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"Genetic engineering can create virus-resistant and protein-rich plants, improved breeds of animals, vast supplies of animal proteins, and microorganisms capable of producing proteins and hormones and improving photosynthesis, but it can also produce lethal biological weapons and pathogenic microorganisms and destroy the diversity and the balance of nature." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Some among the new strong-arm regimes employ nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons to resolve regional conflicts. • War fought with conventional and nonconventional weapons escalates to the global level. No change leads to breakdown. But there is another path we could take. 2. The Timely Transformation Scenario The First Steps • The experience of terrorism and war together with rising poverty and the threats posed by a changing climate trigger positive changes in the way people think." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Agent Orange, napalm, biological weapons, and high explosives have a far more devastating impact than bows and arrows or cannonballs. So far, we have managed to avoid the horrors of a nuclear war, but it remains an ever-present danger. As resources become less plentiful, food and water become more scarce, the gap between rich and poor grows, and climatic change promotes mass migrations, it is not difficult to imagine a number of scenarios leading, either accidentally or deliberately, to a nuclear conflagration." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Many experts believe these sub rosa experiments violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the 1972 biological weapons Convention. The treaty, at this writing ratified by 144 countries, states that signatory nations would "never in any circumstances develop, produce, stockpile, or otherwise acquire or retain" biological weapons. As prophylactic and defensive research, the two Pentagon programs were permissible under the BWC, says Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a biologist and chairman of the Federation of American Scientists Working Group on biological weapons." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

"The resurrection of 1918 influenza has plunged the world closer to a flu pandemic and to a biodefense race scarcely separable from an offensive one, according to the Sunshine Project, a biological weapons watchdog. "There was no compelling reason to recreate 1918 flu and plenty of good reasons not to." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"It entails chemical weapons, biological weapons, training in their application. And he's working on nuclear weapons. The message is very clear—we have no time to lose, Saddam must be removed from office. Every day that goes by is a day in which we are exposed to dangers on a far larger scale than the tragedy of September 11.... I think we're moving not nearly fast enough, but clearly in the right direction. Bureaucracies are sluggish. And, we had an administration that wasn't prepared to contemplate military action to remove Saddam. So it was a standing start." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"At no time in history was the world exposed to such massive and 24-hour pollution created by the fumes and smoke resulting from continuous bomb and grenade explosions, the burning of entire cities, the effects of mustard gases and other biological weapons by Germans. Nobody remained uninfluenced by it. The pollution created in Iraq today will affect every part of the globe within 24 hours, as the earth rotates around its axis. In fact, part of the exhaust produced by a single car driven in Beijing this moment will end up in your lungs tomorrow. This is a scientific fact." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Encourage universal adherence to and implementation of the biological weapons convention and the chemical weapons convention. • Hold states and corporations accountable for the impact of military production, testing, and use on the environment and health. • Build a civil society movement for the abolition of war. Sound impossible? Read on as we show how people around the globe have found the courage to speak truth about power and change their societies' beliefs that violence is inevitable." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Just for the hell of it I thought, I typed the words, "biological weapons" and "CIA" in the subject field. Then I pressed the Enter key. To my surprise, the screen filled with data—references regarding the CIA and biological weapons. Somewhat astonished, I suddenly realized how easy it was to access information I assumed would be classified. I selected and then output the information to the printer. The hardcopy included Soviet, Caribbean, and Cuban International Affairs references. "Belitskiy on How, Where AIDS Virus Originated," read one title." - Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Get the book.)

"At one point a group of over 5000 members of the Federation of American Scientists signed a petition against the use "of chemical and biological weapons in Vietnam." They were aware of the potentially grave danger. In April 2002, another group of the world's leading environmental scientists concluded, at a conference at Yale, that the Viet Nam war was the largest chemical warfare campaign in history—and we were the ones who did it. Our shame should be immense." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"A company called Changing World Technologies, with a plant in Missouri, claimed that it could take any carbon-based feedstock imaginable, "including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores," and convert them into three valuable products: high-quality hydrocarbon oil, clean-burning hydrocarbon gas, and useful minerals. They called it thermal depolymerization, or TDP. It was a high-tech method for mimicking and greatly accelerating 7." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Four months after the Church Committee hearings closed, the House Appropriations Committee renewed the CIA's entire chemical and biological weapons (CBW) budget. Despite revelations that the CIA had misused its authority and resources for the development, storage, and outlawed use of biological weapons, their association with Fort Detrick, the NCI, and the killer germs continued.12 The following month, in February 1976, the Senate added additional funds to the CIA's CBW coffer after hearing African intelligence reports alleging Soviet and Cuban aggression in Angola." - Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Get the book.) "Rogers made it clear that "the United States Government considers that toxins, however manufactured, will be considered as biological weapons and not chemical weapons." In this and other ways, Nature observed, "the position of the United States on chemical and biological weapons" had been "transformed within the short space of a year." (see fig. 4.1) The Ruse By November 1970, a year after Nixon ratified the Geneva Protocol, nothing had changed except the public's perception of CBW risk." - Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Get the book.) "Hearings for 1970 on the Development of Immune-System Destroying Agents for Biological Warfare SOVIET CHEMICAL AND biological weapons Mr. Sikes. The statements indicate that the Soviets have made extensive progress in chemical and biological weapons. I would like you to provide for the record a statement which shows what they are doing in this area and with some indication of their capabilities in this area. Mr. Poor. We will be happy to provide that." - Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Get the book.)

"Henderson commented, "At least 10 countries are now engaged in developing and producing biological weapons. What with the growing power of biotechnology, one has to anticipate that this technology, like all others before it, will eventually be misused."50 Public health experts concerned about such possibilities cite precedents, ancient and modern, for the use of poisoned food and drink to achieve political ends." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "Questions about food bioterrorism take us into the realm of emerging food safety hazards that might be used as biological weapons: mad cow disease, foot-and-mouth disease, and anthrax. From a science-based perspective, these problems are of uncertain or low overall risk to human health, but they rank high as causes of dread and outrage. The terrorist attacks of September zooi increased the level of anxiety, particularly about the country's vulnerability to bioterrorism in general, and to food bioterrorism in particular." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "They (1) shifted the common use of the term food security to mean protection of the food supply against bioterrorism, (2) raised alarms about the ways food and biotechnology could be used as biological weapons, (3) encouraged more forceful calls for a single food agency to ensure food security, and (4) focused attention on the need for a stronger public health system to address food safety crises. Despite the apparent unity of purpose in dealing with the aftermath of the attacks, each of these effects displays the usual politics, to which we now turn." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "On the international level, the government could sign and actively support treaties that promote food safety, environmental protection, and the right to food, as well as agreements to stop producing biological weapons, genetically modified or otherwise. If we are going to protect our country against bioterrorism, our government must become more actively involved in international policies to promote health and food security as human rights for everyone, everywhere. What can we, as individuals, do to promote such actions?" - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"The two organizations were agreed on three large aims: "[1] maintaining a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons... [2] developing and stockpiling [other, newly created biological weapons] for operational use, and [3] testing and perfecting delivery systems for these" weapons.68 The joint project was titled MKNAOMI (spelled slightly differently above). As far as the records go, MKNAOMI was active from May 5, 1952, to February 18, 1970. Scheflin and Opton comment, "That does not necessarily mean that the program ended at that time." - Gary Null, James Feast, AIDS: A Second Opinion (Get the book.)

"J^UKAS LSIOUAfwTiC-IK 233 Antibodies are biological weapons designed to seek out and destroy specific bacteria, viruses, and other invaders. The antibodies distinguish between friend and foe by looking for particular features on the invading cell. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin uses the same strategy by combining an antibody with an antitumor drug. It specifically looks for the CD33 antibody that's found on cancerous white blood cells in over 80 percent of those who have acute myeloid leukemia." - Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D., The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications (Get the book.)

"The records likely end there because President Nixon had formally closed down all research into and stockpiling of biological weapons. This may seem to fly in the face of what I said previously about Kissinger's role in developing new biological weapons programs under Nixon; but, in fact, it was this very shutdown, which was out of line with Kissinger's wishes, that explains another part of the puzzle, namely, how cancer research became so intimately tied into developing military viruses." - Gary Null, James Feast, AIDS: A Second Opinion (Get the book.)

"The CIA keeps an eye on more than twenty nations it suspects of developing or hiding biological weapons. The CDC classifies biological agents according to their perceived level of risk to national security.2 Class A, the highest risk, includes anthrax, smallpox, botulism, plague, tularemia, and hemorrhagic fever viruses such as Ebola. All can kill swiftly. Plague is potentially one of the deadliest. It has caused global pandemics since A.D. 541, when it wiped out 50 to 60 percent of the world's inhabitants." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "In 1998 a Russian defector, Ken Alibek, who had served as deputy director of the Soviet biological weapons program, spoke freely about such activities, noting that the Soviet war machine had built facilities capable of producing tons of smallpox concoctions annually. We should take the smallpox threat seriously because it is truly a heinous scourge. Epidemiologists say it has killed more human beings than any other infectious disease: 300 million to 500 million people in the past millennium, by various accounts. People can spread the virus simply by talking, kissing, or shaking hands." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "That's why we've heard so much about Saddam Hussein's alleged development of biological weapons. Heads of state like Hussein could also decide to supply the deadly agents to outside terrorist groups. Perhaps a more persuasive argument about why synthetic organisms won't be used by terrorists is that there is no need for such bizarre creations. As Monath says, "It's hard to imagine terrorists would bother to engineer a new agent. The natural ones are already so deadly." It also would be simpler to add drug-resistance genes to well-known pathogens than to devise new organisms." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "The United States and Japan studied it as a biowarfare agent as far back as World War II, and it was one of several biological weapons the U.S. military stockpiled in the late 1960s and presumably destroyed in 1973. Intelligence reports indicate the Soviet Union continued weapons production of antibiotic-resistant and vaccine-resistant strains into the early 1990s. Another feared Glass A agent is actually a toxin produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. This toxin causes botulism." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"HAZMATs—in first response to biological weapons attacks. Nearly seventy thousand firefighters were trained in WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), operating in manners that equated chemical and biological attack responses.112 It was, Osterholm insisted, the fundamental flaw in all American plans for defending the nation's citizenry against bioweapons attacks. Osterholm said that "biological weapons cause diseases that exist in nature and may occur spontaneously in human populations...." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "In 1989 it passed the biological weapons Act, which made it illegal for any American to possess, trade, sell, or manufacture a biological substance "for use as a weapon." After the Oklahoma City bombing, Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996, which allowed federal authorities to arrest anyone who even "threatens" to develop or use biological weapons. And the following year, by order of Congress, the CDC named twenty-four infectious organisms and twelve toxins as "restricted agents," use or possession of which required a federal permit." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "And in 1996 Saddam Hussein's government conceded that biological weapons production had also commenced at that time.23 In the late 1980s Hussein had gone full bore on acquisition and development of chemical and biological weapons, with the complicity of U.S., Japanese, Austrian, British, Swiss, Dutch, and German commercial suppliers and technicians. Enormous chemical plants were built in Samarra, Falliyah, Al Muthanna, and just outside Baghdad. And, in collaboration with Argentina and Egypt, Iraq developed Condor missiles capable of delivering CBW to distant targets." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"The treaty, at this writing ratified by 144 countries, states that signatory nations would "never in any circumstances develop, produce, stockpile, or otherwise acquire or retain" biological weapons. As prophylactic and defensive research, the two Pentagon programs were permissible under the BWC, says Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a biologist and chairman of the Federation of American Scientists Working Group on biological weapons. (In October 2001, the Pentagon decided to continue its research on genetically engineered anthrax bacilli." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.) "This kind of research is permissible under the biological weapons Convention if it's carried out in the open and reported as part of the confidence-building measures—neither of which was done. Here we are doing activities that, if we found out they were being done in Iraq or Iran or North Korea, we would probably immediately bomb the hell out of them." "It makes it look like we're trying to get away with something," adds Rosenberg. "I don't believe the U.S. intends to develop or possess offensive biological weapons." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

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