5:01 PM - Friday, Nov. 26, 2004
Mind Games
Flu scares...Is this the next fear tactic?
WHO warns of dire flu pandemic [...that the Bush terror team is busy working on, even as we speak? A biological (terror) disaster would provide Dictator Bush an excuse to quickly pass Patriot II, set up Dr. Frist's quarantines, insure the pharmaceutical companies receive windfall profits, and dump Social Security due the ensuing economic disaster --all in one fell swoop!] --The World Health Organization has issued a dramatic warning that bird flu will trigger an international pandemic that could kill up to seven million people. The influenza pandemic could occur anywhere from next week [?!?] to the coming years, WHO said.
Killer flu recreated in the lab -hursday, 7 October, 2004, 05:02 GMT 06:02 UK [Why?] --Scientists have shown that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly as the 1918 strain which killed millions. A US team added two genes from a sample of the 1918 virus to a modern strain [Why?] known to have no effect on mice. Animals exposed to this composite were dying within days of symptoms similar to those found in human victims of the 1918 pandemic.
Flu victim exhumed after 85 years --Friday, 30 January, 2004, 20:08 GMT --Scientists are preparing to exhume the body of a woman who died of flu 85 years ago to find out how the virus killed millions across Europe. [Why?] Phyllis Burn died aged 20 in 1918, a victim of the 20th Century's worst flu epidemic, which killed more than 50 million people. She was buried in a lead coffin, thought to be virtually airtight, in Twickenham, south-west London. Scientists wearing protective clothing will remove lung samples from the body. ...The move has the support of Miss Burn's niece, Hilary Burn-Callander, who told BBC London she was a bit surprised at first by the request. "I didn't know what to think to be honest," she said.
� Enigmawerks2004
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
-- Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg trials
