no fear mongering, no psyop - updated

[Updated at bottom, just tying up a loose thread.]

A short diversion to another topic: smallpox.

To refresh your memory, we have looked into this before.

One has to PREPARE first.

http://troll.me?p=98557

And PLAN. And have NARRATIVES Ready To Go.

See: not ready yet

Excerpt: Once upon a time, a long time ago, namely June 2001, our US government ran a national security exercise called Dark Winter simulating a smallpox attack, to see if the country was ready for a biological weapon attack. Conclusion: NOT READY YET.

See: eat fresh produce

Excerpt: ...And we were stunned to learn that a Dr. A.R. Campbell, 1865-1931, conducted extensive research on smallpox, and he discovered that smallpox was caused by bedbugs. Furthermore, it did not spread person to person, or through the air, or through clothing, but it struck people with poor hygiene and vitamin C deficiency.

"In considering this malady, I quickly became impressed with two distinctive peculiarities of it, viz: Its being a disease of the winter and of the coldest climates, and that, as a rule, it is confined to the lower or filthy classes." Resume of Experiments on Variola, by Charles A.R. Campbell, M.D.

One would note at this link that a Russian scientist had arrived at the same conclusions as Dr. Campbell. One might also note the strong connection to poor nutrition and crop failures:

The most important observation on the medical aspect of this disease is the cachexia with which it is invariably associated and which is actually the soil requisite for its different degrees of virulence. I refer to the scorbutic cachexia. Among the lower classes of people this particular acquired constitutional perversion of nutrition is most prevalent, primarily on account of their poverty, but also because of the fact that they care little or nothing for fruits or vegetables. That a most intimate connection exists between variola and scorbutus is evidenced by the fact that it is most prevalent among the poor or filthy class of people ; that it is more prevalent in winter, when the antiscorbutics are scarce and high priced; and, finally, that the removal of this perversion of nutrition will so mitigate the virulence of this malady as positively to prevent the pitting or pocking of smallpox. A failure of the fruit crop in any particularly large area is always followed the succeeding winter by the presence of smallpox.

Very, very interesting reading.

America's 2012 Great Drought

"The current drought is covering almost as much of the U.S. as during the 1930s dust bowl."

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We have been told repeatedly that smallpox was eradicated worldwide, except for some samples of the deadly virus which exist in the US and Russia.

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/4/10-1865_article.htm

The last officially acknowledged stocks of variola are held by the United States at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and by Russia at the State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology. The US collection consists of 450 isolates of variola, while various authoritative sources place the number of specimens retained by Russia at ≈150 samples, consisting of 120 different strains (7,8), including several selected for their increased virulence that were collected during the Cold War as potential biological weapons. The possibility that stolen smallpox cultures may already be in the hands of rogue states or terrorist organizations also remains an important subject of international concern. 

Cave home in Afghanistan.

http://aamjanata.com/cave-dwellers-the-forgotten/

Well, you know, you cannot reassort deadly viruses in caves. You need BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs.

"These are not easy viruses to reconstruct," Professor Diane Griffin of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health said in 2005. "You're not going to do this in a cave in Afghanistan." (source)

How many BSL-3 and BSL-4 (even safer!) labs are there in the world?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level

DOZENS.
And where do they conduct bioterrorism research?
Not in the caves of Afghanistan.

BSL-3 lab at University of Georgia, for "research involving recombinant DNA molecules"

http://www.ae-design.com/Projects/Education+Lab/UGA.htm

Just to be crystal clear: BIO-TERROR research is conducted in BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs.

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Most nations agreed these smallpox stocks should have been destroyed, but then, it turned out, LUCKILY, in 2011, they REALIZED that they *should NOT* destroy the stocks after all. Because they discovered there could be some [$$$$$$$$$$] "CURES" in those viruses. And sure enough, we have noticed stories in the past few months about the smallpox vaccine having sudden new benefits vis a vis other diseases.

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/4/10-1865_article.htm

In 2011, the World Health Organization will recommend the fate of existing smallpox stockpiles, but circumstances have changed since the complete destruction of these cultures was first proposed. Recent studies suggest that variola and its experimental surrogate, vaccinia, have a remarkable ability to modify the human immune response through complex mechanisms that scientists are only just beginning to unravel. Further study that might require intact virus is essential. Moreover, modern science now has the capability to recreate smallpox or a smallpox-like organism in the laboratory in addition to the risk of nature re-creating it as it did once before. These factors strongly suggest that relegating smallpox to the autoclave of extinction would be ill advised.

Phew close call, huh?

Just in the nick of time, the scientists found out about the possible miracles that they must study by recreating the smallpox or smallpox-like organisms in their BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs, located worldwide, which you may recall those labs are -- INEXPLICABLY -- not as super secure as we would hope. 

http://www.nature.com/news/fears-grow-over-lab-bred-flu-1.9692

Sure enough, because we have a news filter for "smallpox," we can tell you that smallpox is very much alive and well in the scientific community and percolates along on the back burner of the herd consciousness. These headlines are just from November 2012, just a selection. This goes on all the time, this constant background focus on smallpox. Someone someplace is always reminding us. Never Forget blah blah blah.

LA Times: Smallpox virus detected in 300-year old Siberian mummy, 11/21/12...
San Fransisco Chronicle: Smallpox vaccine kills liver cancer, 11/23/12....
Reuters: Bavarian Nordic receives additional order for IMVAMUNE(R) smallpox vaccines from the Canadian government, 11/28/12....
Business Wire: Research and markets: Smallpox - pipeline review H2 2012, 11/2/12....
The Nation (Pakistan): Three children die of smallpox in Khairpur, 11/19/12

Whoa, hold on a second there. We thought this disease was eradicated except for the stockpiles in the US and Russia....?

KHAIRPUR - Three children died of smallpox in Therimirwah Taulka in Khairpur district. Three children identified as Samander, Ashfaq, Farhan died at village Ajeeb Dasti near Tharimirwah. According to the villagers, a total of seven children died during the last 48 hours in different villages, but the health department or district administration are still unaware in this regard. They said due to poor services of the health department, medicines are stolen from health centres while district administration is also not paying attention in this regard. They have demanded dispatch of doctors teams to their areas as several people including children are suffering from smallpox disease and the people are scared of the rising death toll.

How can this be? Well, there are a couple of possibilities:

1) It's not smallpox but some other pox. 
2) Bio-terrorists, using their BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs, have let the disease loose in Pakistan.
3) It's a disease that occurs naturally under certain conditions: bedbugs + winter months + poor nutrition / hygiene / poverty / lack of Vitamin C + following crop failures.

So, let's see here. We have a precedent case. It turns out that back in June 2002, a similar event happened. No one seemed to know anything.

A spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control says he had not heard anything from official sources about any outbreak.
“We did get some anecdotal reports,” said the CDC’s Llelwyn Grant.
“There are so many poxes out there that are sometimes misdiagnosed,” Grant continued. “It could be a number of things.”

OBVIOUSLY not a big emergency to the CDC, aside being useful to open some public forums about the smallpox vaccine. But the story goes on to speculate about al qaeda being responsible. And then, it turned out to be chickenpox.  Hoo, false alarm. And of course, it makes sense as all of us who were children once if we remember, and those who additionally have children may also remember, that chickenpox tends to go around in the warm months.

Lesson straight from the CDC's mouth: "There are so many poxes out there that are sometimes misdiagnosed. It could be a number of things."

So if you ever hear about smallpox breaking out, just remember it could be one of the many other poxes. Especially if it happens in the warm months. Just Saying there is no need to push the panic button in case some news story pops up about people getting smallpox someplace.

As for al qaeda or some other bioterrorists, we would expect that IF THAT WERE THE CASE THIS TIME, this news would have been handled differently. You would not be reading about it way over here at Twelfth Bough on 12/28, because everyone on teevee would have been freaking out over it since 11/20. The narrative is always prepared in advance of the event. If you don't see a narrative, that means the event was not planned. 

No fear mongering, no psyop!

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That leaves us the third explanation: it's a naturally occurring outbreak of the disease...?


In 2003, we see this report about some army doctors who had seen smallpox patients in Pakistan in the 1960s.

Notable observations:

Kersey, university colleague Dr. Ashley Haase and Dr. David Williams of the Mayo Clinic are part of an elite medical group: the 200 to 400 U.S. doctors who have seen smallpox victims. Their expertise has largely been overlooked during federal bioterrorism planning.
All three say they are reassured by planning done during the past year to prepare the nation to deal with a bioterrorism attack. Their experience also suggests that smallpox is readily recognized and that it typically doesn't spread beyond bedside contacts of victims -- even in the medical conditions of war-torn Pakistan in the 1960s, where all three saw the disease....


When the two men arrived in one of the dusty villages dotting the Himalayan foothills of northern Pakistan, they would ask for the village chief. Then they would share tea, as custom dictated, and ask if any villagers had smallpox.

If the answer was yes, Haase would ask to see the smallpox victims. Most often, they were cared for by family members in dark, cramped, homes.

Sometimes, he would encounter smallpox victims along the road. One woman was journeying to a distant part of Pakistan to visit relatives. She had the disease's pustules but felt strong enough to make the trip.

The woman, and others like her, probably helped keep smallpox circulating in Pakistan, Haase said. The virus can be shed in pustule scabs. Still, cases were rare, indicating that the disease did not spread easily without prolonged, close contact, he said.

That was good, because the drug Haase tested didn't work. It often made people vomit. Some patients' families got angry and forced him to leave villages in a hurry.


...Williams, 70, a retired lung specialist at the Mayo Clinic, was a Methodist medical missionary stationed in Pakistan from 1965 until late 1973. He still remembers his first smallpox case at the United Christian Hospital in Lahore.

The man, who lived in the countryside, arrived covered with pustules. The diagnosis was obvious.

Williams and the other doctors sent the man elsewhere for treatment after a day or so.

No one else at the hospital contracted the disease, including the men in the open ward where the man stayed, he said. Although most staff members were vaccinated, many patients were not.

...Kersey, 64, had much the same experience at a hospital in Karachi, in southern Pakistan.
That's where he saw the three smallpox patients whose pustule-marked faces still are imprinted on his memory. Yet no one else in the hospital became infected; most staff members were vaccinated.

In the slums of Karachi, where he volunteered to care for patients, it was different. The crowded conditions, malnutrition and other health problems helped the disease spread.

"These were extraordinarily poor health conditions," he said. And smallpox wasn't the only threat. Far more common, Kersey said, were leprosy, malaria, rabies and deaths from a disease that still kills millions of people -- diarrhea.

The expertise of these doctors has been largely ignored by the people doing bioterrorism planning. CHECK.

AND, their observations about smallpox agree entirely with the observations of Dr. A.R. Campbell. CHECK.

AND, we have no fear-mongering narrative in place. CHECK.

AND, we have a precedent case of misdiagnosis in Pakistan, in 2002. CHECK.

What else do we know?

Khairpur district of Pakistan

wikipedia

Khairpur, among other parts of Pakistan, has been suffering from a severe drought.

At the same time the provincial government of Sindh has declared Tharparkar District a calamity-hit drought area, deferring all payments of outstanding government dues including agricultural taxes and loan payments. It further declared the drought situation beyond its capacity to respond and called upon the federal government and international community to respond to the people’s needs. 95% of Tharparkar has had no rain and 1.2 million of its population of 1.3 million is affected by the drought. Major parts of Umerkot District and some areas of Sukkur, Khairpur, Sanghar, Kohistan region of Jamshoro, and ‘Kachho’ area of Dadu District are also facing severe drought. 

Pictures of Khairpur:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/01/pakistan-flooding.html

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We think, maybe, there's a pretty good chance that the people who live in Khairpur may be poor, and malnourished, and lack vitamin C in their diets, due to the floods a couple of years ago (that were inexplicably not forecasted), and the current drought this year. We think also, that some of these people may have to contend with pests such as bedbugs.

In other words, we think this is an environment, that HISTORICALLY, provides the conditions that lead to smallpox.

CHECK.

Bed bug infestation is scaring millions of Americans, August 2010

Virtually eradicated nationwide sixty years ago thanks to superpowered pesticides such as DDT, bedbugs are back — largely because those chemicals are now banned, but also thanks to what experts quoted in news reports call "increased foreign travel." While much of this involves airplanes — and Koehler points out that "there are parts of the world such as India and Pakistan that have had bedbugs forever and where they never went away" — the bedbug resurgence is spurring not-so-surprising buzz about its origins.

Ah, see, the bedbugs could be Pakistan's fault then? Experts cite "increased foreign travel?" You know, from skeevy places that we might want to bomb someday? Actually we had a different take on it.

Bedbugs have plagued humans for centuries. Then, after a half a century of relative inactivity, the bedbugs suddenly started up again in the late 1990s. Hmm. Kind of strange. And of course, the bedbugs are harder to kill than ever.

Scientists hypothesize what's up with that. In the 1940s and ’50s, liberal use of DDT and other insecticides all but wiped out the pests. Scientists hypothesize that the few that survived proliferated—females can lay up to five eggs a day, and 500 during a lifetime—and passed along pesticide-resistant traits. Millions of bedbug generations later, scientists are finally zeroing in on how, exactly, bedbugs made their comeback.

Possibilities include:

1. thicker skin repels pesticides faster 
2. metabolism repels pesticides 
3. chemical blocking repels pesticides 
4. Fort Detrick bio-engineered a bedbug that repels pesticides

Just kidding! The scientists didn't actually hypothesize about Fort Detrick. That was us.

Some people might be eager to blame countries like Pakistan for the bedbug problem, and perhaps the smallpox problem should it become an issue, but they should rather look at countries with BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs, because that's where all the bioterror research is conducted. Research that may have made bedbugs *suddenly* more virulent after decades of being easily controlled, and research into creating deadly chimera viruses that would never occur in nature, and research into naturally occurring diseases like smallpox that have been understood for over a century, with such knowledge having been intentionally suppressed from the masses, leading to needless suffering. And also leading to some people making obscene profits on vaccines and huge government bureaucracies instead.


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For your consideration.