"Emerging diseases complement the political War on Terrorism, and our bioterror-influenced culture. This agenda serves two primary objectives: profitability and population-reduction. If avian flu becomes more than a threatened pandemic, it will have done so by political and economic design... For all we know, governments are ordering an avian flu vaccine that will precisely deliver this pandemic to the world to affect population control."

See: Dr. Len Horowitz article

"Sharp Corporation has demonstrated that Plasmacluster Ions reduce activity of the highly fatal and highly pathogenic airborne H5N1 avian influenza ("bird flu") virus by 99%...Among the diverse range of air purification technologies available, Plasmacluster Ions are the first in the world to have been proven effective against this virus."

See: Sharp Corp. news release (2005-06)

"Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed... We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war."

-- HRH Prince Philip, interview "Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip, But Not as Much as Overpopulation'', People Magazine Dec. 21, 1981

"The object of the WWF is to 'conserve' the system as a whole; not to prevent the killing of individual animals. Those who are concerned about the conservation of nature accept... that most species produce a surplus that is capable of being culled without in any way threatening the survival of the species as a whole."

-- HRH Prince Philip, founder of WWF, in the Chancellor's Lecture, Salford University, June 4, 1982.

See: Propaganda Matrix article

UPDATE: Also see our article "Culling the Herd" regarding the AIDS epidemic.

"Inside the [CDC Atlanta] lab lies a batch of a virus... Resurrected nearly 90 years after it spread around the globe, leaving an estimated 50 million people dead, it is a replica of the 1918 Spanish flu virus.

The recreation of the virus, which was driven by an urge to unravel why the 1918 pandemic was so devastating, has raised as many fears as it has hopes. While the researchers argue the work will hugely improve protection against natural flu viruses, critics say there is a real danger the virus will escape, with potentially disastrous consequences.

The team led by Dr Jeffery Taubenberger at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Maryland was able to establish just how ferociously effective it was, compared with more common flu strains."

-- Guardian Unlimited article (2005-10-06)

"President George W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday to consider giving him powers to use the military to enforce quarantines in case of an avian influenza epidemic. He said the military, and perhaps the National Guard, might be needed to take such a role if the feared H5N1 bird flu virus changes enough to cause widespread human infection.

"If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country? ... And who best to be able to effect a quarantine? One option is the use of a military that's able to plan and move. ... And I think the president ought to have all ... assets on the table to be able to deal with something this significant."

Experts fear that the H5N1 bird flu virus, which appears to be highly fatal when it infects people, will develop the ability to pass easily from person to person and would cause a pandemic that would kill millions."

From: Reuters article (2005-10-04)

"If an influenza pandemic struck today, borders would close, the global economy would shut down, international vaccine supplies and health-care systems would be overwhelmed, and panic would reign."

-- "Preparing for the Next Pandemic", Foreign Affairs, Aug 2005

This is one of a series of recent articles on the subject by the Council on Foreign Relations. The author, Dr. Michael Osterholm, is head of the Center for Infectious Disease Research at the Univ. of Minnesota.