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Wired Science checks out Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which for the past 50 years has been the front lines of defense against foreign animal diseases
VID-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR_IMb9V5Bg



Plum Island: "Even More Dangerous" - (part 1) VVH-TV News Special Report
VID-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbWR9CTl9RU



October 31, 2008 - Israeli terrorist and head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff explains future US nuclear biological threat
VID-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SnRuM2k_kw


Bush Administration Considering Moving Dangerous Pathogen Island Laboratory Near Mainland Livestock
Natural News
Sunday, November 09, 2008
by: David Gutierrez

LINK--> http://www.naturalnews.com/024751.html

The Bush administration is thinking about relocating a high-security pathogen research laboratory from its current remote island location to one of five sites on the U.S.
mainland

The National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility on Plum Island, N.Y., conducts research into foot-and-mouth disease, African swine fever, Japanese encephalitis, Rift Valley fever and the Hendra and Nipah viruses. All are diseases that affect primarily livestock, but most of them have been known to spread to humans in rare cases.
Concerns have been raised that if the laboratory is moved from its current location, the risk in case of disease release due to accident or sabotage would be much greater

In a recent 1,005-page study assessing the various proposed new sites, the Department of Homeland Security concluded that "should a large release [of foot-and-mouth disease] occur, there is considerable opportunity for the virus to cause infections and become established in the environment beyond the facility boundary"

If the facility were moved to proposed locations in either Manhattan, Kan. or San Antonio, Texas, the costs of such an outbreak to local livestock herds would be more than $4 billion, the report said. The cost would be less in the proposed locations of Athens, Ga., Flora, Miss., or Butner, N.C., but would still total more than $3.
3 billion

An earlier government simulation of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Kansas involved National Guardsmen being ordered to attempt to contain the epidemic by shooting tens of millions of farm animals.
The Guardsmen ran out of bullets, and people rioted in the streets

The government estimated that in an outbreak like that in the simulation, a 25-mile long ditch would be needed to bury all the bodies

The Bush administration has sought to move the laboratory due to the age of the current lab and the cost of getting to and from the island location.
It is expected to decide on a new location by late fall

Sources for this story include: www.washingtonpost.com

HOMELAND TERRORISTS US QUARRANTINE PROCEDURES - DOC


VID-> http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/83955
AIDS Virus Made in a Lab in Fredrick, MD?

Homeland Security lab like biodefense battleship
Associated Press
Oct 22, 2008
http://www.examiner.com/a-1650641~Ho...attleship.html

FREDERICK, Md.
(Map, News) - The Department of Homeland Security's new laboratory building in Frederick resembles a battleship being readied for war against biological weapons

With its curved glass exterior, 10-inch-thick walls and high-security labs, the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center gives the government a state-of-the art tool for predicting biological attacks and identifying perpetrators of what the FBI calls "bio-crimes"

Agency officials dedicated the $128 million building Wednesday at Fort Detrick, where it is part of a biodefense campus that will also include new labs run by the Army and the National Institutes of Health

Agency officials say they hope to begin occupying the building in March

Fact Sheet: National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
Release Date: 02/24/05 00:00:00

General Overview
The Department of Homeland Security’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) will provide the nation with essential biocontainment laboratory space for biological threat characterization and bioforensic research

The NBACC facility, managed by Homeland Security’s Science & Technology directorate in accordance with the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Homeland Security Presidential Directive entitled “Biodefense for the 21st Century,” will be located within the National Interagency Biodefense Campus at Fort Detrick, Maryland

The programs conducted at NBACC will provide knowledge of infectious properties of biological agents, effectiveness of countermeasures, decontamination procedures, and forensics analyses to support policy makers and responders’ development of policies, programs, and technologies

NBACC is part of a nationwide group of institutions that collectively are referred to as the Homeland Security Biodefense Complex.
The Complex includes the Plum Island Animal Disease Control Center, the Biodefense Knowledge Center, the national laboratories, and the university-based Homeland Security Centers of Excellence

Composition of NBACC
NBACC will be comprised of:

The National Bioforensic Analysis Center (NBFAC), is designated in Presidential Directive “Biodefense for the 21st Century, to be the lead federal facility to conduct and facilitate the technical forensic analysis and interpretation of materials recovered following a biological attack in support of the appropriate lead federal agency.
NBFAC conducts bioforensic analysis of evidence from a bio-crime or terrorist attack to attain a “biological fingerprint” to identify perpetrators and determine the origin and method of attack

The Biological Threat Characterization Center (BTCC) will conduct studies and laboratory experiments to fill in information gaps to better understand current and future biological threats, assess vulnerabilities, conduct risk assessments, and determine potential impacts in order to guide the development of countermeasures such as detectors, drugs, vaccines, and decontamination technologies to protect the U.S.
against these threats

Facility Status
DHS completed the environmental planning and public review process for the construction of the NBACC facility with a Record of Decision on January 26, 2005.
It is anticipated that an architectural and engineering (A&E) contract will be awarded late March 2005 to allow groundbreaking to take place in the summer of 2006 and completion of the project in 2008

A contract is scheduled to be awarded in March to begin design of the NBACC facility

The gross space, or entire footprint, is expected to be about 160,000 square feet.
This includes administration areas, BSL- 2, 3 and 4 laboratory space, air handling equipment space, security controls, and other supporting features

The anticipated number of researchers and support staff is approximately 120

An interim capability for the NBFAC has been established in partnership with the FBI and the U.S. Army at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick.
Also, some threat characterization research and studies are being conducted in other established private and government laboratories, including USAMRIID

The National Interagency Biodefense Campus

NBACC will be located on the new National Interagency Biodefense Campus at Fort Detrick.
The other agencies sharing the Ft Detrick National Interagency Biodefense Campus are:

• Health and Human Services’ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH
• Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit (FDWSRU), and the
• Department of Defense’s U.
S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), USMRMC

Collectively, these laboratories have complementary scientific goals and will collaborate on developing a comprehensive understanding of biological agent characteristics (NBACC), elucidating the disease process (NIAID Integrated Research Facility) and developing products to reduce risks to human health and agricultural productivity (USAMRIID, USDA- ARS)

The unique missions of forensics analyses and threat characterization will complement the mission responsibilities of the other agencies.
Coordination of these proposed activities takes place through an established Fort Detrick interagency committee


Bush talks about quarantining parts of America!
VID-> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vKp2mOOSNOQ

The Bush Administration's Secret Biowarfare Agenda
When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it's:

-- spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament to advance its weapons program and retain current stockpiles;

-- renounced the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and asserted the right to develop and test new weapons;

-- abandoned the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) because it expressly forbids the development, testing and deployment of missile defenses like its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and other programs;

-- refuses to adopt a proposed Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) that would prohibit further weapons-grade uranium and plutonium production and prevent new nuclear weapons to be added to present stockpiles - already dangerously too high;
read full story here--> http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?c...d=9685&id=9856


Why support the dangerous bio-lab to be placed in North Carolina when the people of the state are against it? Sept 2008
VID-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S0QMDPjAck


HOMELAND SECURITY TERRORISTS want to move Virus Research lab INLAND North Carolina June 20, 2008
VID-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tt9cDEYNPI

Scientists, farmers and government officials for 80 years have kept the U.S. mainland free of the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease -- a horrific, highly contagious killer of cloven-footed livestock such as cattle. But our government may soon bring the virus onto the mainland on purpose.

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking a home for a National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility that would, among other things, take over the work of Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a former Department of Agriculture complex lying off the east end of New York's Long Island. But Homeland Security proposes to do this on one of five inland sites, all in agricultural regions.

FULL STORY HERE--> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/22-7


VID-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q29mKJr7_Xk
Understanding Biodefense & Bioweapons Research with Ed Hammond

High-security research labs not so high security
Associated Press
By LARRY MARGASAK
Oct 16, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Intruders could easily break into two U.S. laboratories where researchers handle some of the world's deadliest germs, according to congressional investigators.
The Associated Press identified the vulnerable lab locations as Atlanta and San Antonio

The serious security problems at the two labs were described by the Government Accountability Office in a report expected to be released publicly as early as Thursday. The GAO, Congress' investigative and auditing arm, did not identify the labs except to say they were classified as Biosafety Level 4 facilities, but the report included enough details for the AP — and others knowledgeable about such labs — to determine their locations.
Biosafety Level 4 labs do research on deadly germs and toxins
READ FULL STORY HERE-> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i...roDpwD93REOF80



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