Fellow CS Makers and Users,
THis timely post came to me from another list. It is a glimpse into the
kinds of things that we who have the audacity to make our own antibiotics
might be fighting now and in the near future. - Barb
from:
The Ignorant & The Unwarned
By Ed Gehrman
[Do your homework, read the references in the end notes!
EXCERPT:
""The nation's historical record on bio-warfare is replete with
subterfuge, reckless experimentation, and rogue actions and is
punctuated by violations of both domestic policy and international and
national norms... the modern record is no more reassuring...If modern
biology is to be a tool for human benefit, not the seed of our
destruction, then all its facets, including military applications, must
be opened to new levels of public understanding and to careful public
scrutiny." (9)
NOTE: The remarks toward the bottom about mycoplasma as a transport medium
for foreign DNA could equally apply to genetic vaccines as well as
offensive biowarfare agents.
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0799issue/0799weiner.html
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1998/mar/research_980316.html
Rick, http://www.compuage.com/~rdharrison/Index.html]
------------- research excerpts follow from The Ignorant & The Unwarned:
Nowadays, many diseases can be produced on an industrial scale using
readily available resources. Trained technicians are easily able to
culture large quantities of bacteria using methods formulated in
U.S. bio-warfare labs; over a hundred Department of Defense funded
laboratories are operating on campuses or in industrial parks across our
nation. Our collective ignorance about participating in bio-warfare
research is alarming and our seeming innocence, hypocritical. There are
serious consequences in allowing our defense establishment and the
scientific community to become involved in this grisly business. Some of
the perilous drawbacks are shoddy scientific techniques, risky
protocols, and the repressive secrecy that prevents peer review and free
exchange of all information. (4)
There is a tendency in the scientific community to first ignore and then
ridicule opinions that are contrary to prevailing beliefs; but a few
balky doctors and health care workers have voiced their concern, often
to a deaf public and media. Dr. Alan Cantwell M.D. represents this
minority when he states: "Does the government secretly experiment with
people? Of course, it does. This is not a paranoid fantasy. There is
circumstantial evidence that shows AIDS is a man-made disease with a
genetically engineered virus that came out of a cancer virus
Bio-warfare laboratory.
...
Doctors Garth and Nancy Nicolson are prime examples of what can happen
when one questions authority. They have been hounded from prestigious
jobs and threatened, both physically and professionally; their labs have
been vandalized, irreplaceable specimens destroyed, correspondence
intercepted and phones tapped. Why? Because they had the audacity to
suggest, and evidence to indicate that many sick gulf war vets are
suffering from exposure to a bio-warfare, weaponized organism, a
mycoplasma named incognitus.
Mycoplasma are the smallest and perhaps the oldest life forms. These
cell wall deficient bacteria, one cause of "walking pneumonia", have
been implicated in a variety of other "emerging" diseases. A form of
mycoplasma, a spiroplasma, is implicated in Mad Cow Disease but is being
ignored by most BSE researchers. Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome, and Alzheimers are also being investigated as possibly caused
by mycoplasmic type bacteria. Mycoplasma are thought by many to
be rather fragile, but nothing could be further from the truth. They
tolerate extreme fluctuations in temperature, lay dormant in the soil
for generations and survive the harshest elements; only drano-like
chemicals kill them effectively outside the body. Under normal
circumstances our immune system efficiently deals with mycoplasmas and
other life-threatening bacteria; we evolved from this complicated,
membrane enclosed piece of DNA and up until now have developed defenses
that keep these critters in check. The new strains seem different.
Difficult to spot in tissue, they do not react to normal bacterial
tests. There has been no sure way to test for these organisms in
living tissue since they are often not a problem until the immune
system is exposed to stress. The symptoms are flu-like but to the
extreme: headaches, sore joints, rashes, chest pain, heart problems,
and neurological disorders. Dementia is common in advanced stages
of these gruesome afflictions. (7)
The Nicolsons' test is able to identify the presence of mycoplasma in
living tissue. The normal way to determine infection is to inject a lab
animal with tissue or cultured material and wait for the lab animal
to develop the target disease. The Nicolsons claim that a method they
have invented named Gene Sequencing seems to do a much better and more
accurate job. Labor intensive, thus expensive, Gene Sequencing has been
peer reviewed and found to be credible and dependable. Government
scientists and the Defense Department refuse to even consider the
validity of this approach because if the Nicolsons are correct, and the
mycoplasmic infections sickening the Gulf War vets are found to have
originated in government funded bio-warfare labs, these programs will be
exposed as the dangerous and shortsighted escapades they have become.
The USA supplies much of the know how and advanced technology used in
this deadly endeavor. Microbiologists from every country study at our
universities and learn all the necessary techniques needed to establish
successful germ labs. Scientists from the USA were working with Iraq's
microbiologists on bio-warfare just weeks before the Gulf War, and Iraq
was importing highly toxic bacteria and viruses from companies in the
USA. By 1990 they were manufacturing large quantities of botulism toxin
and anthrax bacteria.
The Army command knew of the possibility that our forces could be
exposed to toxic agents while stationed in Iraq; the compulsory
inoculations, with multiple vaccines, indicates foreknowledge. But the
Command didn't notify the troops about what was about to happen; they
were participating in a huge experiment without their informed consent.
They still have not been informed and most of the information
surrounding the inoculations has been classified, the contents of the
vaccines have still to be positively identified. One of the doctors
who complained and refused to cooperate because she felt using force
was a violation of the Geneva Protocols was court marshaled and given
eighteen months in federal prison. (8)
"The nation's historical record on bio-warfare is replete with
subterfuge, reckless experimentation, and rogue actions and is
punctuated by violations of both domestic policy and international and
national norms... the modern record is no more reassuring...If modern
biology is to be a tool for human benefit, not the seed of our
destruction, then all its facets, including military applications, must
be opened to new levels of public understanding and to careful public
scrutiny." (9)
...
These protocols may now be meaningless in an age of new technologies;
advances in rDNA and cloning could produce a deadly new agent almost
overnight, with relative ease. Recombinant DNA is a process known to
most biologists and is easily accomplished in well equipped labs.
Bacteria contain plasmids which are tiny pieces of DNA. This DNA is
much smaller than, and independent of, the DNA contained in the
chromosomes. The plasmids are removed from bacteria and then sliced
apart using enzymes. A virus gene that has already been removed
from the virus is fitted into the gap in the plasmid. Then this
altered plasmid is inserted into a bacterium, where it can perform
any number of tasks. As a bio-warfare bacterium the new DNA could
manufacture toxins that would poison the body or cause disruptions
in vital organs, like the brain. If mycoplasmas were the bacteria
used in the transfer, they would be almost impossible to detect.
Mycoplasmas have the ability to blend with the cell wall of the
host and then move deeply into the nucleus of the cell
where they stay hidden, waiting to emerge when the immune system
weakens.
Mycoplasmas play only a small part in this tragic production.
Any virus or bacteria that could cause a disease has or will be,
or is now being studied and considered as a possible warfare agent. ...
End Notes
(1) Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., former Deputy Director of the U.S Office of
Science and Technology before a symposium on chemical and biological
warfare, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Proc. N.A.S.
1970;65:250-279. Taken from Emerging Viruses:AIDS and Ebola.
(2) Lee Bowman, America Gets a Taste of Chemical Terror; April 26, 1997
Scripps Howard News Service. A well written news report; one of the few
I've read that tries to point out the significant danger of bio-warfare.
(3) Dr. Frederick A. Murphy Talks about the Ebola Virus; An Interview by
Sean Henahan, Access Excellence: a WWW site that supplies information
about emerging diseases and viruses
(4)Dr. Garth Nicolson; From a discussion recorded by Gustav Grossman,
7-28-97
(5) This is from an interview I conducted, about a year ago, with Dr.
Cantwell for my column in the Sonoma County Free Press. Dr. Cantwell has
written two books on the genesis of the HIV: AIDS and the Doctors of
Death & Queer Blood. Both are excellent. He has also written about the
ability of bacteria to cause disease in the Cancer Microbe.
(6) This also is well documented information. Michael Gold's Conspiracy
of Cells shows clearly the type of scientific errors that can occur on a
regular basis, even in well run labs. Another look at scientific Snafus
and downright skullduggery is the brilliantly researched Emerging
Viruses:AIDS and Ebola, Nature, Accident or Genocide? by Leonard
Horowitz. There is no need to distort or fabricate information
concerning bio-warfare; the truth is there for all to see.
(7) I had previously researched the nature of mycoplasmas and
spiroplasmas for an article I wrote on Transmissible Spongiform
Encephlopathy : Mad Cows & Mad Scientists; FLATLAND #14. or Sonoma
County Free Press. Mycoplasma type organisms are poorly understood, even
by most scientists because they are so difficult to culture. They are often
ignorantly discounted as the cause of disease. This could prove to be a
fatal mistake for us all.
(8)From recorded conversations by Gustav Grossman 6-23-96. The Eight
Myths of Operation Desert Storm & Gulf War Syndrome by Garth L.
Nicolson, Ph.D., and Nancy L. Nicolson, Ph.D. The Institute for
Molecular Medicine, P. O. Box 52470, Irvine, California 92619-2470 USA .
(9)From the introduction to Gene Wars:Military Control Over the New
Genetic Technologies by Charles Piller and Dr. Keith Yamamoto. (10)Much
of the above information can be found in Gene Wars . This is an
important look at our government's bio-warfare program, the rationale
and motives. It is also a plea to their fellow scientists to take a long,
hard look at the pitfalls of continuing this dangerous activity. Written
in 1986, it predicts clearly the type of problems that might arise, just
as they did four years later during the Gulf War. Too bad we didn't
listen.
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Michael Lee Finney
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