Smallpox Warning to GP's
the BBC | 18.09.2002 12:44
Dr Ewan Gerard, port medical director at Gatwick Airport, said that although it was an unlikely scenario, the potential was there for the virus to be used as a weapon.
And he said that as there had been no cases in the UK since 1978, few, if any, GPs would have seen it first hand.
It was vital every medic knew how to recognise smallpox and got themselves fully trained on how to deal with it and other rare diseases, he said.
"Smallpox in my opinion is not about to make a come back or be a major terrorist threat, but there is the potential.
"There are only two laboratories that are legally allowed to hold the smallpox virus and they are in Russia and in America."
But he said there were concerns that rogue states or individuals could be given the virus by the CIA and use it as a weapon.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has responded to concerns about bio-terrorism by agreeing to postpone the destruction of the world's last remaining stocks of smallpox virus, in preparation for mandatory immunisation.
But the deaths of five people from anthrax in the US following the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington heightened fears that the US government might resort to biological or chemical weapons, including smallpox, to consolidate power.
And he said that as there had been no cases in the UK since 1978, few, if any, GPs would have seen it first hand.
It was vital every medic knew how to recognise smallpox and got themselves fully trained on how to deal with it and other rare diseases, he said.
"Smallpox in my opinion is not about to make a come back or be a major terrorist threat, but there is the potential.
"There are only two laboratories that are legally allowed to hold the smallpox virus and they are in Russia and in America."
But he said there were concerns that rogue states or individuals could be given the virus by the CIA and use it as a weapon.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has responded to concerns about bio-terrorism by agreeing to postpone the destruction of the world's last remaining stocks of smallpox virus, in preparation for mandatory immunisation.
But the deaths of five people from anthrax in the US following the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington heightened fears that the US government might resort to biological or chemical weapons, including smallpox, to consolidate power.
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looking for a trigger
18.09.2002 22:15
dh
or try the nuclear option
18.09.2002 22:18
Date: Mon Sep 16, 2002 9:25 pm
Subject: [PropagandaMatrix.com] Conspiracy Theory of the Day
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** Secret US Based Forces plan to ignite Nuclear Bomb in New York
as pretext for global power grab **
A thorough scientific analysis of the swirl of events, people,
nations, motivations, propaganda, personalities and histories
involved in this current moment in history, leads to only one
conclusion - That clandestine forces aligned with George Bush Sr.
are planning to attack the US population, blame it on Islamic
terrorists and use the attacks as a pretext for a total clamp-down
on dissent, basic civil liberties, normal democratic processes and
In the confusion that will follow they will wage unchecked war and
aggression against Iraq, and other nations, Islamic and otherwise,
who have natural resources and particularly oil reserves that this
shadowy group of petrochemical and arms industrialists are thirsting
for. Their ultimate goal? The conquest of Eurasia. Three quarters of
the worlds population and resources are to be found on the Eurasian
landmass.
It has been the principle focus of State Department and military
strategists since presidential National Security Advisor, Zbigniew
Brzezinski outlined it twenty years ago as the principle
American "Imperative." Meaning - To survive, we MUST conquer.
But
what of all those nations that we will be conquering? According to
Brzezinski and his cabal of adherents in the Military and State
Department and industry for whom his writings are like a biblical
tome - it's for their own good.
The problem Brzezinski says is that most average American's
don't
have a taste for crusades of global conquest...
Unless...
...there's a sudden terrifying threat.
In his latest book, The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski drills his
followers no less than four times that only sudden and terrifying
threats would rouse Americans to the task of global conquest.
With the opening salvo of September 11th behind them, American's
are
being, "softened up" right now for their first "Dirty
Bomb," attack.
If there was ever so sinister an imaginary catastrophic device that
had been so entirely concocted out of thin air, so heavily promoted
in the media and ultimately steered to what will almost certainly be
the dramatic conclusion of a self fulfilling media stoked prophecy -
to be fabricated first in our imaginations then ignited in the real
world - It is the dirty bomb. Find out the "Generators" of
the dirty
bomb "meme" that took off like wildfire eight months ago and
you
will find the very source of American terrorism.
But it's not going to be easy. Covert operators like this
don't
leave memos of their machinations laying around - They don't
write
this in e-mails. But they do leave traces of their presence.
The analysis of the "Chatter," voxnyc is receiving and
interpreting
points to only one conclusion - Teams of private ex-intelligence and
ex-military operatives under the command structure of the axis of
industrialists aligned with the Bush group of current and ex,
intelligence and military operatives, are racing to consolidate
total power in the hands of George Bush Jr. in the most ambitious
power grab since Adolf Hitler. the Entire Article
To make it very clear our analysis is the following: The much
vaunted radiological dirty bomb will NOT be dropped on the American
population from any Islamic terrorists but from the shadowy group of
American intelligence operatives aligned with George Bush Sr. (the
father)
Americans have been made, "aware," of the dirty bomb for over
six
months now and have had the dirty bomb "meme" firmly linked
to, "Islamic Terrorists." This is how it's done. It's
called
the, "Back Story." And it is part of the preparatory
propaganda
intelligence agencies call a Psy-op (psychological operation). These
Psy-ops in actuality comprise nearly 70% of the overall human and
capital resources our government devotes to a given geo-strategic
objective - only 30% is bullets and bombs. But even with the many
millions spent on painting these elaborate Psy-op pictures, it
doesn't take a forensic analysis to uncover some troubling clues
within them - Something terribly wrong in the picture. Like a
Hollywood special effects extravaganza - all glitz but light on
story, these psy-ops which always accompany the dirty business of
America's, industry, military, intelligence triad, are the shoddy
screenplays that, to the trained eye, are unconvincing,
unbelievable, and scream out - "Inside Job."
(The 70/30 split is a general rule. But my guess is that with the
Bushes - Because of their unique position of owning the Arms
companies involved, their percentage of outlay to the bloody
component would prove to be abnormally high. Each time a Texas based
Raytheon cruise missile rocks some empty valley in Afghanistan, or
worse, an agrarian village, that's three million dollars in some
fat
cat crony's wallet - that fat cat crony is going to "owe
one" to the
Bushes - It's called reality - look into it.)
In this case the clues point to only one conclusion. In their race
towards global domination these intelligence groups are preparing to
initiate attacks on American population centers. And are laying the
preparatory groundwork to make those attacks have maximum political
and psychological effect.
The analysis is clear - The sheer volume of the psychological info-
warfare now being released into the media and principally targeted
at the American people contains within it key indicators that point
to an eminent inside attack. A careful examination of the history,
personalities, and psychological profiles of those involved tell the
whole story, it's the dark hand at work here.
What follows is a VERY different explanation of the attacks of 9/11.
The ruling faction of our government can be characterized as being
on a "Kill Crazy Rampage."
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dh