3
POPSHas Bioterrorism Effort Increased Risk of Attack? Basically, the argument is that, by increasing the number of labs that handle bioweapons, you increase the risk of a bioweapon either being used or released by error. “The simplest, most likely path for an individual or group to acquire a bioweapons capability is to obtain bioweapons agents and training by penetration of a U.S. bioweapons-agents research project,” said Richard H. Ebright , a scientist at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “One well-placed graduate student, post-doctoral fellow or technician... It’s only a matter of time.”
0
POPSA "Dark Winter" for Public Health: Meet Homeland Security's New Bioterror Czarina Before being pegged by the Obama administration to head DHS's Science and Technology division where she will oversee the department's billion dollar budget, with some 45 percent of it going towards chemical and bioweapons defense, O'Toole, as previously mentioned, was the CEO and Director of UPMC's Center for Biosecurity, a satrapy which describes itself as "an independent organization dedicated to improving the country's resilience to major biological threats."
0
POPSBird Flu: US Accused of Developing Bio Weapon Indonesia, the WHO, and the US conflict over bird flu samples that will make millions for US Pharma companies and the Indonesia Health Minister claims in a book that the US wants it to make biological weapon. By the way, the neoconservative Project for New American Century blueprint for "global hegemony", in addition to space dominance and a "new middle east" does mention the use of bioweapons : The document also calls for the creation of "US space forces" to dominate space, and the total control of cyberspace to prevent "enemies" using the internet against the US. It also hints that the US may consider developing biological weapons "that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool".
1
POPSThe Truth about Tim Russert.. I agree with Cockburn completely Tim Russert was for me a goon for this discredited Administration and responsible for the deaths of thousands much much younger than he...
3
Pops
Newest Clips
Latest Comments
Most Pops
Print
Save
Turn on live update