>From: Chris Gupta <chrisgupta@alumni.uwaterloo.ca>....

"There is a simple way to tell whether the stories you are reading about
avian flu are likely propaganda or legitimate. Apply this list of questions:
1. Who wrote it? 2. Who funded it? 3. Is it short on fact, long on
interpretation and editorializing? 4. Does it cite sources for the
statements made and the statistics mentioned? 5. Does it make scientific
presumptions it does not back up? 6. Is the only solution to the problem
presented a drug or a vaccine? 7. Is there an abundance of emotional
trigger words throughout the report? 8. How many times is the word pandemic
used? 9. Is there any suggestion that the avian flu threat might just fade
out on its own? 10. Is there any mention of how the birds were actually
tested? 11. Is there any mention of how the people were actually tested?
12. Is there any suggestion that perhaps germs are not the only cause of
disease? 13. Does the article pretend like H5N1 is a proven cause of avian
flu? 14. Does the report assume that germs are the only possible cause of
disease?
That should do it. At least consider the possibility that there is a
subtext here, and that it's a pattern we have seen before: invent a
disease, hype the extent of the threat, create a drug or vaccine, spend the
money, threat disappears."....

....."Since they keep predicting over and over that a pandemic could occur
at any time, even now, then why would WHO here be expecting the pandemic to
be courteous enough to hold off until the vaccines are created and
stockpiled? The notion is absurd, but it indicates the exact way that a
disease epidemic must always be marketed. The disease is tied to the
vaccine. When the vaccines are ready, magically the disease threat
disappears. Like with SARS and with smallpox vaccine."....

....."As with the marketing of smallpox vaccine in 2002 [8] and the
marketing of SARS in 2003 [6], it's a fairly safe bet the threat of avian
flu will disappear as soon as the money has been spent stockpiling the
drugs and vaccines. That's the usual pattern. Count on it."...

<http://thedoctorwithin.com/index_fr.php?page=curriculum_vitae.php> Tim
O'Shea has put together this definitive dissertation complete with copious
references on the rash of pandemics being promulgated via the experts and
their cronies the media.

....."The first cases of avian flu were reported in Hong Kong in 1997,
supposedly with 8 deaths. Then it faded away and did not appear again in
Hong Kong until Feb 2003 when there were how many new cases in the
outbreak? One. That's one single case. [20]

Some pandemic. The disease goes away completely for 6 years and when one
new case finally pops up, they start talking pandemic. That's marketing. In
the US today, one child in 150 is now becoming autistic [21], and yet the
word "epidemic" is never used in mainstream press or in medical literature
to describe this true, skyrocketing epidemic which now affects over 900,000
American children. [22]"...

This is a tacit example on how
<http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chri...mafia_rules.ht
m> junk science is used in mainstream propaganda, while the real science is
<http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chri...mafia_rules.ht
m> ignored

This is a must read.

Chris Gupta
<http://tinyurl.com/7due5> http://tinyurl.com/7due5
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<http://thedoctorwithin.com/index_fr.php?page=articles/avian.php> AVIAN FLU:
THE PANDEMIC THAT WILL NEVER BE (the original
<http://thedoctorwithin.com/index_fr.php?page=articles/avian.php> article
is here)

- Tim O'Shea

You don't have to be a master intellect to divine the conspicuous lack of
scientific consistency in the recent hysteria surrounding avian flu, to
which we are being daily subjected. It really doesn't add up, does it?
Honestly, how can anyone seriously believe what we are being told:
* avian flu is caused by a distinct new virus - H5N1
* it's a real threat
* 60 people have died worldwide from it, so therefore
* 30% of the world's population is in danger of extinction
* millions of birds have died from it, and soon it will mutate to a human
form
* drugs and vaccines will save us
* the threat is imminent - no time to lose

It's no wonder most people believe these erroneous notions: who's going to
inform them otherwise? The articles trying to expose avian flu as a scam
seem more hysterical and less factual than the actual media propaganda
promoting it. So once again this <http://thedoctorwithin.com/>website must
set the record straight by careful consideration of the fundamental
arguments. The difference will be that in this chapter all sources will be
cited.

What are we being set up for? What are they selling now?

Some background may be helpful. If you've never considered the way media
work in the first place, perhaps the chapter entitled The Doors of
Perception [1] would be helpful.

WELL-WORN SCRIPT

Historical context is certainly relevant: avian flu is right on schedule,
with the winding down of the post 9/11 smallpox vaccine and SARS vaccine
programs. [6] In these two instances, appropriate hysteria was whipped up,
billions were spent, and magically - poof! - both threats disappeared.

Nature abhors a vacuum - new funding requires new threats - ergo, we need
avian flu to take up the slack. As for marketing, it's already in place.
Why change a successful sales strategy? In the fall of 2005, the identical
techniques by which SARS and smallpox vaccine terrorized the American
psyche were trotted out again, this time to sell avian flu:
* create hysteria by incessant media ops, painting a picture of Armageddon;
short on science, long on unsupported overstatement and stock phrases that
are repeated and repeated.
* a constant stream of predictions from "scientific" sources who have done
no new actual studies, but instead re-interpret old material
* offer a solution, an expensive solution involving unproven old medicines
and untested new ones
* spend the money
* never mention the threat again

Tried and true, works every time, a slam dunk. And best of all, people
don't even see it as a pattern. Because in today's world, nobody reads any
more.

So here's the back story. Let's start with what WHO says:

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND AVIAN FLU

The World Health Organization is a political body that has been around
since 1948, made up of 192 member countries, or more accurately, the
ministers of health from 192 countries. [3] Their main task is to hold
annual meetings in order to figure out what their stance on various health
issues should be, and also what they should do with their vast annual
budget of $1.1 billion. [4]

It is not difficult to see that WHO's idea of health is anything but the
holistic ideals stated in their charter, and can be reduced to a single
blanket notion: that the diseases of the world are cured by one remedy only
- pharmaceutical drugs. This axiom is pervasive all through the voluminous
administrative and socio-political verbiage extruding from their entire
website. Lip service is paid to side issues like clean water and nutrition,
but overall the message is clear: good health requires a ton of drugs.

WHO's vision of health limits itself to a study of infectious and
deficiency diseases, whose solution is always the same: more drugs. After
even a cursory review of WHO documents, it is difficult to see WHO as
anything but an agent for the global pharmaceutical industry.

As a media agency themselves, WHO strives to be very topical and current in
their week- to-week focus. So of course they have a lot of info on avian
flu these days.

From the current WHO FAQ sheet on avian flu:
"Avian influenza, or "bird flu," is a contagious disease caused by viruses
that normally infect only birds. Avian influenza viruses are highly
species-specific, but have, on rare occasions, crossed the species barrier
to infect humans. "In domestic poultry, infection with avian influenza
viruses causes two main forms of disease, distinguished by low and high
extremes of virulence. The so-called "low pathogenic" form commonly causes
only mild symptoms (ruffled feathers, a drop in egg production) and may
easily go undetected. The highly pathogenic form is far more dramatic. It
spreads very rapidly through poultry flocks, causes disease affecting
multiple internal organs, and has a mortality that can approach 100%, often
within 48 hours. [5]

Rare occasions? Very rare, as we will see. And how is it that the two "main
forms" of the disease represent "low and high extremes" of virulence? Very
convenient for science, certainly, but nature is seldom that accommodating.
Virulence generally occurs across a range, not just in two polar opposites.
No sources are cited for these "findings."

They continue:
"The current outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which began in
South-east Asia in mid-2003, are the largest and most severe on record.
Never before in the history of this disease have so many countries been
simultaneously affected, resulting in the loss of so many birds." "The
causative agent, the H5N1 virus, has proved to be especially tenacious.
Despite the death or destruction of an estimated 150 million birds, the
virus is now considered endemic in many parts of Indonesia and Viet Nam." [5]

Right here is where propaganda creeps in. Causative agent? H5N1 is a
unproven theory, not the known cause.

Figures of 100 or 150 million dead birds are common in today's media
stories. Where are these figures coming from? Unfounded speculation. But
even if such figures were true, which is not likely, where is the evidence
that this particular virus was the cause? Again, wild speculation, but as
we will see, speculation that is calculated towards a specific end. The
more birds, the scarier it is, the better the story.

The master stroke - stating that this new virus killed the 150 million
birds, with no clinical proof. How many were cultured for H5N1? Today any
bird that dies anywhere is likely to be counted in the flu figures.

The WHO goes on to tell us that in 2003-2004 scientists found H5N1 virus in
the poultry of 8 Asian nations. And since most of the tested birds were
dead, the inference is that the virus killed them. But there's no proof
they died from the virus. Each bird would have had to be cultured to know
that.

Now since WHO lists no Asian countries in which no birds were found with
the virus, maybe this virus is common in normal birds. In other words,
anywhere they looked for the virus in birds, they found it. And most of the
subjects were dead, since they're much easier to catch. Anybody ever think
of all this?

Such singlemindedness of reporting suggests a predetermined agenda.

WHO plods on:
" In the current outbreak, laboratory-confirmed human cases have been
reported in four countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Hong Kong has experienced two outbreaks in the past. In 1997, in the first
recorded instance of human infection with H5N1, the virus infected 18
people and killed 6 of them. In early 2003, the virus caused two
infections, with one death, in a Hong Kong family with a recent travel
history to southern China."

Outbreak? Why are they using that word? What is this, a Dustin Hoffman
movie? There's no outbreak. We're talking about 18 deaths in a part of the
world that has 1.8 billion people. And it's a non-Netflix, non-Lexus SUV
part of the world. Some of the poorest areas in the world, poor hygiene,
poor nutrition, many people tenuously holding onto life by the thinnest
margin. Tens of thousands of people die from regular old fashioned flu
every year in that same area. And there's no cure for that either, except a
vaccine that most can't afford, which is just as well because it doesn't
work anyway. [6] But no one's kicking up a storm of hysteria about regular
flu, because there's already a product being marketed for that. Avian flu
is the new market. New markets need new promo. Big promo.

Next FAQ from WHO:
How serious is the current pandemic risk?

"Each additional human case gives the virus an opportunity to improve its
transmissibility in humans, and thus develop into a pandemic strain."

Another masterful marketing touch. Using the word "current" and "pandemic"
together. But really, just using pandemic at all was brilliant. It's the
word all media have picked up on and won't let go of. Try this: Google
"bird flu pandemic", and watch your RAM overload.

WHAT DOES PANDEMIC MEAN?

Pandemic means a worldwide epidemic, with the implication being that
millions can be affected, and theoretically die. And that is the true
hallmark of any high-end marketing program: theoretical death. The 60
people who supposedly have died from suspected avian flu -- even if that
were the cause of their deaths, it's quite a stretch from 60 to a situation
where 2 billion people are dying. But these are the actual figures cited in
many of the stories appearing in popular press which are telling us how bad
a real pandemic might be - 30% of the world's population.. What does this
have to do with the actual numbers of verified deaths from avian flu? Same
motivation as usual: marketing of cures. No matter who says what, avian flu
bears not the slightest resemblance to anything that could remotely be
described as pandemic, nor is it likely to. At present, with the exception
of 60 cases in 8 years in 6 billion people, it only affects birds,
remember? There is no pandemic, epidemic or mini-demic among humans. And no
amount of media repetition can make it so.

FLU EPIDEMICS IN 1918, 1957 AND 1968 Comparing avian flu projected deaths
to the numbers in earlier flu epidemics [7] again is absurd, speculative,
unscientific, and unnecessarily sensational. For several reasons:

* no one knows how far any current version of the flu will spread
* the current version of the avian flu has only been verified in a very few
cases
* in most cases that are now being counted as avian flu, the causative
* agent has not been identified because no cultures were done
* often no distinction is made between verified cases and suspected cases
And yet we continue to see this comparison technique employed every few
days, as new stories come out. We should learn to use it as a marker to
designate spurious writing; such an attempted comparison between the
current avian flu and 1918 or 1957 epidemics impeaches anything else
asserted in the same article. One witness to the 1918 flu epidemic wrote an
entire book documenting how the deaths occurred more from the vaccines and
injections than from any actual virus-borne disease. [33] She observed that
it was the unvaccinated who remained healthy during the entire two year
period of the epidemic.

THE CALCULATED HYSTERIA OF MEDIA People are naturally complacent and
unconcerned about what does not directly affect them. They need to be
shocked into compliance with any new mass program, whether it’s a war, a
mass inoculation, or the newest security game. The persuasive techniques of
Edward L Bernays have been well learned indeed. [1] To that end, media will
paint the grimmest possible scenario, quoting the most frightening
statistics and darkest predictions from any available source, no matter how
irresponsible or unfounded. The purpose of media is to sell media. As we
watch the avian flu show being crafted into existence, with billions in the
balance in drugs, vaccines, and regulation, no expense is being spared to
conjure up the most enormous disaster the world has ever faced. It's as
though no one wants to be accused of underestimating the magnitude of the
impending catastrophe. Some examples:

An advisor from Homeland Security, Richard Falkenrath, recently called
avian flu "a bigger threat than terrorism." [17] "Whether or not this
particular virus makes the final fatal mutation that allows it to move from
human to human, one day some virus will." [17] "This is a national
emergency." Rep Nita Lowey D-NY [28] "The world is on edge, stalked by a
virus that travels the great migratory flyways and kills where it lands..
The fate of the world hung in the balance." [16] "The single greatest risk
in our world today ...What happens when the global economy shuts down?"
[19] [16] "Could we have acted sooner to avoid the situation we are in now,
in effect running for cover?" - Sen. Arlen Specter R-PA [28] "This is the
first time we've been able to see a pandemic unfold before our very eyes."
- Margaret Chan, WHO ([16], p41)

What pandemic? What are these sources talking about? There is no pandemic
at this time! Where is the voice of reason in all this shrill delirium? Why
is the majority of sources in the media, as well as government regulators
and US Congress all signing on board the same sinking ship of junk science,
illusion, and hyperbole? Wait just a minute here ... Could it just be ...

THE MONEY BEHIND AVIAN FLU


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Yes indeed, all of this as occur to me.
In fact, the only proof of a real threat would be if an homeopath (or holistic healer) would concur with the mainstream media, WHO doctors and Pharma corps.
As there been any such case for an homeopath, in Asia or Europe ?
I would guess not.