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Thursday, April 25, 2013

WHO: China’s H7N9 Bird Flu Outbreak ‘Unusually Dangerous For Humans’



Chinese officials say that deaths from the H7N9 will likely be on the rise in the coming months.


BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 13: A screen showing a seven-year-old girl, who has been infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, receiving medical treatment in the Beijing Ditan Hospital on April 13, 2013 in Beijing, China. A seven year-old girl has been infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu. China reports 44 H7N9 bird flu cases with 11 deaths so far. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

BEIJING, CHINA: A screen showing a seven-year-old girl, who has been infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, receiving medical treatment in the Beijing Ditan Hospital on April 13, 2013 in Beijing, China. A seven year-old girl has been infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu. China reports 44 H7N9 bird flu cases with 11 deaths so far. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)



by Shepard Ambellas
Intellihub

April 15, 2013


BEIJING  — There has now been 82 confirmed cases of the H7N9 bird flu in China, as officials say most of the contact was from live healthy looking animals. As of yet there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus. However, some do question if things will ramp up as 17 of the people who died from the virus progressed from onset to death in just 11 days. 


The virus attacks the respiratory system.


Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general for health security of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated in a press conference Wednesday that, “This is an unusually dangerous virus for humans” as is is more easily transmitted than H5N1


The Los Angeles Times reported today, “To date, the mortality rate is 21%, but since many of [sic] patients with confirmed H7N9 virus infection remain critically ill, we suspect that the mortality may increase,” they wrote in their study, published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine. “Since this H7N9 virus appears to have emerged recently to infect humans, population immunity is expected to be low, and persons of any age may be susceptible to infection.”


The report paints a fuller picture of the outbreak, which hascaused Chinese people to become so panicked that one motorist felt the need to flag down police after a bird dropping landed on her car.


Cases of H7N9 infection have been confirmed in six provinces: Shanghai (31 cases), Zhejiang (25), Jiangsu (20), Anhui (three), Henan (two) and Beijing (one). The statistics paint a picture of the typical bird flu victim as an older urban male.


Chinese health officials tested 664 pneumonia patients who were sick enough to be hospitalized between March 25 and April 17. Of these patients, 81, or 12%, tested positive for H7N9 infection. In addition, 5,551 unhospitalized people withflu-like symptoms were tested, and one of them was confirmed to have H7N9.


The 82 confirmed patients ranged in age from 2 to 89 years old, but most were at the higher end of that range and 46% were at least 65. The report said that 73% of patients were men and 84% lived in urban areas.”


Case studies have been performed. Kate Kelland writes, “Yuen’s team conducted detailed cases studies on four H7N9 flu patients from Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province south of the commercial hub Shanghai.


All four patients had been exposed to poultry, either through their work or through visiting poultry markets.


To find out whether there was transmission of the virus from poultry to humans, the researchers took swabs from 20 chickens, four quails, five pigeons and 57 ducks, all from six markets likely to have been visited by the patients.



Two of the five pigeons and four of the 20 chickens tested positive for H7N9, but none of the ducks or quails.


After analyzing the genetic makeup of H7N9 virus in a sample isolated from one patient and comparing it to a sample from one of the chickens, the researchers said similarities suggest the virus is being transmitted directly to humans from poultry.


The team also checked more than 300 people who had had close contact with the four patients and found that none showed any symptoms of H7N9 infection within 14 days from the beginning of surveillance. This suggests the virus is not currently able to transmit between people, they said.


But they noted that previous genetic analysis shows H7N9 has already acquired some gene mutations that adapt it specifically to being more able to infect mammals – raising the risk that it could one day cause a human pandemic.


“Further adaptation of the virus could lead to infections with less severe symptoms and more efficient person-to-person transmission,” the scientists wrote.”


Officials continue to monitor the situation.


 


Sources:


^http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1304617?query=featured_home&


^http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-h7n9-china-nejm-report-20130425,0,3468665.story


^http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-confirm-h7n9-bird-flu-come-chickens-134334449.html


^http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/04/h7n9-is-an-unusually-dangerous-v.html


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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Jim Chanos On China"s "Edifice Complex"

Since 2009, Jim Chanos has been warning of the real estate bubble in China and he is as concerned as ever given the new government’s actions (and likely inactions). The presentation (from last week’s 2013 Wine Country Conference) below lays out his thesis in gruesome detail and is unreasonably factual. With capital gains tax impositons and curbs on real estate, he is still not optimistic that the new government will enact any of the major reforms that are required – and will be unable to without blowing it all. Simply put (as Yahoo notes): China is adding the equivalent of $ 2.5 trillion of new debt annually; 30% of China’s GDP growth depends on new credit creation – half outside of normal banking circles; China’s excessive credit creation is invested in the wrong sectors; and every new dollar of debt created is yielding less growth in GDP. “There are myriad ways… to be short the Chinese property bubble,” he adds, noting that, “the new [government]… has no incentive to change the system.”


From Yahoo,








Chanos’s bearish stance on China extends to Chinese companies too.


 


[China] has been a very bad place to keep your money… The Chinese economy has quadrupled in nominal terms in the last 10 years,” he says. “Western investors in the Chinese stock market have basically made nothing in that 10-year period. That’s a staggering indictment of the form of capitalism that exists in China.”



 


This is China Today:



 


 


Full Presentation below:


Chanos Wine Country Conference by zerohedge






    


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Jim Chanos On China"s "Edifice Complex"

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Is China’s H7N9 Biological Warfare?






Everyone should remember the H1N1 Emergency of 2009 and World Health Organizations (UN WHO) declaration of a Pandemic Level 6.


LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13 Flashback: A woman wears a surgical face mask as she takes a photograph in Trafalgar Square on December 13, 2010 in London, England. Britain

LONDON, ENGLAND – DECEMBER 13 Flashback: A woman wears a surgical face mask as she takes a photograph in Trafalgar Square on December 13, 2010 in London, England. Britain’s Health Protection Agency has warned of the increasing spread of the H1N1 virus, also known as ‘Swine Flu’, with 10 deaths of people suffering from the virus in the past six weeks. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)



by Avalon
Intellihub.com
April 8, 2013


The unprecedented step of declaring a global pandemic level 6 caused alarm worldwide. The story behind the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus is complex and is beyond the scope of this article.


The alternative media firestorm that took place evolved into a near battle between the mainstream media who was pushing the flu shot relentlessly, and the alternative media who desperately tried to inform the public as to the risk of taking the flu shot.


One of the big influences in educating the public was Jane Burgermeister who broke the story in her interview on Alex Jones’ Infowars.com radio broadcast – the story went viral globally. The National Vaccine Information Center, headed by Barbara Loe Fisher, played a huge role in educating the public on the danger of the H1N1 flu shot vaccine..  


The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is a national charitable, non-profit educational organization founded in 1982. NVIC launched the vaccine safety and informed consent movement in America in the early 1980′s and is the oldest and largest consumer led organization advocating for the institution of vaccine safety and informed consent protections in the public health system.


Once the H1N1 Emergency was played up by the mainstream media, doctors and nurses were fired for not taking the shot and in Massachusetts, a near state-of-emergency was declared and legislation was passed allowing for a Martial Law quarrentine of people who refused to take the H1N1 Flu shot. YouTube has a number of videos that detail chronologically all of the details of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic.


The majority of the public made it known that they were not going to cooperate with the mandatory flu shots, the media hype stopped. One of the most outspoken activists and journalists that documented the H1N1 Fraud and release of contaminated H1N1 Vaccine that was shipped to Poland from Baxter labs prior to the outbreak was Jane Burgermeister. Jane’s site was originally birdfulu666.wordpress.com and theflucase.com which detailed many facts to prove an engineered release into the public of the H1N1 virus. She even filed charges with the FBI as to possible criminal activity – her current site is janeburgermeister.de


Fast forward to today… Quoting her article posted February 23rd on the new Jane Burgermeister site:


janeburgermeister.de 02-23-2013


Yet more pandemic hype from the Sun newspaper


Deadly virus could wipe out the earth says Professor John Oxford.


(But don’t expect any more reporting from me.)


Who is to blame for this third wave of pandemic hype and potentially mass  forced vaccinations with a pandemic vaccine, which even the UK health and protection agency has now admitted has caused so many children to suffer? The first time the pandemic hype occured in 2009, Baxter and Big Pharma and WHO were definitely to blame. Baxter was caught red handed contaminating 72 kilos of vaccine material with the deadly bird flu virus in 2009 in its biosecurity facilities in Austria. The people were kept in ignorance about the vaccine and the pandemic plans by the mainstream media. It was left to people like myself to risk life and limb to warn them.


People understood the facts and information and refused the vaccine en masse. But they did nothing more. It was back to checking the value of their gold or going to the shops, the beach, the pub or football match. The second time the pandemic hype started in the summer of 2012, the people were to blame. They had watched indifferent to the suffering of those who had taken it – and to the suffering, frankly, of people like me who had risked so much to warn others. Who cared whether the pandemic plans were still in place and posed a threat to them in the future? No one


– Source: Could a deadly virus wipe out earth?


‘A pandemic virus only needs to win once and it may be the end of mankind’,
says Professor John Oxford, viral expert at the Universtity of London


VID 20130222 151250


Published on Feb 22, 2013


Now, as to whether the H7N9 virus is Biological Warfare. It would seem obvious by now that not only is there a global depopulation agenda at work today, but in fact, there are many influential people including Ted Turner and Bill Gates that support drastically lowering the population. There are also too many coincidences, including an H1N1 Patent that was filed before the virus was ‘primed’ into the public as stated in scientific journals that recommended introducing it into the population.


In fact, just hours ago today, April 10th 2013, a FoxNews.com article reports:


 As cases of H7N9 continue to grow in China, one Chinese Air Force officer is blaming the outbreak not on genetic mutations – but on the United States government. In a post on his blog Saturday, People’s Liberation Army Sr. Col. Dai Xu accused the United States of causing the recent bird flu outbreak by releasing the H7N9 virus in China as an act of biological warfare, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Jason Rebholz, a spokesman for the State Department, told the Washington Free Beacon that “there is absolutely no truth to these allegations.” Dai wrote his allegations on the site Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like Chinese microblogging site.  He claimed that the bird flu strain was created as a biological weapon. Dai also claimed that severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was created by the U.S. as a bio-weapon in 2003.



Source: Chinese colonel claims new bird flu strain is a biological weapon from US


 


One needs to bear in mind that the policy of the Obama administration Science Advisor John P. Holdren believes in population control and other extreme positions detailed in his book Ecoscience.


Quoting from an article posted July 11, 2009 by Paul Joseph Watson on PrisonPlanet.com:


President Obama’s top science and technology advisor John P. Holdren co-authored a 1977 book in which he advocated the formation of a “planetary regime” that would use a “global police force” to enforce totalitarian measures of population control, including forced abortions, mass sterilization programs conducted via the food and water supply, as well as mandatory bodily implants that would prevent couples from having children.


The concepts outlined in Holdren’s 1977 book Ecoscience, which he co-authored with close colleagues Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, were so shocking that a February 2009 Front Page Magazine story on the subject was largely dismissed as being outlandish because people couldn’t bring themselves to believe that it could be true.


Lastly, it’s important to note the diabolically psychotic hyperbole coming from former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. In a recent Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) speech in Montreal, the Trilateral Commission Co-founder and regular Bilderberg attendee Zbigniew Brzezinski warned of a “global political awakening” and stated the following:


For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive… The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination… The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening… That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing… The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches…


The youth of the Third World are particularly restless and resentful. The demographic revolution they embody is thus a political time-bomb, as well… Their potential revolutionary spearhead is likely to emerge from among the scores of millions of students concentrated in the often intellectually dubious “tertiary level” educational institutions of developing countries. Depending on the definition of the tertiary educational level, there are currently worldwide between 80 and 130 million “college” students. Typically originating from the socially insecure lower middle class and inflamed by a sense of social outrage, these millions of students are revolutionaries-in-waiting, already semi-mobilized in large congregations, connected by the Internet and pre-positioned for a replay on a larger scale of what transpired years earlier in Mexico City or in Tiananmen Square. Their physical energy and emotional frustration is just waiting to be triggered by a cause, or a faith, or a hatred…


[The] major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the lethality of their military might is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.


Source: Zbigniew Brzezinski


 


NOTE: These Pandemic events are of global importance and Intellihub.com will be researching further to keep you up -to-date on anything new. All researchers are welcome to contribute.


 


SOURCES:


^H7N9 Bird Flu Cases Reach 21 In China; Death Total Unchanged At Six


^H7N9 is a serotype of the species Influenzavirus A (avian influenza virus or bird flu virus). H7 normally circulates amongst avian populations with some variants known to occasionally infect humans. An H7N9 virus was first reported to have infected humans in 2013.


^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H7N9


^Bird Flu’s Death Rate Is Increasingly Worrying


^Human infection with influenza A(H7N9) virus in China – update


^Brzezinski’s Feared “Global Awakening” Has Arrived


^NVIC News: Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity


^http://www.youtube.com/user/NVICstandup


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Avalon is an investigative journalist, strategist and writer for Intellihub.com 


 





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