-Your-Legal-Rights
(6). ‘The last time the government embarked on a major vaccine campaign against a new swine flu, in 1976, thousands filed claims contending they suffered side effects from the shots. This time, the government has already taken steps to head that off. Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, government health officials said.’
http://www.clickondetroit.com/health/20088640/detail.html
(7) ‘An unpublished scientific study is raising questions about whether getting a seasonal flu shot raises the risk of contracting H1N1, but the evidence is unconfirmed and few have actually read the report. “It appears to be that for people who got seasonal influenza vaccine last year, they were at greater risk of getting H1N1 disease this year,” said Dr. Donald Low, an infectious diseases expert at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital.’
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090923/seasonal_flu_090923/20090923?hub=Health
(8) ‘Up to half of family doctors do not want to be vaccinated against swine flu. GPs will be first in the line for the jabs when they become available but many will decline, even though they will be offering the vaccine to their patients.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208716/Half-GPs-refuse-swine-flu-vaccine-testing-fears.html
‘Only a third of nurses have said they are willing to have the vaccine against swine flu amid fears it has not been tested enough, a survey has found.’
(9) ‘Taxpayers could face a multi-million-pound compensation bill if patients suffer side effects from the swine flu vaccine. The Sunday Post has learned that the UK government has granted legal immunity to the makers of the controversial jab.’
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/h1n1_vaccine_immunity_from_prose#comment-4997
(10) ‘WHO [World Health Organisation] ‘recommends’ global mandatory vaccination, Canada prepares. In the United States, both Massachusetts and Oklahoma have recently enacted mandatory vaccination laws, and people have uncovered documents from Minnesota, Iowa and Florida suggesting that similar plans exist. It looks very much like the U.S. will force-vaccinate its entire population. … We wish to clarify what is meant by “mandatory” in this story. Under the International Health Regulations, when the WHO has declared an “international health emergency” – which is what happened with the declaration of a ‘pandemic’ – then the core response mechanisms of the IHR become binding on all member states, meaning essentially it invokes each nation’s pandemic plan. Although core response is now mandatory for member states, this only means that they are obligated to vaccinate their entire populations, but how that will be done, or even if it will be done, remains to be seen.’
http://shuswapnews.com/news/2009/08/14/who-recommends-global-mandatory-vaccination-canada-prepares/
‘BOSTON – Mandatory vaccinations, home searches without a warrant and forced quarantine for those who resist. Critics of a pandemic preparedness bill pending in the Legislature say it would allow all those things and sets the stage for a medical police state where any response to an epidemic of flu or other illness has the potential to steamroll civil liberties.’
‘OKLAHOMA – a two-year-old public document … from the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) titled “2007 Oklahoma Pandemic Influenza Management Plan,” reveals plans to enforce “mandatory isolation or quarantine orders.”‘
http://www.reddirtreport.com/news.php?id=12511
http://www.wearechangeoklahoma.org/documents/TPRS_2007.pdf
(11) Speakers at AV3 tackling aspects of swine flu include biochemist Dr Mae-Wan Ho, medical biochemist Trevor Gunn, nutritionist and micro-chipping guru Greg Nikolettos, and geopolitical expert Ian R Crane (who is also available for interview). AV3 takes place over the weekend of 13-15 November in Bristol – further information and ticket details can be found at www.av111.co.uk, or by phoning 020 7558 8869 (also the number for interview requests).
What if man-made global warming really is a myth?
Monday, September 28th, 2009Just finished reading Scared to Death by Christopher Booker and Richard North. It’s an exhaustive and extremely detailed analysis of the series of public scares which have blighted recent decades and left us worried about virtually every aspect of life and seeing bogey men in our soup.
Some of the chapters are almost too detailed to be readily readable on a casual basis. However, the authors clearly wanted to be methodical and forensic in their search for the true facts in each case. This they’ve done, and it’s easy to skip a section – for example I didn’t read much of the chapters on speeding and speed cameras or on ritualised child abuse – without losing the thrust of their argument.
The entire book works towards the ultimate public scare, that of man-made global warming, pointing out that unlike earlier scares such as BSE or salmonella in eggs, misguided action taken over climate change has the potential to disastrously alter all our lives. This, of course, is exactly what those who believe in and campaign against man-made global warming say could happen if we do not act. The science, however, is still not settled, and Booker and North remind us of the place that escalating climate change hysteria takes in the pantheon of previous scares.
This is no debunking effort. The reality and extent of each scare is closely examined. But it highlights some disturbing patterns in human thinking and behaviour which may be about to cost us much more than any likely shift in the climate ever could. (Continues below)
Description
This book tells the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades, showing for the first time how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern. From salmonella in eggs to BSE, from the Millennium Bug to bird ‘flu, from DDT to passive smoking, from asbestos to global warming, ’scares’ have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. It analyses the crucial role played in each case by scientists who have misread or manipulated the evidence; by the media and lobbyists who eagerly promote the scare without regard to the facts; and finally by the politicians and officials who come up with an absurdly disproportionate response, leaving us all to pay a colossal price, which may run into billions or even hundreds of billions of pounds. The book culminates in a chillingly detailed account of the story behind what it shows has become the greatest scare of them all: the belief that the world faces disaster through man-made global warming. In an epilogue the authors compare our credulity in falling for scares to mass-hysterias of previous ages such as the post-mediaeval ‘witch craze’, describing our time as a ‘new age of superstition’.
Buy at Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scared-Death-Global-Warming-Costing/dp/0826476201/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254159193&sr=8-2
Ten things you’re not supposed to know about the swine flu vaccine
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Let’s not beat around the bush on this issue: The swine flu vaccines now being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens and adults have never been tested and won’t be tested before the injections begin. In Europe, where flu vaccines are typically tested on hundreds (or thousands) of people before being unleashed on the masses, the European Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip the testing process entirely.
And yet, amazingly, people are lining up to take the vaccine, absent any safety testing whatsoever. When the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. announced a swine flu vaccine trial beginning in early August, it was inundated with phone calls and emails from people desperate to play the role of human guinea pigs. The power of fear to herd sheeple into vaccine injections is simply amazing…
Back in Europe, of course, everybody gets to be a guinea pig since no testing will be done on the vaccine at all. Even worse, the European vaccines will be using adjuvants — chemicals used to multiply the potency of the active ingredients in vaccines.
Notably, there is absolutely no safety data on the use of adjuvants in infants and expectant mothers — the two groups being most aggressively targeted by the swine flu vaccine pushers. The leads us to the disturbing conclusion that the swine flu vaccine could be a modern medical disaster. It’s untested and un-tried. Its ingredients are potentially quite dangerous, and the adjuvants being used in the European vaccines are suspected of causing neurological disorders.
Read article: http://www.naturalnews.com/z026717_swine_flu_flu_vaccine_swine_flu_vaccine.html
Government virus expert paid £116k by swine flu vaccine manufacturers
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009A scientist who advises the Government on swine flu is a paid director of a drugs firm making hundreds of millions of pounds from the pandemic. Professor Sir Roy Anderson sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), a 20-strong task force drawing up the action plan for the virus. Yet he also holds a £116,000-a-year post on the board of GlaxoSmithKline, the company selling swine flu vaccines and anti-virals to the NHS.
Sir Roy faced demands to step down yesterday amid claims that the jobs were incompatible. ‘This is a clear conflict of interest and should be of great concern to taxpayers and government officials alike,’ said Matthew Elliott of the TaxPayers’ Alliance. You cannot have the man in charge of medical emergencies having any financial interest in the management of those emergencies. We need someone totally unbiased to tackle this crisis.’
The Department of Health and GSK denied there was a conflict and said Sir Roy did not attend Sage meetings where vaccines and drugs were discussed.
With just 700 dead worldwide, flu ‘pandemic’ smells like a cash cow for big pharma
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Two recent stories highlighting the vast amounts of money which will be made by pharmaceutical corporations exploiting the unwarranted hysteria over swine flu.
The Financial Times: Drug groups to reap swine-flu billions
Some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies are reaping billions of dollars in extra revenue amid global concern about the spread of swine flu. Analysts expect to see a boost in sales from GlaxoSmithKline, Roche and Sanofi-Aventis when the companies report first-half earnings lifted by government contracts for flu vaccines and antiviral medicines.
The fresh sales – on top of strong results from Novartis of Switzerland and Baxter of the US, which both also produce vaccines – come as the latest tallies show that more than 740 people have died from the H1N1 virus, and millions have been affected around the world. GlaxoSmithKline of the UK confirmed it had sold 150m doses of a pandemic flu vaccine – equivalent to its normal sales of seasonal flu vaccine – to countries including the UK, the US, France and Belgium, and was gearing up to boost production.
GSK also produces Relenza, an antiviral medicine that reduces the length and severity of the infection, and is preparing to increase manufacturing towards 60m annual doses. The UK placed an order for 10m treatments this year. One beneficiary of the fears about the pandemic has been Roche of Switzerland, which sells Tamiflu, the leading antiviral drug, and has seen a sharp rise in orders from private companies as well as governments.
A report last week from JPMorgan, the investment bank, estimated that governments had ordered nearly 600m doses of pandemic vaccine and adjuvant – a chemical that boosts its efficacy – worth $4.3bn (€3bn, £2.6bn) in sales, and there was potential for 342m more doses worth $2.6bn. It forecast that fresh antiviral sales could boost sales for GSK and Roche by another $1.8bn in the developed world, and potentially up to $1.2bn from the developing world.
But there were also uncertainties for the pharmaceutical manufacturers. With demand likely to outstrip supply, and initial production suggesting that the yield for the pandemic vaccine is relatively low, they may face difficult choices in determining how much to supply to the countries seeking orders. They are also under pressure to provide more drugs and vaccines for free, or extremely cheaply, to the developing world.
The Guardian: Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline predicts swine flu gold rush
Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical company is preparing to sell £3bn worth of swine flu drugs this year, it emerged today. GlaxoSmithKline revealed its vaccine, one of the world’s first, could be available by September after the UK government placed advance orders for 60m doses. It also disclosed that international governments were stockpiling large supplies of GSK’s anti-viral treatment Relenza, which can relieve swine flu symptoms.
Worldwide sales from the two drugs are expected to reach £3bn by January, but the company rejected claims it was exploiting the pandemic – stressing that profits would be much lower once development costs were taken into account. It also said poorer nations would receive the vaccine for free with 50m doses to be donated to the World Health Organisation. More could follow, depending on demand.
The chief executive, Andrew Witty, said the company had been preparing for a pandemic for the last three-and-a-half years and had spent more than £1bn to ensure its factories could crank up production at short notice. “We don’t know how big this deal is going to be, but no-one can say we aren’t ready,” said Witty. “We are working flat out with governments around the world to come up with a solution.”
GlaxoSmithKline has also developed an anti-viral face mask, which is expected to be used by people such as “front line health workers.” Swine flu is thought to have led to the deaths of 31 people in Britain so far and further details of its rapid spread are due to be released by the NHS tomorrow. The world’s first human trials of a swine flu vaccine have begun in Australia, drug company officials said, as the global death toll from the virus rose to 700. Two biotechnology companies have started injecting adult volunteers in the southern city of Adelaide.
In a sign of how quickly GSK is working to make sure a vaccine is available from September, the company said that “clinical trials will be limited, due to the need to provide the vaccine to governments as quickly as possible. Additional studies will therefore be required and conducted after the vaccine is made available.”
