| U.S. Launches Deceptive Swine Flu
Propaganda Blitz To Counter Criticism
President Obama and his top health officials are engaging in a major
public relations effort to divert attention away from whether its
swine flu vaccine is effective and safe – to whether there
is enough of it to go around. And the media, as always, is cooperating
fully. This echoes the way media debate was manipulated during the
Vietnam and Iraq Wars. Instead of debating whether we should even
be fighting those wars, the media debated only whether we were using
the correct military strategy.
Increasing numbers of scientists and doctors are issuing harsh
criticisms of the Government’s plan to vaccinate (forcibly
if necessary) virtually the entire U.S. population with what they
claim is a poorly tested vaccine that is not only ineffective
against swine flu, but could cripple and even kill many more people
than it helps.
The CDC’s public relations campaign has been running “scare”
ads that portray swine flu as a full-blown “pandemic”
responsible for snuffing out countless lives, and which, unless
stopped by universal vaccination, could kill millions of American
citizens. But scientists and health officials throughout the world
have called the governments claims unjustified and deliberately
misleading.
For example, Dr. Anthony Morris, a distinguished virologist and
former Chief Vaccine Office at the U.S. Federal Drug Administration
(FDA), states that “There is no evidence that any influenza
vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating
any attack of influenza” and that “The producers of
these vaccines know they are worthless, but they go on selling
them anyway.”
And in November 2007, the UK newspaper The Scotsman, made public
warnings by the inventor of the “flu jab,” Dr. Graeme
Laver. Dr. Laver was a major Australian scientist involved in
the invention of a flu vaccine, in addition to playing a leading
scientific role in the discovery of anti-flu drugs. He went on
record as saying the vaccine he helped to create was ineffective
and [that] natural infection with the flu was safer. “I have
never been impressed with its efficacy,” said Dr. Laver.
We hear the assumption being made by the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) that the number of deaths from the H1N1 virus is
at pandemic levels and now a “national emergency.” One
would assume that with all of its resources, the New York Times’
October 26 front page story on the CDC’s statistics would
be accurate: 20,000 hospitalizations and 1,000 deaths due to the
swine flu. However, this is all fiction. And it is a fiction solely
based upon the CDC’s own contradictory statements and actions.
Our independent investigations into the clinical trials and statistical
studies of influenza vaccines reveal glaring discrepancies. Let
us not forget that it is this same New York Times, with its “star”
reporter Judith Miller, who led America into believing that Saddam
Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, tried to purchase
yellow cake uranium from Niger, and had dealings with al-Qaeda.
And let us also remember that it is the same CDC and health officials
in Washington, including President Ford and his top health advisor
Joseph Califano, who pushed through and propagandized an untested
vaccine during the 1976 swine flu scare, which resulted in thousands
of severely neurologically damaged Americans and about 500 reported
deaths. Aside from permanent paralysis, many of these vaccine
victims also underwent torturous processes for many years to get
the government to recognize their illnesses and help cover their
costs. Not only was the CDC’s prediction and vaccination
campaign for the 1976 flu season a total disaster, it also turned
into a deadly scandal, witnessed across the United States on 60
Minutes when Dr. David Sencer, then head of the CDC, confirmed
that the vaccine was never field tested, that there were only
several reported incidents of H1N1 infection and none of these
had been officially confirmed, and then lied about the CDC having
no prior evidence that the swine flu vaccine could cause severe
and permanent neurological damage. The end result from the 1976
debacle cost the government $3.5 billion in damages, two-thirds
were for severe neurological injury and death directly due to
the CDC’s vaccination campaign.
Therefore, being anti-vaccine or pro-vaccine is not the most
urgent issue. What is critical is whether or not there is legitimate,
sound science to support either position; in this regard, the
vaccine manufacturers and our federal health agencies have failed
in the past, and continue to fail today. And they fail dismally.
There is absolutely no evidence for sound-scientific protocol
or anything resembling a gold-standard behind the swine flu infection
statistics and vaccine efficacy and safety clinical trials to
support Obama’s and his health advisors’ claims. Instead,
the reports on hospitalizations and deaths due to the H1N1 virus
are grossly distorted. What we are really witnessing is “official”
science and statistics that are little more than propaganda.
One unfortunate development over the years is the notion that
there is such a thing as a “flu season.” The truth is
that we move annually into periods where there are dramatic increases
in flu-like causing pathogens, however, the majority of these
are unrelated to any strain of influenza virus. There can between
150 and 200 different infectious pathogens—adenovirus, rhinovirus,
parainfluenza, the very common coronavirus and, of course, pneumonia—that
produce flu-like symptoms, and worse, during a “flu season.”
For example, how many people have heard of bocavirus, which is
responsible for bronchitis and pneumonia in young children, or
metapneumovirus, responsible for more than 5 percent of all flu-related
illnesses? This is true during every flu season and this year
is no different. Furthermore, all flu vaccinations, including
the swine flu, are useless for protecting people from these many
prevalent infectious organisms.
If we take the combined figure of flu and pneumonia deaths for
the period of 2001, and add a bit of spin to the figures, we are
left believing that 62,034 people died from influenza. The actual
figures determined by Peter Doshi, then at Harvard University,
are 61,777 died from pneumonia and only 257 from flu. Even more
amazing, among those 257 cases only 18 were confirmed positive
for influenza. A separate study conducted by the National Center
for Health Statistics for the flu periods between 1979 through
2002 revealed the true range of flu deaths were between 257 and
3006, for an average of 1,348 per year.
The recent CBS Investigative Report, published on October 21,
is one example. After the CDC refused to honor CBS’s Freedom
of Information request to receive flu infection data for each
individual state, the network performed independent outreach to
all fifty states to get their statistics. Their report contradicts
dramatically the CDC’s public relations blitz. For example,
in California, among the approximate 13,000 flu-like cases, 86
percent tested negative for any flu strain. In Florida, out of
8,853 cases, 83 percent were negative. In Georgia and Alaska,
only 2.4 percent and 1 percent respectively tested positive for
flu virus among all reported flu-like cases. If the infectious-rate
ratios obtained by CBS are accurate, the CDC’s figures are
significantly reduced and agree with earlier predictions that
the H1N1 virus will be simply an unwelcomed annoyance. So we are
in the midst of an enormous medical hoax, a design and purpose
that has yet to unfold completely, that will nevertheless reap
huge revenues for the vaccine industrial complex.
Another example is a recent alarmist report issuing from Georgetown
University, also usurped by federal health officials and their
multimedia comrades to fuel a campaign of fear and panic. The
report announced that over 250 students were infected by swine
flu when in fact none of these students were tested for H1N1 infection.
The university’s figure was based solely on a count of student
visits to the health clinic and calls into an H1N1 hotline.
This is not the first time the CDC’s predictions for influenza
strains have been overstated and miscalculated. In an interview
on Swedish television, Dr. Tom Jefferson, head of vaccine studies
at the prestigious international Cochrane Database Collaboration,
after reviewing hundreds of influenza studies and statistical
analyses, has said the WHO’s and CDC’s “performance
is not very good.” And in an ITN News interview last month,
Jefferson called the swine flu pandemic a “juggernaut they
[the WHO, government agencies and vaccine makers] created.”
For the 1992-1993 season, the prediction was off by 84 percent.
For the 1994-1995 season, it was off 43 percent for the primary
strain and off 87 percent and 76 percent for two other strains.
The Laboratory Center for Disease Control’s study comparing
vaccine strains with the strains appearing during the 1997-1998
season found the match was off by 84 percent. Again Dr. Jefferson
in a Der Spiegel interview remarked,
“there are some people who make predictions year after year,
and they get worse and worse. None of them so far have come about,
and these people are still there making these predictions. For
example, what happened with the bird flu, which was supposed to
kill us all?.... Swine flu could have even stayed unnoticed if
it had been caused by some unknown virus rather than an influenza
virus… An influenza vaccine is not working for the majority
of influenza-like illnesses because it is only designed to combat
influenza viruses. For that reason, the vaccine changes nothing
when it comes to the heightened mortality rate during the winter
months.”
Our review of all clinical trial studies conducted by the H1N1
vaccine makers for pre-licensing in the American market—CSL,
Novartis, Sanofi-Pasteur, Medimmune and now GlaxoSmithKline—reveals
they were poorly designed and feebly executed. Any professor in
molecular biology or virology would fail a graduate student who
presented a paper relying on research conducted in the manner
of the studies the vaccine corporations submit to the FDA. Nevertheless,
it is this lack of sound randomized, double-blind controlled placebo
studies, particularly for inactivated virus vaccines, that our
government is declaring definitive and is using to justify mass
vaccination of our population.
Last week, Switzerland’s health authorities rejected Novartis’
new swine flu vaccine, Celtura, being targeted for women and children,
because the company’s studies were insufficient to guarantee
its safety. In addition, the new Novartis vaccine, which uses
a cell base from dogs, was found to be contaminated with canine-specific
bacteria. The Swiss newspaper, Tagesanzeiger, also noted there
remains some suspicion that Novartis’ new vaccine may be
a repackaging of an earlier 2008 vaccine responsible for killing
almost two dozen homeless people during an illegal clinical trial
in Poland. This is the same Novartis whose Fluvirin H1N1 vaccine
being distributed in the US relied only on a hasty clinical efficacy
and safety trial enrolling only a small number of health adults.
Novartis likely remains unperturbed. The Swiss pharmaceutical
giant has reported a $6.1 billion profit so far this year and
expects to boost sales for the final quarter with is swine flu
vaccine.
In July, the CDC announced it would cease testing and counting
H1N1 virus infections. Their public reason was simply that they
are convinced there is a pandemic and, therefore, accurate monitoring
was unnecessary. On August 30, the CDC declared the states should
report influenza and pneumonia-associated hospitalizations and
deaths together, not singling out actual cases of H1N1 infection
if there happen to be any actually confirmed from a laboratory.
This has always been the CDC’s policy, and the 36,000 figure
of annual flu deaths repeated ad nausea on their website and spewed
from the media’s health pulpits for several years straight,
does not distinguish between pneumonia, influenza and other flu-like
pathogenic deaths. Perhaps it would make very little difference
because the current rapid diagnostic tests for the H1N1 virus
can range in only 10-50 percent accuracy.
Elsewhere in the world, particularly in Europe, civilians are
increasingly rejecting the H1N1 vaccine. Recent polls in Germany
and Austria show only 13 and 18 percent respectively willing to
take the shot. In Sweden, four vaccine related deaths have been
announced and almost 200 healthcare workers have reported becoming
more seriously ill from the vaccination than they might have from
a flu infection. In the US, anywhere from 90-99 percent of adverse
events go unreported.
If people would simply shut off the CDC’s supported propaganda
noise being blasted across the airwaves and newspapers— the
spectacle of newscasters being inoculated, interviews with government
health officials or private doctors and academics receiving consultation
fees from drug makers, and the drivel of the New York Times—and
simply do their homework, Americans would wake up and realize
the hoax behind the swine flu pandemic. All of the information
is before us. Nothing is hidden. All the contradictions and hypocrisies
are contained within the massive vaccine industrial complex—including
the government health agencies and professional medical associations.
The lie is too large for them to not expose themselves if we simply
look.
Richard Gale is the Executive Producer of the Progressive Radio
Network and a former Senior Research Analyst in the biotechnology
and genomic industries.
Dr. Gary Null is the host of the nation’s longest running
public radio program on nutrition and natural health and a multi-award-winning
director of progressive documentary films, including Vaccine Nation
and Autism: Made in the USA. Dr. Null is also the plaintiff on
a law suit against the FDA to prevent the launch of the swine
flu vaccine until safety studies have been thoroughly conducted.
* A
full list of h1n1 vaccine ingredients, alerts and warnings.
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October 30, 2009
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