SECRET BIO-WARFARE RESEARCH LAB 257 PLUM ISLAND...FOR SALE
IT WAS KNOWN BY MANY NAMES...
PLUM ISLAND ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER,
BUILDING 257,
FORT TERRY 257...
AND ITS EXISTENCE WAS DENIED FOR DECADES. WHAT REALLY WENT ON THERE IS
STILL A MATTER OF SOME SECRECY AND WHETHER OR NOT IT IS MOVED TO KANSAS,
AS WAS ONCE PLANNED, IS ALSO RATHER 'UP IN THE AIR'.
WHERE TO PUT SUCH A NIGHTMARE? [New Zealanders should be horrified to find out that it's at Wallaceville - 100 yards from a school, right next to the main trunck railway line, in the middle of a residential area and on top of about five major seismic fault lines!]
WE NOW KNOW THAT THE U.S. CONDUCTED BIOLOGICAL WARFARE RESEARCH THERE,
AND SINCE ALMOST EVERY NATION HAS SEVERAL SUCH LABORATORIES, ONE MIGHT
CONCLUDE THAT THIS LAB WAS BASICALLY "HARMLESS".
ONE MIGHT NOT EVEN CARE WHAT WENT ON THERE, OFF THE COAST OF NEW YORK.
PLUM ISLAND, LAB 257, AN INDEFENSIBLE LITTLE PLACE, FULL OF VERY
LETHAL PATHOGENS, DEADLY, STILL A THREAT TO ALL WHO LIVE NEAR IT, STILL A
READY SOURCE FOR ANY TERRORISTS, REAL OR FBI-CREATED(?), WHO MIGHT WANT
TO GATHER FROM IT TO ATTACK AMERICA.
PLUM ISLAND'S LAB 257 WAS "'the only type of
research lab authorized to handle diseases that are communicable between
humans and animals and for which there is no known cure'"...
NO KNOWN CURE.
THE NEW YORK TIMES WAS A BIT IRATE OVER ITS FATE IN 2005.
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Homeland Security took over from the
Agriculture Department in 2003, "was not designed to be a highly secure
facility." >>
CNN DID A SMALL PIECE ON PLUM ISLAND IN 2004
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The Army later handed over control of the facility to the USDA.
DHS official McCarthy told the AP that Lab 257 was closed in 1995, and "right now it poses no health hazard.">>
THEY GO ON TO INSINUATE THAT ANYONE WHO THINKS PLUM ISLAND IS A DARK
MYSTERY MIGHT BE NUTS (THOUGH THEY NEVER, EVER SAY SUCH THINGS OUTRIGHT,
PERISH THE THOUGHT).
IN CONSIDERING CNN, OR ANY AMERICAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA, AS I HAVE ALWAYS SAID HERE IN THE TEA ROOM, CONSIDER WHO OWNS THE MEDIA...
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[READ, CERTAINLY, BUT ALWAYS DIG INTO THINGS FOR YOURSELVES, AND DIG DEEPLY AND LONG!]
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF A NAZI SCIENTIST NAMED ERIC TRAUB, BROUGHT TO THE U.S. AS SO MANY OTHERS WERE UNDER OPERATION PAPERCLIP AFTER WORLD WAR 2.
<for the U.S. Navy from 1949 to 1953, Traub returned to Germany >>
ONE OF TRAUB'S SPECIALTIES WAS VECTOR DISEASES AND THEIR USE IN BIOLOGICAL WARFARE.
Traub visited the Plum Island Animal Disease Center
(PIADC) in New York on at least three occasions in the 1950s. The Plum
Island facility, operated by the Department of Agriculture, conducted
research on foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) of cattle,
one of Traub's areas of expertise. Traub was offered a leading position at Plum Island in 1958 which he
OFFICIALLY declined.
IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT PLUM ISLAND'S LAB 257 GAVE US LYME DISEASE, QUITE LITERALLY.
In the mid-1970s, a mysterious disease broke out in the area around the town of Old Lyme, CT.
This severely debilitating syndrome was given the
name Lyme disease. At first, doctors were mystified as to why the
disease was clustered around this particular town. This
leads us back to Erich Traub, the German scientist who participated in
research at Plum Island. Once they had the genetic footprint of the Lyme
disease germ, researchers began to comb through disease cluster
histories. It didn't make sense that Lyme would suddenly emerge,
seemingly out of nowhere, in one town in rural Connecticut. Some of
these investigators believe they found traces of borrelia in preserved
insect and animal samples taken from nearby Shelter Island, as well as
Long Island.
The samples dated from the late 1940s to the early 1950s—the time frame in which Erich Traub was infecting ticks on Plum Island. Most
interesting and troubling to birdwatchers and other outdoors-y types is
the author’s investigation into the unproven but nonetheless highly
suspicious connections between Plum Island and the sudden appearance of
Dutch duck plague (1967), Lyme disease (1975) and West Nile virus (1999)
on the East Coast. All of these disease outbreaks were first documented
within a few miles of the labs.
IT HAS ALSO BEEN SAID THAT THE PLACE IS STILL SO CONTAMINATED THAT NO HUMANS SHOULD BE ALLOWED NEAR IT.
EVEN THE EPA HAS CITED THE ISLAND FOR ITS WASTE, AS HAS THE NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION.
EVERYBODY
SEEMS TO WANT THE ISLAND CLEANED UP, BUT NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW WHERE ALL
THAT WASTE IS BURIED, NOR HOW TO GET IT OUT OF THE GROUND AND OFF THE
ISLAND.
IN ITS PRIME, LAB 257 WAS INVOLVED DAILY WITH "HOT VIRUSES", LIVE,
HIGHLY INFECTIVE ORGANISMS WITH WHICH THEY CONDUCTED "ANIMAL
EXPERIMENTS".
A BIT OF HISTORY FOR THE PLUM ISLAND LAB
(FEEL FREE TO SKIP THIS SEGMENT IF YOU REALLY DON'T GIVE A HOOT FOR HISTORY.)
Completed in 1911, Building 257 at Fort Terry,New York, designated the
Combined Torpedo Storehouse and Cable Tanks building, and weapons were
stored there.
But then, in 1952, the ARMY CHEMICAL CORPS (which had been called the
Chemical Warfare Service) took over the facility and a thing called
"anti-animal biological warfare testing" began there.
During World War 1, the U.S. had managed to develop a rather small
arsenal (compared to today's standards) of CHEMICAL WEAPONS. Some of
those, too, were stored on Plum Island, and the President and many in
the general population, were nervous about that, wanted them destroyed,
or maybe moved to a safer place away from populated areas.
Major General Amos Fries, the head of the Chemical Warfare Service for
almost 9 years was convinced that plans to end the development of
chemical weapons entailed a COMMUNIST PLOT, and he fought it with
everything he had.
He was successful and, thanks to the pull, the power, of some whom he
knew , including like-minded Congressmen, well known chemists and those
who owned the chemical companies, Congress was influenced to NOT RATIFY
the 1925 Geneva Protocol...they just said NO. So development of new and
better chemical warfare marched on...on Plum Island.
In 1939, then President Roosevelt got more than a little pissed-off when
the name change came up. He made that clear by stating:
"'I have a far more important objection to this change of name. It has
been and is the policy of this Government to do everything in its power
to outlaw the use of chemicals in warfare. Such use is inhuman and
contrary to what modern civilization should stand for.
I am doing everything in my power to discourage the use of gases and
other chemicals in any war between nations. While, unfortunately, the
defensive necessities of the United States call for study of the use of
chemicals in warfare, I do not want the Government of the United States
to do anything to aggrandize or make permanent any special bureau of the
Army or the Navy engaged in these studies. I hope the time will come
when the Chemical Warfare Service can be entirely abolished.
To dignify this Service by calling it the "Chemical Corps" is, in my judgment, contrary to a sound public policy.'"
Maybe FDR's anger caused "bad ju-ju" for the Corps, but after that, it
was plagued with "accidents" and those accidents showed us what they
were up to...some of it, at least.
The
Dugway sheep incident,
March 1968, was one of several really big events that stirred the
boiling pot of growing public furor against the corps. An open air
spraying of
VX was blamed for killing over 4,000 sheep near Dugway Proving Ground. The Army eventually settled the case and paid the ranchers.
Then, another incident involving Operation CHASE
(Cut Holes and Sink 'Em) was also exposed. Operation CHASE sought to
dump chemical weapons 250 miles (400 km) off the Florida coast,
spurring concerns over the damage to the ocean environment and risk of
chemical munitions washing up on shore.
DIDN'T THE CORPS, DIDN'T THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT KNOW THOSE RISKS? DIDN'T THEY CARE?
OBVIOUSLY NOT.
The CORPS continued to be beleaguered with bad press and with
"mishaps". A 1969 incident, in which 23 soldiers and one Japanese
civilian were exposed to SARIN on the island of Okinawa
while cleaning sarin-filled bombs, created international outcry, while
also revealing the presence of chemical munitions in Southeast Asia to
the world.
Things gradually got better for the corps, it "restructured" itself, by
1969, had developed seven "standardized biological weapons": agents that
cause anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, Q-fever,
VEE, and botulism. Maybe as an afterthought, Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B was produced as an "incapacitating agent"
The Corps marched on, it lived, it thrived, and beween 1979 and 1989
the Army established 28 active duty chemical defense companies.
Way to go, Team Gas and Hellfire! (one of its pet names in WW2).
The
United States Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) School is the home of the Army's Chemical Corps, located at Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri. There are approximately 22,000 members of the Chemical Corps
in the U.S. Army, spread among the Active, Army Reserve, and Army
National Guard.
The school trains officers and enlisted personnel in CBRN warfare and defense.
BACK TO THE LAB ITSELF
With remodeling and restructuring ongoing, the facility was updated in
the 1950s, but an odd thing happened then...the USDA (United States
Department of AGRICULTURE, yes, AGRICULTURE), took over at Fort Terry,
Fort Terry was officially transferred to the USDA on July 1, 1954, at the time scientists from the
Bureau of Animal Industry were already working in Building 257.
Just FYI, that "bureau" was formed way, way back in 1884, was abolished
by Secretary's Memorandum 1320, suppl. 4, on November 2, 1953, and
reestablished as the
Agricultural Research Service, The
ARS currently the principal in-house research agency of the
USDA.
Clever of our government to shuffle the cards and come up with this plan.
The citizens were much happier knowing their "protective service", the
good old USDA, was watching over things out on Plum Island.
What could possibly be wrong with the USDA doing a little research, EVEN
IF THAT RESEARCH WAS HIDDEN, WAS "TOP SECRET", AND STILL INVOLVED
CHEMICAL WARFARE RESEARCH?
It wasn't like before...the USDA was testing on ANIMALS, cows, horses, and the like, right?
WAKE UP AND TAKE NOTES, CLASS, BECAUSE THE ARS MAINTAINS A VAST STORAGE OF CHEMICAL/BIO-WEAPONRY. AND THEY KNOW HOW TO MAKE USE OF IT!
HERE IS WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO FIXATE UPON: "Microbial cultures are
foundational and basic diagnostic methods used extensively as a research
tool in molecular biology. Microbial culture collections focus on the
acquisition, authentication,
production, preservation, catalogueing and distribution of viable
cultures of standard reference microorganisms, cell lines and other
materials for research in microbial systematics.
Culture collection are also repositories of type strains."
WHAT THAT DOES NOT TELL US IS THAT EACH STRAIN OF ANY OF THESE CAN BE USED, AND SOME HAVE BEEN USED, AS WEAPONS IN WAR.
AND THE USDA HAS A CLOSET-FULL.
WE ARE TOLD THAT THE MAJORITY OF THESE CULTURES NOW "LIVE" IN MANASSAS, VIRGINIA., AND ARE HELD FOR US BY ...
ATCC , a private nonprofit organization in the biotechnology
field whose mission focuses on the acquisition, authentication,
production, preservation, development and distribution of standard
reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research in the life sciences. Established in 1914 as the
American Type Culture Collection and originally incorporated by scientists in 1925.
ATCC ALSO STORES OVER 8 MILLION CLONED GENES, INCLUDING HUMAN GENES.
AND DISEASE VECTORS..."Vector-borne disease" is the term commonly used to describe an illness
caused by an infectious microbe that is transmitted to people by
blood-sucking insects.
18,000 strains of bacteria from 900 genera, as well as 2,000 different
types of animal viruses and 1,000 plant viruses have been ISOLATED,
STORED, AND ARE ALIVE AND WELL, THANKS, IN GOOD PART, TO THE RESEARCH AT
THE LAB ON PLUM ISLAND, AND OTHERS LIKE IT.
AN IMPORTANT NOTE, PLEASE BE AWARE:
ATCC supplied Iraqi organizations, including Baghdad University, with several pathogens between 1985 and 1989. These include
Bacillus anthracis (the causative agent of anthrax),
Aspergillus fungal cultures producing the mycotoxin aflatoxin),
Brucella melitensis (causing brucellosis),
Clostridium botulinum,
Clostridium perfringens,
E. coli and
Salmonella cholerae-suis.
YES, THE U.S. CONGRESS APPROVED THIS SHARING WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN, THROUGH THE CHANNELS OF THE
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, IN THE NAME OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT...AND IRAQ GOT ENOUGH OF THESE STRAINS TO KILL AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY CARED TO.
ASK THE KURDISH PEOPLE.
IT WAS ALL DOCUMENTED, ALL WELL-KNOWN, WASN'T REALLY "HIDDEN", JUST WASN'T ADVERTISED.
UCLA HAS A PAGE ABOUT THE CDC's INVOLVEMENT IN THAT AS WELL.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE DOCUMENT.
IT MAKES A BIT TOO LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT WE SENT SUCH OVER TO IRAQ, BUT I OFFER IT FOR THE SKEPTICS, WHO ABOUND.
In
2002 American forces in Afghanistan found a dossier of information
about the Plum Island laboratory in the Kabul residence of Sultan
Bashiruddin Mahmood, a Western-educated nuclear physicist and former
chairman of the Pakistan Nuclear Energy Commission who has been
identified by American officials as an associate of Osama bin Laden.
But Plum Island has a major and unfixable problem: it's an easy target
for terrorists, indeed a sitting duck - and, frankly, Long Island has
room for only one big duck on the East End. In the wake of 9/11, the
center, housing highly virulent disease agents a mile and a half off
Long Island, constitutes a serious risk not just to New York, but also
to Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which are all within 100
miles of Plum Island.
Homeland Security knows that the outmoded laboratory, which it described
as too "costly to maintain," is a problem. In the press release
announcing the news, it highlighted "growing concerns about accidental
or intentional introduction of foreign animal diseases into the country.
IT'S BUILDING.
THE WHOLE THING IS COMING FULL CIRCLE...
PLEASE TAKE NOTE AS WE CANNOT BUT IMAGINE HOW THIS ONE SMALL PLACE WHICH
IS SO NEAR TO LARGE POPULATIONS, SO VERY NEAR TO ONE OF AMERICA'S MAJOR
CITIES, SO UNPROTECTED, CAN BE USED TO WIPE OUT LARGE NUMBERS OF HUMAN
BEINGS AND FOOD ANIMALS...WHETHER BY FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC TERRORISTS
(LIKE HOMELAND SECURITY?).
THE FOLLOWING WAS REPORTED BY COLUMBIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY'S "HOMELAND SECURITY NEWS WIRE" ON JULY 20, 2010...
The bio lab on 840-acre Plum Island, a mile-and-a-half off Long Island’s
Orient Point, is a Biosafety level 4 facility —
the only type of
research lab authorized to handle diseases that are communicable between
humans and animals and for which there is no known cure; from a boat,
terrorists armed with shoulder-fired rockets would have a clear shot, or
a plane could dive into the laboratory, dispersing deadly germs into an
area from Massachusetts to New York;
DHS has
decided to build a new lab in Kansas to replace the aging Plum Island
center, but some local politicians object, citing the local jobs that
would be lost.
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As reported by Karl Grossman in the Huffington Post, ]
- In 2002 U.S. Army commandos and CIA
agents found a “dossier” containing “information on a place in New York
called the Plum Island Animal Disease Center” in a raid on the
Afghanistan residence of Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a nuclear physicist
from Pakistan and an associate of Osama bin Laden.
- In 2003 the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
reported there is a substantial risk that “an adversary might try to
steal pathogens” from the center and use them against people or animals
in the United States. GAO noted that a camel
pox strain researched at the center could be converted into “an agent as
threatening as smallpox,” and the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
studied there could be “developed into a human biowarfare agent.”
Grossman writes that it can never be. “Plum Island sits exposed amid
busy marine traffic lanes. The main Plum Island laboratory sits just
behind a beach along which pass a line of boat traffic including ferries
taking passengers between Orient Point and Connecticut,” he writes.
From a boat terrorists armed with shoulder-fired rockets would have a
clear shot, or a plane could dive into the laboratory, dispersing deadly
germs into an area from Massachusetts to New York.
DHS has already chosen Manhattan, Kansas, as the location of new biolab to replace the aging Plum Island research facility (“
DHS is searching for buyers for Plum Island facility,”
4 August 2009 HSNW), but New York politicians want the lab — and its jobs — to stay. In any event, it will take years to build the new lab.
The threat of a terrorist attack on Plum Island, sitting between
Boston and New York City and just south of New London and Groton,
Connecticut, remains. “Work on highly toxic pathogens should only be
done at a heavily guarded facility inland, perhaps constructed
underground — not on an island out in the open so close to this crowded
area of the United States,” Grossman concludes.>>
Is that the "set-up" being prepared in our media, the initial phase of everything coming undone?
WILL WE SEE PLUM ISLAND, LAB 257, BLOW UP IN OUR FACES?
AND REMEMBER, THEY ARE MOVING THE LAB TO KANSAS, TO KANSAS WHERE GREAT HERDS OF FOOD ANIMALS ARE RAISED FOR AMERICAN MARKETS.
ALSO REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE
At
Fort Detrick, the USBWL consisted of various labs and divisions, including:
- The Safety "S" Division, first to be activated (1943)
- Biological Protection Branch
- The Special Operations Division (1949–68), conducted hundreds of field tests of aerosolized simulants
- The Crops Division (called "Plant Sciences Laboratories" after
1966), evaluated thousands of compounds for herbicidal activity
(including Agent Orange; see Herbicidal warfare)
- The Basic Science [Division?]
The USBWL was also a parent facility overseeing testing and production centers
elsewhere, including:
Steve Erickson, director of the Citizens' Education
Project in Salt
Lake City, Utah said, IN ABOUT 2002, "This expansion of laboratory
capacity within the Defense Department and other departments
of government has been in the works for a number of years,
probably dating to about 1995. Certainly, the intensity
and speed of these developments is picked up since 9/11/2001.
The last count we had was about 14 [labs] that were being
proposed in various locations by any one of four Cabinet
level departments within the US Government. There are some
indications now that the National Institutes of Health
will
be backing off in terms of the numbers of Biological Safety
Level Four laboratories, but intends instead to renovate
and perhaps build additional Biological Level Three laboratories."
The
Department of Energy wants to build a BSL-3 facility at its Los Alamos lab in New Mexico. On December 16th,
the DOE released the final Environmental Assessment of
plans
to build a BSL-3 lab at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
THIS IS A LIVE ANTHRAX LAB.
SEE ALSO:
http://www.nukewatch.org/media/more_media/01-00-02/01-03-02/University-President-Defends-Anthrax-Shipment.html
The draft environmental assessment for the proposed lab
says that
current plans call for the facility to handle
the DNA
and RNA of a wide array of organisms. The lab could also
engage in the chemical separation of DNA, RNA and proteins,
and in sample amplification, which the assessment defines
as "the process to rapidly and significantly increase
the number of microorganisms in a sample." The environmental
assessment also states that "the proposed facility
would have the unique capability within DOE/NNSA to perform
aerosol studies to include challenges of rodents using
infectious agents or biologically derived toxins (biotoxins)."
Prof. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Chair of the Working Group
on Biological Weapons of the Federation of American Scientists, has said "when
various types of weapons are being researched at the same
place,
it means that if there is any kind of oversight
or investigation or inspection of one type, it puts at
risk
classified information about the others. And this is a
reason why this government frequently objects to any kind
of oversight.
And this is also, in my view, a reason why different kinds
of weapons research should be conducted at different locations,
rather than piling them all in the same place."
WE MAY NEVER KNOW WHAT HAS "ESCAPED" LABS LIKE THE ONE ON PLUM ISLAND,
BUT WE DO, MOST DEFINITELY, KNOW HOW SUCH LABS HAVE USED US AS HUMAN
GUINEA PIGS BEFORE.
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- In one such test, travelers at Washington National Airport were subjected to a harmless
bacterium. Traps were placed throughout the facility to capture the bacterium as it flowed
in the air. Laboratory personnel, dressed as travelers carrying brief cases, walked the
corridors and without detection sprayed the bacterium into the atmosphere.
- In the New York Subway, a light bulb filled with the same harmless bacterium was
dropped on the tracks. The organism spread throughout the system within 20 minutes.
Traps and monitoring devices showed the amount of organism�if it were one of the
predictable, dangerous organisms, could have killed thousands of persons. No one was
injured or became ill as a result of the test.
- In San Francisco, a U.S. Navy ship, equipped with spray devices operated by Fort
Detrick personnel, sprayed serratia marcescens, a non-pathogenic microorganism that is
easily detected, while the ship plied the San Francisco Bay. It spread more than 30 miles to
monitoring stations.
- A jet aircraft equipped with spray devices, flew a course near Victoria, Texas, and the
harmless particles were monitored in the Florida Keys.
There were 456 cases of occupational infections acquired at Fort
Detrick during the offensive biological program, at a rate of less than
10 infections per million hours worked. The rate of occupational
infection was well within the contemporary standards of the National
Safety Council, and below the rates reported from other laboratories.
There were three fatalities due to occupationally acquired infections;
two cases of anthrax in 1951 and 1958, and a case of viral encephalitis
in 1964. The
mortality rate was lower than those of other contemporary surveys of
laboratory-acquired infections. There were 48 occupational infections
and no fatalities reported from production and testing sites. The safety
program included the development and use of new vaccines as well as
engineering safety measures.
JUST WATCH THIS WEE PLACE ...THIS LITTLE-KNOWN AMERICAN "SECRET".
OTHER RESOURCES:
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?us_military_weapons_of_mass_destruction=us_military_biologicalWeapons&timeline=us_military_tmln
http://140.139.42.105/content/BioWarCourse/HX-3/HX-3.html
ESPECIALLY THE FOLLOWING FILE:
http://140.139.42.105/content/BioWarCourse/HX-3/HX-3.html
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/DVNS_CBW.htm
AND AN "IFFY" SITE, IFFY BECAUSE IT SOMETIMES TENDS TO GO "OVER THE TOP" SANS PERFECT DOCUMENTATION...STILL, INFORMATIVE:
http://www.knowthelies.com/node/9589
NOTHING GOOD ON THE TELLY TONIGHT?
WATCH THIS?
OR WATCH HERE, IF THE YOUTUBE LINK DOES AWAY...
http://globalelite.tv/2013/10/16/shade-the-motion-picture/
I'M NOT ENDORSING ANY FILMS HERE, JUST POST THEM SO WE CAN EXERCISE OUR
OWN MINDS, LET IN SOME NEW IDEAS, MAYBE...AND, AS ALWAYS, JUST THINK
ABOUT THINGS IN A NON-BIASED, LOGICAL MANNER...
OR NOT..
