I direct my response to this to the OT list. Thank you for a most excellent post.
Jim -----Original Message----- From: starshar [mailto:stars...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:57 AM To: silverlist Subject: CS> There is another nightmare though that might blindside humanity. Dr. Leonard Horowitz essay The Avian Flu Fright: Politically Timed for Global "Iatrogenocide"[iii] offers a whole other view of what might be going on. Biotechnology in the service of bioterroism and biological warfare is able to take simple proteins and retroviruses and turn them into lethal life forms that threaten humanity. Are these health officials merely front men for sinister forces dedicated to forceful population reductions? In Horowitz's essay it said America alone is "targeted" for a 50% population reduction. "Thus, the flu virus the world currently fears most is either: 1) now being prepared in labs paid by industrialists with massive wealth-building incentives to "accidentally" release the virus; or 2) has already been prepared in such labs to take advantage of this current fright and future sales following the virus's release." It's not only in the movies that dark forces rear up their incredible ugliness to face us with ourselves. The repeated warnings of the United Nations and other authorities of an impending global epidemic of avian flu outbreaks have led over 60 countries to order large supplies of Tamiflu despite the fact that it has yet to prove its reliability at curing or stopping the H5N1 bird flu virus. This is good news for for U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has already cleared over $5 million in capital gains by selling some shares in Gilead Sciences, the biotechnology firm that developed the drug Tamiflu, while he was serving as a board-member for that enterprise reports an article in the London Independent. Dr. Lanka reminds us, "Those side effects which are noted on the instruction slips accompanying packages of Tamiflu are almost identical to the symptoms of serious influenza. Thus, on a large scale, medicines are now being stored which cause precisely the same symptoms as those which appear in an actual so-called influenza. If Tamiflu is administered to sick persons, then this is likely to cause far more serious symptoms than those of a serious influenza. If a pandemic is stated to exist, then many people will take this medicine at the same time. In that case we will actually have unequivocal symptoms of a Tamiflu epidemic. Then deaths caused by Tamiflu are to be expected, and this will then be presented as evidence of the dangerous nature of the bird flu." "Agribusiness companies stand to reap huge gains in the event that scientists at Cambridge University and elsewhere are able to replace the entire world chicken population with genetically-engineered chicks allegedly resistant to H5N1 virus. Little-noticed beneficiaries of the current Avian Flu scare, however, are the giant agribusiness chicken producers based in the United States, who claim 'their' chickens are safe. Their sales are booming and all indications are that Avian Flu, paradoxically, has come like a Godsend to their corporate balance sheets," writes Global research Editor F. William Engdahl. Factory farms are actually the cause of killer diseases. The industrialization of chicken-raising and slaughtering in the USA, which is known as 'factory farming' is a process whose inner workings are unknown to most people. Better it remained so some say. Were we to know, we likely would never again eat chicken. Today, five giant multinational agribusiness companies dominate the production and processing of chicken meat in the United States, and, as things seem to be going, especially were the world to be looney enough to adopt genetically modified chickens supposedly resistant to Avian Flu virus, these five companies are about to dominate world chicken supply. During a 75-year lifetime, a typical U.S. resident is responsible for the suffering and death of 11 cows, 32 pigs and sheep, 85 turkeys, 2,570 chickens and ducks.[iv] According to a recent report by VivaUSA, a non-profit organization investigating conditions in US factory farms, 'Thanks to genetic selection, feed, and being prevented from moving or getting any exercise on factory farms, chickens now grow to be much larger and to grow more quickly than ever before.' Broilers today need an average of 6 weeks before slaughter compared with 12 weeks in the 1940's. For modern animal agriculture, the less the consumer knows about what's happing before the meat hits the plate, the better. Dr. Peter R. Cheeke Professor of Animal Science Oregon State University The use of growth boosters has created major health problems in the huge factory farms. Because of hormone and vaccine injections to speed growth, muscle growth outstrips bone development and the chickens typically have leg and skeletal disorders that significantly affect their ability to walk. Unable to walk, they must sit in poor-quality litter, creating breast blisters or hock burns. According to one report, 'The dermatitis seen in such birds is painful in itself but the effects of inability to walk are much more severe.' Chicken organs are unable to keep up with their hyper growth rates, causing hearts or lungs to fail or malfunction, and creation of excess fluids in their bodies or death. Under special exemptions in US law, chickens are excluded from the protections of the federal Animal Welfare Act. The federal government sets no rules or standards for how these animals should be housed, fed, or treated on farms. Chickens piled on top of one another in cramped cages filled with dirty bird feces and poor ventilation. Chickens to be fattened before they are slaughtered live in 23-hour daylight conditions. That makes a chicken believe that he has to keep eating. The light only goes out for one hour each day, in which the chicken is allowed to rest. If a human baby grew at the same rate that today's turkey grows, when the baby reaches 18 weeks of age, it would weigh 1,500 pounds. In the race to fatten chickens for slaughter by 6-weeks-old and turkeys within 20 weeks, the birds endure "chronic pain for the last 20% of their lives," claims veterinary professor John Webster. In a PETA undercover investigation, broiler birds were found dehydrated and plagued with respiratory diseases, heat prostration, bacterial infections and cancer. Chicken and turkey flesh come from distressed animals with compromised immune systems. In Diet for a New America, author John Robbins claims 90% of factory-farmed chickens are infected with leukosis, or chicken cancer. Molecular biologist Robert Silva and technician Cecyl Fischer inspect DNA sequences of samples from the most recent avian leukosis virus sub-group J isolated from a U.S. broiler breeder flock. According to the USDA, in the past few years a new strain of avian leukosis virus has swept like wildfire through the broiler breeder chicken industry around the world. Various strains of the virus cause lymphoid tumors that grow from cells in the chicken's bursa, an organ near the end of its intestinal tract. The new strain causes predominantly myeloid tumors, which grow throughout the body, often on bone surfaces and it spreads like wildfire in chickens. The ALV-J strain renders the industry's detect-and-eradicate strategy useless. It is also highly variable, seeming to change constantly, and it spreads too fast. By the time it is detected and the infected birds are removed, it has already spread to other chickens.[v] Consider the conditions which prevail on factory farms, should we be surprised if disease is rampant? With so many bugs associated with farm animals, is it any surprise that we are being poisoned by our food? Dr Walter Sontag, an Austrian zoologist who has studied the development of the H5N1 virus, and who concluded that the alarm about Bird Flu pandemic is vastly exaggerated, says, 'A high density (of birds) in a small space with defined food and water availability, and in addition, poor hygiene conditions promote an explosive spread of pathogenic germ cells.' Sontag goes on to point out that 'free-walking' chickens, in contrast to the 'jailed' factory farm birds, 'almost without exception keep a great distance from humans.' Because of excessive use of antibiotics in the fodder used in industrial farming, we risk the creation of resistant strains of bacteria in factory farm animals. Dr. Maurice McKeown says, "Concern about chicken meat has in the past been focused on high levels of bacterial infection, the presence of growth hormones and antibiotic residues. The reality may be much worse however. USDA researchers have now found that chicken is the primary source of arsenic in the US diet, which is a cancer causing substance linked to a variety of important human cancers. Its presence in water in many regions of the world is a major health problem. It is arsenic in the inorganic form which is considered most dangerous." "The mean concentration of total arsenic in young chickens was 0.39 ppm, 3- to 4-fold higher than in other poultry and meat. At mean levels of chicken consumption (60 g/person/day), people may ingest 1.38-5.24 µg/day of inorganic arsenic from chicken alone. In people who consume the most chicken their daily intake could be 21.13-30.59 µg inorganic arsenic/day and 32.50-47.07 µg total arsenic/day from chicken." Since the late 19th century, diseases of poultry in mass animal farming have been observed: Blue coloring of the crest, decrease in egg laying performance, sagging of the feathers, and sometimes these animals die too. These diseases were called bird pest. Now it's called bird flu! Animals respond the same way as humans do to being cooped up in concentration camps, they get sick and they die. Notice that health officials are not worried about animal concentration camps and all the health issues associated with them. Not a word is said about the obvious but waves of hysteria are created over small bits of protein that are not proven to be the actual root cause of what we are seeing. So what did these 98 people die of? "Persons with symptoms of a cold, who then had the bad luck to fall into the hands of H5N1 hunters, were killed with enormous amounts of chemotherapy [chemical pharmaceuticals] supposed to restrain the phantom virus. Isolated in plastic tents, surrounded by madmen in space suits, they died, in panicky fear, from multiple organ failures," writes Dr. Lanka. Certainly these patients are not being given the appropriate nutritional support to help them weather the storm. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. 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