Tag: labs
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fort detrick disease samples may be missing
from frederick news-post: Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick. As first reported in today’s edition of The Frederick News-Post by columnist Katherine Heerbrandt, the investigators are from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division unit at Fort Meade. Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade,…
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Illinois Church Shooter’s Lawyer Blames Lyme Disease
…which was created with the help of the plum island biolab…from belleville news-democrat: Terry Sedlacek’s mental condition was deteriorating as a result of Lyme disease, his attorney said Monday within hours of Sedlacek being charged with murdering a pastor. The attorney also issued an apology Monday on behalf of the suspect’s family. “They’re very sorry…
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miltech & more: xe, fcs, global tv, battlebots & nasa billions
pirate bay trial ends, verdict due apr17 blackwater’s prince cuts & runsfrom 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…
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miltech: crashes, viruses, future combat & body language
global warming rocket with nasa satellite crashesfrom 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…
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miltech: crashing subs, cameras, guns, computers & internet2
french & uk officials confirm nuclear subs collided in atlanticfrom washington post: Nuclear submarines from Britain and France collided deep in the Atlantic Ocean this month, authorities said Monday in the first acknowledgment of a highly unusual accident. Officials said the low-speed crash did not damage the vessels’ nuclear reactors or missiles or cause radiation…
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miltech: biolabs, spysats, germs & cern
cern atom-smasher relaunch delayed to septemberfrom afp: Researchers announced Monday a new delay for the restart of Europe’s Big Bang atom-smasher, saying the faulty multi-billion dollar machine would now be turned back on in late September. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) had planned to relaunch the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this spring before…
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plague-infested mice missing from new jersey research lab
from ahn: The frozen remains of two mice infected with the bubonic plague are missing from a New Jersey bioterror research facility, and the facility waited seven weeks to report the incident to federal and state authorities. Officials with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, where the remains went missing,…
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envirohealth: pesticides, gardasil & ‘6-legged soldiers’
fanta has 300x more pesticide than tap waterfrom 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…
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new year’s clearinghouse
end of the year or end of the world (as we know it)?from global research: [A]n end-of-year essay of sorts is in order, especially so given the bumpy ride capitalism has bestowed on us this past twelve months. And the portents for 2009 look to be even worse as capitalism, desperate to shed over-valued assets,…
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wired whitewash: plum island bio threat
from wired: Wired Science visits Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which for the past 50 years has been the United States’ front line against foreign animal diseases.
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anthrax updates: ivins, labs & hatfill’s predictive programming
frederick news post column proclaims ivins’ innocencefrom 9/11 blogger: Terrific column in the Frederick News-Post today about the flimsiness of the govt case against Ivins. Please email Katherine Heerbrandt thanking her for naming the “elephant on the grassy knoll.” Note that contractor Battelle, who received this contract for $750 million, is a tax-exempt organization. No…
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envirohealth: pandemic lab, food, nuke, bpa & fat children
bacteria played a role in 1918 pandemic flu deathsfrom 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…
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biowar vaccine, plum island biolabs & enemy mind control
pentagon’s alarming project: avian flu biowar vaccinefrom william engdhal: There is reason to believe that sections of the international pharmaceutical industry cartel are acting in concert with the US Government to develop a genetically modified H5N1 virus substance that could unleash a man-made pandemic, perhaps more deadly than the 1918 ‘Spanish Influenza’ pandemic claiming up…
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playing politics with biolabs
from ap: The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi – home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency – as a top location for a new $451 million, national laboratory to study some of the world’s most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by The…
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offline generators caused power outage at cdc germ lab
from atlanta journal-constitution: A critical germ lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost power last week because the agency had taken two backup generators out of service for upgrades, CDC officials said Friday. Their absence from a complex, centralized backup generator system created a power fluctuation when the system was activated during…