Friday, July 18, 2014

Inspector General Reports: Biosecurity at Multiple Agencies (including CDC and NIH) a Joke/ USAToday

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From USAT: ... CDC has not responded to USA TODAY's requests, under the Freedom of Information Act, filed in June 2012 , for records...

What happened to the last safety czar you appointed? Asked who this was, the CDC Director didn't know/ Reuters

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I am posting the entire Reuters story below. Is it funny, pathetic, or both? CDC Director Tom Frieden promised Congress to appoint a seni...
Monday, July 14, 2014

CDC says there were 269 separate, reported incidents of lost or escaped 'select agent' microbes in 2010/ Reuters

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but today's Reuters story has even more bad news on safety at our highest containment labs: Accor...

CDC scientists' lack of understanding of anthrax is shocking and terrifying

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The WaPo has published the  full text of the CDC report  on its anthrax mishap last month, with mention of a number of other, almost ident...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

CDC anthrax story keeps getting weirder

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Latest update claimed that CDC scientists put anthrax into a chemical bath to inactivate it for 24 hours, but after only ten minutes took ou...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Nevada Democrats pick ‘None of these candidates’ for governor in Primary/ WaPo

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In light of the Eric Cantor defeat in Virginia's Republican primary, that fact that more Nevada voters cast votes for a "None of th...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Vodaphone issues report on requests for data by many countries

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A WaPo Saturday article , based on a detailed report by the company Vodaphone, details how many other countries do exactly what the US gov...
Monday, May 5, 2014

Biowatch--the unworkable system for detecting bioweapons in the air--finally cancelled after wasting over $1 billion

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From David Willman at the LA Times : WASHINGTON — Amid concerns about its effectiveness and multibillion-dollar cost, the  Department of H...
Friday, May 2, 2014

A woman giving birth in America now is more likely to die than a woman giving birth in China/WaPo

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What is the tag line?  Don't be poor in America.  Healthcare is simply too expensive for a sizable number of Americans to afford, so ...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Looking to sales growth, Merck rolls out vaccine adherence plan using electronic medical record

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The Electronic Medical Record has a new application: to sell more vaccines. The following article comes verbatim from FierceVaccines, whi...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Nancy Haigwood was central in defining Bruce Ivins as a psychopathic criminal. Why?

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How did Professor Haigwood come to make the case against Ivins?    It appears that (like Jean Duley, Ivins' trainee therapist who was...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

What are the mechanisms by which corruption operates in the US? Some breathtaking examples of bonuses and revolving doors are discussed by Michael Krieger

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Why is the country practically bankrupt and mired in corruption? Can the parts of our economic culture that enable huge government giveaway...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Syria's chemical weapons attack(s) an Erdogan False Flag/ Seymour Hersh

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Seymour Hersh provides a very plausible deconstruction of how chemical weapons were used in an attempt to draw the United States into milit...
Monday, April 7, 2014

Anthrax Industry report published/ Research and Markets

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Wondering which corporations feed at the anthrax biodefense rice bowl?  For a minimum of $995 (US) you can find out about where the anthrax...
Friday, April 4, 2014

UN Human Rights Committee Finds US in Violation on 25 Counts/ Truthout

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This is a very long piece, but it needs to be said and all the points are important.  The US' record on Human Rights is pitiful, and ou...