Yes, Carol. The first has been known for some time, although depending on who you read about it from it's either a visionary statement of the future or a conpiracy.

The second is an example of our conspiracy guest saying the such and such exists, then pointing to an article which only says that it's possible something could be theoretically developed. Also not a surprise to anyone who understands biology that genetic engineering could devise weapons based around specific strands of DNA -- except that there are no specific DNA markers for "race" since race is a social construct, not a genetic one. There's no "black person" gene, and any racial weapon is bound to be inaccurate.

My original point, however, was that just 'cause a web page says so, doesn't mean it's true. If you think a collection of psuedo-journalistic web sites are proof that some of these claims is good evidence, then that's one thing. But personally, I think it's weak and ridiculous -- and just as ridiculous for a government to present a bunch of plaguerized web pages as intelligence data and expect their citizens to die in a war over it.