Swine Flu? A Panic Stoked in Order to Posture and Spend:
Swine Flu?
A Panic Stoked in Order to Posture and Spend:
Despite the hysteria, the risk to Britons’ health is tiny – but that news won’t sell papers or drugs, or justify the WHO’s budget
By Simon Jenkins
April 30, 2009 “The Guardian” — -We have gone demented. Two Britons are or were (not very) ill from flu. “This could really explode,” intones a reporter for BBC News. “London warned: it’s here,” cries the Evening Standard. Fear is said to be spreading “like a Mexican wave”. It “could affect” three-quarters of a million Britons. It “could cost” three trillion dollars. The “danger”, according to the radio, is that workers who are not ill will be “worried” (perhaps by the reporter) and fail to turn up at power stations and hospitals.
Putting Swine Flu in Perspective.
Putting Swine Flu in Perspective.
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Congressman Ron Paul gives his thoughts on the swine flu issue.
Swine Flu – The Real Deal
Political Lies and Media Disinformation regarding the Swine Flu Pandemic By Michel Chossudovsky
What is the flu? Influenza (the flu) is a serious contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses.
Millions of people in the United States get the flu each year. Most people are sick for about a week. Some people (especially young children, pregnant women, older people, and people with chronic health problems) can get very sick and may die from the flu. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) The World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to Phase 5 on a 6 point scale. The WHO’s Phase 5 alert means “there is sustained human-to-human spread in at least two countries and that global outbreak of the disease is imminent… It also signals an increased effort to produce a vaccine… Human cases have been confirmed in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Britain, Israel, New Zealand and Spain.” (emphasis added) According to reports, the WHO took this decision after ” a 23-month-old [child] died [from the swine flu] in Texas after travelling there from Mexico for medical treatment.” The swine flu was, according to reports, confirmed in 11 states in the US. Health officials at the WHO in Geneva and Washington are quoted as saying that the “spread of the virus is unlikely to stop”.
The media has gone into full gear with little analysis and review of the evidence, focussing their attention on the more than 2400 cases of non-specific influenza in Mexico. “the global outbreak is imminent… all countries should activate preparedness plans”, The worst health crisis facing the world in 90 years…” On the day following the WHO’s Phase 5 Pandemic Alert, a scientist attached to the European Union’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention hinted, without evidence, that the epidemic could potentially affect 40% to 50% of the EU population “in a mild way”. (See europeanvoice.com, April 30, 2009).
Pigs Meat Why does Islam forbid pork?
Pigs Meat
Pigs Meat Why does Islam forbid pork, when the pig is one of the creations of God?
Praise be to Allaah. Firstly: Our Lord has forbidden eating pork in definitive terms.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Say (O Muhammad): I find not in that which has been revealed to me anything forbidden to be eaten by one who wishes to eat it, unless it be Maytah (a dead animal) or blood poured forth (by slaughtering or the like), or the flesh of swine (pork); for that surely, is impure or impious (unlawful) meat (of an animal) which is slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allaah (or has been slaughtered for idols, or on which Allaah’s Name has not been mentioned while slaughtering)” [al-An’aam 6:145]
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