HuffPo on BioLab Incompetence- the worse part is the *RE-TARD-ATION* and crime.
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Subject: HuffPo on BioLab Incompetence- the worse part is the *RE-TARD-
ATION* and crime.
Date: Nov 17, 2009 8:00 PM
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The worse part about the labs is
the damned mental incompetence.
Pam3Cys is the essence of the Lyme,
Tuberculosis, and HIV vaccines and
none of them worked... because Yale,
et al, lied about the outcome of LYMErix
and ImmuLume (Both OspA/Pam3Cys), and
had intended to do so from the beginning,
which was why Allen Steere went to Europe
alone to falsify the diagnostic standard for Lyme.
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
This bioweapons crap was outsourced
to mental *RE*tards as a result of the
crime of Crazy Eddie McSweegan in
1986:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm
Oh, and it was birds that flew over
with infected ticks that were kept in
open fields on Plum Island in an
experiment where the idiots tried to
see if African Avian Relapsing Fever
could "take" to stealth, microscopic ticks.
This one particular one we call Lyme
seems to have acquired a Brucellar
antigen, OspA; the goal was a stealth
bioweapon that caused lameness in
soldiers.
The crime was a result of *STUPID*
psychopaths like crazy Eddie and
Psycho Durland
http://www.actionlyme.org/TICK_BITE_CONSPIRACY.htm
people who never knew the meaning
of "RELAPSING FEVER."
Now Lyme's outcomes are a global pandemic,
because these effing psychotards *lied*
about OspA instead of telling us that
the only thing we could do about
it was get rid of the deer- the
walking tick mega-nurseries.
They wanted to turn everyone into
walking Tuberculosis Marys with that
damned OspA/Pam3Cys "vaccine," for all
their attempts to not treat us because
of "antibiotic resistence."
No one's ever heard of anything so
stupid.
The world has never witnessed a *stupider*
medical crime. And as proof that liars
are cowards, this clique never turned
over their data to Richard Blumenthal
as demanded by his subpoena.
The world needs to be more scared
of *STUPID* *LYING* *COWARDS* than
critters.
KMDickson
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barton-kunstler-phd/biolabs-multiplying-like_b_358985.html
Earlier this year, during an audit of the nation's largest Level-4
BioSafety Lab (BSL-4) at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, 9,220
vials of ebola, anthrax, botulinum, equine encephalitis virus, and
other deadly germs were discovered in the proverbial dusty old storage
area. No one even knew the vials existed and thus no one knows for
sure whether any are missing.
But not to worry, according to officials. The vials were old and lost
long before new documentation procedures were put in place. Besides,
the lab is being expanded and updated with the latest security
devices. Such reassuring mantras resound after every oil and chemical
spill, radioactive discharge from nuclear power plant (more frequent
than generally realized), black-market uranium sale, and mishandled
nuclear bomb: "It may seem dangerous, but trust us - there wasn't
enough poison to hurt a fly and besides, we're sure we recovered
everything."
Very likely - hopefully - at Fort Detrick they did. But the most
important question remains unanswered: can any BSL-4, the labs with
the deadliest, often highly contagious, bacteria and viruses, ever be
truly fail-safe? After all, at some point that old storeroom in Fort
Detrick was state-of-the-art. Human error applies not only to daily
procedures, but to equipment that always seems so pristine when new.
Proponents of BSL-4s argue that without these research labs we stand
defenseless against a natural outbreak of disease or bio-terrorist
attack. And, they say, the labs are so safe that the chances of a
disease-spreading breach approach zero.
The problem is, neither of these assertions is strictly true. Vaccines
against Level-4 Ebola and Marburg viruses have been developed in
Level-2 labs by inserting their DNA into non-pathogenic viruses that
can trigger immune responses just as definitively as the deadly
pathogen. Scientists can therefore develop vaccines against deadly
bacteria and viruses without actually handling the germs themselves.
And the Level-4 labs may very well make our world more dangerous
rather than safer and more secure. However modern and up-to-date a
laboratory, it is still subject to human error, violence, neglect, and
systemic breakdown. The Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in Great
Britain in 2007 was due, according to the British government's
inquiry, to "poor training and incompetence" and a "creeping
degradation of standards", while the 2001 outbreak was attributed by
the government to an employee who smuggled out a vial of FMD from his
lab.
"Creeping degradation" is probably responsible for most industrial and
infrastructural accidents. The case of Plum Island off the northeast
coast of Long Island, New York, home to a now-closed Level-4 lab,
illustrates the problem. Many believe Plum Island responsible for Lyme
Disease, borne by deer swimming five miles from the island to the
Connecticut coast near Lyme where the first outbreaks occurred. Lab
257 by Michael Carroll details how protocols and procedures at Plum
Island eventually unraveled. Countless small oversights and flaws in
equipment, procedures, and human judgment tend to build up over time
to generate distinct vulnerabilities until an otherwise controllable
opportunistic event spins out of control.
It is often claimed that BSL-4s have a flawless safety record,
although the 9,220 recovered vials seem to undermine that claim. More
importantly, only two Level-4 labs have operated in the United States
until recently and their documentation has been in disarray, as Fort
Detrick's spokesperson admitted to explain how the vials went missing.
There is, in fact, no real documentation that BSL-4 labs have been
operating safely. As with the oft-ignored low-level radioactive
releases from nuclear power plants, small accidents can be ignored or
covered up; it takes a major disaster to enter public consciousness.
Recently, the city of Boston had to admit that the news of the
infection of three BSL-2 lab workers in a lab had been suppressed by
the lab and city officials. Mayor Menino assured us that if the public
had been in danger, they would have told us sooner. Granted, Level-2
labs are not built to be foolproof and the diseases harbored there are
far milder than in BSL-4s, but when infection at a BSL-2 is kept under
wraps, would a more serious threat have been publicized, especially
with no real emergency response mechanism in place in most
communities?
According to the Sunshine Project, "Three Texas A&M University
biodefense researchers were infected with the biological weapons agent
Q Fever in 2006. The infections were confirmed in April of that year,
but Texas A&M officials did not report them to the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC), as required by law. Instead, Texas A&M officials
covered the infections up until now, illegally failing to disclose
them despite freedom of information requests dating back to October
2006." This was in addition to a brucella infection at the lab, news
of which was also withheld from the public. In response to these
events, the Center for Disease Control ordered the lab to shut down
its bioweapons research, citing - in a detailed report issued August
31, 2007 - a host of violations of basic safety protocols at the lab.
Other accidents at BSL-3s have recently occurred at the University of
New Mexico (anthrax, 2003 and unidentified pathogen in 2004); Medical
University of Ohio (2004, Level-3 Valley Fever); University of Chicago
(2005, Level 3, possibly anthrax or plague); and UC Berkeley (2005,
Level 3 aerosolized, weaponized Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever). From
2005-2006, University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) researchers made
and manipulated copies of the Ebola virus genome even though the
federal government stipulates that such research must take place at a
BSL-4. (It should be noted that Level-3 pathogens can be every bit as
dangerous as Level 4s and include many of the more contagious germs;
it's just they've been shown to respond to antibiotics). All these
cases occurred after 2001, when the through-the-mail anthrax attacks
supposedly led to tighter security and more sophisticated protocols at
BSL-3s and BSL-4s.
The dangers posed by biolabs often fly under the radar, but that may
be changing. The General Accounting Office, in a report released this
past September 21st, stated that the rapid - and often unregulated -
proliferation of Level 3 and Level 4 labs places the public at
significant risk. The public would do well to question the knee-jerk
"security at all costs" policy of the federal government which
threatens to build up stores of the world's deadliest organisms across
the United States. As for proponents' arguments that the labs are
absolutely safe and absolutely necessary, we shall address them soon
in another post.
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