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UN BLACKMAIL?
Release Date
2009-09-24
Time
10:50:00
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009. My telephone seminar, SWINE FLU AND VACCINE DANGERS, takes place tomorrow, Sept. 23. You can still sign up. Just click on the link above, or go to my site, www.nomorefakenews.com and sign up there.
The British newspaper, the Observer, just ran a story about a leaked UN report on Swine Flu, under this headline:
Swine flu 'could kill millions unless rich nations give £900m'
As a veteran reporter, I always smell blackmail when I read pronouncements like that from so-called medical authorities. They want funding, and they’ll say anything to get it. Of course, in this case, UN people might actually believe they’re battling a real pandemic. But, for example, the World Health Organization states that, worldwide, deaths from Swine Flu are around 3000. Whereas, the same organization claims a million people, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa, die EVERY YEAR from malaria. This puts things in perspective.
The Observer story opens this way:
“The swine flu pandemic could kill millions and cause anarchy in the world's poorest nations unless £900m can be raised from rich countries to pay for vaccines and antiviral medicines, says a UN report leaked to the Observer.
“The disclosure will provoke concerns that health officials will not be able to stem the growth of the worldwide H1N1 pandemic in developing countries. If the virus takes hold in the poorest nations, millions could die and the economies of fragile countries could be destroyed.”
But again, what about malaria? Take a look at these stats:
Malaria Worldwide
• 300-500 million people contract malaria annually
• One million people die each year from malaria
• Every 30 seconds someone dies from malaria
Malaria in Africa
• 90% of all malaria deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa
• 1 in 5 childhood deaths are caused by malaria
• Malaria is responsible for a 1.3% growth penalty per year in some African countries, due to loss in productivity
• Malaria costs Africa more than $12 billion in lost GDP every year
Source: Roll Back Malaria, President’s Malaria Initiative, The World Health Organization, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Skipping down in the Observer story:
“The UN's request for the money comes as the virus begins to establish itself in some of the world's most vulnerable countries. On Wednesday, health officials told one website that the African continent had recorded 8,187 confirmed cases of swine flu and 41 deaths.”
41 deaths, since the hysteria about Swine Flu began. Whereas, every year, a million people die as a result of malaria. I’m sorry, but if the UN, with its vaunted PR departments, can’t keep drumming up grave concern in the press about malaria, I’m very suspicious about this recent demand for big money from rich nations to fight Swine Flu. It just doesn’t make sense. What I can hear somebody at the UN/WHO saying is this:
“Look we can’t get billions for malaria, so let’s at least latch on to this Swine Flu hysteria and see how many bucks we can squeeze out of governments.”
WE ARE FACING A GRAVE DANGER.
WE WANT BIG MONEY.
These are two very different statements, but they can be woven together to create a pay day. The truth doesn’t matter. It rarely does.
Or let me put it this way. If you were the head of an organization that purports to fight disease, and in one hand you had 41 deaths, and in the other hand you had a million deaths a year, which hand would you be more concerned about?
Or let me put it a third way. With 41 deaths reported in Africa from Swine Flu, and 3000 deaths reported worldwide, there is a fierce amount of madness and fear mongering in the press. Imagine what the press would do if a million people, in Africa alone, were dying of Swine Flu every year, year in and year out. Well, that’s ALREADY the case with malaria. Does the press care? What’s wrong with this picture?
See you in the seminar.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com