DIE HARD III / Herman Tiu Laurel / April 14, 2014 / Daily Tribune
Last week Oxford University reported a study of the UK’s spending on anti-flu drugs — over a billion US dollars between 2006 and 2013 on medicines that had very limited efficacy, and often serious side effects. The United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO), it must be recalled, raised global swine and avian flu pandemic alerts from 2006 onwards, projecting millions of deaths. Governments then spent billions on useless flu drugs for pandemics that never happened. The Philippine government, for its part, spent at least P3 billion in 2006 for flu meds that never used.
What we learned: UN bureaucrats, beholden to powerful member-governments that are beholden to big business in their home countries, are often used as tools in gigantic money-fleecing schemes of global big business.
The UN led the charge against “population explosion” since the 1990s. It wasn’t known until later that the US was behind the anti-population campaign. That was when Henry Kissinger’s National State Security Memorandum (NSSM) 200 was declassified, revealing the US view that population growth in 11 underdeveloped countries — the Philippines among them — threatened US access to their raw material resources.
With US-initiated population control funding for the UN and others like USAID, Third World governments were compelled to add their own and buy from US-invested contraceptives companies. That funding dwindled with the US financial crisis of 2011; and that was when the Reproductive Health (RH) bill was torpedoed in the Philippines.
The Supreme Court last week declared the RH Law “not unconstitutional.” Both anti- and pro-RH partisans declared themselves winners from the High (or Hyde) Court’s decision. Known “porkers” in Congress, such as Edcel Lagman, spoke for the solons: “A grateful nation salutes the majority of the justices.” It was a gratefulness that Dinagat Island Rep. Kaka Bag-ao expressed more honestly: “For as long as the State is still mandated and empowered to implement a reproductive health program with the appropriate funding… the historic Supreme Court decision is still a victory for the people, albeit incomplete.” In the final analysis, it is the people’s money at stake, and billions of pesos of it.
Given the supposed “end” of the “pork barrel,” the RH Law will certainly offset the expected losses of our senators and representatives. When it was last debated in Congress, the amount earmarked for an RH program was upwards of P10 billion per annum that government is obliged to provide under the law. That’s several hundreds of millions of dollars for big pharma for condoms, contraceptives, etc., as well as millions for PR agencies behind the pro-RH campaign every year, and millions more for NGOs and women’s organizations of the “Akbayad” stripe; while no specific earmarks for the biggest health scourges of the land such as tuberculosis, dengue, and many other diseases including the “unemployment” epidemic, which is the real driver of poverty and disease.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which issued new alarmist projections, is like the WHO and the UN Population Commission. Its roots and money go back to Britain’s Prince Philip and The Netherlands’ Prince Bernhard, both of Royal Dutch Shell, setting up the World Wildlife Fund in 1961, from which clubs and networks of the man-made global warming campaign sprung. Later WWF associate Maurice Strong (“the international man of mystery”), Rockefeller trustee and oil magnate, set up and sat as first executive director of the UN environmental program, from which rose multilateral government and corporate funding for “global warming” campaigns and an IPCC-Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize to hype Antropogenic Global Warming.
New climate alarmism is being spread by “green” crusaders, including Western PR darling Bishop Desmond Tutu equating the climate change campaign with the anti-Apartheid crusade. (By the way, South Africa’s Apartheid persists, with 70 percent of that nation’s resources still owned by Whites as of 2006, and with Black unemployment five times higher than that of Whites).
But even as IPCC alarmist projections are six times higher than factual temperature increases the past decade, there is a “warming pause” that these alarmists are hard put to explain: “Physicist and Arctic research expert Syun-Ichi Akasofu of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the US predicts that the temperature in 2100 will be 0.5C± 0.2C higher than today, rather than the 4.0C± 2.0C predicted by the IPCC.”
Following the money leads to these: Friends of the Earth got $5 million from the EU between 2007 and 2009; Coca-Cola donated $24 million to WWF in 2008 alone; in 2007, Conservation International raised $9.4 million from corporations, about 5 percent of its total revenues of $176.6 million; WWF took in about $7 million in corporate grants, about 4.3 percent of its $161 million in revenues in 2007; A Wiki report projects “carbon trading” revenues to hit $50 billion if UN and Kyoto Protocol carbon caps are implemented (Gore’s company GIM earned $218 million between 2008 and 2011); Washington Examiner reports that the leaders of 15 top Big Green environmental groups are paid more than $300,000 — up to half a million dollars for the top “earner.”
I wish I could be that poor.
(Tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, dwAD, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; catch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m.; visit http://newsulongpilipino.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
Last week Oxford University reported a study of the UK’s spending on anti-flu drugs — over a billion US dollars between 2006 and 2013 on medicines that had very limited efficacy, and often serious side effects. The United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO), it must be recalled, raised global swine and avian flu pandemic alerts from 2006 onwards, projecting millions of deaths. Governments then spent billions on useless flu drugs for pandemics that never happened. The Philippine government, for its part, spent at least P3 billion in 2006 for flu meds that never used.
What we learned: UN bureaucrats, beholden to powerful member-governments that are beholden to big business in their home countries, are often used as tools in gigantic money-fleecing schemes of global big business.
The UN led the charge against “population explosion” since the 1990s. It wasn’t known until later that the US was behind the anti-population campaign. That was when Henry Kissinger’s National State Security Memorandum (NSSM) 200 was declassified, revealing the US view that population growth in 11 underdeveloped countries — the Philippines among them — threatened US access to their raw material resources.
With US-initiated population control funding for the UN and others like USAID, Third World governments were compelled to add their own and buy from US-invested contraceptives companies. That funding dwindled with the US financial crisis of 2011; and that was when the Reproductive Health (RH) bill was torpedoed in the Philippines.
The Supreme Court last week declared the RH Law “not unconstitutional.” Both anti- and pro-RH partisans declared themselves winners from the High (or Hyde) Court’s decision. Known “porkers” in Congress, such as Edcel Lagman, spoke for the solons: “A grateful nation salutes the majority of the justices.” It was a gratefulness that Dinagat Island Rep. Kaka Bag-ao expressed more honestly: “For as long as the State is still mandated and empowered to implement a reproductive health program with the appropriate funding… the historic Supreme Court decision is still a victory for the people, albeit incomplete.” In the final analysis, it is the people’s money at stake, and billions of pesos of it.
Given the supposed “end” of the “pork barrel,” the RH Law will certainly offset the expected losses of our senators and representatives. When it was last debated in Congress, the amount earmarked for an RH program was upwards of P10 billion per annum that government is obliged to provide under the law. That’s several hundreds of millions of dollars for big pharma for condoms, contraceptives, etc., as well as millions for PR agencies behind the pro-RH campaign every year, and millions more for NGOs and women’s organizations of the “Akbayad” stripe; while no specific earmarks for the biggest health scourges of the land such as tuberculosis, dengue, and many other diseases including the “unemployment” epidemic, which is the real driver of poverty and disease.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which issued new alarmist projections, is like the WHO and the UN Population Commission. Its roots and money go back to Britain’s Prince Philip and The Netherlands’ Prince Bernhard, both of Royal Dutch Shell, setting up the World Wildlife Fund in 1961, from which clubs and networks of the man-made global warming campaign sprung. Later WWF associate Maurice Strong (“the international man of mystery”), Rockefeller trustee and oil magnate, set up and sat as first executive director of the UN environmental program, from which rose multilateral government and corporate funding for “global warming” campaigns and an IPCC-Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize to hype Antropogenic Global Warming.
New climate alarmism is being spread by “green” crusaders, including Western PR darling Bishop Desmond Tutu equating the climate change campaign with the anti-Apartheid crusade. (By the way, South Africa’s Apartheid persists, with 70 percent of that nation’s resources still owned by Whites as of 2006, and with Black unemployment five times higher than that of Whites).
But even as IPCC alarmist projections are six times higher than factual temperature increases the past decade, there is a “warming pause” that these alarmists are hard put to explain: “Physicist and Arctic research expert Syun-Ichi Akasofu of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the US predicts that the temperature in 2100 will be 0.5C± 0.2C higher than today, rather than the 4.0C± 2.0C predicted by the IPCC.”
Following the money leads to these: Friends of the Earth got $5 million from the EU between 2007 and 2009; Coca-Cola donated $24 million to WWF in 2008 alone; in 2007, Conservation International raised $9.4 million from corporations, about 5 percent of its total revenues of $176.6 million; WWF took in about $7 million in corporate grants, about 4.3 percent of its $161 million in revenues in 2007; A Wiki report projects “carbon trading” revenues to hit $50 billion if UN and Kyoto Protocol carbon caps are implemented (Gore’s company GIM earned $218 million between 2008 and 2011); Washington Examiner reports that the leaders of 15 top Big Green environmental groups are paid more than $300,000 — up to half a million dollars for the top “earner.”
I wish I could be that poor.
(Tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, dwAD, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; catch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m.; visit http://newsulongpilipino.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
