Reasons to fear a planned flu pandemic (I do)

Toronto bird flu lockdown misreported 19 Mar 2008 A Toronto hospital
denied media reports Wednesday an elderly couple had been quarantined
amid fears they had returned from Asia with avian flu. CITY-TV
reported an elderly couple who had just returned from Bangladesh
were admitted to Toronto East General Hospital Tuesday night, and
workers were taking "extra steps to be safe including wearing masks
and gloves." Soon after, the hospital issued a statement saying it
"has no reason to speculate that any patients in the hospital have
avian flu."

TO hospital monitoring possible cases of avian flu --T.O. hospital
denies reports it's treating avian flu 19 Mar 2008 The Toronto East
General Hospital is denying reports it is treating patients who may
have been exposed to the avian flu. In a news statement released
Wednesday morning, hospital officials said it has seen an increase
in patients suffering from seasonal flu, not the avian flu.

Couple Isolated At Toronto Hospital Over Bird Flu Fears 19 Mar 2008
When an elderly couple who had just returned from Bangladesh showed
up at Toronto East General Hospital suffering from bad flu-like
symptoms, officials there took no chances. The patients were
immediately isolated, staff members wore gowns, gloves and masks
and no visitors were allowed in to the secure area. But on Wednesday,
the hospital took great pains to assure there was no reason to fear
the disease had made its way to Canada. [See also: Flu 'Oddities'.]

'Dads' Army' to protect against security threats --

Official: Force likely to be "a variation"
of the ARP [air raid precaution wardens] who patrolled Britain's
streets during the Blitz 19 Mar 008 Gordon Brown wants tens of
thousands of Britons to join a new Dads Army-style volunteer force
to help the Government tackle threats to national security. The new
force, called a new Civil Protection Network, will be based on the
local Neighbourhood Watch schemes. The Government also wants students
at schools and universities to play their part in protecting Britains
security by reporting any suspicious activity.

Brown unveils civil defence plan 19 Mar 2008 Members of the public
will be able to join a new form of civil defence network to protect
Britain 'against' natural disasters and terrorism. The organisations
- likened to a new breed of "air raid precautions" or "ARP" wardens
from the Second World War - will team up to build the country's
resilience in a catastrophe. As part of a new National Security
Strategy, Prime Minister Gordon Brown also revealed that the
Government will publish for the first time a list of the risks faced
by Britain... For example, it said the highest threat currently
faced is an influenza-type pandemic which the Government believes
could kill up to 750,000 people in the UK.

Flu pandemic is biggest threat to security, strategy says 19 Mar
2008 The biggest threat to Britain at the present time is a flu
pandemic. An outbreak could cause the deaths of up to 750,000 people,
according to the strategy.

Officials had carried a modelling exercise last Autumn, called
Operation Winter Willow, to gauge the effects of such a pandemic.
Officials were applying the lessons from the Government's approach
to terrorism, the strategy says.

From the Daily Progressive - Hiding the Truth

Not all editorials are equal. Some are just "head jobs" .. some can't see the forest for the trees. Some aren't "coming from" a place with enough information. This crosspost below has HAUNTED me since I read it, as it is only TOO TRUE. Simply understated, it's the TRUTH.

We're all being had -- here in North America and they keep lieing to the people in the Middle East about The Plan.

Veeger

Peddling Fear: Blowback in Pakistan vs Healthcare, Jobs, and Foreclosures

A. Alexander, December 30th, 2007

Worried that domestic issues -- healthcare, jobs and home foreclosures -- might overtake the 2008 election, corporate-owned media has busied itself peddling Bhutto's assassination as a major "national security" concern. FOX News has, of course, been most blatant. The network has hardly allowed a news segment to pass without mentioning Pakistan's "60 nuclear warheads." CNN, the major networks and print media have all sounded similar themes regarding Bhutto's assassination. All of America's corporate-owned media has joined in the spin frenzy ... hoping against hope that they can scare the American people into worrying less about feeding their families and worrying less about how to get little Suzy the medical help she needs and making them more terrified that a nuclear bomb will suddenly come crashing through the kids' bedroom windows.

This is -- for America's military industrial complex and therefore, America's corporate-owned media -- an important moment ... a turning point in the 2008 election. Since Iran has been proven to be a boogeyman only in the mind of Dick Cheney and since Iraq has simmered to a slow boil, the American people have begun to place domestic issues at the top of their political agenda. And, as every lobbyist knows, big corporations can't make obscene profits by providing jobs and healthcare and homes ... the REAL money can only be made in bombs and wars and rumors of wars. Hence, America's corporate-owned media is doing its level best to make Pakistan's loss, America's personal nightmare.

Without exception, every corporate-owned media outlet has been pounding on the same theme: Bhutto's assassination may "roil" the 2008 election as "national defense" concerns surrounding her assassination reignite fears of terrorism and nuclear bombs ... and then EVERY news network and newspaper went about the business of fanning fears related to terrorism and nuclear bombs. A person would have to be willfully ignorant not to have noticed the pattern. And the only viable reason as to why the corporate-owned media is doing all it can to make the 2008 election about fear and terrorism and nuclear holocaust is because there just aren't any profits to be made by America's corporations in solving domestic issues. But in bombs and wars and rumors of wars ... there are trillions of taxpayers' dollars to be stolen ... err ... made.

And so it is ... America's corporate-owned media has busied itself peddling Bhutto's assassination as a major "national security" concern. All in hopes of turning the 2008 election away from healthcare and jobs and home foreclosures and instead, making it all about fear-driven defense industry profits ... um ... making it about terrorism and nuclear bombs.

That isn't to say, however, that the trouble in Pakistan should be taken lightly. The assassination of Bhutto and the resultant unrest could potentially lead to a complete unraveling of the region, but that is the logical outcome of the Bush administration's arrogant lunacy. Indeed, the administration that was supposed to be chocked full of foreign policy wizards has, in the end, proven to be too smart by half. Instead of actually fighting terrorists in Afghanistan and thereby helping stabilize the region, Bush and Cheney used the attacks of 9/11 as an excuse to steal Iraq's oil.

As Pakistan explodes into a million-billion pieces, the chickens of Bush and Cheney's madness have come home to roost. Now, America's corporate-owned media and its military industrial complex pimp-daddies are hoping to leverage Pakistan's pain into more record-breaking profits born of bombs and wars and rumors of wars.

That's right ... the corporate-owned media that originally played a vital role in the administration's scheme to trick the American people into attacking Iraq in the first place, now hopes to con the American people into footing the bill in blood and treasury to clean up the blowback in Pakistan. Well, thanks, but no thanks! The world is a dangerous place, but the American people didn't make it that way. The corporate-owned media and its masters in the military industrial complex did. If they want to fix it, let them spend their profits to do the job. This election will be about the things that matter to the people: healthcare, jobs and foreclosures.

posted by Katherine Holland
on December 30th, 2007 at 7:08AM

Come on MrA, these greedy bastards arent going to dip into their own profits. You know, when Ws media harps on one subject for days most of us know the cons are up to no good. This unjournalistic media is supposed to keep our attention focused on their story. Beware, some kind of scheme is being planned. The sh*t will hit the fan soon enough.

posted by Ernest Spoon
on December 30th, 2007 at 4:40PM

A video shown by NBC News this evening leaves open the possibility that Butto's assissination was a joint operation of Pakistan's ISI and al Qaeda: a clean-shaven gunman, closely shadowed by the white robed suicide bomber. Cui bono? Musharraf? Bin Laden? Or Bush and the eventual GOP presidential contender?

posted by Virginia Simson
on January 1st, 2008 at 3:51PM

I read this and found it is HAUNTING. A really really good "essay" that is right on the truth.

The BuZh "veto" of the budget is also totally uncovered by the Mainstream media as to what it actually is - not a VETO, Congress is in session! But that now will have to go to court. The press is truly bs these days.

Thanks.