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GLOBAL NEWS SECRET RUSSIAN PLAN TO SAVE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY TO INVESTIGATE EARTH FROM ASTEROID WHO's SWINE FLU "PANDEMIC" SCANDAL Res scientists will soon meet | by F William Engdahl in secret to work on a plan for he Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January saving the Earth from a possible Toor into the influence of pharmaceutical companies on the global swine catastrophic collision with a giant | flu campaign, focusing especially on the extent of the pharma industry's asteroid in 26 years’ time, said the | influence on the World Health Organization (WHO). The Parliamentary head of Russia's space agency. Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has unanimously passed a “We will soon hold a closed | resolution calling for the inquiry. The step is a long-overdue move towards meeting of our collegium, the | public transparency of a "Golden Triangle” of drug corruption between scientific-technical council, to look | WHO, the pharmaceutical industry and academic scientists that has at what can be done" to prevent the | permanently damaged the lives of millions and even caused deaths. asteroid Apophis from slamming The motion was introduced by Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD Member into the planet in 2036, Anatoly | of the German Bundestag and now chairman of the PACE health committee. Perminov told Voice of Russia radio. | Dr Wodarg is a medical doctor and an epidemiologist, a specialist in lung "Better to spend a few hundred | disease and environmental medicine, who considers the WHO's current million dollars to create a system | "pandemic" swine flu campaign to be "one of the greatest medicine scandals or preventing a collision than to | of the century”. wait until it happens and hundreds The text of the resolution just passed by a sufficient number in the of thousands of people are killed," | Council's Parliamentary Assembly says: "In order to promote their patented he said. drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced The Apophis asteroid measures _ | scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to approximately 350 metres (1,150 | alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health eet) in diameter, and RIA Novosti | resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of news agency said that if it were to | healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of hit Earth when it passes nearby in | insufficiently tested vaccines. The 'bird-flu’ campaign (2005/06) combined 2036 it would create a new desert | with the ‘swine-flu’ campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage he size of France. not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health budgets, but to the Perminov said that a serious plan _| credibility and accountability of important international health agencies.” o prevent such a catastrophe The PACE inquiry will look into the issue of the "falsified pandemic’ that was would probably have to be an_ | declared by WHO in June 2009 on the advice of its group of academic experts, international project involving | SAGE, many of whose members have intense financial ties to the same Russian, European, American and_ | pharmaceutical giants, such as GlaxoSmithKline, Roche and Novartis, which Chinese space experts. benefit from the production of drugs and untested HINI vaccines. It will Interfax quoted him as saying that _| investigate the influence of the pharma industry in the creation of a worldwide one option would be to build a new | campaign against the so-called H5N1 avian flu and HIN1 swine flu. "space apparatus” designed solely In his official statement to the health committee, Dr Wodarg criticised the for the purpose of safely diverting _ | influence of the pharmaceutical industry on WHO scientists and officials, Apophis from a collision course | stating that it has led to the situation where "unnecessarily millions of with Earth. "There won't be any | healthy people are exposed to the risk of poorly tested vaccines'—for a flu nuclear explosions,” Perminov said. | strain that is "vastly less harmful" than all previous flu epidemics. "Everything will be done according Dr Wodarg says that the WHO's role and its June 2009 pandemic emergency to the laws of physics. We will | declaration need to be the special focus of the inquiry. For the first time, the examine all of this.” WHO's criterion for a pandemic was changed in April 2009, as the first cases RIA Novosti said that the asteroid | were reported in Mexico, to make not the actual risk of a disease but the was expected to pass within 30,000 | number of cases of the disease the basis upon which to declare a “pandemic”. kilometres (18,600 miles) of Earth in _ | By classifying the swine flu outbreak as pandemic, nations were compelled to 2029—closer than some geo- | implement pandemic plans and purchase swine flu vaccines. Because WHO is stationary satellites—and could | not subject to any parliamentary control, Dr Wodarg argues that it is necessary shift course to hit Earth seven years _ | for governments to insist on accountability. The inquiry will also look at the years after that. role of the two critical agencies in Germany issuing guidelines on the (Source: SpaceDaily.com via AFP, 30 | Pandemic: the Paul Ehrlich and Robert Koch institutes. 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