[CTRL] Fw: (earthclan) mysterious crop dusting

[Shane A. Saylor, Eccentric Bard]

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From: Ray White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 12:14 PM
Subject: (earthclan) mysterious crop dusting


Is this stuff real?

> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:42:41 -0500
> From: JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Last Article on Contrails--also out of Seattle (Plagues)
>
> I received this one this morning.  I also have several on FEMA preparing
> for marshall law on 1/1/2000 from these people and similar articles if
> anyone's interested--I won't post then here as it's straying too far
> from astrology, but email me if you want them for your own
> perusal.----Julia
>
>   HOSPITALS JAMMED AS BANNED PESTICIDE IS
>                     SPRAYED FROM THE SKIES
>
>                            by
>                       William Thomas
>                   posted February 15,1999
>
> SEATTLE, WA.... As formations of unmarked tanker aircraft
> continue to criss-cross American skies on a mission authorities
> refuse to disclose, an environmental laboratory has identified
> an extremely toxic component of the spray drifting over cities
> and countryside.
>
> ENS has learned that samples of oily fallout collected by
> farmers, truck drivers and pilots in Maryland and Pennsylvania
> were tested by Aqua-Tech Environmental of Marion, Ohio in
> September, 1997 and found to contain ethylene dibromide (EDB).
> An extremely hazardous pesticide, EDB was banned by the US
> Environmental Protection Agency in 1983.
>
> But in 1991, the composition of jet fuel used by commercial
> and military jet aircraft in the U.S. was changed from JP4 to
> somewhat less flammable JP8. A Department of Defence source
> says the move "has saved some lives" in air crashes. Ethylene
> dibromide is a key component of JP8.
>
> The 1991 Chemical Hazards of the Workplace warns that repeated
> exposure to low levels of ethylene dibromide results in
> "general weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, chest pains, coughing
> and shortness of breath, upper respiratory tract irritation"
> and respiratory failure caused by swelling of the lymph glands
> in the lungs. "Deterioration of the heart, liver and kidneys,
> and hemorrhages in the respiratory tract," can also result from
> prolonged contact with JP8.
>
> According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's
> hazardous materials list: "Ethylene dibromide is a carcinogen
> and must be handled with extreme caution." A seven-page summary
> of this pesticide's extreme toxicity notes that EDB may also
> damage the reproductive system. According to the EPA, "Exposure
> can irritate the lungs, repeated exposure may cause bronchitis,
> development of cough, and shortness of breath. It will damage
> the liver and kidneys".
>
> Mark Witten, a respiratory physiologist at the University of
> Arizona in Tucson where an official US Air Force study on JP8
> was carried out, told Scientist in March, 1998 that crew chiefs
> "seem to have more colds, more bronchitis, more chronic coughs
> than the people not exposed to jet fuel."
>
> EDB is 6.5-times heavier than air. Unlike normal contrails,
> the thick white streamers being sprayed from downward-pointing
> tailbooms over at least 39 states does not dissipate, but
> spreads into an overcast that refracts a purple color in
> sunlight and appears suddenly as an oily film in puddles and
> ponds.
>
> Hundreds of photographs and videotapes made by ground observers
> show pairs or larger formations of aircraft spreading a white
> mist that thickens and drifts toward the ground. More than 200
> eye-witnesses - including police officers, pilots, military and
> public health personnel - have provided detailed accounts of
> aerial spraying in characteristic "X"s and east-to-west grid
> patterns, followed by occluded skies - and acute auto-immune
> reactions and respiratory infections throughout affected
>
> regions.
>
> "I keeps coughing phlegm that tastes bad," 50 year old Mary
> Young of Sallisaw, Oklahoma told ENS after an aircraft sprayed
> her home at rooftop level one night last January with something
> that struck the windows like sand. "My eyes hurt, my joints
> hurt. I'm not catchin' my breath right. I can't get rid of this
> cold. I've had this bad headache - it's not just a headache. My
> eyeballs hurt so bad - way in the back - I just wish they would
> fall out."
>
> Severe headaches, nosebleeds, shortness of breath, joint pain
> and a dry hacking cough "that never leaves" are being reported
> by countless Americans jamming hospital Emergency Rooms from
> coast to coast. While December and January are traditionally
> bad months for asthma sufferers, patients, doctors and nurses
> across the U.S. report hospital wards filled to overflowing
> with bronchitis, pneumonia and acute asthma admissions at up to
> twice normal winter rates.
>
> Early last month, The News and Observer of Raleigh, North
> Carolina reported that respiratory admissions to Durham
> regional hospital jumped from the usual 184 patients a day to
> 247. Ambulance drivers were told that the hospital was not
> receiving any more patients.
>
> In New York City, doctors are calling a flood of respiratory
> cases an epidemic. "We have people double- and triple-parked in
> the ER on stretchers," Dr. Elliot Friedman, associate director
> of emergency medicine at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in
> Queens, told the New York Times on January 31. "And there have
> been times when upwards of 40 people have been admitted but are
> waiting for someone to be discharged," Friedman added.
>
> "This high fever is not typical of other flus," Dr. Sigurd
> Ackerman, the president of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
> told the 'Times shortly after a TV cameraman panned up to frame
> lingering "X"-shaped contrails over Times-Square. Dr. Robert
> Saken, a partner in the Soho Pediatrics Group, told that
> newspaper,  "It was surprising to me how sick they got and how
> quickly it happened."
>
> Dr. Ilya Spigland, Montefiore hospital's director of virology,
> doesn't know the reason for the sudden epidemic of respiratory
> cases. It is, Spigland told the New York Times, "very possible
> that the increase in respiratory infections may not be due to
> the flu."
>
> That same day in Lake Havasu, California, headlines in Today's
> News Herald announced: "Victims curse unnamed bug, but can't
> call it the 'flu'." MD Mary Lou Callername told the Herald
> "that a nameless virus is bringing at least 10 patients a day
> into her office and driving some into the hospital, but
> laboratory tests show only a few are suffering from Type A
> or other identifiable strains of influenza."
>
> The previous weekend, after San Francisco resident Curtis
> Schumann noticed "sky grids in the making," and Melanie Zucker
> watched nine contrails being woven over Berkeley, local TV
> stations reported Bay area emergency rooms inundated with
> flu-like cases.
>
> In Seattle - where a resident reports "I've lived here for
> 26 years never seeing this number of contrails at once" -
> pneumonia patient Lowell Barger told ENS that in the hospital
> where he was admitted in late January, "their respiratory ward
>
> was overflowing with people, and they were having to put
> respiratory patients in other wards." At that time, a resident
> of Spokane listening to a police radio scanner told ENS he
> heard "many rescue calls for people with breathing
> difficulties."
>
> In Palmyra, New Jersey, shortly after Lucrecia Moon watched
> unusual lingering contrails from a McDonald's restaurant, a
> nurse reported "many people ill." In Las Vegas, Nevada, TV news
> coverage told of area hospitals being filled with people
> experiencing breathing problems.
>
> After a resident of Lexington, Kentucky watched helicopters
> circling the city for several days, flying low overhead at
> 3 a.m.,  "the sky looked like a giant checkerboard from the
> planes criss-crossing it, and the air still had the steel mill
> smell."  According to this eye-witness, "Everyone here is sick.
> So far six counties have closed all the schools because all the
> students were sick with 'flu-like symptoms'.  I've been having
> headaches, a sore throat, and an annoying, hacking cough for
> the past four months and it seems to get worse after I see
> these aircraft circling the area."
>
> Similar "chem trails" sightings continue to be reported over
> Phoenix, Arizona. The January 28, 1999 edition of Arizona
> Republic reported that "The incidence of bronchial problems in
> Phoenix this month is 237 hospitalizations vs. last year at 160
> or so."
>
> At the same time, hospitals in Portland, Oregon; Marietta,
> Georgia; Chandler, Arizona; Bakersfield, Santa Cruz, Redding
> and Salinas, California - and other cities across the nation -
> were jammed with bronchitis, pneumonia and other acute
> respiratory cases after repeated spraying and cobweb-like
> fallout was reported in those regions.
>
> "We're getting sprayed real heavily with the contrails," a
> south Pennsylvania resident told ENS. "It's just total
> saturation." As overfilled Pennsylvania hospitals were forced
> to divert respiratory emergencies to other facilities with bed
> space, another south-central Pennsylvania resident, Deborah
> Kammerer, looked out her window and watched aircraft "flying
> and dispersing over the city. It was supposed to be a clear
> sunny day. It became more overcast as the day progressed. I
> observed how the white trails widened out and settled down
> creating a haze over everything."
>
> South Florida resident Karen Okenica told ENS she has watched
> on several occasions as contrails "criss-crossed or ran
> parallel to each other. They did not dissipate but got thicker
> and stayed in the sky for quite a while." Okenica says she
> became frightened after gazing through Nikon binoculars and
> noticing an all-white jet with "plumes" coming from the rear of
> the plane.  In early December, local newspaper reported that
> Bethesda Memorial and Delray Community hospitals were full and
> could not accommodate any more patients.
>
> The January 7 Philadelphia Daily News reported that "Emergency
> Room patients overflowed into the hallways at West Jersey
> Hospital in Berlin,  New Jersey, and ambulance crews were
> temporarily diverted to other  institutions as a wave of
> respiratory illnesses swept the area." At  Northern Westchester
> County Hospital, "there was a 24 hour waiting  period to get
>
> in."
>
> In Manitou, Michigan, Registered Nurse Kim Korte was driving
> north on  M52, when she noticed "stripes" in the sky. "It
> appeared as if someone  took white paint on their fingers and
> from north to south ran their fingers  through the sky. These
> contrails were evenly spaced and covered the  whole sky!" from
> east to west.
>
> Within 24 hours, Korte became very weak and feverish. After her
> boyfriend told her that "many in his family started coming down
> with the  same complaints," the RN "started noticing alot of my
> patients and  their family members were coming down with these
> symptoms at the  same time." On checking with her colleagues,
> the former hospital  supervisor learned that other nurses and
> physicians were complaining  "of being extremely busy with
> respiratory diagnoses."
>
> In Austin, Texas - where Richard Young reports that "The skies
> here are  filled almost daily with trails crossing each other"
> - - a school nurse  told a worried parent that she had seen over
> 100 sick children in a single day.
>
> Where is the mass media's reporting of this mass phenomenon?
> Indications of a concerted cover-up came on February 11, when a
> retired Southern Baptist preacher named Everett Burton finally
> succeeded in reaching C-span. After voicing his opinion on the
> Clinton impeachment trial, this former minister told Americans
> to get a copy of the Constitution and read it to realize what
> they have lost. Rev. Burton then advised viewers not to take
> his word for what was happening in the US -  but to "just look
> up in the skies as the planes regularly spray contrails across
> the skies, spraying people and making them ill." At this point,
> Rev. Burton was cut off. The screen flipped from C-span to the
> Tennessee state seal, remained silent for several minutes.
>
> Americans are not alone in their anxious bewilderment and
> suffering. In  England, after lingering contrails and
> cobweb-like fallout were reported  over London and Birmingham,
> the BBC reported on January 14 that  more than 8,000 people -
> mostly elderly - died from pneumonia and  other respiratory
> complications in the last week of December and the  first two
> weeks of January, 1999.
>
> According to the BBC, in early January of this year, more than
> 97,100 people in England and Wales were stricken with
> respiratory ailments in a single week - almost double the usual
> rate. Ambulances in the Greater Manchester and Mersey region
>
>
> were each dealing with more than 1,000 calls every day - almost
> twice the norm. Norfolk and Norwich suffered such an unexpected
> increase in deaths, a refrigerated semi-trailer capable of
> holding 36 bodies was pressed into service as a temporary
> morgue. [see BBC photo]
>
> The ENS investigation continues.
>
> End of Article
>

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