NOVEMBER 2005

Armageddon with it

"It's the end of the world, I'm telling you" said this man to me, yesterday. "First there's floods, then quakes and pestilence". Stupid fucker. "So" I says "So I understand about the floods and the quakes but what is the pestilence? Honestly, I'm at a loss". The man's face became even more smug and fascinated with himself than before. "I forgot, you don't read the papers, do you. Well, the pestilence is avian flu"

What a cunt! If I were a god wreaking vengeance on mankind, I would not make a few chickens sick and make life difficult for the poultry lovers and egg collectors of the world. It's not wrathful enough. My kind of pestilence would be a proper one, with people all covered in boils, seeping, vomiting up fire with blood streaming from their eyeballs. And the groaning of the suffers would set their teeth, which had not already crumbled into rust, on edge, and the terrible terrible pains in the abdomen would cause people to rip their own bellies open and pull out their intestines and strangle each other with them. The final throes of the pestilence would have everyone twitching away on the floor and I, as the god up in the sky, would look down and the way the poor bastards would fall and twitch, would spell out "Noreen is right".

Anyway, because I am not a total cunt, I do not believe the world is going to end one little bit, and quite frankly I find the neck of the people who keep on about it quite astonishing. Before the millennium they were all at it, reading the fucking Revelations and giving a countdown to the big day, which was very uneventful and dull indeed. Even that gay computer virus thing didn't happen, the millennium was utter shite and not all dangerous and world ending.

Then nine yawny eleven happened and there they were, the armageddon freaks, all scratching around in the bible, finding gibberish verses about towers burning. Then there was that stupid great wave and that storm in America, now there are lots of people dying in a place which people are normally bitching about being terribly overpopulated, and they are off again with the "end is nigh" nonsense.

They have shot themselves in the feet, those people who believe in the end of the world, because no God would bother stringing the end of the world out this long, it loses the impact. If you went to the fireworks and there was a big catherine wheel and then fuck all for half an hour, while everyone ate a hot dog and discussed the catherine wheel, and then there was really quite a loud rocket and then another fucking great big break while people pissed about poking the bonfire and throwing bits of sausage at each other, and then after an hour or two some old git let off one of the ones which looks like a waterfall and then that was it, well, you'd not think it was all that much of a display, would you. The world is not going to end. The end

Noreen
# posted by Emerald Bile

Dick Cheney looks after Haliburton from Bush's Cabinet and now we know why it is:
Tamiflu for Avian-Flu, product of Gilead medical Co.Chairman was Rumsfeld .....

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=1443
Friday, October 21, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com

 NEWS AND ANALYSIS

Readers can be helpful, and one just wrote in to inform us of a link that we had never imagined - Donald Rumsfeld, until he resigned and joined the Bush Administration, was the chairman of something called Gilead which just happened to make something called Tamiflu.

Now anyone who hasn't been on Mars for the last month or two, knows that there were only two things that were going to stop the human version of bird flu. One was a bird flu vaccine (which probably would work better if you were a bird) and the other was something called Tamiflu. Yes, that Tamiflu. In such short supply that the hundreds of millions of orders that have been pouring into Gilead probably won't be filled for another 12 months or so. But everyone has got to have it because somehow or other it became established that Tamiflu really worked.

This was the party line, anyway, for about a week, until word began trickling back in that maybe Tamiflu didn't work. In fact, the word on Tamiflu has always been positive at first and then eventually negative. It's a kind of pattern. We even find corroboration of it here on the Democrats.com, in what appears to be either a chat room or news roundup as follows, "Rummy was CEO of Gilead Sciences until named to the Bush cabinet and, like Cheney, still has ties that bind to the 'old company.' Now isn't it an 'amazing coincidence' that the drug Tamiflu patented by Gilead Sciences is being pushed by the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases as the NUMBER ONE choice for flu, which, wonder of wonders, is sweeping through in one epidemic after another."

The post from January '04 adds, "Tamiflu is now also being recommended to fight avian flu ... Scroll through this NIAID page and you will find Tamiflu listed as ahead of all other recommended drugs for both prevention and treatment of flu. Trouble is, Gilead has been accused of rigging the trials of Tamiflu as a preventive treatment. Meanwhile Gilead is making a killing."

The post then gives the following link: http://12.31.13.115/HealthNews/reuters/NewsStory0106200324.htm)

We bet Gilead is still making a killing as is Big Pharma. Please notice now that the orders are in, the hysteria has died down a bit. Perhaps everybody is too busy counting the money. Or perhaps it was never about anything BUT the money. We weren't entirely sure, but we knew that none of it passed the old "smell test." In fact, in serial articles we claimed that bird flu probably wasn't going to turn into human flu anytime soon, that even if it did, it didn't mean that the world was in for a dose of 1918 influenza all over again. We just couldn't believe that the people bringing us Spanish Influenza Redux - with all the hype and horror - were remotely qualified to bring us even the opening of an envelope.

We questioned everything, even whether 1918 was all just the fault of a flu virus. Didn't seem likely to us then and doesn't now - especially since we've come to understand what hygiene was like for the soldiers coming back from the war, how vaccine providers apparently unloaded their stock after the war, lowering immunities, etc. and, finally how the new miracle drug, aspirin, was all the rage, prescribed by medical parishioners everywhere. Aspirin lowers fevers and allows flu to build until it bursts out all over the body with renewed and potentially mortal violence.

And that brings us to today. Bird flu still rages and, yes, it may mutate into human flu at some point and cause death, many deaths, or fewer deaths, no one knows. It may indeed sweep around the world. But of more worry immediately were moves of civil authorities to float trial balloons about mandatory vaccination and to start sending vials of superflu bugs around the world in the name of science. We demanded that our viewers call the Capitol Hill and get out the word that the government was to cease testing new vaccines, cease ordering TamiFlu and bird flu vaccine, neither of which work or will work against whatever it is that bird flu will turn into. Which at least some in government would love because then they could turn the President's apparent yen for martial law into reality. And Bush could use some martial law about now. Hell, he could use anything, maybe even a good book.

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