Posted on 09/18/2014 8:29:50 AM PDT by alexmark1917
Last few months spent gathering data and lining up the dominoes. Time to connect the dots.
Obama sending US troops to West Africa to get infected and bring back here.
Remember, it has a 21-day incubation period and new mutations very likely are undetectable.
GENERAL: SENDING MILITARY TO FIGHT EBOLA ‘MISUSE’ OF SOLDIERS Ex-Delta Force commander stresses ‘great risk’ of infection
Read more at
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/boykin-sending-military-to-fight-ebola-misuse-of-soldiers/#RDQcKjtdQIuiO0Op.99
World Bank: Ebola’s Economic Impact Could Be ‘Catastrophic’
http://time.com/3394147/ebola-world-bank/
US to begin Ebola hospital equipment lift to Liberia
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/09/18/us-to-begin-ebola-hospital-equipment-lift-to-liberia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20foxnews/health%20(Internal%20-%20Health%20-%20Text)
A French aid worker from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia, reports say.
It follows a warning by the World Bank that the epidemic is threatening economic disaster across West Africa. The woman is being repatriated to the French capital Paris under maximum security.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29252928#?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Send 3,000 doctors, not 3,000 soldiers – Activist responds to Obama’s Ebola plan...
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God bless ya’s and thank him. Mine was the same way. Just finished his first year.
We did something right.
Part of what hinders me and others from being able to get the word out about important issues is the supposed “conservatives” who work at places like Free Republic to make sure that the only sources that get major exposure are the state-controlled media sources.
Not saying that you or others are paid Obama agitators, just saying I can’t tell the difference between what you’re doing and what paid Obama agitators would do. If there’s no difference between what you’re doing and what they want done, then it doesn’t even really matter whether it’s deliberate sabotage or just stupidity.
When Free Republic gets an “embed videos” or “upload images” button so that non-IT folks can easily present the substantiation for the case they’re making in one place (cause God knows Freepers don’t want the extra labor of making an extra click), THEN you can say there is no reason for a person’s own blog to be excerpted here. But until then there is a very GOOD reason for some blogs to be excerpted, or for blog writers to direct people to their own sites, where their case can be much more easily made readable and keep all the substantiation together in one place.
If you had done the common courtesy of actually considering what I had said in my post, you would have realized that. But the stuff you “blog patrol” people do isn’t about listening and evaluating what’s said. It’s all about snark, obstruction, and basically silencing voices other than the lamestream media. IOW, it’s about PREVENTING people from talking about content/issues. Strange thing to want to do in order to supposedly draw people to Free Republic, and it’s actually driving people away from Free Republic.
Right. Post a link to every source so Freepers have to click 20 links to get to the content, rather than simply directing them to the blog where it’s all in one place - one click.
And all for what? Why 20 extra clicks when one click to a blog would put it all right there for people to see and actually process the claims, whether to believe or debunk those claims?
For a video some blogger stole?
No, one click on the Youtube link where the thieving blogger stole it in the first place.
If a blogger is honest enough to cite the sources of his theft,
there will be links on the blog which could just as easily become links here.
Your argument is invalid.
Seems like the WND article that was cited in the blog said that at least one Congressman asked for the exact goals/duties of the mission to be enumerated because they aren’t clear. A couple goals that were stated were to train local medical personnel and to create a 25-bed facility for any workers who would get sick. Those don’t necessarily seem like military duties, which led to the questions about how many medical personnel would be with the military to accomplish those things.
What stands in sharp contrast is the claims that the US doesn’t need to be concerned about ebola, contrasted with the Obama regime’s recent claims that it’s inevitable that it will be here and we need to prepare for an epidemic, etc. The regime is talking out of both sides of its mouth, and I can’t help but think that the regime is hiding from us the fact that at least some strains of the virus have become airborne.
Somebody in Congress asked the regime to tell us why they are warning us about an epidemic here, if the virus is not airborne. I hope we get some answers.
...AND to reduce the population over here...
Gosh you are an idiot, you really are one of those raving “precious bodily fluids” nuts, raving about “Obama agitators” here at freerepublic interfering with nooby blog pimps.
Evidently you don’t have anything better to do but waste people’s time “Get a life and recognize there are more important things than territorial piddles while the country is going down in flames.”.
Sure it does. If the military was looking at the possibility of meeting a weaponized version of Marburg or Ebola (the two groups of filoviruses) in the field, it would make sense to have a counter to the threat. Hence, the research.
IIRC, the USSR had biowarfare labs, mainly manned by Cubans in the region before the collapse.
Now speculation runs more toward patents (held by Gates, CDC, et al) on the pathogen and any vaccine, which in the face of a rip-roaring pandemic (or even a government edict) could be a real moneymaker.
Do something like the Texas State Guard, where you can’t be deployed out of state.
So there are military bio researchers? If so, is that in addition to the government-funded agencies responsible to prevent pandemics and/or DHS which is supposed to handle bio-terroristic threats?
Still no answer as to what’s so terrible about a blogger compiling all the information into one place - saving a lot of clicks, which is actually a service to the people at FR.
The Army was handling disease research, and cures, long before a CDC existed.
Even in modern times the Army was the first and still operates it's labs, looking for cures for Ebola and Sars.
""The first prototype Class III (maximum containment) biosafety cabinet was fashioned in 1943 by Hubert Kaempf Jr., then a U.S. Army soldier, under the direction of Dr. Arnold G. Wedum, Director (1944–69) of Industrial Health and Safety at the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories, Camp Detrick, Maryland. On 18 April 1955, fourteen representatives met at Camp Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. The meeting was to share knowledge and experiences regarding biosafety, chemical, radiological, and industrial safety issues that were common to the operations at the three principal biological warfare (BW) laboratories of the U.S. Army. (snip) It was not until 1964, however, that conferences were held in a government installation not associated with a biological warfare program.""
"" More than half of the routine vaccines given to service members today were codeveloped by the US military. Beyond protection of its own forces, the military’s advances also created solutions to diseases of dire importance to national and international public health. Of 15 adult vaccines licensed in the United States since 1962, the DOD played a significant role in developing eight.""
"" The U.S. military has stationed uniformed scientists in the tropics for more than 100 years, and itsh active overseas laboratories have been in place for as long as 58 years. Military scientists live and work in the tropics to study the disease threats in naturally affected populations. Countermeasures and candidate solutions are studied through all phases of development including field testing. These military scientists serve as goodwill ambassadors, and contribute to developing health and science infrastructure in these tropical countries. Enduring relationships between tropical DoD facilities and ministries of health, international healthcare facilities, and local healthcare providers and researchers are of great value to the U.S. at a time when diseases such as SARS and avian influenza are potential global threats. The global MIDRP military presence provides a real-time early warning system in the identification and assessment of new and reemerging disease. Data from around the world is collected, analyzed, and immediately disseminated to military leadership and other agencies by the military's DoD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS) at the Armed Forces Health and Surveillance Center (AFHSC).
The MIDRP's capabilities include basic science (discovery and the knowledge base to develop technological approaches) pre-clinical product optimization, and advanced animal model development. Clinical trials expertise for early FDA Phase 1 testing of drugs and vaccines through large (e.g. 42,000 volunteers for hepatitis A vaccine, and 62,000 volunteers for Japanese encephalitis vaccine) pivotal Phase 3 trials in developing nations is an especially valuable asset of the MIDRP. The DoD also has high containment laboratories, pilot Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliant bioproduction facilities, and FDA regulatory expertise in the U.S. and in many international settings.
Last week Bill Gates gave the largest gift he has given to fight ebola.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-donates-50-million-to-the-ebola-outbreak-2014-9
It drives traffic offsite when it needs not.
Often, this traffic will enrich the clever blogger.
I don't support this site to provide advertising for blogs.
Is that answer enough?
""In late 1989, Hazelton Research Products' Reston Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia suffered a mysterious outbreak of fatal illness (initially diagnosed as Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV)) among a shipment of crab-eating macaque monkeys imported from the Philippines. Hazelton's veterinary pathologist sent tissue samples from dead animals to the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where a laboratory test known as an ELISA assay showed antibodies to Ebola virus. An electron microscopist from USAMRIID discovered filoviruses similar in appearance to Ebola in the tissue samples sent from Hazelton Research Products' Reston Quarantine Unit. Shortly afterward, a US Army team headquartered at USAMRIID went into action to euthanize the monkeys which had not yet died, bringing those monkeys and those which had already died of the disease to Ft. Detrick for study by the Army's veterinary pathologists and virologists, and eventual disposal under safe conditions.
"WASHINGTON, May 29, 2003 – The military has joined a worldwide effort to find a cure for the sometimes deadly SARS virus. At the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a small team of scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Ft. Detrick, Md., has trained its microscopes on severe acute respiratory syndrome.
"Inside a tightly controlled Biosafety Level 4 laboratory at Fort Detrick, some of the world's most dangerous viruses -- such as Ebola are studied."
“the military is being sent to maintain order, not nurse the sick....and to maintain a presence against Russian and Chinese, who both would like to exploit Africa’s resources”
I’m all for letting the Russians and Chinese exploit the Ebola epidemic in Africa. Let them go tend in the Ebola vineyard, contract it and take the germs home with them to THEIR countries, not our military catching Ebola and bringing it back home to OUR country, or worse yet, spreading the virus throughout our military. I hope if any of our military are stricken with the virus, the first place they go upon return to the U.S., is to the White House.
Thank you for the information. I learned something today. =)
Linking to outside sources (as would be required to allow people to see a video, for instance) will drive traffic offsite also - only to 20 different places instead of to the one blog. If traffic is going to be driven off-site anyway, why do you begrudge Freepers the option of being “driven” to a site that has all the information collected for them in one place, instead of to 20 different places?
The posts I have posted here have driven FAR more traffic TO Free Republic than they have driven to my blog. By a LOT. Free Republic is benefitting FAR more from my content than my blog numbers are benefitting from Free Republic. And that’s fine with me because I’m not posting information in order to get hits to my blog; I gain nothing from hits to my blog. I’m posting information because I want my country back, like most of the people here at Free Republic. A motive you don’t seem to understand at all.
You should see all the information that I read as I look this stuff up, it goes much deeper than what I posted, I just haven’t been able to get it together in a way to present a good overview.
I am glad that these cut and pastes help to give an impression of how deep the Army is involved in this stuff (and it is primarily the Army, although DOD is mentioned a lot).
I think for a lot of us that read military history, we already had a sense that the Army has been at this for centuries (Cholera, Malaria, etc, research, prevention cures), and that many people go “oh yeah” when they are reminded that the Army is the go to guys on bio agents in all areas, from creating or locating them, to finding cures, to delivering them and defending from them and so on, it is an area that they are knee deep in, and have been for generations.
““We had a large footprint in Africa,” Cummings said of the Defense Department’s response to the first Ebola cases reported in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Since that time, the Defense Department has answered numerous calls for assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO), nongovernmental organizations and ministries of heath and defense, he said.”
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