Corporate Avenger
06-19-2001, 11:59 PM
The Human Genome Project and Eugenics
Author Robert Lederman
Corporate news coverage: Daily Telegraph (London) 7/7/00, Agence France Presse
1/21/99, The Gazette (Montreal) A-4, Baltimore Sun 1/22/99 A-18, The Salt Lake City
Tribune 1/27/99 A-13, The Times Union (Albany) 2/2/99 D-2,
Faculty/Community Evaluators: Rabbi Michael Robinson, Velma Guillory-Taylor, Ed.D.
Student Researchers: Terrie Girdner, Karen Parlette, Jennifer Swift
The Human Genome Project may now open the door to the development and use of
genetic weapons targeted at specific ethnic groups. This project is currently being
conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Energy Department, which also oversees
America’s nuclear weapon arsenal.
In October 1997, Dr. Wayne Nathanson, chief of the Science and Ethics Department of
the Medical Society of the United Kingdom, warned the annual meeting of the Society
that "gene therapy" might possibly be turned into "gene weapons" which could potentially
be used to target particular genes possessed by certain groups of people. These weapons,
Nathanson warned, could be delivered not only in the forms already seen in warfare such
as gas and aerosol, but could also be added to water supplies, causing not only death but
sterility and birth defects in targeted groups.
Current estimates of the cost of developing a "gene weapon" have been placed at around
$50 million, still quite a stretch for an isolated band of neo-Nazis, but well within the
capabilities of covert government programs.
On November 15, 1998, the London Times reported that Israel claimed to have
successfully developed a genetically specific "ethnic bullet" that targets Arabs. When an
Israeli government spokesman was asked to confirm the existence of ethnic weapons, he
did not deny that they had them, but rather said, "we have a basket full of serious
surprises that we will not hesitate to use if we feel that the state of Israel is under serious
threat."
Some scientists worry that the modified genes that corporations have spliced into fish,
fowl, fruit and vegetables have permanently altered the world’s food supply. Some may
be intended to reduce populations.
The U.S. has a long history of interest in such genetic research. The current home of the
Human Genome Project is the Cold Springs Harbor laboratory on Long Island, NY—the
exact site of the notorious Eugenics Research Office that was started in 1910 by the
Harriman family. The project’s 1910 agenda included governmental imposition of
sanctions on such human rights as reproduction, and on U.S. immigration, based on the
alleged inferiority of particular ethnic groups. The Eugenics Research Project established
medical and psychological conditions that would qualify one for sterilization or euthanasia.
Prominent advocates of the program such as the Rockefeller family, Henry Ford, and
Margaret Sanger helped smooth the way for the passage of forcible sterilization laws in
25 states. These laws allowed the forcible sterilization of tens of thousands of people,
mostly of minority status, during the first half of the 20th century.
The November 1970 issue of the Military Review published an article entitled "Ethnic
Weapons" for command-level military personnel. The author of the article was Dr. Carl
Larson, head of the Department of Human Genetics at the Institute of Genetics in Lund,
Sweden. Dr Larson wrote of how genetic variations in races are concurrent with
differences in tolerances for various substances. For instance, large segments of
Southeast Asian populations display a lactose intolerance due to the absence of the
enzyme lactase in the digestive system. A biological weapon could conceivably take
advantage of this genetic variance and incapacitate or kill an entire population.
Update by Greg Bishop
The ubiquitous nature of racism and the ruling power structure's history of handling
"undesirables," as well as dealing with an enemy (almost always of different racial stock
than a dominant aggressor) virtually assures us that the more powerful countries and their
allies are continuing to look into new and better ways of subduing and killing whole (or
major parts of) foreign populations.
When the London Times broke the story of the Israeli bioweapons project and interest in
the development of pathogens that would disable or kill by ethnicity, they quoted an
unnamed British intelligence source that said that these sorts of weapons were
"theoretically possible." They were not only "theoretical" but had been researched for
nearly 50 years. The lynchpin of the Times article was the writer's reliance on a
specifically genetic explanation for ethnic weapons.
Bioweapons have been used since at least the Roman Empire, when armies dumped dead
animals into an enemy's water supply to spread disease. Research into ethnic-specific
bioweapons was first broached publicly in 1970, when Dr. Carl Larson's article "Ethnic
Weapons" appeared in the Military Review. Larson discussed the possibility of utilizing
differing races' sensitivity or low resistance to specific compounds (such as lactose
intolerance among Asians) as either a bioweapon in itself, or as a "vector" that would
allow other poisons or microorganisms to more easily enter a human body when defenses
were lowered or destroyed. This method was not as surgically accurate as the military
might want it to be, since many populations are not completely homogenous. The strange
thing about the Times coverage was that it completely ignored this history and the fact
that any technology for killing more of the enemy than your own would most likely be
(and has been) looked upon with interest by military strategists.
No updates have yet appeared (or I have been unable to locate any) on the subject of
Israeli ethnic weapons. In this country, continuing a historic policy toward Native
Americans, it has been revealed that the American Indian Health Service (IHS—funded
by the Federal Government, who employ the doctors and nurses) coerced Native
American men and women into forced sterilizations in the early to mid 1970s. The
General Accounting Office (GAO) estimated that 3,400 people (mostly women)
underwent the treatment, but their study only covered four of twelve IHS regions for four
years. Activists put the estimate much higher, at 60,000 to 70,000. This, coupled with the
suspicion raised by the hantavirus outbreak in the Four Corners region of Arizona/New
Mexico/Colorado/Utah keeps suspicion and fingers pointed at the federal government and
at least some government policies toward the American Indian population. (Hantavirus is
one of many "new" diseases that have come under suspicion of having their origins in
genetic engineering or biowarfare labs.) As reported in a 1994 Project Censored update,
Utah's Dugway Proving Grounds biowarfare research site was also reopened despite
local residents' protests over fears that the facility was originally closed because of safety
concerns. Fort Dietrick, the site of the most notorious CIA drug and army biowarfare
research in the United States now houses major research facilities of the National Cancer
Institute, raising issues of conflict (or collusion) or interest.
No major press outlets were consulted about publication of the story. It was written to
appear on the Konformist.com website. Public awareness spread from there. There
appears to have been no followup in the mainstream media on the original 1998 London
Times story.
For more information on this story:
Cole, Leonard A. Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over
Populated Areas, Rowman & Littlefield, Totowa, N.J. , 1988.
Hersh, Seymour M. Chemical and Biological Warfare: America's Hidden Arsenal,
Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1968.
Murphy, Sean. No Fire, No Thunder: The Threat of Chemical and Biological
Weapons, Monthly Review Press, New York , 1984.
Piller, Charles. Gene Wars: Military Control Over the New Genetic Technologies,
Beech Tree Books, New York , 1988.
Spiers, Edward M. Chemical and Biological Weapons: A Study in Proliferation, St.
Martin's Press, New York, 1994.
Websites:
www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id293/pg1.html (http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id293/pg1.html)
Article by Preston Peet on U.S. biowarfare testing in Puerto Rico in the 1930s. Island
population was deliberately infected with cancer in a program run by Dr. Cornelius
Rhodes, who went on to win seats on the Atomic Energy Commission and the
Rockefeller Institute, as well as running U.S. chemical warfare programs in WWII. Many
useful links.
www.ratical.org/ratville/sterilize.html (http://www.ratical.org/ratville/sterilize.html)
Long and detailed article on the American Indian sterilization program.
cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/zilin.htm
This Center for Nonproliferation Studies site features text of threat assessment presented
to Congressional subcommittee in October 1999, by Dr. Raymond Zilinskas. Includes
information on bioweapons and ethnic weapons.
www.gene.ch/gentech/1999/Jan-Feb/msg00070.html (http://www.gene.ch/gentech/1999/Jan-Feb/msg00070.html)
Genetech discussion list featuring exchanges on ethnic weapons. Concentrates on
possibility of genetically engineered versions.
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Author Robert Lederman
Corporate news coverage: Daily Telegraph (London) 7/7/00, Agence France Presse
1/21/99, The Gazette (Montreal) A-4, Baltimore Sun 1/22/99 A-18, The Salt Lake City
Tribune 1/27/99 A-13, The Times Union (Albany) 2/2/99 D-2,
Faculty/Community Evaluators: Rabbi Michael Robinson, Velma Guillory-Taylor, Ed.D.
Student Researchers: Terrie Girdner, Karen Parlette, Jennifer Swift
The Human Genome Project may now open the door to the development and use of
genetic weapons targeted at specific ethnic groups. This project is currently being
conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Energy Department, which also oversees
America’s nuclear weapon arsenal.
In October 1997, Dr. Wayne Nathanson, chief of the Science and Ethics Department of
the Medical Society of the United Kingdom, warned the annual meeting of the Society
that "gene therapy" might possibly be turned into "gene weapons" which could potentially
be used to target particular genes possessed by certain groups of people. These weapons,
Nathanson warned, could be delivered not only in the forms already seen in warfare such
as gas and aerosol, but could also be added to water supplies, causing not only death but
sterility and birth defects in targeted groups.
Current estimates of the cost of developing a "gene weapon" have been placed at around
$50 million, still quite a stretch for an isolated band of neo-Nazis, but well within the
capabilities of covert government programs.
On November 15, 1998, the London Times reported that Israel claimed to have
successfully developed a genetically specific "ethnic bullet" that targets Arabs. When an
Israeli government spokesman was asked to confirm the existence of ethnic weapons, he
did not deny that they had them, but rather said, "we have a basket full of serious
surprises that we will not hesitate to use if we feel that the state of Israel is under serious
threat."
Some scientists worry that the modified genes that corporations have spliced into fish,
fowl, fruit and vegetables have permanently altered the world’s food supply. Some may
be intended to reduce populations.
The U.S. has a long history of interest in such genetic research. The current home of the
Human Genome Project is the Cold Springs Harbor laboratory on Long Island, NY—the
exact site of the notorious Eugenics Research Office that was started in 1910 by the
Harriman family. The project’s 1910 agenda included governmental imposition of
sanctions on such human rights as reproduction, and on U.S. immigration, based on the
alleged inferiority of particular ethnic groups. The Eugenics Research Project established
medical and psychological conditions that would qualify one for sterilization or euthanasia.
Prominent advocates of the program such as the Rockefeller family, Henry Ford, and
Margaret Sanger helped smooth the way for the passage of forcible sterilization laws in
25 states. These laws allowed the forcible sterilization of tens of thousands of people,
mostly of minority status, during the first half of the 20th century.
The November 1970 issue of the Military Review published an article entitled "Ethnic
Weapons" for command-level military personnel. The author of the article was Dr. Carl
Larson, head of the Department of Human Genetics at the Institute of Genetics in Lund,
Sweden. Dr Larson wrote of how genetic variations in races are concurrent with
differences in tolerances for various substances. For instance, large segments of
Southeast Asian populations display a lactose intolerance due to the absence of the
enzyme lactase in the digestive system. A biological weapon could conceivably take
advantage of this genetic variance and incapacitate or kill an entire population.
Update by Greg Bishop
The ubiquitous nature of racism and the ruling power structure's history of handling
"undesirables," as well as dealing with an enemy (almost always of different racial stock
than a dominant aggressor) virtually assures us that the more powerful countries and their
allies are continuing to look into new and better ways of subduing and killing whole (or
major parts of) foreign populations.
When the London Times broke the story of the Israeli bioweapons project and interest in
the development of pathogens that would disable or kill by ethnicity, they quoted an
unnamed British intelligence source that said that these sorts of weapons were
"theoretically possible." They were not only "theoretical" but had been researched for
nearly 50 years. The lynchpin of the Times article was the writer's reliance on a
specifically genetic explanation for ethnic weapons.
Bioweapons have been used since at least the Roman Empire, when armies dumped dead
animals into an enemy's water supply to spread disease. Research into ethnic-specific
bioweapons was first broached publicly in 1970, when Dr. Carl Larson's article "Ethnic
Weapons" appeared in the Military Review. Larson discussed the possibility of utilizing
differing races' sensitivity or low resistance to specific compounds (such as lactose
intolerance among Asians) as either a bioweapon in itself, or as a "vector" that would
allow other poisons or microorganisms to more easily enter a human body when defenses
were lowered or destroyed. This method was not as surgically accurate as the military
might want it to be, since many populations are not completely homogenous. The strange
thing about the Times coverage was that it completely ignored this history and the fact
that any technology for killing more of the enemy than your own would most likely be
(and has been) looked upon with interest by military strategists.
No updates have yet appeared (or I have been unable to locate any) on the subject of
Israeli ethnic weapons. In this country, continuing a historic policy toward Native
Americans, it has been revealed that the American Indian Health Service (IHS—funded
by the Federal Government, who employ the doctors and nurses) coerced Native
American men and women into forced sterilizations in the early to mid 1970s. The
General Accounting Office (GAO) estimated that 3,400 people (mostly women)
underwent the treatment, but their study only covered four of twelve IHS regions for four
years. Activists put the estimate much higher, at 60,000 to 70,000. This, coupled with the
suspicion raised by the hantavirus outbreak in the Four Corners region of Arizona/New
Mexico/Colorado/Utah keeps suspicion and fingers pointed at the federal government and
at least some government policies toward the American Indian population. (Hantavirus is
one of many "new" diseases that have come under suspicion of having their origins in
genetic engineering or biowarfare labs.) As reported in a 1994 Project Censored update,
Utah's Dugway Proving Grounds biowarfare research site was also reopened despite
local residents' protests over fears that the facility was originally closed because of safety
concerns. Fort Dietrick, the site of the most notorious CIA drug and army biowarfare
research in the United States now houses major research facilities of the National Cancer
Institute, raising issues of conflict (or collusion) or interest.
No major press outlets were consulted about publication of the story. It was written to
appear on the Konformist.com website. Public awareness spread from there. There
appears to have been no followup in the mainstream media on the original 1998 London
Times story.
For more information on this story:
Cole, Leonard A. Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over
Populated Areas, Rowman & Littlefield, Totowa, N.J. , 1988.
Hersh, Seymour M. Chemical and Biological Warfare: America's Hidden Arsenal,
Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1968.
Murphy, Sean. No Fire, No Thunder: The Threat of Chemical and Biological
Weapons, Monthly Review Press, New York , 1984.
Piller, Charles. Gene Wars: Military Control Over the New Genetic Technologies,
Beech Tree Books, New York , 1988.
Spiers, Edward M. Chemical and Biological Weapons: A Study in Proliferation, St.
Martin's Press, New York, 1994.
Websites:
www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id293/pg1.html (http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id293/pg1.html)
Article by Preston Peet on U.S. biowarfare testing in Puerto Rico in the 1930s. Island
population was deliberately infected with cancer in a program run by Dr. Cornelius
Rhodes, who went on to win seats on the Atomic Energy Commission and the
Rockefeller Institute, as well as running U.S. chemical warfare programs in WWII. Many
useful links.
www.ratical.org/ratville/sterilize.html (http://www.ratical.org/ratville/sterilize.html)
Long and detailed article on the American Indian sterilization program.
cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/zilin.htm
This Center for Nonproliferation Studies site features text of threat assessment presented
to Congressional subcommittee in October 1999, by Dr. Raymond Zilinskas. Includes
information on bioweapons and ethnic weapons.
www.gene.ch/gentech/1999/Jan-Feb/msg00070.html (http://www.gene.ch/gentech/1999/Jan-Feb/msg00070.html)
Genetech discussion list featuring exchanges on ethnic weapons. Concentrates on
possibility of genetically engineered versions.
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