Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Still, throughout the twentieth century, governments hoped for even more lethal chemical weapons. Government chemical warfare programs around the world, both before and then escalating after World War II, continued to search for ever-deadlier toxins.
A simple chemical substitution in the basic structure of sulfur mustard led to a new group of agents, nitrogen mustards. Like the original toxin, nitrogen mustard is also a blistering agent, through either inhalation or skin contact. It also has an even more potent capacity than its parent compound to attack blood-forming cells. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Plants by far are the biggest manufacturers of chemical weapons on earth. Everybody knows about the beneficial effects we receive because of basic plant chemistry. They convert sunlight and water into sugar by using carbon dioxide they absorb from the atmosphere, in turn producing oxygen, which we get to breathe. But that's just the starting point. Plant chemistry has the power to make a significant impact on its environment, influencing everything from the weather to the number of local predators. |
| Remember, plants' chemical weapons aren't aimed at us for the most part; they're directed more at insects, bacteria, fungi, and, in some cases, mammals that are dedicated herbivores. So if we impose unilateral disarmament on a plant, it's like giving the keys to the candy store to a busload of schoolkids—pretty soon there's nothing left for anyone else to eat. The plant's predators just finish it off.
Of course, sometimes plant breeders have gone the other way and bred in too much natural resistance, turning an otherwise edible food into an almost deadly poison. |
Devra Davis
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 Many of the workers in the chemical weapons facility eventually started coughing most of the time. The plant supervisors assured Morgenstern that these men could not possibly have been exposed to any of these agents. If there had been even the slightest exposures, he was told, they would have been obviously and immediately sick. Morgenstern wasn't so sure. He asked whether gas escaping at levels too low to be detected could leave these people with impaired breathing.
All these so-called specialists saw were slight markings on the bronchi [the lung]. |
Mark Sircus
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 Psychiatry has only in the last two decades unleashed its devastating attack on children using lucrative chemical weapons on ?addictive psychotropic drugs posing as medication. Psychiatrists have created a generation of drug addicts and to a great extent they are making the crisis in children today worse when they should be helping to make things better for them.
Child psychiatrists are one of the most dangerous enemies, not only of children but also of adults. They must be abolished.
Dr. Thomas Szasz
Professor of Psychiatry
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Department of Defense admits that Gulf War soldiers were exposed to chemical agents; however, 33 percent of all military personnel afflicted with Gulf War Syndrome never left the United States during the war, discrediting the popular mainstream belief that these symptoms are a result of exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons (Merritte, et al.).
President Clinton issues a formal apology to the subjects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and their families (Sharav).
(1997)
In an experiment sponsored by the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Those who promote the mass poisoning of children -- regardless of their stated intentions -- are no less a threat to the health and safety of American children than terrorists wielding biological or chemical weapons. Terrorists may have killed thousands of Americans, but doctors and dentists have poisoned tens of millions of children in the last decade alone, and they can't wait to poison more through mandatory vaccination programs! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They don't wield weapons of mass destruction delivered by rockets, they wield chemical weapons delivered by injection. The day we stand up and declare our freedom from the scourge of conventional medicine and all its oppressive, authoritarian tactics will be a day of genuine freedom for Americans. Until then, we can fight all the wars in the world and yet still be enslaved by a system of medicine at home that absolutely refuses to acknowledge the existence of anything beyond what it controls and profits from.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Not since World War II have so many Americans died from a single, common, preventable cause, and it almost seems that the FDA has declared war on the American people and is using chemical weapons to win that war.
The scourge of dangerous prescription drugs, combined with willful collusion at the FDA, has now created a chemical holocaust on U.S. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 An expected derangement in Cortisol and thyroid hormone parameters was reported among soldiers exposed to chemical weapons containing sulfur mustard. These individuals responded with a predictable increase in Cortisol concentrations that did not normalize until the fifth week following the chemical insult. Concomitant with the sulfur mustard-induced impact on Cortisol, both fT4 and fT3 decreased while rT3 increased. Similar to Cortisol values, serum thyroid concentrations did not normalize until the fifth week after exposure. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 The ostensible reason for the war—that Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)—was ultimately proven erroneous, but to label it a mendacious ploy is unmerited. The precipitating justification for the war was Saddam Hussein's refusal to let UN inspectors visit all the sites they deemed necessary to look through. Among these were a dozen extensive underground bunkers engineered by German contractors during the 1980s. The bunkers had been labeled "presidential palaces" by Saddam and placed off limits to UN inspectors. |
Carl Jensen
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 Senate overwhelmingly ratified the chemical weapons Convention which would ban such weapons (Knight-Ridder Newspapers, 4/25/97). The worldwide treaty banning chemical weapons went into effect, without ratification from Russia, Iraq, and North Korea, at midnight, April 28, 1997.
7. Contra gate: The Costa Rica Connection
1986 SYNOPSIS: As 1986 ended, each day seemed to bring new evidence of the Reagan Administration's involvement in the Iran-contra arms scandal. But even now, one major chapter in the sordid story remains to be told.
It involves Lt. Col. |
Sandra Steingraber
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 Higher dosages or different, more potent chemical weapons are then required to maintain control.
In 1950, fewer than 20 species of insects showed signs of pesticide resistance. By 1960, Rachel Carson had documented an alarming 137 species resistant to at least one pesticide and urged that we should hear in this statistic the early rumblings of an avalanche. She was right. By 1990, the number of pesticide-resistant insect and mite species stood at 504.
In creating pests impervious to the arsenal of chemical weapons directed at them, the story of herbicides reiterates the story of insecticides. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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 While the skin is permeable to some degree, it is also equipped with chemical weapons to help it ward off attack. One of these weapons is the oil secreted by our sebaceous (oil) glands. Sebaceous glands are found near the root of every hair. This oil is secreted along the hair shaft to lubricate the hair and skin. Some have described this oil as "nature's skin cream" because it prevents drying and cracking of the skin. It also has another very important function. It contains medium-chain fatty acids to fight invading microorganisms. |
Stephen Fried
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 For example, he tested the active ingredients in nerve gas and other chemical weapons on prisoners, to determine for the army "the minimum effective dose needed to mentally disable fifty percent of a given population." When Dioxin became a big environmental issue, it turned out that Kligman had tested that on prisoners, too.
Perhaps the most chilling work Kligman did on prisoners, however, was tests to see if skin could be artificially hardened to increase its resistance to chemical weapons. "Experimental Accommodation in Humans" was the name of one 1967 study. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Your daily shower could be killing you softly with the same toxins used to kill lab rats and in chemical weapons." The toxic substances in most municipal water systems have been used in the past to kill laboratory animals and as a weapon of war. It may be more dangerous to shower in municipal water than even drinking it. Your body absorbs up to four times more toxins in a shower than drinking the same water. If you drink tap water, or shower or bathe, or swim in a pool you are categorically loading your body with poisonous toxins, which lead to and cause disease. |
Carl Jensen
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| In early 1997 the final report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses confirmed the Pentagon was slow in investigating whether chemical weapons could be causing health problems, saying there was no evidence of exposure to chemical weapons (Washington Post, 1/7/97).
It was not until January 21,1997, that a federal agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs, acknowledged for the first time a direct link between toxic chemicals and Gulf War Syndrome (The New York Times, 1/22/97). |
| In mid-June, 1997, the General Accounting Office released a report linking nerve gas and other chemical weapons to the health problems of the veterans (The New York Times, 6/15/97). Finally in late July 1997, the Department of Defense acknowledged that nearly 100,000 U.S. troops may have been exposed to Iraq nerve gas (USA Today, 7/24/97).
The media were equally slow in reporting the illness itself. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| It is estimated that in the United States of America, a ton of special wastes is produced per person every year by the commercial industry, but the US military industry generates about one ton of toxic waste EVERY MINUTE, from chemical weapons to lethal radioactive materials. Experience has shown that the poor management of special wastes is extremely expensive to correct. |
Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A.
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 White blood cells (eosinophils particularly) release their own "chemical weapons," a second wave of signals (histamine, leukotrienes) that cause congestion and swelling. Needed nutrients, cells, and other substances from blood vessels are released to perform waste disposal and lay a repair matrix. Excess mucus, a protective mechanism that is supposed to rid the area of debris and protect the tissues from further irritation, adds to the congestion.
Interference with the inflammatory process (cortisone, antihistamines) can result in incomplete repair and unresolved inflammation. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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 At the same time, medical experts and political leaders from around the world shamed America for its continued BW program and its use of chemical weapons in Vietnam.
As a calculated public relations ploy designed to bolster sagging public opinion and counter threatened congressional funding, Detrick's public relations department announced the Fort's plan to celebrate its silver anniversary. In response, protests erupted on Detrick's perimeter.18
Detrick's Silver Anniversary
Fort Detrick was the nation's, and likely the world's, "largest and most sophisticated" BW testing center. |
| Rogers made it clear that "the United States Government considers that toxins, however manufactured, will be considered as biological weapons and not chemical weapons." In this and other ways, Nature observed, "the position of the United States on chemical and biological weapons" had been "transformed within the short space of a year." (see fig. 4.1)
The Ruse
By November 1970, a year after Nixon ratified the Geneva Protocol, nothing had changed except the public's perception of CBW risk. |
| In making his decision to renounce first use of chemical weapons and to dismantle production of biological ones, Nixon stressed the novelty of the review process and how well it had worked."50 He also effectively misled the media and world powers that the United States had turned away from the evils of biological warfare. Nothing could have been further from the truth.56
That night, from my New York hotel room, with Kissinger on my lap, and military intelligence on my mind, I telephoned Jackie. "Jack, get this." I said. |
| They reinstated COINTELPRO-like operations,27 expanded its covert operations in Africa,28 and increased biological as well as chemical weapons research.29,30
In 1973, the CIA labored to maintain its positive public image. International condemnation over ongoing American biological warfare "experiments" was imminent. The Rockefeller Commission Investigation on CIA Wrongdoing was also about to begin as was a Congressional investigation in the aftermath of Watergate. It was then that CIA director Richard Helms, succeeded shortly thereafter by William Colby, ordered Mr. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
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| Under siege but emasculated without chemical weapons, the country is helpless to fight its foes, the insect hordes.
This parody of Silent Spring was in keeping with a specific world view. The explosive production, promotion, and use of chemical pesticides since 1945 was based on the metaphor of war, with insects as enemies, chemicals as weapons, farmers as combatants, and pesticide manufacturers as military strategists. This was fitting because many of the new pesticides were originally developed for chemical warfare. |
Peter Radetsky
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 Biological and chemical weapons. Whether or not, and to what extent, troops were exposed to chemical and biological agents remains controversial. "Many veterans report that exposures occurred. There were numerous sightings of dead animals. The Czechs reported detection of both sarin and mustard gas in separate incidents," reports JAMA. Some vets insisted that thousands of Iraqis inadvertently killed by chemical or biological weapons were buried in mass graves — what they called Operation Desert Sword. "And there were ... |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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| President Nixon—pressured on the one hand to respond to growing public criticism of America's involvement in Vietnam, and on the other by DOD militarists citing their unwillingness to "sacrifice our soldiers" should Russia deploy their biological weapons—renounced the "first use of lethal chemical weapons ... incapacitating chemical[s],... and biological weapons" of any kind in support of the objectives of the Geneva Protocol of 1925. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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 The WBCs and their chemical weapons destroy invaders and remove debris. The increased fluids present also contain nutrients to initiate repair processes as the inflammation recedes. Acute inflammation is usually self-limiting.
Chronic Inflammation
Inflammation is always present in our bodies at low, silent levels, and this is buffered by our nutrient and defensive capabilities. When our systems are in balance, destructive and nutritive processes deal with foreign agents efficiently and our tissues are protected. |
Sandra Steingraber
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| In creating pests impervious to the arsenal of chemical weapons directed at them, the story of herbicides reiterates the story of insecticides. Herbicide-resistant weeds are not mentioned in Silent Spring, as they did not yet exist. Today, weed scientists have identified 273 such species. In tracing the explosion of herbicide resistance among weed species that began in the late 1980s, researchers conducting a recent study were forced to conclude that the "short-term triumphs of new pest control technologies have carried with them the seeds of long-term failure. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 This is how many chemical weapons, such as "nerve" gas, can kill. Though outlawed by international treaty (but often ignored as recently seen in the Middle East countries of Iraq and Iran), nerve gases destroy their victims by inhibiting enzyme activity. Demineralization of the soil and mere chemical NPK application has left the vast majority of crop land deficient in the trace minerals needed to manufacture enzymes in the plant and higher species that consume them. First plants, then animals, then humans suffer.
No species can utilize ingested substances without enzymes. |
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