Microbiology: The Most Dangerous Area of Inquiry in the World :.

In case you haven't noticed, the world's top microbiologists are dying.

The MURDER of David Kelly in Britain brings the total of dead experts in microbiology to 13. (Update 1/15/04: It's 14 now. See below.) To call Kelly's death a suicide is complete folly. See my entry on Israel's Kidon.

Kidon is the Mossad's elite political assassination team that specializes in suicides. While I'm not saying that Kidon did or did not murder Kelly, Kidon is known to have been in Britain. The story was that they were executing individuals associated with Muslim extremism.

Leland Rickman of University of California, San Diego was number twelve. The previous eleven deaths are detailed here. I would also add SAIC analyst Christopher Legallo and potentially MD/microbiologist/lawyer Jeffrey Paris Wall and FBI analyst Linda Franklin to the list.

Why are these people dying? Your guess is as good as mine:

Kelly was the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific officer and senior adviser to the proliferation and arms control secretariat, and to the Foreign Office's non-proliferation department. The senior adviser on biological weapons to the UN biological weapons inspections teams (Unscom) from 1994 to 1999, he was also, in the opinion of his peers, pre-eminent in his field, not only in this country, but in the world.

Update: Kelly Was Eager to Get Back to Work :.

From C4 News:

Just yesterday in an email to a friend he expressed a desire to return to the job that meant so much to him. "Hopefully it will soon pass" he wrote "and I can get to Baghdad and get on with the real work."

Update: Kelly Email to New York Times Minutes Before His Death :.

"many dark actors playing games."

More: The Sudden and Suspicious Deaths of 11, 12, 13 of the World's Leading Microbiologists

Who they were:

1. Nov. 12, 2001:

Benito Que was said to have been beaten in a Miami parking lot and died later.

2. Nov. 16, 2001:

Don C. Wiley went missing. Was found Dec. 20. Investigators said he got dizzy on a Memphis bridge and fell to his death in a river.

3. Nov. 21, 2001:

Vladimir Pasechnik, former high-level Russian microbiologist who defected in 1989 to the U.K. apparently died from a stroke.

4. Dec. 10, 2001:

Robert M. Schwartz was stabbed to death in Leesberg, Va. Three Satanists have been arrested.

5. Dec. 14, 2001:

Nguyen Van Set died in an airlock filled with nitrogen in his lab in Geelong, Australia.

6. Feb. 9, 2002:

Victor Korshunov had his head bashed in near his home in Moscow.

7. Feb. 14, 2002:

Ian Langford was found partially naked and wedged under a chair in Norwich, England.

8. 9. Feb. 28, 2002:

San Francisco resident Tanya Holzmayer was killed by a microbiologist colleague, Guyang Huang, who shot her as she took delivery of a pizza and then apparently shot himself.

10. March 24, 2002:

David Wynn-Williams died in a road accident near his home in Cambridge, England.

11. March 25, 2002:

Steven Mostow of the Colorado Health Sciences Centre, killed in a plane he was flying near Denver.

12. June 24, 2003:

Leland Rickman, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine, died suddenly on June 24 while traveling and teaching medicine in Lesotho, Africa. Actual cause of death, apparently due to natural causes, is not known.

13. July 18, 2003

David Kelly, a British biological weapons expert, was said to have slashed his own wrists while walking near his home. Kelly was the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific officer and senior adviser to the proliferation and arms control secretariat, and to the Foreign Office's non-proliferation department. The senior adviser on biological weapons to the UN biological weapons inspections teams (Unscom) from 1994 to 1999, he was also, in the opinion of his peers, pre-eminent in his field, not only in this country, but in the world.

14. November 20, 2003

Robert Leslie Burghoff, 45, a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor College of Medicine's molecular virology and microbiology department, was walking to his car Nov. 20 when he was hit from behind by a white or light-colored cargo van that jumped the sidewalk in the 1600 block of South Braeswood. Burghoff, a father of three who lived in The Woodlands, had been studying the Norwalk virus plaguing cruise ships.


People Who Aren't on the Main List, but Probably Should Be

Nov. 5, 2001:

Jeffrey Paris Wall was said to have jumped from the parking structure at his place of work, the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. See this entry for more details.

Sept. 30, 2002:

Christopher Legallo

Legallo died in a plane crash. He was a terrorism analyst for SAIC. His wife, Laura Koepfler, a weapons of mass destruction analyst for SAIC, was also supposed to be on the doomed plane, but decided to take a different flight at the last moment.

Oct. 10, 2002:

Linda Franklin was allegedly killed by the Lee Boyd Malvo/John Allen Muhammad sniper team. Franklin was a top analyst at the FBI National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC).

Update: Three More

AM sends:

Hi Kevin,

You forgot to include:

4 - 6.Nov 24, 2001:

Three more dead microbiologists: A Swissair flight from Berlin to Zurich crashes during its landing approach; 22 are killed and nine survive. Among those killed are Dr. Yaakov Matzner, 54, dean of the Hebrew University school of medicine; Amiramp Eldor, 59, head of the haematology department at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv and a world-recognized expert in blood clotting; and Avishai Berkman, 50, director of the Tel Aviv public health department and businessman.

Any more?
posted by Kevin at 7:46 AM

Madness: Save the Soil with GPS Guided Tractors?! :.

It's so far gone, it's starting to get funny:

The world's over-farmed soil is sick and has been rapidly getting sicker, but scientists say space-age, satellite-driven tractors are coming to the rescue.

Heavy modern farm equipment is killing the soil through repeated compaction and tilling, which in turn worsens salinity that kills crops.

But a new world of automatically steered tractors, guided by satellites, will allow them to run on pre-determined tracks and lessen their impact on the soil.

Stop pharming and start farming.
posted by Kevin at 5:15 PM

Wet Work: Weapons Expert Found Dead :.

Police searching for missing Dr David Kelly, the Government adviser on Iraqi arms named as the possible "mole" for a BBC report claiming the Government "sexed up" its dossier on weapons of mass destruction, say a body found earlier today is probably his.
posted by Kevin at 2:12 PM

Implantable Human Tracking Chip Launched :.

Borrowing from technology for tracking pets, a U.S. company on Thursday launched Mexican sales of microchips that can be implanted under a person's skin and used to confirm health history and identity.

The microchips, already available in the United States, could tap into a growing industry surrounding Mexico's criminal concerns. Kidnappings, robberies and fraud are common here, and Mexicans are constantly looking for ways to protect themselves against crime.

The microchip, the size of a grain of rice, is implanted in the arm or hip. Hospital officials and security guards use a scanning device to download a serial number, which they then use to access blood type, name and other information on a computer.

Research Credit: TL, TR
posted by Kevin at 1:54 PM

Stephanopoulos: Journalistic Leader for the Next 30 Years :.

How about an unremarkable personality, totally unwilling to rock the boat and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group? Yep. He sounds like a journalistic leader to me:

Bettag said ABC News viewed Stephanopoulos as a key to bringing a younger audience to the Sunday morning shows, where the viewers average 58 years old.

"We see him as one of the bright stars on the horizon," Bettag said. "If you can help him get a dominant position on Sunday morning, he is in a position to be a journalistic leader for the next 30 years."
posted by Kevin at 1:24 PM

Nothing Left To Lie About :.

Mark Morford's unhinged rant does a good job of summing up the dire situation we are all facing. But, it's not that bad, Mark, it's much worse.

The fake liberal press... So concerned. So interested in exposing the lies. So willing to take risks.

So full of shit.

With each passing regime in the U.S., the theory around election time becomes, "Anyone would be better than ________." <---- Fill in the blank.

When you're through living in the bullshit dream world of Republican vs. Democrat, you come to the same realization that Carroll Quigley did when he wrote, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in our Time:

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

Election Day 2004??? Yawn. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

You see, the appearance of choice is the mechanism of control. The problem is that as long as Democrats and Republicans are running the show, it really isn't unraveling. The swindle just goes on and on. Eventually, appearances will not be maintained and a massive crash will occur. But until that day, that truly glorious day, the game of musical chairs, played with Democrats and Republicans, will continue. And suckass journalists, fake liberals and fake conservatives alike, will continue to decry the evil and corrupt nature of the other. Wake me up when major newspapers and TV news shows are running headlines and soundbites saying that both parties are equally corrupt and that the entire political process is a scam.
posted by Kevin at 5:33 AM

Child Abuse? :.

Your kids WILL be indoctrinated, or else!

A 15-year-old Manhattan girl whose parents sent her to college instead of high school has been told by a judge that she can't get her associates degree even though she's got enough credits - as city officials launched an "educational neglect" probe against her dad.

Angela Lipsman has been passing courses since she was 11 at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Manhattan Community College. She has a 3.8 average.

...

Meanwhile, her dad, Daniel, said the Administration for Children's Services notified him he's being investigated.

ACS opened the probe after getting a complaint through a child abuse hot line.

"I'd rather go to jail than send my daughter to high school," he said.
posted by Kevin at 3:03 PM

Upload a File, Go to Prison :.

A new bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would land a person in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file to a peer-to-peer network.

The bill was introduced by Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.). They said the bill is designed to increase domestic and international enforcement of copyright laws.
posted by Kevin at 2:57 PM

Live TV: U.S. Soldier Wants Rumsfeld's Resignation :.

Hey, G.I. Joe, think twice before you voluntarily sign up to be the muscle for a mafia organization. Maybe these numbnuts will wake up and figure out who the real enemies are:

Fed up with being in Iraq and demoralized by their role as peacekeepers in a risky place, a group of U.S. soldiers aired their plight on U.S. television on Wednesday and said they had lost faith in the Army.

Told several times they would be going home only to have their hopes dashed this week, a small group of soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq, spoke of poor morale and disillusionment with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"If Donald Rumsfeld were here, I'd ask him for his resignation," one disgruntled soldier told ABC's "Good Morning America" show.

Asked by a reporter what his message would be for Rumsfeld, one said: "I would ask him why we are still here. I don't have any clue as to why we are still in Iraq."
posted by Kevin at 8:53 AM

Activists Prepare for Counter-Bohemian Grove Ritual :.

After thousands of hours of reading and researching global political and economic power, I am starting to believe that the upper echelons of the elite have tapped into, and are drawing their power from, some form of tangible evil. This statement may put off many Cryptogon readers who eschew "woo woo" and religious explanations for events.

But I go where the information leads me. At a minimum, we can say, without a doubt, that the core global elite are fascinated with a human (child) sacrifice ritual involving the ancient symbol of Moloch.

From the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia:

The chief feature of Moloch's worship among the Jews seems to have been the sacrifice of children, and the usual expression for describing that sacrifice was "to pass through the fire", a rite carried out after the victims had been put to death. The special centre of such atrocities was just outside of Jerusalem, at a place called Tophet (probably "place of abomination"), in the valley of Geennom.

The members of "The Establishment" are not particularly smart. On an individual basis, they are basket cases. Yet, somehow, they have managed to enslave the planet! It might be that they are aware of the proclivities and weaknesses of human consciousness, and opportune accordingly. I think there is more to it. Look at the words of President Woodrow Wilson (in The New Freedom, 1913):

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

This refers to the core of the core. The nucleus. The Them.

Bohemian Grove is probably the most accessible example of what is truly frightening about these people.

What is Bohemian Grove?

As with just about everything, there is the public cover story, "Oh, it's just a bunch of boys having fun," ....and then there is the story you probably don't want to know more about. Antony C. Sutton, editor of the Phoenix Letter, stated in the October, 1996 edition:

"Up to a few months ago, our knowledge of Bohemian Grove, the exclusive elitist hideaway by supposedly adult wheeler dealers, a.k.a. Washington statesman and prominent people (all male.)

We dismissed the behavior as immature, even pitiful by emotionally disturbed juveniles and not worth attention. This is where Kissinger, Ford, Nixon, Bechtel, Bush, Cheney, Hoover and their friends (2600 members) hang out and "relax." And if they want to behave as little boys that is their privilege, it is private property.

Recent [O'Brien and Phillips, TRANCE Formation of America (pp 170-1)] information may radically change this perception of Bohemian Grove. Not merely drunkenness, unbounded use of alcohol and drugs with vague homosexual tones (confirmed by our sources) but reported activities much more serious - kidnapping, rape, pedophilia, sodomy, ritual murder. Investigation is blocked under the 1947 National Security Act. (!) And like the Omaha child abuse case, includes illegal detention of children.

For decades, there have been vague rumors of weird goings on in Bohemian Grove in more remote parts of its 2200 acres. Reliable reports claim Druidic like rituals, druids in red hooded robes marching in procession and chanting to the Great Owl (Moloch.) A funeral pyre with "corpses." (Scores of men work in the Bohemian Grove as servants so this party is fairly well established.)

An article in a local community newspaper, Santa Rosa Sun (1993, July) reported on the Cult of Canaan and the legend of Moloch in place at Bohemian Grove. The Moloch Pagan Cult of Sacrifice is human sacrifice. About the mid 1980s there were rumors of murders in remote parts of the property. A local police investigation went nowhere. State investigators on related criminal acts went nowhere.

According to an observer and near victim, who can describe the Bohemian Grove inner hideaways, the closed sanctum, even the decor at secret locations, places where no outsider goes (or servants according to our sources) there is an UNDERGROUND lounge (sign spelled U.N.derground) a Dark Room, a Leather Room and a Necrophilia Room.

Here is one of O'Brien's quote "Slaves of advancing age or with failed programming were sacrificially murdered at random in the wooded grounds of Bohemian Grove and I felt it was only a matter of time until it would be me."

This potential victim survived. Others reportedly did not.

Alex Jones has done extensive work on Bohemian Grove. He even infiltrated the grounds and video taped some of the rituals.
posted by Kevin at 7:06 AM

Media Leviathan, U.S. Intelligence Form Secret Cabal :.

Each year, at the posh ranch of investment banker Herbert Allen Jr., the world�s media elites meet to discuss strategy, possible mergers and editorial policy. It can only be called a media version of Bilderberg as government, corporate and media officials are meeting in secret, behind the usual wall of security.

As always, for all of these meetings that actually matter, leftist protests are strangely nonexistent, even though it is summertime and colleges are largely empty.

This year is a bit different, given that the key note speaker is none other than CIA Director George Tenet.

Tenet�s attendance has been likened to the �smoking gun� that researchers have been looking for, proving the institutional link between finance, media, government and business.

Like all meetings of this type, it is off limits to reporters, however ironic it might be for a media confab.

The world�s media, whose bosses are attending the gathering, have not bothered to mention the CIA connection this year, likely the first time the world�s premier intelligence gathering service has been invited to this media gathering.
posted by Kevin at 6:59 AM

Excellent Interviews with Paul David Collins

Paul David Collins, author of The Hidden Face of Terrorism: The Dark Side of Social Engineering, from Antiquity to September 11, was interviewed on the For a Closer Look Show.

Real Audio: Segment 1, Segment 2, Segment 3.
posted by Kevin at 6:58 AM

Britain Massively Expands Wind Power Program :.

Clean energy and jobs. What a concept:

Britain is pushing ahead with a huge expansion of offshore wind farms which could supply green power to more than 3 million households and create 20,000 new jobs, the government said Monday.

The government is inviting companies to bid to build new farms, some of which are likely to be 10 times the size of the first scheme under construction in Wales, Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade an Industry said.

"The first wind farm has 30 turbines. Developers are saying they want to build much, much larger offshore wind farms -- up to 300 turbines," Hewitt told the BBC.

The program could involve an investment of 6 billion pounds ($9.76 billion) and add 6,000 megawatts of generation capacity.
posted by Kevin at 6:54 AM

Iraq Cost Could Mount to $100 Billion :.

Never mind the thousands of dead civilians:

The cost of the war and occupation of Iraq could reach $100 billion through next year, substantially higher than anticipated at the war's outset, according to defense and congressional aides. This is raising worries that other military needs will go unmet while the government is swamped in red ink.

The cost of the war so far, about $50 billion, already represents a 14 percent increase to military spending planned for this year. Even before the United States invaded Iraq in March, President Bush had proposed defense budgets through 2008 that would rise to $460 billion a year, up 74 percent from the $265 billion spent on defense in 1996, when the current buildup began.

At the same time, the federal budget deficit is exploding. This week, officials expect to announce that it will exceed $400 billion for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, the largest in U.S. history by a wide margin.
posted by Kevin at 6:52 AM

Shock and Awe: U.S. Budget Deficit May Surpass $450 Billion :.

War, tax cuts and a third year of a flailing economy may push this year's budget deficit past $450 billion, according to congressional sources familiar with new White House budget forecasts. That would be 50 percent higher than the Bush administration forecast five months ago.

The deficit projection due out today is nearly $50 billion more than economists anticipated just last week, and it underscores the continuing deterioration of the government's fortunes since 2000, when the Treasury posted a $236 billion surplus. That represents a fiscal reversal exceeding $680 billion.

"It's shock and awe," said a senior Republican Senate aide.
posted by Kevin at 10:58 PM

Takedown: U.S. Computer Programmers Face Oblivion :.

This is part of the conscious effort to destroy the United States. We are nearing the endgame. Read this very carefully:

Peter Kerrigan encouraged friends to move to Silicon Valley throughout the 1980s and '90s, wooing them with tales of lucrative jobs in a burgeoning industry.

But he lost his network engineering job at a major telecommunications company in August 2001 and remains unemployed. Now 43, the veteran programmer is urging his 18-year-old nephew to stay in suburban Chicago and is discouraging him from pursuing degrees in computer science or engineering.

"I told him, 'Unless you're planning to do this as a path to technical sales, don't do it,'" said Kerrigan, who lives in Oakland. "He won't be able to have a career designing and building stuff because all those jobs have moved to India."

Like many unemployed programmers, Kerrigan blames the sour labor market on offshore outsourcing -- the migration of tech jobs to relatively low-paid contractors or locally hired employees in India, China, Russia and other developing countries.

The hemorrhaging of tens of thousands of technology jobs in recent years to cheaper workers abroad is already a fact of life -- as inevitable, U.S. executives say, as the 1980s migration of Rust Belt manufacturing jobs to Southeast Asia and Latin America.

But a new wave of technology outsourcing -- involving tasks that involve greater skills -- could be cutting to the industry's bone, threatening to prolong the three-year U.S. economic downturn.

Some who oppose the trend, which such industry stalwarts as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell and Microsoft are embracing, believe it could even usher in the end of American domination in technology.

"We're giving countries like China and India the support they need to build up their technology industries, and the result could disadvantage us in the long run," said Phil Friedman, an electrical engineer and chief executive of New York-based Computer Generated Solutions, a 1,200-employee software company that targets the apparel industry.

"We outsourced electronics manufacturing. We're closing steel mills. Every week, 400,000 people file for new unemployment claims," said Friedman, a 54-year-old Ukrainian native who immigrated in 1976. "At the same time, we're shipping tech jobs offshore -- it's a shortsighted approach and cheats the American work force."

Cost-conscious executives have been shifting lower-level tech jobs in data entry and systems support abroad to cheaper labor markets for more than a decade. But now they are exporting highly paid, highly skilled positions in software development -- jobs that have been considered intrinsic to Silicon Valley and tech hubs such as Seattle; Boston; and Austin, Texas.

Critics say it's the equivalent of exporting not just the automobile industry's assembly line jobs -- but the core engineering and car design jobs, too.

Related: Corporations Thrashing Indian Workers Now

Related: The Apocalypse in Commercial Real Estate

Related: China Doing Development Work on Software Running on NSA Supercomputers
posted by Kevin at 3:14 PM

The End: Pentagon Online Voting Plan Requires Microsoft Windows :.

No commentary necessary:

Voters using SERVE can register to vote and cast their ballots from any computer using Microsoft Windows with Internet access. Local election officials will use the system to process voter registration applications, send ballots to voters and accept voted ballots instantly. Long delays in counting absentee ballots, a factor in the disputed 2000 presidential election, would be relegated to the past.

Security remains the top concern for the system's coordinators and fodder for critics.

"I think Internet voting is a good idea for this population if you can assure security, but I'm not confident that they can do that," said John Dunbar, a project manager at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan government watchdog group. "It wouldn't take much for some smart hacker to send around a virus that lays in wait for someone to issue a vote."

Other computer security experts call the project an open invitation to election tampering.

"We're opening up a whole host of opportunities for voter coercion and voter fraud," said Rebecca Mercuri, a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who specializes in studying electronic vote tabulation.

Mercuri said even the most secure systems can be cracked, hacked or left vulnerable to Internet viruses, leaving the ballot contents and the voter's identity open to perusal.

"If we have this going on in commerce and all other transactions on the Internet, why would people think we can avoid it in voting?" she said. "This is just an experiment that's doomed."
posted by Kevin at 6:01 PM

Rumsfeld Is Clearly Psychotic :.

"...you go in and find them and capture them or kill them. And that's what's going on. And it seems to me it's a no-brainer. It's a three-minute decision. The first two are for coffee."

posted by Kevin at 5:49 PM

Trading on Fear :.

From the start, the invasion of Iraq was seen in the US as a marketing project. Selling 'Brand America' abroad was an abject failure; but at home, it worked. Manufacturers of 4x4s, oil prospectors, the nuclear power industry, politicians keen to roll back civil liberties - all seized the moment to capitalise on the war. PR analysts Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber explain how it worked.

Research Credit: NF
posted by Kevin at 4:53 AM

Satellite Jamming :.

Hmmm, this could come in handy someday:

As for the actual jamming, its simply a matter of aiming a strong signal at the uplink transponder on the satellite and overwhelming the Farsi language broadcasters� signals.

Said the investigator: �You need a dish, some power, not too much. You put up a test pattern ... and do a sweep and find the transponder on the satellite you want to jam. It could even be smaller than the standard 6-meter dish. It could be a small dish with a lot of power.�
posted by Kevin at 3:51 AM