The flu pandemic is pharma-driven, not H1N1-driven?

Google Search term : europe investigation who h1n1

I have cut-&-pasted highlighted extracts from the websites listed, in this blog post (ie. Not original material).

Thus far I haven’t been able to find the large media organisations (bbc, cnn, StraitsTimes etc) carrying this news online. The online reuters article I found seemed to want to debunk the myth. If anyone can find these articles, appreciate if you can add on in the Comments, Thanks! )
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Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal
by F. William Engdahl
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16667

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the PACE, a body representing 47 European nations including Russia, has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry.
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Drug companies face European inquiry over swine flu vaccine stockpiles:
Council of Europe to discuss whether pharmaceutical firms spread alarm over pandemic to boost orders of medicines
James Sturcke and Owen Bowcott Monday 11 January 2010 19.47 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/11/swine-flu-h1n1-vaccine-europe

The talks, due to be held later this month, come as British ministers decide what to do with a surplus of as many as 20m doses of vaccine ordered at the height of the swine flu outbreak.
“The governments have sealed contracts with vaccine producers where they secure orders in advance and take upon themselves almost all the responsibility.
“In this way, the producers of vaccines are sure of enormous gains without having any financial risks. So they just wait, until WHO says ‘pandemic’ and activate the contracts,” Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, told the Daily Mail.
Wodarg, who proposed the resolution, added that H1N1 virus was “a mild flu and a false pandemic”. ( http://www2.wodarg.de/uploads/edoc12110.pdf )
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The ‘false’ pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on scare over swine flu, claims Euro health chief
By Fiona Macrae 8:38 AM on 11th January 2010
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242147/The-false-pandemic-Drug-firms-cashed-scare-swine-flu-claims-Euro-health-chief.html

A resolution proposed by Dr Wodarg calling for an investigation into the role of drug firms has been passed by the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based ‘senate’ responsible for the European Court of Human Rights.

An emergency debate on the issue will be held later this month.

Dr Wodarg said: ‘In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide.

He does not name any Britons with conflicts of interest.

But last year, the Daily Mail revealed that Sir Roy Anderson, a scientist who advises the Government on swine flu, also holds a £116,000-a-year post on the board of GlaxoSmithKline.

GSK makes anti-flu drugs and vaccines and is predicted to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the pandemic.

Professor David Salisbury, the Government’s head of immunisation said there were ‘no grounds whatsoever’ for Dr Wodarg’s claims, saying people with conflicts of interest were kept out of the decision-making process.

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Man At Center of Worldwide 2009 H1N1 Hysteria Under Investigation for Gross Conflict of Interest
Posted by Anne Dachel December 10, 2009
http://wisvic.org/ManAtCenter.aspx

World Health Organisation: ‘Mr Swine Flu’ Under Investigation for Gross Conflict of Interest. This is out on Google News in lots of European languages. What are the chances that any major American news sources will pick it up?

A German weekly magazine, published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe’s largest weekly magazines with a weekly circulation of more than one million. The Market Oracle

Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at the center of the worldwide Swine Flu H1N1 Influenza A 2009 pandemic hysteria. Not only is Osterhaus the connecting person in an international network that has been described as the Pharma Mafia, he is THE key advisor to WHO on influenza and is intimately positioned to personally profit from the billions of euros in vaccines allegedly aimed at H1N1.

Earlier this year the Second Chamber of the Netherland Parliament undertook an investigation into alleged conflicts of interest and financial improprieties of the well-known Dr. Osterhaus. Outside Holland and a mention at the time in the Dutch media, the only note of the sensational investigation into Osterhaus’ business affairs came in a tiny note in the respected British magazine, Science.

Osterhaus’s credentials and expertise in his field were not in question. What is according to a short report published by the journal Science, are his links to corporate interests that stand to potentially profit from the swine flu pandemic. Science carried the following brief note in its October 16 2009 issue about Osterhaus: “For the past 6 months, one could barely switch on the television in the Netherlands without seeing the face of famed virus hunter Albert Osterhaus talking about the swine flu pandemic. Or so it has seemed. Osterhaus, who runs an internationally renowned virus lab at Erasmus Medical Center, has been Mr. Flu. But last week, his reputation took a nosedive after it was alleged that he has been stoking pandemic fears to promote his own business interests in vaccine development. As Science went to press, the Dutch House of Representatives had even slated an emergency debate about the matter.”

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No U.S. decision on H1N1 vaccine orders – official
Thu Jan 7, 2010 3:33pm WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0714557420100107?type=swissMktRpt

– The United States has not made a decision on whether to cancel or sell any of its orders for the H1N1 vaccine, unlike some countries in Europe, a federal health official said on Thursday.

Dr. Anne Schuchat of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said demand remains steady and the government’s focus is on having as many people vaccinated as possible.

“Right now we are at a point where we have ample supply. We’re really encouraging people to get vaccinated. So we haven’t made decisions here in the U.S. about giving back vaccines,” Schuchat told a media briefing.

Germany plans to cancel half the 50 million vaccines it ordered from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (GSK.L) to combat the H1N1 flu virus, a German health official said on Thursday.

Earlier this week, France canceled over half the H1N1 flu vaccines it had ordered because of the pandemic.

The U.S. government has paid for 251 million doses of bulk vaccine from five makers — Glaxo, AstraZeneca (AZN.L), Sanofi-Aventis (SASY.PA), Novartis (NOVN.VX) and CSL Ltd (CSL.AX). (Editing by Philip Barbara)
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http://www.swineflu.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=31894 (on how Wodarg came to be suspicious)

“In April, when the first alarm came from Mexico I was very surprised at the figures that furnishing the World Health Organization (WHO) to justify the declaration of a pandemic. I was immediately suspicious: the numbers were very low and the alarm level very high. It was not even in a thousand patients that there was already talk of a pandemic of the century. ”

“In things that have aroused my suspicions so there has been a part of this will sound the alarm. And the other curious facts. As such the recommendation by WHO to carry out two injections for vaccines. It had never been done before. There was no scientific justification for this. There was also the recommendation to use only vaccines patented individuals (…) We did not do so because they preferred to use patented materials vaccine as major laboratories were designed and manufactured to be ready in case of development a pandemic. And in doing this so we did not hesitate to endanger persons vaccinated. ”

“I have seen very concrete example how Klaus Stöhr, who was the head of the epidemiological department of WHO at the time of bird flu, and thus prepared the plans to cope with a pandemic that j ‘ mentioned above, in the meantime had become a top executive of the company Novartis. And similar links between Glaxo and Baxter (etc.) and influential members of the WHO. “

Choosing my race

That mix race thing has a precedent. Long before (or at least long in the short Sg historical context) we had to scratch our head to decide what race we were, many of us were already scratching our heads deciding what dialect group we were.
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Dialect groups are not a uniquely Sg concept, but I think our concept of Dialect groups (at least for the Chinese) are quite uniquely Sg.

All my life, I’ve been asked the question “What dialect group are you?”  And since I begun learning to speak at 2yrs old, I’ve been taught to answer “I am Teochew”.
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Then in 2005, I went on a holiday to China, to my ancestral city of Teochew. I had never been to Teochew in my life. On my dad’s side, I’m the 6^th generation immigrant (their wives all Nonya) and on my mom’s side, I’m the 4^th generation immigrant (their wives all Teochew too). We’ve lost contact with relatives from both sides for a couple of generations already, so this Teochew trip was really a holiday trip for me.
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From our first stop in Hongkong, we took a train into ShenZhen (the Mainland Chinese city across HongKong), and from there a bus to the city of Teochew.  The bus station at ShenZhen was absolutely chaotic. We overheard a young couple asking for the bus to Teochew and we latched on to them. They were really nice.

After 6 hours on the bus, the couple approached us and the guy spoke to me, in Mandarin,

Him   “you’re going to Teochew right?”

Me   “yes, are we reaching Teochew already?”

Him  “we have to get off at the next stop”

Me   “oh, you’re going to Teochew too?”

Him (giving me a ‘duh!!!’ look)   “I am Teochew. And you?”
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At that moment, I was just stunned.

What was I supposed to say? That was my line.

All my life, I’ve been saying that very line “I am Teochew” in reply to questions like this.

Yet at that moment, in the city of Teochew,  I couldn’t say “I am Teochew” anymore.

In Teochew (or anywhere else in China, apparently!), in that bus, “I am Teochew” suddenly meant “I am a Chinese National living in the city of Teochew” , which I clearly wasn’t!

What could I say? “I am East Coast GRC?”!?!?

Well, after that moment of stunned silence, I replied   “I am from Singapore”

“Ah! Singaporean!” he nodded.

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I had and have never felt more Singaporean before in my life.
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Race, is quite an interesting concept. I dare say that geneticists are arguably the most “racist” of all people — the strain and family background of every single mouse in our lab is meticulously recorded = )In humans, it’s nice also to know your racial make up, because a lot of our biology and health status are influenced by our genes (very arguably).
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However, I still don’t understand, to this day, why I have to state my dialect group, race and religion to apply for that data entry job!

It’s an indication of my language skills? Well, 1) the data entry was 100% English.   And 2) Even if Chinese language skills are needed, my dialect group, race and religion are the lousiest indications of my ability to use Chinese. I’m functionally illiterate, and I know at least one Malay, one Indian, one Eurasian, one Ang Mo who is more functionally Chinese literate than me.
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And I really don’t get the idea of bonding along racial lines too —- that “sharing food with only my Chinese neighbour but not my Malay neighbour during a famine” concept.

Just the other day, my Indian friend was telling me how the Indians from India looked down on our local Indians here. In return, I was telling him that he was lucky he didn’t understand Mandarin, or else he’ll be even more pissed hearing the Chinese Nationals commenting that Singaporean food was really bad and we didn’t know how to cook and live here. I kid you not, I’ve been told in my face that the noodles we use here are “peasant quality noodles they wouldn’t use in China anymore” and that “curry looks like swill”. So I definitely think that my Indian friend will appreciate bonding and sharing food with me more.
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To a geneticist, the idea that one can *choose* one’s race is laughable. ( As it is, the geneticists are already laughing at how Singaporeans *choose* not to be homosexual because it’s illegal and morally wrong).

I’ve a friend from India, and his race on his new pink IC is “Aryan”, though he speaks Tamil. And if an Indian born in Singapore is listed as an “Indian” of the “Tamil” dialect group, then what racial group is a Pakistani with a new pink IC? Indian? Say that and you might be bashed. How about the Vietnamese? Go far back enough in their history, and they are Chinese. A Xinjiang immigrant who is less genetically Chinese than the Vietnamese, is listed as “Chinese” instead.

Have I confused you? Yes? My point made.
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I have an idea.

If I ever had a kid, I’m going to register him/her as :

Race : Human

Dialect group : Uniquely Singaporean.

Can choose mah, right?

 ; )