Soligenix stock was on the rise again Tuesday, a day after it gained more than 14 per cent when it said it will submit a proposal for a potential multi-million dollar contract to develop its radiation therapy, OrbeShield.
Its stock closed at 80 cents on Monday, and was lately up by more than 11 per cent, changing hands at around 89 cents as of 1:25pm ET.
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has called on the company to submit a full proposal for a potential multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to develop OrbeShield.
Ever since the beginning of the war on terror, Soligenix — once known as DOR Biopharma, has been kept alive solely by bioterror defense funding, most notably for a ricin vaccine. It has also been peddling its anti-radiation sickness nostrums, always called Orbesomethings, for the same period of time.
The company has never brought anything to market. In 2012 its stock fell into virtual worthlessness. Since then it has been kept alive by a value pumping maneuver (a reverse stock split that took 20 shares, then valued at a nickel a piece, and condensed them into one worth about eighty cents) and parasitic attachment to another biodefense funding stream.
Soligenix — from the archives. Keynsian job program digging holes and filling them back in. Or high button welfare workfare for a handful of lousy scientists? You decide.
One way of telling cyberwar is a function of shoeshine and job programs for the top rung of US society and the national security drivers is that it regularly goes on holiday.
Computer malware and insecurity never takes a holiday. But cyberwar does and that’s because it’s driven by press campaigns. And the people who push it, the indispensable tellers of its stories, were off from the end of December until now.
The [Iranian] attackers said last week that they had no intention of halting their campaign [of attacking US bank websites]. “Officials of American banks must expect our massive attacks,??? they wrote. “From now on, none of the U.S. banks will be safe.???
And we have so noticed the attacks. Iranian cyberstrikes so affected the US financial transaction system that the Christmas holidays were marked by a surge in dispensations of cash for assault rifle sales and runs on ammunition. And in newspaper interviews the only thing gun owners said they hated more than Barack Obama and his gun grabbing moves were the cybersoldiers and hackers messing with their bank websites.
Ahem.
The US government now attributes the cyberwar to retaliation over Stuxnut and other computer viruses that US has turned on the Iranian nuclear program.
But American intelligence officials say the group is actually a cover for Iran. They claim Iran is waging the attacks in retaliation for Western economic sanctions and for a series of cyberattacks on its own systems. In the last three years, three sophisticated computer viruses — called Flame, Duqu and Stuxnet — have hit computers in Iran. The New York Times reported last year that the United States, together with Israel, was responsible for Stuxnet, the virus used to destroy centrifuges in an Iranian nuclear facility in 2010.
“It’s a bit of a grudge match,??? said Mr. Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“The attackers hit one American bank after the next,” reads the Times lede. “As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later.”
Great copy! What could be next, we wonder? Perhaps we will have to close a couple browser windows, clear the cache, and try again.
Get the bombers and cruise missiles ready. Everyone needs to know that our retaliations won’t necessarily be symmetrical or in kind.
DD Band in Pasadena in November 2010. We often used the famous outro from Won’t Get Fooled Again by the Who as a sequed wrap up of a version of Young Man Blues.
The Pete Townshend sequencer line, which is the hook for Fooled, was done through the guitar in a Roger Linn Adrenalinn III. It always worked well.
Play loud for maximum effect. The audio is from a digital camera capture done by a member of the audience. The video part was so poorly shot it was useless except for a couple low res stills, so it was tossed and the raw audio given a faux stereo image in the digital studio. Caveats aside, the fragment still captures the essence of it.
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You’ll never go broke pandering to the worst in America. Or, it never ceases to surprise how far one can get with so little up top. Half a million views, “recommended” by YouTube after play of the anthem I specifically wrote for them, “Suck on My Machine Gun.”
Reminding everyone that the “it” gift this past Xmas was an AR-15 and boxes of ammo.
The big news in the mainstream was Alex Jones on CNN during the Orange Bowl, the only mitigating factor being that the TV audience was primarily on football.
Jones, like Ted Nugent, is an IQ test that works on many levels. If you deal with him, you flunk. If you go on his show, the same.
CNN’s Piers Morgan hosted noted radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to discuss his petition to deport Morgan because of his views on gun control. Jones is a 9/11 truther who has a history of inflammatory and baseless remarks … Jones’ lengthy history of pushing absurd conspiracy theories should disqualify him from being mainstreamed on media outlets such as CNN.
“They are mass-producing ricin powder for trans-shipment into the United States,” says McAfee. “This is not a joke.”
“They are manufacturing it by the ton,” McAfee insists. A kilogram of it, dispensed over New York, will kill everyone, he tells Jones. “[They’re making] enough to kill every man, woman and child on the planet.”
“If there is a rye-a-sin attack, the government will take my guns and squeeze my wife’s breast,” Jones tell McAfee. “If this happens, you sir will be a key person.”
John McAfee, however, did not count on the greater news impact of Jones going off on CNN in primetime. The big time lunatic trumped the millionaire ex-antivirus king and pathological liar.
At McAfee Associates, this morning, more hair is being pulled out, more molars ground.
The Highway Kings? Sounds like a biker gang. Looks like one, too. Sort of, yeah. In an era when ‘biker metal’ was more career choice than lifestyle (see Little Caesar, Two-Bit Thief, Junkyard, Tattoo Rodeo etc), Destiny and his filthy few actually lived like demented speedfreak outlaws in the junk belt of eastern Pennsylvania, playing their chariotchoogling motorcycle boogie mostly for third-stage alcoholics and lot lizards. More at home opening for downwardspiralling bloozesters – Robin Trower, Pat Travers et al – they often found themselves on freak-show double bills with strange bedfellows such as all-girl motor-metalmamas Cycle Sluts From Hell or spazzpoppers Ween, and the end result was frequently brawls, blood and spilled booze. Sometimes even on purpose.
Wait – did they just punch people, or were they an actual band? They were a band that punched people. Destiny was a smart-alecky writer and fledgling badass on a wild search for kicks in mid-80s Reagan America. He recruited a short-order cook with marital problems and an auto-body painter from the local trailer park to round out his vision of hard rock greaseball skullfuckery, and together they bashed out epics of manly fuzz rock, such as Arrogance (1986) and Brutality (1988), that sounded like the Nuge and the Godz kicking the guts out of Tyranny And Mutation -era Blue Öyster Cult.
Did anybody care (besides you)? Crazily, they got lots of hot press from unlikely publications such as Creem and Spin , and plenty of college radio airplay. Which did them no good, because they sounded like Blue fucking Öyster Cult.
Let me guess – they ran out of gas. The band finally dissolved in a haze of cigarette smoke and salty tears at a pancake house somewhere off Interstate 78, in late 1991. We don’t know if Jesus wept, but certainly a few ageing, floppytitted BÖC groupies did. Five years later, the chicken-wire rock dive that made them local legends, The 4G’s in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, ‘mysteriously’ burned to the ground, effectively dooming any chance of a reunion. Destiny rolls on, however, most recently as a caustic rock journalist for The Village Voice and as a founding member of Uncle Sam and the JDAMs, whose album Iraq ’N’ Roll should be available soon.
Actually, the idea was to look like the James Gang ca. Rides Again, which we did.
And if you listen to “China Toilet Blooz,” I still do the early Seventies heavy guitar rock trip.
Dreadfully familiar, from the local newspaper, coverage of a gun show in Ontario, about twenty minutes west of me. It’s the standard collection of pugnacious white men, stockpiling weapons and ammo, for the group delusion they’re the bastion that protects the Bill of Rights, taking practical measures to defend the Constitution, ready to fight off the US military and shoot all the government agents when tyranny comes.
If gun-control advocates fear a nation awash in weapons, others fear a government powerful enough to tell citizens whether they can arm themselves.
The Second Amendment “is actually to overthrow a government,” said Hill, who said he is an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It was the right to support the more perfect union,” he said. “It was to keep the government in check” …
A few people stood in line with a rifle or two slung over their shoulders with signs showing offers to sell or trade the weapons. Others exited the venue with hand trucks bearing stacks of ammunition.
Thick clusters assembled around any vendor dealing in ammunition. Templeton said many consumers are buying as much ammunition as they can, as soon as they can.
The right to support the more perfect union. Yes, their the very picture of a perfect defense of unity in the populace of the USA.
This is the other California I frequently talk about. It was the majority when I arrived in the San Gabriel Valley twenty years ago. Now it’s in the minority, pitted against the whole. It votes far right southern and has contributed to the radicalization and destruction of the GOP in California.
Paradoxically, WhiteManistan never views itself as extreme. Rolling handcarts full of boxes of ammo doesn’t strike them as abnormal behavior. It’s everyone else, now giving them fishy looks, who has gone to hell. They’ll defend freedom and liberty to the death, don’t you know?
This song was absolutely made for them: ‘Buy your assault gun, don’t be late.’
An opinion piece, written by a National Rife Association lifetime member, now alienated by what he sees in the organization and its recommendation to put more arms into schools (From a Corvallis newspaper, last week):
I am surprised you have failed to see the looming disaster facing American gun owners. Even if the Newtown massacre turns out not to be the final straw on the camel’s back, it is certainly coming.
And when it does, we can expect a cascading, unstoppable movement to restrict, prohibit and even confiscate guns and ammunition, much like the one that swept through Australia following the slaughter of 35 innocent people in Port Arthur in 1996.
On that day we will have no goodwill banked, no history of thoughtful discussion or cooperation. Our record will be one of threats and intimidation combined with disgusting alliances with low lifes like disgraced former Idaho senator Larry Craig, and serial blowhard Ted Nugent. It is a shameful legacy.
I am hopeful your news conference will soon be recognized as the beginning of the end of your reign as CEO and executive vice president of the NRA, [Wayne LaPierre]. You have been a vengeful, mean-spirited demagogue and under your leadership, the NRA has morphed into the worst kind of bully, one that rules with fear.
“China Toilet Blooz,” performed live in Pasadena in the arts/theater district just south of Colorado, fall of 2010.
Originally recorded as a video/audio capture on an audience member’s digital camera, I tossed the video. The recording was low fidelity, the camera’s video capability squelching everything above 5k in the audio spectrum to keep file size manageable. So I put it back into a digital replica of the room for a pseudo-stereo image and did a few other studio tricks to bring back some dynamic range and restore a better feel for what it sounded like. (I almost can do magic for the stuff others have ruined for you, too.)
Play loud. Yep, really loud folk rock gets heavy. Hey, dig the Mojo Hand made-in-China harmonica! Straight off Humble Pie’s Rockin’ the Fillmore. Well, no, but it’s where I nicked the licks.
To Nosten [a malaria doctor in Thailand], it was further evidence of an alarming rise in resistance to artemisinin, currently the front-line drug in the treatment of malaria. He fears it could be the start of a global “nightmare” in which millions of people could lose their lives.
“We have to beat this resistance, win this race and eliminate the parasite before it’s too late. That’s our challenge now,” he said.
He said that artemisinin should take about 24 hours to deal with the parasite, but it was now taking three or four days in some cases. “We are going to see patients that don’t respond to the treatment anymore,??? he warned …
He first sounded the alarm in research published earlier this year, following the emergence of similar drug resistance along the Thai-Cambodia border.
“Keasling realized that the tools of synthetic biology, if properly deployed, could dispense with nature entirely, providing an abundant new source of artemisinin,” reads some standard high button blow job from 2009, published at the New Yorker. “If each cell became its own factory, churning out the chemical required to make the drug, there would be no need for an elaborate and costly manufacturing process, either.”
About 3.3 billion people – half of the world’s population – are at risk of malaria. In 2010, there were about 216 million malaria cases (with an uncertainty range of 149 million to 274 million) and an estimated 655 000 malaria deaths (with an uncertainty range of 537 000 to 907 000). Increased prevention and control measures have led to a reduction in malaria mortality rates by more than 25% globally since 2000 and by 33% in the WHO African Region.
Like most old synthetic biology pieces, the New Yorker “annals of science” essay is full of promises about shit that never quite happened. Although the people quoted, Jay Keasling et al, became very wealthy and semi-famous.
Morgan Gliedman, 27, and Aaron Greene, 31, were arrested Saturday in their Manhattan apartment after officers with a search warrant found 7 grams of HMTD, a highly explosive white powder used in bomb making. Police also seized a flare launcher, a sawed-off shotgun, nine rifle magazines and various how-to manuals on building bombs and booby traps.
“They had a terrorist encyclopedia, they had improvised and modified firearms, deadly homemade weapons, a do it yourself machine gun…” New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Monday.
Kelly was unsure how much damage 7 grams of HMTD would cause.
HMTD is homemade explosive similar to TATP, the latter made with hydrogen peroxide and other fairly easily available ingredients. TATP caused a furor in homeland security for a few years even though no terrorists were successful with it in the US. (The Zazi case being the big example.)
The police had the apartment building evacuated. Seven grams of HMTD is not a threat to such a structure.
The preliminary report asserts the couple were heroin users.
