Predictive Programming TV: Riots, Quarantines and Mass Graves For Flu

[justgetthere]

Predictive Programming: TV Movie Shows Riots, Quarantines and Mass Graves For Pandemic Flu

http://www.justgetthere.us/blog/archives/Predictive-Programming-TV-Movie-Shows-Riots,-Quarantines-and-Mass-Graves-For-Pandemic-Flu.html

By Harold Gray

JustGetThere | The massive preparation of government for what they say is an imminent pandemic this fall, triggered my memory of images of riots, quarantines, and mass graves that appeared in a made-for-TV movie about a pandemic flu outbreak. My analysis of the film will contain detailed descriptions of the movie, so if you want to watch it first and then read my take, click the link below to watch the full movie compiled in video clips on this site. http://www.justgetthere.us/blog/archives/Predictive-Programming-TV-Movie-Shows-Riots,-Quarantines-and-Mass-Graves-For-Pandemic-Flu-Full-Movie.html

The YouTube links for the movie start here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZxWZe3JWNM.

During sweeps, in prime time on May 9, 2006, ABC aired, "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America." The sensationalized movie, follows an American businessman who represents the first human to human transfer of the H5N1 Avian flu virus in Hong Kong. After contacting it from a worker in a shipping factory, he flies back home and later succumbs to the virus, becoming patient "zero" in America. Although it was a TV movie from three years ago, I still had memory of it. This is the very essence of predictive programming, suppressed memories of a situation that has been implanted through the use of Hollywood movies and television shows. The subject matter of the show will present a crisis that the public hasn't been faced with, then present specific reactions that will subconsciously affect the viewers reasoned response if such an event occurs in the real world.

Click below to read more and watch videos

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[Freeski]

bump for later - thanks

[Satyagraha]

Ugh... bump.

[justgetthere]

Thanks guys, lets get this to go viral on YouTube so people can see how Hollywood and Government work together to mold the publics reaction to events that will play out at a later date.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZxWZe3JWNM

[Freeski]

This is quite entertaining (for lack of a better word). Into part three.

[Unintelligable Name]

Ah HD and multiparts, I like.

[Freeski]

Now to go to bed and dream about this shit... again. It's too bad life has to be this way because it shouldn't be. Damn the tyrants to Hell.

[Unintelligable Name]

"It's going to be a long and brutal ordeal that will rip apart the fabric of society."

Then 10 seconds later they unwittingly debunk the effectiveness of vaccines. 

[Dig]

Finally a progressive blog notices the GE concentration camp conditioning

MSNBC’s Iowa Coverage: Lock Up!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/01/msnbcs-iowa-coverage-lock-up/
By: John Amato @ 5:45 PM - PST    



CNN and FOX Noise are delivering a ton of politics today even though it’s a holiday because the Iowa caucus is in overdrive mode. I flipped on to see who MSNBC had working the network today and guess what I saw?  Repeats of Lockup, Lockup, Lockup, Lockup…Holman—Alabama…

That’s ground breaking political coverage for you…
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Wake up guys we are being conditioned (mostly by GE who has the largest security and medical contracts at the over 800 concentration camps) to think living in prison is normal.

MSNBC...A Fuller Spectrum Of PsyOps Conditioning

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Media is conditioning us to accept concentration camps in America:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=123056.0

[Dig]

Media Conglomerates, MIC, Big Government, and the descendents of Goebbels
http://911exposed.org/Media/Mediagovernment.htm



The Influence of [a Corporatistic] Government over Free Speech
"Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid. Did you hear that? - stupid." -- Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

Government Employees in PR Training to effectively approach and pitch the media
Government Influence on Media
(Research from Business and Society Review 111:1 55–66 Mike Sibley and Gina Nadas [pdf)

Government officials have a number of ways to influence media content :

• The media are dependent upon officials for the largest amount of source material
• The US government provides a number of subsidies to media companies
• The government protects media companies from foreign or domestic attack
• Officials woo journalists who are compliant
• Officials can withhold information
• Officials can censor—especially during wartime

Government subsidies media in many ways:

• Newspaper delivery rules
• Third class postal rates
• Special merger rules
• Public broadcasting subsidies
• Spectrum allocation
• “According to official sources . . .”
• News organizations depend on official sources for their raw materials and interpretations of events
• Must ‘fill in the white space between the ads’ Backgrounding
• Quotes
• “Exclusives”
• White papers

Government controls access:

• During war, who is in ‘embedded’?
• Army control over where they go, who they talk to, what they say, to some extent
• Press releases
• Press conferences
• Who gets called on?
• Who isn’t invited back?
• Press passes
• Official meetings
• Air Force One, etc.
• What organizations are considered the ‘press’?

President vs. Congress (the administration has much greater control over sources of information than Congress does):

• Loyalty to the president
• Hand-picked assistants
• Can remove any leak from inner circle
• President is ultimate news source
• No alternative for journalists to turn to
• Physical access of journalists controlled (White House, Pentagon, State, etc.)
• Modern focus on, fascination with, president
• Use press as a weapon against opposition
• Trial balloons “off the record”
• Exploiting Journalists with Incentives to advance Government Agenda:
• Career motivations
• Journalists get ahead by getting “scoops” and inside information
• Government officials can use this to control press behavior

Media ownership:

• Media owners tend to be more conservative than journalists
• Media owners are interested in the business climate of the country
• “longer range” view
• Have at times been called upon to keep a story out of the public eye
• National security
• Inappropriate
• Political favor

Direct Instruments used by authoritarian governments to influence the media include:
(1) Ownership of media firms by political elite,
(2) Control of resources used by the media,
(3) Taxes on circulation and value-added taxes on newsprint and advertising,
(4) Extensive government advertising,
(5) Bribes,
(6) Censorship,
(7) Intimidation, including threat of prosecution, and
(8) Volence or the threat of violence. These instruments are of two basic types:
(a) Coercive actions designed to force compliance, and
(b) Financial incentives designed to induce compliance.

 
Modern U.S. Government propaganda devised from Nazi masterminds- The aim of propaganda is to influence people's opinions or behaviors actively, rather than merely to communicate the facts about something.  An appeal to one's emotions is, perhaps, the more obvious propaganda method, but there are varied other more subtle and insidious forms.  A common characteristic of propaganda is volume (in the sense of a large amount).  For example, propaganda might be used to garner either support or disapproval of a certain position, rather than to simply present the position, or to try to convince people to buy something, rather than to simply let them know there is some thing on the market. What separates propaganda from "normal" communication is in ways by which the message attempts to shape opinion or behavior, which are often subtle and insidious among other characteristics.  Individually propaganda functions as self-deception.

Propaganda is a particularly effective weapon during or leading up to war. In this case its aim is usually to dehumanize and create hatred toward a supposed enemy, either internal or external.  The technique is to create a false image in the mind.  This can be done by using special words, special avoidance of words or by saying that the enemy is responsible for certain things he never did.  Most propaganda wars require the home population to feel the enemy has inflicted an injustice, which may be fictitious.  The object is to garner support from the population for a war effort that might normally be less enthusiastically supported.

Propaganda is also one of the methods used in psychological warfare (PSYOPS) — which also involve false flag operations. The US mass media “reports”, the style, content and especially the language, echo their Nazi predecessors of 70 years ago to an uncanny degree. Coincidence...  In both instances we have imperialist armies conquering countries, leveling cities and slaughtering civilians. Both in Nazi Germany and contemporary US, we are told by the mass media that the invading armies are “liberating the country” and "spreading democracy".  The enemy are foreigners, insurgents, or al Qaeda.  But never are we told that the Iraqis despise the U.S. invaders.  Are they not fighting to be a free people?  Almost the entire population of non-Kurdish Iraq is opposed to the US military and its puppet regime — yet the media refer to those defending their country from the imperial invaders as “insurgents”, minimizing the significance of a nationwide force of freedom fighters.  We are told that the mounting causalities are a result of civil war and sectarian violence, despite that the puppet police units are the main target of these attacks. Like the Nazi media, the major US radio and TV networks report that “freeing the city of insurgents” includes the systematic murder of friends, neighbors and relatives.  And, “securing the city for free elections” means terror bombing homes, hospitals and religious buildings by hundreds of jets, missiles, and helicopter gunships.  Why do Washington and the mass media resort to these tactics?  Answer: to galvanize support with the U.S. population in order to wage a "war of terror" on Iraqis — forcing them into submission while large energy corporation suck their country's oil supply dry. The technique perfected by Goebbels in Germany and practiced in the US is to repeat lies and euphemisms until they become accepted “truths”, and become embedded into everyday language.  Goebbels was behind the propaganda for Nazi Germany

Below are some propaganda points based upon "Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda" by Leonard W. Doob
1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.
2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives
b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale
c. It must oversee other agencies' activities which have propaganda consequences
3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.
4. Propaganda must affect the enemy's policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence
b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions
c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself
d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity
5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign
6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.
7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.
8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.
9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.
10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy's prestige or lends support to the propagandist's own objective.
11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment
c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness
14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof
15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.
16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves
17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective
18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

][Note: An intelligent person armed with the knowledge of how propaganda works can easily pick up these techniques being used upon the masses.  Once you figure it out, you will be amazed at how often you are being attacked by it.  It's worse than you think...]

[Dig]

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Nov 23, 2006
PART 1 of Movie Predictive Programming  - mp3 - transcript

Nov 24, 2006
PART 2 of Movie Predictive Programming  - mp3 - transcript

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March 23, 2009
Alan Watt on the Alex Jones Show
Infowars.com (Alex Jones' Website)
(Originally Aired Live: March 23, 2009 on Genesis Communications Network)
LISTEN / DOWNLOAD Hour 1

LISTEN / DOWNLOAD Hour 2

LISTEN / DOWNLOAD Hour 3

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April 7, 2008
Alan Watt on the Alex Jones Show
Infowars.com (Alex Jones' Website)
(Originally Aired Live: April 7, 2008 on Genesis Communications Network)
(Songs: "What Would You Do?" by Paris. "Balls to the Wall" by Accept.)

Hour 1   Hour 2

thanks to matrixcutter for the links

[sociostudent]

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Nov 23, 2006
PART 1 of Movie Predictive Programming  - mp3 - transcript

Nov 24, 2006
PART 2 of Movie Predictive Programming  - mp3 - transcript

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March 23, 2009
Alan Watt on the Alex Jones Show
Infowars.com (Alex Jones' Website)
(Originally Aired Live: March 23, 2009 on Genesis Communications Network)
LISTEN / DOWNLOAD Hour 1

LISTEN / DOWNLOAD Hour 2

LISTEN / DOWNLOAD Hour 3

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April 7, 2008
Alan Watt on the Alex Jones Show
Infowars.com (Alex Jones' Website)
(Originally Aired Live: April 7, 2008 on Genesis Communications Network)
(Songs: "What Would You Do?" by Paris. "Balls to the Wall" by Accept.)

Hour 1   Hour 2

thanks to matrixcutter for the links

Alex should have Alan W. on about this.

[Letsbereal]

Have to keep an eye on Big Blue

IBM to buy analytics company for $1.2 billion http://tinyurl.com/ll2g3m

IBM buying SPSS for 1.2 bln dlrs, Published: Tuesday July 28, 2009
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/IBM_buying_SPSS_for_1_2_bln_dlrs_07282009.html

IBM launches new real-time data analysis software http://r.reuters.com/daw45c

IBM sees big opportunity in water management IT http://tinyurl.com/njvsdb

IBM to double consulting staff in China http://link.reuters.com/bup79c

Electronic payment processing may lure tech giants http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE53C4TN20090413?sp=true

Scientific and technological progress continues to accelerate. IBM promises a computer at 20,000 trillion calculations per second by 2011, which is estimated to be the speed of the human brain. And nanomedicine may one day rebuild damaged cells atom by atom, using nanobots the size of blood cells. But technological progress carries its own risks. "Globalisation and advanced technology allow fewer people to do more damage and in less time, so that possibly one day a single individual may be able to make and deploy a weapon of mass destruction."
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-planets-future-climate-change-will-cause-civilisation-to-collapse-1742759.html

Big Blue's benefit blues: To paraphrase the old saying about IBM: nobody ever got fired for closing a defined benefit pension plan. http://tinyurl.com/ktbv33

Temporary workers feel the pinch as employers wait for recovery: A strange thing has happened at an IBM factory .. http://tinyurl.com/m543a2

Democracy Going Dark: The Electronic Police State
Additional firms on Lockheed Martin’s “team” as subcontractors include IBM, Accenture, BAE Systems, Global Science & Technology, Innovative Management & Technology Services and Platinum Solutions. In other words, NGI is yet another in a gigantic herd of cash cows enriching the Military-Industrial-Security Complex. http://dprogram.net/2009/05/21/democracy-going-dark-the-electronic-police-state/

Quadrillion? That is a number only super computing engineers and astronomers used to use, not economists and bankers! For example, the North star is "just" a couple of quadrillion miles away, ie, a few thousand trillion miles. The new "Roadrunner" supercomputer built by IBM for the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has achieved a peak performance of 1.026 Peta Flop per second -- becoming the first supercomputer ever to reach this milestone. One Quadrillion Floating Point Operations (Flops) per second is 1 Peta Flop/s, ie, 1,000 Trillion Flops per second. It is estimated that all the data found on all the websites and stored on computers across the world totals more than One Exa byte of memory, ie, 1,000 Quadrillion bytes of data. http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2008/10/the_size_of_der.php

IBM boosts Juniper pact, plays down Cisco rivalry http://link.reuters.com/pym29c

IBM hikes full-year outlook, shares shine http://link.reuters.com/zap88c

INSTANT VIEW: Google, IBM beat expectations http://link.reuters.com/tam88c

[Unintelligable Name]

"We got more Tamiflu, but only 300 doses."
"They're going to be screaming at us again?"

"What am I going to tell all these people here?"
"You'll figure something out, or they'll eat you alive."

"These are going to be extremely trying times, and people are going to resort to desperate measures."

They're giving them all water? What's the point of that... it's not like there is a reason to turn off the city's water supply in the event of a pandemic... or is there....

"Proposal for Electricity rationing..." Again... what's the point of that? You'd think an Earthquake hit, not a biological plague.

"We're all gonna die!" As this guy shoots himself in the face.

[Unintelligable Name]

"Are you having problems with local law enforcement walking off the job?"
"Yes we've lost 25% of our force."

"How many inmates are you talking about releasing onto the street?"
"As many as possible, evidently it's pretty bad inside the prisons, there's no way to treat or isolate all the sick."
"We can't just release convicted felons into the population..."

"We just got a call from the White House, they aren't releasing any of the strategic national stockpile of Tamiflu to us."
"I'm not sure it matters, everything I'm hearing  says that the anti-virals aren't working anyway."
"That is not the point."

They even have someone who plays the part of moron. "Who ever thought the flu could be such a big deal... I never thought I'd say this but I am bored of my Playstation."

[sociostudent]

I've resorted to arguing (internally and externally)with the predictive programming itself:

"Are you having problems with local law enforcement walking off the job?"
"Yes we've lost 25% of our force."
("hasn't been done yet but just wait")
"How many inmates are you talking about releasing onto the street?"
"As many as possible, evidently it's pretty bad inside the prisons, there's no way to treat or isolate all the sick."
("BEING DONE")
"We can't just release convicted felons into the population..."
("BEING DONE")
"We just got a call from the White House, they aren't releasing any of the strategic national stockpile of Tamiflu to us."
("WON'T MATTER")
"I'm not sure it matters, everything I'm hearing  says that the anti-virals aren't working anyway."
"That is not the point."
("WHAT IS THE POINT, THEN?")
They even have someone who plays the part of moron. "Who ever thought the flu could be such a big deal... I never thought I'd say this but I am bored of my Playstation."

[Unintelligable Name]

Bwaaah this woman is waiting at the supermarket for baby formula...

& Fighting over water... heh.

Oh boy subplot as the leaders try to decide who will be saved, and who will die!

Oh and... and.... people attacking the military convoy carrying the vaccines!! And... all the 'robbers' are shot to death.

Dumptrucks full of dead bodies putting them all into a giant pit with an excavator rumaging around in the middle.

[Unintelligable Name]

Once the pandemic is over in the US within the storyline, the editor takes off the damn blue tinted "gloom" filter and it's all bright and sunny again.  

They debunk vaccines, again!

"A vaccine is only effective when it's tailor made to a specific virus."

The ending is quite lame... they go to Angola, visit a village -- and there's dead people all within arms length of each other like they all decided to fall down and die in the same exact spot.

But hey I bet it scared the bejesus out of everyone who saw it.

[Dig]

Everybody must see this movie.

It is hardcore evidence of terrorism and racketeering by the hollywood propagandists.

This is perfect evidence for RICO charges.

It pushes vaccines that cause genocide by giving a fabricated threat. This is like the 30 years of BS films saying that muslims are the terrorists when it is our own government. Find a link with the movie and big pharma (or any pop reduction organization) and this is straight up Racketeering.

[Unintelligable Name]

Find a link with the movie and big pharma (or any pop reduction organization) and this is straight up Racketeering.

There's gotta be one, after watching the entire thing I thought to myself: "What the hell was the point of that, it wasn't entertaining... it had no real story line... it was just total psyop."

They managed to fit in almost all elements of a pandemic for predictive programming -- except forced vaccinations.

It was a propaganda script! Fully!

[sociostudent]

Yeah, they didn't want to be THAT obvious--this was to set up the problem and the reaction, but leave the SOLUTION unattended, so the reader will be left in a state of shock. In a few days, they'll admit that they HAVE to vaccinate us "for our own good"

[Dig]

There's gotta be one, after watching the entire thing I thought to myself: "What the hell was the point of that, it wasn't entertaining... it had no real story line... it was just total psyop."

They managed to fit in almost all elements of a pandemic for predictive programming -- except forced vaccinations.

It was a propaganda script! Fully!

Could this have something to do with it?

Congress outraged at Pentagon Psyops Projects:
Alarmingly Non-Military Propaganda,
Public Relations Propaganda,
and
Behavioral-Modification Propaganda
[Duh! Do ya think?]

Congress takes a closer look at Pentagon PR

Communications programs designed to win public support are costing too much and growing outside what they're supposed to do, lawmakers say.

By Walter Pincus

The Washington Post

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009555166_pentagonpress29.html?syndication=rss

July 29, 2009 at 8:16 AM

Comments (1)

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are voicing concerns about the Pentagon's strategic-communications programs, through which the military aims to win over civilians and erode support for adversaries in countries around the world.

The programs have grown too fast and are spread through the Defense Department budget in a way that hampers oversight, complain the House and Senate Armed Services committees and the House Appropriations Committee. They also suggest that the military is producing propaganda and other materials that mask U.S. government sponsorship and focus "far beyond traditional military information operations."

In Iraq, the military has awarded $100 million contracts to support elections and the aims of the Baghdad government. A recent multimillion-dollar contract in Afghanistan tried to bolster public support for the Kabul government's efforts in its fight against makeshift bombs.

The Pentagon spends nearly $1 billion a year on its strategic communications, its contribution to the "war of ideas" that until recent years had been the sole province of the State Department's public-diplomacy effort.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the military getting money more easily than the diplomatic corps, and the dominance of military personnel in those countries has led to an increasing military role in information operations.

State Department special envoy Richard Holbrooke told journalists in March that "the information issue — sometimes called psychological operations or strategic communications" — has become a "major, major gap to be filled" before U.S.-led forces can regain the upper hand in Afghanistan.

Last week, the House Appropriations Committee, in approving the fiscal 2010 defense-funding bill, said that it had identified 10 strategic-communications programs that had grown from $9 million in fiscal 2005 to a "staggering $988 million request for fiscal 2010."

The committee said many of the costlier programs appear as "alarmingly nonmilitary propaganda, public relations, and behavioral-modification messaging."

Several of the 10 classified programs "should be terminated immediately," said the panel, and it threatened to withhold funding for all 10 for next year until Defense Secretary Robert Gates reports to the committee about their "target audiences, goals, and measures of effectiveness."

It also cut $500 million from the Pentagon's overall total for strategic communications.

The Senate Armed Services Committee, meanwhile, directed the Pentagon last week to come up with separate budget materials for fiscal 2011 "that clearly articulate and document Defense Department objectives and funding levels for strategic communications and public diplomacy."

Without such documentation, the Senate panel said, it could not "oversee adequately the funding for the multitude of programs."


The House Armed Services Committee said last month that the Pentagon's "planning" for strategic communications "is insufficient compared to the needs," and it directed Gates to report within four months on the department's "strategic communications workforce." Despite their criticisms, each of the committees see merit in the programs. Senate Armed Services described strategic communications as "important" but said it was "not able to determine whether these efforts are integrated within the Defense Department or with the broader U.S. Government, nor is the committee able to oversee adequately the funding for the multitude of programs."

The committee nonetheless urged Special Operations Command to use its "linguistic and cultural expertise" to increase its strategic communications activities linked to military operations.

The House Armed Services Committee said "online strategic communications," such as Web sites now run by the Defense Department in the Balkans and North Africa, "are essential tools for the department to effectively counter the violent extremist groups abroad."

It described the Pentagon as "overly cautious" in its approach for fear of violating the law that bars films and articles produced by the State Department from being circulated in the U.S.

Copyright © 2009 The Seattle Times Company

[Unintelligable Name]

Highly likely, also bet there is some money from vaccine makers in there indirectly.

[Dig]

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Contact:_Bird_Flu_in_America

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America is an ABC two-hour TV movie which first aired May 9, 2006 [1] in which an American "businessman visiting China is infected and carries the deadly virus back via jetliner to the USA. Before the movie ends, riots erupt, armed mobs try to hijack vaccines and authorities predict that up to 350 million people will die worldwide."[2]

Cast: Joely Richardson, Stacy Keach, Ann Cusack, Justina Machado, David Ramsey, John Atkinson, Scott Cohen, Carolyn Dando, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Trevor Sai Louie
Director: Richard Pearce

Producers: Diana Kerew, Judith Verno

Writer: Ron McGee [3]

Plot summary
"As panic spreads, the governor of Virginia quarantines neighborhoods where cases have cropped up, and federal officials confess they have no vaccine and scant supplies of antiviral drugs. Major socioeconomic disruption sets in, with shortages of food and medical supplies, power outages, and riots in the streets of New York. A civil war even erupts among the US. Eventually, the pandemic begins to subside. But in the final scene, the discovery that the entire population of an Angolan village has died heralds a new mutation of the virus and a second wave of cases."[4]


Review
The editorial staff at CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) at the University of Minnesota write: "The creators of the fictional ABC-TV movie "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" blended medical facts from the 1918 influenza pandemic with current predictions from flu experts to portray a contemporary flu pandemic, but they added a liberal dash of sensationalism. The disease shown in the film, aired May 9, bore a strong resemblance to the illness that killed an estimated 675,000 Americans in 1918 and 1919. And a good many of the issues raised came straight out of the US government's pandemic preparedness plans and recent news stories about possible pandemic scenarios. But some scenes and details went well beyond what happened in 1918 or what is plausible today. And along the way, important medical details were left out."[4]

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COMMENTARY

Pandemic flu movie mixed credible material with sensationalism

May 10, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – The creators of the fictional ABC-TV movie "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" blended medical facts from the 1918 influenza pandemic with current predictions from flu experts to portray a contemporary flu pandemic, but they added a liberal dash of sensationalism.

The disease shown in the film, aired May 9, bore a strong resemblance to the illness that killed an estimated 675,000 Americans in 1918 and 1919. And a good many of the issues raised came straight out of the US government's pandemic preparedness plans and recent news stories about possible pandemic scenarios. But some scenes and details went well beyond what happened in 1918 or what is plausible today. And along the way, important medical details were left out.

In the drama, H5N1 avian flu begins to spread from person to person in China, signaling the start of a pandemic. An American businessman contracts the virus and brings it back to his home in Virginia, where he spreads it to others before falling desperately ill. Soon, cases are spreading across the United States. As panic spreads, the governor of Virginia quarantines neighborhoods where cases have cropped up, and federal officials confess they have no vaccine and scant supplies of antiviral drugs. Major socioeconomic disruption sets in, with shortages of food and medical supplies, power outages, and riots in the streets of New York. Eventually (after countless numbing commercials), the pandemic begins to subside. But in the final scene, the discovery that the entire population of an Angolan village has died heralds a new mutation of the virus and a second wave of cases.

The illness in the American businessman who has the first US case in the film clearly resembles the illness that struck many in 1918. After fits of violent coughing, he suddenly collapses on the job, blood streaming from his nose. He later dies of acute respiratory distress. At his autopsy, a CDC doctor says, "He coughed so violently he tore apart his abdominal muscles. He basically drowned in his own blood."

The 1918 pandemic produced similar reports: people collapsing suddenly, coughing up blood, and autopsies revealing lungs clogged with fluid, the imprint of the "cytokine storm," or immune system overreaction. The businessman's copious nosebleed might have seemed sensational, but it had a basis in fact. "The nosebleed was described in 1918," said Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of CIDRAP. "They made it fairly extreme."

The 200-plus human cases of H5N1 that have occurred over the past 3 years have been severe as well, of course, but just how closely the movie portrayal resembles them is not clear from our perspective. In any case, in depicting a 1918-like illness, the producers deliberately chose a worst-case scenario. While disease experts agree that a flu pandemic is inevitable sooner or later, they don't believe it will inevitably be as severe as in 1918. Even if the H5N1 virus is the pathogen, in acquiring the ability to spread from person to person, it could become less virulent. The other two 20th century pandemics, in 1957-58 and 1968-69, were far milder than 1918. The fact is that no one knows how severe the next pandemic will be.

"Fatal Contact" portrayed a number of difficulties and dilemmas that public health planners are envisioning now as they prepare for a pandemic. Some examples include the necessity of rationing vaccine and ventilators, overwhelmed hospitals, the use of overflow hospitals, shortages of healthcare workers as staff members stay home to care for their families, shortages of ordinary drugs and medical supplies, such as insulin, and food shortages caused by disrupted transportation systems.

On the vaccine front, the movie made a bad situation look even worse. It depicted the government as having no vaccine at all at the outset of the pandemic. In reality, the government is stockpiling a "pre-pandemic" vaccine based on the H5N1 virus. The supply is small, and studies have shown it takes two large doses to generate an adequate immune response, which occurs in only about half of those vaccinated. But this vaccine would probably be better than nothing if a pandemic began today.

In some scenes, the movie clearly went over the top. One was the governor's decision to quarantine some neighborhoods behind chain link and barbed wire, an obviously futile measure with the pandemic well under way. "I can't imagine any elected official doing that," said Osterholm. "I think pressure would be brought to bear by other government leaders" to prevent it.

Another example was the film's grimmest scene, in which dump trucks back up to a large pit and dump mounds of shrouded human bodies into it. This too may have been inspired by the 1918 experience. In that pandemic, the city of Philadelphia was overwhelmed by the number of corpses, and mass graves were used for a time. But there is no record of bodies being unceremoniously dumped, and such a scenario seems inconceivable today.

"Corpse management will be a real concern [in a pandemic], but I can't imagine under any condition we would put bodies in the back of a truck and dump them in," said Osterholm.

The end of the film, in which an entire Angolan village appears to have been wiped out, is another example of sensationalism. Osterholm, who previewed the film but was not involved in it, commented in a news conference this week that the scene

"looks like the Jonestown massacre, not something caused by infectious disease."
[Someone leaked the truth! Jonestown was a government eugenics operation funded by CIA and Ex Nazi Eugenecists.]

A 100% fatality rate would be highly unlikely with any virus. In fairness, the producers told the New York Times that the scene was meant to show a village that was emptied by a combination of evacuation and disease.

Another scene in the film has armed men trying to seize a van carrying a supply of vaccine, only to be shot by soldiers. That looked extreme, but Osterholm found it conceivable. "I don't think that one was necessarily unreal," he says.

For those interested in medical and epidemiologic details, the film left some major questions unanswered. There was no indication of the case-fatality rate, for one thing. It appeared that only two characters who had the disease survived (the son of the businessman, and a soldier who got sick while in Iraq), which implied a very high fatality rate. But no clear information was given. Nor was there any indication of the age distribution of cases. Was it the typical pattern, with the very young and very old most affected? Or did the illness hit young adults the hardest, as occurred in 1918? It wasn't clear.

The production also gave birders and conservationists reason to complain. It began and ended with scenes of wild geese in flight, implying that wild birds are the main carriers of the H5N1 virus around the world. This question is hotly debated, but most experts would probably say that both wild birds and poultry handling practices play a role in spreading the pathogen.

This commentary was written by the CIDRAP Editorial Staff.

See also:

US Department of Health and Human Services information about "Fatal Contact"
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/news/birdfluinamerica.html

[sociostudent]

This is entertaining just because of the johnny-nonsense humor of it. I probably shouldn't even be watching, but it's gosh darn hilarious how sensationalized it is.

[Dig]

This is entertaining just because of the johnny-nonsense humor of it. I probably shouldn't even be watching, but it's gosh darn hilarious how sensationalized it is.

It is like one long heart medication pharmaceutical ad where you see the guy getting the heart attack. but it lasts 2 hours and there are no mentions of the side effects like mass hysteria, paranoia, creation of a pandemic where none existed, suspension of all civil liberties, global enslavement, grand theft, cronyism , corruption, abuse of power, torture, genocide, depopulation, and headaches.

[sociostudent]

It is like one long heart medication pharmaceutical ad where you see the guy getting the heart attack. but it lasts 2 hours and there are no mentions of the side effects like mass hysteria, paranoia, creation of a pandemic where none existed, suspension of all civil liberties, global enslavement, grand theft, cronyism , corruption, abuse of power, torture, genocide, depopulation, and headaches.

lol

[justgetthere]

Thanks for stickying my article about this insane predictive programming movie

This movie is pure programming for the subconscious mind.

Government officials in the movie state multiple times that the vaccines and antivirals don't work but they state they will lie to the public for HOPE.

The government never brings up the idea of mandatory or forced vaccines so they would not have to show people rejecting this idea. Instead they script the movie so that the characters want the vaccines even though they don't work.

The scenes of the mass graves and renegades attacking the vaccine stockpiles carried by the military are meant to promote the idea that you will want the vaccines so you won't end up in a corpse pit.

[Freeski]

Egad, I'm sorry to say I sat through the whole thing!

It had every cliche in the book and I love how the nurse was too busy to tend to that dude's mother, yet in every single scene afterwards, she was going slow and in no hurry whatsoever. That's just lazy storytelling but the thing that really stuck out for me was that the bulk of the setting locations were American while all of the "news" coverage AND death stats were global.

[deconstructmyhouse]

wow I'm really missin some classic flicker rate brainwash zombie psyop shows not having a tv
damn
was this prime time?
who were the advertisers?
almost makes me want to go out and buy a new 150 inch plasma screen toshiba asap 

[Freeski]

wow I'm really missin some classic flicker rate brainwash zombie psyop shows not having a tv
damn
was this prime time?
who were the advertisers?
almost makes me want to go out and buy a new 150 inch plasma screen toshiba asap 

Don't frett, us no TV folk can still get the crappola... but just a few years after the fact.

[Godfather77]

Mass graves could be dug for autumn bout of swine flu
19th August 2009
Full article:-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207592/Mass-graves-used-autumn-bout-swine-flu.html

The government is planning to create a series of mass graves to cope with a second outbreak of swine flu in the autumn. A Home Office document warns that a mass burial site may be needed to cope with the potential crisis.

The proposals were discussed between government officials and council bosses last month, and will affect those areas where there may not be enough graves for victims of the illness.

Within weeks of a full-blown pandemic, the number of burials could more than double and inner city areas "may experience a shortage of grave space", according to the report.

The Framework for Planners Preparing to Manage Deaths  -  a -page document  -  discusses using "a grave that is for a number of unrelated persons, excavated mechanically in advance and designed for efficient preparation and use."



During the meeting, in which a senior official from Westminster council, gave a presentation, officials discussed the need for cemeteries and crematoriums to work seven days a week and the hiring of extra staff to cope.

The report also warned there may be a need for more "basic and shorter services at the chapel" or for "memorial services" to be held at a person's home instead.

Whitehall officials are also speaking to coffin makers to see if they could meet demands. Retired doctors may also be called back to work to issue death certificates so GPs can focus on patients.

According to the document it may no longer be possible to bury some people in family plots and it may also become impossible to fly home the bodies of Britons who die abroad.

[ConcordeWarrior]

A friend from Singapore sent me this really funny video.

Wash Your Hands H1N1 song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&feature=player_embedded&v=YZBeOp_U_Tg