http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2007/107_virus.html


Bacteria-Eating Virus Approved as Food Additive

By Linda Bren

Not all viruses harm people. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a mixture of viruses as a food additive to protect people. The additive can be used in processing plants for spraying onto ready-to-eat meat and poultry products to protect consumers from the potentially life-threatening bacterium Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes).

The viruses used in the additive are known as bacteriophages. Bacteriophage means "bacteria eater." A bacteriophage, also called a phage (pronounced fayj), is any virus that infects bacteria.

Consuming food contaminated with the bacterium L. monocytogenes can cause an infectious disease, listeriosis, which is rarely serious in healthy adults and children, but can be severe and even deadly in pregnant women, newborns, older people, and people with weakened immune systems. Pregnant women are about 20 times more likely than other healthy adults to get listeriosis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Listeriosis can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or death of a newborn baby.

People with listeriosis have fever and muscle aches, and sometimes an upset stomach, nausea, and diarrhea. If the infection spreads to the nervous system, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, or convulsions can occur.

The CDC estimates that about 2,500 people become seriously ill with listeriosis each year in the United States. Of these, about 500 die.

Cooking can kill L. monocytogenes, but many ready-to-eat foods, such as hot dogs, sausages, luncheon meats, cold cuts, and other deli-style meats and poultry, may become contaminated within the processing plant after cooking and before packaging. Unlike fresh meat and poultry, the ready-to-eat products can be consumed without reheating, so the L. monocytogenes survive and are ingested.

"L. monocytogenescan continue to thrive even in refrigerated conditions," says Capt. Andrew Zajac, a food safety expert and acting director of the Division of Petition Review within the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). "If a food product contaminated with L. monocytogenesis bought by a consumer and brought home and refrigerated, the bacteria can continue to multiply."
How Bacteriophages Work

Bacteriophages are found in the environment. "We're routinely exposed to bacteriophages," says Zajac. "They are found in soil and water, and they are part of the microbial population in the human gut and oral cavity."

Bacteriophages infect only bacteria, says Zajac. "They don't infect plant or mammalian cells." Thousands of varieties of phages exist, and each one infects only one type or a few types of bacteria. The particular phages approved as a food additive are very specific to Listeria, says Zajac. "They'll only thrive if Listeria are present."

The type of phage that was approved is lytic, which means that the phage destroys its host during its life cycle without integrating into the host genome. This type of phage works by attaching itself to a bacterium and injecting its genetic material into the cell. The phage takes over the metabolic machinery of the bacterium, forcing it to produce hundreds of new phages and causing the bacterial cell walls to break open. This process kills the bacterium and releases many new phages, which seek out other bacteria to invade and repeat the cycle.

"The process continues until all host bacteria have been destroyed," says Zajac. "Then the bacteriophages cease replicating. They need a host to multiply and will gradually become inactive when they lose the host."
Approval Process for Food Additives

To market a new food additive, a manufacturer must petition the FDA for its approval. The petition must provide convincing evidence that the proposed additive performs as it is intended and will not cause harmful effects when consumed.

If an additive is approved, the FDA issues a regulation that includes information on the types of foods in which the additive can be used and maximum amounts to be used. The regulation also provides the additive's identity and specifications on purity, which will ensure that the additive used in food is the same substance that was evaluated and approved by the FDA.

Once a food additive is approved, any company can use the additive, says Zajac, as long as it meets the conditions in the regulation.

In response to a petition submitted by industry, the FDA published a regulation in August 2006 permitting the use of a Listeria-specific bacteriophage preparation on ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.

The preparation combines six different phages that have been shown to be effective against 170 different strains of L. monocytogenes. Multiple phages are used so that if the L. monocytogenes develop resistance to several phages, the remaining ones can still destroy the bacteria.

The FDA must approve any additive before it can be used in food. When an additive is to be used on meat or poultry products, as with this one, both the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are involved in the approval. The FDA evaluates the safety of the ingredient for its intended use. At the same time, the USDA evaluates the ingredient's suitability.

The FDA's food additive regulations define safety as "a reasonable certainty that the substance is not harmful under the intended conditions of use." The FDA's CFSAN determined that the phage preparation does not pose any safety concerns based, in part, on published reports submitted by the petitioner on the results of the use of phages in animal and human studies.

The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) evaluated the bacteriophage preparation's suitability. "Suitability establishes that the use of a substance is effective in performing the intended purpose of use and at the lowest level necessary for particular types of products," says Robert C. Post, Ph.D., director of the FSIS' Labeling and Consumer Protection Staff. In addition, suitability is an assurance that the use of the additive will not result in a product that is unfit for human consumption (adulterated) or one that misleads consumers. Consumers would be misled if, for example, the additive makes a product "appear to be a better value than it actually is or it masks spoilage," says Post.

The FSIS evaluated data submitted by the petitioner to ensure suitability for a number of ready-to-eat products, such as sausages, turkey, soups, stews, hot dogs, bologna, Vienna sausage, and cooked ham and turkey.
Labeling

Under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act, both administered by the USDA, the use of the phage preparation must be declared on labeling as an ingredient. Consumers will see "bacteriophage preparation" on the label of meat or poultry products that have been treated with the food additive.

If consumers have any concerns about what they're getting at the deli counter, says Post, "they always have the ability to ask for the label of the product being prepared or sliced to see what it contains."
A Phage First

This approval marks the first time that the FDA has regulated the use of a phage preparation as a food additive. Phages are currently approved in the United States for pesticide applications, such as spraying on crops.

Scientists continue to be interested in other uses for phages, such as to prevent food products from contamination with other types of harmful bacteria and to act as possible treatments for bacterial infections in people.

chill the fuck up

You realize 90% of you immune system is in you're gut and is made up of billions of strains of bacteria. This could potentially harm everyones immune system. Especially those who are not aware or don't bother to check what food additives are or do to them.

driving a car into a crowd of people causes a lot of damage too. Doesnt mean we stop driving cars.

logic wins again

500 people die from this shit versus over 40,000 deaths a year from car crashes.

once again. logic.

There's bugs in my yoghurt


*suicides himself*

Yogurt has good cultures proven by thousands of years of use.

If you guys want to keep eating garbage be my guest. When you get all sorts of random unexplainable health problems later in life don;t come crying to me that I didn't try and warn you about inorganic GMO foods and food additives.

Yogurt has good cultures proven by thousands of years of use.

If you guys want to keep eating garbage be my guest. When you get all sorts of random unexplainable health problems later in life don;t come crying to me that I didn't try and warn you about inorganic GMO foods and food additives.

I understand your point, but I don't share your passion/fixation. I know how to eat well, it's just that sometimes Domino's will INSIST on putting a manufactured meat on my cheese-free pizza.

Yogurt has good cultures proven by thousands of years of use.

If you guys want to keep eating garbage be my guest. When you get all sorts of random unexplainable health problems later in life don;t come crying to me that I didn't try and warn you about inorganic GMO foods and food additives.


It's probably incorrect call what you do a "warning". Warning really doesn't accurately reflect the detachment or paranoia that your posts denote.

You realize 90% of you immune system is in you're gut and is made up of billions of strains of bacteria. This could potentially harm everyones immune system. Especially those who are not aware or don't bother to check what food additives are or do to them.

+1

This is not a good thing.

Yogurt has good cultures proven by thousands of years of use.

If you guys want to keep eating garbage be my guest. When you get all sorts of random unexplainable health problems later in life don;t come crying to me that I didn't try and warn you about inorganic GMO foods and food additives.

Good posting.

Thousands of varieties of phages exist, and each one infects only one type or a few types of bacteria. The particular phages approved as a food additive are very specific to Listeria, says Zajac. "They'll only thrive if Listeria are present."

Read the fine print

yeh... i agree with the TD... why are they fucking with nature to begin with?

as all viruses do, they all evolve/mutate... there's a still possibility of harm here in the future...

i can already see allergic reactions to these viruses going up significantly when this is released..

fuck this shit

Didn't anybody see Star Trek Voyager --- They did like a whole season that revolved around a phage. We're in trouble now son

I would rather die of a phage attack than live in constant paranoia

All Your Phage Are Belong To Us

This is a good thing. Weed out all the weaklings. Darwinism baby.

This is a good thing. Weed out all the weaklings. Darwinism baby.

Darwin is a plagiarist eugenicist hack funded by the world banking elite.

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But in a way I do agree with you the weak will be the ones who destroy their immune system and have no resistance to anything. Like I said keep on eating garbage and we will see who is healthier in 10 to 15 years.

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It might be better to be Darwin (if you had a choice) versus someone who spams forums with propaganda and paranoid drivel on a daily basis.

It might be better to be Darwin (if you had a choice) versus someone who spams forums with propaganda and paranoid drivel on a daily basis.

Disprove anything in ENDGAME as untrue.

Prove to me beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Bilderbergers don't play a hand in running the world. And that they don't want to poison you and you're family with things like aspartame, fluoride, high fructose corn syrup. And so on.

And I will eat my hat!

Do you're own research!

Take this story for example my customer at work is the meat manager at a local grocery store. He was totally appalled at the approval or this phage. He runs the deli at a commercial store but makes sure they buy the meat they sell from farmers who don't use hormones or antibiotics.

Keep in mind again this was approved with little or no human testing as with most things involving Monsantos and the FDA.

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n this lecture, Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, summarizes the contents of his book, which explains how genetically modified ... all » foods cause health problems, and their potential for creating a vast array of unforeseen and surprising illnesses. He also sheds light on how the corruption within the U.S. government, the FDA, and the GMO industry has allowed, and perpetuated, the cover-up.

And how come 90% of tapout136's posts are specifically against my posts???

Listen you don't even understand basic logic (e.g. see above - disprove my negative assertion is what your post asks) so I’ll be pretty reserved in terms of my expectations about your cognitive abilities to formulate a retort that includes a coherent series of thoughts.

Is it really hard to imagine why anyone would disagree with your hysterical dystopian cut and paste jobs? It's beyond depressing that you believe you have some insight into how the world works. Something tells me if you really did have any meaningful insights you wouldn't be posting on the internet everyday. You would either be in a position of supreme power, or you would be dead for revealing too many secrets and putting serious people in jeopardy. Yet, nothing ever changes... day after day it's another steady stream of morose alarmist conjecture.

Also, why do you care about the focus or substance of my posts? You’re clearly not interested in truth, grammar, debate, or logic. Why not move along instead of trying to engage me in frivolous conversations about conspiracies that only serve to defame you. You could always keep your unlettered rants confined to the war room; it’s certainly an option.

PWND ^

it was an interesting read - i'll avoid this shit anyway, better to err on the side of caution.

it was an interesting read - i'll avoid this shit anyway, better to err on the side of caution.

agreed

Listen you don't even understand basic logic (e.g. see above - disprove my negative assertion is what your post asks) so I’ll be pretty reserved in terms of my expectations about your cognitive abilities to formulate a retort that includes a coherent series of thoughts.

Is it really hard to imagine why anyone would disagree with your hysterical dystopian cut and paste jobs? It's beyond depressing that you believe you have some insight into how the world works. Something tells me if you really did have any meaningful insights you wouldn't be posting on the internet everyday. You would either be in a position of supreme power, or you would be dead for revealing too many secrets and putting serious people in jeopardy. Yet, nothing ever changes... day after day it's another steady stream of morose alarmist conjecture.

Also, why do you care about the focus or substance of my posts? You’re clearly not interested in truth, grammar, debate, or logic. Why not move along instead of trying to engage me in frivolous conversations about conspiracies that only serve to defame you. You could always keep your unlettered rants confined to the war room; it’s certainly an option.

So then what would be you're take on this? Why would all of these top ranking business and government officials meet in secret every year? And you don't think this affects the world you live in? I would say you are the one who is unwilling to listen to truth logic and reason. It doesn't strike you at all odd that these people refuse to speak of what is discussed in these meetings?

You think the heads of all these energy and water companies and the president of the Fed have you and you're family's health and well being in mind? Look there's Kissinger! Oh and Northcomm/Stratcomm reps...

Here's a Kissinger Quote from another Bilderberg meeting... And you don't think they are headed to world government and have been since the U.N. was set up???

“"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."

- Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.

(in an address to the Bilderberger organization meeting at Evian, France, on May 21, 1991. As transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. )”

2007 Bilderberg Meeting

The Bilderberg Group met from May 31 to June 3 in the Ritz Carlton hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. The occupation and information on nationality of the participants are given as they appeared on the delegate list.

This year one participating journalist, Mehmet Ali Birand published two articles related to the Bilderberg Conference during the time it took place. Birand denies having witnessed that any secret plots were discussed, and describes the Bilderberg conference being like any other large international conference. However, Birand confirms the attendance to Bilderberg Conferences by Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair.[2][3]


Alphabetic list of participants

A

* Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
* Georgios Alogoskoufis, Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece

B

* Ali Babacan, Minister for Economic Affairs, Turkey[4]
* Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, Impresa SGPS, former Prime Minister, Portugal
* Michel Barnier, Vice President, Merieux Alliance; former Minister for Foreign Affairs, France
* Michael Barone, Senior Writer, US News & World Report USA
* Martin Bartenstein, Federal Minister of Economics and Labour, Austria
* Nicolas Baverez, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, France
* Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, Queen of The Netherlands
* Leonor Beleza, President, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
* Franco Bernabé, Vice Chairman, Rothschild Europe, Italy
* Rosina M. Bierbaum, Professor and Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, USA
* Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Prime Minister, Sweden
* Mehmet A. Birand, Columnist Turkey[3]
* Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs & Co, USA
* Anders Borg, Minister for Finance, Sweden
* Charles G. Boyd, President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security, USA
* Ümit Boyner, Member, Executive Board, Boyner Holding, Turkey[4]
* (Rapporteur) Vendeline A. H. von Bredow, Business Correspondent, The Economist
* Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group USA
* Oscar Bronner, Publisher and Editor, Der Standard, Austria
* Hubert Burda, Publisher and CEO, Hubert Burda Media Holding, Germany
* Gerald Butts, Principal Secretary, Office of the Premier of Ontario, Canada

C

* Cengiz Çandar, Journalist, Referans, Turkey[4]
* Henri de Castries, Chairman of Management Board and CEO, AXA, France
* Juan Luis Cebrián, CEO, Grupo PRISA media group (Spain)
* Hikmet Çetin, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and former NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, Turkey[4]
* Kenneth Clarke, Member of Parliament, UK
* Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, USA
D

* Frans van Daele, Permanent Representative of Belgium to NATO, Belgium
* George A. David, Chairman, Coca-Cola HBC SA, Greece
* (Honorary Chairman) Etienne Davignon, Vice-Chairman, Suez-Tractebel, Belgium
* Richard Dearlove, Master, Pembroke College, Cambridge UK
* Kemal Dervis, Administrator, UNDP, Turkey[4]
* Anna Diamantopoulou, Member of Parliament, Greece
* Thomas E. Donilon, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, USA
* Mathias Döpfner, Chairman and CEO, Axel Springer AG, Germany
* Cem Duna, Former Ambassador to the European Union, Turkey[4]
* Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings, Inc., USA

E

* Anders Eldrup, President, DONG Energy, Denmark
* John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat SpA, Italy

F

* Ulrik Federspiel, Permanent Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Denmark
* Martin S. Feldstein, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA

G

* Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA
* Paul A. Gigot, Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal, USA
* Eival Gilady, CEO, The Portland Trust, Israel
* Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group, Ireland
* Emre Gönensay, Professor of Economics, Isik University, and former Minister for Foreign Affairs Turkey[4]
* Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group, USA
* Alfred Gusenbauer, Federal Chancellor, Austria

H

* Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, USA
* Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University, former Honorary Secretary-General of Bilderberg Meetings, The Netherlands
* Peter D. Hart, Chairman, Peter D. Hart Research Associates, USA
* Frank Heemskerk, Minister for Foreign Trade, The Netherlands
* Paul Hermelin, CEO, Cap Gemini SA, France
* Richard Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, USA
* Jan H. M. Hommen, Chairman, Reed Elsevier NV, The Netherlands
* Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary-General, NATO, The Netherlands/International

J

* Atte Jääskeläinen, Director of News, Sports and Regional Programmes, YLE, Finland[5]
* Kenneth Jacobs, Deputy Chairman, Head of Lazard USA, Lazard Freres & Co LLC, USA
* James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC USA
* Vernon E. Jordan, Jr, Senior Managing Director, Lazard Fr�eres & Co LLC, USA
* His Majesty, King Juan Carlos I, King of Spain

K

* Jyrki Katainen, Minister of Finance, Finland[5]
* Jason Kenney, Member of Parliament, Canada
* Muhtar Kent, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, USA
* John Kerr (Lord Kerr of Kinlochard), Member, House of Lords, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, UK
* Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, USA
* Eckart von Klaeden, Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU / CSU, Germany
* Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany
* Mustafa V. Koç, Chairman, Koç Holding AS, Turkey[4]
* Bruce Kovner, Chairman, Caxto Associates LLC, USA
* Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., USA
* Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc., USA
* Idar Kreutzer, CEO, Storebrand ASA (The Netherlands)
* Neelie Kroes, Commissioner, European Commission, The Netherlands/ International

L

* Bernardino Leon Gross, Secretary of State Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Spain
* Mogens Lykketoft, Member of Parliament, Denmark
* William J. Luti, Special Assistant to the President for Defense Policy and Strategy, National Security Council, USA

M

* Jessica Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
* Michael McDowell, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Ireland
* John Micklethwait, Editor, The Economist, UK
* Mario Monti, President, University Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy
* Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation, USA
* Egil Myklebust, Chairman, SAS and Norsk Hydro ASA, Norway

N

* Matthias Nass, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit, Germany
* Joanne Nordquist, Avian Headmaster, American Council of Avian Research, USA
* Ewald Nowotny, CEO, BAWAG PSK. Austria

O

* Christine Ockrent, Editor-in-Chief, France Television (France)
* Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Chairman and CEO, Nokia Corporation, Finland[5]
* George Osborne, MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK

P

* Laurence Parisot, President, MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France), France
* Christopher Patten, Member, House of Lords (UK)
* Richard Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, USA
* Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, USA[6]
* Volker Perthes, Director, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany
* HRH Prince Philippe of Belgium, Belgium;

R

* Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo, Managing Director, IMF, International
* Olli Rehn, Commissioner, European Commission, International
* Heather Reisman, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc., Canada
* Matías Rodriguez Inciarte, Executive Vice Chairman, Banco Santander Central Hispano, Spain
* Olivier Roy, Senior Researcher, CNRS, France

S

* Paolo Scaroni, CEO, Eni SpA, Italy
* Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO, Google, USA
* Rudolf Scholten, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Österreichische Kontrollbank AG, Austria
* Jürgen E. Schrempp, former Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
* Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
* Robert W. Scully, Co-President, Morgan Stanley, USA
* Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas, USA
* Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, UN World Food Programme, USA
* Kristen Silverberg, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Interational Organization Affairs, USA
* Domenico Siniscalco, Managing Director and Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley, Italy
* Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and the Western European Union, International
* Her Majesty Queen Sophia, Queen of Spain
* Ayse Soysal, Rector, Bosphorus University, Turkey[4]
* Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University, USA
* Peter Sutherland, Chairman, BP PLC, and Chairman, Goldman Sachs International, Ireland
* Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and CEO, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Sweden

T

* Paul A. Taggart, Professor of Politics, University of Sussex, UK
* Sidney Taurel, Chairman and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company, USA
* J. Martin Taylor, Chairman, Syngenta International AG, UK
* Peter A. Thiel, President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC, USA
* Teija Tiilikainen, State Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland[5]
* Michel Tilmant, Chairman, ING Group NV, The Netherlands
* Jean-Claude Trichet, Governor, European Central Bank, France/International

U

* Jens Ulltveit-Moe, CEO, Umoe AS, Norway

V

* Daniel Vasella, Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG, Switzerland
* Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, The Netherlands

W

* Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB, Sweden
* Vin Weber, Partner, Clark & Weinstock, USA
* Guido Westerwelle, Chairman, Free Democratic Party (Germany)[7]
* Ross Wilson, Ambassador to Turkey, USA
* James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, USA
* Paul Wolfowitz, President, The World Bank, International
* Joseph R. Wood, Deputy Assistant to the Vice President, National Security Affairs, USA
* (Rapporteur) Adrian Wooldridge, Foreign Correspondent, The Economist

Y

* Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ, President, TÜSIAD, Turkey[4]
* Erkut Yücaoğlu, Chairman of the Board, MAP, former President, TÜSIAD, Turkey[4]

Z

* Philip D. Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA
* Robert B. Zoellick, former US Trade Representative, former Deputy Secretary of State, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, USA


Whatever man just don't be surprised when this is in full swing...

http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=8165019 (watch the video)

Three States Subjected To “Martial Law Sweeps”

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, April 18, 2008

Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up operation that one sheriff’s deputy has described as "martial law training".

Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas took part in what was described by local media as "an anti-crime and anti-terrorism initiative" involving officers from more than 50 federal, state and local agencies.

Given the military style name "Operation Sudden Impact", the initiative saw officers from six counties rounding up fugitives, conducting traffic checkpoints, climbing on boats on the Mississippi River and doing other "crime-abatement" programs all under the label of "anti-terrorism".

WREG Memphis news channel 3 reported that the Sheriff’s Department arrested 332 people, 142 of whom were fugitives, or "terrorists" as they now seem to be known.

Hundreds of dollars were seized and drugs recovered, and 1,292 traffic violations were handed out to speeding terrorists and illegally parked terrorists.

Click here to watch a WREG Memphis news report

The authorities even raided businesses and store owners, confiscating computers and paperwork in an effort to "track down possible terrorists before something big happens".

The Sheriff’s Department is determining if and when they plan another round-up.

The operation, which involved police, deputies, the FBI, drug agents, gang units and even the coast guard, is just one example of how law enforcement at the state and local levels is being co-opted and centralized by the Department of Homeland Security via massive federal grants.




It also highlights how the distinction between crime and terrorism is becoming irrelevant.

An Infowars reader called in to the Alex Jones show yesterday to alert us to the story and explain that he had gleaned the information from a his friend, a sheriff’s deputy in Memphis, who had described the operation as "training for martial law in America".

Forget innocent until proven guilty, you are now a terrorist suspect until you are told otherwise.

It is now the norm to consider everybody equally likely to be guilty of something than innocent. This is proactive policing, not preventative or reactive policing, and is widely indicative of a society that is NOT free.

This form of proactive policing is a phenomena indicative of a once free state rapidly declining into a authoritarian police state.

If there was a real terror threat in these states, it would surely make sense to for law enforcement agencies to target known trouble areas, and follow up on already existing leads. Instead we are seeing local police and the coast guard being recruited to randomly target anyone in any area as possible terrorists.

Surely if there was a real terror threat, this activity would harm the effort to combat it.

Of course, such activity is clearly not related to a real and tangible terror threat, it is related to the ongoing effort to vastly increase the size and scope of the federal government and increase the power it has over American citizens.

The information and intelligence from the operation will be collated and routed through federally funded state-run fusion centers, which are working in conjunction with the military arm of the DHS, NORTHCOM.

Such information will soon include the DNA and other biometric information from every person arrested, which DHS head Michael Chertoff has declared is no longer your personal information.

We recently reported on the fact that after 9/11 the Justice Department advised the Bush administration that it was able to effectively suspend the Fourth Amendment where domestic counter terrorism operations are concerned.

In light of this, and given that the government has begun to class any crime as terrorism and set local and state police to work on "anti-terror" operations, it is clear that the protections provided by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are under direct threat.

We have seen how new provisions will effectively nullify the U.S. constitution, and a recent spate of executive orders, in particular PDD 51, outline preparations for the implementation of open martial law in the event of a declared national emergency.

Centralized and federally coordinated law enforcement programs complement nationwide FEMA programs to train Pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation. The effects of this particular program have already been witnessed.

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Why would all of these top ranking business and government officials meet in secret every year?

The Bilderberg Group met from May 31 to June 3 in the Ritz Carlton hotel in Istanbul, Turkey.

stupid secret-ass big chain hotels

Is it really hard to imagine why anyone would disagree with your hysterical dystopian cut and paste jobs?


am agree'd