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Did the powers that be kill 50 million people in 1918?




Did the powers that be kill 50 million people in 1918?
Reporting on the New World Order 1988-2014
October 12, 2014
A deadly illness took hold as WW1 ended and killed an estimated 50 million people globally. But the horror made the world aware of the need for collective action against infectious diseases, says Christian Tams, professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow.

On Armistice Day, 1918, the world was already fighting another battle. It was in the grip of Spanish Influenza, which went on to kill almost three times more people than the 17 million soldiers and civilians killed during WW1.

Dangerous diseases only reach the headlines if there is a risk of a pandemic, like the current Ebola outbreak. Other than that they are the largely ignored global killers, but every year they kill many more people than wars and military conflicts.
                                                        
In 1918 the world faced a pandemic. Within months Spanish Flu had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history. It struck fast and was indiscriminate. In just one year the average life expectancy in America dropped by 12 years, according to the US National Archives.

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In many countries public health services responded, while societies used to wartime restrictions bore quarantines and other measures with resilience. But massive troop deployments and increased global travel meant that no nation could fight the Spanish Flu singlehandedly. Warring nations would need to co-operate if they wanted to combat global diseases.

In the aftermath of WW1 global security was the major concern. At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 the Allies redrew boundaries, carved up empires and established the first-ever world organisation, the League of Nations.

How deadly was Spanish Influenza?
  • One fifth of the world’s population was attacked by this deadly virus
  • Most vicious influenza strain of the 20th Century
  • Deaths even surpassed the Black Death of the Middle Ages
Source: US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and BBC


The League was set up primarily to preserve peace, which it did with limited success. But it was also to be a centre for co-ordinating international co-operation. The prevention and control of disease was one of the matters of “international concern” listed in its founding treaty. And very quickly – drawing lessons from the Spanish Flu and other global diseases – the League would lay the foundations of our modern system of global healthcare control.
The League’s work for international health is largely forgotten, but it is a remarkable story. Under-staffed and under-resourced, various League health agencies during the 1920s and 1930s began to view global health as a global challenge. This involved crisis responses on the ground, but also long-term work towards prevention and health education.

When the League began its work, the worst waves of the Spanish Flu were over. However, countries in Central and Eastern Europe found themselves in the grip of another disease – typhus. The League mobilised international action that by 1921 had largely managed to contain the spread of the epidemic, through mass examinations, de-lousing and bathing and the imposition of quarantines.

While crisis responses remained important, the League greatly improved work towards the prevention of diseases and pioneered health education. Early-warning systems were set up to gather information on the most common infectious diseases such as Cholera, Yellow Fever or Small Pox. This was then communicated by telegraph to a global network.

The League also promoted health-related research and standardised the use of vaccinations around the globe. And it engaged in the first global attempt at health training. This included large-scale programmes of Malaria education and a concerted effort in the 1920s to improve healthcare in China.

While little of this generated news headlines, it would be foolish to dismiss the League’s work. Prevention remains the best cure and the League’s efforts are likely to have saved countless lives.
In many countries like France people were urged to wear protective masks
Shop staff in Chicago also wore them
As did police officers in Washington

In an early form of public-private partnership, international health co-operation brought together League experts, national governments and private charities. All this marked no more than a beginning, but it brought home the basic idea that global health can only be protected through international co-operation.

Current reports about the likely spread of Ebola show threats to the world’s health are not over. Such threats of deadly pandemics can still meet with haphazard responses.

But beyond pandemics, which are widely reported, the truly shocking figures are the ones that hardly ever reach the headlines, like that of seven million children dying every year from preventable diseases.

But global health has massively improved since 1918 and there are numerous untold success stories. Polio, one of the deadliest scourges of mankind, is nearly eradicated thanks to the combined efforts of UN agencies and private charities like the Gates Foundation and Rotary.


League of Nations
League of Nations was a predecessor to the United Nations.

Note: Woodrow Wilson was an advocate for the League of Nations, the president of the Woodrow Wilson administration, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the president of Princeton University, a member of the Cosmos Club, and is a Nobel Foundation Nobel peace prize winner.
George H.W. Bush is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a member of the Burning Tree Club, and was the president of the George H.W. Bush administration. 
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a member of the Burning Tree Club, and the president of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration.
Gerald R. Ford was a member of the Burning Tree Club, and the president of the Gerald R. Ford administration.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a member of the Burning Tree Club, the president of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, and attended the Yalta Conference with Alger Hiss.
John A. Boehner is a member of the Burning Tree Club, and the speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Lyndon B. Johnson was a member of the Burning Tree Club, and the president of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
John F. Kennedy was a member of the Burning Tree Club, and the president of the John F. Kennedy administration.
Richard M. Nixon was an honorary member of the Burning Tree Club, the president of the Richard M. Nixon administration, and received national attention for his role in questioning Alger Hiss.
Alger Hiss received national attention after questioning by Richard M. Nixon, attended the Yalta Conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), and was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Aspen Institute (think tank), the International Rescue Committee, and Human Rights First.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is a board member for the International Crisis Group.
Thomas R. Pickering is a co-chair for the International Crisis Group, a member of the Cosmos Club, was a U.S. ambassador for the United Nations, and a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Samantha Power was a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director at the International Rescue Committee, Barack Obama’s aide, and is the U.S. ambassador at the United Nations for the Barack Obama administration.
Kofi A. Annan is a board member for the International Crisis Group, an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was the secretary general for the United Nations, and Gregory B. Craig was his lawyer.
Gregory B. Craig was Kofi A. Annan’s lawyer, the White House counsel for the Barack Obama administration, and is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).  
Shirley M. Tilghman is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was the president of Princeton University.
W. Taylor Reveley III is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was a trustee emeritus at Princeton University.
James A. Leach was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and is a member of the Cosmos Club.
J. Stapleton Roy is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, a member of the Cosmos Club, and was a U.S. ambassador for China.
Jon M. Huntsman Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was the China U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration.
William H. Frist is a member of the Cosmos Club, and was a trustee emeritus at Princeton University.
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a school at Princeton University.
James D. Zirin is an advisory council member for the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and was a director at Human Rights First.
Mark A. Angelson was a director at Human Rights First, and a partner at Sidley Austin LLP.
Dora Hughes is a senior policy adviser at Sidley Austin LLP, and was Kathleen Sebelius’s counselor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Kathleen Sebelius’s counselor at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was Dora Hughes, and was the secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration.
Barack Obama is the president for the Barack Obama administration, a Nobel Foundation Nobel peace prize winner, and was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
James S. Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Jean N. Case is a Partners for a New Beginning steering committee member for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a founding board member for Malaria No More.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald is a founding board member Malaria No More, and was a director of program advocacy for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Helene D. Gayle is an advisory board member for Malaria No More, and was a director of HIV & TB & reproductive health for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Rotary International is a partner with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Jack Valenti was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the 
Burning Tree Club.
George H.W. Bush is a member of the Burning Tree Club, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was the president of the George H.W. Bush administration.
Woodrow Wilson was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, an advocate for the League of Nations, the president of the Woodrow Wilson administration, the president of Princeton University, a member of the Cosmos Club, and is a Nobel Foundation Nobel peace prize winner.
League of Nations was a predecessor to the United Nations.
                                           










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