Web of Flu-- follow the money

[Jenny Lake]

Interesting possibilities--
On the Smithfield Foods board of directors is a doctor named Frank S. Royal. Dr. Royal has several corporate directorships, one of which as President of Sun Trust Banks, Inc. which signed a management partnership with Infi Corp to handle Sun Trust's credit card business. Infi Corp is part of the First National Bank of Omaha, Nebraska (role in the "Franklin Cover-up"?)-- but more appropos perhaps, is a possible connection between Infi Corp's CEO & President, Mr. Joseph W. Barry and the coincidence of the author of "The Great Influenza", Mr. John M. Barry.

Smithfield is the world's largest pork products distributor ($11 billion annually) and the company is proudly vertically integrated. Looking at Dr. Royal's business interests and investments seems like a reflection of this --he also governs Dominion Resources (power & gas), CSX (railroad & freight), Chesapeake Corp (packaging, plastics, forest manangement), and Sun Trust Banks.
--Dominion Resources is #19 on the "Toxic 100" list.

[Jenny Lake]

from
http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=36364

Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD): Director Paul J Fribourg Bought 62,100 Shares

Smithfield Foods Inc. is one of the world's largest pork processors and hog producer. Smithfield Foods conducts its business through two groups the Meat Processing Group and the Hog Production Group. The Meat Processing Group produces domestically and internationally a wide variety of fresh pork and processed meat products and markets them nationwide and to foreign markets. The company has vertically integrated into hog production through its Hog Production Group which provides the Meat Processing Group with its live hog requirements.

Smithfield Foods Inc. affirmed Friday, September 26 its current liquidity and said it expects to meet its financial covenant requirements. Smithfield said it has more than $500 million in liquidity from committed lines of capital, and expects compliance with those covenants through April 2009. The company also said it has no significant debt payments due until late 2009.

Smithfield Foods Inc. is owned by three Gurus. As of 6/30/08, Ruane Cunniff owns 76,670 shares, which accounts for 0.01% of the $10.51 billion portfolio of Ruane & Cunniff & Goldfarb Inc, NWQ Managers owns 3,395,367 shares, which accounts for 0.27% of the $25.46 billion portfolio of NWQ Investment Management Co, and Arnold Schneider owns 11,900 shares, which accounts for 0.01% of the $2.7 billion portfolio of Schneider Capital Management. Also as of 6/30/08, David Drenam and NWQ Managers sold out their holdings.

In the last two months, Directors John T. Schweiters, Paul J. Fribourg, Paul S. Jr. Trible, and Ray A. Goldberg bought shares of Smithfield Foods Inc. In September, Director Joseph W. III Luter sold shares of SFD. The price per stock has decreased more than 20% since.

Smithfield Foods Inc. has a market cap of $2.25 billion; its shares were traded at around $15.91 with a P/E ratio of 34.74 and P/S ratio of 0.20.

[Jenny Lake]

Another Smithfield Foods director, John T. Schweiters, directs on the boards of Danaher Corp (in Wash, D.C. as a maker of "instruments" and Sears brand Craftsman tools) and the company Choice Hotels International.

Choice Hotels Int'l was founded and still owned (50%) by Stewart Bainum --Stewart Bainum Jr. currently. The Bainums founded and integrated a business called Manor Care --nursing and chronic care in 1959, now called HCR Manor Care bought out by the Carlyle Group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCR_Manor_Care

[Jenny Lake]

Another director, Ray A. Goldberg, was a Harvard professor of Agriculture and Business. Among his many positions, he was chairman of the Advisory Panel for the World Bank on agriculture development, and Technology and Research Committee for Beth Israel Hospital. Read about him here, and the quote below, http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyI ... =rgoldberg

Dr. Goldberg was a member of the Presidential Mission to Poland in December of 1989. He was a member and speaker at the U.S. Department of Agriculture 2020 Vision: Beyond Reorganization Senior Policy Retreat in May of 1994. He is Chairman of the Russian Food Management Program Research Project and Seminar sponsored by the international Agribusiness Management Association. He most recent articles are entitled the 'Business of Agriceuticals' published in Nature Biotechnology, Volume 17 Supplement 1999; 'Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution,' co-authored with Juan Enriquez and published in the Harvard Business Review, March-April 2000; and 'Food Wars: A Potential Peace' published in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Supplement to Volume 28 No. 4 Selected Proceedings of 'Genes and Society: Impact of New Technologies on Law, Medicine, and Policy, May 10-12, 2000' pages 39-45 Winter 2000:and Biotechnology and the Agricultural Industry of the Future published in the Conference Proceedings of the Eight Annual Conference of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research(ECSSR) Abu Dhabi U.A.E. August 2003

Smithfield has a large operation in Poland as well as France, Romania, Mexico, and "joint ventures" in Spain and China.

[AntiPharisee]

Dear Jenny,

City Councils and other officials
have made statements saying that bottled water should be banned,
they say, "because tap water is better for you". As far as I know it's not,
it's dirty.

They want people to drink tap water.

I was wondering if this flu scare is a lead up to something big,
like poisoning the water supply in 100 cities. So the question to
you is could the bad guys spike the drinking water supply with this virus
or would that not work for some reason? Is this a realistic possibility?

Kind Regards.

[Jenny Lake]

I was wondering if this flu scare is a lead up to something big,
like poisoning the water supply in 100 cities. So the question to
you is could the bad guys spike the drinking water supply with this virus
or would that not work for some reason? Is this a realistic possibility?

Officials have been spiking the tap water for over a hundred years. Virus are not living organisms-- they're generated by your own body to help rid you of cell damage-- not contagious as we think of it. Read "Death by Faucet" for an idea of what's in the tap water -- www.youarebeingpoisoned.com. Get a good filter, "drink" more fluids from foods instead of plain water, like fresh veggie juice & raw milk, and try not to worry. Water restrictions are part of this mess.

[MikeWB]

This is exactly who's behind this! Cui bono shows the truth once again!

[Jenny Lake]

Two additional board directors on Smithfield Foods:

Carol T. Crawford --was Asst. U.S. Attorney General in 1989-1990 with the GHW Bush admin., then Commissioner on the U.S. International Trade Commission from 1991-2000. He sits on the board of the Torray Fund (TORYX) that counts its top holdings as Cintas Corp, Cisco Systems, EMC Corp, Intel Corp, and Automatic Data Processing Inc., all heavily in the information industry, though TORYX claims its value properties are in the sectors of Industry, Technology, and Healthcare.

David C. Nelson --former analyst for Credit Suisse, now a portfolio manager for Altima Partners LLP of London, whose members are linked to Deutsche Bank. Altima has a $4billion investment in "Altima Global Special Situations Master Fund " and Nelson manages the "Altima One World Agriculture Fund".

[Jenny Lake]

I don't know if this is meaningful but Smithfield's CEO/pres, C. Larry Pope, may have familial relationship with Albert E. Pope, the president of United Egg Producers. They have the same enemies in the environmentalists opposed to factory farming, people that want you off of bacon and eggs.

Albert E. Pope was a participant in Senate Hearings in 1984 when the poultry flu crisis (around Harrisburg, PA) was getting peak attention on Capitol Hill. Eggs, of course, are invaluable to Big Pharm for vaccine production.

[Jenny Lake]

More on Smithfield directors and owners:

stockholders,
NWQ Investment Management Co. (divested June 30, 2008), currently manages 9.8 million shares of Metropolitan Life Insurance and 4.6 million shares of Merck, appearing to be NWQ's largest 2 holdings on a per share basis.

Paul S. Trible Jr., lawyer and president of Christopher Newport University, replaced Harry F. Byrd Jr. in the Senate for the state of Virginia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_S._Trible,_Jr.
http://www.bioguide.congress.gov/script ... ex=T000367

......and director J.T. Schweiters, on the board of Choice Hotels Int'l, owned by Carlyle Group mentioned in previous posts, may have been another large beneficiary of Carlyle's takeover of HCR Manor Care. Manor Care's CEO Paul Ormond stood to gain $186 million by the takeover.
read  http://www.seiu1199.org/press/Ill_Effec ... omes_.aspx
quoted here:
"Manor Care will pay no corporate taxes while it is owned by Carlyle, cutting federal, state, and local tax revenue by more than $600million over 5 years..."

"The only other Carlyle-owned long term care provider, LifeCare Hospitals, allegedly had responsibility for a high profile tragedy when 24 patients in a New Orleans LifeCare hospital died awaiting evacuation after Hurricane Katrina."

[Jenny Lake]

Smithfield director Ray Goldberg (Harvard Business, World Bank advisor,..)
www.seedquest.com/News/releases/usa/Verdant/n2291.htm

Speaking on Agriceuticals, Goldberg calls it "the most important economic event in our lifetime". He says "DuPont believes the agriceutical system is essential to the reinventing of its company". He's maintaining his vision of a system integrated so that grocery stores will also be health clinics and notes here an industry worth $15 Trillion from the alliance of health sciences with agriculture.

[Jenny Lake]

The report of a secret French government plan to vaccinate every French citizen over three months of age, over 100 million doses, is more than alarming. According to the French Le Journal du Dimanche, anticipating a probable return of the virus in the fall, the government will spend nearly a billion euros to buy vaccines. Authorities will announce in the fall if they decide to make the vaccine mandatory.  "We will be ready to go in a very short time", explains the Minister of Health. According to sources, the state wants to order 100 million doses of flu vaccine from three laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi and Novartis. The latter two are French companies.

The coming pandemic appears on track................

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on May 23 that 5 companies in the U.S. are preparing vaccines --the three above (GSK, Sanofi, Novartis) and MedImmune and CSL, representing...

"part of a $1billion investment in immediate production and testing of vaccine against the newly emerged strain of H1N1 flu virus. Further orders for potentially hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine are expected."

[jai_mann]

Hey Jenny, I'm trying to understand how these guys would benefit if they own shares in something that is being promoted as a potential virus vector? Is it possible that what we are seeing is warring between power factions where one power faction who has heavy influence in the media damages the other power faction by spreading fear regarding the goods of the power faction you are describing?

I have no doubt that biological warfare is an ingredient to be used against the masses but I'm confused as to how those who own stocks would benefit from being involved in "swine flu", outside of population reduction?

On a related note I've done some research at www.pubmed.org (USA's national institutes of health website) for the following terms: "silver" and "antibacterial" ; and "silver" and "antiviral". There are a ton of hits for the first set of search terms and tons of studies indicating silver's antibacterial properties. The latter has fewer hits and fewer relevant studies but there are indications of antiviral properties. I'm going to run a test when I get the chance which will utilize autoclaved mediums for fungal/bacterial growth. One set will just be the nutrients the other will be nutrients + ionic silver. I plan on setting them out uncovered to test for antifungal & bacterial effects.

I've also started taking doses from the following detox recipe which lists the ingredients for any one to make their own: http://pbn.4mg.com/theintelligencerepor ... oxmix.html

Thanks for your posts and if you could address the cui bono aspect for the shareholders of the swine facilities I'd appreciate it as it just isn't 100% clear to me.

[Jenny Lake]

if you could address the cui bono aspect for the shareholders of the swine facilities I'd appreciate it ..

Hey jai_mann,
We have an investment system where losses can be even more beneficial than gains, so I bear that in mind here. There are alot of possibilities as far as the pork industry is concerned. Perhaps it's on its way to being intentionally destroyed --on the way down, Smithfield is big enough to be the last one standing, then maybe a comeback when all the competition is gone? or this industry could actually be headed for extinction. I don't have any predictions. However, in order for all of us to believe that hog farms are the source of this pandemic, they have to BE THERE, big, bad, and dirty. I've seen historic examples in my research where market-cornering is achieved by a prospering company that's intentionally 'dirty', plays both sides of the fence by surreptitiously supporting regulations and inspections which is very expensive to smaller competitors. Everyone takes losses but the little guys go out-of-business.

[Jenny Lake]

The note about the French vaccines came from www.globalresearch.ca.com and I thought I'd add that Novartis-Sandoz is based in Basle, Switzerland and does a cooperative business with Roche. Their main competitor is Israel's Teva, the world's largest maker of generics and also poised to benefit from large vaccine contracts.

I also found abundant references to "pork" based intravenous products used in the 40s and 50s (and maybe still today?) for parenteral nutrition --another method of inducing swine genes into the population.

[Jenny Lake]

In the area of the diagnostic tests prepared and marketed for swine flu, Quest Diagnostics, Inc. in Madison, New Jersey is the world leader in this field. Just recently in April 2009 a lawsuit brought by whistleblowers was settled after 3 years (sealed from the public) and mandated Quest and a subsidiary (closed at the initiation of the suit) to pay the largest tort penalty ever brought against a laboratory, 302 million dollars. The suit was filed over faulty blood tests that endangered the lives of hundreds of thousands of dialysis patients who then submitted to surgeries and other "overtreatments" based on wrong results.