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Thus the attention swinging to the "CAP +++" fleet of ships. Panama Canal Zone at Rodman/Balboa up to Acajutla El Salvador to Corinto Nicaragua to Lazaro Cardenas Mexico to Long Beach to Oakland then back south again. Merchie ship scheduling with boats in same colors with different operators going to places (noticed a lot of in/out of port during darkness) that seem a bit off.
Lyme Disease on Plum Island: Fringe Conspiracy Theory or Government Cover-up?
By Smaranda Dumitru
As an animal disease center Plum Island has been the focus of many dark government conspiracies, from top secret biological weapon experimentation during the Cold War to the working ground for Nazi scientists recruited after World War II.
Perhaps scientific experimentation mixed with government classification is just a hotbed for saucy conspiracies, or maybe there is more to Plum Island than we suspect.
A more recent theory is that Lyme disease escaped from Plum Island, which may be the most plausible conspiracy theory yet. The theory went mainstream in 2004 with Michael C. Carroll’s book, Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory.
Plum Island is located off the coast of Long Island, New York. It was used as a military base during the Spanish-American war and in 1954 was turned into a government animal disease center.The center was established to study foot-and-mouth disease in cattle, a highly contagious disease that is rare in humans but can ravage farms and the livestock industry.
While the center was run by the United States Department of Agriculture, in 2002 during talks of selling the island it was transferred to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
The reason some believe Lyme disease escaped Plum Island is because the island is located just a few miles off the coast of Lyme, Connecticut, which is where the first outbreak of Lyme was observed in 1975. While scientists say that all animals on the island are killed to prevent the possible spread of diseases, conspiracy theorists argue that birds regularly fly between the island and the mainland and thus are able to spread any diseases they may pick up.
“I don’t know if Lyme came from Plum Island,” said April Ferguson*, who is a chief strategy officer for a Hudson Valley policy-oriented think tank, “but it’s weird that no one wants to talk about it, doctors are scared to treat and diagnose it, [and] the government doesn’t talk about it.”
Ferguson started considering a link between Lyme disease and Plum Island after she saw a press release describing how the Centers for Disease Control were closing a Texas A & M University biodefense lab due to outbreaks of Brucella and Coxiella burnetii. Brucella and Coxiella burnetii are both tick-borne bacterial pathogens. This led Ferguson to wonder about Plum Island. Both the lab at Plum Island and the one at Texas A&M are Biosafety Level 3 labs and study similar infectious diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza, and Rift Valley fever.
https://sites.newpaltz.edu/ticktalk/social-attitudes/story-by-smaranda-dumitru/
Gets better, wikipedia about the island mentions HRC. Dammit Janet!
In response to disease outbreaks in Mexico and Canada in 1954, the Army gave the island to the Agriculture Department to establish a research center dedicated to the study of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle.[1]
The island was opened to news media for the first time in 1992.[2] In 1995, the Department of Agriculture was issued a $111,000 fine for storing hazardous chemicals on the island.[2]
Local Long Island activists prevented the center from expanding to include diseases that affect humans in 2000, which would require a Biosafety Level 4 designation; in 2002, Congress again considered the plan.[1]
The Wall Street Journal reported in January 2002 that many scientists and government officials wanted the lab to close, believing that the threat of foot-and-mouth disease was so remote that the center did not merit its $16.5 million annual budget.[1] In 2002, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center was transferred from the United States Department of Agriculture to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
In 2003, a whistleblower who voiced concerns about safety at the facility was fired by the contractor he worked for. He had discussed his concerns with aides to Senator Hillary Clinton.[4] A National Labor Relations Board judge found that the contractor, North Fork Services, had discriminated against the whistleblower.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center
Boatfag just gets into more shiznit so here: no traffic around Plum Island with tracks less than four hours old.
Trifecta bet. War (nuclear) Famine (no beef, chicken or turkey and too many do not know how to do venison and would never think squirrel) Pestilence (ebola or some other virulent shit coming across the Border) while sitting in the DUMBs waiting for the all clear.
REVERIE continues to report herself via AIS so either she has shore power connected or I really need to get some batteries like hers.
The photo posted tonight does not seem to match the list photos for REVERIE whose last voyage was to Alamitos Bay on 23 September 2018. Tonight's pic was a larger superstructure or am I just tired? If same boat, ok. If different boat, where is the one seen here?
Yacht WHITE RABBIT is no longer hanging around Turkey. She's been around Croatia recently.
OOCL BELGIUM also has orange hull/white superstructure but notice really big OOCL along the sides, beige funnel with company insignia instead of band. Makes me wonder if the "CAPs" are supposed to look like OOCL ships at a distance?
until later anons, boatfag is going to batten down the eyelids for a while.