How About A Nice Mad Cow Nanobot Disease?

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Subject: new Report: US in major bioweapons violations- and YALE'S
DANGEROUS STUPIDITY

Date: Jul 28, 2008 5:25 PM

I only would add that these people are CLEARLY dangerously *stupid,*
if they would
use the immune suppressing triacyl and diacyl lipopeptides from E.
coli (animal
dung) and mycoplasma (stealth disablers that cause immune suppression
and plant-rot)
as a vaccine adjuvant for HIV (the LYMErix vaccine).

And both failed, but only one was reported as failed- the HIV vaccine
with OspA
stuck on it.

These people are too dangeorously stupid to be messing around in
bioweapons labs.
Besides, the next thing is nanobots and there is nothing at all that
can detect
them. Russia is going there and Iran is going there, and they make
fun of us without
even the media picking up on their insults to our stupidity.

Now the CDC wants to hand off Morgellons to Kaiser? That's surely
asking for
an unidentified deployment of real bioweapons from other nations
against the United
States. All they have to do is disinform. 'State that they have the
same outbreaks
of hysteria in their own countries...

LMAO.
http://www.actionlyme.org/BOTS_MORGELLONS.htm

Shit I'd do it if I could. Drop them over Israel, the UK, and the
United States
so that everyone over 25 ends up with kind of bot-brain infection that
does a mini
mechanical mad cow routine...

Shut the whole country down but let the children live.


http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman07282008.html

Red Teaming Germ Bio-Weapons
The Bush Administration's Secret Biowarfare Agenda

By STEPHEN LENDMAN

When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and
norms, the Bush
administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it's:

-- spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament to advance its weapons
program and retain
current stockpiles;

-- renounced the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and
asserted the right
to develop and test new weapons;

-- abandoned the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) because it
expressly forbids
the development, testing and deployment of missile defenses like its
Terminal High
Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and other programs;

-- refuses to adopt a proposed Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT)
that would
prohibit further weapons-grade uranium and plutonium production and
prevent new
nuclear weapons to be added to present stockpiles - already
dangerously too high;

-- spends more on the military than the rest of the world combined
plus multi-billions
off-the-books, for secret programs, and for agencies like the CIA;

-- advocates preventive, preemptive and "proactive" wars globally with
first-strike nuclear and other weapons under the nihilistic doctrines
of "anticipatory
self-defense" and remaking the world to be like America;

-- rescinded and subverted the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention
(BWC) to illegally
develop new biowarfare weapons; in November 1969 and February 1970,
Richard Nixon
issued National Security Decision Memoranda (NSDM) 35 and 44; they
renounced the
use of lethal and other types of biological warfare and ordered
existing weapons
stockpiles destroyed, save for small amounts for research - a huge
exploitable loophole;
the Reagan and Clinton administrations took advantage; GHW Bush to a
lesser degree;

-- GW Bush went further by renouncing the US Biological Weapons Anti-
Terrorism Act
of 1989 that prohibits "the Development, Production, and Stockpiling
of Bacteriological
(Biological) and Toxin Weapons....;" on May 22, 1990, GHW Bush signed
it into
law to complete the 1972 Convention's implementation; what the father
and Nixon
established, GW Bush rendered null and void; "Rebuilding America's
Defenses"
is his central policy document for unchallengeable US hegemony; among
other provisions,
it illegally advocates advanced forms of biowarfare that can target
specific genotypes
- the genetic constitution of individual organisms.

A Brief Modern History of Biowarfare

-- the Hague Convention of 1907 bans chemical weapons;

-- WW I use of poison gas causes 100,000 deaths and 900,000 injuries;

-- Britain uses poison gas against Iraqis in the 1920s; as Secretary
of State for
War in 1919, Winston Churchill advocates it in a secret memo stating:
"I am
strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes;"

-- the 1928 Geneva Protocol prohibits gas and bacteriological warfare;

-- in 1931, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads infects human subjects with cancer
cells - under
the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations;
Rhoads later
conducts radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and
civilian hospital
patients;

-- in 1932, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins on 200 black men;
they're not
told of their illness, are denied treatment, and are used as human
guinea pigs to
follow their disease symptoms and progression; they all subsequently
die;

-- in 1935, the Pellagra Incident occurs; after millions die over two
decades, the
US Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease;

-- In 1935 - 1936, Italy uses mustard gas in conquering Ethiopia;

-- In its 1936 invasion, Japan uses chemical weapons against China; in
the same
year, a German chemical lab produces the first nerve agent, Tabun;

-- in 1940, 400 Chicago prisoners are infected with malaria to study
the effects
of new and experimental drugs;

-- the US has had an active biological warfare program since at least
the 1940s;
in 1941, it implements a secret program to develop offensive and
allegedly defensive
bioweapons using controversial testing methods; most research and
development is
at Fort Detrick, MD; beginning in 2008, Los Alamos and Lawrence
Livermore labs will
also conduct it; production and testing are at Pine Bluff, AR and
Dugway Proving
Ground, UT;

-- from 1942 - 1945, (US) Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas
experiments
on about 4000 servicemen;

-- in 1943, the US begins biological weapons research at Fort Detrick,
MD;

-- in 1944, the US Navy uses human subjects (locked in chambers) to
test gas masks
and clothing;

-- during WW II, Germany uses lethal Zyklon-B gas in concentration
camp exterminations;
the Japanese (in Unit 731) conduct biowarfare experiments on
civilians;

-- in 1945, German offenders get immunity under Project Paperclip;
Japanese ones
as well - in exchange for their data and (for Germans at least) to
work on top secret
government projects in the US;

-- in 1945, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) implements "Program
F;"
it's the most extensive US study of the health effects of fluoride - a
key chemical
component in atomic bomb production; it's one of the most toxic
chemicals known
and causes marked adverse central nervous system effects; in the
interest of national
security and not undermining full-scale nuclear weapons production,
the information
is suppressed; fluoride is found naturally in low concentration in
drinking water
and foods; compounds of the substance are also commonly used for
cavity-prevention,
but few people understand its toxicity;

-- in 1946, VA hospital patients become guinea pigs for medical
experiments;

-- in 1947, the US has germ warfare weapons; Truman withdraws the 1928
Geneva Protocol
from Senate consideration; it's not ratified until 1974 and is now
null and
void under George Bush;

-- in 1947, the AEC's Colonel EE Kirkpatrick issues secret document
#07075001;
it states that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses
of radioactive
substances to human subjects;

-- in July 1947, the CIA is established; it begins LSD experiments on
civilian and
military subjects with and without their knowledge - to learn its use
as an intelligence
weapon;

-- in 1949, the US Army releases biological agents in US cities to
learn the effects
of a real germ warfare attack; tests continue secretly through at
least the 1960s
in San Francisco, New York, Washington, DC, Panama City and Key West,
Florida, Minnesota,
other midwest locations, along the Pennsylvania turnpike and
elsewhere; more on
outdoor testing below;

-- after the (official) 1950 Korean War outbreak, North Korea and
China accuse the
US of waging germ warfare; an outbreak of disease the same year in San
Francisco
apparently is from Army bacteria released in the city; residents
become ill with
pneumonia-like symptoms;

-- in 1950, the DOD begins open-air nuclear weapons detonations in
desert areas,
then monitors downwind residents for medical problems and mortality
rates;

-- in 1951, African-Americans are exposed to potentially fatal
stimulants as part
of a race-specific fungal weapons test in Virginia;

-- in 1953, the US military releases clouds of zinc cadium sulfide gas
over Winnipeg,
Canada, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley
in Maryland,
and Leesburg, VA - to determine how efficiently chemical agents can be
dispersed;

-- in 1953, joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in New York
and San Francisco
- exposing tens of thousands of people to the airborne germs Serratia
marcescens
and Bacillus glogigii;

-- in 1953, the CIA initiates Project MKULTRA - an 11 year research
program to produce
and test drugs and biological agents that can be used for mind control
and behavior
modification; unwitting human subjects are used;

-- in 1955, the CIA releases bacteria from the Army's Tampa, FL
biological warfare
arsenal - to test its ability to infect human populations;

-- from 1955 - 1958, the Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research
(on over 1000
subjects) - to study its effect as an incapacitating agent;

-- in 1956, the US military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow
Fever over
Savannah, GA and Avon Park, FL - to test the health effects on
victims;

-- in 1956, Army Field Manual 27-10, The Law of Land Warfare,
specifically states
bio-chemical warfare isn't banned;

-- in 1960, the Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence
authorizes LSD field
tested in Europe and the Far East;

-- in 1961, the Kennedy administration increases chemical spending
from $75 - $330
million; it authorizes Project 112 - a secret program (from 1962 -
1973) to test
the effects of biological and chemical weapons on thousands of
unwitting US servicemen;
Project SHAD was a related project; subjects were exposed to VX,
tabun, sarin and
soman nerve gases plus other toxic agents;

-- in 1962, chemical weapons are loaded on planes for possible use
during the Cuban
missile crisis;

-- in 1966, the New York subway system is used for a germ warfare
experiment;

-- in 1968, the Pentagon considers using some of its chemical weapons
(including
nerve gas) against civil rights and anti-war protesters;

-- in 1969, an apparent nerve agent kills thousands of sheep in Utah;
Nixon issues
two National Security Memoranda in 1969 and 1970; the first (in
November 1969) ends
production and offensive use of lethal and other type biological and
chemical weapons;
it confines "bacteriological/biological programs....to research for
defensive
purposes" and has other loopholes as well; the second (in February
1970) orders
existing stockpiles destroyed, confines "toxins....research and
development
(to) defensive purposes only," and declares only small quantities will
be maintained
to develop vaccines, drugs and diagnostics - a huge exploitable
loophole;

-- in 1969, the General Assembly bans herbicide plant killers and tear
gases in
warfare; the US is one of three opposing votes; despite being banned,
open-air testing
intermittently continues to the present, and the Pentagon apparently
authorized
it in its most recent annual report; it calls for developmental and
operational
"field testing of (CBW) full systems," not just simulations, and
followed
it up in a recent March 2008 test; in Crystal City, VA, it released
perflourocarbon
tracers and sulfur hexaflouride assuring residents it's safe; it's not
and
may harm persons with asthma, emphysema and other respiratory
ailments;

-- in 1969, DOD's Dr. Robert MacMahan requests $10 million to develop
a synthetic
biological agent for which no natural immunity exists;

-- from the 1960s through at least the 1980s, the US assaults Cuba
with biological
agent attacks;

-- in 1970, US Southeast Asian forces conduct Operation Tailwind using
sarin nerve
gas in Laos; many die, including civilians; Admiral Thomas Moorer,
former Joint
Chiefs Chairman, confirmes the raid on CNN in 1998; under Pentagon
pressure, CNN
retracts the report and fires award-winning journalist Peter Arnett
and co-producers
April Oliver and Jack Smith because they refuse to disavow their
report;

-- in 1971, US forces end direct use of Agent Orange in Southeast
Asia; also in
1971 with CIA help, an anti-Castro paramilitary group introduces
African swine fever
into Cuba; it infects a half a million pigs and results in their
destruction; a
few months later a similar attack fails against Cuban poultry; in
1981, a covert
US operation unleashes a type 2 dengue fever outbreak - the first in
the Caribbean
since the turn of the century involving hemorrhagic shock on a massive
scale; over
300,000 cases are reported, including 158 fatalities;

-- in 1975, the Senate Church Committee confirms from a CIA memorandum
that US "defensive"
bioweapons are stockpiled at Fort Detrick, MD - including anthrax,
encephalitis,
tuberculosis, shellfish toxin, and food poisons;

-- in 1980, Congress approves a nerve gas facility in Pine Bluff,
Arkansas;

-- during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, the US supplies Iraq with toxic
biological and
chemical agents; Ronald Reagan signs a secret order to do "whatever
(is) necessary
and 'legal' " to prevent Iraq from losing the war;" a 1994
congressional
inquiry later finds that dozens of biological agents were shipped,
including various
strains of anthrax and precursors of nerve gas (like sarin), gangrene,
and West
Nile virus;

-- in 1984, Reagan orders M55 rockets retooled to contain high-yield
explosives
and VX gas; his administration begins researching and developing
biological agents
allegedly for "defensive purposes;"

-- in 1985 and 1986, the US resumes open-air biological agents
testing; it likely
never stopped;

-- in 1987, Congress votes to resume chemical weapons production;

-- in 1989, 149 nations at the Paris Chemical Weapons Conference
condemn these weapons;
after signing the treaty, it's revealed that the US plans to produce
poison
gas; at the UN, GHW Bush reaffirms the US commitment to eliminate
chemical weapons
in 10 years; the US implements the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism
Act of 1989
- "to implement....the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and
Stockpiling
of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and Their
Destruction....;"

-- in 1990, GHW Bush signs the 1989 act making it illegal for the US
to develop,
possess or use biological weapons; Bush also signs Executive Order
12735 stating:
the spread of chemical and biological weapons constitutes an "unusual
and extraordinary
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United
States;"

-- following the Gulf War, reports surface about US forces' health
problems
- later called Gulf War Syndrome; the likely cause - widespread use of
depleted
uranium, other toxic substances, and the illegal use (on nearly
700,000 theater
forces) of experimental vaccines in violation of the Nuremberg Code on
medical experimentation;
over 12,000 have since died and over 30% are now ill from non-combat-
related factors;
they've since filed claims with the VA for medical care, compensation,
and pension
benefits;

-- in 1997, Cuba accuses the US of spraying crops with biological
agents;

-- in 1997, the US ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
banning the production,
stockpile and use of these substances;

-- in 2001, the Bush administration rejects the 1972 Biological
Weapons Convention
(BWC) citing 38 problems with it, some called serious; claiming a need
to counter
chemical and biological weapons threats, it's spending multi-billions
illegally
to develop, test and stockpile "first-strike" chemical and biological
weapons that endanger homeland security and threaten good relations
with other countries;

-- all along, a BWC loophole allows appropriate types and amounts of
biological
agents to be used for "prophylactic, protective or other peaceful
purposes"
- construed to be defensive; it also permits "research," not
"development;"
the CIA took full advantage to conduct programs for offense, not
defense or to further
peace; further, the BWC includes nothing about genetic engineering
because it didn't
exist at the time.

The US Secret Bioweapons Program

In November 2001, Michel Chossudovsky used this title for his Global
Research.ca
article. It was when "an impressive military arsenal of aircraft
carriers and
gun-boats" was building up in the Persian Gulf in preparation for "a
major
bombing operation....against Iraq" at a future designated time.

Back home, the administration used the 2001 anthrax attacks as
"justification
for extending the 'campaign against international terrorism' to
Iraq....Washington
singled out Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Libya of violating the
international
treaty banning weapons of germ warfare."

At the same time, ample evidence "confirms that the US has built an
extensive
arsenal of biological weapons (in blatant violation) of international
laws and covenants."
It was enlarged in the 1980s and 1990s but significantly expanded
under George Bush
on the pretext of being strictly "defensive" and to "curb the use
of germ warfare by 'rogue states.' "

On October 29, 2002, the London Guardian reported that "Respected
scientists
on both sides of the Atlantic warned that the US is (illegally)
developing a new
generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate
international treaties
on biological and chemical warfare" - ironically at the same time it
accused
Iraq of these same type violations.

University of Bradford international security professor Malcolm Dando
and University
of California microbiology lecturer Mark Wheelis accused the Bush
administration
of "encouraging a breakdown in arms control" treaties by secretly
conducting
these programs. Dando said they include:

-- developing a cluster bomb to disperse bioweapons;

-- building a bioweapons plant from commercially available materials
to prove "terrorists"
can do it;

-- genetically engineering a more potent anthrax strain;

-- producing dried and weaponized anthrax spores in quantities far
larger than for
research;

-- researching and producing hallucinogenic weapons such as BZ gas;
and

-- developing "non-lethal" weapons similar to the gas Russia used to
end
the 2002 Moscow theater siege that killed around 170 people and
injured hundreds.

In February 2008, the Sunshine Project suspended operations, but its
website is
still accessible. It was an NGO dedicated to banning and "avert(ing)
the dangers
of" bioweapons. In 2001, it accused the Bush administration of
advancing "a
plan to undermine international controls on biological weapons."

On May 8, 2002, it issued a press release titled "US Armed Forces Push
for
Offensive Biological Weapons Development - genetically engineered
microbes that
attack items such as fuel, plastics and asphalt" in violation of
international
law. The proposals date from 1997 and involve the (Washington, DC)
Naval Research
Laboratory and the (Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas)
Armstrong Laboratory.
They come at a time when the US rejected "legally-binding" UN
inspections
of "suspected" facilities producing weapons "explicitly for offense."

Additional documents have been suppressed and those known "are
probably only
the tip of the iceberg....The National Academies are also concealing
related documents.
After the Sunshine Project requested copies....on March 12, 2002,
(they) placed
a 'security hold' on the public file" without explanation. "The
research proposed by the Air Force and Navy raises serious legal
questions. Under
the (1989) US Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, development of
biological weapons,
including those that attack materials, is subject to federal criminal
and civil
penalties." It also prohibits development, acquisition and stockpiling
of agents
intended as bioweapons.

On May 21, 2004, AP reported that arms control advocates warned the
Bush administration
that "proposed research for a new (Fort Detrick) Homeland Security
center may
violate an international ban on biological weapons and encourage other
countries
to follow." Experts said proposals for the National Biodefense
Analysis and
Countermeasures Center (NBACC) flout bioweapons prohibitions by
crossing the line
between "defensive" research and banned weapons development.

On July 31, 2007 the London Guardian reported that the US is "Building
(a)
Treaty-Breaching Germ War Defence Centre" near Washington, DC" -
NBACC.
It's to be completed in 2008 and will be a "vast germ warfare
laboratory
intended to help protect the US against an attack with biological
weapons, but critics
say the laboratory's work will violate international law and its
extreme secrecy
will exacerbate a biological arms race (by) accelerat(ing) work on
similar facilities
around the world."

It will house "heavily guarded and hermetically sealed chambers....to
produce
and stockpile the world's most lethal bacteria and viruses" -
forbidden
by the 1972 BWC and 1989 US Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act. The
Fort Detrick
facility will be used for the new 160,000 square foot lab, and it's
authorization
coincided with the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people, and
along with
9/11, unleashed everything that followed.

DHS calls Fort Detrick the home of "The National Interagency
Biodefense Campus."
Besides NBACC, other agencies there include:

-- the Health and Human Services' (NIH) National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID);

-- the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and
Foreign
Disease-Weed Science Research Unit (FDWSRU); and

-- the Department of Defense's US Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious
Diseases (USAMRIID).

DHS says USAMRIID "conduct(s) basic and applied research on biological
threats
(to provide) cutting-edge medical research for the warfighter against
biological
threats." International law and bioweapons expert, Francis Boyle,
disagrees.
He says the "program constitutes clear violations of the international
(1972
BWC) arms control treaty....ratified by the United States in 1975." He
also
cites BWC's preamble that states in part:

"....Parties to this Convention (are) Determined to act with a
view to
achieving effective progress towards general and complete disarmament,
including
the prohibition and elimination of all types of weapons of mass
destruction, and
convinced that the prohibition of the development, production and
stockpiling of
chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons and their
elimination, through
effective measures, will facilitate the achievement of general and
complete disarmament
under strict and effective international control...." The BWC goes on
to say
that use of these weapons are so "repugnant to the conscience of
mankind....that
no effort should be spared to minimize this risk."

In Boyle's view, Fort Detrick's NBACC and USAMRIID heighten risks
because
their work involves: "acquiring, growing, modifying, storing,
packaging and
dispersing classical, emerging and genetically engineered pathogens."
This
work is an "unmistakable hallmark of an offensive weapons program" in
violation of the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act that he
authored. Even
worse according to Edward Hammond, former director of the Sunshine
Project: Recreating
the deadly 1918 "Spanish flu" germ that killed an estimated 40 million
worldwide (or other dangerous pathogens) increases "the possibility of
(a)
man-made disaster, either accidental or deliberate....for the entire
world."
If a single viral particle or cell escapes or is unleashed, an
enormous outbreak
may result with potentially catastrophic consequences.

The Fort Detrick plan derives from a Bush Homeland Security
Presidential Directive
(HSPD-10) written April 28, 2004. It states: "Among our many
initiatives we
are continuing to develop more forward-looking analyses, to include
Red Teaming
efforts, to understand new scientific trends that may be exploited by
our adversaries
to develop biological weapons and to help position intelligence
collectors ahead
of the problem." Boyle calls it "a smoking gun" aimed at the BWC.

"Red Teaming means that we actually have people out there on a Red
Team plotting,
planning, scheming and conspiring how to use biowarfare" and sooner or
later
will unleash it using living organisms for military purposes. They may
be viral,
bacterial, fungal, or other forms that can spread over a vast terrain
by wind, water,
insect, animal, or humans, according to Jeremy Rifkin, author of "The
Biotech
Century." Rifkin also asserts it's "impossible to distinguish between
defensive and offensive research in the field," and given this
administration's
penchant for lying and secrecy, other nations will be justifiably
suspicious.

The Bush administration proceeded anyway. Since 9/11, it spent or
allocated around
$50 billion on bioweapons development through 11 federal departments
and agencies,
including DOD and DHS. For FY 2009, it wants an additional $8.1
billion or $2.5
billion more than in FY2008. It calls its program preventive and
defensive and cites
Project BioShield as an example. It became law in July 2004 as a 10
year program
to develop countermeasures to biological, chemical, radiological and
nuclear (CBRN)
agents. It was, in fact, a gift to companies like Gilead Sciences, the
company Donald
Rumsfeld led as chairman from 1997 to 2001 (and remains a major
shareholder) until
he left to become George Bush's Defense Secretary.

It would have also required every American to be vaccinated under the
Biodefense
and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005. It passed the
Senate but
not the House and would have, under a public emergency, allowed
experimental or
approved drugs to be used with insufficient knowledge of their safety
- in violation
of the Nuremburg Code on medical experimentation. It also would have
immunized companies
from liability and denied those harmed the right to sue.

Private Bioweapons Labs Cashing In

According to the Sunshine Project, "scores of US universities and
biotechnology
companies (since 2001) have benefitted handsomely from billions of
dollars in 'biodefense'
cash. Across the country, 'biodefense' labs are sprouting up like
weeds.
The unrelenting spigot of federal money (has) thousands of scientists
and technicians"
doing bioweapons research on some of the deadliest pathogens. But the
problem is
much greater than that:

-- projects underway are illegal;

-- immense secrecy enshrouds them; and

-- federal oversight is so lax that NIH safety guidelines aren't
enforced and
CDC poorly identifies problems it should address; as a result,
"accidents are
popping up everywhere" amidst a "pervasive cover-up culture" that
hides them - in direct violation of federal rules and responsible
practice that:

(1) require government agencies to protect the public from dangerous
pathogens,
and

(2) obligate research labs to disclose the nature of their work;
failure to do so
suggests alleged biodefense research is, in fact, cover for offensive
biowarfare
programs to complement Fort Detrick and other government site efforts.

The Sunshine Project believes about 400 private bioweapons labs now
operate around
the country with no public disclosure of their activities - and plenty
of reasons
to worry Francis Boyle that the Bush administration is up to mischief.
It "sabotaged
the Verification Protocol for the BWC (and) fully intend(s) to (engage
in) research,
development and testing of illegal and criminal offensive biowarfare
programs."
That prospect should frighten everyone.

Reporter Sherwood Ross for sure. He calls the administration's project
"the
costliest, most grandiose research scheme ever attempted (with) germ
warfare capability....going
forward under President Bush and in defiance of" US and international
laws.
Far worse, where once "germ warfare was an isolated happenstance,
(today's
efforts elevate it) to an instrument of (deadly and loathsome) policy.

Other Recent Developments

On February 21, 2008, the Sidney Morning Herald reported that the Bush
administration
rejected claims made by Indonesian Health Minister, Siti Fadilah
Supari, in her
book titled: "It Is Time for the World to Change! God's Hand Behind
Bird
Flu Virus." She questions whether the US is using bird flu samples
collected
from developing nations to develop biological weapons, not new
vaccines as claimed.

On July 20, 2008, the Jakarta Post reported: "If there were a
"National
Darling Award" contest....Supari would probably win it. (Her)
supporters praise
her as a great third world heroine who dares challenge the global
structure of injustice
and inequality perpetrated by powerful states (like the US) and
networks of international
institutions. Most of the praise is based on opinions" from her new
book mentioned
above.

She claims the US is transferring virus samples to the Los Alamos
National Laboratory.
It's one of two US nuclear weapons labs that will operate new
biological research
facilities capable of researching and developing dangerous pathogens
in violation
of the BWC and US Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.
California-based
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the other one. On January
25, it began
operating a new Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) lab. In August, Los Alamos
is scheduled
to complete a federally mandated environmental study for a similar lab
to begin
operations shortly thereafter. Given the Bush administration's
penchant for
secrecy, Supari's accusations may be justified.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) establishes biosafety
classifications. BLS-4
ones, like for Ebola, are the most dangerous, in part, because no
known cures exist.
Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore currently operate BLS-2 labs.
They'll now
have BLS-3 ones to study infectious agents able to cause serious or
fatal illnesses
if inhaled. But there's no way to know if both labs, Fort Detrick,
others like
the former Edgewood Arsenal (now the Edgewood Area at the Aberdeen
Proving Ground),
Oak Ridge Ridge National Laboratory, and still more we don't know
about will
secretly research any type pathogens, including the most dangerous
ones, for any
purpose - offense or defense.

What is known is that government labs will study pathogens posing
serious public
health and safety threats. Ones like anthrax, botulism, brucellosis,
plague, Rickettsia,
tularemia, Avian influenza, H5N1 (the recent strain reported and
called the most
dangerous), and valley fever plus whatever others are planned but kept
secret.

Most important is this. These labs conduct weapons research, so
they'll likely
focus on bioweapons and not follow BWC "prophylactic, protective, or
other
peaceful purposes" guidelines. For example, vaccines and potential
biological
weapons defenses may, in fact, be for offense. Distinguishing between
the two is
impossible so other nations and figures like Supari are suspicious.

They're not comforted by Lawrence Livermore's Lynda Seaver. On
February
12, she told Arms Control Today that the US is "a signatory to the
Biowarfare
Convention and does not conduct bioweapons research." She also said
most work
there will be unclassified. On February 15, however, a CDC
spokesperson suggested
otherwise and informed Arms Control Today that Lawrence Livermore
security restrictions
are tight as they are at Los Alamos, Fort Detrick and other US weapons
research
facilities. They bar transparency and place strict limits on sharing
select agents
research to prevent other nations from knowing it exists or its
purpose.

Further, later this year DHS will complete construction of the new
Fort Detrick
lab (NBACC), and a new $500 million animal research facility is
planned. Both will
have BLS-3 and 4 capabilities. They'll work on the most dangerous
known pathogens
and conduct controversial type threat assessment research - to develop
and produce
new biological weapons and develop defenses against them. Once again,
differentiating
between offense and defense is impossible, and given their penchant
for deception
and secrecy, no one takes Bush administration officials at their word
nor should
they.

Francis Boyle's "Biowarfare and Terrorism"

Boyle drafted the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act and
covers it in his
2006 book. It's now codified in Title 18 of the US Code, sections 175
- 178
and was the implementing legislation for the landmark 1972 Biological
Weapons Convention
(BWC).

MIT molecular biology professor Jonathan King wrote this about the
book in its forward:

It "outlines how and why the United States government initiated,
sustained
and then dramatically expanded an illegal biological arms
buildup....Boyle reveals
how the new (multi-) billion-dollar US Chemical and Biological Defense
Program has
been reoriented (endorsing "first strike" CBW use in war) to accord
with
the Neo-Conservative pre-emptive strike agenda - this time by
(illegal) biological
and chemical warfare." This "represent(s) a significant emerging
danger
to our population (and) threaten(s) international relations among
nations."
These programs "are always called defensive (but) with biological
weapons,
defensive and offensive programs overlap almost completely."

"Boyle (also) sheds new light on the motives for the (2001) anthrax
attacks,
the media black hole of silence (about them), and why the FBI may
never apprehended
the perpetrators of this seminal crime of the 21st century." They
killed five
people, injured 17 others, and temporarily shut down Congress, the
Supreme Court,
and other federal operations. Army scientist Dr. Steven Hatfill was
unfairly implicated
as a "person of interest" but was never charged. He sued the Justice
Department
and in June was awarded $2.8 million and a $150,000 annuity for
violating his privacy,
leaking false and inflammatory information, costing him his job and
reputation,
and blasting his name all over the media for days. It was the
beginning of the frightening
events that followed.

Boyle is currently a leading proponent of an effort to impeach George
Bush, Dick
Cheney and other high-level administration figures for their crimes of
war, against
humanity and other grievous violations of domestic and international
law. In his
"Biowarfare and Terrorism," he sounds an alarm about the
administration's
bioweapons program and what it means for humanity. He fears "a
catastrophic
biowarfare or bioterrorist incident or accident (is) a statistical
certainty."
It highlights enormous new risks plus other frightening ones like the
possibility
of nuclear war and catastrophic fallout from it. That, permanent wars,
a potential
Andromeda Strain, police state justice, and destroying the republic
are but five
among other threats since the advent of George Bush and his roguish
team.

In "Biowarfare and Terrorism," Boyle addresses the bioweapons threat
as
an expert on the subject and gives readers an historical perspective.
He asserts
that the US government dramatically expanded an illegal biological
arms development,
production, and buildup that endangers all humanity with its
potential. It's
part of an extremist agenda for unchallengeable power and right to
unleash "proactive"
wars with the most aggressive weapons in its arsensal - nuclear,
chemical, biological,
others, space-based ones, and new ones in development.

Since WW II, America has actively developed, tested, and used terror
weapons, including
biological ones. Even after Nixon ended the nation's biowarfare
programs, they
never stopped. The CIA remained active through a loophole in the law,
then the Reagan
administration reactivated what Nixon slowed down. It acted much like
the current
regime with many of the same officials espousing similar extremist
views - that
America must exploit its technological superiority and not let laws,
norms, or the
greater good deter them.

The Bush administration raised the stakes and threatens all humanity.
Boyle believes
it used 9/11 and the anthrax attacks to stampede Congress and the
public into aggressive
wars and a menu of repressive laws. He also thinks the FBI knows who's
behind
the anthrax attacks: criminal US government elements planning a police
state and
another frightening enterprise - to fight and win a future biowar. A
possible nuclear
one as well. Boyle sounds the alarm about what may lie ahead and its
potential consequences.

In October 2003, the National Academy of Sciences did as well. It
warned about the
"misuse of tools, technology, or knowledge base of (bioweapons)
research for
offensive military or terrorist purposes." That's the present risk.
It
makes everyone unwitting subjects of a recklessly endangering
experiment.

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on
Globalization.
He lives in Chicago and can be reached at
lendman...@sbcglobal.net.