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Twelve years ago the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program was very open about its efforts to increase biolabs in Ukraine to study biowarfare agents with US funding
From the Defense Department website: https://media.defense.gov/2019/Aug/02/2002165966/-1/-1/0/CPC%20OUTREACH%20818.PDF Biolab Opens In Ukraineby Tina RedlupJune 17, 2010 U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar applauded the opening of the Interim Central Reference Laboratory in Odessa, Ukraine, thisweek, announcing that it will be instrumental in researching dangerous pathogens used by bioterrorists.The level-3 bio-safety lab, which is the first built under the expanded…
The Politics of Hydroxychloroquine. The FDA has suspended a permit for its use. Let doctors decide/ WSJ
Below is a Wall Street Journal article I am reposting in full–Nass https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-politics-of-hydroxychloroquine-11594831408 OPINION | COMMENTARY The Politics of Hydroxychloroquine Trump touted it, so Biden denounces it. The FDA has suspended a permit for its use. Let doctors decide. By Allysia Finley July 15, 2020 12:43 pm ET Hubert Humphrey began his career as a…
Obama Supports Drug Decriminalization: He just commuted the sentences of 61 convicted drug dealers/ WaPo
I wonder how these 61 people were selected to have the President commute their sentences? I’d have expected him to start with jailed drug users, not dealers. Some of these people were jailed for selling kilos of cocaine, for example. Today’s WaPo lists the names and charges of every one of these 61 lucky people.
Vodaphone issues report on requests for data by many countries
A WaPo Saturday article, based on a detailed report by the company Vodaphone, details how many other countries do exactly what the US government does with digital data, including the content of phone calls: scoop up everything they want: …In the Czech Republic, for example, the government compelled Vodafone to turn over the content of…
David Kelly death and the continuing Chilcott Inquiry into the leadup to the Iraq War
From the Express: … Dr Fletcher, a highly respected retired pathologist and former chief scientific officer at the Department of Health, said: ‘‘From all the considerable reports I have read, Dr Kelly did not lose enough blood to cause his death. “He would have had to lose three to four pints of blood but all…
NAS Report: Weaknesses Found in Safety Assessment of Planned Fort Detrick Biodefense Lab/ GSN
Excerpts from Global Security Newswire: The U.S. Army should fine-tune its procedures for determining safety risks in its projects following slip-ups in plans for the new site of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., a National Academy of Sciences committee said in a report issued Thursday (see GSN,…