Beware of Avian Flu Hoax – Senate HELP Committee OK’s bill to Shield Drug / Vaccine Mfg
Tue, 25 Oct 2005
Serious questions are being raised by physicians and knowledgable critics about the government’s bullying tactics to promote the vaccine business. The scare tactics used to promote mass vaccination against the Avian flu “pandemic” is but the latest government sponsored panic attack.
Below, Dr. Joseph Mercola not only punctures the unsubstantiated recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control (See: http://www.mercola.com/2005/mar/5/flu_vaccine.htm )
he provides references that link Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to a Gilead, the flu vaccine manufacturer:
“Since Rumsfeld holds major portions of stock in Gilead, he will handsomely profit from the scare tactics of the government that is being used to justify the purchase of $2 billion of Tamiflu.
See: Gilead Sciences Inc. http://www.gilead.com/wt/sec/pr_933190157/
Dr. Mercolla recommends strengthening the immune system to prevent the flu by avoiding fast foods, sugars, grains and trans-fats and increasing omega-3fats in our diets.
Dr. Rima Laibow, Medical Director of Natural Solutions Foundation recommends: Vitamin C: lots and lots and lots of Vitamin C.
“Vitamin C is not toxic. Under stress (like a viral infection), your need for Vitamin C is increased. When your body has had enough, your body will tell you by soft stools or diarrhea. This is not a sign of toxicity: it is a sign that you have reached “Bowel Tolerance” (BT). Once you get there (and it can be at 1 gram or 20 grams: your body will tell you), cut back to 75% of the dose that represents BT for you and keep taking that dose EVERY DAY.” See: www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Instead of common sense advice–such as avoiding crowds and maintaining hygienic environments, the public is being deluged with dire warnings about the threat of Avian flu and are directed to get vaccinated even before there is evidence of the vaccine’s safety or effectiveness. The federal government is attempting to sweep drug and vaccine safety concerns under the rug by lifting manufacturers’ liability for selling defective products.
Below, an alert from the National Vaccine Information Center informs us that the Senate HELP committee (health, education, labor and pensions) just passed a bill to shield drug and vaccine manufacturers from liaility. That ill-advised action–without so much as a debate–validates grave concerns about the safety of the drugs and vaccines that the government is urging the American people to take:
Barbara Loe Fisher, president of NVIC, said: “”It is a sad day for this nation when Congress is frightened and bullied into allowing one profit making industry to destroy the seventh Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing citizens their day in court in front of a jury of their peers. This proposed legislation, like the power and money grab by federal health officials and industry in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Project Bioshield Act of 2004, is an unconstitutional attempt by some in Congress to give a taxpayer-funded handout to pharmaceutical companies for drugs and vaccines the government can force all citizens to use while absolving everyone connected from any responsibility for injuries and deaths which occur. It means that, if an American is injured by an experimental flu or anthrax vaccine he or she is mandated to take, that citizen will be banned from exercising the Constitutional right to a jury trial even if it is revealed that the vaccine maker engaged in criminal fraud and negligence in the manufacture of the vaccine.”
See: http://www.nvic.org/PressReleases/101905Burrbill.htm
Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav
212-595-8974
CODE RED alert – U.S. Senate Bill Broadly Eliminates Liability For Vaccines And Drugs
…”The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the “Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005″(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced “a drug company stockholder’s dream and a consumer’s worst nightmare.” The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency…
…”true partnership” between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and academia to walk the drug companies…
….will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as “countermeasures” will become public”…
Here is a perfect example of how supposedly democratic decisions are made by governments. Who in their right minds should even consider this let alone develop this blatant piece of legislation? Unless there is collusion with the industry. It is, yet again, sad to see another government usurped by the industry the very industry it pretends to regulate to protect the citizens.
Only a corrupt government in the face of injuries from Vioxx, and anti-depressants etc. could dream up such a scheme for their cronies.
If vaccines and drugs are so safe then why this?
Please take action as per below.
Thanks,
Chris Gupta
E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER
http://www.nvic.org/
Vienna, Virginia
NVIC Note: Yesterday we witnessed the Senate HELP Committee pass this bill out of sub-committee. It is critical that you take action today-immediately. This bill will go back to the committee for a final review on Thursday-October 20, 2005 and then go to the full Senate for a vote. Being led by Republican Richard Burr (R-NC) and being spurred by fears of avian flu, this bill was written and passed out of committee in a 24 hour period. Most members did not even have the final language in front of them.
The version that passed will broadly eliminate liability for vaccines and drugs. Please read the press release, write to the members of the HELP committee, write to your own Senator and your own member of Congress. Pass this alert to your family, friends and other organizations you are involved with. Go to our website and take action right now! Don’t wait for someone else to do it. This is a http://www.nvic.org/ActionAlerts/S1873.htm CODE RED alert to anyone who is concerned about forced vaccination and holding drug companies responsible for the products they create.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 6:37 AM
Avian Flu Epidemic Scare is a Hoax
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If you have been viewing the media you must have seen the scare the media and the president are seeking to orchestrate on you and the public. According to a draft of the government’s plan to fight a potentially cataclysmic pandemic this new avian super-flu could kill nearly TWO MILLION Americans.
But I nearly fell out of my seat in the airplane as I was flying back from a conference in Ft. Lauderdale when I read that in the BEST-case scenario, only 200,000 people might die.
Then they post the frightening picture from the 1918 flu epidemic to heighten the fear. It just amazes me how they can get away with this type of reporting that is so obviously manipulated by the government and drug companies to scare you into taking the flu vaccine.
The popular media continues to reinforce this unbased fear. In the editorial section of the October 17, 2005 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Henry Miller, former director of the Office of Biotechnology at the FDA, seeks to frighten the US public by telling us that the avian flu virus can jump from birds to humans and produce a fatal illness in 50% of those infected.
Ah there’s the rub. 50% fatality rate sounds pretty scary to me. What Dr. Miller and the other experts fail to explain is how these numbers were derived. Did they examine everyone who contracted the avian flu and use those numbers or did they examine the sickest of the sick who had come down with the avian flu and determine the mortality from there?
Of course it was the later, and from the 60 people who have died from this in THIRD world countries we are being told that anywhere from 200,000 AT BEST to two million people at worst will die from the avian flu.
This is shody science at best and beyond belief that any reputable scientist could get away with such nonsense.
Daily Show Parody
Fortunately contemporary comedians can see right through this nonsense. Here are the links to Jon Stewart’s scathing and brilliant Daily Show piece on bird flu. But I have to warn you that it may cause you to hurt yourself from laughing so hard, especially the World Health expert comments on the avian flu killing 150 million people and even funnier comment of George Bush on bird to people transmission.
http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/oct2005/10-06-05/10-6-05-avianflu.mov Quicktime Link (106 MB)
http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/oct2005/10-06-05/mp3/10-6-05-avianflu.mp3 MP3 Link (6.7 MB)
What Happened to Common Sense?
The avian flu epidemic hoax reminds me just how uncommon “common sense” is. Folks where is the sound basic science here? How do they make the giant leap of faith that 60 deaths will translate to 2 million or even 200,00 deaths in the US from a virus that does NOT readily spread from birds to humans or humans to humans?
Most of the people who acquired this infection were bird handlers who were in continuous contact with these sick birds. Does anyone in their right mind envision similar circumstances in the US?
Research like this would typically be thrown in the trash if it did not strongly support some ulterior purpose.
What might the purpose of these scare tactics be you ask?
Well how about the US purchasing huge quantities of antiviral drugs and an increase in flu vaccine production along with purchasing 20 million doses of the highly questionably effective Tamiflu. Guess how much one treatment of Tamiflu costs? Give yourself a slap on the back if you guessed $100.
Donald Rumsfeld to Profit Big Time
So those 20 million doses the government has authorized will cost US Taxpayers 2 BILLION dollars.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will likely profit handsomely from the announcement the government is purchasing $2 billion of Tamiflu, the drug developed by Gilead Sciences when Rumsfeld was president of the company. He is reported to hold major portions of stock in Gilead
Not very different from his previous experience with aspartame where he was president of Searle and was able to get asparatame approved after being blocked by the FDA for more than a decade.
Now I think very few of us would mind if this drug actually worked and prevented even a few people from dying. But does it do that? Not really. About all anyone can expect from this drug is that it might make the symptoms a bit less severe. On the downside (aside from setting you back $100) Dr. Tenpenny explained in her Flu Tele Clinic last week Tamiflu can actually cause the virus to mutate into a more dangerous and potent viral strain.
Yesterday US Congress asked Roche, the maker of Tamiflu to suspend its patent and have others make it because they could not likely keep up with the demand, but of course Roche refused saying Tamiflu is hard to make and it would take another company three years to “get up to speed”.
What they were really saying is they could care less about the public, what their primary focus on was to not share their windfall profits mandated by the US Congress.
Worthless Flu Shots
Of course let us not forget the flu shots which many will use get when they confuse avian flu with the regular flu. Please understand even if you believe the flu shots work, the flu shot you can now purchase is in no way shape or form designed to protect you against the flu. They are completely different strains. (Avian flu is H5N1 strain).
But rest assured the makers of flu vaccines will not lose this unusal opportunity to rape the American public of even more profits. Today we learned that those getting the flu shots may see a 25% increase in prices at clinics, doctors’ offices and medical centers because of increases in the wholesale cost of the vaccines.
History Repeats Itself
Investigative journalist Ida Honorof for decades published a consumer newsletter and broadcast a regular radio program. Honorof received a first prize award from Associated Press for investigative journalism. The Los Angeles Times and other publications credited her with breaking some of the biggest horror stories of our time.
Ida Honorof wrote, “the most brazen, obscene electioneering ploy” ever and added that it was proposed by the President “and his coterie of scientific hacks, fabricated to cause pure unadulterated panic and guarantee political capital, rammed through without consideration of people’s health and lives and approved by a band-wagon Congress” eager to make the nation’s “health” a bipartisan concern.
The above quote was not written about the avian flu epidemic but the 5 million swine-flu vaccine program of 30 years ago. The hastily contrived program for swine flu resulted in hundreds of Guillain Barre Syndrome paralysis victims as well as countless deaths for a flu pandemic that never materialized.
The pocketbook purloining proposed by the Senate is more than 3,000 per cent greater than that of 30 years ago! Has your paycheck increased 3,000 per cent in the last 30 years?
Practical Options
First step for anyone caught up in this avian flu hype nonsense is to take a deep breath and relax and realize the truth here. Unless you are full time bird handler in a third world country that has a seriously challenged immune system you probably have a much better chance of wining the lottery than dying from the proposed avian flu epidemic.
Review the simple lifestyle measures I outlined earlier this year that will serve to boost your immune system to not only address any form of the flu but also other infectious illness like the cold. When you have a healthy lifestyle and follow basic steps of the Total Health program, for the most part you just don’t get sick.
This is the routine surprised comment that most patients tell me after they have been on the program. The Total Health program works for me, most of my patients and can work for you. Just give it a try and let’s stop enriching the drug companies for toxic alternatives that don’t solve the problem.
For more information about the avian flu you can obtain the Flu Tele Clinic I did last week with Dr. Tenpenny.
USA Today October 8, 2005
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