A Onetime ‘Person of Interest’ Moves a Step Closer to Public Exoneration

by CHARLIE SAVAGE
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Hav­ing been named a “per­son of inter­est” in the inves­ti­ga­tion of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the for­mer Army sci­en­tist Steven J. Hat­fill has tried for six years to clear his name, both inside court and out.
Now the dis­clo­sure that a for­mer col­league died this week, appar­ently by sui­cide, just as [...]

Scientist’s Suicide Linked to Anthrax Inquiry

by SCOTT SHANE and ERIC LICHT­BLAU­The New York TimesCor­rec­tion Appended
WASHINGTON — After four years pur­su­ing one for­mer Army sci­en­tist on a costly false trail, F.B.I. agents inves­ti­gat­ing the deadly anthrax let­ters of 2001 finally zeroed in last year on a dif­fer­ent sus­pect: another Army sci­en­tist from the same biode­fense research cen­ter at Fort Det­rick in [...]

Newfound genetic clue to HIV rate in blacks

by Sabin Rus­sell, Chron­i­cle Med­ical Writ­er­San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle
SAN FRANCISCO — An inter­na­tional team of AIDS sci­en­tists has dis­cov­ered that a gene vari­ant com­mon in blacks pro­tects against cer­tain types of malaria but increases sus­cep­ti­bil­ity to HIV infec­tion by 40 per­cent.
Researchers, keen to find some bio­log­i­cal clues to explain why peo­ple of African descent are bearing [...]

FTR #638 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Bor­mann net­work con­trols major Ger­man cor­po­ra­tions; archive of Third Reich doc­u­ments; Rock­e­fellers push Exxon­Mo­bil to switch to renew­able energy; Stan­dard Oil cor­po­rate com­plex; vio­lence in the Mus­lim world effects global oil prices.

Dr. Mary’s Monkey

How the Unsolved Mur­der of a Doc­tor, a Secret Lab­o­ra­tory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Mon­key Viruses are Linked to Lee Har­vey Oswald, the JFK Assas­si­na­tion and Emerg­ing Global Epidemics.

Bunge Agrees to Buy Corn Products for $4.2 Billion

by Mark Her­lihy and Choy Leng Yeong­Bloomberg­Bunge Ltd., the world’s largest oilseed proces­sor, agreed to buy Corn Prod­ucts Inter­na­tional Inc. for $4.2 bil­lion in stock to add corn-based sweet­en­ers as demand increases for soft drinks and processed foods in China and India.
Bunge will pay the equiv­a­lent of $56 for each share of Corn Prod­ucts, White Plains, [...]

FBI Focusing on ‘About Four’ Suspects in 2001 Anthrax Attacks

by Cather­ine Her­ridge and Ian McCalebFOXNews.com
WASHINGTON — The FBI has nar­rowed its focus to “about four” sus­pects in the 6 1/2-year inves­ti­ga­tion of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those sus­pects are linked to the Army’s bioweapons research facil­ity at Fort Det­rick in Mary­land, FOX News has learned.
Among the pool [...]

FTR #614 Oleaginous Diplomacy — “Who Still Talks Nowadays of the Extermination of the Armenians?”

Recorded Octo­ber 14, 2007
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Fur­ther dis­turb­ing an already tur­bu­lent Mid­dle East polit­i­cal land­scape, the diplo­matic dis­pute between the U.S. and Turkey over a con­gres­sional res­o­lu­tion brought the Ottoman Empire’s World War I geno­ci­dal cam­paign against its Armen­ian minor­ity briefly into the fore­front of world events. This broad­cast explores the cyn­i­cal diplomacy [...]

FTR #606 Project Paperclip and AIDS

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NB: This descrip­tion con­tains a great deal of mate­r­ial added after the broad­cast was orig­i­nally made. Listeners/readers are emphat­i­cally encour­aged to pur­sue other pro­grams deal­ing with this sub­ject, espe­cially AFA #16.
Intro­duc­tion: For more than two decades, Dave Emory has pre­sented pro­grams indi­cat­ing that AIDS is a man-made dis­ease. Sup­ple­ment­ing that [...]

FTR #600 The Axis Revisited: Changing the Past and Controlling the Present

Recorded June 10, 2007
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Intro­duc­tion: Ana­lyz­ing the ongo­ing influ­ence of fas­cism in Germany’s Axis part­ners (Japan and Italy), the pro­gram illus­trates that, as nov­el­ist William Faulkner said: “The past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” Begin­ning with the acquit­tal of the accused mur­der­ers of for­mer Vat­i­can finan­cial adviser [...]