Conspiracy theory of the week: HAARP

Another fun post from Danger Room today discusses HAARP, that’s the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, a collaborative research project from your friends at ONI, AFRL, and DARPA designed to study the effects and uses of “extremely low and very low frequencies (ELF/VLF) generation, artificial optical emissions, and space research.” Or, as another [...]

Last day of US Gov’t pandemic flu blog

Today’s the last day of posting on the PandemicFlu.gov blog.
HHS’s stated goal on pandemic preparedness: “to help as many Americans as possible to understand that the threat of a pandemic influenza is real and to actively engage in personal preparedness.”
Well, have they achieved it? I’m pretty sure the people who’ve figured out that much [...]

Some pics from my latest travels

After gallivanting about the foothills of the Rockies and the Midwest for the past 10 days or so, I’m forced to return here to the land of misfit toys. I’m not ready to pick up any “on topic” blogging yet but the Armchair Generalist has been covering that pretty well (terrorist nukes? Don’t you [...]

Scooped! It’s just as well…

Weeks and weeks ago—a veritable eternity in the blogosphere—I started a post about chemical weapons dumped at sea. One of my references was some impressive coverage of the issue by the Daily Press in Hampton Roads, VA. Today I noticed (thanks to Danger Room) that I’d been scooped, but hey, you snooze, you [...]

Tripoli Six not forgotten; ransom under negotiation

Also known as the Benghazi Six, the Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor remain imprisoned in Libya as they have been since 1999 (click here for all my posts on the Tripoli Six). Meanwhile, the Libyan dictator demands a total of about $5.5 billion (from who, the UN…the EU…the world?) in ransom compensation to families [...]

Promicin blog network

I stumbled across Promicin Info today, which I thought was a fan site for The 4400 (which cranks up again next Sunday night).  The site’s nicely done, but I still thought it was a fan site because of the clumsy writing and the sort of weird videos posted there.  Then I started exploring the Links [...]

IMVAMUNE deal puts new face on bad old BioShield

In line with the intent described in HSPD-18 that to develop medical countermeasures to WMD/CBRN attacks the government must accept some of the risk and early investment, last week the US contracted Bavarian Nordic to continue development and production of its IMVAMUNE® smallpox vaccine. An initial investment of $150 million for 20 million doses may [...]

Public largely unaware of flu officials’ real level of concern

“You’re going to be staying home for one year. There will be no school, there will be no work. All we’ll be doing is trying to keep ourselves alive.” – Richard Canas, Director, NJ State Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness
Once again I remind you to peruse the conversation that’ll continue for a little [...]