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US Military Admits It "Misplaced" Black Plague Samples

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Back in May, the US military was forced to admit that it had done something really stupid and what’s great about the story is that it requires very little in the way of explanation and/or added color to explain why what happened can be fairly classified as an example of sheer governmental incompetence. Put differently: this story speaks for itself. Here’s a recap: 

According to CNN, “four lab workers in the United States and up to 22 overseas have been put in post-exposure treatment, a defense official said, following the revelation the U.S. military inadvertently shipped live anthrax samples in the past several days.” The army apparently thought they were shipping samples rendered inactive by gamma radiation last year, but that clearly was not the case because when a Maryland lab received their sample last Friday they were able to grow live Bacillus anthracis. The lab reported their concerns to the CDC. By Saturday afternoon, labs in Maryland, Texas, Wisconsin, Delaware, New Jersey, Tennessee, New York, California and Virginia were notified that the US military had accidentally mailed them the deadly bacteria. A sample sent to a US base in South Korea was destroyed on Wednesday.

That came just a few months after the CDC admitted to mishandling an Ebola sample, potentially exposing a dozen people to the deadliest virus known to mankind.

Needless to say, the story grabbed headlines across the country as Americans struggled to understand how it’s possible that the US army could possible have managed to unknowingly jeopardize dozens of lives by FedEx-ing live anthrax to nine states and one foreign country. 

Well don’t look now, but the DoD is out warning that the army might have also mishandled samples of the black plague which isn’t known to be dangerous unless you count the time it wiped out 60% of Europe’s entire population. Here’s more from CNN:

The U.S. Department of Defense is looking into possible mishandling of bubonic plague and equine encephalitis samples at its laboratories, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.

 

The new inquiry is part of an investigation into the mishandling of anthrax at Department of Defense labs, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.

 

The department hasn't determined whether samples containing plague bacteria and specimens of the deadly virus were shipped from its labs, Cook said.

 

The latest investigation started after CDC inspectors found a sample of the plague in a freezer outside of a containment area on August 17 at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center in Maryland, Cook said.

 

Investigators are working to determine whether the sample posed an "infectious threat," Cook said. Army tests found it was not infectious.

 

"That's the scientific work that's being done at this particular time, determining exactly what happened there, and whether or not ... there was mislabeling," he said.

 

Yersinia pestis, the same type of bacterium that was responsible for the plague pandemic that wiped out 60% of the European population between the 14th and 17th centuries, maintains a foothold in the United States and around the globe in rodents and the fleas that live on them.

 

Today, the infections are treatable with antibiotics if they're caught early enough. Since 1970, there have been anywhere from a few to a few dozen cases of plague every year in the United States, most of them occurring in Western states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Yes, only "a few to a few dozen cases of plague" per year, but that bubonic dearth is nothing the US military can't fix with a few "mislabed" samples and a FedEx account.

For their part, Fred Upton (chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee) and Frank Pallone (ranking Democrat) are incredulous: “Anthrax being mishandled is disconcerting enough, but now the mishandling also includes [the] plague." Here's a bit more from USA Today:

The Pentagon's most secure laboratories may have mislabeled, improperly stored and shipped samples of potentially infectious plague bacteria, which can cause several deadly forms of disease, USA TODAY has learned.

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flagged the practices after inspections last month at an Army lab in Maryland, one of the Pentagon's most secure labs. That helped prompt an emergency ban on research on all bioterror pathogens at nine laboratories run by the Pentagon, which was already reeling from revelations that another Army lab in Utah had mishandled anthrax samples for 10 years.

 

Army Secretary John McHugh ordered the research moratorium on Sept. 2, Pentagon officials say, out of an abundance of caution.

 

The suspect specimens, which may be live despite being labeled as killed or weakened, indicate a wider range of dangerous bioterror pathogens being handled using sloppy safety practices at laboratories operated by the U.S. military. They also further illustrate the risks faced by other scientists who rely on pathogen "death certificates" to know whether or not a provided sample is still infectious and can be worked with safely without special protective equipment. An ongoing USA TODAY Media Network investigation has revealed numerous mishaps at government, university and private labs that operate in the secretive world of biodefense research prompting growing concern in Congress and among biosafety experts.

And while all of the above may look, on the surface, like cause for concern, you shouldn't worry because ignorance is bliss and the US government is doing its best to make sure that you remain in the dark about anything that might actually be important: 

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook: “We're trying to be as forthcoming as we can be right now without alarming the public.”

 

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Thu, 09/10/2015 - 21:59 | 6534169 longwood
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Oooops...

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:09 | 6534213 El Oregonian
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The kind of black plague that has been militarized?

Boy, that'll work out fine now won't it?

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:15 | 6534232 NoDebt
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Eerily similar to how the news story came out about the IRS targeting scandal.  Just some rogue low-level employees in a remote branch office far from DC might have done something wrong.  No biggie, everything's OK, we apoligize for any minor inconvenience you make have experienced.  And then.....

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:19 | 6534249 TeamDepends
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Black Plague? Oh, no. How 'bouts we call it the Taylor Cracker Swift Plague? Luvin' it!

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:29 | 6534275 remain calm
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it has been incubating in Kim Kardashian's vagina

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:31 | 6534293 remain calm
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"We Black Plagued some folks"

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:40 | 6534322 Manthong
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But the good news is that they now provide free Black Death delivery  directly to your bathroom.

Rats coming up through toilets in NYC... 

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:43 | 6534337 847328_3527
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dats rayciss.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:19 | 6534432 knukles
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They're gonna get us all killed.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:35 | 6534459 TeamDepends
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It's happened to us all: You step out for a moment, with a vial of Black Death in your pocket, and your mind starts to wander. And you think, "these crackas ain't payin' shit! So, fuck it!!! You bust that vial
on the sidewalk: "Who cares, anyway?"

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:49 | 6534505 Implied Violins
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I actually got my Master's while studying anthrax. You wouldn't believe how easy it was to 'lose' a plate or drop a tube. The freezer containing our frozen stocks was locked, but the key was kept in a drawer in the lab that anyone could access - and the lab fridge was FULL of stocks and NOT locked. During the day, the door to the lab was left open and anyone could have waltzed in and absconded with samples.

Of course, our samples were attenuated (weakened) and this was pre-2001, but still...I don't think people who work with the stuff on a daily basis have gotten any less careful, even with increased security. Especially when you have students working with it.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:21 | 6534571 turtle
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At least the fed now has an exit strategy...

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:56 | 6534623 Fish Gone Bad
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Plague is killed by tetracyclines.  Ebola is scary, plague is not.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:18 | 6534654 Paveway IV
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I got a strange package from some Army lab sent to my home address by mistake. Never got to open it - the dog started chewing it up. 

Now my dog is acting sick. He has explosive diarrhea and patches of his fur are falling out. No blood from his eyes or mouth - yet. I gave him a Flintstones vitamin and half a beer. He slept like a log this afternoon and now he seems to be doing better. He was licking the neighbor kid's face yesterday, and the little brat still seems healthy. I will continue to monitor him for symptoms. Do you think I should worry?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:50 | 6534706 chubbyjjfong
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A perfect example right there of how shit can go very wrong, very quickly.  I hope your dog is ok dude, lets hope it was box of socks or something.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 06:36 | 6534950 Boomberg
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I would be more concerned about what your dog picked up from the little brat.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:32 | 6534678 Bananamerican
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https://daisyhouse.bandcamp.com/track/plague-song

I am the harbinger dressed like a crow 
i've come from the past with a cane at your door 
I'm dressed like a butcher, don't look in my eyes 
don't breathe on or touch me, don't bother to rise 

stay away, lay the man down 
send out your sinners, your men of renown 
rage rage burn it all down 

Bring Laudanum, ambergris, lavender, straw… 
camphor, rose petals and cloves of the law 
to cover the stench of injustice and greed 
bring me my leeches, they're ready to feed... 

Stay away, lay the man down 
Death rides a pale horse in a glittering crown 
rage rage burn it all down 

Looked into the future and what did i see 
black ships of contagion that rolled on the sea 
and they move just like money, wher'er the wind blows 
from nation to nation i walk down the rows 

Stay away, lay the man down 
even your helmsmen are running aground 
rage rage burn it all down 
stack up the bodies set fire to the town 
rage rage burn it all down

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:21 | 6535724 J Jason Djfmam
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This is just sick.

I got home yesterday and there were six crows sitting in my driveway.

They didn't even fly away, just moved to the side as I drove in.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 12:39 | 6536457 Jumbotron
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WOW !!   What a song !    Daisy House for the win in folk rock.  A song about the banksters couched in lyrics about the Black Plague.  Pure genius !

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:21 | 6534572 turtle
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dang

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 05:53 | 6534909 Squid-puppets a...
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re 'I actually got my Master's while studying anthrax.'

I failed mine while studying anthrax. If only i studied the disease rather than the heavy metal band...

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:49 | 6534506 Miffed Microbio...
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" Hey this is lemonade! Where's my glass of amoebic dysentery?"

Miffed;-)

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 09:53 | 6535556 detached.amusement
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Gary Larson was a genius :)

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:29 | 6534582 Sanity Bear
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The Mammy Nuns might jus' be the only thing left walking in the USA, now that the Mystery Risease - oooooooooh! - gone outta - ooooooooooh! - control!

 

Ain't that right, Sistah Abduallah X?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:38 | 6534690 putaipan
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to the down voter- you obviously missed the "thingfish" reference.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:19 | 6535709 Sanity Bear
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Uncultured barbarians!

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:04 | 6534397 The Merovingian
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#BlackLivesMatterPlague

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:35 | 6534303 TeamDepends
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(Gulp) Um, er, so we can opt out then, right? Surely, this is unproven science?

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:51 | 6534235 TeamDepends
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By militarized you mean safe for the public? Well, of course! Roll up your sleeve, citizen.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:29 | 6534286 Cynicles
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Agenda 21 seen smiling in the background

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 14:44 | 6537041 SDShack
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Just another example of "Fear the Walking Dead Heads in Washington".

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:17 | 6534564 divingengineer
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We wanted to tell you, but we know how you can get.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 05:11 | 6534870 HowdyDoody
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It has possibly been delivered to one of the many bioweapons labs the US has established in countries surrounding Russia. There are two in Ukraine, one south-west of Kiev and the other in Odessa. These will unfortunately not be up to the high standards of US labs (a feature, not a bug) so there is a chance that the pathogen may 'accidentally' escape into the wild.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:22 | 6535006 Refuse-Resist
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Oy Vey yeah!

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:10 | 6534218 TeamDepends
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Step right up (you have no choice), step right up (you have no choice) and get your free Black Plague vaccination. It's for the children!

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:27 | 6534578 Skateboarder
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Contemplating the implementation of mandatory vaccination, it is not quite necessary, as they can use the teevee to have it play out like a Hollywood movie: gubbamin loses samples, terrizz gain samples and unleash them, news says you got until <date> to survive without the vaccine, and fortunately vaccines are ready, and everybody lines up to get their SHOTS. SHOTS. SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS. Creating artificial necessity in your mind for something you don't need or something that is harmful to you, is a much more powerful means of control than dumb force. These motherfuckers will want us to line up on our own accord, and it will be sad to see our loved ones doing so.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:59 | 6534696 omniversling
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Ebola outbreak hoax was a SIFMA/FEMA excercise, official doc here. Remember 'clipboard guy'? And all the reporters and other crew without protective gear?:

http://www.sifma.org/services/bcp/fema-pandemic-exercise-series/

What's being done with 'vaccines', and update on Jade Helm/Jade2 AI rollout and interview with Jon Rappaport on CDC fraudulent studies MRR/Austism whistleblower (orange CTM logo - Caravan to Midninght embed. Episode 364) 

http://level9news.com/:

 

 

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:10 | 6534219 NotApplicable
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Georgia Guidestone approves.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:22 | 6534438 agNau
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I do remember an "Ebola Scare" sometime back.
Those pressure washers worked like a charm!

It's Time!

Time for the "Crisis Actors" return.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:55 | 6534710 chubbyjjfong
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Whatever happened to the Ebola outbreak???  One minute it was world news all day every day, the next minute Ebola vanished from every platform.  Did it just go poof or something??

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 02:09 | 6534728 Skateboarder
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Things go poof in fictional narratives all the time!

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 08:55 | 6535275 SofaPapa
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All "news" in the modern west is now one big fictional narrative (do any of us know the "true" events of any covered story?  No, only the spin...).  Personally, I'm curious about the cat and cow mutilations that have been going on for years!  Good solid entertainment value there...

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:24 | 6535741 J Jason Djfmam
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Aerosol weaponisation conversion devices=pressure washers.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:53 | 6534515 rubiconsolutions
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Dustin Hoffman, please report for duty.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 05:47 | 6534904 Bangin7GramRocks
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U.S. Army....Of The 12 Monkeys.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 21:59 | 6534170 Tom Servo
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Hmmmm, 14 years ago didn't Rumsfeld announce that the Pentagon had lost track of 2.3 trillion dollars...

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:24 | 6534268 venturen
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2015 Obama doesn't annouce he lost track of $20 Trillion...Oh wait he happily annouced it to an audience of the richest on how stupid Democrat Voters are...that they appaul him for making the rich richer than ever!

Tom I guess you were a big Saddam fan? Tired of the retread Bush blame when 7 years of Obama/Democrats litterly ruined the country. The Treasury and Justice departments are now just arms of Wall Street and the DNC

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:12 | 6534415 Tom Servo
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What in the actual fuck are you talking about?  I am no Bush or Obama sycophant.  I'm not a total foil hatter, but there are several 9/11 inconsistencies from the "official story" that have never been explained (building 7, etc...)

 

Your huffpo link is about the missing cash pallates from Iraq that we shipped in during the war.  Rumsfeld announced on 9/10/2001 that there were some misappropriated funds from the Pentagon... the next day, nobody gave a shit about it...hence, stuff....

 

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:54 | 6534511 Manthong
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How convenient that AA Flt 77 just happened to crash directly into the Pentagon Accounting Department that was researching the missing $2.3 Trillion and that a raghead who couldn’t land a Cessna 150 executed a perfect descending 270 degree turn in a half million pound heavy airliner, skimmed the treetops and hit the relatively low building broadside.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:11 | 6534546 stormsailor
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and managed to penetrate with a hole smaller than the fuselage and vaporize the wings and engines, but still the stupid sumbitch couoldn't manage to drop his perfect passport out on the pentagon lawn. its really hard to get good terrorist these days.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:40 | 6534595 BringOnTheAsteroid
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It's patently obvious a jet airliner did not crash into the Pentagon given the wing span extended beyond the damage to the building.

However one inconsistency I have noted even with this observation is that it contradicts Norman Minetta's testimony to the 9/11 commission that ceratinly does suggest it was plane that hit the Pentagon. This was the classic testimony inferring Dick Cheney ordered Norad to stand down.

Fuck knows, nothing seems to make sense. 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:03 | 6534629 BringOnTheAsteroid
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It's patently obvious a jet airliner did not crash into the Pentagon given the wing span extended beyond the damage to the building.

However one inconsistency I have noted even with this observation is that it contradicts Norman Minetta's testimony to the 9/11 commission that ceratinly does suggest it was plane that hit the Pentagon. This was the classic testimony inferring Dick Cheney ordered Norad to stand down.

Fuck knows, nothing seems to make sense. 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:27 | 6535760 J Jason Djfmam
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After all "It is the BIG LIE that is more likely to be believed".

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 02:04 | 6534716 omniversling
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Shame Larry wasn't there to say 'pull it'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34XrI2Fm6I

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 05:36 | 6534891 HowdyDoody
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Aaaand ... it's Pentagon.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 16:55 | 6537619 Zymurguy
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corretion, cruise missile.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:26 | 6534279 venturen
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Even the Huffington Post gave up on that lie http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/lost-iraq-cash-government-final... it was $6 Billion...Only Obama deals in giving away Trillions

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 04:08 | 6534835 ImGumbydmmt
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yes, announced on exactly the day before 9/11.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:00 | 6534172 hedgeless_horseman
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Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:11 | 6534224 TeamDepends
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More fucking cowbell!!!!!! How many times (facepalm)......

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:39 | 6534317 Gold...Bitches
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You can NEVER have enough cowbell.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:12 | 6534227 Just Take It All
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needs more cow bell.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:08 | 6534408 CoolBeans
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Crazy book. Crazy but bazaarly good.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:14 | 6534551 stormsailor
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the stand,  the best book stephen king ever wrote.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:19 | 6534433 TheReplacement
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Gee thanks HH.  Now I have to watch the entire show. 

"You can't outrun the dark man." ~ 11:30

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:04 | 6534186 ebworthen
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"At this point what does it matter!?!?"

"Mission Accomplished."

"I did not have sex with that Woman."

"Read my lips..."

...etc...

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:17 | 6534563 stormsailor
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you forgot, "i'm not a crook",  and just say no

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:26 | 6535010 Refuse-Resist
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I;ll have those naggers voting democrat for 100 years!

A day that will live in infamy!

We can go on for days.

The lies, they never stop.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:05 | 6534192 A Lunatic
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Sorry about that......

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:05 | 6534193 DirkDiggler11
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Maybe they will find the samples behind a box of hammers that cost $2,000 a piece...

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:05 | 6534194 OzFan
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Maybe its with the 2.3 trillion?

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:05 | 6534195 OzFan
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Maybe its with the 2.3 trillion?

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:06 | 6534197 Agent P
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Good thing I'm white

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:06 | 6534198 CunnyFunt
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Sounds rayciss to me.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 05:09 | 6534868 roddy6667
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You be rayciss.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:08 | 6534199 Automatic Choke
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who needs DOD?  plague is always present in squirrels in the Sierra Nevada if you look around.  they've even had transmission to humans a couple times this summer.

 

edit:  adding link.

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/HEALTHINFO/DISCOND/Pages/Plague.aspx

 

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:18 | 6534429 booboo
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Squirrels carry a natural strain, I'm fairly confident that .gov has had mind fucked .gov quasi scientist finger fucking these strains into a "super double 00 spy" look at the Petri dish cross eyed and your grave yard dead version, you have to remember, it's what governments around the globe do best, killing their own citizens.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:08 | 6534204 max2205
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What did one fly say to the other fly

 

Get off my stool 

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:09 | 6534210 Automatic Choke
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no.....  wrong punchline.

he said "Hey, your man is open."

 

<rimshot>

 

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:14 | 6534234 Crocodile
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By Saturday afternoon, labs in Maryland, Texas, Wisconsin, Delaware, New Jersey, Tennessee, New York, California and Virginia were notified that the US military had accidentally mailed them the deadly bacteria.- That should take care of most of the nation; the EPA and CDC asr made from the same cloth.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:21 | 6534258 Implied Violins
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If I worked for FedEx or UPS, I'd DEMAND vaccinations.

Er, wait...

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:15 | 6534236 steveo77
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 One good size comet hitting is worth 10,000 nuke bombs.    

The real game plan would be a space tug to drag a comet/meteor into mars path.

 

Here is the Asteroid calculator

Seriously

 http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/01/updated-january-asteroid-ri...

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:16 | 6534242 me or you
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THey hate the American people simply as 1,2,3.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:19 | 6534248 DirkDiggler11
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I'll bet these articles are doing "wonders" for the real estate market near the Edgewood Chemical / Biological Center in Maryland.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:25 | 6534272 Ralph Spoilsport
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Since business is booming (sorry) at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, hiring went crazy and set the RE market on fire. Demand for housing with a good commute time to either Edgewood or APG is nuts right now.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:20 | 6534250 Able Ape
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Not surprising since the GOV'T and associated entities are inept and incompetent as a result of NOT having to compete with others and obtaining their funding solely through THEFT!  Government is SHIT, plain and simple....

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:19 | 6534252 Implied Violins
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I expect them to pull out ALL the stops over this next year. Every disease known to man will make an appearance. Just keep taking vitamin C, eat a ketogenic alkaline GMO-free diet, and meet the fuckers with a gun when they come to your doorstep to vaccinate you.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:16 | 6534556 Skateboarder
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IV, appreciate the links re. vaccination you provided last time. Couple of recent observations - it's starting to pick up steam:

- Was flippin through the "on-demand" on Cumcast the other day, and in the PBS KQED section, perhaps NOVA, I notice a program on the necessity for vaccination.

- The RiteAid sign near my house is promoting getting vaccinated for things other than the flu, in somewhat of a staist tone. I'll have to snap a picture next time.

- Friends (gay ones, if that makes any difference to you (doesn't to me)) in the medical and psychology fields have shown statist tendencies towards accepting and promoting forced vaccination and a sense of disgust towards those who do not vaccinate.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:45 | 6534700 general ambivalent
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Yes, the extreme medical ideology basically suggests you're a threat to us all if you don't get vaccinated. You're a leper basically if you try to prevent the lifelong immune damage from vaccines.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:20 | 6534253 Yen Cross
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 That's going to leave a mark.

 Tommy Boy~

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:24 | 6534259 Turin Turambar
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Really? Sure, I believe it. Oh, and isn't there a story out now about scientists trying to revive a 30,000 year old virus? I'm glad I'm not a conspiracy theorist, or I'd wonder if the government was laying the groundwork for cover in the event it decided to utilize some new type of biological warfare. Nah. That'd never happen. :-O

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:22 | 6534262 Rabbit rancher
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Plan B

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:28 | 6534281 Ms No
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Can we get rid of the illegal and massively expensive bioweaponry programs before we turn into Resident Evil, that would be super.  That is the scariest part of all of this, the damn bioweapons progams!

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:31 | 6534290 mastersnark
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Government is so awesome. I totally get why we obey.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:39 | 6534314 stant
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Inline with the army after next program circa 1997

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:39 | 6534316 runswithscissors
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just in time to give to the muslim "refugees"

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:57 | 6534374 Government need...
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Makes you wonder what .gov is really after with this.  Are they trying to false flag us into the FEMA-camps?  

"If you shelter in your home, you are likely to die a hideous death of Plague. but it's safe, warm, and dry in the FEMA fun-camp.  Did I mention the hot cocoa and donuts?"

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:57 | 6534375 Son of Captain Nemo
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How soon we forget...

What happened with that Ebola scourge that was quarantining airports and locking down the CDC?...

That was just the dress rehearsal.  Think of it as Fort Detrick's other arm of "Jade Helm" ready to go when the wars of choice and markets don't go according to plan...

One thing you can say about Ebola and the Black Plague is that if you need to kill tens of millions deliberately like all semi-engineered biological agents, they will run their natural course until you find the right combination of humans (over time of course) that have the genetic predisposition to fight it off and then... You "start over"...  And without the nasty "side-effects" of massive destruction to infrastructure that nuclear holocausts bring with them!

Yes indeed. We have so much to be thankful for seeing where our tax dollars keep going after 70 years of it... And so much to look forward to!!!!

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:07 | 6534404 Government need...
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Wasn't the neutron bomb supposed to be a safe way to nuke a population center without destroying the buildings/infrastructure.  I like the biohazard threat better, with its fear of the unknown element. . .

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:32 | 6535018 Refuse-Resist
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Good one...

Neutron Bomb:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSeF9z2aakM

 

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:41 | 6534486 jomama
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How could I forget?

According to the ZH comments section, all of us should have been dead by now.

Fact is, only one person in the US died from it - who had picked it up from Liberia.

 

Carry on.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:57 | 6534523 Radical Marijuana
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But nevertheless, the technological abilities to genetically engineer some super disease that combined many of the properties of the worst natural diseases continues to exist. The only thing missing, so far, are the people who are simultaneously capable and criminally insane enough to do that.

As the saying goes:

"The lies are different at every level."

Question the disease diagnosis: bioweapons? Our politics has probably fatal illnesses ...
Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:35 | 6534683 trader1
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ATTENTION. Fuck American power. Fuck Russian power. Fuck British power.
Fuck all power.
ATTENTION. These ignorant shits arm themselves for annihilation and call it world peace.
Bollocks.

Pacified. Classified.
Keep in line. You're doing fine.
Lost your voice? There ain't no choice.
Play the game. Silent and tame.
Be the passive observer, sit back and look
At the world they destroyed and the peace that they took.
Ask no questions, hear no lies
And you'll be living in the comfort of a fool's paradise.

You're already dead, you're already dead,
You're already dead, you're already dead.

If you're the passive observer, here's a message for you...
You're already dead, You're already dead.
Afraid to do what you know you should do...
You're already dead, You're already dead.
The world's at the edge of nuclear destruction,
But your too afraid to make the connection.
You still believe the system's there for your protection...
You're already dead, You're already dead.

You're already dead, you're already dead,
You're already dead, you're already dead.

By letting it happen without a fight...
You're already dead, You're already dead.
With your endless debates about wrong and right...
You're already dead, You're already dead.
Nothing's going to change if you're not prepared to act,
There's no point complaining after the fact,
Content to be a number, branded X and neatly packed...
You're already dead, You're already dead.

You're already dead, You're already dead,
You're already dead, You're already dead.

Four hundred thousand people marched for CND...
They're already dead, They're already dead,
Unless they're willing to act on what they can see...
They're already dead, They're already dead.
If each and every one of us was prepared to fight for more,
To stand against the system that creates the need for war,
The elite would have to run like it's never run before...
They're already dead, They're already dead.

They're already dead, They're already dead,
They're already dead, They're already dead.

We don't need organising
Or politicians being patronising.
We don't need their leadership,
Trendy lefties being hip.
Don't need their condescension
Or their back to root pretension.
We've heard it all before,
Politicians saying "No more war",
Pulling wool across our eyes.
We don't need their dangerous lies.
We won't accept capitulation,
It's just manipulation.
They want the smooth without the rough,
But words and gestures aren't enough.
We've got to learn to reject all leaders
And the passive shit they feed us...

They're already dead, They're already dead,
They're already dead, They're already dead.

If you think moderation's going to pave the way to peace...
You're already dead, You're already dead.
What good is moderation 'gainst the army and police?
You're already dead, You're already dead.
We're not promoting mindless violence, keep that for the fools,
We're simply saying be prepared to break their laws and rules,
Let them know the bigger they come, the harder they will fall...
They're already dead, They're already dead.

They're already dead, They're already dead,
They're already dead, They're already dead.

If they're going to play it dirty, so are we...
They're already dead, They're already dead.
They can keep their lies about the land of the free...
They're already dead, They're already dead.
We've allowed them too often to use their iron fist,
But there's one little detail they appear to have missed...
You don't have to be PASSIVE just because you're a PACIFIST...
They're already dead, They're already dead.

They're already dead, They're already dead,
They're already dead, They're already dead.

They'll try to sell their system
Like it's some kind od age-old wisdom,
But we've been had like that before,
It's just the rich exploiting the poor.
Well here's an honest confession,
We think it's time they learnt a lesson.
They've tried to hold the people down,
But we've simply gone underground,
Moving in the darkness looking for the light,
Looking for a future and ready to fight.
Looking for the freedom that's been denied,
Fast to attack and fast to hide.
In a world where the people can't make it,
They've simply got to learn to break it,
And if the wealthy aren't prepared to shake it...
O.K., we'll simply have to take it...

You're already dead, You're already dead,
You're already dead, You're already dead,
You're already dead, You're already dead,
You're already dead, You're already dead...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNYD4AxiivA

 

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:05 | 6534400 the edge of chaos
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AND GO!!

 

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:05 | 6534402 Iaerwainbenadar
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Ebola is not the most deadly virus known to man kind as the text says. Although slower working the mortality rate of the Marburg virus ia a lot higer. In West Africa approx.

one third of those Ebola infected survived. Death rate of Marburg virus is over 90%. Marburg is very rare though, belongs to same family viruses though.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:47 | 6534502 Rock On Roger
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Gee,

 

I hope I can be vaccinated!

Maybe I should let a rattlesnake bite me?

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:13 | 6534419 Iaerwainbenadar
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And the black plague, Yersinia Pestis, can these days be (easily) treated with doxycicline/tetracycline. Wouldn't like to be infected though.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:18 | 6534428 wildbad
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im not alarmed..do i look alarmed?

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:19 | 6534431 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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The handling of pathogens in USA Gubberment labs is pure unadulterated insanity. Write letters to Congressional representatives and insist on stepped up safety before the US MIC increases the probability of an industrial so-called 'accident'.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:34 | 6535023 Refuse-Resist
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Because writing letters to CONgress works so well! We all know they do care about us and our views, and do their best every day to protect us and our interests.

They fight for our freedom and safety everyday.

keep voting!

FUCK YEAH!

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:19 | 6534434 q99x2
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The Black Plague is a racist remark and their military would never say that.. I don't believe it.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:20 | 6534435 mijev
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I wonder if the final destination was domestic or international. Either way it could add to the spice of the shemitah or whatever the fuck it's called.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:43 | 6534489 Rock On Roger
Rock On Roger's picture

Ahh, the Spice.

 

Now I understand.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:30 | 6535774 J Jason Djfmam
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The Spice Must Flow.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:26 | 6534453 Miffed Microbio...
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At least in plague as opposed to Ebola, there are antibiotics that are effective. If caught early enough, there's a good chance of a cure. I believe streptomycin is still drug of choice but that isn't used much any more due to some nasty side effects. Used to be standard in TB treatment. Otherwise Tetracycline and fluoroquinolones can be used. Some resistance has been reported. A massive outbreak of pneumatic plague could be a big problem. That's nasty with deaths close to 100% and patients are infectious.

The biggest problem here, if used as a bioweapon, is delivery. Sure, you can air drop this over D.C. but it will be diluted in the air and be less infective. Kinda of hard to get people to line up and snort it willingly. Hmmm, maybe the land of hookers and blow has an unfortunate weak spot.

Miffed

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:41 | 6534485 Rock On Roger
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Son of a bitch, where's the vaccination clinic?

 

Am I sick?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:35 | 6535026 Refuse-Resist
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Good point. But we should not forget that without the black plague, we would have never had the Renaissance. The drop in population in Europe made labor valuable again. 

You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:38 | 6534470 Prophet of Rage
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Sure they "misplaced" the plague this time, but they knew exactly where the anthrax was going back in 2001.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:40 | 6534481 Lmo Mutton
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Needs moar cowbell.

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 23:49 | 6534507 Radical Marijuana
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As many others

already stated:

Biological weapons are the poor man's atomic bombs. Bioweapons continue to be the single most probable man-made mega-disaster.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:03 | 6534534 Pancho de Villa
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Yes, of course...     This was done "Inadvertently".

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:15 | 6534557 mbutler101
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Funny how the US Military is a consistent proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and gets a free pass every single time. What are the odds this can happens by chance multiple times? The 'incompetent' meme is old and tired.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:16 | 6534561 Slippery Slope
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Nothing to fear, "Misplaced" is just military jargon for "mass incubation".

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:43 | 6534597 Barley Burnside
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Black Plague and bluebonic chronic are my favorite strains down at the dispensary..

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 00:53 | 6534614 roddy6667
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This is why you keep a large supply of antibiotics at home. If a plague starts going around, there will be no medicine available.

http://www.calvetsupply.com/

Or you can walk into any Tractor Supply store and buy some for your "chickens".

Veterinary meds are USP, the same thing you get at Walgreens/CVS. Buy a pound of tetracycle powder and a thousand capsules of amoxycillin.

 

Cheap.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 02:31 | 6534746 chopd livr
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thanks

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 08:55 | 6535232 Anopheles
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The antibiotic of choice for anthrax is cipro  (Ciprofloxacin) and it also has some effectiveness for plague.    Tetracycle and amoxycillin are not effective. 

Antibiotics are not as interchangeable as people believe.   Many will work for low grade infections, but when you get to quickly spreading, life threatening infections, only targeted antibiotics will help. 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 01:18 | 6534652 I-am-not-one-of-them
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The first ever case of EBOLA was in Germany in 1967, not Africa.  US Military engineered bioterrorism agent.

AIDS has been alluded to be another engineered bioterrorism agent.

Antrax attacks in 2001 originated from US Military labs.

Pentagon officials announced  the number of kits containing live anthrax has grown again to 52 labs in 18 states, Washington, D.C., and three foreign countries, Australia, South Korea and Canada — more than twice as high than first reported.

Black Plague bioterrorism agent.

and they have the gall to point fingers

 "The Andromeda Strain" 1971, right on the money

 

 

 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 08:25 | 6535160 Anopheles
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It wasn't Ebola, it was Marberg.   The people were infected from tissue from monkeys imported from Africa.   The Ebola outbreak in Liberia last year was also caused by infection from wild animals.  

As for anthrax, I guess you don't realize that it's in the soil almost everywhere in the world.   It commonly infects animals, particularly wild and domestic grazing animals. 

Your tinfoil is on much too tight. 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:42 | 6535849 Skiprrrdog
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I think I might be coming down with a touch of Ebola... I seem to be bleeding out of every hole in my body...hate when that happens

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 02:27 | 6534740 Grandad Grumps
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Incompetent and violent people with tendencies toward megalomania and murder should not be in charge of live bacteria, allowed to carry guns or be let out in public without a handler.

It is probably safe to allow them to maintain the delusion that they are controlling the world by spying on people from the safety of their underground bunker (pretty sad).

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 03:29 | 6534789 VWAndy
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Accountability matters.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 03:37 | 6534801 NuYawkFrankie
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Re PentaGOON missing Black Plague Samples.

Probably FedEx'd 'em to Tel Aviv for aerial spraying over Gaza

 For a regime that bases a multitude of its war propaganda on its enemies having biological WMD, the USSA sure likes to "dabble" in the same - doesn't it?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 03:41 | 6534809 zvzzt
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Who cares about Ebola, Plague or other stuff if you have lethal Kardashians, Voice of Shithole, and news anchors sueing for look-alike dolls on TV.... Much more deadly i'm telling ya.... 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 03:53 | 6534820 gmak
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and now we know how the 1% will get rid of the rest of us after they have all the assets, keeping only the debt slaves they need to maintain robotic systems. and protection. 

 

paranoid much?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 03:54 | 6534821 SoDamnMad
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No problem. Probably some  Chinese H1K visa holder that had no security clearance and has since disappeared when they went to look for everyone who might have been contaminated.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 05:52 | 6534908 Arthur Schopenhauer
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'Frankenvirus':

Scientists set to revive giant 30,000 year old virus discovered in Siberian permafrost

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:32 | 6535790 J Jason Djfmam
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Fucking Geniuses.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:01 | 6534968 DonGenaro
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monkeys with shotguns

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:36 | 6535028 Refuse-Resist
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Chimps with full-auto AK47s

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:17 | 6534994 petolo
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Whatever happened to all those Mad Cows?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:31 | 6535780 J Jason Djfmam
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We Ate Them.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:36 | 6535811 Skiprrrdog
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Two cows standing in a field.. one cow says to the other:
Arent you worried about catching Mad Cow diease?
Second cow says, not me, Im a squirrel.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:28 | 6535011 Who was that ma...
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"The US military........... had done something really stupid"?

When has the US military, or any military, NOT done something really stupid?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 07:28 | 6535013 cn13
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Our government is so incompetent in everything it does.

Except waging worthless and unwinnable wars and collecting taxes.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 08:08 | 6535100 Wahooo
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I swear I laid them right on the coffee table.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 08:13 | 6535118 f16hoser
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Nothing happens by chance. If they Lost it, they did it for a reason...

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 10:33 | 6535801 J Jason Djfmam
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No, Really, They are More Stupid than Clever.

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