The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality (44 page)

The so-called ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic, responsible for the deaths of around 50 million people worldwide, 1n 1918/19, was not ‘flu’ at all, it was a simple, easily treatable chest infection.
 
The fledgling ‘wonder-drug’ aspirin played a significant role in all those eminently preventable deaths, but the real question is this; was the pandemic a case of pharmaceutical genocide perpetrated by the Elite to further their stated population-reduction agenda or was it simply a case of misdiagnosis and/or prescription error, compounded by a huge corporation’s desperation to put profits before people?
 
I will let the reader decide for themselves.
 
Here are the facts…

In 1899 aspirin was first produced and was patented by the German pharmaceutical company Farbenfabriken Bayer in 1900.
 
Bayer is still one of the ‘Big Pharma’ companies (as Bayer AG) today.
 
In the first decade of the 20th century its strenuous worldwide marketing efforts had left few places in the civilised world lacking aspirin.
 
In the United States, Bayer's giant factory produced aspirin under American management and after Bayer executives were charged with violating the ‘Trading with the Enemies’ Act in August 1918, copious numbers of advertisements were produced that re-encouraged the lost confidence in aspirin.

The world has believed for almost a century that a new and virulent ‘flu’ virus appeared from nowhere and killed millions worldwide in 1918.
 
However, two reports, one published in 2008 and the second in 2009, have now laid that particular myth to rest for good.

The first report came as a press release on 19th August 2008, from the American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)…

“Bacteriologic and histopathologic results from published autopsy series clearly and consistently implicated secondary bacterial pneumonia caused by common upper respiratory tract bacteria in most influenza fatalities.
 
People were killed by common bacteria found in the upper respiratory tract.
 
The 20 to 40 million deaths worldwide from the great 1918 Influenza Pandemic were NOT due to ‘flu’ at all or even a virus, but to pneumonia caused by massive bacterial infection.”

The NIAID press release did not however, address the actual cause of the bacterial infections, but further, follow-up research by Dr. Karen Starko certainly did.
 
This research is quite categorical in its implication of aspirin as the real culprit, dovetailing with the NIAID research on pneumonia from massive bacterial infection and goes further in also explaining the extremely rapid deaths in young people.

Mortality was caused in this instance by two overlapping syndromes: an early, severe acute respiratory distress condition, which was estimated to have caused 10%-15% of deaths and a subsequent, aggressive bacterial pneumonia ‘super-infection’, which was present in the majority of deaths.

In examining reports of those who died, two distinct groups were discovered to be apparent, based on a very distinctive time-frame from health to death:

People who died of pneumonia from a bacterial infection became sick and deteriorated at varying rates from there to death, and…

People who died so astoundingly fast that those deaths became a classic part of the frightening legend of the 1918 ‘flu’ – people perfectly well in the morning and dead before the afternoon was out.

It has subsequently been discovered that In both groups, aspirin was the likely cause.

In the case of the first group, pneumonia, aspirin suppresses the immune system, allowing bacterial infections to take hold.
 
Doctors at the time were relating pneumonias to the use of aspirin.

One contemporary doctor, Dudley Williams of Rhode Island, reported that he did not lose a single case of influenza and that the death-rate of his patients from pneumonia was 2.1%.
 
The salicylates, including aspirin and quinine, were almost the sole treatments given by most doctors and it was quite common to hear them speaking of losing 60% of their pneumonia patients.

Aspirin directly or indirectly was the cause of the loss of more lives than was the influenza itself.
 
Aspirin caused harm in two ways.
 
Firstly, its indirect action derived from the fact that aspirin was taken until prostration resulted and the patient developed pneumonia.
 
And for the second group which died so precipitously, their symptoms are consistent with aspirin overdose and with extraordinarily rapid deaths from it.

Another report noted that:

“The disease was a veritable plague.
 
The extraordinary toxicity, the marked prostration, the extreme cyanosis and the rapidity of development stamp this disease as a distinct clinical entity heretofore not fully described.
 
Salicylate toxicity is often overlooked because another condition is present, the dose is thought to be trivial and the symptoms (hyperventilation, vomiting, sweating, headache, drowsiness, confusion, dyspnoea, excitement, epistaxis, vertigo, pulmonary oedema and haemorrhage) are nonspecific.
 
In 1918, differentiating progressive salicylate intoxication from infection pathologically or clinically, the dyspnoea lasts from a few hours to a day followed by respiratory failure, circulatory collapse, convulsions, and death.”

To summarise, just before the 1918 death spike, the widespread use of aspirin was still in its infancy and was unfortunately being recommended in doses now known to be potentially toxic and to cause pulmonary oedema and may therefore have contributed to the overall pandemic mortality.
 
Young adult mortality may be explained by their willingness to use the new, recommended therapy and the presence of youth in regimented treatment settings.
 
The lower mortality of children may be a result of less aspirin use.
 
The most influential source of paediatric medicine in 1918 recommended hydrotherapy for fever, not salicylate; however, its 1920 edition condemned the practice of giving ‘coal tar products’ ie. pharmaceuticals, in full doses for the reduction of fever.
 
Varying aspirin use may also have contributed to the marked differences in mortality between cities and even between military bases.

In February 1917, Bayer lost its American patent on aspirin, opening-up a lucrative drug market to many manufacturers.
 
Bayer fought back with a sustained advertising campaign, emphasising its own version of the brand's purity just as the epidemic was reaching its peak.
 
The New York Times said;

“Aspirin packages were produced containing no warnings about toxicity and few instructions about use.
 
In the fall [autumn] of 1918, facing a widespread deadly disease with no known cure, the surgeon general and the United States Navy recommended aspirin as a symptomatic treatment and the military bought large quantities of the drug.
 
The Journal of the American Medical Association suggested a dose of 1,000 milligrams every three hours, the equivalent of almost 25 standard 325-milligram aspirin tablets in 24 hours.
 
This is about twice the daily dosage generally considered safe today.”

Dr. Karen Starko's research clearly demonstrated that… “Aspirin advertisements in August 1918 and a series of official recommendations for aspirin in September and early October immediately preceded the death spike of October 1918.
 
The number of deaths in the USA increased steeply, peaking first in the Navy in late September, then in the Army in early October and finally in the general population in late October.”

One single sentence in her work, stands-out as being extremely significant in my view:
 
“Homeopaths, who thought aspirin was a poison, claimed few deaths."

That sentence alone speaks volumes about the millions of deaths caused by Bayer and the pharmaceutical industry of the day, as indeed it does today.
 
Homeopathy threatened pharmaceutical industry profits (as it also does to this day – hence the massive propaganda campaign against natural remedies) and worse, the homeopathic doctors criticised coal-tar based synthetic drugs in general, the very basis of the pharmaceutical industry.
 
Aspirin and the other coal-tar products are condemned as causing great numbers of unnecessary deaths and the omnipresent aspirin is the most pernicious drug of all.
 
Its deceptive malignancy is partly concealed by its fast pain-relieving quality.
 
In several instances, aspirin weakened the heart, depressed the vital forces, increased the mortality in mild cases and made convalescence slower.
 
In all cases it masked the symptoms and rendered immeasurably more difficult the selection of the correct curative remedy.
 
Apparently aspirin bears no curative relation to any disease and strictly speaking it ought to be removed from sale as unsafe.
 
The alleged blood-thinning capability of aspirin, meaning that it is in widespread use for heart-attack patients, is also grossly over-stated.
 
Whilst aspirin does not actually thin the blood, it does in fact inhibit the clotting process.
 
However this truth is completely mis-represented by all producers of aspirin in order to maintain the huge annual profits engendered by this silent killer.
 
Aspirin is widely thought to be directly responsible for at least 6000 deaths each year in the USA alone, not all through misuse or from incorrect dosages.

A disturbing side-effect of aspirin is also that it causes the lining of the stomach and intestinal walls to break-down after prolonged use, leading to irreparable tissue damage and the severe degradation and weakening of the digestive tract.
 
Doctors today still advise angina and heart-attack sufferers to take an aspirin every day in complete and utter disregard of this fact.
 
My own mother who recently passed-away had suffered with angina for twenty years and completely unknown to the rest of the family until shortly before her death from a ruptured colon, had been taking two aspirins a day for that entire time period – all under her ‘ignorant’ doctor’s directives.
 
Incidentally this is the same doctor that currently prescribes a never-ending regimen of sixteen different drugs for my father.
 
My mother was sadly one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of doctor ‘error’, each year in the western world.
 
But when one considers how dangerous most ‘legal’ drugs are, then these figures are actually rather unsurprising.

But back to the main thrust of the story.
 
Perhaps the most shocking aspect of it however, is that using only natural (thus un-patentable) substances, homeopaths saved the lives of almost everyone who turned to them during the 1918 massacre of innocents, meaning in effect that millions died for no reason at all if corporate greed and criminal recklessness is excluded.
 
This also threatened to expose the fact that the new coal-tar based synthetic drugs (derived of course from Big Oil), the basis for huge investment, were in fact disastrous medically – and that had to be prevented at all costs.

In 1918, The Rockefeller Foundation (shortly afterwards inextricably connected to Bayer) used the Spanish flu epidemic and the media (that it already controlled by this time) to start a witch-hunt on all forms of medicine that were not covered by its patents, the full force of which still continues and is being felt, to this day.

“The Rockefeller Foundation was the front organization for a new global business venture .... This new venture was called the pharmaceutical investment business. Donations from the Rockefeller Foundation went only to medical schools and hospitals, which had become missionaries of patented pharmaceutical drugs, developed by a new breed of companies that manufactured patented, synthetic drugs.”
 
From ‘Rockefeller Medicine Men’ by Richard Brown.