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GM crops link to Pig Flu Hi51

Russian Scientists Socha Faal | 05.07.2009 15:26 | Health | World

Direct link to H151 and GM crops

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)









Scientists from Russia’s Ministry of Health are warning in a secret report to Prime Minister Putin that they have discovered a ‘critical link’ between the H1N1 influenza (Swine Flu) virus and genetically modified amylopectin potatoes that are consumed in massive quantities nearly exclusively by Westerners and sold in fast food restaurants as French Fries.

According to these reports, the protease enzyme genetically modified in the potatoes being sold through Western fast food restaurants as French Fries to protect against Potato virus X causes an “explosive” replication of the H1N1 influenza virus by increasing the acidic conditions of the endosome and causing the hemagglutinin protein to rapidly fuse the viral envelope with the vacuole's membrane, then causing the M2 ion channel to allow protons to move through the viral envelope and acidify the core of the virus, which causes the core to dissemble and release the H1N1’s RNA and core proteins into the hosts cells.

Evidence confirming these dire findings by top Russian scientists is also supported by the World Health Organization who in their reporting on the current Influenza Pandemic, clearly shows that the H1N1 virus is nearly totally confined to those Western Nations allowing their citizens to consume these genetically modified potatoes, and which include: The United States with over 17,000 cases being reported with 45 deaths; Canada with 2,978 cases; the United Kingdom with 1,226 cases; and Australia with 1,823 cases.

Important to also note about the World Health Organization’s statistics on the spread of the H1N1 Pandemic influenza virus is that the South American Nation of Chile is the only country in the World outside of The United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia to allow the planting of these genetically modified potatoes due to their Free Trade Pact with the US and who are reporting 1,694 cases of this disease.

Also important to note are that most of the World’s largest Nations do not allow the planting of these genetically modified potatoes and therefore are reporting very limited outbreaks of the H1N1 Pandemic influenza, including Russia with 3 cases, China, the World’s most populated country, with 318 cases, and India, the World’s second largest country, with 16.

These reports further state that with the linkage between the H1N1 Pandemic influenza virus and fast food French Fries made from genetically modified potatoes the most venerable people to being infected are the youngest who, by far, are the largest consumers of these types of cheap Western foods, and which was recently confirmed by the Washington Post News Service that reported:

“Of the 5,000 confirmed and more than 100,000 probable cases of swine flu, the average age of infected people is 15; two thirds are younger than 18.”

These reports further warn that though the genetic history of this insidious man-made influenza seems to initially offer some protection for those Nations not consuming these genetically modified potatoes, to believe so would be a “grave mistake” as new evidence is emerging that this H1N1 Pandemic influenza virus is rapidly mutation, and as we can read from these two reports:

“The new strain of influenza appears to have mutated to become more infectious for humans, the online edition of science magazine Nature reported Monday, referencing research by a team including Prof. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of Tokyo University's Institute of Medical Science.

The surface of influenza virus particles are covered with thorn-shaped proteins called hemagglutinin (HA), which allows the virus to stick to human cells.

After analyzing multiple samples of the new flu virus, the team ascertained that in some cases the HA of the new H1N1 strain have mutated, allowing the strain to stick to human cells more easily.

According to Kawaoka, the same mutations have been found in HA of the H5N1 strain of influenza, the highly virulent bird flu, which kills about 60 percent of those it infects. Kawaoka said the virus is still in the process of mutating into a form even more infectious to humans.”

-and-

“Brazilian scientists have identified a new strain of the H1N1 virus after examining samples from a patient in Sao Paulo, their institute said Tuesday. The variant has been called A/Sao Paulo/1454/H1N1 by the Adolfo Lutz Bacteriological Institute, which compared it with samples of the A(H1N1) swine flu from California.”

More ominously to be examined in these reports is the response of the United States to this Pandemic which, to date, is the World’s largest infected Nation (reporting 7 more H1N1 flu deaths today) and which has already declared a Public Health Emergency and, just yesterday, passed a bill in its Congress allocating $7.7 Billion to prepare themselves for this catastrophic disease that, in essence, they created themselves.

Sadly, it remains a fact that the American people are not allowed to know how their giant fast food and genetically modified food industries, with the consent of their government, is destroying the lives of their children, and with the US fast food industry paying over $10 billion in advertising and millions more as lobbying payoffs to government officials, their remains no evidence of this changing any time in the foreseeable future.

Russian Scientists Socha Faal

Additions

This crazy disinformation can only aid Monsanto! It's bullshit!

07.07.2009 00:10

I am against GM crops, and have campaigned against them for years. And GM potatoes are also a bad idea for various reasons. But this article is bullshit! As an anti-GM activist, I know a few basic facts about what I am fighting against.

French Fries are not made with GM potatoes anywhere in the world!

GM potatoes are not currently cultivated commercially. There have been GM potato field trials, but these are relatively small experiments. Even if there was some secret plan to put them in our food, they are not yet grown in a large enough number to supply the food industry. These experiments are still a bad idea, but they do not supply the food manufacturers.

A type of GM potato modified for resistance to some insects and viruses were briefly cultivated on a commercial scale (25 000 hectares) between 1999 and 2001 in the USA, Canada and Romania, but this practice was discontinued, because the technology failed to yield any benefits.

The food industry has long declared it wants nothing to do with GM potatoes.

Now the EU is on the verge of giving the go-ahead to a new GM potato modified for use in the manufacture of industrial starches (but which wont be used as food). Again, this is still a bad idea - but they are not being grown yet, and therefore can not be getting into our chips and giving us pig flu!

Because as an informed activist I know these facts, I think that the article is bullshit and disinformation.

I don't know if in theory GM potato chips can promote pig flu, but to my knowledge, this 'Sorcha Faal' article is scientifically illiterate.

Out of curiosity I googled the name 'Sorcha Faal' and found the source of the article. Sorcha Faal appears to be an internet identity used by a hoaxer. (And there is no Russian Scientist by this name).

"Sorcha Faal" appears to be notorious amongst conspiracy enthusiasts for embarrassing them with a series of claims that are too crazy and obviously false even for them! Some provide evidence that Faal is really a one 'David Booth', who lives in Virginia. Faal / Booth currently claims that Michael Jackson was assassinated by the CIA, and much more.

"Sorcha Faal" claims esoteric knowledge "obtained from the most ancient of texts" and also claims to be guided by 'the children of winter' who are strange beings created in the 1920's by Lenin (!). These "children of winter" can allegedly move across the universe and move mountains with their thoughts alone, heal the sick, and survive freezing and boiling unscathed. Sorcha Faal claims these beings also guide the Russian government. This is hardly a credible source of information speaking here!

I dont think this post should be on Indymedia, because it discredits those of us who for valid reasons oppose GM crops and it plays into the hands of Monsanto.




Anti-GMO activist


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  1. Ah, secret reports ... — disinfo
  2. yawn — I can't believe i wasted my life reading that
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