Bird Flu could be pretext for far worse to come.

Please also see this article...

 http://spktruth2power.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/journalist-files-charges-against-who-and-un-for-bioterrorism-and-intent-to-commit-mass-murder/

Apologies for the long link - hope it works.

It's true.

...nothing to do with the Marshall Plan

it seems  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Burgermeister is in the process of being removed, it doesn't specify a good enough reason in my opinion for this action.

The bird flu scare reminds me of that scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

When they are looking for a reason to evacuate the public from Devil Mountain, the army decide on a disease outbreak.

At a time when public hostility to government and other institutions is growing, a disease out break also elicits greater loyalty to the patriarchy of the state, as people look to 'father' government to save/protect them.

A genuine and series disease outbreak with a high mortality rate also places great power in the hands of the state and the health protection bodies, as they quite literally have the power to decide who gets to live and die, when it comes to deciding who gets a vaccine and in medical triage situations when people are already afflicted.

Any emergency is an excuse for a clampdown, but it is wrong to consider this a falsified emergency. Enough people have died, and more are about to die, so the certain risk of subsequent repression doesn't yet equate to the proven risk of the actual emergency.

Can someone explain to me what is so 'offensive' about what is essentially a fairly short and dry biographic description of a media activist?

It does seem to be a very extreme response, although it could be being engineered by people who object to the message miss Burgermeister is disseminating, rather than anything actually stated in the article - the equivalent of trying to censor them out of existence.

Cover your ears, sing very loudly and the 'problem' goes away.

As for the subtext of the conspiracy theory, this should perhaps be taken with a pinch of salt, but the interesting part is the suggestion of this H1N1 variant being possibly synthetic (already tested on army personnel, nothing new there then), and it being used as a pretext for all kinds of other mayhem.

Yes, agree with comments above regarding the way states turn to authoritarianism if their perceived 'popularity' is seen to be waning, so watch out.

Worth bearing in mind that back in the 1930s, Roosevelt's New Deal work camps were thinly disguised compulsory internment centres for the poor and dispossessed, replete with armed guards at all exits.

Keep 'em busy, but most importantly of all, keep 'em out of sight.

Gordon Brown has already gone on the record as saying that if he's still in office two years from now, he plans to bring in compulsory 'community service' programmes for the long term unemployed (a year or more).

And there's me thinking you had to be sent to court before you ended up doing that sort of thing.

Political aerobics here we come - swing to the right everybody, because it's 'good' for you, a bit of good old fashioned discipline never hurt me blah blah conscription waffle corporal punishment mumble etc...
;-)

No wonder she got the sack from her. A story claiming that the WHO & UN is committing genocide by spreading swine flu is quite cleraly crackers.

There are serious questions about its origins (soviet, if some are to be beloeieved) but this tosh is just an embarressment to Indymedia. The standards just slipped a little bit lower.

Next we;ll have Elvis & Hitler are behind the WHO?

Why not add this as an addition?  http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70290

Maybe Gordon Brown is behind the pandemic after all.