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Will NorthCom take over in Swine Flu Outbreak?
Matthew Rothschild
The Progressive
Thursday, April 30, 2009
The swine flu outbreak raises a lot of fears.
Here’s one you might not have thought of yet: The Pentagon may be taking over more and more of our civil society in this crisis.
Back in 2002, President Bush created NorthCom, the Pentagon’s Northern Command, which has jurisdiction over the United States.
And NorthCom has been running preparedness drills in the event of a flu pandemic for at least the past three years.
Making things more alarming, NorthCom got assigned its own fighting unit six months ago—the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, which had spent much of the last five years battling things out in Iraq.
The assignment of that fighting unit alarmed the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). “This is a radical departure from separation of civilian law enforcement and military authority and could, quite possibly, represent a violation of law,” said Mike German, ACLU national security policy counsel.
Testifying in March, General Victor Renuart, head of NorthCom, said it would provide “assistance in support of civil authorities” during an epidemic. And, he added, “when requested and approved by the Secretary of Defense or directed by the President, federal military forces will contribute to federal support.” But he boasted: “USNorthCom does not wait for that call to action.”
He noted that NorthCom has prepared for a flu outbreak from Mexico. “Because Mexico is our neighbor and disasters do not respect national boundaries, we are focused on developing and improving procedures to respond to potentially catastrophic events such as pandemic influenza outbreak, mass exposure to dangerous chemicals and materials, and natural disasters,” he testified.
NorthCom also has a “private sector cell,” Renuart said in a talk to the Heritage Foundation on August 20, 2008. “We have great participation from industry and from other organizations around the country.”
One private sector group that has worked with the FBI and Homeland Security on pandemics is InfraGard. This is group of more than 30,000 businesspeople who have special access to confidential FBI information and may be assigned special—and lethal—duties in times of an emergency (See “The FBI Deputizes Business”).
An InfraGard chapter held a meeting at NYU Medical Center on February 21, 2007 on “Pandemic Preparedness Planning: the Case for Public-Private Collaboration”.
InfraGard also participated in a conference entitled “Surviving the Pandemic,” held in Madison, Wisconsin, October 12, 2006. That conference was co-sponsored by the Southeast Wisconsin Homeland Security Partnership, two centers at the University of Wisconsin, the Madison Area Technical College, Alliant Energy, and American Family Insurance.
InfraGard wants to be a player in pandemic response. “Utilization of their expertise will help local communities prepare for a possible pandemic event to ensure minimal disruption and quick recovery,” one InfraGard press release stated.
Whether and how InfraGard and NorthCom might be working together in this swine flu outbreak is unclear.
Similarly, it is unclear what actions NorthCom might take if an all-out pandemic ensues.
One last concern: George W. Bush bestowed upon the Presidency enormous powers, essentially to be in charge of every branch of government, as well as state and local and tribal governments and the private sector, in the event of a “catastrophic emergency.” (See National Security Presidential Directive 51)
We’re in a public health emergency now. It’s not “catastrophic” yet. But it appears to be up to the President—and the President only—to make that determination, according to the directive.
Congress needs to hold hearings on NorthCom, InfraGard, and National Security Presidential Directive 51.
We must insist on our rights, even in emergencies.
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April 30th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Prediction:
If this gets out of control in Mexico, I see a mass exodus across the border into the US because desperate people will flee here for medical assistance. We will then see a military operation to round up illegal Mexicans to quarntine them. BUT, wouldn’t the government then declare martial law because of the possibilities of infection amongst the American population? I smell a rat!!!!
Newspeak Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Take the Wall Street Journal poll and be surprised! Affluent readers unite!
Look for: # How’s Obama doing? Vote:A | B | C | D | F
http://online.wsj.com/public/p.....-days.html
A huge number of people are voting F!
sidd Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
it’s freaking the wall street big-banker-republican journal how do you THINK they’d rate a democrat you retard?
Joe Sucker Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
They are under the control of the goverment who has already taken over. DUH!
Joe Sucker Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Stupid Question
solfeed Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
everything that happens in this world on a macro scale for the most part is a staged fraud.. http://www.dailymotion.com/use.....taged_news
April 30th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Prediction:
If this gets out of control in Mexico, I see a mass exodus across the border into the US because desperate people will flee here for medical assistance. We will then see a military operation to round up illegal Mexicans to quarantine them. BUT, wouldn’t the government then declare martial law because of the possibilities of infection amongst the American population? I smell a rat!!!!
April 30th, 2009 at 10:41 am
This is the official document which our governments should be now following:
North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza
Developed as Part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
August 2007
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7890.....-Influenza
Executive Summary introduction:
“At the March 2006 Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) summit in Cancun, the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States committed to developing a comprehensive, coordinated and science-based North American approach to prepare for and manage avian and pandemic influenza.
The North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza outlines how Canada, Mexico and the United States intend to work together to combat an outbreak of avian influenza or an influenza pandemic in North America. The Plan complements national emergency management plans and builds upon the core principles of the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, the standards and guidelines of the World Organization for
Animal Health (OIE), the World Health Organization (WHO)—including the revised International Health Regulations, as well as the rules and provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement.”
April 30th, 2009 at 10:47 am
NORTHCOM WILL INDEED TAKE CONTROL AND MANY PEOPLE SICK OR NOT WILL BE CONFINED DENIED CONSTITUTION RIGHTS AND ACCUSED OF BEING TERRORISTS IN PART THANKS TO THE DUMB JANET NEOPOLITICO, THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC SPREADER. CLOSE THE MEXICAN BORDERS. THIS IS AMERICA NOT MEXICO. YOU ARE OVERLOADING THE HOSPITALS OF TEXAS WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS. OH I FORGOT JANET FAVORS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND DRUG CARTELS OVER PATIROTIC AMERICAN CITIZENS. DO YOU FINALLY SEE WHAT WACKO LIBERALISM CAN DO TO A NATION. IT IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN A FORERUNNER TO MARXISM AND CIVIL WARS.
cheeseburger Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 11:12 am
…and right-wing ‘privatization’ leads to what? Civil war? Class envy? Economic lopsidedness? Get over yourself, dude. Lay off the comic books.
Tell me. What is the ‘mark of the beast’ right now? Proctor and Gamble deodorants? Small Pox vaccine? Debit cards? Social Security numbers? Votor cards? Driver’s licenses? Rfid chips? You people have been spreading this shit for decades and the sky is still above…and it’s still blue…B@@!
Beck smacker Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
You are too young to remember when the sky was navy blue, not pale from chem. trails. Biden told Obama he would have to deal with putting the RFID in people during his first administration. That tells me enough about the mark.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:49 am
The answer is yes.
Northcom is primed ~
Weben Hadd Reply:
May 1st, 2009 at 5:27 am
“Can’t let a good crisis go to waste” … Who said that???
April 30th, 2009 at 10:52 am
ORGANIZATIONS LIKE CODE PINKO HAVE PUT INCOMPETANTS IN ALL LEVELS OF MAJOR GOVERNEMET ORGANIZATIONS FOR THEIR COMMUNIST AGENDA. LITTLE DO THEY KNOW THAT WHEN COMMUNISM TAKES OVER AND THEIR IS NO MORE NEED FOR ELECTIONS AND USEFUL IDIOT VOTES THAT THESE GROUPS WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST TO BE SENT TO FEMA CAMPS FOR SPECIAL LOVING CARE. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT RUSSIA OR CHINA OR VENEZULA TOLERATE LIBERAL SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS? AND WHY NOT? ANSWER: THEY DESTROY THE INTEGRETY OF THEIR ARMIES. SO VOTE YOURSELF RIGHT INTO SUICIDE CLOWNS.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:07 am
We knew this was coming all all along…HOly shit…Alex Jones is dead…they got him…B@@! Awwww, shit. There are time zones. He’s not really dead. He’s just a few hours behind the rest of us. No matter what happens, I’m prepared to say I told you so. Fema camps? Told you. Pandemics? Told you. Intentional food shortage? Told you. Chemtrails making us sterile? Told you. Military roundups? Told you. NWO takeover? Told you. Aliens in your closet, hiding with condoms in hand…just waiting till you fall asleep? Told you. Lizard people posing as gasoline attendants and crossing guards secretly feasting on blonde children? Told you. Obama running naked through the streets of Chicago chanting, “Death to America”? Told you.
You know what? No matter what happens you people ‘knew this was coming’. Truth is, when anything happens, you should be saying, ‘knew this was coming, but the other 8,000 things I knew were coming… didn’t come.’
CheeseBurglar Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Preach it brother. That is so right on. When whatever threat or event passes, it never gets mentioned again. “I was wrong” is something rarely said.
Beck smacker Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
One can only wish your father hadn’t cum cheeseburglar.
dick 467 Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
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lets go troops lets go troops wake the fuck up lets go lets go, this bitches can’t get away with this. I will giev u nanomask with bio suits and lets do it for FREEDOOMMM this bastards will fucking pay
MARK OF THE BEAST Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
HEY CHEESE DICK,
ONE DAY YOU WILL PRAY THAT YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN SOMETHING. YOU ARE THE PERFECT PRODUCT OF THE RETROGRADE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND BRAINWASHED BY THE TALKING HEADS AND EMPTY SKIRTS IN MAIN STREAM MEDIA. MUSOULINI LOVED USEFUL IDIOT VOTERS LIKE YOU. IT TOOK HIM FAR, AS DID THE USEFUL IDOTS THAT ELECTED HITLER AND SUPPORTED STALIN. HE WHO KNOWS NOT HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:07 am
http://chatroll.com/infowars
April 30th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
In response to your Braveheart quote. “Armagh Degras, Huu, Huu, Huuu, You Bas$$%#s!”
But I am not going to moon them.
Prophet Eric
April 30th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Has this news been broke?
http://news.bostonherald.com/n.....ormat=text
Databases, fines, intrusion on private property. WTF! I emailed this to aaron, anyone calling alex with this?
April 30th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
http://www.businessandmedia.or.....42317.aspx
read that….
duke of omaha Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Maxwell, that sounds about right. A lot to do about nothing.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
No dout this so called pandemic was planned !!!!!!!
KenLizard Reply:
May 1st, 2009 at 6:32 am
Maybe we should call it a Plandemic !
April 30th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
WHEN THE MEXICANS COME STORMING ACROSS THE BORDER DON’T DO THE FOLLOWING
1. If you own a 1970’s truck, don’t wear a bright white cowboy hat and put a Corona beer in the cup holder. Then roll down the window and yell “ya can’t catch fuckin swine flu in a truck, while waving your arms . The police take notice when you do this.
2. While at the supermarket, don’t buy chili peppers, refried beans, or taco hard shell’s.
Especially don’t by Maria’s frozen enchiladia’s in bulk. Security is watching and will follow you home.
3. This coming weekend don’t go to the Mexican holiday feista with the mariachi music, this is a magnet for homeland security spies who want to quantine you.
4. And finally when at home don’t watch the “Selena” movie on EnCore because it’s been said if you watch that movie more than 3 times you will be on the hot list as a probable Mexican with swine flu and ready for the barbedwire fences.
DErAngeD Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
heh heh
LittleTurd Reply:
May 1st, 2009 at 8:41 am
Why would a Government that wnats illegal immigrants in this country, has a record of giving them amnesty ,has kept organized labor out of all retail stores, including
Walmart , Target , Home Depot etc. etc. etc. and wants to to have a North American
Union want to stop Mexicans . The truth is they don’t and they don’t even want the Border
closed with thier own fake pandemic. The people who should be scared are the white
cowboys who want a Constitutional Gov.
cheap un-organized labor is so sweet and easy to control any rich bitch in the world
rush to protect Mexican immigrants and then hide under the racism banner.
April 30th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Northcom? LOL. Just wait until May 31st.
STARMAN Reply:
May 1st, 2009 at 10:40 am
WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN ON MAY 31st. ?
April 30th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
They couldn’t stop jumbo jets with billion dollar equipment, they would be my first choice for
stopping something you can only see under a microscope.
Default Reply:
April 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Anyone else notice the author of this article is
Mathew Rothschild?
What’s up with that?
April 30th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Interesting about the meeting in Madison WI and the two “centers” at the University of Wisconsin that supported it. A couple of Japanese microbiologists at UW have been working on a new virus has similar characteristics to the current swine flu virus.
April 30th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
People LETS GO FIRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FIRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lets go troops lets go troops wake the fuck up lets go lets go, this bitches can’t get away with this. I will giev u nanomask with bio suits and lets do it for FREEDOOMMM this bastards will fucking pay
April 30th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
UW SCIENTISTS FIND DEADLY FLU GENES THREE GENES CAN MAKE A FLU VIRUS AS DEADLY AS THE 1918 SPANISH FLU VIRUS THAT KILLED UP TO 50 MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE.(FRONT)
Article from:The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) Article date:December 30, 2008 More results for: flu virus Madison WI japan | Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Capital Newspapers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
Byline: DAVID WAHLBERG dwahlberg@madison.com 608-252-6125
Three key genes can turn a regular flu virus into a super killer like the strain that devastated the world 90 years ago and one that could come again, UW-Madison researchers found in a study involving ferrets.
The discovery by a team led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka could help scientists better recognize new flu strains capable of causing a global epidemic, or pandemic, and develop drugs to ward off any kind of flu, the researchers said.
“These findings may help us identify virulence factors in other emerging pandemic viruses and could accelerate the development of new antiviral drugs…”
April 30th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
eucalyptus kills influenza A, B, adenovirus, avian bird flu, and clostridium.
it will most likely kill this flu too. also epazote will kill all of the above except clostridium.
also boneset kills all the above but clostridium.
so basically with these three there isnt a flu(virus) on this planet that that we cant beat.
knowledge is power. if u want the power in your hands order the book:
The Cure and Prevention of all Cancers by hulda regher clark
she has been a dr. of cell physiology and biology for over 50 years and she works with frequencies(the most accurate testing method Period!)
she has been attacked by the government for years. she tells u how to build the machines to heal yourself out of radio shack parts. and to build a machine to be able to test everything yourself.
good luck in staying healthy and dont forget the eucalyptus tea!
5 long leaves or 10 short leaves
a small peice of bark (if possible)
2 and 1/2 cups water
bring to a boil
let cool and the flu will be dead n gone within two days!!!!!!!!
April 30th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
walmart, academy have limited there sales on ammo, there was a sign saying ther reserve the right to sell or deny certain amount of ammo, walmart had a sign that you could only by so many boxes at a timer per week, Whats up with that shit?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:37 am
CREATING A VIRUS THAT: TURNS YOUR OWN BODY INTO A BIO-WEAPON
TO JUSTIFY PUTTING PEOPLE INTO QUARANTINE,
A SATANIC WAY OF GETTING RID OF SOME DISSIDENTS
May 1st, 2009 at 9:31 am
POLL SAYS ABAMA GETS 75% F F F F F F F F F F F
OBAMA SUX
May 1st, 2009 at 9:32 am
I’ve had ammo for the last 10 years cause I knew this crap was coming…………………………..
May 1st, 2009 at 9:33 am
Lock & load within 6 months………….
Anyone wanna wager that ??????????
May 1st, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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