The Food and Mouth outbreak has led to a lot of questions, some of which are making the authorities a little uncomfortable. The following is a classic piece of disinformation and as such it's instructive to read. If nothing else it's a lesson in how to see through disinformation; it blends truth with half-truths and categorical lies, it feeds suspicion rather than answers questions and when it does answer anything it does so with downright lies.

The powers that be know that suspicions are growing over the FMD outbreak and this is their attempt to protect themselves and confuse matters still further.

Finally it should be noted that yours truly recently had a revealing conversation with a journalist from the Express Group of papers, the very group of papers from which the following was extracted.

During the recent court case over Richard Tomlinson's book I phoned the Express and asked whether they were aware of his testimony over Princess Diana's death. When pressed, one of the paper's senior journalists waffled on about "freedom of speech" and "press integrity." Which all sounds very laudable, but guess what?

They know about Tomlinson's affidavit.

So while they may talk about "press freedom" they won't publish his affidavit or even mention it; and these are the very people who are supposed to inform public opinion. Is it any wonder that journalists have been referred to as "intellectual whore's"? With such depths of hypocrisy and self-deceit you don't need censorship; the journalists will do it themselves and still expect prizes and prizes for their "journalistic integrity." ( My comments in brackets, Rixon.)

STOLEN FOOT-AND-MOUTH VIRUS 'RELEASED DELIBERATELY'

The foot-and-mouth outbreak could have been started deliberately by someone who stole a test-tube of the virus from a laboratory.

The Sunday Express says a container of foot-and-mouth virus went missing from a secret Government lab at Porton Down in Wiltshire two months before the crisis began. (Porton Down is the main British bacteriological weapons centre.)

The disappearance was discovered during a routine audit of the sensitive unit, which also houses smallpox, TB, anthrax and Ebola. The newspaper says there are rumours the missing test-tube could have been taken by an animal rights activist. ( No proof, the papers claim is based on "rumours", as it openly admits. Thirty years ago they would have blamed a communist but today an animal rights activist is a convenient scapegoat.)

The paper quotes a 'senior military source close to Porton Down' as saying: "A phial appears to have gone missing from one of the labs following a routine audit last year. (No proof again, so we just have to take the papers word that their "source" was who they claim he was.)

"Ministry officials were informed immediately and an investigation was launched initially by Special Branch and then by MI5, who are interested in the activities of animal rights protesters." (Ah yes, those nasty animal rights people again.)

It says questions will be tabled in parliament about the Porton Down link this week. A Department of Health spokesman wouldn't comment but the paper said an agriculture ministry spokesman said the matter was being investigated.

The paper also claims it has seen documents confirming some sheep carried the virus long before the outbreak was confirmed on February 20. According to a Welsh vet, it was in Wales as early as January, says the paper. (A full month before U.S. Government simulations of the disease were carried out. See:
http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=7667 )

Timber merchants say they were approached by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in early February to supply wood for pyres. Agriculture minister Nick Brown insisted this was part of a "regular contingency planning exercise". (Nick Brown is amongst other things a self-confessed homosexual; just the sort of person who can be blackmailed and controlled by others working to a hidden agenda.)

He told the paper: "There are a number of urban legends doing the rounds that the ministry knew about this disease before. That is not true."
Last updated: 10:43 Sunday 8th April 2001

Finally I feel that I should apologise for comparing main-stream media journalists to whores. That is an insult to working girls the world over. Sorry girls.