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To: scaram(o)uche who wrote (12420)	9/26/2003 3:05:27 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 17683

Useless R&D, funded by the government, is nice for corporate bottom lines. The military-industrial complex is always looking for new areas to expand! Of course, "useless" might an understatement. US Army Patents Biological Weapons Delivery System, Violates Bioweapons Convention Austin and Hamburg (8 May 2003) - The United States Army has developed and patented a new grenade that it says can be used to wage biowarfare. This is in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention, which explicitly prohibits development of bioweapons delivery devices. US Patent #6,523,478, granted on February 25th 2003, covers a "rifle launched non lethal cargo dispenser" that is designed to deliver aerosols, including – according to the patent’s claims - “crowd control agents, biological agents, [and] chemical agents...” The development of biological weapons delivery devices is absolutely prohibited - “in any circumstance” - by Article I of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, to which the US is a party. There is no exemption from this prohibition, neither for defensive purposes nor for so called non-lethal agents. “The development of weapons for biological payloads produces great uncertainty about the US commitment to the Biological Weapons Convention.” says Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project US, “Thirty four years after the US renunciation of biological weapons, the Pentagon is back in the bioweapons business.” "Hans Blix might have an easier time finding illegal weapons if he were inspecting near Baltimore instead of Baghdad," says biologist Jan van Aken from the Sunshine Project Germany, referring to the fact that two of the inventors work at the Army’s Edgewood Arsenal north of Baltimore, Maryland. Other inventors work at an engineering firm in Orlando, Florida, where the US Special Forces operate from MacDill Air Force Base. This grenade is yet another indication of prohibited biological and chemical weapons development projects in the US. It stands in a row with an illegal chemical weapons program focusing on so called non-lethal agents (see below), uncovered last September by the Sunshine Project, with research activities on material degrading microorganisms by the US armed forces (see below), and with a range of questionable biodefense activities that may well suit offensive purposes (see New York Times, 4 September 2001). sunshine-project.org

To: scaram(o)uche who wrote (12420)	9/29/2003 11:50:03 AM
From: Ron	Respond to of 17683

Journal Reporters Boycott Cable Channel CNBC Uses About 12 Appearances A Day NEW YORK -- You won't be seeing too many Wall Street Journal reporters on CNBC for a while. Reporters for the Journal and other Dow Jones publications have started a monthlong boycott of voluntary appearances on the business news channel in an escalating labor dispute over health care benefits. The job action also affects reporters from Barron's, Dow Jones Newswires and SmartMoney magazine, for a total of about 300 in all. The union said reporters with regular contracts to appear on air aren't affected, neither are senior editors not covered by the union. A CNBC spokeswoman said the network uses up to 12 such appearances per day, depending on the news flow. A spokeswoman for Dow Jones says negotiations with the union are continuing in good faith. channelcincinnati.com