The Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Great Britain – A Political Joint Venture

GSt. While the discussion about combating foot-and-mouth merely revolves around the speed at which the culling of all the healthy animals within a 3 miles radius of any infected animal takes place, and while Moscow’s – sorry, Brussels’ central committee refuses to allow Britain to vaccinate, it is well worth casting an eye in the direction of those who stand to gain politically in this whole affair. Already some years ago, friends in England pointed out that when, as a result of American high technology, deep-seated changes in the world take place, it is advisable to ensure at an early enough stage that one is standing on the side of the winners and not the losers. However, we independent citizens in today’s world are not prepared to undermine the foundations of our democratic tradition, and in our view citizens’ equality is an unalterable fact. The result was that throughout Europe such sounds of shawms go unheard.

During the BSE crisis the way in which the British government and the urban elite behaved towards its farmers was inappropriate, to put it mildly. In recent years farmers, among whom the suicide rate is highest, have long deserved our wholehearted compassion, attention and support. Richard Rhodes’s book ‘Deadly Feasts’ showed how highly-qualified scientists, working intensively over a period of years, were unable to find the agent which caused BSE because in all probability this agent originated in a laboratory and was conceived in such a way as to make it untraceable. Anybody who has carefully read this book was automatically twice as vigilant when reading any article about a similar process. It is a fact that Ken Alibek in his book ‘Plague Wars. Keeping the Apocalypse on Ice’, which was about biological weapons in Russia, already taught us a valuable lesson – all the more so since similar things have been going on in the West.

Foot-and-mouth virus disappears from British military laboratory

For the last four weeks, people in Britain have begun to suspect that the outbreak of foot-and-mouth has not been purely coincidental. Due to this awareness a good deal more has come to light: a senior military source close to Porton Down admitted that already last year a phial containing the foot-and-mouth virus went missing following a routine audit last year. (cf. the article in The Sunday Express of 8 April, page 3 ‘Did a Stolen Virus Poison Our Farms?’) A test tube contained in a top-secret laboratory, where it is impossible even for a fly to enter and leave unnoticed, does not just suddenly grow legs.

Some German newspapers have ventured to say that the thief must be Saddam Hussein because America and England continue to wage war against him. The next large-scale bombing raids are already being carried out.

Spin doctors, though, had another version ready for the British public. The blame for the outbreak was put on a small filthy farm in Heddon-on-the-Wall in Northumberland. The spread of foot-and-mouth was then laid at the door of farmers and their families visiting one another. The idiotic measures taken by Tony Blair were of course blameless, for instance his mass burning of carcasses in open areas exposed to the wind, which encourages the spread of the virus beyond the immediate vicinity.

When this media operation no longer sufficed, a Chinese restaurant then became the scapegoat because it had apparently supplied slops to farmers, who had used it as pig swill instead of feeding their animals the EU-normed feed. However, the Chinese refused to swallow that one and promptly all closed their restaurants and organised a protest march on Westminster, forcing the government to retract their ludicrous claim. The agricultural minister was sent to officially state: ‘It’s untrue.’

Is genocide being planned?

It is interesting that other diseases like TB, Ebola, smallpox, anthrax, are apparently also held at the above-mentioned military high security laboratory. These diseases are all listed as substances for biological warfare. For European leftists, who used to be so adamant about peace, it is now time and opportunity to insist that the public be informed: which war are these substances being stored for, and why. Which country do they intend to use them against? It would be wise for Europeans to find answers to such questions in good time before these diseases are used against Europeans themselves, of whom, according to EU planning, there are millions that are ‘superfluous’, for instance eight of ten million Polish farmers.

Britain violated biological weapons’ convention
If a phial of foot-and-mouth disease is ‘lost’ from a laboratory for biological warfare (which anyway violates a particular international convention), the government must immediately inform the whole law-enforcement system, the secret service and the public prosecutor’s office, and Europol and Interpol called in on the case. The population in such a case would normally be requested to keep their eyes open and to report any information which might be of value. Crisis management teams would be formed so that they could directly act as soon as the disease broke out. The relevant experts, in the above case the vets and all farming specialists, would be properly briefed and consider appropriate protective measures for people and livestock.

In Switzerland everybody surely remembers what happened when lysteriosis was found in a Vacherin dairy in the Gruyere area. The whole population was immediately supplied with detailed information, all the Vacherin cheeses were confiscated and the dairy was closed and disinfected. The all-clear signal was only given after a thorough investigation had been made into the causes.

It is, of course, quite another matter if one’s own or an allied secret service has the phial in safe-keeping, and one of them ‘walks’ out of the laboratory on a mission: In such a case the disease will then appear weeks or months later in precisely the area designated. And then the entire government as well as the law-enforcement system would then behave in the same way as the three wise monkeys in antiquity: they will neither see, nor hear, nor say anything.

EU: Destruction of UK livestock farming
An informed source said that, during a meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers in 1998, the European Commission’s long-term plans had been disclosed. According to these plans, livestock farming in the UK would be abolished, and the UK would be converted to an area of arable farming only - and this would take place without consent of the British people! BSE and foot-and-mouth are destroying British livestock farming, and with it one of the pillars of the nation’s ability to live on its own produce. Eradicating farming means breaking the backs of the villages. The UK exports more meat than any other EU country. This meat market is worth £1.3bn annually. Why destroy such a profitable industry of a whole nation? Is the plan to grow GM crops on this arable land? Is the idea to feed the majority of the population on inferior and manipulated products, and only provide an elite with high-grade and organic foodstuffs?

This would fit in well with the plans of global players who envisage a 20:80 society in the future: a mere 20 % of the population, according to these cynical strategists, will be required for the production of sophisticated goods and services, and will have to be provided with expensive high-quality foodstuffs from organic farms. 80 %, however, will be looked upon as ‘superfluous’. For these people Monsanto, the American giant, will organise GM mass produced food. In Uganda – as African friends report – they have already experimented with gene-manipulated millet which with a second component, an inoculation, serves as a means to sterilise the population.

A CONTAGIOUS disease has broken out in a small community. No one can trace its origins. It was meant to have been eradicated years ago. The number of confirmed cases has jumped to 24. Officials insist they have it ‘under control’. Sound familiar? But the latest plague isn’t food and mouth: it’s tuberculosis. Nearly 100 schoolchildren in Leicester are thought to have been infected and thousands more are being checked. Doctors are considering a mass screening of neighbouring schools and families.

Source: The Daily Telegraph, 6 April 2001

Secret expert opinion used to bring about FMD-vaccination ban
The current method of dealing with foot-and-mouth is based on the EU’s 1990 ban on FMD-vaccination. This ban was not something that was thrashed out by all EU-membership candidates, and then decided upon by the people, nor was it recommended by the vets and epidemiologists in these countries. No, it is based on just one expert opinion, which was written by Martin Hugh-Jones 5 years after the last FMD-epidemic in 1967. This report has so far been kept secret. The author is not a nobody; he is an epidemiologist who emigrated from England to the United States in 1978 to work at the State University of Louisiana. He is currently Coordinator of the WHO Working Group on Anthrax Research and Control. In addition, he serves as Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Public Health. Hugh Jones is also an expert for biological warfare, and is one of the foremost authorities on anthrax, one of the best-known biological weapons. In 1979, he participated in the investigation of the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk. Anyone who was called upon to ‘manage’ a situation in the former USSR after an outbreak of anthrax caused by a spore emission from a biological warfare facility, presumably belongs to the British or American secret service. And how did the Soviet leadership solve the problem of the worried population at home and abroad? They placed the blame at the door of the innocent Russian people in the area and sent a number of them to prison for several years.

The way in which the UK has dealt with foot-and-mouth, farmers, farming and the supply of foodstuffs throughout Europe have been jeopardised. For this reason, Europeans everywhere have a right to the complete truth about the origin of the disease and its handling. The people in Europe have a right to truthful information.

Soft Stalinism

In the daily British press, it is not the protection of farming or the expression of sympathy for the rural population that is being given the greatest coverage. Instead, for weeks, the discussion centred about the date of the next parliamentary elections. This too smacks of ‘joint venture’: Tony Blair intends to set a date that leaves little time to disclose his ‘operation’, which might be detrimental to his carefully nurtured ‘image’. The Tories, on the other hand, hope to be able to dislodge him over his mistakes in handling the disease. In both cases it is the rural population that is being made to suffer.

It is revealing that precisely at this point in time the government has decided to rename the ‘Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food’ the ‘Ministry for Rural Affairs’. At first sight this might seem a rather irrelevant change of name, as did the changing of the Swiss Ministry of Defence (EMD) into the Ministry of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (VBS), where the idealised Federal Councillor Ogi was given free reign for his idiocies.

In addition to the above re-naming of the ministry in England, other ‘insignificancies’ have occurred in recent years. One example is the way in which Richard Sennett, supposedly the brightest philosopher America has produced, portrays the ‘society of the future’ – note as he defines it: Only the ‘urban citizens’, the high-tech inhabitants of the big cities, will have political rights. The rural population, the so-called inhabitants of the ‘rural parts’ of the world as Sennett calls them, will relapse into a state of ignorance and be plagued by disease as in the Middle Ages. Foodstuffs will be supplied by genetic engineering and agri-businesses on an industrial scale. Farmers will no longer be required.

Such theories violate all international conventions and treaties. They constitute a declaration of war against human rights, civilisation and the achievements of the Enlightenment. Interestingly, not long after Sennett had expressed his ideas, several German professors of sociology also put forward this very same concept at a series of lectures held at the University of St. Gall, Switzerland. Axel Honneth and Klaus Offe were in no way less explicit than Sennett. When asked in the discussion whether they would really want to give up the concept of equality of all people before the law, Offe agreed: ‘Yes, in a certain way this is what I mean.’ Such theories derive from the school of communist soviets, weekly disguised in modern socialist jargon. Anthony Giddens, Tony Blair’s personal philosopher, belongs to the same school. (The former president of the Swiss Liberal Democratic Party (FDP), Franz Steinegger, is also an admirer of Giddens possibly without ever having read one of his books.)

It is these very same ideas which have long been referred to as ‘soft Stalinism’ in Tony Blair and all these theorists, whereby ‘soft’ belittles the problem. What it really amounts to is Stalinism: citizens’ equality before the law, which is the foundation of democracy, is being done away with; certain sections of the population are being segregated to be subjected to separate settlements and emergency regulations; they will be governing people using arbitrary means, power and spin-doctor-dominated media instead of democratic decisions. The introduction of the Russian kolkhoses (collective farms) only came about by subjugating and politically crushing the independent farmers after a bitter struggle lasting years. What is soft about Blair’s course of action is the fact that this is not being done in such an obviously brutal manner.

In addition to BSE and foot-and-mouth in the UK, swine fever has now broken out. And as if that were not enough, tuberculosis has now been discovered among schoolchildren in Leicester. By Friday, 6 April, 24 cases had already been registered and it is suspected that another 100 children have been infected. If you were a power-hungry head of state, would you need more to quarantine off parts of the country with all the people there and place them under special regulations? Let us keep a vigilant eye on Tony Blair and his spin doctors. •

Swine fever again suspected in Great Britain

In Great Britain swine fever appears to have broken out again. The authorities have investigated a case on a livestock farm near Colchester in Essex. The Ministry of Agriculture said that the farm had been cordoned off and restrictions imposed. The result of the tests are expected in nine days.

Source: sda, 14 april 2001

‘Each infected animal is isolated from the rest of the herd and taken care of in the ‘sacred forest’, on top of a mountain, and given extracts of barks, acacia and roots. Within less than a month it is cured and well again.’

Source: a Masai in Kenya