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John Toradze is the pen name of a scientist who ran an office in Tbilisi, Georgia for 5 years and traveled widely in Russia the former USSR nations and nearby. I have authored chapters for books published by the West Point terrorism center on asymmetric warfare and methods. I also have publications in epidemic modeling, assay methods, and several patents ranging from robotics to a device for the blind to bioassays.

These days my passion is microbiology and curing disease, which grew out of concerns over biological warfare. I think that biological warfare is going to shape the 21st century more than nuclear warfare shaped the 20th. Aside from that, my hobbies are hiking, cycling and orchids. My real job is that of doorman for a cat, who rules my life with an iron paw.

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12 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 101 Comments, 1 Diaries, 0 Polls

101 comments


Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 10:02:20 AM

Article: "Blaming America - Planting Discord in Los Angeles"

I will also point out that you did not address the article?


Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9:58:23 AM

Article: "Blaming America - Planting Discord in Los Angeles"

Yes. I have, and more.


Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9:51:09 AM

Article: "Blaming America - Planting Discord in Los Angeles"

Completely agree.


Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:38:13 AM

Diary: "Something Smells About Fort Hood"

What in idiotic, paranoid nut article.


Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:33:13 AM

Article: "Award-winning Journalist Dahr Jamail Analyzes Military Shoot"

The shooter was a muslim fighting for islam. No puzzle.


Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 11:22:36 AM

Article: "Opium, Rape and the American Way"

With Taliban out of power, they have no choice - plus ...


Friday, October 30, 2009 at 3:50:58 PM

Article: "Is this Tom Friedman's "Walter Cronkite Moment" on Afghanist"

Here's an article on Myths about Afghanistan.


Friday, October 30, 2009 at 1:37:53 PM

Article: "Is this Tom Friedman's "Walter Cronkite Moment" on Afghanist"

Based on comparison, Afghanistan should take 600,000 troops.


Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:06:46 AM

Article: "Media Liars and Whitehouse Bad Cops Are Pimping the Trigger"

You are right Rob.


Friday, October 23, 2009 at 1:47:35 PM

Article: "What's Wrong with a Free Press"

Good article


Friday, October 23, 2009 at 1:40:01 PM

Article: "Mad as Hell Doctor Part of the Problem in America's Sick Car"

Last I checked we did have a free tuition option (ROTC style


Friday, October 16, 2009 at 10:48:40 AM

Article: "Reviving the Local Economy with Publicly-owned Banks"

Absolutely correct. The private model has proven worse.


Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 12:18:32 PM

Article: "Criminals or Police?"

You should submit that as a regular article.


Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 11:30:51 AM

Article: "Criminals or Police?"

Didn't know that bit of history.


Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 1:00:13 PM

Article: "Report: Public Option as Best Cost Control"

Absolutely correct. And public option was the fallback!


Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:39:43 PM

Article: "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FINANCIAL CRISIS: Not Over Yet!"

Correct, although it leaves out major items


Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 11:59:06 AM

Article: "Van Jones Resigns; Left To Hang By Obama For Cursing Republ"

On the lighter side ...


Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 12:50:24 PM

Article: "Who's Blocking Health Care Reform Now? Blue Dogs? Senate Dem"

Yes, I think the administration is killing health reform


Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 12:42:49 PM

Article: "Who's Blocking Health Care Reform Now? Blue Dogs? Senate Dem"

Yes, I think the administration is killing health reform


Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 12:20:40 PM

Article: "Cheney Running Scared, But Where's Rahm Emmanuel?"

Yes, that may be exactly what is going on.


Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 12:17:32 PM

Article: "Cheney Running Scared, But Where's Rahm Emmanuel?"

Rahm is the primary Obama admin problem - Aside from Obama


Friday, June 26, 2009 at 1:12:41 PM

Article: "Rewriting our Stories"

Good article with important points, if poor headliner. :-)


Friday, June 19, 2009 at 11:43:57 AM

Article: "The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders: Why Deflation and Not Inf"

Leaving private banking to its fate


Friday, June 19, 2009 at 11:30:46 AM

Article: "The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders: Why Deflation and Not Inf"

More intelligent than most OpEds, if misguided.


Monday, June 8, 2009 at 9:41:58 AM

Article: "The Tone and the Music; Reaction to Obama's Cairo Speech"

Obama is just a pol


Monday, May 18, 2009 at 1:00:05 PM

Article: "USING A LICENSE TO PRACTICE LAW TO FACILITATE TORTURE SHOULD"

A lot of troubling things


Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 4:13:49 PM

Article: "America's Silent Killing Fields - 2009 Update"

How do you think you are able to buy food?


Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 4:03:45 PM

Article: "America's Silent Killing Fields - 2009 Update"

Dear god this is offensive, and so utterly wrongheaded.


Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 11:37:04 AM

Article: "America Now Extremely Vulnerable to Financial Warfare"

Indeed, so why hasn't it happened already?


Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 8:38:31 PM

Article: "Averting the China Syndrome"

People don't know why someone is breaking into their home.


Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:08:25 AM

Article: "Death on the Half Shell? MRSA at the Beach? Scientists Discl"

Anti-evolutionists need look no farther.


Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:06:26 AM

Article: "Jindal the Joke"

This is bad for progressives exactly how? :-)


Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:02:09 AM

Article: "A Modest Proposal - An Iraqi Vote on Troop Withdrawal"

We also have our own realities to deal with


Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 1:12:12 PM

Article: "You and UBS: Bush IRS Inked Deal to Aid US Tax Evaders"

Glass-Steagall was a bipartisan dismantling


Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 1:25:20 PM

Article: "How Can Terrorizing a Civilian Population be a Right?"

It is not terrorizing civilians to deliberately target them?


Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 5:23:56 PM

Article: "How much uranium yellowcake is in coal versus nuclear power?"

We also have to keep in mind


Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 5:19:50 PM

Article: "How much uranium yellowcake is in coal versus nuclear power?"

That's a good comment.


Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 4:12:57 PM

Article: "How much uranium yellowcake is in coal versus nuclear power?"

The costs of nuclear power are legislative/political.


Friday, February 13, 2009 at 9:37:14 PM

Article: "How much uranium yellowcake is in coal versus nuclear power?"

Mark you are spamming with this message.


Friday, February 13, 2009 at 9:32:02 PM

Article: "How much uranium yellowcake is in coal versus nuclear power?"

No, it is not a strawman, it is very realistic


Friday, February 13, 2009 at 11:00:50 AM

Article: "How much uranium yellowcake is in coal versus nuclear power?"

The facts are straight.


Friday, February 13, 2009 at 9:54:25 AM

Article: "O'Reilly refuses apology for Helen Thomas remarks"

This is how O'Reilly makes his money - you're feeding him.


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:45:16 PM

Article: "Let's get some truth into these discussions."

The less valuable stations are, the more we see this.


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:34:29 PM

Quicklink: "Bush Gitmo Detainee's 'Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel'"

I don't like it either


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:27:28 PM

Quicklink: "Bush Gitmo Detainee's 'Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel'"

Turnabout in the "war on terror"


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:16:14 PM

Quicklink: "Bush Gitmo Detainee's 'Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel'"

Again - Rendition was a Bill Clinton invention, not Bush.


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:11:07 PM

Article: "A Call to End All Renditions"

Extraordinary rendition was created by Bill Clinton.


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:04:36 PM

Article: "A Call to End All Renditions"

Extraordinary rendition was created by Bill Clinton.


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 1:41:07 PM

Article: "Why we need nuclear power."

Another big issue with ZPF cars


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 1:30:23 PM

Article: "Why we need nuclear power."

Other problems with generator vehicles


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 1:18:14 PM

Article: "Why we need nuclear power."

Let us consider some examples of "Radiation Kills"


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 12:54:09 PM

Article: "Why we need nuclear power."

Zero point fluctuation


Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 6:50:19 PM

Article: "Why we need nuclear power."

Gives a sense for what the regulatory costs are


Monday, February 9, 2009 at 8:13:25 PM

Diary: "It's getting better all the time...."

Sorry about my doing this


Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 4:00:15 PM

Poll: "Poll: Obama Should Commission An Independent 9/11 Special Pr"

Complete rubbish. There is nothing to consider.


Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 11:53:58 AM

Article: "Even Dick can be right once in a while"

Good, sensible article


Monday, December 29, 2008 at 2:42:06 PM

Article: "Is it a social justice and health issue in Gaza yet? Can we"

Why humanitarian aid feeds war.


Monday, December 29, 2008 at 2:29:12 PM

Article: "May We No Longer Be Silent"

Your title is Orwellian doublethink.


Monday, December 29, 2008 at 2:11:07 PM

Article: "Obama's Silence on Gaza Atrocities is Deafening"

Not criminal, a completely reasonable response to criminals.


Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 2:06:00 PM

Article: "Where are our priorities? Boy killed by Uzi at a gun show"

Money is a big part. It;'s hard versus soft targets here.


Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 9:21:18 AM

Quicklink: "'I was still holding my grandson's hand - the rest was gone'"

Same method used last time


Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 9:16:55 AM

Diary: "The NewFront Page and "Hot Pages" on OpedNews"

What about the following?


Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 9:02:56 AM

Article: "Liberal fear of diseases and trust in science. A totalitari"

You need to be succint and clear.


Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 2:04:16 PM

Article: "Did Ghostwriters Promote Wyeth's Cancer-Associated HRT?"

Tip of the iceberg, and complex


Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 7:01:56 PM

Article: "Hoekstra: Stark Reality Will Cause Obama to Reconsider Gitmo"

No. CIA did not "create" Al Qaeda.


Friday, December 12, 2008 at 7:52:15 PM

Article: "Hoekstra: Stark Reality Will Cause Obama to Reconsider Gitmo"

Terror is just another tactic of war and very lucrative.


Friday, December 12, 2008 at 5:25:40 PM

Article: "Hoekstra: Stark Reality Will Cause Obama to Reconsider Gitmo"

Dying for many reasons.


Friday, December 12, 2008 at 5:07:19 PM

Article: "Hoekstra: Stark Reality Will Cause Obama to Reconsider Gitmo"

Ticking bombs are very rare.


Friday, December 12, 2008 at 3:50:19 PM

Article: "Hoekstra: Stark Reality Will Cause Obama to Reconsider Gitmo"

Ok. So take this up with Hoekstra.


Friday, December 12, 2008 at 2:30:38 PM

Article: "Hitler and the Jews"

The Nazi's did it for the same reason Isabella did - Money.


Friday, December 12, 2008 at 1:35:01 PM

Article: "Do Flat Out Globalist GOP Traitors INTEND to Kill the USA's"

And, has mere talk of bailout killed electric cars - again?


Friday, December 12, 2008 at 1:17:21 PM

Article: "Do Flat Out Globalist GOP Traitors INTEND to Kill the USA's"

No, because "USA's Auto Industry" is Japanese cars now.


Monday, December 1, 2008 at 11:23:35 AM

Article: "Criminal Injustice Against the Holy Land Foundation Charity"

Nonsense.


Monday, December 1, 2008 at 11:22:17 AM

Article: "Cui Bono Mumbai?"

Not very discerning about geopolitics


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 2:14:26 PM

Article: "Do the Math"

Seriously folks


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 2:11:41 PM

Article: "Do the Math"

Smiling and puking - You have a Youtube of that?


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 1:25:11 PM

Article: "Do the Math"

Oh, please. Talk about ridiculous rubbish.


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 1:23:17 PM

Article: "Do the Math"

So mass starvation, war, etcetera isn't psychopathic rubbish


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 1:18:38 PM

Article: "Do the Math"

Overpopulation isn't the cause how?


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 1:09:01 PM

Article: "Do the Math"

Oh, right. THAT is going to work.


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 1:07:22 PM

Article: "Do the Math"

What other terms than biological can we look at this?


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 1:04:07 PM

Article: "Do the Math"

Politics is an expression of biology


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 12:20:32 PM

Article: "Do the Math"

Thus proving that women are irrational baby-machines.


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 11:50:03 AM

Article: "Do the Math"

So do the math on your proposal...


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 11:41:22 AM

Article: "Do the Math"

Class Insecta is parthenogenetic


Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 12:17:24 AM

Diary: "OpEdNews Post-Election; Suggestions and Call for New Ideas"

Solving the economy and our demographic crisis


Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 8:28:01 AM

Article: "IT'S SUNDAY. SO WHERE'S SARAH?"

Have questions ready, but ignore her absence


Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 4:35:40 PM

Article: "Understanding Putin and the conflict in the Caucasus"

In the words of "Cool Hand Luke"


Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 4:14:15 PM

Article: "Why Trig Palin's parentage is a national security matter."

Here are a couple of personal positions


Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 4:00:28 PM

Article: "Why Trig Palin's parentage is a national security matter."

You need to read my response article to critics


Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 3:53:23 PM

Article: "Why Trig Palin's parentage is a national security matter."

Yes, it is near certainty that Trig is not Sarah's daughter


Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 3:32:43 PM

Article: "Why Trig Palin's parentage is a national security matter."

Father-daughter incest is the most common form.


Friday, September 5, 2008 at 10:57:02 PM

Article: "The reality of the Russia-Georgia situation that Americans m"

Try again. If you read to the end and think, you might ...


Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 6:29:41 PM

Article: "Why Trig Palin's parentage is a national security matter."

I have a dear friend who is very difficult to work with.


Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 5:35:10 PM

Article: "Why Trig Palin's parentage is a national security matter."

Yes, I have gotten some negative feedback. Definitely.


Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 5:35:03 PM

Article: "BabyGate: Explosive New Details and the Smoking Gun Photo"

The residents of Wasilla all knew the kid was Bristol's


Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 5:17:48 PM

Poll: "Poll: Should The Media, Including OEN, Cover the Question W"

Father & mother are important = national security


Monday, September 1, 2008 at 6:13:55 PM

Article: "Understanding Georgia versus Russia in the Caucasus Crisis"

The USA did not orchestrate the aggression in Georgia


Monday, September 1, 2008 at 3:52:18 PM

Article: "Understanding Georgia versus Russia in the Caucasus Crisis"

Green lights and the Kremlin's deep game.


Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 11:22:44 PM

Article: "Understanding Putin and the conflict in the Caucasus"

Wow. This might make some sense.


Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 11:22:15 PM

Article: "Understanding Putin and the conflict in the Caucasus"

Wow. This might make some sense.

 

 

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