I received this by email last night. Anyone have real sources on this? Turns out it is ‘old news’ not reported in the MSM. If it is true, and it is not another unbelievably BIG COINCIDENCE, Rumsfeld should hang for treason. A multi-billion dollar scam of our treasury by a man in his position is pure, unavoidable treason. Perhaps it benefitted no rival nation in particular, but it is unforgivable to steal a billion dollars while we are strapped by wartime spending and corruption and in recovery from the twin economic shocks of 9-11 and Bush-onomics. Don’t get me started on the War profiteering.

Russell Banks
rebstudio@earthlink.net

Subject: Now here’s a story you won’t find in NYTimes
“Bird Flu”    

Do you know that ‘bird flu’ was discovered in Vietnam 9 years ago?

Do you know that barely 100 people have died in the whole world in all  that time?  

Do you know that it was the Americans who alerted us to the efficacy of the human antiviral TAMIFLU as a preventative.

Do you know that TAMIFLU barely alleviates some symptoms of the common   flu?

Do you know that its efficacy against the common flu is questioned by a great
part of the scientific community?    

Do you know that against a SUPPOSED mutant virus such as H5N1, TAMIFLU   barely alleviates the illness?
Do you know that to date Avian Flu affects birds only?  

Do you know who markets TAMIFLU?        

ROCHE LABORATORIES.  

Do you know who bought the patent for TAMIFLU from ROCHE LABORATORIES  in 1996?    

GILEAD SCIENCES INC.

Do you know who was the then president of GILEAD SCIENCES INC. and
remains a major shareholder to this day?  

DONALD RUMSFELD, the present Secretary of Defence of the USA.    

More below the fold…

Do you know that the base of TAMIFLU is crushed aniseed?

Do you know who controls 90% of the world’s production of this tree?
ROCHE.

Do you know that sales of TAMIFLU were over $254 million in 2004 and
more than $1000 million in 2005?  

Do you know how many more millions ROCHE can earn in the coming months  
if the business of fear continues?    

So  the summary of the story is as follows:  

Bush’s friends decide that the medicine TAMIFLU is the solution for a pandemic that has not yet occurred and that has caused a hundred deaths  worldwide in 9 years. This medicine doesn’t so much as cure the common flu.    

In normal conditions the virus does not affect humans.    Rumsfe ld sells the patent for TAMIFLU to ROCHE for which they pay him a fortune.  

Roche acquires 90% of  the  global production of crushed aniseed, the base for the antivirus.  
The governments of the entire world threaten a pandemic and then buy industrial quantities of the product from Roche.  

So we end up paying for medicine while  Rumsfeld, Cheney  and  Bush do  the business.    

ARE WE CRAZY or WHAT?  

AT LEAST PASS THIS ON SO THAT IT CAN BE KNOWN !!

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Story Summary From Free Market News:

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=1443

From Wikipedia’s page on Gilead:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead_Sciences

“In January 1997, Donald Rumsfeld, a Board member since 1988, was appointed Chairman of the company [1]. He stood down from the Board in January 2001 when appointed Secretary of Defense at the start of George W. Bush’s first term as President. Rumsfeld is a minor stockholder (approx. $5 million in value) of Gilead.”

“In November 2005, George W. Bush urged Congress to pass $7.1 billion in emergency funding to prepare for the possible bird flu pandemic, of which one billion is solely dedicated to the purchase, and distribution of Tamiflu.”

Gilead’s Press Release upon Rummy stepping to the helm:

http://www.gilead.com/wt/sec/pr_933190157/
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