Part I
When President Barack H. Obama signed a national pandemic emergency on Friday, October 24th, 2009, the media barely mentioned that “a declaration of emergency for the H1N1” had been signed. A huge red flag should have gone up: Why was there was no reference to specific act or document? Initially, not even the White House web page had information about the pronouncement. Did Obama’s emergency proclamation, under sections 201 and 301 of the National Emergencies Act, imply that martial law was imminent?[1]
To answer that question, we first must see how the World Health Organization put Obama in such a position. The answer may surprise you.
The Department of Homeland Security(DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Center for Disease Control (CDC) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) will be the focus of a future release of this series called “Approved Chaos” that will answer questions about their status, readiness preparations and participation in the H1N1 emergency including:
- What happens when a national emergency is declared?
- Who is really in charge?, and most importantly,
- What does this H1N1 emergency mean for me?
The WHO Sets Up for Control
In 2005, the threat of a killer avian flu pandemic shouted across the airwaves. The media whipped up a complete hysteria over the H5N1 virus. The Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), funded by the Rockefeller Family Fund was a big player in the frenzy.[2] Specifically, they predicted up to 1 million deaths could be caused by the H5N1 bird flu virus.[3] Remarkably, official WHO reports document that between 2003 and 2009, only 262 people have died worldwide from H5N1 Avian Flu.
For a great review of the pandemic that never occurred, read Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s book, FOWL: Bird Flu: It’s Not What You Think. Prophetically, it also explains 90 percent of what is happening today with the currently hyped H1N1 pandemic.
The 2005 H5N1 fear tactics worked well. Out of the panic created by TFAH and a long list of similar organizations, the WHO released a global “Pandemic Plan” that was obediently adopted by Americans and the rest of the world. In the United States, the Federal Pandemic Plan was incorporated into what is known as the the National Response Plan, under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5.
The States Join In
In 2005, following the WHOs lead, the United States released a final draft of a multi-year pandemic planning project. States were required to prepare pandemic plans as a condition of their federal bioterrorism preparedness grants.
A group named Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) assisted in molding the state response plans. ASTHO’s exclusive list of “Corporate Alliance Partners” includes vaccine manufacturing giants such as GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Henry Schein, Pfizer, Roche, and Sanofi Pasteur.[5] Their participation in the pandemic planning efforts can be seen in a 2002 document entitled, “NATURE’S TERRORIST ATTACK: PANDEMIC INFLUENZA”. [6]
The State emergency response plans were heavily guided by officials at the CDC and HHS. A comprehensive checklist was spoon-fed to state health officials who were maneuvered into compliance by the Federal “mandate”. The DHS and HHS were instructed to withhold federal grants and monies for public health initiatives if states did not act in accordance with government plans. The word ‘ransom’ should come to mind.
Implications of International Health Regulations
We have now come full circle. All forms of government, federal, state and local, have adopted the World Health Organization ’s Pandemic Standard Operating Procedures. A pandemic plan in itself is not the problem. The issue is understanding the WHO’s incremental power grab via International Health Regulations.
Under the guise of preventing the international spread of disease, the Constitution of the WHO allows the World Health Assembly the authority to adopt regulations they see fit to accomplish the stated goal. By example, six diseases were originally identified by International Health Regulations for quarantine. However, in 1969 this number was reduced to three (yellow fever, plague and cholera). [7] With the current media hype surrounding the 1918 pandemic, it is especially surprising the World Health Organization to not include influenza on this list.
If we fast forward in time, major efforts can be seen to modify the scope of the Regulations from 1995 through May of 2005. On May 23rd the World Health Assembly struck gold. The language in the regulations were unified to include, “any specific disease or manner of transmission, but covering illness or medical condition, irrespective of origin or source, that presents or could present significant harm to humans”. [7] When the entire situation is put into context, the timing of a ‘killer’ bird flu pandemic was impeccable.
The International Health Regulations of 2005 were signed into force and effect in 2007. At that critical point, WHO was given authority to ‘direct’ and ‘govern’ activities “that protect the global community from public health risks and emergencies that cross international borders.” [8] The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, declared a public health emergency of international concern for the first time under International Health Regulations in April, 2009. [9]
The implications of international health regulations and this emergency declaration are far reaching. International Health Regulations are legally binding agreements for all international members of the WHO. This is a major story ignored by the press and not understood by most citizens. The WHO international health regulations by-pass the checks and balances established by the U.S. Constitution and our Founders. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin are rolling in their graves.
We have a serious problem as a nation. This scheme was not implemented as the media portrays: benign and harmless. It was devised incrementally by very powerful people with no input from our elected representatives. Never before has there been such an orchestrated effort to give a world organization jurisdiction over our lives in America. The WHO has emerged as the global “H1N1 Mafia” and is accountable to no one.
Part II of this series covers Obama’s H1N1 emergency declaration. Was martial law declared? Stay tuned.
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REFERENCES:
[1] Declaration of a National Emergency with Respect to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic. October 24, 2009. URL: http://www2a.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/2009H1N1%20prc%20rel.pdf
[2] Trust For America’s Health. Year in Review, 2001; 33. URL: http://healthyamericans.org/about/review2001.pdf
[3] Trust For America’s Health. “A Killer Flu?”, June 2005; 19. URL: http://healthyamericans.org/reports/flu/Flu2005.pdf
[4] School of Public Health and Health Services and the Homeland Security Policy Institute. “The H1N1 Influenza A Virus: A Test Case for a Global Response”, May 2009. URL: http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/about/rapidresponse/download/Rapid_SwineFlu_Final.pdf
[5] The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). “2009 ASTHO Annual Report”, 2009; 28. URL: http://www.astho.org/About/09-Annual-Report/
[6] Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). “Preparedness Planning for State Health Officials: Nature’s Terrorist Attack: Pandemic Influenza”, November 2002. URL: http://www.astho.org/Programs/Infectious-Disease/Emerging-Infectious-Diseases/Pan-ASTHO-Pandemic-Influenza-2002/
[7] World Health Organization. “International Health Regulations, 2nd ed.”, 2005; 8. URL: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241580410_eng.pdf
[8] World Health Organization. “Ten things you need to do to implement the IHR”. Accessed November 29th, 2009. URL: http://www.who.int/ihr/about/10things/en/
[9] School of Public Health and Health Services and the Homeland Security Policy Institute. “The H1N1 Influenza A Virus: A Test Case for a Global Response”, May 2009; 4. URL: http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/about/rapidresponse/download/Rapid_SwineFlu_Final.pdf
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