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The Council of Europe called Thursday for a probe into the World Health Organisation's handling of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak, which it said led to unjustified scares and waste of public money.
Council Of Europe Calls For Probe Into False Swine Flu Pandemic
Seeded on Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:15 PM EDT
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COUNCIL OF EUROPE CALLS FOR PROBE INTO FALSE SWINE FLU PANDEMIC
By Jane Burgermeister
(AFP) – 17 hours ago
STRASBOURG — The Council of Europe called Thursday for a probe into the World Health Organisation’s handling of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak, which it said led to unjustified scares and waste of public money.
A council parliamentary assembly identified “grave shortcomings” about WHO transparency about its position on the flu, “generating concerns about the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on decisions taken,” a statement said.
The session adopted a text that says there was “overwhelming evidence that the seriousness of the pandemic was vastly overrated by WHO”.
Paul Flynn, British author of a report endorsed by the assembly, told the session that the WHO’s June 11, 2009 declaration of a H1N1 pandemic had enabled the pharmaceutical industry to reap large profits.
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And from the Daily Mail:
Mr Flynn said predictions of a ‘plague’ that would wipe out up to 7.5million people proved to be ‘an exaggeration’, with fewer than 20,000 deaths worldwide.
Britain braced itself for up to 65,000 deaths and signed vaccine contracts worth £540million.
The actual number of deaths was less than 500 and the country is now desperately trying to unpick the contracts and unload millions of unused jabs.
The focus on swine flu also led to other health services suffering and widespread public fear.
Pharmaceutical companies, however, profited to the tune of £4.6billion from the sale of vaccines alone.
Mr Flynn said: ‘There is not much doubt that this was an exaggeration on stilts. They vastly over-stated the danger on bad science and the national governments were in a position where they had to take action.
‘In Britain, we have spent at least £1billion on preparations, to the detriment of other parts of the health system. This is a monumental failure on the WHO’s part.’
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#1 - Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:16 PM EDTThere were so many credible people screaming at the top of their lungs "THIS IS A SCAM!!" that the question that we should be asking isn't necessarily why the WHO lied--it always lies on behalf of big pharma -- the question we should be asking is:
"Why did the people in our government whose job it is to listen deliberatley turn a deaf ear to those screams?"
The WHO and big pharma will always be corrupt. We can live with that.
But we can not live with strategically deaf "leaders."
I'd also like to take a moment here to encourage all of those Viners who were tossing around "tin foi hat" and "conspiracy theory" insults at those of us who were trying to tell them that the Swine Flu "epidemic" was a scam to reflect on how quickly they shut their minds down to acknowledging the obvious reality that we were presenting them with.
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#2 - Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:58 PM EDTI believe that the relationship between our government and big pharma may be the answer to that question.
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Robert....you weren't here for the blast...I even had a goldman sachs creep stalking me on the vine....it was bad!
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When was this? What do you mean by stalking? Lastly, do I need to kill anyone?
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During the swine flu scare between September and November..I was seeding and writing articles about the scam and alternatives to vaccines when a viner began to stalk my threads harassing me, even threatening me. He eventually disclosed himself as a GS interested investor informing me that the banksters (my word) were heavily invested in vaccines. I reported him to the Newsvine staff.... and let him know, being a Cal resident, I could have Att Gen Jerry Brown track him down like a dog and prosecute him for cyber stalking. He stopped...went away..Over!
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You'd think he'd be a lot more concerned at Goldmans' corporate governance, than with you? Another economic genius, getting screwed, and blaming the wrong people.
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#3 - Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:28 PM EDTI think he finally figured that out....and he sure as hell wasn't going to move me off topic...
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