WHO and Big Pharma....not so strange bedfellows

When I drive in to school from where I live to Saskatoon, which is about a 30 minute drive, I like to listen to the Alex Jones Show.  My morning routine involves getting up, dressed, a quick bowl of cereal while the coffee percolates and I download the latest podcast of his show from the day before.  While I don't always agree with everything Alex has to say, (and lately I find myself agreeing less and less with what he has to say), I still find he has a way of sourcing out information that no mainstream media outlet can. 
On the outside people would expect that me, this 39 year-old, single mother of two teens, who works and is pursuing her Nursing degree would hardly be the Infowars type.  However, I have to give Alex some of the credit for waking me up to some of the realities that are wreaking havoc on our world today. It was Alex who first brought me some very different information about the H1N1 pandemic than what I was hearing from our local news outlets.  CTV and CBC were busy stressing about how many people were diagnosed or who had died from the virus every day and by all accounts it seemed that the second wave was going to be the next 1918 flu.  Why then was Alex ranting about it being a hoax? 
I decided to find out more about it and even set up a public opinion poll on a website I created in order to find out if indeed I wasn't alone.  Well, I got 260 responses and without boring you with the percentages, found that over half of the respondents felt that the pandemic was over-exaggerated and had no intention of getting the H1N1 shot.  On top of that almost all respondents said they wanted to see a review of the governments handling of the pandemic and wanted to see more research into the safety of vaccines.  Only 2% of the respondents trusted the Canadian Government and yet most trusted the Provincial Health Authorities, who are overseen federally.  Only two respondents said they trusted the pharmaceutical companies and a low percentage trusted the FDA.
 Surprisingly almost all the respondents trusted the World Health Organization.  I say surprisingly, because on the Alex Jones Show (Feb 8th, 2010), I listened to an interesting interview with a Dr. Wodarg, who is head of the European Council on Health and who is investigating the dealings between the big pharmaceutical companies like Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline and the WHO.  Apparently, the WHO has some sort of private dealings with these companies and may have been involved in some kind of profiteering from the sales of vaccine and Tamiflu.  These are, of course, allegations at this point, but the fact that 47 nations in Europe are participating and getting to the bottom of things is certainly encouraging.  So encouraging in fact, that I took the liberty of informing our own Prime Minister about the councils investigations in hopes of inspiring Mr. Harper to action. 
Prior to sending Mr. Harper this letter I sent the results of my poll to Dr. David Butler-Jones(our Health Minister) in hopes of getting a review of some kind here.  Sadly, I received minutes from a special hearing that told me the Canadian Government has no intention of holding any such investigation into it's own handling of the pandemic.  In minutes from the hearing, Dr. Butler-Jones blithley side-stepped questions from Health Critic, Judy Wasylicia-Leis, who point-blank asked him when there would be a public review.  He laughed and essentially said that the perview of health matters was between the Health Minister and the Provincial Health Authorities, so any discussions as to what could be done differently would be done on that level and that level alone.  The public needn't be bothered. 
Now, as all Canadians are aware, the Parliament is prorogued until March 3rd, and as far as I know my letter still sits on the Health Minister and the Prime Ministers desks. 
Perhaps now that a panel of elected European representatives from 47 countries are willing to call the 2009 pandemic a hoax, maybe the right people will be held accountable there and it will trickle down to other countries as well. 
If the World Health Organization, (who made the decision to upgrade the pandemic to level 6, thereby creating a panic and putting into action, government agencies who blindly purchased untested vaccine for mass distribution to the people) can be brought to their knees, what makes the PM of Canada or the Health Minister for that matter think they are above the same reproach?
March 3rd is still some weeks away, so it will be interesting to see what conclusions the EU council makes in that time....I guess, until then Mr. Harper, enjoy the Olympics!

Prayer Breakfast with the President

In Obama's speech yesterday at a prayer breakfast where dignitaries, politicians and lawmakers gathered to share a meeting of the minds; the President made bold and scathing comments aimed at bringing his critics into line.  In a typical passive-agressive fashion, Obama openly challenged those who questioned his faith and "for that matter" his citizenship.  This move, clearly aimed at re-establishing his position as the commander-in-chief, seemed to also say....'don't mess with Mr. Big'! 

When I heard this speech, heck, I almost felt guilty.  I mean, how dare we question the authority of the President?  Really, what does it matter what Obama's birth certificate says?  He is a man of faith!  That should certainly be enough. 

Curiously, though, no one noticed that while Obama was blithely asking us to accept the idea that faith and politics should be viewed as singular, in another breath he pledged that he would maintain the separation of Church and State.  If this is true Mr. President, then we could certainly accept your adherence to your faith and yet still question your country of origin.....they are after all separate issues as you point out.

Huffington post reports: "Obama said the office would also work to reach out overseas "to foster interfaith dialogue with leaders and scholars around the world."" (referring to a new branch of government that would seek to revitalize America through interfaith movements at the 'neighborhood' level).  Obvious to this writer is the contradiction this poses...does anyone else see it too?

He also goes on to say that he will gladly extend religious groups a helping hand from tax dollars provided it goes to non-religious activities.  While this is good for feeding the homeless, etc...it does present some form of control over the religious organizations themselves and the ways they see fit to help people.

On a final note, I have to laugh at the following statements he made:

"There is no religion whose central tenet is hate."


"There is no god who condones taking the life of an innocent human being," he said, and all religions teach people to love and care for one another. That is the common ground underlying the faith-based office, he said.

I find it hard to believe that the President would be so naive....I mean, did he not pay attention to his briefings on Islamic extremeism, is he not familiar with the Talmud?  Has he never seen a bhuddist monk kill another person.  I would suggest that he is naive if not in denial and certainly didn't have a good speechwriter proofread those remarks before he spoke them.

For the full article see here.