- Editor's Note: As the following article by Steven Ransom
clearly reveals, the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) 'epidemic' is a manufactured
crisis . It is yet one more in a series of orchestrated and planned events
-such as the west coast electrical power 'shortages' and the 'epidemic'
of school shootings-designed to stampede the public into compliance with
ever tightening government control over our lives through fear and hysteria.
The slaugter of disease-free Vermont sheep by government officials who
have refused to even test them before destruction, is probably a trail
run to gauge how meekly the American public will react to such overt acts
of totalitarian control. And this for a disease that FMD expert Abigail
Wood says "... is as serious to animals as a bad cold is to human
beings."
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- In the past decade, the government prevented farmers
from holding large stores of grain and seed and now they actively destroy
healthy sheep. These measures, along with the additional 'catastrophies'
yet to be sprung upon us, will drive prices up at a time when the stock
market (and the economy/employment) are going down.
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- The darkening clouds of the New World Order takeover
agenda are steadily drawing closer in America and around the world. The
most helpful thing you can do is to bring this awareness to others and
to prepare to live independent of 'the system' as soon as possible.
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- Intro from David Icke
http://www.davidicke.com
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- Some months ago a friend was told by a Member of Parliament's
wife that something was going to happen before the end of March that would
stop the movement of people around the UK. Now the Foot and Mouth "crisis"
is doing just that. A co-incidence??
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- Foot and Mouth is being used as the HIV of the animal
world and hour after hour the BBC and other ignorant UK broadcasters are
bombarding the public with fear stories about a "catastrophe"
and access to the countryside and at least many sacred sites is banned.
And all for a disease that 95% of animals recover from in a couple of weeks.
Why?
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- Please e-mail the following article to everyone you know
and particularly every UK television and radio station you can.
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- Thank-you,
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- David Icke _____
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- Distortion Of The Facts Is The Only Crisis
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- "Stay away from the countryside!. and stay away
from the facts!"
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- Foot and Mouth - the management of a pseudo-crisis.
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- By Steven Ransom Credence Publications 3-25-1
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- The Scary Headlines
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- Over this last week, international television and radio
news bulletins have brought world audiences graphic reports of an encroaching
pestilence. The dreaded and highly infectious livestock disease known as
'foot and mouth' or FMD has returned to British shores. The globe is being
treated to round the clock reports on 'the extent of the FMD nightmare'.
Mounds of destroyed cattle, gruesome pyres burning through the night, ashen-faced
reporters delivering the latest outbreak statistics, people being warned
to stay away from the countryside. "As well as being airborne, the
foot and mouth virus can adhere to car tires. Do not venture into the countryside,
unless absolutely necessary." warned the BBC Monday 26th Feb 10 o'clock
evening news. The same feature included reports of international rugby
matches being cancelled, a meat shortage crisis pending, pan shots of once-thriving
but now empty cattle markets, lots of hype, lots of emotion, lots of TV
batten-down specials...but, as we shall soon discover, no actual facts.
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- In truth, if the events of this last week have taught
us anything, it is just how much we are at the mercy of misleading government
information. As a result of this barrage of emotive, inaccurate hype, there
are now members of the public who consider it genuinely irresponsible to
hang out a strip of bacon for their garden birds, or to go for a walk in
the country until this crisis is over. Despite the governmental pronouncements,
the facts surrounding this 'crisis' are very different to what we have
so far been told.
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- Abigail Wood is a vet and researcher into the history
of FMD, based at the University of Manchester in the UK. She remains very
down to earth over these latest 'rampaging vicious virus' reports. Credence
Publications contacted her as a result of her recent UK Times article (1)
which began thus: "Foot and mouth is as serious to animals as a bad
cold is to human beings. So why the concern?" Wood's research, when
taken in conjunction with research carried out by Credence Publications
makes it quite clear that FMD is not the vicious gremlin we have been led
to believe.
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- The Facts
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- So what is FMD? The current wisdom which we shall be
examining a little later, theorises that FMD is viral in nature. Symptoms
of FMD in livestock begin usually with a temperature, followed within 24
hours by the appearance of blisters and ulcerations on places such as the
tongue, lips, gums, dental pad, interdigital skin of the feet, bulbs of
the heels and milk teats. Occasionally, ulcerations appear inside the nostrils
or on the muzzle or vulva. Visually, these ulcerations are the equivalent
of large cold sores. The resultant illness and lameness causes decreased
appetite, a drop in milk yield, a drop in productivity, and of course,
increased care costs. Afflicted animals almost always recover, usually
within a week or two. Death occurs in only 5 percent of cases (2). And
the meat is fit to eat (3) .
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- (3) For much of the 19th century, FMD was common right
the way across the UK. In fact, it was endemic. But it did not destroy
farming. We lived with it. Our cattle became ill..and then they recovered.
Life continued on as normal. So why today's scenes of mass destruction?
Quite simply, it is because we are continuing to adhere to some woefully
errant farming policy instituted nearly 50 years ago. Says Wood: "The
instant destruction policy was implemented in the 1950's by the UK governing
bodies, as a result of growing pressure over the years from pedigree herd
owners, (rather than the more common meat and milk producers) who wished
to see the eradication of FMD. Continued promotion of the slaughter policy
by the UK authorities as the most effective way of dealing with foot and
mouth, eventually persuaded the continent and then the rest of the world
to follow suit. We instituted the policy, and now we have to live with
the results of that policy."
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- In those early years, FMD was as much a part of British
farming as bad weather, poor harvests and other afflictions affecting livelihood.
But in today's intensive farming climate, production and global reputation
is everything. Because of the UK's continued and, as we shall see, unfounded
insistence that FMD is highly infectious, and must be eradicated at all
costs, one whiff on the global food markets that UK herds have FMD leads
quite naturally to today's totally disproportionate scenes. If we are in
a pit, then it is a pit of our own making. And if this latest 'outbreak'
is to be referred to as a nightmare, then it is a nightmare brought about
by our own political and economic policies. The early zeal for the perfect
pedigree - a disease-free herd - is this same ideal not mirrored in today's
genome quest for a disease-free human race? It seems that the FMD 'instant
destruction' policy has its roots fair and square in the mistaken belief
that all illness and disease, even those considered minor and/or harmless,
can eventually be eradicated.
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- The cows, pigs and sheep dying today are not doing so
as a result of any illness. They are dying entirely at the hands of man.
The preliminary report on this latest FMD 'outbreak' submitted by Dr J.M.
Scudamore, UK Chief Veterinary Officer, to the OIE (Office International
des Epizooties) tells of 35 cases on three farms, no deaths occurring anywhere
from the actual disease, but 577 animals on those farms nevertheless instantly
destroyed. (4) Should we line up our children because they are coughing?
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- Fundamental Questions?
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- With the facts to hand regarding FMD, should we not begin
to ask some fundamental questions? Why can't our vital farming community,
and the public at large be given the necessary facts, and then more importantly,
the opportunity to question this instant destruction policy? But therein
lies the difficulty folks. "It would be very difficult to change it
now." Wood told us. "That would be to question the perceived
wisdom of the last 100 years." It is entrenched scientific error,
and intractable pride on behalf of the UK agricultural and governmental
bodies, that is the killer in our midst. A spokesperson from the diagnostic
department of Animal Health Trust who wished not to be named, stated "The
hype is all out of proportion. If the authorities just left the animals
alone to recover from FMD, this would make them healthy, and immune the
next time around."
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- Moving on from 'foot and mouth as common cold', what's
all this about FMD being viral in nature, being airborne, and sticking
to car tyres and Wellington boots? Apparently, the FMD virus is quite choosy,
being breathed out by pigs, but not breathed in by cats or dogs. It can
be hosted by horses, but to no ill-effect, and humans too can contract
the virus, suffering mild skin irritations. But is this pattern of disease
grounded in reality? Does it conform to a sensible pattern of disease?
Or are we once again just trusting the wisdom of the day? In attempting
to discover how these agencies arrive at a positive diagnosis of FMD, and
to try and get an explanation for the seemingly illogical nature of FMD
proliferation, it soon became clear that these questions were not at all
welcome, and some of those well-worn tiresome conventional 'dodging' techniques
very soon began to surface. Especially so, when questioned over the possibility
of mis-diagnosis.
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- Self-Serving Science
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- The blood test used to determine the presence of the
FMD virus is known as the ELISA test or enzyme linked immuno-absorbent
assay test. The test delivers the positive reading by detecting proteins
and antibodies in the blood, proteins and antibodies which are presumed
to be there as a result the presence of the virus. At no time is a virus
itself ever detected. No actual photograph exists anywhere of the FMD virus.
The picture you see below is the supposed FMD virus.on Pirbright's educational
page found at http://www.iah.bbsrc.ac.uk/iah_education/FMD.html.
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- The glowing picture is nothing more than what Pirbright
virologists think the virus might look like. There is no actual evidence
for its existence. The picture is a classic example of unproven science
posing as fact.. Like so many other viruses in the $multi-billion virus
industry, we have only innumerable artists' impressions to go by. And at
the foot of this page, you will see the link taking you to stunning evidenceshowing
that foot and mouth is an environmental condition, unrelated to any infectious
virus, airborne or otherwise. It is also very interesting to note that
Pirbright tell us there are seven different types of foot and mouth virus,
and therefore we must have seven different vaccines. http://www.iah.bbsrc.ac.uk/pid/fmd.html
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- This is unproven in-house science at its most self-serving.
For it very conveniently guarantees continued income for the vaccine manufacturers
and associated pharmaceutical spin-offs. We're being told this research
is bona fide and that various vaccines are all absolutely necessary. But
are we being told the truth? We accept the virus model and the solution
for its supposed eradication because that's what we're told. But there
are good grounds indeed for questioning the validity of this whole approach
to disease detection. As well as there being no proof for the virus, the
diagnostic tool to supposedly detect the supposed virus - the ELISA test
- comes to us with a very chequered history.
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- Faulty Testing Procedure?
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- In the realm of human medicine, ELISA is used extensively
to detect certain diseases, particularly HIV. And this same test is now
acknowledged to be responsible for delivering a very high number of 'false'
positive HIV diagnoses. Conventional medical literature lists some 60 different
conditions, unrelated to HIV that can elicit an HIV positive response,
including flu! (5) It is conflict of interests, huge pharmaceutical losses,
entrenched error and the threat of massive litigation that has so far stopped
this disastrous story from becoming more widely known. Back to the farmyard,
and we discover the animal kingdom is equally susceptible to foreign proteins
in the blood and heightened levels of antibody activity. The stress of
confinement alone can produce an immune response in an animal. Kelly Sapsford,
Operations Manager at Harlan Sera Labs, a serum and antibody manufacturing
company told us "Antibodies are not necessarily specific to one disease.
Picture a key that fits a certain lock. The key to that lock is not necessarily
unique. There may well be other locks out there that the key will fit.."
What minor illnesses are there in the animal kingdom that might elicit
the same immune response to FMD? And with all these farms being visited
at such lightning speed, what are the protocols being adhered to? Are they
being adhered to? Surely, we are allowed to know these things.
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- No Awkward Questions Allowed
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- The officials at Pirbright Animal Health Laboratory responsible
for managing this latest 'crisis', however think otherwise. No awkward
questions are entertained. Under specific instruction from management,
a Dr Tom Barrett at Pirbright told us that staff were not allowed to answer
any questions, except through the Medical Director. Numerous telephone
calls to MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries) produced the
same negative response, pointing us only to their website. Repeated attempts
to speak to somebody in authority at Pirbright finally located the Head
of Diagnostics, John Anderson. He informed us that whilst the ELISA tests
were manufactured 'in-house' "..of course, they were accurate.This
same pat answer is what was being delivered by the relevant authorities
as the accounts of HIV misdiagnosis began to surface.
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- Anderson then listed the other tests which are used in
conjunction with ELISA to supposedly confirm the presence of the virus.
Unfortunately, the confirmatory tests he mentioned are all equally susceptible
to error. And the fact that the Pirbright FMD tests are manufactured in-house
excludes them from that valuable check and balance system known as peer
review. When pressed on these points, Mr Anderson would not enter into
discussion. But then extracting qualifying information from governmental
bodies is never straightforward. Colin King, a spokesman from an independent
veterinary diagnostics company, stated; "The protocol information
and detail you seek will be almost impossible to come by. In peace time
as well as in war, these government agencies won't really tell you anything."
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- In summarising the current FMD 'crisis', this simple
extract from Abigail Wood's account of the 1920's Cheshire FMD outbreak
is most revealing. Trawled from Cheshire local newspapers available at
the Cheshire Records Office we read "Ministry teams were so far behind
in their slaughtering that on many farms the cows had recovered before
the slaughterers had arrived. Farmers looked at their now-normal cows in
bewilderment and asked "Was that it? Was that trivial illness what
all the fuss was about?" (6)
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- Until MAFF and other responsible agencies begin to answer
these questions, and until we, the general public cease to worship so unremittingly
at the altar of conventional medical science, this crisis (as with numerous
other iatrogenic, or doctor induced crises) will remain out of control
and on the rampage. For it is in researching this situation more carefully,
that we realise the only identifiable entities out of control and on the
rampage are our own ignorance of the facts and those official bodies conducting
the current slaughter. The fact that the latest news bulletins are reporting
that 'expert' intervention might eventually contain the crisis, must not
lull us into a false sense of security over their so-called 'expertise'.
There was nothing to worry about in the first place. From start to finish,
the whole affair has been an absolute disgrace.
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- Let's take another look at those headlines again:
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- CHIEF VET WARNS OF CATASTROPHE UK Telegraph 3-9-01
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- The foot and mouth crisis appears in danger of racing
out of control, despite assurances that the virus had been contained.
"The disease is going to last a long time." Said Jim Scudamore,
the chief Veterinary officer.
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- VETS FEAR BLACK MARKET SHEEP WILL SPREAD VIRUS UK Times,
3-9-01
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- Large tracts of the countryside may be no go areas for
months as foot and mouth threatens to spiral out of control. There are
now fears that the virus could infect 19 million breeding flocks, which
could carry disease antibodies after the outbreak is over..
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- NO END IN SIGHT TO FARM CRISIS UK Guardian 3-9-01
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- Britain's foot and mouth crisis has spread far further
than originally though and is moving rapidly from sheep to cattle..
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- What value do we now place on the above headlines? It
has been said that through people meeting people meeting people, each one
of us is just six handshakes away from a king.
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- Send this information to just six people. It will soon
find its mark. Contact your local paper. Contact your national paper. Contact
your MP, your senator, your governmental park and countryside officials.
This gross distortion of the truth must end immediately. This is an opportunity
to begin to expose the multitudinous vested interests negatively affecting
our democratic rights and our health.
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- Help put a stop to the current slaughter.
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- Since this posting, information has come to light, which
convincingly questions the 'foot and mouth as virus' hypothesis. Please
get the following:
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- Foot and Mouth Disease Questions http://www.whatareweswallowing.freeserve.co.uk/footquestions.htm
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- See also latest headline at http://195.172.106.165/news/story5.html
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- Michael Fordham, Chairman of East Sussex NFU, said that
it would be 'foolish ' to dismiss Mr Ransom's comments, but added that
farmers had no option but to go along with Government directives.
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- See also environment correspondent Geoffrey Lean's article
in the UK Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2001-03/plague040301.shtml
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- When the last glows of the burnt carcasses have died
away, ministers must build one more pyre, for MAFF itself, and the whole
misguided set of entrenched interests it represents.
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- For those who wish to see their local forests and public
walks reopened, readers are encouraged to contact their local council offices.
For Ashdown Forest , please go to the link below, and register your protest.
Let's keep our glorious Ashdown Forest OPEN!
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- http://www.eastsussexcc.gov.uk/env/foot&mouth.htm
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- References.
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- 1. UK Times, 1.3.2001
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- 2. Australian Animal Health Information Services. www.aahc.com.au
March 5, 2001 update.
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- 3. UK Times, ibid
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- 4. Office International des Epizooties http://www.oie.int/eng/info/hebdo/AIS_60.HTM#Sec2
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- 5. A more detailed account of the problems with ELISA
testing can be found at http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/cjtestfp.htm
and also at http://tomdavisbooks.com/headlines/hivdumbtest.html
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- 6. Ms Woods is soon to be releasing her own report on
FMD. Out of respect for copyright, the more detailed references from these
early newspapers have been withheld. They will be published in full in
Ms Wood's report.
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- Final thoughts from David Icke:
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- Foot and Mouth Disease is the UK's Newest PROBLEM.
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- Now the REACTION
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- Next the SOLUTION
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- The author, Steven Ransom is co-author of the book, "World
Without Aids", available at Credence Publications
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- Link URL for websites http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles3/footmouth.html
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of the author and Credence Publications
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