African Americans make up 83 percent of people convicted for crack offenses, even though the number of white crack users is 40 percent greater than that of black users, according to a National Institute on Drug Abuse study. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CxFf_XpzQbgJ:https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2014/10/joe-biden-hunter-biden-cocaine/+&cd=40&hl=en
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10-16-2014 WASHINGTON—Vice-President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was discharged from the Navy Reserve this year after testing positive for cocaine, according to people familiar with the matter.
Hunter Biden, a lawyer by training who is now a managing partner at an investment company, had been commissioned as an ensign in the Navy Reserve, a part-time position. But after failing a drug test last year, his brief military career ended. https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-son-hunter-discharged-from-navy-reserve-after-failing-cocaine-test-1413499657
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10-14-2019 Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday said that if he is elected president he would not use his power to pardon President Trump or stop any investigations into the current president or his administration.
“It is not something the president is entitled to do, to direct a prosecution or decide to drop a case. It’s a dereliction of duty,” the former vice president told MSNBC's Lawrence O’Donnell in an appearance on his show “The Last Word.”
"It's hands off completely,” Biden added on how he would handle Trump investigations. “The attorney general is not the president's lawyer. It's the people's lawyer. We never saw anything like the prostitution of that office like we see it today.” https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/465663-biden-says-he-wouldnt-pardon-trump-if-elected-president
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12-30-2019 ’We should put them in jail!' Joe Biden wants to prosecute fossil fuel executives for environmental damage—but doesn't mention son Hunter who helped run Ukrainian natural gas giant https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7837265/We-jail-Biden-wants-prosecute-fossil-fuel-executives-environment-damage.html
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9-24-19 ”One of our newest projects is to work on making animal proteins without the animals," says Jason Kelly, the CEO and co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks.
In his view what's happening with DNA now is analogous to what happened at the start of the computer industry.
"Except this time, it will be cells that will be programmed," Kelly says. "And they won't be moving information around. They'll mostly be building stuff."
This company uses so much DNA that it not only makes its own, but also buys some from another major manufacturer named Twist Bioscience.
Emily Leproust, Twist Bioscience's CEO, estimates that the global synthetic DNA industry is currently churning out approximately 3 billion pairs of DNA letters a year—or about the same amount found in each human cell.
She says her company produces about 10 percent of that, and its customers include pharmaceutical firms, agricultural companies and academic scientists trying to understand basic biology.
"You log on to the website, you upload the sequence you want and you can order one gene or 10 genes or a thousand genes," explains Leproust.
A couple weeks later, custom DNA arrives in the mail. At least, it does if the order gets through Twist Bioscience's rigorous security screening.
What makes DNA so powerful, after all, also makes it potentially dangerous. Someone could use it to change a harmless bacteria into one that makes a deadly toxin.
And scientists have already shown that it's possible to use bits of DNA to construct viruses like polio and Ebola.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/24/762834987/as-made-to-order-dna-gets-cheaper-keeping-it-out-of-the-wrong-hands-gets-harder
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6-26-2018 Developments in synthetic biology demand close scrutiny because the field poses a potential threat to humanity, warns a new interim report by the US National Academies. Although synthetic biology offers the opportunity to transform disease treatment and chemical manufacturing, among other areas, it could also enable the creation of novel types of weapons at unprecedented speeds, the National Academies committee said.
The authors of the preliminary report are particularly worried that synthetic biology – the creation or modification of existing lifeforms – could be used to recreate known pathogenic viruses, making existing bacteria more dangerous and creating harmful biochemicals via in situ synthesis. The field ‘blurs the line’ between chemical and biological weapons, the committee concluded. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/national-academies-warn-of-synthetic-biology-dangers/3009201.article
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12-11-17 Digital information, including malware, can now be stored and transmitted via DNA. The J. Craig Venter Institute even created an entire synthetic genome watermarked with encoded links and hidden messages. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dna-has-gone-digital-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/
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2-26-2020 "Since Sept. 11, 2001 we have spent somewhere in the area of $100 billion" on offensive biological warfare, charges Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois, Champaign. Boyle said an estimated 13,000 "death scientists" in 400 laboratories in the U.S. and abroad are employed making new strains of offensive killer germs that will be resistant to vaccines.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2002/S00184/us-biowarfare-programs-have-13000-death-scientists-hard-at-work.htm
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