Conspiracy Theories: Which Do You Believe?

     Last week I had a visit from my cousin and his new wife who we will call John and Barbara. I had always believed that he was rather ordinary but sensible and intelligent. We got to talking about swine flu. His wife Barbara told me that the H1N1 virus was less serious than ordinary seasonal flu and that the symptoms had been exaggerated by the big drug companies who wanted to make billions of dollars from drugs and vaccines. I might have wanted to blame the media but I could see that the hype would appeal to the self interest of these multi national companies so I nodded in agreement. She went on to tell me that the vaccines are in fact dangerous because they contain squalene (no idea what that is) mercury which can affect brain development especially in young children, antifreeze, animal tissue and various toxins. Apparently, we have witnessed swine flu before and the vaccine used in 1976 caused paralysis in a significant number of patients. ‘Swine flu isn’t the danger,’ they tod me, ‘it’s the vaccine.’ I am not sure what I felt at this point. I probably went along with the idea and began to wonder if I would have the vaccination if it is ever offered to me.

What happened next sent our discussion in another direction. John began to explain that swine flu had been developed by a drug company (which he named) and released on the public in order to create panic and death. He quoted an Austrian journalist called Jane Burgermeister who has filed charges against some of the world’s largest drug companies for what she calls ‘Bioterrorism’. He told me that the Ukraine had been sprayed with a deadly virus that gave the population of several cities a serious illness called pneumonic plague. I checked Burgermeister’s web site www.theflucase.com  and there I found an article dated Nov. 12th 2009 and entitled, “Population Reduction: Globalist Endgame Begins”. It contained all the details just as John had described them and there were lots of other articles by a number of authors all suggesting that there is some kind of global plot to use the vaccine to destroy unborn children, reduce the population and of course line the pockets of the big multinationals. It seems that Baxter International has been targeted in these articles and it is even claimed that some companies were manufacturing the vaccine several months before swine flu was detected in Mexico or in the USA. I had to admit that I didn’t believe what I was being told and for the next few days I avoided the subject so there were no more arguments about swine flu. However, the arguments didn’t stop completely.