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Insects: The New Face of Terrorism? (back)
February 12, 2009
The nature of modern terrorism shows that people are often caught off guard by attacks that use the most seemingly innocent devices.
In a column published in UK ’s The Times Online, guest contributor Jeffrey A. Lockwood issued a warning against overlooking ecoterrorists’ use of insects as weapons.
‘A great strategic lesson of 9/11 has been overlooked. Terrorists need only a little ingenuity, not sophisticated weapons, to cause enormous damage. Armed only with box-cutters, terrorists hijacked aircraft and brought down the World Trade Center ,’ Lockwood writes. ‘Insects are the box-cutters of biological warfare - cheap, simple and wickedly effective.’
‘Insects are one of the cheapest and most destructive weapons available to terrorists today, and one of the most widely ignored: they are easy to sneak across borders, reproduce quickly and can spread disease and destroy crops with devastating speed.’
Lockwood is an entomologist, a professor of philosophy and creative writing at the University of Wyoming , and author of the book ‘Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War.’
Lockwood said the 9/11 attacks resulted in the loss of thousands of lives as and $27.2 billion. In comparison, the Asian longhorned beetle, which arrived in 1996, and the emerald ash borer, found in 2002, could take out more than $700 billion worth of forests, according to US Department of Agriculture estimates.
What’s more, insects carry diseases, which could transfer onto crops and eventually humans.
America saw the effects of insect-borne diseases on a smaller scale when West Nile virus found its way into the nation’s borders in 1999. The nation’s defenses were useless against the disease, which killed 654 people and sickened 7,000.
Lockwood said the US ’s losing battle against West Nile virus is another reason why the nation should be concerned about its African cousin, Rift Valley fever.
‘Originally discovered in 1931, this viral disease caused miscarriages in livestock while young animals suffered 10 to 70 per cent mortality rates. Mosquitoes spread the virus from Kenya . In 1997 a virulent strain appeared, able to infect the human nervous system. About 200,000 Egyptians fell ill, of whom 2,000 lost their sight and 598 died of encephalitis. Every region of the US has a mosquito species that is capable of carrying the disease.’
And Lockwood said it would be easy for an ecoterrorist to introduce the disease into the US with $100 worth of supplies, simple instructions and a plane ticket.
‘Stacking a nation’s defenses along its borders is a strategic error,’ wrote Lockwood. ‘The better model is that of public health. Rather than hoping to stop every sick traveler entering a country, a wise government would stockpile vaccines, train health professionals and educate the public.’
‘Western societies tend to think in terms of the short-term spectacle and heroic saviors of Hollywood action movies. Our disconnection from the natural world makes us believe that risk and benefit unfold at a blistering pace,’ Lockwood writes.
‘For a terrorist group with patience, a slow-motion disaster in ecological time would be a perfect tactic against an enemy that thinks in terms of days or months, but would suffer across the generations,’ he concluded.
Source: http://www.redorbit.com/modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=1632293
http://olnee-web-news.blogspot.com/2009/02/consumer-initiative-warns-against-new.html
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Consumer Initiative warns against new Ebay rip off.
Who on expensive items on Ebay offers, but not wins, gets a little later fraudulent offers to purchase through the Ebay system. Criminals exploit this acquired accounts. The trick is ancient, but it works, despite new security measures still in place.
continues, site is about the web, may be a German site.
[How free speech slips away, other articles linked on sidebar]
Chicago police probing Obama slur claim
UPI Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:43 AM PST
CHICAGO, Feb. 13 (UPI) — Chicago police said they are investigating whether a city police officer made a racial slur about President Barack Obama in a phone call to an FBI agent.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/13/Chicago_police_probing_Obama_slur_claim/UPI-48551234546299/
[I consider this a must read article, as it will soon be available here and it is our kids who will pick them up, or we might to throw in the trash can, so a kid did not take the pills.
Three or 4 years ago, all over America, people were picking up trash and bags, that exploded when opened to check it before putting in the trash can, I remember a Calif. Lady and several Janitors.
Also beware of black trash bags, in Louisiana a few years ago and also in Washington, there were black trash bags, styrofoam ice chests and loose fishing boats found with explosives in them, ready to explode.
One fisher man in Wash. hooked the stray boat and hauled it to the pier, only to find it full of explosives, it had been meant to ram a Military or large ship.
granny
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304770155&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hamas threw ‘medicine grenades’ at IDF
Feb. 13, 2009
Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST
Medicine bottles, transferred to the Gaza Strip as humanitarian aid by Israel, were used by Hamas as grenades against IDF troops during Operation Cast Lead. Pictures of the grenades were obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post.
The medicine bottles were manufactured by the Jerusalem Pharmaceutical Company, which is based in el-Bireh, a town adjacent to Ramallah, and the global pharmaceutical company Shire.
The medicine bottles were filled with explosives, holes were drilled in the caps, and fuses were installed. Once Hamas fighters lit the fuses, they had several seconds to throw the grenades at soldiers. The IDF also found small explosive devices that used medical syringes to hold their fuses.
The medical grenades were discovered in northern Gaza by troops during last month’s three-week battle against Hamas. The grenades were taken to military explosives experts, and then disassembled and studied.
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BREAKING NEWS: Rancho HS Cancels Game Due To Fight
Rancho High School officials have canceled Friday night’s boy’s basketball game
due to a lunchtime fight in the school cafeteria, according to the Las Vegas
Review-Journal.
MORE DETAILS: http://www.fox5vegas.com/tu/5EzklVk1v.html
snipped from article:
There were no injuries, but two to four students were charged in relation to fighting and causing a disturbance, Clark County School District police said.
The cause of the fight was not yet known, the paper said.
A large police presence was on hand for school dismissal as a safety precaution, Police Capt. Jim Ketsaa said.
[This is Las Vegas]
If anyone is bored and wants to hear what is going on in denver, try this link, I can’t tell exactly which one I am listening to, it is one of the denver police and fire links and they are having a night of it, anything you can think of, will be heard tonight.
http://co.scanamerica.us/index.php
Gang fight in middle of street.
Two year old child at emergency room, with head injuries, send police to investigate.
Child stolen from hospital, that was under care, by drunk father.
Stabbing.
And the usual expected calls.
Violence and mental health issues.
If you are a Denver Police wife, be gentle with your mate tonight he has had a rough nights work.
I will loose it now, as I can’t use the computer on dial up internet, and move around the internet.
All the above, in the few minutes it took to eat a snack.
[At least Fox in Las Vegas, got it right]
Congress Passes Economic Stimulus Bill
The Democratic-controlled Congress passes the $787 billion economic stimulus bill.
MORE DETAILS: http://www.fox5vegas.com/tu/5EzxgtHz9.html