NOTE: The following story is extremely suspect for the following reasons:
1) It singles out the Western States: Why would anyone want to attack only the Western States which have the least population? (If they were talking about California specifically, they would have just said it.) No, if you are an international terrorist bent on destroying the U.S. Gov't, you would be striking at the East Coast with its political base. The only ones that would strike the U.S. West are the same ones that have plans to 'burn us out' this summer; the same ones who have said that we must all move to the cities so that they can control us; the same ones who are RIGHT this minute trying to close out the Klamath Valley, a most critical U.S. 'bread basket', by denying water to the farmers, under the guise of the Endangered Species Act (These are the REAL Eco-Terrorists!!!!) thus contributing to our starvation; the same ones who are now telling us that we can no longer make 'wind power' because it might harm the 'migratory birds' (CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!!!!); the same ones who are filling our skies with chemtrails (and maybe even smallpox?); AND most importantly, the same ones who are determined to remove us from our GUNS. This all points to: The NWO, Faction I, (II?).
2) This vaccine is coming out of Great Britain, the 'creator' of Mad Cow, Hoof and Mouth and King George. If they don't kill us with the small pox, they will kill us with the Vaccine. I wouldn't trust anything coming out of Great Britain right now, including my own Grandmother!
3) This smacks of the 'Create a Need and Fill It' motto that is so pervasive among the Power Mongers. Your friendly Chemical Company has a subsidiary in Great Britain that will be happy to create this vaccine for you FOR a modest $343 million ($8/per vaccine). (Sounds like a 'give away', doesn't it? Not only will they make you sick, but they will make YOU pay for it! But you aren't supposed to notice!)
WHO DO YOU THINK ARE THE REAL BIOLOGICAL TERRORISTS HERE?
E.
READ ON...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=68020
US on alert for smallpox terror attack
By Jeremy Laurence, health editor
22 April 2001
The US government has ordered 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine from a British company in a sign of the growing alarm that terrorists could unleash lethal viruses in future battles against Western states.
The astonishing size of the contract worth $343m (£200m) highlights the fears on both sides of the Atlantic about the threat of biological terrorism. If a virus such as smallpox was released, the speed of modern communications could spread the infection all over the world in days.
In the UK, the health department warned all NHS hospitals last year to prepare for a criminal or terrorist attack on their local populations involving biological weapons. Police teams trained by scientists from Porton Down, the government research centre on biological and chemical warfare, have been formed to take the lead role in the event of an attack.
The British Medical Association said that advances in technology meant biological weapons were now easier to manufacture than chemical ones, increasing the risk that they could be used in an attack.
Over the past 40 years there have been 121 incidents around the world involving the use of biological agents. The use of sarin nerve gas in an attack by a Japanese terrorist organisation six years ago, in which 12 people were killed and 5,000 injured, focused world attention on the threat. The US last year set aside $1.4bn (£940m) for protection against chemical or biological attacks.
The latest contract for smallpox vaccine is against a disease that no longer exists and the world must hope it will never encounter again. It was eradicated from the planet in 1980 and only two research institutions one in the US and one in Russia still retain stocks of the virus.
The threat of a smallpox attack is highlighted in the preview edition of Infectious Diseases, a new journal published by The Lancet. Donald Henderson of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health said: "A large stockpile of vaccine is a very high priority because smallpox has a 30 per cent fatality rate. There is no vaccine production capacity anywhere in the world and we now have a very susceptible population."
The vaccine ordered by the US government is being manufactured by a US subsidiary of the Cambridge-based UK biotechnology company Acambis, formerly known as Peptide Therapeutics. Delivery to the US government's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta is due to start from mid-2004.
A spokeswoman said: "At the moment we are going through the process of developing and licensing the vaccine, but under the contract we have the right to sell it to anyone who wants it. When the time comes we will be marketing it to other governments, including the UK. It certainly would be a logical step for them to take."
The likelihood of a chemical or biological attack in the UK is seen as low by the Department of Health, but the results could be devastating. Working parties have been set up to consider the threat and exercises have been run in parts of the country. Lists of the most likely agents to be used have been drawn up, together with advice on how many people they might kill or injure, and strategies for treating the victims.
In the US, fear of biological terrorism has become as unnerving as the threat itself. President Clinton's declaration in 1998 that he expected a biological or chemical attack within the next five years has fuelled alarm and provided fertile ground for hoaxers.
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