Call for Biowar on Drugs
Source: New Scientist May 06, 2006 UK 
Congressman Mark Souder has been busy in his personal war on drugs. As well as fighting against the legalisation of cannabis for medical use, the Indiana Republican has slipped a provision into a bill calling for the fungus Fusarium oxysporum to be used as a biological control agent against drug crops in foreign countries. The CIA, however, has had moral doubts about using the fungus. In 2000, a CIA official told The New York Times that it was unsafe both for humans and for the environment: "I don't support using a product on a bunch of Colombian peasants that you wouldn't use against a bunch of rednecks growing marijuana in Kentucky.
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"I said, in The Natural Mind, that I often have the suspicion that everything that we do in the name of stopping the drug problem is the drug problem. It's not just the laws but the whole mentality that sees drugs as the problem and tries to fight them. By doing that I think we've made it all worse...
Dr. Andrew Weil

Just as there are renewable resources from hemp kept from free enterprise markets, natural alternatives to addiction are available. The lopsided drug co czar reasoning to justify such a hidious anti-American Ganjawar and to perpetuate the profits bombing Colombian peasants with poisons. How sick are these souderwalters?

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Hemp food, fuel and fiber could replace the imported crude oil used in the US, The real reason our troops are spraying poisons on South Americans... The recklessness of spraying untested genetic fungus to mutate hemp competition into extinction. Or the coca leaf no one has ever snorted, shot up or became addicted to. The cannabis plant is cousins to the hops plant. Will this Monsanto terminator seed or fungus eradicate only DEAth selections of plants. Or the entire species and even family. Cannabis is part of the Mulberry family I believe. Way too much possible devastation to pacify a few Congressional drug co zealots and vested interest drug co czars. Beware suds guzzlers. Beer is on the Puritans agenda! DdC

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AP. 3 November 2001.

Military Learned Threat of Bioweapons in Cold War With Secret Tests on Civilians.

NEW YORK -- During a sultry June week in 1966, mysterious men riding the New York subway walked through the train, pausing between cars to drop small objects on the tracks below.

Anybody who got a good look would have recognized the objects as ordinary light bulbs. What other riders couldn't have known is that the bulbs had been pumped full of harmless bacteria meant to simulate anthrax spores.

The scientists of the Special Operations Division, a secret arm of the U.S. biological weapons program at Fort Detrick, Md., wanted to see how easy it would be to expose large numbers of straphangers to a lethal germ. The answer: pretty easy.

During the 1950s and '60s, Fort Detrick scientists pulled similar stunts all over the United States.

They released clouds of bacteria off San Francisco and watched them float over the city. In remote deserts and far at sea, they exposed thousands of guinea pigs and other test animals to anthrax and a half-dozen other scourges.

In one experiment, they even pumped bacteria into the Pentagon's ventilation system.

These experiments - described in military documents and a paper by bioweapons pioneer William C. Patrick III - were designed to answer one question: What is the most effective way to deploy biological weapons against the Soviet Union or another Cold War foe?

The U.S. biological weapons program is ancient history, dismantled three decades ago in accordance with the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972. But the things the country's biological warriors learned back then could prove extremely valuable today, as the United States faces its first real bioterrorist threat.

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Mr Galvis, whose bare upper torso carries a long scar across the stomach, says he has 30 hectares (74 acres) of land on the scrabbly soils of the hillside behind San Juan.

Like many Colombian farmers, he grows bananas, yuca and maize. But "food crops don't give a decent income", he says. So three years ago, he began to plant coca. He had four hectares of the green-leaved shrub, enough to provide a living for his family of seven.

That was until the weekend in mid-February when the police helicopters arrived, escorting a crop-duster that swooped low over the fields and sprayed the coca with glyphosate, a powerful agricultural weedkiller. Ten days later, Mr Galvis's coca field looked brown and withered.

So, he claims, were his food crops. "Who knows what we're going to do now? They've destroyed everything. At least they should pay us something, and build a decent road, so that we could make a living from agriculture or cattle," he complains.

Mr Galvis was the target of a vigorous coca-spraying campaign that American officials see as a key element in tackling their drug problems.

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Toxic Drift: Monsanto and the Drug War in Colombia
by Jeremy Bigwood, Special to CorpWatch
June 21st, 2001


Colombian Farmer Edgar Esteban looks over his dried maize crops fumigated with Roundup. Farmers complain their food crops, livestock and drinking water have been contaminated.
Photo: AP/Wide World Photos

A prominent U.S. Senator and other government officials from both Washington and Bogotá stood on a Colombian mountainside above fields of lime-green coca -- the plant sacred to Andean Indians, but also the source of the troublesome drug cocaine.

They were awaiting a demonstration of aerial herbicide spraying, part of the U.S. drug war in Colombia. The spectacle, put on by the U.S. embassy in Bogotá last December, was supposed to address Senator Paul Wellstone's doubts about the accuracy and safety of the U.S.-sponsored drug fumigation program.

Wellstone, a Democrat from Minnesota, is a fierce critic of military aid to Colombia and the demonstration needed to come off without a hitch, to win him over to the use of aerially sprayed herbicides.

The night before, U.S. officials had responded to the Senator's skeptical questions by assuring him that the spraying would target coca fields without harming food crops.

"They had said that by using satellite images they could hit very precisely targets without any chance of danger to surrounding crops" said Jim Farrell, Wellstone's spokesperson, who was also there. However that turned out not to be the case.

"On the very first flyover by the cropduster, the U.S. Senator, the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, the Lieutenant Colonel of the Colombian National Police, and other Embassy and congressional staffers were fully doused -- drenched, in fact -- with the sticky, possibly dangerous (herbicide) Roundup."

"Imagine what is happening when a high-level congressional delegation is not present," Farrell noted, pointing out that careful preparation had gone into the botched flyover. Wellstone left Colombia completely unconvinced by the Embassy.

Who Profits?

Almost 70,000 gallons of Roundup have been sprayed in Colombia so far this year, according to calculations based on amounts sprayed per hectare.

Last year, roughly 145,750 gallons were sprayed over 53,000 hectares, according to a State Department official who asked not to be named.

These numbers do not take into account all of the fumigation of drug crops with Roundup in Colombia since 1978.

With a retail price between $33.00 to $45.00 per gallon, and a wholesale price of perhaps less than half of that (Monsanto refused to confirm the wholesale price for such volumes), this represents tens of thousands, or more, U.S. taxpayer dollars.

Meanwhile, Monsanto boasts almost $5.5 billion in sales last year. Those sales generated almost $150 million in profits. Roundup is the world's number one herbicide and the company's flagship product.

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I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...
Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty,
we are called by God, to conquer this country.
We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
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All of us in the COLOMBIA SUPPORT NETWORK are deeply saddened by the untimely death in an airplane crash of Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife and daughter. Paul was the best friend of the Colombian people in the United States Congress and traveled twice to Colombia in the past two years to meet with grass roots organizations, peasants, indigenous peoples and labor union members. Just as he spoke out courageously against a U.S. invasion of Iraq, he worked tirelessly to change the militaristic approach of U.S. foreign policy toward Colombia.



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I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare.
I paint my face and travel at night.
You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag."
--Ralph Reed, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 11/9/91

DeLay Pesticidal Killers

Use Fungus To Destroy Drug Fields, Souder Says By Sylvia A. Smith
CN Source: Journal Gazette May 30, 2006  Washington, DC

If a fungus can be unleashed to kill the plants that produce cocaine and heroin without contaminating the soil, Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd, contends, the U.S. government should test it and then use it in the drug fields of Colombia and Afghanistan.

He’s angry at what he sees as foot-dragging in the Bush administration, especially in the drug czar’s office.

“We’re frustrated and amazed at the resistance to looking at alternative methods” of eradicating the drug-producing plants, Souder said.

But the drug czar, John Walters, and his staff say a coca-killing fungus – Fusarium oxysporum – might wreak havoc in the soil, ruining it for any kind of plants, including the crops the U.S. wants Colombian and Afghan farmers to grow instead of coca and poppies. Cocaine is made from coca plants; heroin is made from poppies.

The government’s own scientists, however, say those concerns are unjustified, based on tests Walters said haven’t occurred.

Fusarium is a naturally occurring fungus that can cause many plant diseases. Each strain of Fusarium oxysporum is thought to attack only one kind of plant. Skeptics, including the drug czar’s office, say it’s not known whether the fungus designed to kill coca plants would spread to other plants or jump to humans. A recent outbreak of eye infections linked to contact lens solution has been blamed on one kind of Fusarium.

“It’s an organism that could mutate into another organism that kills everything,” said Thomas Riley, spokesman for the drug czar’s office. “The concern is if it mutates into something else, you’ve unleashed it on the wild.”

He said the experiment by federal scientists “although interesting, was not conclusive concerning the safety and specificity of Fusarium.”

Souder boils over at that attitude. But his anger at the drug czar’s office was eclipsed by his frustration with the lack of communication among government agencies when he learned – from a journalist – that a coca-killing fungus was identified by the Agriculture Department and tested in Hawaii a decade ago.

In those tests – set up to test the effects of chemical herbicides on coca plants – the coca plants inexplicably started to die. Eventually, scientists discovered that a Fusarium in the soil attacked coca plants (but not native vegetation).

Adding more Fusarium killed the plants faster, said Bryan Bailey, a plant pathologist with the department’s Agriculture Research Service and the lead scientist on the Hawaii project.

That strain of Fusarium kills only coca plants, Bailey said.

“We were never able to infect anything other than eruthroxylum coca,” he said, using the scientific name for coca plants.

A chemical herbicide also kills coca plants and does so quicker, Bailey said. But the difference is that after Fusarium is in the soil, it will kill coca plants year after year. Chemical herbicides have to be applied regularly.

So why doesn’t the government adopt a fungus approach to killing coca, particularly in Colombia, where the U.S. has spent more than $5 billion since 2000 on trying to disrupt the production of coca?

“The current herbicide that we are using is effective,” Walters told Rep. Dan Burton, R-5th, at a hearing last year when Burton demanded to know why the tests haven’t been launched.

That herbicide – glyphosate – is commonly sold in the U.S. as Roundup, which is used to zap weeds in fields growing soybeans, corn or other crops. In Colombia, it is sprayed from planes on coca fields; the pilots are subject to being shot at from rebels on the ground.

But Burton said glyphosate has to be applied every few months, whereas Fusarium oxysporum is a once-and-done treatment.

Walters said it’s not clear that Fusarium oxysporum works on coca or that it won’t kill other crops or harm the environment.

He said the Colombian government is not willing to allow the U.S. to test the fungus in their country, adding, “I don’t think it is prudent or promising to test it at this time.”

Souder said he was unaware of the Agriculture Department’s 1995 experiments in Hawaii and that other government agencies – the State Department and the drug czar’s office – have maintained for years that Fusarium oxysporum remained untested and unwanted by foreign governments.

“What the State Department told me is there are environmental concerns for what it does to the soil,” he said.

Souder said it should be easy enough to test the Hawaiian fields that are infected with the coca-killing fungus to see whether other crops can grow there. If they can, he said, the Colombian government could probably be persuaded to accept a field test before the fungus is spread throughout the coca-growing region.

He said the same approach – a biological herbicide – should be tested on poppy plants with a goal of using it in Afghanistan.

But spreading a non-native fungus in farmers’ fields is tantamount to biological warfare, according to an organization created to stop what it says are dangers from biotechnology, and the U.S. has signed an international treaty promising not to use biological weapons in a war zone.

“Hostile use of a biological agent is biological warfare,” said Edward Hammond, director of the U.S. office of the Sunshine Project.

“If you apply a biological agent by force in a conflict zone, where people routinely even shoot down crop eradication planes, you are damn right that it’s a hostile use. This is the case in Colombia, and the same would certainly apply in Afghanistan,” he said.

Colombia produces more than 80 percent of the worldwide powder cocaine supply and about 90 percent of the powder cocaine smuggled into the U.S., according to Drug Enforcement Administration estimates.

The amount of Colombian land used to cultivate coca has been cut in half in the past four years, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, which says aerial spraying of chemical herbicides is largely responsible for the reduction.

Nevertheless, the agency said in its most recent report, 60 percent of the fields now being used to grow coca are new.

Hammond said aside from the environmental and biological warfare concerns of launching a biological herbicide into Colombia, “coca farmers will figure a way around it pretty quickly. Has years of spraying chemicals made a dent? Nope. Fusarium oxysporum isn’t a ‘magic bullet’ either.”

This year, the House passed legislation that includes a provision calling for the drug czar’s office to develop a plan to test a fungus “in a major drug-producing nation.” It doesn’t specify Fusarium oxysporum, the test country or what plants the fungus should be used on. Action on the bill by the Senate is questionable.

It’s not the first time Congress has called for the development or tests of a fungus to kill drug-producing plants. But at a hearing in 2002, for instance, administration officials said the Bush administration hadn’t – to that point – discussed using the coca-killing fungus with the new Colombian government.

Now, Souder said, the fungus should be used on coca plants in Colombia.

That should never happen, Hammond said.

“Yes, of course, coca is not a good crop when it is grown to produce cocaine,” he said. “But the fact that a crop is destined for such a malicious product does not mean that you can suspend the law in your quest to stop it.”

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Drug Warriors Push Eye-Eating Fungus By Jeremy Bigwood
Source: In These Times June 07, 2006 USA

Why are members of Congress advocating the use of a dangerous crop-killer in Columbia?

On April 16, the New York Times ran a full-page ad from contact lens producer Bausch and Lomb, announcing the recall of its “ReNu with MoistureLoc” rewetting solution, and warning the 30 million American wearers of soft contact lenses about Fusarium keratitis. This infection, first detected in Asia, has rapidly spread across the United States.

It is caused by a mold-like fungus that can penetrate the cornea of soft contact lens wearers, causing redness and pain that can lead to blindness— requiring a corneal replacement.

That same week, the House of Representatives passed a provision to a bill requiring that the very same fungus be sprayed in “a major drug-producing country,” such as Colombia. The bill’s sponsor was Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) and its most vocal supporter was his colleague Dan Burton (R-Ind.), who has been promoting the fungus for almost a decade as key to winning the drug war.

The Colombian government has come out against it. And those entities of the U.S. government that have studied the use of Fusarium for more than 30 years don’t recommend it either: The Office of National Drug Control Policy, also known as the Drug Czar’s office, CIA, DEA, the State Department and the USDA have all concluded that the fungus is unsafe for humans and the environment.

“Fusarium species are capable of evolving rapidly. …

Mutagenicity is by far the most disturbing factor in attempting to use a Fusarium species as a bioherbicide,” wrote David Struhs, then secretary of Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection, in a 1999 letter rejecting the use of the fungus against Florida’s outdoor marijuana crop. “It is difficult, if not impossible, to control the spread of Fusarium species.”

Mutation of the fungus allows it to attack other “hosts.” The eye-eating Fusarium seems to be a result of such a mutation. After all, the soft-contact lenses that it grows behind are a recent development—having only been commercially available since 1971.

The DEA stopped funding Fusarium research in the United States during the early ’90s after it learned that Fusarium infections can be deadly in “immunocompromised” people—not only AIDS patients and those with other illnesses, but also those who are severely malnourished. The University of the Andes in Bogotá has recently reported that 12 percent of Colombian children suffer from chronic malnutrition. Spraying this fungus on a vulnerable population could be perceived as using a biological weapon.

The CIA has been against the use of Fusarium to kill drug crops since at least 2000. At that time, one official told the Times, “I don’t support using a product on a bunch of Colombian peasants that you wouldn’t use against a bunch of rednecks growing marijuana in Kentucky.”

A top scientist from the USDA, which has studied the fungus the longest, said that his agency “cannot support” its use. And the State Department, whose Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement carries out drug crop eradication all over the world, does not support it, either.

In 2000, when Congress first passed “Plan Colombia,” the Colombian aid package that ordered the use of the fungus in Colombia, President Clinton waived the part of the bill that dealt with the fungus because he thought its use would be perceived as biological warfare. At the same time, the Andean Community of Nations, an organization comprising Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, banned it within their territories.

So, who does support the spraying of the eye-eating fungus over other countries? Only a few adamant drug war jihadists in the House, led by Burton, who are frustrated by the lack of progress in the drug war.

The fungus provision has already passed the House, but the Senate version of the bill contains no similar language. Responsibility for a final decision rests on the conference committee where the House and Senate bills will be reconciled—scheduled to happen before this summer.

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Great stuff man.

Too much for my dial-up connection on my clunker hand-me-down computer. Have mercy on us poor people.

Anyways, wouldn't that be a funny way for civilization to end! If the drug war ended up making the earth uninhabitable for humans with this Fusarium frankenstein shit!

A lot of us thought it could be nuclear weapons used against communists in the cold war, now, maybe terrorists in "the war on terror". No one thought the drug war could do it.

At least I didn't.

It's so outrageous it's actually funny.

See you on the other side!

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Anyways, wouldn't that be a funny way for civilization to end!

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who would know it ended? No a fuuny way might be for everyone to spark one and get reptured, transform into EM waves and travel off to eternity, something like that might be funny. Stumbling around blind and starving.....not so much.

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