"ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. CROWE, JR., former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is making a lot of money selling anthrax vaccine...." =-=-=-=-=-=-= http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=82&contentid=325&page= 2 � The Anthrax Govt-Media Lies Continue by HANK ROTHWhen Congress asked that anthrax vaccine shots for soldiers be discontinued until more research is done, the Pentagon said no. Soldiers can still be court-martialed for refusing the vaccine. The following articles are reprinted from 1998 and 1999. ANTHRAX & OTHER SMALL FAVORS by Hank Roth ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. CROWE, JR., former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is making a lot of money selling anthrax vaccine. If it smells fishy, it isn't because the Admiral spent so much time at sea. He mostly steered his career from desk to desk, as an aide to admirals, a White House assistant, staff officer, Ambassador, graduate student, Pentagon planner, and top dog at JCS. Intervac L.L.C., of which Retired Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr. is director--a pharmaceutical investment firm in Maryland--under the newly formed BioPort Inc., bid $25 million to buy the Michigan Biologic Products Institute. The offer included $3.25 million in cash at closing, $12.1 million in secured notes, $4. 6 million in rabies vaccine and immune globulin donations to the state, and $5 million in royalties over five years. Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr. was the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Reagan administration. BioPort has negotiated with the DoD to make enough anthrax vaccine to inoculate everyone in the military. You figure it out. There are 2.4 million US military personnel. That translates into millions of dollars (about $130 mil.), and they have to be revaccinated on an annual basis. Nice job if you can get it. The lab he bought, opened in 1926, is the ONLY SOURCE OF ANTHRAX VACCINE IN THE NATION. By the way, it was a state-owned lab, which the Admiral acquired. A real sweet deal. How does one get to do that? Well, for one thing, you have to be nice to the President. Adm. William Crowe, a Republican, endorsed Gov. Bill Clinton when he ran for president. He gave Clinton the boost he needed when other Republicans were attacking his draft record. Crowe said this about his pal: "I served in uniform for 47 years . . . I know and have worked with many others who didn't serve in uniform, including a number of key national security figures in the Bush administration. That fact never affected my ability to work with them or my high regard for them." Crowe was appointed by Ronnie Reagan to the nation's top military job in 1985 and served during the first part of Georgie Bush's term. His endorsement of Clinton paid off in spades. Or, I should say in anthrax. How "safe" is anthrax vaccine? DoD claims it is very safe and necessary, but the Department of Health in Britain said it was a problem in the Gulf War because of its simultaneous use with pertussis vaccine. Combining the vaccines, according to the Brits, caused severe medical conditions. There are a lot of sick veterans from the Gulf with Gulf War illnesses, and the causes are still not known. In the Gulf, American soldiers were used as guinea pigs for combinations of drug vaccines, including the anthrax vaccine, with "reckless disregard" to 400,000 U.S. troops, charged Senator John D. Rockefeller. 150,000 were given an anthrax vaccine. So, since when has the DoD been fair with veterans? Remember Agent Orange, Radiation Veterans, and all those other cover-ups? Over the next few years the military will vaccinate every soldier against anthrax. Is this a good thing? The army considers anthrax to be the major biological warfare threat to the military. The vaccination program consists of a series of six shots administered over an 18-month period. Annual boosters of the vaccine are needed to maintain immunity. Because it takes 18 months to administer the full round of shots, and because of personnel turnover and mobility, the Army estimates a 7-8-year period to vaccinate all personnel. The immunizations are mandatory. --reprinted from the Spring 1999 NCX ANTHRAX DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN by Gary Novak THE INVESTIGATIVE UNDERWORLD of the government has been waging a disinformation campaign for several years. For example, a news weekly listed each of the supposed terrorist weapons and the cost of producing them. For ten or twenty thousand dollars, terrorists could supposedly kill hundreds of thousands of persons with botulism toxin, anthrax, nerve gas, etc. "Sixty Minutes" said the weapons could be produced in someone's backyard in a five-gallon bucket. They said anthrax spores released from a boat on the Hudson River could kill four hundred thousand persons in New York City. Here's the truth of the matter. Anthrax is nothing but propaganda. It will never be used successfully as a terrorist weapon, and probably never as a military weapon. Anthrax is a livestock pathogen. There are anthrax spores in the ground in rural areas, because they survive for about twenty years. They have no effect upon humans, because a few anthrax spores cannot create an infection. Anthrax is what's called a "gram positive" bacterium. This means it has the type of cell walls which are good and nutritious, unlike the cell walls of "gram negative" bacteria, which attack tissue. Therefore, anthrax can only attack tissue by producing a special toxin which it excretes. One cell or spore does not produce enough toxin to shake a stick at. Studies have apparently determined that, typically, ten thousand anthrax spores must be inhaled to start an infection. That number might be someone's guess, but it is in line with the biology of the disease. Anthrax must attack the lungs, because it must stay lodged in one location in vulnerable tissue. Livestock eat from the ground, so they have their faces in the ground where the spores are, and they can inhale ten thousand spores. How does anyone get ten thousand spores into the lungs of humans? The first requirement would be to aerosolize the spores. The spores would have to be converted to a dry powder because a liquid would create globs which would fall to the ground rather than stay suspended in the air. To create a powder, the spores would first have to be washed several times in a large centrifuge. Then a drying apparatus would have to be used; and it would require spraying a mist into a vacuum, which is how powders are created from liquids. Otherwise, everything globs up into hard rocks. How do workers clean the equipment without getting spores everywhere? A likely procedure would be to enclose the equipment in a pressure chamber and steam sterilize it for several days. Such an operation costs hundreds of millions of dollars, considering related facilities and development. Only countries do that, not radical groups, and not in five-gallon buckets. Even free spores would fall to the ground rapidly in the absence of wind. For example, lead from auto exhaust mostly falls near a highway, and it is in much smaller particles than bacterial spores. In the presence of wind, spores would be carried away rapidly and would not stay in one place long enough for anyone to get more than a few spores inhaled. For these reasons, anthrax would be difficult to use; and it could hardly kill more than a few hundred persons under the most ideal conditions, not the hundreds of thousands which are claimed. On top of that, antibiotics are effective for it during the early stage of the illness. --Gary Novak is an independent mushroom researcher who studied microbiology for three years in graduate school at two universities: University of Arizona and University of California at Davis. See complete article at . --Reprinted from the Spring 1998 NCX ANTHRAX VACCINE FACTS THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW 1. According to the FDA product information leaflet, NO scientific studies have been performed on the anthrax vaccine to determine if it causes cancer. 2. According to the FDA product information leaflet, NO scientific studies have been performed on the anthrax vaccine to determine if it has any effect on fertility. This applies to both males and females. It is NOT known if this drug will affect fertility or the fetus if conception is successful. 3. According to the FDA product information leaflet, NO scientific studies have been performed on the anthrax vaccine to determine if it will protect you from inhaled anthrax spores. 4. According to the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, there is NO scientific evidence to suggest that this vaccine will protect you from aerosolized anthrax. 5. A principal chemical component of the anthrax vaccine, formaldehyde, is not approved for human consumption, according to the US Government Material Data Safety Sheet. 6. A principal chemical component of the anthrax vaccine, benzethonium chloride, has not been evaluated for human consumption according to the US Government. 7. The only facility licensed to produce anthrax vaccine has been cited by the FDA for quality control problems. 8. On March 3, 1998, Secretary Cohen mandated (Sec Def Briefing No. 094-98) "supplemental testing, consistent with Food and Drug Administration standards, to assure sterility, safety, potency, and purity of the vaccine," before further immunizations take place. These tests were ordered because the lab was having quality control problems. These tests did NOT further evaluate the vaccine to see if it causes cancer or impairs fertility; they only assured the vaccine met the FDA-approved guidelines. 9. Most physicians know very little about the vaccine, other than what they are told by the government in preparation for implementation of this program. 10. These are a number of common reasons NOT to take the vaccine. --American Gulf War Vets Association,
