The Great Swine Flu Hoax

Article written by Mike Adams

"The great swine flu hoax of 2009 is now falling apart at the seams as one country after another unloads hundreds of millions of doses of unused swine flu vaccines. No informed person wants the injection anymore, and the entire fear-based campaign to promote the vaccines has now been exposed as outright quackery and propaganda."

Even doctors are now calling the pandemic a complete hoax. As reported on Fox News, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a leading health authority in Europe, says that drug companies "organized a 'campaign of panic' to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic. He believes it is 'one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century,' and he has called for an inquiry."

H1N1 swine flu was never dangerous, and it never should have been escalated to a level-six pandemic in the first place. It was all a big marketing scam whose purpose was to simply sell vaccines. (And the CDC and WHO were in on it...)

And it worked! Big Pharma made out with billions of dollars in profits for a useless vaccine that's now being dumped by the truck load. These vaccines were, of course, paid for with taxpayer dollars, making the Great Swine Flu Hoax of 2009 nothing more than an elaborate financial scam whose goal was to transfer wealth from the People to the shareholders of Big Pharma.
In just the fourth quarter of 2009, GlaxoSmithKline shipped $1.4 billion worth of vaccines.

That's $1.4 billion worth of taxpayer dollars, by the way. Dollars that could have been spent on nutrition or real health education. $1.4 billion worth of free vitamin D supplements would have done far more to protect public health than vaccines could ever hope to accomplish.

Wall Street hucksters have nothing on Big Pharma, the CDC and the WHO, all of which conspired to mislead the public and generate irrational fear in order to make money selling people vaccine shots they never needed in the first place.
The drug companies raked in billions of dollars in revenues while providing a product that offered absolutely no net reduction in mortality. In fact, as the long-term side effects of the vaccines remain unknown, it could turn out that the vaccines actually result in a net increase in mortality.

Meanwhile, countless people were harmed by the swine flu vaccine frenzy (it's "countless" because nobody's counting). In addition to those who were nearly paralyzed after receiving the vaccine shots, grade school staffers in Massachusetts who lined up to receive swine flu vaccine shots were instead injected with insulin.
Total swine flu deaths for 2009 were far lower than the number of deaths from regular seasonal flu. And yet it turns out that thousands of Americans who died from the swine flu had been previously injected with the vaccines  In fact, according to calculations derived from official CDC estimates, thousands of vaccinated Americans died from swine flu anyway. The vaccines, it seems, don't really work after all. You're just as safe doing nothing. Here in Saudi Arabia three deaths were reported supposedly from swine flu which naturally created panic and sent hundreds of patients to various hospitals throughout the Kingdom  to be vaccinated. But what the media did not tell the public was that the three patients who died were immuno-compromised in the first place. Two of them were in ICU connected to various artificial breathing devices and the the third patient was old with various other health complications. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that there was something drastically fishy about the whole H1N1 debacle. Usually prior to any medication being released on the market it undergoes years of clinical trials. First it is tested on animals and then it is tested on human beings in various different parts of the world. The H1N1 vaccine came into the market over a short space of time. When questioned about the ingredients of the vaccine, the manufacturing company refused to divulge this information. Health care workers at various hospitals were asked to be vaccinated with the new H1N1 vaccine. As a health care professional myself I refused to be vaccinated with a product that has no clear clinical data. Many of my doctor colleagues refused to be vaccinated as well. A good doctor friend of mine told me that some of his patients who took the vaccine reported various degrees of adverse side effects that ranged from rash, skin irritability, blurred vision, pain in the hands and feet, sluggish movement.

The bottom line is, getting the vaccine may harm your health. Outspoken Dr. Wodarg says that the full extent of the damage from the insufficiently-tested vaccines may not be known for years. "The vaccine developed by Novartis was produced in a bioreactor from cancerous cells, a technique that had never been used until now," he says.
Just what we need, huh? Cancer cells being injected into the population as part of a vaccine campaign.

The Swine Flu hoax has fizzled out, and countries like Greece, France and the UK have cancelled orders for vaccines that they now realize won't be needed  But even the fizzling of this hoax doesn't mean it was a failure from the point of view of Big Pharma.

The swine flu hoax was a huge success not only for drug company profits, but also for certain influential individuals including Dr Julie Gerberding, former head of the CDC who has now accepted a high-paying job
as the president of Merck's global vaccine operations.
One minute you're running the CDC, warning the country about a pandemic while urging everybody to get vaccinated, and the next minute you're running the for-profit vaccine division of the world's largest drug company. Amazing how that works, huh?

Source:

http://www.naturalnews.com/027984_swine_flu_vaccines.html

Saudi Arabia faces hidden Aids problem

Article written by Hassan.M.Fattah

Being gay in Saudi Arabia is hard enough. But for a growing number of Saudis like Feisal, middle-aged, gay and H.I.V.positive, life is a tangle of regret and fear.“You live in constant fear of being found out and attacked,” said Feisal, who spoke on condition that only his middle name be used, for fear of discrimination. “I’m sure a lot of people would think I deserve what I have if they knew about it.” If not for a mixture of Saudi doctors, social workers and advocates for AIDS patients who have pushed the government to tackle the disease more openly and encouraged patients to fight for their rights, Feisal’s situation would be even more dire. But change is slowly taking place. For years Saudi Arabia kept its growing AIDS problem hidden. Statistics on the disease were sealed in envelopes and guarded like national secrets. In mosques, imams spoke of AIDS as the “wrath of God” brought upon people who committed “sexual deviancy.” Now, the government is opening up. In June, the Ministry of Health announced that more than 10,000 people in Saudi Arabia were H.I.V.-positive or had AIDS, including nearly 600 children. The numbers appear to show a significant increase in infection over 2004, when 7,800 cases were reported, and 2003, when 6,700 cases were reported. Officials say that better reporting is the reason for the growing numbers. But many doctors say even the latest figures are off, with the real numbers likely to be far higher in this nation of 27 million people. One physician who has treated many patients who have been hiding their condition or were unaware of it estimated that the real number could be as high as 150 000.Some years back, the government passed legislation protecting the privacy of people who were ill and guaranteeing their right to work, which provided some protection to AIDS patients. Saudi citizens with AIDS have also long had the right to free medical care, and today receive expensive anti-retroviral drugs without charge. But the rights and protections are only for Saudi citizens. More than three-quarters of the reported H.I.V. cases are of foreign residents. Foreigners living here found to be H.I.V.-positive are typically imprisoned and then deported. Fortunately for Feisal, he is a Saudi citizen. “I have to praise the government,” he said. “We get the drugs for free, the medical care for free, and the treatment is confidential.” But Feisal said that nothing is being done to build acceptance of people with AIDS, much less homosexuality. Indeed, the lingering challenge for most AIDS patients is their acceptance by society. Ever since the first case was diagnosed here in 1984, the disease has challenged social and religious taboos. Women began to be infected by their husbands, who contracted the disease on trips abroad and, increasingly, inside the country. Children, too, were born infected, and soon the numbers became hard to ignore. In this highly conservative Muslim nation, where women are forbidden to drive and talk of sex is taboo, even traditional efforts at AIDS prevention face challenges. There is little talk of condom use and safe sex; outreach is focused on abstinence and fear of God. A growing movement of AIDS patients, doctors and social workers is putting emphasis on teaching Saudis about the disease, though, to help AIDS patients live more normal lives.

The King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center here in the capital now holds regular public discussions on AIDS and how to live with it. Doctors like Abdullah al-Hokail, who has worked on AIDS at the hospital since the 1980’s, appears regularly on Saudi television to explain the effects of the disease and to preach safe sex.“ The main problem here is not the disease itself,” said Muneera al-Dahhan, a clinical counselor at King Faisal Hospital, the top AIDS treatment center in the country. “It is the tough view of society. People see this as the result of sexual behavior that is unacceptable in our society and are unable to accept it.” Many other Muslim countries have begun similar programs after decades of underreporting incidence rates. Religious leaders long credited Islam and the region’s conservative culture, which forbids premarital sex, for the low incidence of AIDS. But most clinicians inside and outside the region long suspected that local health agencies were reporting incomplete numbers. When Rami al-Harithi stood before television cameras at a commemoration of World Aids Day in the Saudi capital last year, he became one of the first AIDS patients to come out in the open.“I wanted to change people’s view of H.I.V.,” said Mr. Harithi, whose story has attracted sympathy throughout the country. A hemophiliac, Mr. Harithi contracted H.I.V. when he was 8 years old. “Just as I’d expected, people were surprised to see me as just a normal guy inflicted with this disease.”

Mr. Harithi has become something of a celebrity here, appearing on almost every Saudi television and satellite channel, profiled in newspapers and invited to speak at medical symposiums. As an advocate he has sought to deliver one consistent message: AIDS patients are nothing to be afraid of and deserve their rights.“I’m not trying to get hugs and kisses by going public,’’ he said. “I just want to ensure that my rights at work and in life are guaranteed and that I will continue to get the care I need.” Other AIDS patients jealously note that the specifics of Mr. Harithi’s case have allowed him to lead a more normal life than they can. For those who contracted the disease sexually, especially those in Saudi Arabia’s homosexual underworld, life often proves far lonelier.“ He’s excusably positive,” said one patient who has kept in touch with Mr. Harithi, speaking on condition of anonymity to preserve his privacy. “Public sympathy is with him because of the way he contracted the disease; it wasn’t through sex. They wouldn’t have been as nice otherwise.” For men like Feisal, who tested H.I.V.-positive five years ago, the options are markedly different. He attended college in the United States, where he enjoyed an avowedly raucous gay sex life, but returned to Saudi Arabia where homosexuality was a crime and became closeted. He was trying out for a job when a friend warned him that it would entail a blood and urine test. He decided to test independently first, and found that he was infected with H.I.V. Even other gay men have rejected him, he said. He used to frequent a gay Arab Internet chat room. But when he admitted that he was H.I.V. positive to one user, he said, he was banned from one of the sessions. “I did this to myself and take responsibility for what happened,” he said. “If I was a citizen of the U.S. or of Europe, I would want to live. But here there’s no gay life, much less an H.I.V.-positive life.” The latest efforts have made a difference but only a small one, many AIDS patients say.“There is a war against the disease,” said one man, who contracted the disease after an encounter with a prostitute in the United States years ago and who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of embarrassment. “They accept the sick, but don’t want to deal with them as people.”

Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/world/middleeast/08saudi.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Drug addicts playing havoc with family life

By Maha Sami Aboulola
JEDDAH – When looking for a bride for their son, one of the most important considerations for Saudi families is the reputation of the bride’s family, which is based on centuries-old Saudi tradition. Reema Abdulhadi, 31, a private sector employee, has been forced to join the ranks of the Kingdom’s spinsters despite her beautiful face. A large number of suitors come to ask for her hand, but they never come back after the first visit. “I am a well educated girl from a good family but, unfortunately, my father is a drug addict who steals and is in and out of jail because of his addiction,” she said.Abdulhadi and many other girls have been suffering in silence because of the addiction of a member of their family, being unable to start a normal family of their own. “It is really very frustrating. The behavior of your father or mother is affecting your life negatively, but there is nothing you can do about it,” added Abdulhadi.Sari Arafat, 12, has also been affected by his father’s drug addiction, which led to his parents’ divorce following which both of them rejected him. “Being the son of a non-Saudi father who has a criminal record as a result of his addiction ruins any chance I had of getting the Saudi nationality from my mother,” said Arafat. Studies show that addicted parents often lack the ability to provide structure or discipline in family life, but at the same time they expect their children to be competent at a wide variety of tasks earlier than do non-substance-abusing parents.“Children of addicted parents are faced with emotional difficulties caused by their parents situation and the rejection of society,” said Azza Abubakur, a sociologist at King Abdulaziz University. “It is well known that drug addiction is not accepted in Saudi society. And this is especially true when it comes to marriage. Parents refuse to allow their children to marry the children of drug addicts so as to prevent any future problems,” she added.Esra Abdullah, 23, the daughter of a man addicted to alcohol, said that in her neighborhood no one wants to communicate with her or her family.“Everyone can see that my drunk father sleeps all day, has no job or money, and forces my mother to ask for money from her relatives,” she said. “We lost our lives, our reputation and our ability to have a normal family just because of drink,” she added. The statistics for drug and alcohol abuse in the Kingdom is as much as 40-50% amongst young saudi men. Islamic scholars think that despite all the difficulties that children of addicted parents face, they should still try to treat and help their parents.“Drugs and alcohol can negatively affect all members of the family, but parents have the right to help and treatment instead of being hated. Muslims should keep in mind that in at least four places, the Qur’an puts kindness to parents immediately after worship of Allah, which is why Muslims should be gentle and kind to their parents and treat them with respect,” said Sheikh Taha Hassan. –

Source:
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=2009041935508

Women driving in Saudi Arabia

Well it's not the first time that women's right activists have pleaded with Abu Metab (affectionate name for King Abdullah) to allow women to drive within the conservative Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Recently a group of women who have obtained licences from outside the Kingdom decided to drive their cars and naturally a few of them were detained by  the authorities. The law banning women from driving in the Kingdom is once again not an Islamic law but rather a cultural one and once again it is these cultural laws  that portrays the Arab Islamic world in a negative way. Such laws are baseless and completely against Islamic teachings. Islam was and will always be a religion of foresight and vision. It is man's ignorance that has made a mockery out of the religion to the point where Hilary Clinton supposedly stepped in to try and coerce the King to withdraw the law preventing women from driving. Big Brother America once again wants to portray to the world that they are a nation that upholds women's rights and democracy. The truth is that if our Islamic countries practiced Islam in its purest form and followed the way of the Prophet (saw) it would be undoubtedly the Islamic world  that would be the forerunners in justice, democracy and affording full rights to all women. Ironically the Kingdom does not have a written law in place banning women from driving. This ban is implemented by pressure emerging from the religious police and of course the religious clerics who govern the laws of the country.

At the time of the prophet Muhammed (saw) where the mode of transport was camels or horses, women were allowed and even encouraged to learn how to ride a camel or a horse, so it is only natural that with changing modes of transport over time women should be allowed to drive a vehicle. In many of the remote parts of Saudi Arabia that I have visited, there are many Bedouin women who do actually drive without being bothered by the authorities. Women are also allowed to drive within Saudi Aramco situated in the Eastern part of the country. There is a lot of hypocrisy that exists within the Kingdom. On the one hand a woman is only allowed to travel outside the country after seeking permission from a mahram. A woman’s mahram is a person whom she is never permitted to marry because of their close blood relationship (such as her father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc., and her son, grandson, great-grandson, etc., her paternal and maternal uncles, her brother, brother’s son and sister’s son), or because because of radaa’ah or breastfeeding (such as the brother and husband of the woman who breastfed her), or because they are related by marriage (such as the mother’s husband, the husband’s father, grandfather, etc., and the husband’s son, grandson, etc.).Whilst on the other hand because she can not drive herself she is forced to make use of cabs or hire a driver who is not her mahram. There has been a few isolated reports whereby drivers have abused their female passengers. In a twist of tale, there has also been reports of numerous females indulging in sexual relationships with their drivers.

When the religious clerics were questioned regarding the whole mahram issue, Sheikh Abdul Mohsin Bin Nasser Al Obaikan, a member of the Scholars of Saudi Arabia, the king advisers and consultants in the ministry of law caused a controversy after issuing one of the most bizarre and ridiculous laws ever. It is so ridiculous that any intelligent person would recognise the level of ignorance that the people of power hold in today's times. The Prophet (saw) said, 'Just before the Hour, there will be days in which knowledge will disappear and ignorance will appear, and there will be much killing.' " (Ibn Majah; also narrated by Bukhari and Muslim,from the Hadith of al-A'mash.) 

Sheikh Nasser Bin Abdul Mohsin Al Obaikan said that the driver can interact freely with the entire family without breaking the law master Saudi Arabia if they are breastfed by women who employ them.
Sheikh Nasser Bin Abdul Mohsin Al Obaikan said “A woman can breastfeed an adult man, so he became her son. Thus he can interact with all the women in her employer’s house without violating Islamic law. ”
Sheikh Nasser Bin Abdul  Mohsin Al Obaikan said “The man should drink breast milk, but not directly from her breast. Once he drinks the breast milk he would become a member of the family, allowing him to interact freely with the women of the household without violating any Islamic law. ”But one other Saudi religious official, Sheikh Abu Ishaq al Huwaini  does not agree with the fatwa, he says that the man should suck milk directly from the breast, rather than glass. Both views are absolutely nonsensical.
Thousands of other clerics across the globe have denounced these baseless rulings and quite rightly so.

 
http://www.wltx.com/news/article/153156/0/Saudi-Woman-to-Get-10-Lashes-for-Driving-a-Car - picture

On the flip side of things, as a Muslim woman coming from a western orientated society where I was allowed to drive I always wished that I had a driver to chauffeur me around especially from work to home which was usually a long tedious one hour drive. When I came to Saudi Arabia my wish came true as I now have a driver. I feel that my life has become so much more convenient. With one phone call my driver appears like a genie in a bottle. I don't have to concentrate on the road anymore. I don't have to be stressed out driving through peak hour traffic with cars honking and speeding down the road. I don't have to look for parking at a shopping centre any more. I simply get dropped off right at the doorstep. I don't have to concentrate and become irritated whilst driving through Riyadh's horrendous traffic. The driving culture here is very rough and so even if I was allowed to drive I wouldn't want to drive. And of course if you are a married woman, your life becomes a thousand times easier as hubby has to take on most of the responsibilities like dropping the kids of to school or picking them up if the driver is not available. In a western society, women have to be super moms undertaking many responsibilities. I find that in Saudi Arabia the women here are more relaxed as most of the chores are delegated to the driver and of course the husband. I actually feel more pampered and queen like being chauffeur driven but of course that is just my opinion. Someone else could think otherwise.

Whilst Saudi women are demanding the King to allow them to drive in the Kingdom which is definitely a step in the right direction towards enforcing proper Islamic laws, I do firmly believe that there are other more urgent and pressing issues regarding women's rights that needs to be addressed such as domestic violence against women, tribal arranged marriages which is once again un-Islamic, better employment opportunities for women, female education and of course making court procedures involving women easier. The issue of women driving  in Saudi Arabia is quite a trivial one  in comparison to the above issues I've mentioned. To Saudi Women I'd like to say that the grass always seems to be greener on the other side until you experience it for yourself!!!!!