anthrax

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Wadosy, I have always assumed that 9 / 11-anthrax was a crazy form of adventurism on the part of the Bushites but Ruppert in his book connected it to peak oil I've never understood the connection, that it was imminent enough to effect such a drastic political counter revolution.

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  1. noun An infectious, usually fatal disease of warm-blooded animals, especially of cattle and sheep, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The disease can be transmitted to humans through contact with contaminated animal substances, such as hair, feces, or hides, and is characterized by ulcerative skin lesions.
  2. noun A lesion caused by anthrax.

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  • Universal Detection's products are listed on GSA Schedule GS-07F-0106V for equipment used in the detection of biological weapons such as anthrax, ricin, botulinum, and plague as well as Radiation Detection Equipment. —  News
  • In July, Bruce E. Ivins, whom the FBI named the anthrax killer, committed suicide. —  ModerateVoters.org
  • Every single flu epidemic has been anthrax, and flu-like symptoms are almost always anthrax. —  Indymedia Ireland
  • The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. —  Seeing the Forest
  • Wadosy, I have always assumed that 9 / 11-anthrax was a crazy form of adventurism on the part of the Bushites but Ruppert in his book connected it to peak oil I've never understood the connection, that it was imminent enough to effect such a drastic political counter revolution. —  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
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  1. Middle English antrax, malignant boil, from Latin anthrax, carbuncle, from Greek.

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  1. from Latin anthrax, a virulent ulcer, carbuncle, also cinnabar, from Greek ἂνθραξ, a (burning) coal, a precious stone, a virulent ulcer; origin uncertain.
 

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