The Sudden Silence on Swine Flu is Deafening – Whither the Emergency?


Now that more than a week has come and gone since House liberals sold off the freedom of Americans under the guise of health care late on a Saturday night, the clamor over the supposed swine flu crisis is already fading into memory. While the nation waits for the falsehoods to return before the Senate takes its vote, we should reflect upon the events which allowed the first measure to pass.

As the House vote on Pelosicare approached, liberals fabricated an H1N1 pandemic and leveraged their lapdogs in the media to manufacture the consent of the American people. According to a report in July, the virus was actually spliced together in a Wisconsin lab and released onto the public.

Investigative journalist and RT contributor, Wayne Madsen from Washington, says that the world is actually fighting a man-made tragedy. He says the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was involved in the development of the swine flu virus.

“The 1918 Spanish flu was extracted from the corpse of a dead Aleut woman, who died of the disease in a small village of Alaska, and it was combined with other forms of flu to create this particular H1N1 that was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization.”

Madsen points out that, “A company called FluGen, which is associated with this research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is now developing a vaccine. I think what we see with Baxter International, FluGen and other companies developing a vaccine when some of these companies were involved in the research of this particular form of flu.”

The possibility of a deadly virus escaping from a lab into the public was highlighted in May when a Canadian scientist was arrested for smuggling 22 vials of Ebola across the border.

A Canadian scientist has been arrested for smuggling 22 vials stolen from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab, used in Ebola and HIV research, into the United States, Canadian and US officials said Wednesday.

Konan Michel Yao, 42, “was taken into custody” while crossing the border from Manitoba province into the western US state of North Dakota on May 5, said a spokeswoman for the Public Health Agency of Canada, which operates the lab.

According to US prosecutor Lynn Jordheim, Yao was detained for carrying unidentified biological materials in vials wrapped in aluminium foil inside a glove and packaged in a plastic bag, along with electrical wires, in the trunk of his car.

Despite these efforts, the swine flu count still had to be exaggerated in order to create numbers which would influence public opinion.

Once the notion of a pandemic was established, political figures such as HHS Secretary Sebelius publicly urged Americans to take the swine flu vaccine, despite the fact that she was giving legal immunity to the drug makers behind closed doors.

To further stoke public fears, the Council on Foreign Relations has admittedly used the tactic of false scarcity to create demand for the H1N1 vaccine.

The result has been a wave of vaccination fever.

All of this commotion is because of the H1N1 vaccine. There are two versions: the mist version and the injectable version. The injectable version primarily goes to children who are under two years-old and pregnant women. The mist version is for healthier children who are over two years-old and healthy healthcare workers.

The crowds these days have been spurred on to some extent by news of a possible shortage of the vaccine. Over 250 million doses of vaccine are supposed to be disbursed across the country by the end of the year, each state receiving them in increments.

But Montgomery County has been told it will receive only half of what it needs by the end of the month – with promises of much more to come later.

Health officer Dr Ulder Tillman promised that “It may be a trickle now. It will turn into a stream. It will be a river by the end of the year.”

While exploiting their fabricated pandemic to promote the expansion of government power, politicians ignore the side effects of vaccination, such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which is as dangerous as the swine flu virus itself.

A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu…

GBS is among the most severe adverse events being tracked with updated systems developed by the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration and the American Academy of Neurology in order to monitor the rollout of the H1N1 flu vaccine.

So far, CDC officials have received about 1,700 reports of adverse events linked to the new shot.

In Minnesota, a 4 year old boy nearly died after receiving the H1N1 shot.

A four-year-old Rochester boy is recovering after nearly dying after being vaccinated for H1N1.

Dad Cadmar Akara says his preschooler started showing symptoms shortly after getting the shot Tuesday afternoon from the Mayo northeast Family Clinic.


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Who did you support in the 2008 Presidential race?

civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 2:17AM EST (link)

Someone with the initials R. P.?

Or is Pat Buchanan more your cup of tea?

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

 

Isn't it obvious?

private_citizen (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 2:48AM EST (link)

I supported Paul, but I find Buchanan to be interesting as well.

Huh, I find Buchanan interesting as well.

Third Street (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 3:02AM EST (link)

But then I find anyone who thinks we gave Hitler a raw deal “interesting”.

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”

 
 

Like Rahm said, emergencies are not something you waste

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 7:38AM EST (link)

the MSM is can always whip up a new emergency whenever they need some ratings or their Democrat masters tell them to.

They didn’t want anything distracting from their big push for Obama care.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

Isn't that a slightly more plausible explanation...

mschmitt (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 7:48AM EST (link)

… after all than a massive conspiracy at all levels of the public and private sector to sell more flu shots?

usque ad finem

Not if you're a fan Ron Paul. nt

mbecker908 (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 8:07AM EST (link)

MSM propaganda is nothing new

private_citizen (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 9:30AM EST (link)

When Medicare Part D was introduced in 2004, the Department of Health and Human Services created and distributed fake news segments to support its passage.

Federal investigators are scrutinizing television segments in which the administration paid people to pose as journalists praising the benefits of the new Medicare law, which would be offered to help elderly Americans with the costs of their prescription medicines.

The materials were produced by the Department of Health and Human Services, which called them video news releases, but the source is not identified. Two videos end with the voice of a woman who says, “In Washington, I’m Karen Ryan reporting.”

…Federal law prohibits the use of federal money for “publicity or propaganda purposes” not authorized by Congress. In the past, the General Accounting Office has found that federal agencies violated this restriction when they disseminated editorials and newspaper articles written by the government or its contractors without identifying the source.

HHS is still putting out propaganda, but the New York Times doesn’t report it because there is a Democrat in the White House.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/politics/15VIDE.html

Non sequitur. nt

mschmitt (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 9:40AM EST (link)

usque ad finem

Its more than just selling flu shots,

private_citizen (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 9:55AM EST (link)

which is the point I was getting at. The nonstop coverage of the swine flu pandemic was meant to send the implicit threat to the American people that if you do not allow Obamacare to pass then your life would be in danger.

In that case...

mschmitt (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 10:10AM EST (link)

… then I agree that the flu was useful to HHS and the media to promote Deathcare early on, and the shortage of flu shots harmful later; hence the massive coverage followed by the drop.

However, you go off the reservation when — in your second paragraph — you suggested that H1N1 is man-made (incidentally, this is where I stopped reading).

Your sourcing is utterly non-credible; unless you can do better than a site which also promotes 9/11 trutherism:

http://www.rt.com/Top_News/2009-07-16/9_11_truth_still_in_a_cloud_of_smoke.html

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RT is a news organization,

private_citizen (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 10:34AM EST (link)

which is actually bigger than BBC in the US. It’s not just some random website.

At RT we are set to step beyond the boundaries of bare facts and bring you the human side to every story. Broadcasting in English 24/7 in over 100 countries spread over five continents, RT is here to show you how any story can be another story altogether.

Our correspondents in New York and Washington, London and Paris, Delhi and Tel Aviv focus on international headlines whilst giving an innovative angle set to challenge viewers worldwide. RT was the first television station in the world to set up a bureau in Tskhinval, the capital of South Ossetia after the August 2008 conflict.

Launched in 2005, RT has speedily reached the heights of broadcasting popularity. In 2008 the monthly audience among those who have access or are aware of RT’s broadcasts on Time Warner Cable in NYC exceeds the one of BBC America by 11%. The daily audience of RT exceeds that of Deutsche Welle tenfold, within the same network.

http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Corporate_Profile.html

See, this is the main problem...

mschmitt (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 10:47AM EST (link)

… that I have with Ron Paul supporters. I can see wanting to tie our currency to things of concrete value, and I can understand why you want to go pure Constitutionalist, embrace isolationism, etc… But, you (as a group) seem incapable of separating truth from fantasy.

A “news” organization which embraces 9/11 trutherism (and their readership rated that article a 4.8/5.0, by the way) may be very large and may be very… uhh, “newsy”; but it’s not exactly the kind of place I’m going to go to get my information.

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How is the gene splicing explained,

private_citizen (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 11:38AM EST (link)

if it was not done in a lab? Do you truly believe that 2 different strains of pig flu along with bird and human flu somehow evolved together in the wild?

The specific origin of the new flu strain remains a matter of intense investigation. Even the presumption of a Pig Zero is just educated guesswork.

The new virus conceivably could have spliced itself together inside a human being or some kind of bird.

http://www.thestar.com/article/630962

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

lunacy

streiff (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 11:01AM EST (link)

just from a factual standpoint H1N1 2009 is not gentically related to the H1N1 virus associated with the 1918 pandemic. It is not the same. It is not a variant. It is different.

This man-made disaster story has its roots in the mythology surrounding AIDS and it being a creation of the US government, etc.

Vaccines can have side effects. It is up to your prudential judgment whether you are willing to risk the vaccine rather than the disease. GBS is extremely rare. Flu isn’t. If you are immune compromised or a member of a group that is particularly vulnerable to flu common sense says the risk of flu is much higher than that of GBS.

There are a lot of reasons for the hype on H1N1 2009 but making a case for Obamacare isn’t one of them.

A final editorial note. We don’t do conspiracy mongering here. This is the last time you’ll post garbage like this.. Got it? I need an affirmative response as the price of you continuing to post here.

“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”

I apologize

private_citizen (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 12:08PM EST (link)

for rocking the boat a bit too much. My aim was to have people think outside the box. In terms of the origin of H1N1, it has yet to be proven that 2 types of pig flu, 2 types of human flu, and bird flu can combine themselves in the wild. While there is no hard evidence of transmission out of a laboratory, the process of gene splicing has certainly taken place there, which in my opinion makes the possibility of its creation in that setting something that must be considered.

In his study, Perez used the avian H9N2 influenza virus, one that is on the list of candidates for human pandemic potential. Using reverse genetics, a technique whereby individual genes from viruses are separated, selected, and put back together, Perez and his team created a hybrid human-avian virus. Their research hybrid has internal human flu genes and surface avian flu genes from the H9N2 virus. Though it comes from a different strain of avian flu than the one that contributed to the hybrid virus now causing the swine flu outbreak, Perez’s research virus is similar in origin to the swine flu virus, in that both involved a combination of avian and human influenza viruses.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429132238.htm

 

H1N1 traced to 1918 pandemic

private_citizen (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 12:15PM EST (link)

The virus responsible for the Spanish flu in 1918 created a ‘viral legacy’ that continues to this day, according to a study published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.

According to the authors of the report, the Spanish flu’s H1N1 virus, which caused tens of millions of deaths in 1918, was also transmitted from humans to pigs during the pandemic. Tracing the lineage of the virus in this research shows that it continues to evolve in both humans and pigs 90 years later.

All human-adapted influenza A viruses “are descendants, direct or indirect, of that founding virus” says Jeffrey Taubenberger, a co-author of the report and a senior investigator at the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US.

  • All flu viruses contain eight genes in total, including two that contain instructions for producing the proteins hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N), which allow the virus to attach to a host cell and spread from cell-to-cell.
  • There are 16 sub-types of the H protein and nine sub-types of the N protein a flu virus can possess. This offers 144 possible HN combinations, but to date, only three (H1N1, H2N2 and H3N2) have been observed to be fully adapted for infecting humans.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/07July/Pages/1918PandemicAndSwineFlu.aspx

life's hard

streiff (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 1:29PM EST (link)

it’s harder when you’re dumb. Read your pull quote carefully. Then read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic. Not only will you discover they don’t contradict each other but your pull quote doesn’t say what you think it says.

You’ll have plenty of time to do that.

“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”

Yeah, it's a shame about that. nt

mschmitt (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 1:40PM EST (link)

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These are always funny in a sad sort of way

wennejunk (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 8:43PM EST (link)

-clueless shill prattles on on some topic
-shill is warned to change his/her ways
-shill either ignores or pays lip service to warning and continues prattling (no doubt thinking to themselves “I just have to explain this more clearly so they will understand me”)
-shill gets ‘offed’

You can see this in so many areas in life, not just here.

It is sad in the larger scheme of things, but funny at the same time.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ -C. S. Lewis