Al Gore’s strange link to swine flu
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
04/30/09 12:05 AM EDT
Is swine flu some sort of genetically modified bioweapon? Before you totally dismiss the idea as some sort of crazy wacko conspiracy theory, consider the following:
1. Three vials of highly dangerous pathogens can’t be accounted for at the nation’s top biodefense lab, and some virus samples recently found there had not been inventoried.
Fort Detrick disease samples may be missing --Frederick News Post, April 26, 2009
Fort Detrick is the site of the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, which couldn’t keep tabs on the anthrax that killed five people in 2001. FNP reports that criminal investigators from Fort Meade are “investigating the possibility of missing virus samples.... In February, USAMRIID halted all its research into these and other diseases, known as 'select agents’ following the discovery of virus samples that weren't listed in its inventory,”
2. “The Swine Influenza A/H1N1 viruses characterized in this outbreak have not been previously detected in pigs or humans.The viruses so far characterized have been sensitive to oseltamivir, but resistant to both amantadine and rimantadine."
--World Health Organization’s Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response Report, April 24, 2009
3. Outbreaks of the “same [never been seen in nature before] virus” occurred almost simultaneously in places thousands of miles apart.
"...It [is] likely too late to try to contain the outbreak by vaccinating, treating or isolating people...the U.S. cases [in California,Texas, Kansas, New York, according to WHO] and Mexican cases are likely the same virus... so far the genetic elements that we have looked at are the same... "
-Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a telephone briefing with reporters on April 24, 2009.
Here’s where it gets really interesting:
4. A US/Chinese venture capital firm stands to benefit financially from a swine flu pandemic.
According to Reuters, private US/Chinese venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KPCB), based in Menlo Park, CA, launched a $200 million Pandemic Bio Defense Fund in 2006. The firm’s portfolio includes eight pandemic and bio defense firms. Two of them, Novavax and Bio Defense, are publicly traded.
On Friday, their stock jumped at news of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico. Novavax (up 75 percent) had already contacted the Centers for Disease Control offering to help with the crisis. But the same story also said that shares of Gilead Sciences, Inc. - which gets royalties from the sale of Tamiflu from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche - declined 10 cents the same day. Strange.
5. Guess who’s a partner at KPCB? Al Gore, who also chairs the Alliance for Climate Protection. Gore bragged that he donates all his salary to the climate change organization.
KPCB also has a “green” investment collaboration with Generation Investment Management, which Gore also co-founded with David Blook (Al is a very busy guy). A November 14, 2007 article in the UK Telegraph quoted Blook: “There’s a significant gapbetween the capital needed and the capital currently deployed to create enduring solutions to the climate crisis.”
Selling a boatload of swine flu vaccine to panicked government officials in Mexico, the United States and Canada would raise a lot of capital. Just sayin...
Of course, tthis highly unlikely link between Al Gore, his joint private equity venture with the Chinese, and the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and the U.S. could just be one of those strange coincidences. But if I were one of the Army’s CID people, I’d look into it.
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