Bee Colony Collapse: Lawsuit seeks EPA’s pesticide data

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, August 19, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is refusing to disclose records about a new class of pesticides that could be playing a role in the disappearance of millions of honeybees in the United States, a lawsuit filed Monday charges.
The Natural Resources Defense Council wants to see the studies that the [...]

Who, Who did it? The Peterson owl theory makes a comeback

Source: WRAL
A single microscopic feather listed in an SBI crime lab report could be the key to proving that Mike Peterson was not responsible for the staircase death of his wife nearly seven years ago, an attorney and former neighbor of the Durham novelist says.
Larry Pollard says he believes an owl, possibly mistaking Kathleen Peterson [...]

Are we Safer?

Source: Brian Finlay-OpEd-The Baltimore Sun
The impending closure of the FBI’s investigation of the anthrax-laced mailings of 2001 has generated new interest in the question: Are we safer today than we were when anthrax was distributed up and down the Eastern seaboard, killing five people and sickening 17 others? Unfortunately, the answer is probably no - [...]

Pandora’s Pandemic Box

Over the past year people concerned about the research to be conducted at the National Bio Agro Defense Facility have been called alarmist, chicken little and NIMBY’s by the proponents of the NBAF for questioning the lab’s true purpose. Think about it common sense says, why would the US government spend three-fourths of a billion dollars on a facility to study [...]

Athens NBAF meeting, some oppose others argue need

Source: Ken Foskett - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A polite crowd of about 200 people filled a University of Georgia auditorium Thursday to register support and opposition to a proposed animal research facility under consideration at UGA and sites in five other states.
The Department of Homeland Security will select the site of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility later [...]

Conn. Attorney General vows to fight NBAF on Plum Island

Correction: Oops my bad, Blumenthal is Connecticut’s AG not NY.
Source: StamfordPlus.com
Attorney General fights proposed Plum Island lab that would study deadliest animal and human diseases
By Attorney General’s office
Aug 14, 2008
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced that his office is preparing formal comments to fight a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal to develop a Level 4 [...]

Good Luck Athens,last show of the tour

Today is the DHS DEIS meeting in Athens, Georgia. (Good luck to all ) In preparation for the meeting the local politico’s apparently wanted to express to everyone how tough they really are and how supportive they are for the NBAF project.
Athens Commissioner Doug Lowry said he “thinks the politicians who’ve reversed their positions are a bunch of pansies”. Um, I don’t [...]

NBAF in NC $226,289,729 short

Homeland Security has released more documents relating to the NBAF. These documents are redacted and most meaningful content has been removed, ie. cost and any transparency. However, the total cost of the North Carolina location is said to be $677,289,729 (see page 51 of the NBAF Site Cost Analysis). If DHS expects to spend $451 million, then somebody needs [...]

Durham 4-1 says No to NBAF,will ask Consortium to withdraw NC

Durham Commissioners nix NBAF
Source: Lisa Sorg - Independent Weekly
The next coffin nail was hammered into the proposed National Bio and Agro Defense Facility Monday night when Durham County Commissioners voted 4-1 to oppose the federal disease lab that could be sited in Butner.
The commission also took a stronger step of passing a resolution to draft [...]

NBAF Insanity: Was Site selection ever about Safety?

On August 11th, the AP released a story that vindicates a lot of people who oppose the NBAF and the entire methodology used to justify it’s placement on the US mainland. For everyone else you should be very concerned. The DHS Undersecretary Jay Cohen  (a political appointee by George Bush nominated in June 2006), is disregarding his own government experts and [...]