Coming soon to a lab near you! Plum Island is moving onto mainland USA. They say it will be safe but remember the disease leak in England recently with Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD).
A federal laboratory off Long Island, known as the “Alcatraz for animal disease,” may move to the U.S. mainland as part of a new $450 million research center.
Plans for the next-generation National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, slated to go online by 2013, include biosafety labs where scientists, clad in outfits resembling spacesuits and tethered to air supplies, would research diseases that can spread to people from animals
-MSNBC
Remember that it was a laboratory working on FMD that released it “accidentally” thus causing the deaths of cattle on farms nearby. The massive 2001 outbreak of FMD is thought to have come from a similar incidence - that resulted in the deaths of over 6 million livestock as well as many farmers.
Given that it is the USDA who is making this move, if I were of a conspirital paranoid mind set, I would very seriously wonder if they are doing it so that they can more easily release disease into our farmlands and thus justify programs like the mandatory National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and 10-kilometer kill zones.
Hat tip to Sue.
“The Government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.” ~ Ronald Reagan
OOOhhhh dear! I wouldn’t put it pass the USDA to spread such infectious diseases to justify carrying out their evil agenda. This is a very, very bad idea. But, a clever one for those who wish to force NAIS on small farmers all across the country.
Is there a way that we can sue Plum Island to prevent such a move to the mainland? Mark my words — once they get here, wonders of wonders, diseases would likely start to crop up everywhere within a few years or less. The media would spread fear and terror and knees will shake and buckle. “Bring on the NAIS” would be the media’s rallying cry.
Sigh — the USDA is getting to be a real bloody pain in the bottom. Let us make the public VERY AWARE of this bad idea and perhaps we can generate a strong enough groundswell to stop such a stupid and irresponsible move.
Comment John Sherrer — August 31, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
If we don’t get a non-CFR president next election, we will plummeted into the NAU by the time it is completed. I cannot imagine handing such a group a way to produce and distribute diseases. If I sound paranoid, well, the more I learn what is REALLY going on, the more paranoid I become.
- Vote Ron Paul, a Constitutionalist, for 2008 -
Comment Patricia Hampton — September 2, 2007 @ 8:20 am
After reading the article, “Edwards Backs Mandatory Preventive Care”
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I Googled “mandatory preventive care” and found this information concerning a course at Eastern Illinois University on “Health Citizenship”, a term I imagine we will be hearing a lot in the near future.
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The University speaks of “responsible global citizen” and “Healthy People 2010 Initiative”.
I am not picking on John Edwards. I believe he is just the current stooge that has been picked to drop this idea to the American sleepers. No matter who is elected (with the possible exception of Ron Paul), we are going to have socialized medicine to go along with our socialized everything else. For me, I am over 60 and do not to go to doctors unless absolutely necessary. I do not take prescription drugs, and want to keep it that way. This is not about providing health care to everyone, in my opinion. It is about gaining yet more control over us so that health care can then be rationed to the extreme, while we pay for it through higher taxes. Also, they can require that everyone be given more and more overpriced prescription drugs as a gift to Big Pharma, and forced vaccinations for anything and everything they can dream of. We are not meant to be healthy people, because if we were, it might interrupt the 20%+ contribution of medical care to the GDP (last time I researched it a few years ago).
No alternative medicine, forced vaccinations, forced medication, forced mental evaluation. Who can honestly say we live in a free country anymore.
Comment Texas Goat Gal — September 3, 2007 @ 8:13 am
The second link didn’t work correctly, so just Google “mandatory preventive care” and the University’s site should be the next to last on page one.
Also, forgot to mention how convenient it would be to mandate some “soma”-type medication as in the novel Brave New World.
Walter, thanks for being there through thick or thin, through holiday or weekend, and every day in between. I don’t say it often enough.
Oh, and Patricia, you are correct on all points.
Comment Texas Goat Gal — September 3, 2007 @ 10:24 am
Sorry to burst bubbles but Plum Island is here to stay as part of a select group of labs who play with the deadliest “bugs” on earth. They received FY 2008 funding last month. Ames, Iowa won the *lab make-over* contest for funding.
Here in WA we recently uncovered that all our area vets have recently gone for *special* training and experimenting back at Plum Island. When they return home they are prohibited from
engaging in field work. Kind of makes one wonder what they are doing back there. Give your state vet a call and see if your state area vets are getting the *special* Plum Island training too.
Comment Celeste — September 3, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
From the NAU - which supposedly does not exist:
SPPflu
Comment donna — September 3, 2007 @ 7:10 pm
UNworries
This has to be a joke. Isn’t it the UN pushing for global livestock inventory in order to track & depopulate our noncompliant animals?
Comment donna — September 5, 2007 @ 3:00 pm
Donna, no joke. The UN has been busily putting DNA into their pool and which they then patent. The UN ‘fears’ loss of genetically diverse organisms due to their Terrestrial Animal Health Code. Pure adulterated control.
Comment Celeste — September 7, 2007 @ 4:28 pm