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Swine Flu Pandemic Is A Real Swine

Swine Flu Pandemic Is A Real Swine: The Swine Flu Chronicles 2009


Project Humanbeingsfirst's Zahir Ebrahim's Analysis in Full Context

Continually updated to track WHO Advisory

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May 02, 2009 | Updated May 06, 2009

It's a virus that we've never seen before. There's no background immunity in the population and it is spreading from human to human, all of which has the potential for a pandemic.” -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CNN, April 29, 2009)

I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5. ... All countries should immediately activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia. ... It is possible that the full clinical spectrum of this disease goes from mild illness to severe disease. ... From past experience, we also know that influenza may cause mild disease in affluent countries, but more severe disease, with higher mortality, in developing countries.” -- Statement by WHO Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan 29 April 2009

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WHO is not recommending travel restrictions related to the outbreak of the influenza A(H1N1) virus. Today, international travel moves rapidly, with large numbers of individuals visiting various parts of the world. Limiting travel and imposing travel restrictions would have very little effect on stopping the virus from spreading, but would be highly disruptive to the global community. ... Influenza A(H1N1) has already been confirmed in many parts of the world. The focus now is on minimizing the impact of the virus through the rapid identification of cases and providing patients with appropriate medical care, rather than on stopping its spread internationally. Furthermore, although identifying the signs and symptoms of influenza in travellers can be an effective monitoring technique, it is not effective in reducing the spread of influenza as the virus can be transmitted from person to person before the onset of symptoms. Scientific research based on mathematical modelling indicates that restricting travel will be of limited or no benefit in stopping the spread of disease. Historical records of previous influenza pandemics, as well as experience with SARS, have validated this point.” -- WHO Advisory, May 01, 2009

Richard N. Gardner of the Council on Foreign Relations outlined the subversion processes for ending national sovereignty in CFR's Foreign Affairs in April 1974 in his article “The Hard Road To World Order” thusly:

In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.

Of course, for political as well as administrative reasons, some of these specialized arrangements should be brought into an appropriate relationship with the central institutions of the U.N. system, but the main thing is that the essential functions be performed.

The question is whether this more modest approach can do the job. Can it really bring mankind into the twenty-first century with reasonable prospects for peace, welfare and human dignity? The argument thus far suggests it better had, for there seems to be no alternative. But the evidence also suggests some grounds for cautious optimism.” (pages 558-559)

And we observe today that a very real “booming buzzing confusion” uncannily abounds, usually coordinated by the “central institutions of the U.N. system”, amidst the usual platitudes of “prospects for peace, welfare and human dignity”.

Who can make any rational sense of all these global events in real time, and all compressed in a short decade initiated by the crisis of 911 – from global war on terror, to global financial collapse, to global warming and global 'carbon credits', to now global pandemic? Does it require a brilliant man or woman to do so? An Einstein? A Rosalind Franklin? I have reached the conclusion as an ordinary human being of no particular notable brilliance, that it perhaps does only take an un co-opted plebeian to do so. Below is my analysis of the global pandemic now intruding in our lives just like the 'war on terror'. An alert just came home from my kid's school outlining the procedures they will follow in case the school has to shut down. Several schools in the vicinity have already shut down. So what is it all about? If you go to the 'experts', you will surely learn it.

Therefore, while I am not a biologist, in the past few days, I have had to become one by necessity of being a parent, to protect my family; so I know only as much as the title prominently displayed on my forehead, which spells 'expert'. Watch out for us 'experts' – we can suspend the laws of physics just because we say so. Our degrees, Nobel prizes, and elitists' applause are our credentials! So when an 'expert' from our learned ranks, one with known agendas written in our own hand writings but in other peoples' blood, brings you the news, look into it with great care and due diligence – lest you shortly regret having taken actions (or inactions) based upon it.

I find the afore-paraphrase of verse 49:6 from the Qur'an (the holy bible of the priests of 'Islamism', but for most Muslims to be left on the highest bookshelf for occasional dusting and annual pious rehearsing on death anniversaries and fasting) phenomenally insightful in unraveling current affairs (“O ye who believe! if a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what ye have done.”).

However, since I don't know in general, who is wicked and who isn't, as wickedness today comes wrapped in holy white, science, experts, presidents, shills, and "errand boys", and since our times have shown that it is almost trivial to make patsies of even the most sincere peoples to serve the devil's agenda, I apply this wisdom to all news and all bearers of news, all science and all bearers of science, and I don't much care for what's stamped on their lauded forehead.

Atheists and Agnostics of course may prefer to rely on Bertrand Russell's discourse on commonsense to adjudicate wisely.

If only we, the 'untermenschen' of humanity, the 'cattle' being led to the slaughterhouse, had collectively substituted some iota of commonsense from the very day of 911 for all the mantras by experts who shilled and continue to shill, who killed and continue to kill, for empire, we surely wouldn't be here today, “... on the verge of a global transformation [awaiting] the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.” Please read on to understand how the multitude of crises perch humanity on that very cusp of global transformation with its oft-stated agenda for population reduction (also see NSSM 200). The latter is evidentially accomplishable as germ-warfare not only on 'target ethnic groups', but also on global crop, and thus global food production. And all attributed to natural causes, happenstance, incompetence, or unforeseeable blunder.

In this pandemic which is so deliberately being allowed to spread to other regions of the world, we might well be looking at the formation of a pretext for a new global central authority to supersede the largely advisory WHO, as direct global controllers of global public health, just as is now proposed for global central-banking to control global economics, global carbon credits to control global production (emissions), and the global war on terror which has already become the global truth du jour to control and deny essential liberties, all together constituting a global police state. 'One-world' government if you will (see Gideon Rachman's Financial Times Oped And now for a world government, December 08, 2008). In another 100 years, perhaps only 20, even to fart would require some 'fart-credit' from a global authority as it monitors the affluent on its ubiquitous sensors triggered off RFID implants in all that is living, and all which is commodified!

Some of our generation, caught Between the Two Ages (see Zbigniew Brzezinski's Between Two Ages, 1970), experience that angst in anticipation of global servitude to the Pharoahnic oligarchs. But our grandchildren will be taking it as their normal way of life without a second thought, despite their yoke of chains from uterus to grave. And 'that's just the way it is' being planned.

To derail it today, as well-nigh a fait accompli as it appears, is still far easier than it will ever be in the future – until such time when another Age will finally beckon. When, once again, “two cultures and religions [will] overlap ... when a whole generation [will be] caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life,” to resist change, but the new will finally overthrow the old at great human cost and bloodshed. No empire lasts forever.

Note on abetting the Pandemic

The American Heritage Dictionary defines Pandemic as: 'Medicine: Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population: pandemic influenza.'

The rapid spread of the swine flu 'H1N1' epidemic to other parts of the world is largely through Air Travel. With all the Homeland Security Apparatus so ubiquitously deployed at all the International Airports of the world to fight the global 'war on terror' against the 'Islamists', it ought to be rather trivial during check-in at departure points at all the international airports in the world to ascertain if a traveler has been to Mexico and deny boarding (for the immediate near term). The same type of form that is used during entry into the United States, and into most other countries, which asks the traveler questions on their whereabouts can be used at departure points, augmented by the same type of questions that are asked to fight the 'war on terror': did you pack your own bags, do you know anyone who has been to Mexico recently? And repeated a few times through the many steps of screening where they force you to take off your shoes, blow air up your skirt, and get their jollies looking at your imperfections through body imaging to identify 'suspicious' peoples who need to be interviewed further, before being let on board.

They do this routinely – I am subjected to it frequently whenever I travel – why not here? They can trivially shutdown schools as preventive measure and inconvenience thousands of students domestically, as noted in this AP report of May 02, 2009 (cached here): “The Education Department said that more than 430 schools had closed affecting about 245,000 children in 18 states. ... The government issued new guidance for schools with confirmed cases, saying they should close for at least 14 days because children can be contagious for seven to 10 days from when they get sick.” But they cannot detect and prevent a handful of travelers from getting on the plane through judicious assessment? Given the seriousness of the matter by their own admission: “It's a virus that we've never seen before. There's no background immunity in the population and it is spreading from human to human, all of which has the potential for a pandemic.” If the authorities were really concerned about the pandemic, a sensible human being among them would surely have reflected that some obvious policing and restrictions at points of embarkment would detect most of the obvious first order virus-carriers who are now reported, after the fact, to have been to Mexico. This is the low-hanging fruits of the tree which are not being plucked! It is interesting that almost all confirmed cases occurring in other countries of the world outside of Mexico and the United States, are directly traceable to visitors who have been to Mexico, or came in contact with someone who arrived from Mexico (see FluTracker and click on the balloons).

It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that the pandemic can be immediately mitigated by deploying a rational commonsensical first-order check on Departure Airports where the infrastructure to do so is already in place! This is the same sort of commonsense that is seen missing in all the crises since 911 which are subsequently blamed on incompetence, happenstance, blowback, complexity, unforeseeability, etc., and for which some global solution is hurriedly proposed. In fact, its immediate analogy is to both 911 and the financial crisis: the many deliberate stages (see Monetary Reform Bibliography) which were setup to calculatingly lead to the banking collapse, the solution to which, now the same financial ruling elites claim is a global monetary system in the hands of the same banksters. Similarly, according to the 'official dissent' to the official story of planes highjacking, the authorities deliberately monitored the highjackers for months rather than interdict them before 911 for various justifications. Their not heeding many a warning coming from intelligence sources is deemed “incompetence”, and the rationale for the attacks, “blowback”. The one common sacred-cow axiom among all these manufactured explanations: 911 was an invasion from abroad, the work of 'Islamist terrorists', rather than an inside job for “imperial mobilization”. The same thing is happening here: Pigs are being blamed as the first-cause prime-movers of this epidemic, and various justifications employed to monitor its spread, rather than interdict its carriers to prevent it from becoming a pandemic.

Whether it is the pigs in the pen or in the lab who unleashed it, the first-cause of swine flu in becoming a pandemic is evidentially the traveling-humans (not pigs, unlike the case of bird flu where birds are the prime cause of its spread), flying their payload from country to country in airplanes after passing through international airports which are controlled tighter than Fort Knox.

Therefore, the following advisory by WHO on “No rationale for travel restrictions” is not only irrational, and their justification specious, but outright criminal, for it is directly abetting in the spread of the pandemic in the name of science and mathematics. The same sort of “Scientific research based on mathematical modelling” gibberish was used to sell mega-loans to the poor developing nations to put them under massive debt to the World Bank, and then let the IMF let loose upon them to plunder at will (also see John Perkins' EHM, page 101, 2004). The same sort of “Scientific research based on mathematical modelling” gibberish that is used to teach modern economics to generations of IVY and LSE students to justify making the gluttonous banksters richer and richer through their calculatingly induced credit-expansion-contraction-cycles (just as famously predicted by Thomas Jefferson) under their direct monopolistic control of the global central banking syndicate. And the same sort of “Scientific research based on mathematical modelling” gibberish that was employed by NIST and Popular Mechanics which 'proved' the absurd 'pancake collapse' of the WTC towers (see latest reality-check here). All the murderous pretexts are compressed in one short decade. What's the rush? Isn't the new 'one-world' empire supposed to last a thousand years?

Today, as yesterday, one can find legions of scholars, scientists, Nobel Laureates, and many an erudite “errand boy” swearing by these “Scientific research based on mathematical modelling”, while humanity is starved, robbed, decimated, victimized, and now gratuitously subjected to pandemics that are manufactured in Western laboratories for the oligarchs' global population reduction agenda.

A mathematics that is deployed in social sciences and which fails the test of commonsense, is a knife calculatingly constructed and sharpened to slaughter the sheep, not to pair fruit.

I respectfully challenge WHO to rise to the occasion despite being an agency of the United Nations, constructed by the financial oligarchs, to calculatingly orchestrate world governing bodies and global structures. I ask its respected Director General, Dr. Margaret Chan, who is entirely and monopolistically determining global policies which affect all nations – her 'advisory' is gospel for almost every country – to give humanity some respite, for she may not be aware of the overarching agendas any more than any other highly compartmentalized black-ops' unwitting executioners.

Note on CDC Reported Numbers

There is much discrepancy in reportage. The FluTracker using its own heuristics shows the spread of disease faster than officially reported. This report (cached here) by Reuters noted “176 deaths” in Mexico on April 30, 2009, whereas the officially reported “laboratory confirmed” deaths in Mexico as of May 05, 2009, according to WHO Advisory Update 16, is still only 29. The FluTracker shows “fatal cases” in Mexico to be 105 on the same date (20:41 EDT). Why this count anomaly?

See this report dated April 30, 2009, to understand one possible reason for the discrepancy in number of reported deaths, and this remarkable disclosure dated May 01, 2009, for why not to put too much faith in such 'official' reportage, as '“The specimens are coming in faster than they can possibly be tested,” ... CDC lab can only test about 100 samples a day.' The latter report sums it up: 'Why does any of this matter? Because people are under the great misimpression that H1N1 has killed "only" 7 people (or 10 as of today, as the CDC has added 3 deaths to its "confirmed" list). Therefore, people say, it's no big deal.'

This reporter's experience in New York City suggests the same: “I called New York City authorities, who told me they don't need to test everyone with the A/H1N1 virus and can't. They said they test only to identify and contain areas of outbreak.” The reporter, JOE LAURIA, Wall Street Journal's United Nations correspondent, who apparently caught the flu himself and spent 4 days in isolation in a New York hospital, describing his travails in “Reporter Tries to Get Tested for Swine Flu”, dated May 04, 2009, quotes Don Weiss, director of surveillance in New York City's bureau of communicable disease: “There are probably 10,000 people with the flu in New York, [w]e just don't have the capacity to test that. People with the flu should stay home and call their doctor.” Lauria further paraphrased Weiss: 'The only place in the world where testing is being done is at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where a test had to be designed and produced for the new flu strain.'

The following is illustrative. The FluTracker map shows “1069 confirmed cases” in the United States as of May 6, 2009 08:08 EDT. The WHO advisory update 17 of May 06, 2009 reported “403 laboratory confirmed human cases” by the CDC in the United States. According to the FluTracker website: “The map was compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions.” Zooming into the map shows individual case stories. For instance, Missouri shows “2 confirmed cases”, both in its Howard County as of May 2, 2009. The link provided to the news report states: “The two cases were found during testing of specimens sent to the State Public Health Laboratory by doctors whose patients reported flu-like symptoms. Tests showed that the flu virus afflicting the two patients is a previously unseen type. Specimens from each patient will be sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for confirmation that it is the swine flu that has now spread to at least 20 states, including Missouri.”

Therefore, when the FluTracker map annotated Missouri with “2 confirmed cases”, it actually meant two “patients reported flu-like symptoms” which was confirmed by “State Public Health Laboratory” to be of “previously unseen type” virus. But the viral type has not yet been positively identified as 'H1N1' which only CDC is capable of doing (as per “Reporter Tries to Get Tested for Swine Flu” and this), and the specimens will be sent off to CDC for confirmation. As one can easily see, this kind of information can be quite useful provided one is able to discern hearsay from facts, as was possible to do in this instance. Thanks to Dr. Henry Niman for voluntarily compiling this data in the FluTracker.

Note on vaccination

In general, vaccination, when the intent of the health authorities is to preserve and protect, rather than to infertilate and eliminate, is only dangerous with respect to its side-effects. That is a matter of normal practice of modern medicine and pharmacology (the study of how drugs act on biological systems) – the intent being rooted in the 'Hippocratic Oath' to genuinely help people live longer and disease-free lives, and to minimally do 'No Harm' through medical intervention. Many a routine childhood vaccine (used to) come under this category. The evidence of the efficacy of vaccination is empirical – longer lifespans, elimination of many childhood diseases. [1]

However, when the health authorities are themselves beholden to powers from above, and their intent is suspect under certain circumstances, such as the case of the long standing United Nation's agenda for population control, fertility control, and ultimately, population reduction (as for instance outlined by Henry Kissinger in the now declassified National Security Study Memorandum NSSM-200 of April 24, 1974), the advice of the health authorities may not be trusted, especially when it is international. Even if, such advice is given with the best of intention by the peons (Doctors) working in those institutions. These specialists are merely the 'errand boys' doing their compartmentalized jobs for which they have trained as narrow experts. They are part of the establishment, and their rewards and careers are rooted in unquestioningly following the mainstream practice of medicine which is entirely run under the aegis of central organizations like the FDA and the AMA. So who can one go to for advice to ask what actual chemical cocktail is in a vaccine?

I tried that for the Hepatitis B vaccine which was needed for my kid in order to volunteer at a local hospital. I consulted all who were in reach of my phone, and I am rather well connected by plebeian standards. All I was informed was what they were themselves told by the FDA, or had read in the brochures that were dropped off at the doctors' front office by the pharma-reps.

So what's wrong with FDA (and pharmaceuticals) running the show? Well, they are beholden to many a corporate interest, atop of which, sit the Rockefeller interests which control much of the global pharmaceutical industry (see Eustace Mullins, Ibid.) and their research in drugs and in patenting life, which in turn plugs in seamlessly with the bioweapons research interests and primacy agenda of the national security state. [2] The interlocking is so complete among the various participants, from academia to industry to weapons labs, and also so opaque, that vaccines are like a cookie. One just can't know what's in them, or why different chemical/molecular formulations exist in a particular vaccine, or their long term impact, even if one is a well-intentioned scientist in a relevant discipline. Probably the only ones to really know are the those who perfected them in the research labs and they aren't gonna tell you – patents of course, but more pertinently, classified information. Even giving samples of bird flu vaccines to other nations deemed hostile to the United States and Western interests, is considered a threat to its national security! So vaccines can evidently be agents for both short and long term biowarfare as much as they can be antidotes for diseases. Under the best of circumstances, under non-mala fide intent as stated earlier, only its harmful side-effects and efficacy are rational determinants in the decision making of whether to take it or not. Religious beliefs are beyond the realm of this analysis.

Therefore, most people base their decision on trust in these governing bodies – that they would not deliberately harm them (inadvertently perhaps, for profit motive surely, but not calculatingly to implant an RFID chip inside them on contrived pretexts, or reduce the fertility rate among an ethnic group or entire population). This trust occurs for the same reason as the Americans' “United We Stand”.

Under such dubious circumstances, avoiding vaccination, especially of potentially biowarfare related pathogens, is minimally a double edged sword. Since one is not privy to what's in the vaccine, therefore, unless one can get it from the same batch as taken by the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and Henry Kissinger, taking one's chances with the statistical odds becomes a commonsensical prudence for those not in that club.

Footnotes

[1]: Eustace Mullins offers a rational counterpoint to this position in his carefully researched book “MURDER BY INJECTION The Story of the Medical Conspiracy Against America”, 1988, wherein he argues that vaccination (immunization) is outright responsible for many of modern systemic diseases, and that it was the Rockefeller interests who pushed it upon America (and through their control of the UN upon the rest of the world). That blanket position on vaccination being a poor medical practice ab initio, a quackery, stands on its own and is not considered nor challenged here. The point of focus in this note is decision-making under possible mala fide intent (not quackery) when people do follow and accept the conventional practice of vaccination – as I do. Perhaps a rethinking is required there too, but I haven't researched quackery as yet! This video documentary by Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz about medical madness, cloaked in bioterrorism preparedness, certainly leads in that direction. So does this video documentary Vaccination - The Hidden Truth made by the Vaccination Information Service. It is not clear to me if these opinions are confusing due process of medical science which does entail a complex cost-benefit-risk statistical analysis for public-health that is surely plagued by failings in commonsense and excessive greed when led by large pharma, with the political abuse of medical science in general to alias hidden war agendas on unsuspecting populations. My immediate concern is the latter which includes an entire gamut of political abuse, from eugenics to GMO foods to epidemics – which harvests justifications and techniques from science and technology – all for population culling and elimination. It's akin to abusing Islam to create the fabled enemy of 'Islamism' for a war-making agenda – whether or not there is some inherent deficiency in the religion is irrelevant and orthogonal to its political abuse for “imperial mobilization”.

[2] For the relationship between state sponsored terrorism and its instrument of biowarfare as silent-wars inflicted upon civilian populations, see Francis Boyle's Faculty Lecture on Bio/Warfare/Terrorism/Weapons, April 18, 2002, and his book Biowarfare and Terrorism, 2005; also see Stephen Lendman's excellent bird's-eye view in The Bush Administration's Secret Biowarfare Agenda, July 28, 2008. The fact that the “WHO is sending 2.4m courses of antiviral treatment to 72 nations around the world, Dr Ryan said, among them many developing countries” (BBC News, May 02, 2009), is cause for serious alarm given the primacy objectives of the national security directives of the United States Government coupled with its long standing agenda of population reduction in developing nations. The document NSSM 200 provides only a peak into the primacy thinking of hectoring hegemons, and while that has been declassified, what remains classified is hinted at by the impetus for full spectrum hegemony outlined in PNAC and evidenced in all the wars and global crises since 911. All leading to a New World Order of the globalists in which their nihilistic social Darwinianism will dictate both their universal morality to be enforced, and the universal imperatives by which to do so. Those very imperatives are being implemented unchallenged as I write this. This is the most bizarre aspect of this grotesque modernity – victim nations and populations willingly being led to the slaughter! Also see “Population control, US bio-weapons research, McNamara, Rockefeller, and AIDS”, especially Addendum3 where the following observation is noted:

“... there are many many instances where the World Health Organization – which is again largely funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Rothschild group in London – to absolutely control populations for specific political purposes worldwide, ... [fabricate] specific programs designed to kill large amounts of people, and it does this, in every single case, by means of vaccination introduction. We can see a pattern, a modus operandi, in this: Introduce a vaccine to unsuspecting population centers, cause massive sickness, massive death, massive panic, massive chaos, and then they step in and have the agenda completed. It's the same old problem-reaction scenario: They create the problem, they dictate the response, and then they have the prescribed action already made.”

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The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org. Verbatim reproduction license at http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org#Copyright.

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