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And now from the Snowden cache is the story of how it ain’t only the metadata that is vacuumed up by NSA and saved for posterity. No, it is the complete audio recording of calls that is being obtained and stored. The program allegedly began in 2009, but according to the WaPo, calls are only…
Defense attempting to block report about anthrax trial/Haaretz
Excerpts from the article: … IDF soldiers were given seven doses of an anti-anthrax vaccine developed by the Nes Tziona biological institute. But there was no extended medical supervision of the vaccinated soldiers. A year and a half ago, a group of soldiers vaccinated in the experiment asked the IDF and Defense Ministry for all…
Swine flu “considerably less lethal” than feared/ BBC
Sir Liam Donaldson, the UK’s chief medical officer, reports the swine flu pandemic is “considerably less lethal” than feared, according to the BBC. A study led by Sir Liam found a death rate of just 0.026% in those infected, the British Medical Journal reported. In the US, approximately 2,000 lab-confirmed deaths have occurred from swine…
Emergent Biosolutions Hits New 52-Week High On Positive Outlook
Mayur Pahilajani – iStockAnalyst WriterNew York, NY Shares of Emergent Biosolutions Inc (NYSE: EBS) topped 52-week mark after the bell on Friday as investors gained confidence in the company after the Rockville-based biotech’s profitable anthrax treatments won emergency protection. On October 9, the firm announced that the vaccine Biothrax and its Anthrax Immune Globulin, both…
New questions about FBI anthrax inquiry deserve scrutiny/ Washington Post Editorial
The Washington Post calls for Congress to perform a definitive investigation of the anthrax letters attacks, adding to the impact of the NY Times’ editorial asking for the same 3 days earlier: BRUCE E. IVINS has been dead for three years, but questions still abound about whether he carried out the 2001 anthrax attacks that…
The Evasive FDA and the particulates and truncated mRNA in Pfizer’s vaccine/POGO
If you really want to get down in the weeds about how the FDA controls information and makes sure its advisory committees vote the way it wants them to, this is must reading. It is very long and very detailed, discussing some aspects of how FDA hid information about the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from its advisers,…