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Emergency Alert System Expected for Cellphones

NY TIMES — WASHINGTON — The emergency broadcast system is coming to cellphones. Updating the national emergency alert system, federal officials planned to announce on Tuesday in Manhattan that some cellphone users in New York and Washington will soon be able to receive alerts by text message in the event of a national or regional  Read More »

Cattlemen Claim Laws Broken in Siting Bio Lab

FOOD SAFETY NEWS — Mysterious animal research that has long gone on at Plum Island is suppose to be transferred to a new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to be built in the middle of cattle country in Manhattan, KS. But a criminal inquiry into a group credited with attracting the bio-defense facility to Kansas  Read More »

A “whole-system redesign” of U.S. agriculture

HOMELAND SECURITY NEWSWIRE — Transformative changes in markets, policy, and science, rather than just incremental changes in farming practices and technology, will be critical if the United States is to achieve long-term sustainability in agriculture, according to a nationwide team of agriculturists that includes a University of California, Davis, animal scientist

The Biological Weapons Convention: Proceeding without a verification protocol

BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS — The Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held this December in Geneva, with member states convening to assess the bioweapons nonproliferation regime and discuss ways to improve it. But is it worth trying to strengthen the BWC? Since its inception, the treaty has been plagued  Read More »

US pours millions into SA lab to develop bioterrorism vaccine

KENS 5 NEWS — (San Antonio) Physical violence isn’t the only threat from terrorists. Our government is constantly preparing for potential attacks by criminals using bioweapons, too. Some San Antonio scientists are on the forefront of the strange new world of bio-threats. The government is pouring millions into a local lab to come up with  Read More »

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