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F. William Engdahl
No sooner are indictments being handed down to Scooter Libby, the Chief of Staff
of the Vice President of the United States for lies and coverup of information
used deliberately to suppress the fact the Bush Administration had no ‘smoking
gun’ to prove Saddam Hussein was building a nuclear arsenal, but a new scandal
is surfacing every bit as outrageous and ultimately, likely also criminal.
Against all scientific prudence and normal public health procedure, the world
population is being whipped up into a fear frenzy by irresponsible public health
officials from the US Administration to WHO to the United States Centers for
Disease Control. They all warn about the imminent danger that a malicious viral
strain might spread from infected birds, primarily in Vietnam and other Asian
centers, to contaminate the entire human species in pandemic proportions. Often
the flu pandemic of 1918 which is said to have killed 18 million worldwide, is
cited as an example of what ‘might’ lie in store for us.
On November 1, appropriately enough the day after Halloween, President Bush is
scheduled to visit the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland to
announce his Administration’s strategy of how it will prepare for the next flu
epidemic, whether from Bird Flu or some other strain. The plan has been a year
in the making. On October 28 the Senate passed an $8 billion emergency funding
bill to address the growing Avian Flu panic. Health and Human Services Secretary
Mike Leavitt, in a moment of candor during the debate on the Senate bill told
the press, ‘If it isn’t the current H5N1 virus that leads to an influenza
pandemic, at some point in our nation’s future, another virus will.’ In the
meantime taxpayer billions will have gone to a handful of pharmaceutical giants
positioned to profit. None stands to reap more lucre than the Swiss-US
pharmaceutical giant Roche Holdings of Basle.
The only medicine we are told which reduce the symptoms of general or seasonal
influenza and ‘possibly’ might reduce symptoms also of Avian Flu, is a drug
called Tamiflu. Today the giant Swiss pharmaceutical firm, Roche, holds the sole
license to manufacture Tamiflu. Due to the media panic, the order books at Roche
today are filled to overflowing. Roche recently refused a request from the US
Congress to lift its exclusive patent rights to allow other drug manug´facturers
to produce Tamiflu with the improbable excuse that it was in effect, too complex
for others to rapidly produce.
However, the real point of interest is the company in California who developed
Tamiflu and gave the marketing rights to its patented discovery to Roche.
‘Rummy Flu’
Tamiflu was developed and patented in 1996 by a California biotech firm, Gilead
Sciences Inc. Gilead is a NASDAQ (GILD) listed stock company which prefers to
maintain a low profile in the current rush to Tamiflu. That might be because of
who is tied to Gilead. In 1997, before he became US Secretary of Defense, Donald
H. Rumsfeld was named Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, where he
remained until early 2001 when he became Defense Secretary. Rumsfeld had been on
the board of Gilead since 1988 according to a January 3 1997 company press
release.
An as-yet-unconfirmed report is that Rumsfeld while Secretary of Defense also
purchased an additional stock in his former company, Gilead Sciences Inc., worth
$18 million, making him one of its largest if not the largest stock owners
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Alan
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