From: AxCurtis@aol.com Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 06:47:45 EDT Subject: Eat your heart out, Tim McVeigh ************************************* The Nationalist Observer 829 recipients Writing in "[ ]"s by Alex Curtis ************************************* Eat your heart out, Tim McVeigh WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The technology to manufacture biological weapons of mass destruction by lone wolves is now widely available through open literature and the United States is totally unprepared to cope with a bio-terroristattack. Speaking in Washington, Dr. Tara O'Toole, of the Johns Hopkins University, said, "100 grams of anthrax properly dispersed downwind over Le Cesspool, D.C., for example, could kill between 150,000 and three million people in the surrounding areas. Eat your heart out, Tim McVeigh." Ten grams of anthrax is the equivalent of one ton of chemical nerve agents, Dr. O'Toole explained. Most frightening of all, Dr. O'Toole said "is the ever faster pace of technological advance, which has made the know-how for creating, manufacturing and dispersing these agents of mass destruction widely available through open literature." No U.S. city has the capacity for a mass casualty situation, she said. Johns Hopkins, for example, only has five isolation wards for infectious diseases. Additional points: * Bio-war can push nations (and ZOGs) beyond the point of recovery. * A bio-weapons attack is not likely to stay "local"; it will spread very quickly. * Bio-weapons are strategic population destroying weapons which sets them apart from other weapons of mass destruction. * It is not easy to hide a nuclear reactor, but very easy to hide a fermenter. * There is no clear line between civilian and military targets. * Genetic engineered pathogens may well confuse diagnosis making it very difficult for doctors to respond in time. * Most American doctors would not be able to recognize smallpox or anthrax. *These days one can play Lego with the DNA of an organism and make it more virulent and resistant to antibiotics. Aryan geneticists, that is your cue! ************************************************** The Nationalist Observer email list is sent out every 1-2 days to update and increase communication in the White Racist movement. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe" in the subject of your email. To post information or to ask a question write to AxCurtis@aol.com. The Nationalist Observer is a paper magazine sent out monthly. A sample issue is $2. $10 for 6 issues. $20 for 12 issues. Also available are inexpensive racial audio ($6) and video ($12) tapes, and revolutionary books, stickers and flyers. For an e-catalog send e-mail with subject "Catalog." The Nationalist Observer PO Box 152603 San Diego, CA 92195; 24 hour Weekly Update: (619) 286-6709; 24 hour Daily Update: (619) 286-0050; Web Page: http://www.whiteracist.com **************************************************.
U.S. totally unprepared for bioterrorism
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The technology to manufacture biological
weapons of mass destruction is now widely available through open
literature and the United States is totally unprepared to cope with
a bio-terrorist attack, according to one of the United States' leading
experts on germ warfare.
Speaking in Washington at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Dr. Tara O'Toole, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins
University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, said, "100 grams
of anthrax properly dispersed downwind over Washington, D.C., for
example, could kill between 150,000 and three million people in the
surrounding areas.
"This would produce fear and panic all over the country as millions
rush to doctors' offices to be checked out." Ten grams of anthrax
is the equivalent of one ton of chemical nerve agents, Dr. O'Toole
explained. Most frightening of all, Dr. O'Toole said "is the ever
faster pace of technological advance, which has made the know-how
for creating, manufacturing and dispersing these agents of mass
destruction widely available through open literature."
The National Academy of Sciences recently published a research paper
that was a roadmap for the manufacture of a virulent strain of the
'flu. Today, she said, the 1918 'flu that killed some 25 million
in Europe in four months and infected 25 percent of the U.S.
opulation -- with almost 700,000 deaths -- can easily be replicated
and produced. AIDS in Africa is a glimpse of the horror that may
lie ahead.
In addition to Russian stores of former Soviet bio-weapons of mass
destruction, there are "a dozen countries, including all states named
by the State Department as sponsors of terrorism, that have developed
bio-warfare capability," according to Dr. O'Tara. "These weapons of
mass destruction are potentially a way around U.S. military power,"
she said. "They could, for example, destroy overseas bases during a
U.S. forward deployment" such as Kosovo in 1999.
"This is the age of big biology, of unbelievable breakthroughs in the
search for medical miracles," Dr. O'Toole explained, "but this goes
hand in hand with the tools to make ever more virulent weapons."
No U.S. city has the capacity for a mass casualty situation, she
said. Johns Hopkins, for example, only has five isolation wards for
infectious diseases. Out of 5,000 hospitals in the United States,
30 percent are losing money. A thousand hospitals have closed in
recent years as they went broke.
"Emergency rooms are also losing money" strained as they are by poor
people without medical insurance. Most ERs resort to just-in-time
staffing procedures, she said, "and very few nurses are hospital
employees. In the case of an epidemic, security staffs and
cafeteria employees would take off in droves, just as was the case
in 1994 during the plague outbreak in Surat, India. The U.S. Public
Health system is woefully understaffed, under-funded and not part of
an integrated system. There are no beepers or computers or even fax
machines in many places. Public Health-wise we are simply not wired."
Dr. O'Toole also said that a recent exercise in Denver, codenamed
"TOPOFF," postulated the release of bubonic plague in a bio-terrorist
attack. "It was called off after four days from sheer exhaustion of
the participants and the epidemic was still expanding," she said.
"One must contain an epidemic from the very beginning or it is quickly
out of control through mass travel to the rest of the country and
the world. How does one restrict travel in such a crisis and impose
curfews? Voluntarily or with guns?"
Dr. O'Toole concluded by saying there is an urgent need of some $3
billion a year over 10 years for research and development in bio
defense. These funds would be designed to produce more definitive
rapid diagnostics of an epidemic (smallpox incubation period is
14 days during which time one person infects 15 others); microchips
that could decipher the problem immediately; better and more
vaccines; an immune response with an all-purpose way to limit our
vulnerability; hospital training and an electronically linked
hospital system (to eliminate the now autonomous and competitive
system between hospitals); incentives for getting hospitals involved.
The U.S. Public Health system, she said, "must identify critical
capacities to detect, track and contain." This would have to include
a new triage ethic because in biological attack "the sickest don't
get handled first. They are left to die."
Additional points made by Dr. Tara O'Toole:
* Bio-war can push nations beyond the point of recovery.
* A bio-weapons attack is not likely to stay "local"; it will spread
very quickly.
* Bio-weapons are strategic population destroying weapons which sets
them apart from other weapons of mass destruction.
* It is not easy to hide a nuclear reactor, but very easy to hide a
fermenter.
* There is no clear line between civilian and military targets.
* Genetic engineered pathogens may well confuse diagnosis making
it very difficult for doctors to respond in time.
* Most American doctors would not be able to recognize smallpox or
anthrax.
* Pharmaceutical companies do not possess surge capabilities in
case of an incident; they are entirely geared to just on time
deliveries.
* These days one can play Lego with the DNA of a bug and make it
more virulent and resistant to antibiotics.
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