Zika? Schmika! This is so last week.

Posted by: Yonatan | Mar 1 2016 12:23 utc | 3

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Research opportunities! Vaccination opportunities ! Birth Control opportunities ! NGO soft hangout operations ! Let 100 Flower Revolutions bloom !
Remember zika spelled backwards is code for: American Kaos Intelligence Zion !
They’re just trying to crush the Brazil Olympics for Je$us.

Posted by: Chipnik | Mar 1 2016 13:14 utc | 5

Media hyperbole and repetition are like clarion calls for consumers of fear and hysteria. The pattern of manipulation is in high gear when the medium is trained on the demonization of select despots, newly discovered external threats or anywhere the need for intervention requires these services to galvanize public opinion.

Posted by: metni | Mar 1 2016 13:49 utc | 7

“FEAR” sells.

Posted by: ben | Mar 1 2016 14:47 utc | 9

Yep. lots of people saying lots of things and lots of them know nothing. So whats new? Nothing.
Sounds a lot like the ”flying pig virus”.
It really is time for a new script.
noman

Posted by: noman | Mar 1 2016 15:37 utc | 11

The incessant drum-beat of media hype putting forward mysterious invisible threats to ordinary ppl (Zika, etc.) as well as threats that can be blamed on some group (Cologne gropings thefts sexual harassment in Germany, radical Muslim ‘terrorism’ in France, etc.) is … alarming.
1) The MSM thru incompetence (no more good journos or anything no money for that) facing falling revenues, scandalise anything they can, counting on fear (and sex) to sell, anything goes, barriers all crashed down.
In part, they are in competition with internet scare-mongers: vaccines, nuclear threat, GMO foods, mysterious viruses, aliens, etc. terrorists in schools, pedophiles in the bushes, war that might come home.. and can only *hit* on some topics. The NYT was always a Gvmt. organ, but now under a cloak of respectabilty edges close to the worst yellow-journalism gutter press, the difference is ‘the voice of authority.’
2) The frightening propaganda, induced alarms, are part of a plot, perhaps not consciously taken on by all, to deprive ppl of information and make them fearful, thus submissive to authority, timorous, gloriously grateful to offer heartfelt prayers to a God who provides no answer – while willing to obey men in unifrom who give orders.
The 1% (imho far more..10 – 20) controls the media, are determined that ppl should shut up and be shunted around and…deprived, die quietly with no fuss, useless mouths, etc.
Between these two interpretations there are many intermediary ones.
Re. Zika, it seems to be a faint echo, a knee-jerk take-up reaction of the (relative) success of Amerithrax event.

Posted by: Noirette | Mar 1 2016 17:06 utc | 13

Of the headlines B invites us to consider, the only one that we can ignore for sure is the last: Obama May Meet Zika Head On in Cuba.
There’s surely nothing more that Zika virus could do to President O’Bomber, John Kerry or to the rest of O’Bomber’s cabinet? They would function the same as before, only a fraction more slowly maybe.
On the other hand, the Zika virus could actually increase their intelligence. Now that would be a worry to their handlers.

Posted by: Jen | Mar 1 2016 21:15 utc | 15

One word: TDAP.
It’s all a coverup on the TDAP-vaccine being pushed on pregnant women before the 22. week of pregnancy. The south-American countries spared of microcephaly are the same that didn’t push the TDAP vaccine.

Posted by: Alexander Grimsmo | Mar 2 2016 7:10 utc | 17

And here we come to a number of the monster’s multiple destructive tentacles: The people-mass eventually has to be reduced to about a billion or two. Easier to control and manage. The Rockefeller / Kissinger dictum of the fifties and sixties – from which emerged an economy of control: GMO-agriculture that can inflict famine, infertility (as already tested in the 1990s in India) and deadly or debilitating diseases. Another tentacle spreads biological and disease warfare, take the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014 and the recent Zika outbreak, not coincidentally emerging and being tested in Central and South America, notably in Brazil, a country Washington wants to subdue and dominate, much like they have managed in Argentina with an ‘election coup’
(http://www.globalresearch.ca/argentina-a-quiet-neoliberal-coup-detat-in-latin-americas-southern-cone/5492654
http://www.globalresearch.ca/argentina-revisited-one-month-on-towards-a-neoliberal-democratic-dictatorship/5502615).
The Zika virus has been created in the early sixties, is patented and is owned by the Rockefeller Foundation
(http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-the-zika-virus/5505323).
………………………….
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44256.htm

Posted by: denk | Mar 4 2016 4:47 utc | 19

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Posted by: jsn | Mar 26, 2016 2:07:32 PM | 2
jns posted a link, containing a link, to the very relevant “REPORT from Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Villages regarding Dengue-Zika, microcephaly, and mass-spraying with chemical poisons” (pdf).

Main points:
  1. Dengue epidemic in Brazil persists endemically (on an ongoing basis) due to the marginalisation and misery of millions of people, especially in Northeast Brazil. On top of that, Zika virus, a similar disease although more benign, is now spreading.
  2. A dramatic increase of congenital malformations, especially microcephaly in newborns, was detected and quickly linked to the Zika virus by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. However, they fail to recognise that in the area where most sick persons live, a chemical larvicide producing malformations in mosquitoes has been applied for 18 months, and that this poison (pyriproxyfen [wikipedia]) is applied by the State on drinking water used by the affected population.
  3. Previous Zika epidemics did not cause birth defects in newborns, despite infecting 75% of the population in those countries. Also, in other countries such as Colombia there are no records of microcephaly; however, there are plenty of Zika cases.
  4. The pyriproxyfen being used (as recommended by WHO) is manufactured by Sumimoto Chemical, a Japanese subsidiary of Monsanto.
  5. Brazilian doctors (Abrasco) are claiming that the strategy of chemical control is contaminating the environment as well as people, that it is not decreasing the amount of mosquitoes, and that this strategy is in fact a commercial manoeuvre from the chemical poisons industry, deeply integrated into Latin American ministries of health as well as WHO and PAHO.
  6. Massive spreading using planes, as the governments of Mercosur are considering, is criminal, useless, and a political manoeuvre to simulate that actions are taken. The basis of the progress of the disease lies in inequality and poverty, and the best defence are community-based actions.
  7. The last strategy deployed in Brazil, and which might be replicated in all our countries, is the use of GM mosquitoes —a total failure, except for the company supplying mosquitoes.
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In the face of the ‘Zika threat’, mass sprayings in Mercosur
The governments of Mercosur are causing alarm with the threat of Zika and microcephaly, proposing “more of the same.” The agribusiness is offering the services of the “Soya Air Force” to be used for spraying over cities and villages. [12] Monoculture, the massive use of pesticides, deforestation, destruction of flora and fauna, ecological imbalance, climate change, inequality, those factors are not considered as a cause of the problem.
To social inequality, these epidemics will add health inequalities, and governments with their chemical attacks will generate environmental inequality.

The local doctors, on the spot, see no benefit from the spraying of poisons nor from the introduction of genetically modified mosquitoes … rather very real potential harms in both cases. The real motive behind both operations is the financial enrichment of the chemical companies pushing the poisons and GMOs – pushed by their captive agencies, the WHO and in this case the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
When things went wrong in this case – the microcephaly outbreak – most likely due to spraying pyriproxyfen, according to the local doctors, the Zika was wheeled out as a red herring.
The intent, of course, is to keep the ‘open season’ in Brazil, South and Central America, the “South” worldwide for massive dumping of poisons no longer allowed in the ‘advanced’ economies, and for GMO experimentation on live populations. And for the routine exploitation and deprivation of indigenous and rural settler populations.

Posted by: jfl | Mar 27 2016 0:53 utc | 21