news on the march

american labs mishandle deadly germs
from ap: American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs & toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work.

american lockdown: law enforcement
out of control & beyond the pale
from carolyn baker: All of these stories are connected by a common thread: Law enforcement in the United States, whose duty it is to "protect and serve" have now become not just part of the problem but in fact, predatory devourers of those they are sworn to keep safe.

Deepening collapse will be attended by manifestations of the unraveling of all institutions, one of the most frightening examples being law enforcement's hysterical repression of citizens.

white house blew al-CIAda's video release to SITE
from washington post: A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.

Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.

only two dozen 'al-qaeda' left, says ex-cia man
from paul joseph watson: Former CIA case officer Marc Sageman says the membership of "Al-Qaeda" has dwindled to a paltry two dozen people, and its leadership is completely cut off from the mostly "petty criminals and gang members" that are now the target of the war on terror. Such a sweeping denouncement of the strength of Al-Qaeda is at odds with the constantly hyped threat of the terror network by media outlets and government.

"Dr Sageman said al-Qaeda's leaders had been all but cut off from the current crop of jihadists and comprised no more than two dozen people. The threat was now coming from home-grown young men in their early 20s who recruited mostly on the internet," reports news.com.au.

9/11 explains the impotence of antiwar movement
from paul craig roberts: The anti-war movement has proven impotent to stop the war in Iraq despite the fact that the war was initiated on the basis of lies and deception. The anti-war movement stands helpless to prevent President Bush from attacking Iran or any other country that he might demonize for harboring a future 9/11 threat.

September 11 enabled Bush to take America to war and to keep America at war even though the government’s explanation of the events of September 11 is mired in controversy and disbelieved by a large percentage of the population.

#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode231 - Medical Hack, Breaking Bilderberg, Nope and Change

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode231 -
Medical Hack, Breaking Bilderberg, Nope and Change

envirohealth: pandemic lab, food, nuke, bpa & fat children

bacteria played a role in 1918 pandemic flu deaths
from los angeles times: Most deaths in the 1918 influenza pandemic were due not to the virus alone but to common bacterial infections that took advantage of victims' weakened immune systems, according to two new studies that could change the nation's strategy against the next pandemic. "We have to realize that it isn't just antivirals that we need," said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and coauthor of one study. "We need to make sure that we're prepared to treat people with antibiotics," said Fauci, whose study will be released online this month by the Journal of Infectious Diseases. In both studies, scientists analyzed a trove of historical documents from around the world, examining firsthand accounts, medical records and autopsy reports. Writing about the 1918 influenza outbreak in the August issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers reported that few deaths were swift, which is what scientists believed characterized a viral pandemic. Instead, they found most deaths occurred a week to two weeks later - indicating the deaths were the result of opportunistic bacterial infections.

carolina group backs away from new lab
from fcw: A North Carolina group is backing away from actively supporting siting the proposed $450 million National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility in that state. Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi and Texas are also in the competition... “We want the DHS to still consider us,” Green said, “But we will no longer do outreach and public education on the program.” Consortium members are concerned that members of the Butner, N.C. community claim that their worries about environmental effects and about the potential risk of pathogen release from the lab are not being adequately addressed, Green said.

labs that perform bioterrorism research proliferating
from courant: The number of individuals performing bioterrorism research on deadly pathogens across the country has jumped to nearly 15,000, and most of them are authorized to work with anthrax, federal records obtained by The Courant reveal. The proliferation of labs working on vaccines for potential biological weapons — which started after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax mailings — has drawn heavy criticism from experts worried that too many people have access to dangerous materials. The recent revelation that an American scientist, Bruce Ivins, was about to be charged as the anthrax mailer has only increased those concerns. "We just went tearing down this road without thinking about the potential risks, including who was going to have access to all of these biological weapons," said Elisa Harris, a senior research scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland.

US food prices to post biggest rise since '90
from reuters: U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday. Food prices are forecast to rise by 5 percent to 6 percent this year, making it the largest annual increase since 1990. Just last month, USDA forecast food prices would climb between 4.5 and 5.5 percent in 2008. “It’s a little bit of a surprise how strong some of the numbers were in July,” USDA economist Ephraim Leibtag, who prepared the forecast, said in an interview. “We’ve been waiting for some moderation, but especially with some of the meat prices and how much has come through relatively recently (at the retail level) leads me to believe the overall number may be a little bit higher for the year,” he added.

reactor shut down after fire at california nuke plant
from ap: Authorities are investigating a fire at a California nuclear plant that forced a reactor to be shut down. Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant spokeswoman Sharon Gavin said Monday that there was no danger of a radiation leak after a fire the day before. The blaze was in a non-nuclear part of the plant. Gavin says one of two reactors was shut down as part of standard safety procedures. She doesn't know when it will be restarted. The plant started supplying electricity in 1985 and generates power for about 3 million homes in northern and central California.

49 babies die during clinical trials at 'all india institute of medical sciences'
from china view: As many as 49 babies, many of whom had not even celebrated their first birthday, have died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) while being subjected to clinical trials for testing new drugs and therapies over the last two and a half years. Responding to a Right to Information (RTI) query on clinical trials on babies, the AIIMS administration admitted on Monday that of the 4,142 babies -- 2,728 of whom were below the age of one -- who were enrolled for clinical trials by the institute's department of pediatrics, 49 had died since Jan. 1, 2006. The department conducted 42 sets of trials on babies during this period.

fda says bisphenol is ok for young & old
from ap: Despite ongoing safety concerns from parents, consumer groups and politicians, a chemical used in baby bottles, canned food and other items is not dangerous, federal regulators said Friday. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists said the trace amounts of bisphenol A that leach out of food containers are not a threat to infants or adults. The plastic-hardening chemical is used to seal canned food and make shatterproof bottles. It also is used in hundreds of household items, ranging from sunglasses to CDs.

uk: fat children ‘should be taken from parents’ to curb obesity epidemic
from times online: Grossly overweight children may be taken from their families and put into care if Britain’s obesity epidemic continues to escalate, council chiefs said yesterday. The Local Government Association argued that parents who allowed their children to eat too much could be as guilty of neglect as those who did not feed their children at all. The association said that until now there had been only a few cases when social services had intervened in obesity cases. But it gave warning that local councils may have to take action much more often and, if necessary, put obese children on “at risk” registers or take them into care. It called for new guidelines to be drawn up to help authorities deal with the issue.

miltech: crashes, viruses, future combat & body language

global warming rocket with nasa satellite crashes
from ap: A rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after a failed launch early Tuesday, ending a $280 million mission to track global warming from space. The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off just before 2 a.m. from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. But minutes later, a cover protecting the satellite during launch failed to separate from the rocket, a preliminary investigation found. The 986-pound satellite was supposed to be placed into an orbit some 400 miles high to track carbon dioxide emissions. The project was nine years in the making, and the mission was supposed to last two years. Scientists currently depend on 282 land-based stations - and scattered instrumented aircraft flights - to monitor carbon dioxide at low altitudes. "Certainly for the science community it's a huge disappointment," said John Brunschwyler, Taurus project manager for Orbital Sciences Corp., which built the rocket and satellite. "It's taken so long to get here."

anthrax spores don't match dead researcher's samples

officials: how were bird flu viruses sent to unsuspecting labs?
from canadian press: Officials are trying to get to the bottom of how vaccine manufacturer Baxter International Inc. made "experimental virus material" based on a human flu strain but contaminated with the H5N1 avian flu virus and then distributed it to an Austrian company. That company, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then disseminated the supposed H3N2 virus product to subcontractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. Authorities in the four European countries are looking into the incident, and their efforts are being closely watched by the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Control. Though it appears none of the 36 or 37 people who were exposed to the contaminated product became infected, the incident is being described as "a serious error" on the part of Baxter, which is on the brink of securing a European licence for an H5N1 vaccine. That vaccine is made at a different facility, in the Czech Republic. "For this particular incident ... the horse did not get out (of the barn)," Dr. Angus Nicoll of the ECDC said from Stockholm. "But that doesn't mean that we and WHO and the European Commission and the others aren't taking it as seriously as you would any laboratory accident with dangerous pathogens - which you have here."

flashback: plague-infested mice missing from new jersey research lab

US energy dept cannot account for nuclear materials at 15 locations
from global security newswire: A number of U.S. institutions with licenses to hold nuclear material reported to the Energy Department in 2004 that the amount of material they held was less than agency records indicated. But rather than investigating the discrepancies, Energy officials wrote off significant quantities of nuclear material from the department's inventory records. That's just one of the findings of a report released [2.3mb PDF] yesterday by Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman that concluded "the department cannot properly account for and effectively manage its nuclear materials maintained by domestic licensees and may be unable to detect lost or stolen material."

flashback: nuke weapons lab reports another major breach

analyzing body language to detect terrorists & tourists
from itbusiness: As soon as you walk into the airport, the machines are watching. Are you a tourist - or a terrorist posing as one? As you answer a few questions at the security checkpoint, the systems begin sizing you up. An array of sensors - video, audio, laser, infrared - feeds a stream of real-time data about you to a computer that uses specially developed algorithms to spot suspicious people. The system interprets your gestures and facial expressions, analyzes your voice and virtually probes your body to determine your temperature, heart rate, respiration rate and other physiological characteristics - all in an effort to determine whether you are trying to deceive. Fail the test, and you'll be pulled aside for a more aggressive interrogation and searches. That scenario may sound like science fiction, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is deadly serous about making it a reality.

flashback: tsa performing emotional screening of passengers

army preparing to test future combat systems
from defence talk: Soldiers and civilians with the Future Combat Systems program at White Sands Missile Range are working overtime preparing to put future Army technology to the test. Soldiers - along with technicians for the companies that produce the various systems that make up FCS - are loading up vehicles with data collection equipment that will be used to test the systems later this year.

flashback: the army's $200 billion makeover

how george bush gave krazy kim the bomb

You didn't know that?
Of course not, you read the NY Times...
from greg palast: How did a berserker like North Korea's Kim John Il get the bomb in the first place? Answer: He bought it from the Dr. Strangelove of Pakistan in 2001 - while all our President's men ordered our intelligence agents to keep their eyes shut tight.

On November 9, 2001, BBC Television Centre in London received a call from a phone booth just outside Washington. The call to our Newsnight team was part of a complex prearranged dance coordinated with the National Security News Service, a conduit for unhappy spooks at the CIA and FBI to unburden themselves of disturbing information and documents. The top-level U.S. intelligence agent on the line had much to be unhappy and disturbed about: a "back-off" directive.

This call to BBC came two months after the attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Towers. His fellow agents, he said, were now released to hunt bad guys. That was good news. The bad news was that, before September 11, in those weeks just after George W. Bush took office, CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) personnel were told to "back off" certain targets of investigations begun by Bill Clinton. He said there were particular investigations that were effectively killed.

Which particular investigations? The agent was willing to risk his job to get this story out, but we had to press repeatedly for specifics on the directive to "back off." The order, he said reluctantly, spiked at least one fateful operation. As he talked, I wrote in my notebook, "Killed off Conn. Labs investigation." Connecticut Laboratories? I was clueless until my producer Meirion Jones, a weapons expert, gave me that "you idiot" look and said, "Khan Labs! Pakistan. The bomb." Dr. A. Q. Khan is known as the "Father" of Pakistan's atomic bomb.

He's not, however, the ideal parent. To raise the cash for Pakistan's program (and to pocket a tidy sum for himself), Khan sold off copies of his baby, his bomb, to Libya and North Korea-blueprints, material and all the fixings to blow this planet to Kingdom Come. From another source inside the lab itself, we learned that Dr. Khan was persuading Pakistan to test his bomb-on India.

Why would Team Bush pull back our agents from nabbing North Korea's bomb connection? The answer in two words: Saudi Arabia.

NJ preps for bio-terrorism

from 1010wins: New Jersey will begin a week long drill Sunday to test how well five specialty labs detect bio terrorism agents and how quickly and accurately the state can transmit health-related information during a terror attack...

In an actual terrorist attack, specimens would be taken from patients arriving at emergency rooms and tested in the hospital lab. Those labs would be the first to spot suspicious samples or identify a possible biologic link...

The biological agent that will be used in the upcoming drill was not disclosed.

miltech & more: xe, fcs, global tv, battlebots & nasa billions

pirate bay trial ends, verdict due apr17

blackwater's prince cuts & runs
from danger room: The rebranding of Blackwater continues. First, the mercenary firm expands beyond its core, guns-for-hire business. Then, the company changes its name - to the inscrutable, barely-pronounceable "Xe." The latest: Outspoken and controversial firm founder Erik Prince announces he's stepping down as CEO. "I'm a little worn out by the whole thing, the politics of it all," Prince tells the Wall Street Journal. "Me not being part of the equation reduces the 'X' on the thing." I guess that means the company is now called "e?"

sting supports 9/11 truther & pentagon hacker, gary mckinnon; condemns US

report: diebold system has 'delete' button for erasing audit logs
from threat level: After three months of investigation, California's secretary of state has released a report examining why a voting system made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly known as Diebold) lost about 200 ballots in Humboldt County during November's presidential election. But the most startling information in the state's 13-page report [156kb PDF] is not why the system lost votes, which Wired.com previously covered in detail, but that some versions of Diebold's vote tabulation system, known as the Global Election Management System (Gems), include a button that allows someone to delete audit logs from the system. Auditing logs are required under the federal voting-system guidelines, which are used to test and qualify voting systems for use in elections. The logs record changes and other events that occur on voting systems to ensure the integrity of elections and help determine what occurred in a system when something goes wrong. "Deleting a log is something that you would only do in de-commissioning a system you're no longer using or perhaps in a testing scenario," said Princeton University computer scientist Ed Felten, who has studied voting systems extensively. "But in normal operation, the log should always be kept."

global television for our global leader

finland's parliament passes 'lex nokia' bill
from yle: Parliament has passed the controversial reforms to the data protection law, the so-called "Lex Nokia" bill. The vote was 96 for, 56 against. The hotly debated reforms caused arguments within the government coalition, but also caused a crack in the Green League. Notably, three Green MPs who had previously voted against the bill abstained from the vote: Johanna Karimäki, Ville Niinistö and Kirsi Ojansuu. They were just three of the 47 parliamentarians who decided not to cast a vote. The bill, dubbed "Lex Nokia" because of the mobile phone giant's perceived advocacy for the law, angered unions and privacy rights advocates.

video: britain plots battle-bots

army pitches 'future' killers as job-savers
from danger room: In late January, the Air Force's defense contractor buddies started pushing their pet project, the Raptor stealth fighter jet, as a jobs program. "Without it, more than 95,000 jobs are at risk," proclaimed one online ad. (The New America Foundation figures the real number is more like 35,000. You get the idea, though.) But at least the Air Force had the good sense to step back and let its industrial partners make the case for their weapons-as-stimulus. The Army wasn't so slick, alas. The Army is trying hard to keep Future Combat Systems - its massive effort to make the force lighter, more-lethal, and better-networked - away from the budget axe. During the presidential campaign, both the Obama and McCain camps talked about slowing down or killing the project. Despite some successes, FCS has become a poster child in Washington for Pentagon bloat and overreach.

the headset that will mimic all 5 senses

russian general says US may have planned satellite collision
from ria novosti: A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said. According to official reports, one of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian Cosmos-2251 satellite, launched in 1993 and believed to be defunct, collided on February 10 about 800 kilometers (500 miles) above Siberia. However, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Leonid Shershnev, a former head of Russia's military space intelligence, said in an interview published by the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper on Tuesday that the U.S. satellite involved in the collision was used by the U.S. military as part of the "dual-purpose" Orbital Express research project, which began in 2007... Shershnev claims the U.S. military decided to continue with the project to "develop technology that would allow monitoring and inspections of orbital spacecraft by fully-automated satellites equipped with robotic devices." The February collision could be an indication that the U.S. has successfully developed such technology and is capable of manipulating 'hostile satellites,' including their destruction, with a single command from a ground control center, the general said.

prez directive opens door for release of antigravity technology

a billion over budget, nasa gets a bilion more from stimulus
from ap: NASA can land a spacecraft on a peanut-shaped asteroid 150 million miles away, but it doesn't come close to hitting the budget target for building its spacecraft, according to congressional auditors. NASA's top officials know it and even joke about it. This week auditors found that on nine projects alone NASA is nearly $1.1 billion over cost estimates that were set in the last couple of years. Congress' financial watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, reviewed NASA's newest big-money projects and found most were either over budget, late or both. That doesn't include two of NASA's largest spending projects whose costs have wildly fluctuated and still aren't firm - replacements for the space shuttle fleet and Hubble Space Telescope. Historically, overruns have caused NASA to run low on money, forcing it to shelve or delay other projects. Often, the agency just asks taxpayers for more money. In fact, NASA got $1 billion from the new stimulus package. It's to be spent on climate-watching satellites and exploration among other things. "Getting an extra infusion of money doesn't necessarily mean you have a capability to spend it well," said Cristina Chaplain, GAO's acquisitions chief who wrote the study [2.8mb PDF].

marine jet crash into san diego house blamed on string of errors

task force urges broader role for nuclear labs
from washington post: The nation's nuclear weapons laboratories would be spun out of the Energy Department and become the center of an independent Agency for National Security Applications under a proposal to be released today by a bipartisan task force formed by the Stimson Center, a research organization devoted to security issues. Changing the status and making wider use of Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories for other research would help reestablish and assure "the nation's global science and technology leadership in the 21st century," said the task force report. At present, the labs are directed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which is a semiautonomous part of the Energy Department. "This action would enable the laboratories to remain trusted third party advisors as well as providers of capabilities, but it would initiate a full transformation from a Cold War, industrial age mindset and culture," according to the task force, which was chaired by Francis Fragos Townsend, who was an assistant to President George W. Bush for homeland security and counterterrorism, and retired Lt. Gen. Donald Kerrick, who was deputy national security adviser to President Bill Clinton. The proposal comes at a time when the future of the nation's multibillion-dollar nuclear weapons complex is under review.

3dtv scheme seeks to replace regular tv

video: robo-beast & human troops march together
from danger room: We've seen BigDog, the military's alarmingly-lifelike robotic quadruped, climb over hills, stomp through snow, and survive swift kicks to the chops. Now, for the first time, we're seeing it on patrol, with human soldiers. Mass High Tech uncovers this video of the BigDog going through exercises at Ft. Benning, Georgia. It comes on the heels of the robo-beast's longest walk yet - a 12.8 mile hike, following a series of GPS waypoints. Soldiers at Ft. Benning seemed intrigued by the idea of a mechanical pack mule that could one day carry some of their load.

darpa wants a lab for afghanisims

marine one blueprints & avionics leaked to iran through p2p
from raw story: Thanks to a defense contractor's errant use of a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, President Obama's helicopter may not be as safe as it looks. A Pittsburgh-area company that monitors peer-to-peer networks accessed with file-sharing software like LimeWire and Napster says it has identified a potentially serious security breach involving Marine One and an IP address in Tehran, Iran. The company found a file detailing the helicopter's blueprints and avionics package, which it then traced to its original source, Tiversa CEO Bob Boback told NBC affiliate WPXI, which reported the story Saturday [feb28].

bomb squad moves into the pentagon to stay

saic awarded $900m contract by US stratcom

scientists find active 'super-thermite' in wtc dust

from raw story: A team of nine scientists have unearthed startling data from dust gathered in the days and weeks after the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11. They discovered that scattered throughout the dust samples were red and gray chips of 'active thermitic material', or an un-reacted pyrotechnic explosive.

Thermite is used in steel welding, fireworks shows, and hand grenades. It is the combination of a metal powder and a metal oxide which produce a reaction known for extremely high temperatures focused in a very small area for a short period of time. The 'active thermitic material' discovered in the World Trade Center dust was a combination of elemental aluminum and iron oxide, and is a form of thermite known as 'nano-structured super-thermite'.

“These observations reminded us of nano-thermite fabricated at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and elsewhere; available papers describe this material as an intimate mixture of UFG [Ultra-fine grain] aluminum and iron oxide in nano-thermite composites to form pyrotechnics or explosives. Commercially available thermite behaves as an incendiary when ignited, but when the ingredients are ultra-fine grain and are intimately mixed, this 'nano-thermite' reacts very rapidly, even explosively, and is sometimes referred to as 'super-thermite',” the report explains.

The full article in The Open Chemical Physics Journal can be found here.

Some of the authors of the paper have lost their jobs at universities and chemistry labs for their outspoken breakdown of what happened at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Kevin Ryan lost his job as a lab director after writing a letter to the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST was conducting an investigation into 9/11 at the time) challenging the common theory that burning jet fuel weakened the steel supports holding up the 110-story skyscrapers. Ryan claims that the owner of his laboratory subsidiary "was the company that certified the steel components used in the construction of the WTC buildings,” according to the South Bend Tribune. Dr. Steven E. Jones, a physicist at Brigham Young University, presented a paper in 2005 discussing alternative theories to the commonly accepted 'jet fuel' reasoning. In September 2006 he was placed on paid administrative leave and his paper was removed from the BYU database.

Jones has told Visibility911.com, "In short, the paper explodes the official story that 'no evidence' exists for explosive/pyrotechnic materials in the WTC buildings."

Parts of the report mention other studies being conducted by the scientists that will come out soon.

related: somebody, please! 'rescue me' from 9/11 conspiracy theories!

swine flu updates: exploitation, human error & labs

bilderberg to exploit flu to strengthen world health regulations*
US not out of woods yet, obama warns, as flu cases nearly double*
3 flu shots? obama weighs first-ever vaccine increase*
new flu spreads to australia, now common in US*
US records third swine flu death*
audio: 1976 swine flu response haunts health officials*
humans & hogs may eat their way to flu resistance*

egypt holiday hell as family quarantined & held at gunpoint*
swine flu could hit one in three*
swine flu: lessons for a biological terrorism event*
who investigates claim that swine flu may be human error*
the mutated influenza pig virus story*
did the swine flu evolve in a lab?*
h1n1 virus: manufactured or result of 'human error'?*
swine flu may have escaped from a laboratory*

updates from may15:
fewer than a third in US would get swine flu jab*
# of new influenza patients tops 6,000 worldwide; 65 dead*
world stands on the brink of biological war*
nyc closing schools to deal with flu outbreak*
scottish govt to buy up enough swine flu vaccine for entire population*

massive anthrax updates: the case is far from closed

hair samples in anthrax case don't match*
flashback: on 9/11 high govt official advises some reporters to take anthrax antibiotic cipro'*
dr ivins, anthrax & why I don't believe the fbi*
project anthrax & the coverup: (part5): operation jefferson, roots of the plot, hauer, patrick, hatfill, ivins & human experimentation*
anthrax follies & the bizarro effect*
lawyers skeptical fbi could have convicted ivins*
flashback: bayer reduces price of anthrax antibiotic cipro for US govt only*
flashback: as anthrax fears mount, canada overrides bayer’s patent for cipro; US does not'*
"if i were a betting man, i'd wager that cheney was behind the anthrax attacks"*
sander hicks: 'mad scientist' ivins & other 9/11 legends*
anthrax suspect passed 2 polygraphs*
3 key questions still unanswered in anthrax case*
some question fbi's anthrax case*
16 labs had the killer anthrax strain*
fbi will analyze ivins' computers*
anthrax case raises doubt on security*
sorority fixation may be key clue*
anthrax plot started early, will drag on*
anthrax suspect's lab: 'rat's nest'*
the fbi’s selective release of documents in the anthrax case*
ivins went nuts... but it was the fbi who drove him crazy*
anthrax letters are not in ivins' handwriting*
widow of first anthrax victim says she believes fbi account*
flashback: ’strange coincidence’ briefly increases suspicions al-qaeda is behind anthrax attacks'*
project anthrax & the coverup: (part4): the el-hibri loop, hatfill & special forces, introduction to vaxgen, ivins redux & rumsfeld*

video: limited hangout olbermann & official story posner: anthrax case a ‘conspiracy nightmare’*
audio: fbi's anthrax case not closed!*
the killer anthrax did not originate at fort detrick*
fbi anthrax case: paid witnesses?*
fbi told to blame anthrax scare on al-qaeda by white house officials*
anthrax attack was a classic false flag op targeting arabs*
burying the evidence on anthrax*
dr. bruce ivins, the perfect patsy*
the anthraX files*
ivins reportedly made edits to wikipedia*
col anderson refutes false allegations against ivins*
'justice' dept releases anthrax attack docs*
anthrax attacks & the assault on civil liberties*
suicided & slandered: scientist's death comes with enough lies to disappear the scandal of the century*
officials say scientist was solely responsible for anthrax attacks*
US authorities say deceased scientist responsible for anthrax attacks*
flashback: gop senator alleges top officials deliberately leaked false leads to hide lack of progress in anthrax investigation*
flashback: bush suggests link between anthrax & al-qaeda'*
flashback: cheney suggests al-qaeda could be responsible for anthrax attacks*
tape excerpts of ivins restraining order request*
fbi harassment drove ivins to 'suicide'*
the dead anthrax patsy's shady therapist*
white house memo exposes rove knew of problems with anthrax vaccine*
anthrax victim's widow speaks out*
ivins/anthrax scandal explained by wayne madsen*
anthrax suspect would have gotten vaccine royalties*
anthrax scientist bruce ivins stood to benefit from a panic*
videos: down the anthrax rabbit hole*
now we know: the anthrax attacks were an inside job*
anthrax suspect commits suicide in US*
evil of anthrax came silently in ordinary letter to tom brokaw*
suicide riddle of US scientist linked to 2001 anthrax attacks*
associated press helps gov't to brush anthrax attacks under the carpet*
doctor: anthrax suspect was 'homicidal'*
anthrax suspect was committed to a psychiatric hospital shortly before his death*
ivins & the fbi’s 'court document': psyop blaming iraq for anthrax attacks*
army declines comment on anthrax researcher*
anthrax mystery deepens*
report: therapist feared scientist poisoned people*
project anthrax & the coverup: saic, hatfill & bio-economic state terrorism (part 1 2 3)*
scientists question fbi probe on anthrax*
piling on bruce ivins*
the hidden anthrax letters suspect*
daschle criticizes anthrax investigation, saying fbi should provide more information*
daschle has doubts about anthrax probe*
white house attempted to pin anthrax attacks on al-qaeda*
schechter: death of a scientist & the bio-war mystery*
ivins' mental health and his link to 'bio-port'*
anthrax evidence is called circumstantial*
sealed docs outline anthrax details*
fbi probes attacks on scientists*
dna exposed anthrax suspect*
feds sued over anthrax documents*
officials: sorority obsession seen in anthrax case*
anthrax linked to princeton sorority*
questions raised over whether gov't is framing dead army scientist for anthrax attacks*
'suicide’ of anthrax scientist–another mossad frame up?*
former fbi official: after 9/11, white house told fbi to blame anthrax attacks on al-qaeda*
3 vital questions for abc news about its anthrax reporting in 2001*
researcher kept security clearance as fbi closed in*
officials: sorority obsession seen in anthrax case*
sorority fixation may be key clue*
anthrax linked to princeton sorority*
anthrax dryer a key to probe*
is another bruce ivins lurking in a biolab?*
fbi told to blame anthrax scare on al-qaeda by white house officials*
how solid is the anthrax evidence?*
govt's purported 'anthrax killer' was a registered democrat*
pressure grows for fbi’s anthrax evidence*
video: anthrax suspect’s colleague blames fbi for suicide*

related: 'justice' department falsely claims anthrax case is closed & the supposed lone anthrax gunman supposedly suicided

fema/dhs running 'national level exercise 2010' may17-18

from fema.gov: The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct National Level Exercise (NLE) 2010 on May 17-18. NLE 2010 will engage federal, state and local partners in a series of events and opportunities to demonstrate and assess federal emergency preparedness capabilities pertaining to a simulated terrorist attack scenario involving an improvised nuclear device.

“Every day we are taking steps to continue to strengthen our nation’s emergency response team, from the local level up to the federal government,” said FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. “NLE 2010 provides an important opportunity to exercise these response and recovery capabilities across all levels of government.”

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envirohealth: pesticides, gardasil & '6-legged soldiers'

fanta has 300x more pesticide than tap water
from daily mail: Fizzy drinks sold by Coca-Cola in Britain have been found to contain pesticides at up to 300 times the level allowed in tap or bottled water. A worldwide study found pesticide levels in orange and lemon drinks sold under the Fanta brand, which is popular with children, were at their highest in the UK. The research team called on the Government, the industry and the company to act to remove the chemicals and called for new safety standards to regulate the soft drinks market. The industry denies children are at risk and insists that the levels found by researchers based at the University of Jaen in southern Spain are not harmful.

merck seeks fda approval for gardasil in boys
from wsj: Merck is asking federal regulators to expand the use of its human papillomavirus vaccine to boys and young men. The company has asked the FDA to approve the Gardasil vaccine’s use in males ages 9 to 26 years to prevent genital warts and other lesions, CNBC’s Mike Huckman reported. In 2006, the FDA approved giving the vaccine to girls and women of those ages. We talked with a Merck spokeswoman who pointed to studies showing Gardasil’s effectiveness in young males. But the request will likely renew questions about Gardasil’s cost-effectiveness, especially with a price tag of $360 for a three-dose regimen. In August, Harvard researchers suggested the vaccine wasn’t worth the cost in older women likely to have been exposed to HPV by the time they were to get vaccinated. Merck has also asked the FDA to expand Gardasil’s use to women ages 27 to 45 years. The vaccine is a key product for Merck, which estimates sales this year of as much as $1.6 billion. But sales have slowed, down 4% in the third quarter compared to a year earlier.

flashback: the latest absurd marketing scheme from merck

terrorists could enlist '6-legged soldiers' in bio-attack
from danger room: Terrorists could easily contrive an "insect-based" weapon to import an exotic disease, according to an entomologist who's promoting a book on the subject. Jeffrey Lockwood, an entomologist at the University of Wyoming, is on the talk show circuit to promote his new book, Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War. He told BBC Radio 4's Today program that planning a bio-terror attack using insects would "probably be much easier" than developing nuclear or chemical weapons. 'Today' does not post the transcript, but the Daily Telegraph quotes him as saying: "It would be a relatively easy and simple process ... A few hundred dollars and a plane ticket and you could have a pretty good stab at it."

Nothing like a little bio-warfare scare to drum up sales for your book. Military historian Max Hastings, for one, gave Lockwood's book a less-than-stellar review this weekend in the London Sunday Times. But he also noted:

"The last section of Lockwood's book is the most plausible and interesting, because it addresses the risks of biological terrorism in our own times. In particular, the author speculates about the consequences if terrorists were to broadcast Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that carries the yellow fever virus. The consequences of a yellow fever epidemic in America, where scarcely anyone is inoculated against the disease, could be devastating."

As Noah has noted here, biodefense labs have soaked up massive amounts of funding in recent years to deal with precisely this kind of theoretical threat. But the real question, thus far, seems to been whether the boom in biodefense research has actually made us safer.