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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on September 18, 2008, 03:44:49 PM
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cui bono (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 08:04 PM
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***BIOLOGICAL WMD LAB IN GALVESTON***
Advertisements [?]Edited on Wed Sep-17-08 08:31 PM by cui bono
Just learned about this from a friend on a gaming site who is a Houston resident. He posted the bio lab info but also mentioned many bodies washing up on shore...
He posted:
This is NOT good my friends. I talked to a coworker and she told me a friend of hers talked to a doctor from the area. Doctor told her that there is a media black out and that bodies are washing onshore that could surpass Katrina. I think I'm going to be sick. There's more. Seems the black out is not just for the bodies, but also because there was some kind of Bio Lab there. See the link.
http://blessingsblessings.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/17...
I'm going home...I'm feeling ill right about now.
I'm hearing about entire families getting wiped out.
(emphasis added)
From bio lab link (the whole article is worth a read):
Amidst the tragedy arises a new concern.
We now know of a facility euphemistically called the "University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston" (UTMB), whose website proclaims, "An academic health center dedicated to educating science professionals and researchers....solving biomedical puzzles through research...", that contains a Level-IV Bio Lab, one of only five in the United States. Level 4 is the highest bio-hazard level, and the most dangerous. Even the prestigious National Research Council criticized a federal government analysis that concluded that these labs pose no health threat to heavily populated communities, like Boston's South End and Galveston. One cannot but wonder what sort of demented individual or group would advocate such a facility anywhere near a heavily populated area, much less one on a barrier island in a flood plane and hurricane-prone region.
A Level 4 Bio-hazard Lab routinely handles agents comprising biological weapons of mass destruction. The NRC report states the U.S. government "... failed to adequately consider the dangers of working with the world's deadliest germs, including Ebola and plague, in the middle of a congested urban neighborhood." Such a facility is in an area of residential structures that suffered water seven feet deep in the first floor, not to mention the high winds and towering waves. The official response to inquiry is that only "minor" damage was sustained, but the entire complex has been taken over by the military, and no reporters have been allowed near the labs.
To put this in perspective, consider the lab announcement from the University website:
"The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is the site of the $167 million facility. Of the total 83,000-square-foot building, 12,362 square feet will be devoted to biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) research.
BSL-4 space is secure for work with "dangerous and exotic agents that pose a high individual risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections and life-threatening disease," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among BSL-4 safeguards are special air seals and air ducts to and from the lab, individual air supplies for researchers, required personal protection suits for workers, and numerous levels of security for entry. Such labs study diseases including anthrax, Ebola, SARS, and others."
http://blessingsblessings.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/17...
rsmith6621 (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 08:06 PM
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1. Did He Confirm 900 bodies
:lmao: Someone's dissing The1inone.
UP brings ...well something ... to the table.
undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 08:41 PM
Response to Reply #6
18. Ft Dietrick is in a heavily populated area.
Edited on Wed Sep-17-08 08:42 PM by undergroundpanther
Fort Detrick is located in Frederick, Maryland, in the heart of Frederick County, the third fastest growing county in Maryland. Fort Detrick is the center of the biomedical technology growth that has occurred in the county. Fort Detrick is located approximately one hours drive from Washington D.C. metro area and Baltimore, Maryland, easily accessible by major interstate highways.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-de...
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The psychopath pigs running this government do not like us plebeians,they however do love our cheap labor making them rich, and abusing us because they think they can..They put bio-weapons labs where people are because the public can become unwitting test subjects.
http://www.americasveterans.org/news/082503b.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4024374
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The last I heard is 51 confirmed deaths from Ike. Level IV containment centers are probably safer than walking around any hospital with sick people in it.
They don't mention Plum Island? At one time, it was rumored to be a center for biological warfare.
At the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has an important job.
We work to protect farm animals, farmers and ranchers, the nation's farm economy and export markets... and your food supply.
Plum Island is located off the northeastern tip of New York's Long Island. USDA activities at Plum Island are carried out by scientists and veterinarians with the department's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
We're proud of our role as America's first line of defense against foreign animal diseases.
We're equally proud of our safety record. Not once in our nearly 50 years of operation has an animal pathogen escaped from the island.
In 2003 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joined us on the island, taking responsibility for the safety and security of the facility.
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Atlanta...CDC....uh..... that don't count, they're southern racist redneck republicans.
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OMG! A friend of a friend who knows this doctor that thinks there might be some bodies, but he can't confirm it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:overreaction: :ohnoes:
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This is classic.
From the op...
cui bono (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 08:04 PM
Original message
***BIOLOGICAL WMD LAB IN GALVESTON***
Advertisements [?]Edited on Wed Sep-17-08 08:31 PM by cui bono
Just learned about this from a friend on a gaming site who is a Houston resident. He posted the bio lab info but also mentioned many bodies washing up on shore...
He posted:
Quote
This is NOT good my friends. I talked to a coworker and she told me a friend of hers talked to a doctor from the area.
Then this response..
MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 10:33 PM
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28. No, No, No, No
man don't do this, it makes us look stupid. I worked there for 13 years. That lab was decontaminated and all the material was properly secured. Believe me, I know. I once worked in the department there that did the securing.
Which brought a reply from the op that has to go down in history as one of the most foolishly ironic ever,given the original premise..
cui bono (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-18-08 03:38 PM
Response to Reply #28
31. link?
That's not mentioned in the story, though I suppose it could be true. But what reason is there for me to take your word for it? I have no idea who you are. (that's not meant to be a personal jab, but this is a public internet message board you know)
However, what is definitely true is there is a media blackout. And I'm quite certain there is a damn good reason that BushCo has ordered it and I'm not going to just accept what the republicans in charge tell me.
It does not make anyone look stupid to try to find out the truth. Stupid in this day and age is accepting what BushCo says without questioning it. As bad as our media is to us they are not even being allowed to get any info at this point. That should tell you something right there.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
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I'm surprised one of the dummies haven't connected UTMB Hospital Galveston providing medical care to Texas Department of Criminal Justice Inmates to the existance of a Biolab ::)
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"University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston" (UTMB)
What a bunch of retards. UTMB is a great medical school...turning out really good doctors. My late uncle Jim graduated for there many years ago and spent almost 40 years as a family practicioner.
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WTF?!?!?!
Bush is passing up a perfectly good massive natural diaster to suspend elections and declare MARSHALL law.
What @#$%ing moran!
Someone get Karl on the phone to hand that rube his marching orders.
We should be killing minorities in the street with Blackwater mercenaries, not staging bogus Wall Strret collapses to distract the sheeple!!!!!
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WTF?!?!?!
Bush is passing up a perfectly good massive natural diaster to suspend elections and declare MARSHALL law.
What @#$%ing moran!
Someone get Karl on the phone to hand that rube his marching orders.
We should be killing minorities in the street with Blackwater mercenaries, not staging bogus Wall Strret collapses to distract the sheeple!!!!!
Calm, my children. This is just the beginning of the Storm Season...
Ike was simply a test...
[cue music: 'That's no moon...it's a spacestation!']
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WTF?!?!?!
Bush is passing up a perfectly good massive natural diaster to suspend elections and declare MARSHALL law.
What @#$%ing moran!
Someone get Karl on the phone to hand that rube his marching orders.
We should be killing minorities in the street with Blackwater mercenaries, not staging bogus Wall Strret collapses to distract the sheeple!!!!!
It worked, didn't it?
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This is NOT good my friends. I talked to a coworker and she told me a friend of hers talked to a doctor from the area.....
:yawn:
Where's the clicker....
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OMG! A friend of a friend who knows this doctor that thinks there might be some bodies, but he can't confirm it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:overreaction: :ohnoes:
Exactly. :thatsright:
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OMG!
LOLOLOL!
deidara (8 posts) Thu Sep-18-08 08:17 PM
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43. Just heard from a friend...
...of my hairdresser's 2nd cousin's aunt.
This is what the survivors look like now:
(http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/mutants4.jpg)
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OMG!
LOLOLOL!
deidara (8 posts) Thu Sep-18-08 08:17 PM
Response to Original message
43. Just heard from a friend...
...of my hairdresser's 2nd cousin's aunt.
This is what the survivors look like now:
(http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/mutants4.jpg)
:lmao: :rotf:
Too few posts, gonna get TS'd.......................