>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:57:43 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: * IMPORTANT READ* Check out gulf >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 226 > > Contains vital new info !! Please read entire article for depopulation info >!! >joe 6pk ><A HREF="http://www.thewandererpress.com/gulf.html">Click here: gulf</A> >Feature Article >Issue Date of 1-21-98 > >The Wanderer > > Gulf War Illness Probe To Advance With New Study > >By PAUL LIKOUDIS > > Tom Clancy's latest novel Rainbow Six rivets readers with a fictional >account of environmentalist elites who decide that the only way they can save >the world is to radically eliminate over 95% of the human population. Some of >the world's leading scientists develop a strain of viruses, which they call >Shiva after the Indian goddess of death, and devise an ingenious method to >infect the world's population. > > Part of Clancy's plot involves the development of two antibodies to fight >the new virus, one of which will be for the world's elite, to inoculate them; >the other for the sick, to make them sicker. > > But there's a more riveting reallife scenario unfolding in the United >States and around the world that puts Clancy's fictional thriller into the >realm of the credible: the efforts of a small group of reputable scientists, >sick U.S. veterans, and a handful of investigative journalists to unlock the >secrets of Gulf War Illness (GWI), sometimes referred to as Gulf War Syndrome, >which has afflicted between 100,000 and 200,000 military personnel who served >in President George Bush's Desert Storm and their families, and which is >responsible for perhaps 15,000 deaths. > > The number of military personnel who have died of the mysterious illness >remains a classified secret, one of GWI's top researchers, Dr. Garth Nicolson >of the Institute for Molecular Medicine, told The Wanderer. > > For nearly ten years, since his daughter Sharron returned from the gulf >where she served with the 101st Airborne, Nicolson and his wife, Nancy, a >molecular biophysicist, have waged a lonely, frustrating, and often dangerous >campaign to discover the causes of GWI while working on a treatment. > > Their first big break came last week (Jan. 12th) when they were notified by >the U.S. Army that their research had been validated and their Institute for >Molecular Medicine would be one of three centers, with the Armed Forces >Institute of Pathology and the University of Texas at San Antonio, involved in >a $12 million Veterans' Administrationfunded project to develop a treatment >for the debilitating and often fatal illness, an infection known technically >as mycoplasma fermentans. > > Dr. Nicolson explains that slightly under onehalf of the Gulf War veterans >he has tested have shown signs of infection by mycoplasma fermentans. > > For the husbandwife team of researchers, the army's notice came as a >tremendous vindication after years of repeated attempts by government agencies >to ruin their careers, their credibility, and their research. > > As both Nancy and Garth Nicolson wrote in the October, 1996 issue of >Criminal Politics, since he began researching the causes of GWI, he has lived >through a governmentsponsored "nightmare." > > "We were attacked by highlevel military physicians, ostracized by certain >colleagues who spread rumors about our sanity, forced out of academic >institutions by a concerted effort that involved nonstop administrative >harassment, mail and courier theft, wiretaps, credit card fraud, breaking a >tenure contract, computer and documents theft, attempts to block our >scientific and medical presentations, sabotage our clinical samples, and >undermine our employees." > > Their ordeal over the past eight years since 1991 has convinced them that >certain sections of the U.S. government, working with what might be called the >"eugenics elite" at the country's top research labs in the fields of >biochemistry and genetic engineering, are testing new designer biologic agents >on the American public, starting with prisoners and military personnel. > >Who They Are > > The Doctors Garth and Nancy Nicolson are not your ordinary conspiracy theory >"nuts." > > Garth Nicolson before setting up the Institute for Molecular Medicine, a >501c3 corporation, in Huntington Beach, Calif. was the David Bruton, Jr., >Chair in Cancer Research and professor at the University of Texas M.D. >Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and professor of internal medicine and >professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Texas >Medical School at Houston. > > He was also adjunct professor of comparative medicine at Texas A&M >University. Among the most cited scientists in the world, having published >over 480 medical and scientific papers, edited 13 books, served on the >editorial boards of 12 medical and scientific journals, and currently serving >as editor of two (Clinical & Experimental Metastasis and the Journal of >Cellular Biochemistry), he has been the recipient of numerous research grants >from the U.S. Army, the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of >Health, the American Cancer Society, and the National Foundation for Cancer >Research. In 1998, he received the Stephen Paget Award from the Cancer >Metastasis Research Society and the Albert Schweitzer Award in Lisbon. > > Nancy Nicolson, a molecular biophysicist, was on the faculty at Baylor >College of Medicine's Department of Immunology and Microbiology. > > Both scientists have been nominated for a Nobel Prize for their >groundbreaking work in nucleoprotein gene tracking. > > In 1987, Nancy Nicolson believes, she was deliberately infected with >mycoplasma incognitus because she refused to participate in research on >biological weapons and germ warfare, and had, in fact, publicly spoken in >opposition to such research programs which are, in fact, banned by >international treaties of which the U.S. is a signatory. > > She became deathly ill, becoming partly paralyzed; her thyroid was affected >and she contracted meningitis. But during this illness, she found the >antibiotic Doxycycline helped her regain health. > > In 1991, six months after the Nicolson's daughter returned from the gulf, >Sharron came down with an illness remarkably similar to what Nancy had just >recovered from: chronic fatigue, aching joints, diarrhea, vomiting, and >fevers. The symptoms seemed similar to mycoplasma infection, and so the >Nicolsons recommended treating her with Doxycycline. > > Sharron then began contacting her veteran friends, who were reporting >similar problems, and of the 73 who tried the treatment, 55 reported an >improvement in health. > > Now the plot thickens. > > That same year, Garth Nicolson began receiving reports of a "mystery >illness" spreading among the employees of the Texas Department of Criminal >Justice in Huntsville. Using gene tracking, the Nicolsons discovered these >prison employees tested positive for mycoplasma fermentans infection. > > Prisoners in Huntsville, Palestine, and Victoria, Texas, had been given >experimental flu vaccines purportedly developed by Tanox Biosystems on Stella >Link in Houston, a company with close ties to Baylor, and the testing was part >of a U.S. Armysponsored program run by biotechnology firms. > > The inmates at Huntsville then began spreading their disease to the prison >guards, who passed it on to family members and others in the general >population, who then started coming down with symptoms similar to those of >such dread diseases as Lou Gehrig's Disease, MS, and Guillian Barre Syndrome. > > As Garth Nicolson reported his discoveries, he encountered increasing >hostility from his peers, including Dr. Charles LeMaistre, a friend of George >Bush and the past president of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Dr. George >Young, chief of the VA in Houston; and Dr. Robert M. Couch, head of the Baylor >Influenza Program, because his findings implied illegal testing. > > Among Tanox's investors are George Bush and his former Secretary of State >and fellow Texan James Baker III. > > As opposition rose, so did their understanding of M.D. Anderson's deep >involvement in biological weapons research and testing since the late 1970s, >and that M.D. Anderson was specifically engaged in research on mycoplasma >fermentans as a biological weapon. > > Garth Nicolson resigned under pressure from M.D. Anderson in August, 1996, >and was ordered to remove all his research equipment and materials from M.D. >Anderson, where he had served as senior tenured professor and department >chairman for 16 years. > > "The administration was trying to restrict our activities in the area of GWI >and I resigned because of my stand on academic freedom and my right to pursue >that particular line of investigation. I had unanimous internal clinical >review board approval for the research," he told The Wanderer, "but I suspect >that thenMajor General Ronald Blanck, currently surgeon general of the army, >was pressuring the M.D. Anderson administration to stop our research." > >Spreading The Disease > > In dozens of research reports for professional medical journals, and in four >separate, sworn testimonies before congressional committees, the Doctors >Nicolson state their belief that Gulf War Illness was caused both by the >vaccines soldiers sent to the gulf received and by airborne chemicals released >when U.S. troops destroyed tons of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons. > > Their testimony is that soldiers were exposed to five possible sources of >exposure: vaccines, some of which were questionable and were contaminated by >microorganisms; blowback from destroyed biological and chemical weapons; >factories and bunkers which stored the agents; approximately 60 Italianmade >biological weapons sprayers that were fully deployed in southern Iraq and >Kuwait; as well as airburst SCUD missiles equipped for delivery of chemical >and biological weapons. > > Prior to deployment, the army administered vaccines, ostensibly, against >weaponsborn anthrax, to 150,000 soldiers, often eight or nine shots at a time. >Eightyfive percent of soldiers were told by their commanders that they could >not refuse the vaccines, under threat of courtmartial, and 43% experienced >immediate side effects. > > Together, the vaccines and Saddam's chemical weapons produced a toxic >cocktail producing GWI, the symptoms of which include: aching joints, chronic >fatigue, memory loss, night sweats, headaches, skin rashes, depression, muscle >spasms, dizziness, nausea, vision problems, sex problems, urination problems, >hair loss, bleeding gums, vision problems, and eye pain. > > Perhaps the most frightening facet of GWI is that a large fraction of it is >a communicable disease caused by the biological weapons which Gulf War vets >have passed on to their wives, their children, including those in utero, and >even to pets. > > In his congressional testimony, Dr. Garth Nicolson stated that the Gulf War >was the first time in history that vaccine records on the troops were >classified and remain classified to this day. The Department of Defense has >admitted, however, that over 400,000 records have disappeared. > > Former Air Force Captain Joyce Riley, a Gulf War vet and another major >figure working to expose the causes of GWI, has concluded that medical records >of approximately 70% of all Gulf War vets are listed as "missing." > > Another bizarre twist to this tale is that the army's medical records from >the Gulf War were in storage at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City >when it was bombed. > > What has alarmed the Nicolsons, and other researchers, is that mycoplasmal >infections are often relatively benign, but preliminary investigations of some >mycoplasma found in some Gulf War veterans contains the HIV1 envelope gene, a >component of the AIDS virus which renders the mycoplasma invasive, enabling it >to spread throughout the body, alter DNA, and cause birth defects. > > Another frightful scenario is the possibility that some vets, who have been >infected with the mycoplasma disease but as yet show no symptoms, may be >donating blood, and thereby infecting the larger population. > > This is the view of Dr. Patricia Axelrod, one of the first to speak out >about Gulf War Illness. In a Dec. 12th, 1996 Montel interview, she said: "We >are dealing with bacterial warfare agents. We are dealing with chemical >warfare agents. We are dealing with radiation poisoning. . . . The Department >of Defense is covering this up." > > Already, as Life magazine reported in 1995, an abnormally high percentage of >children with birth defects have been born to Gulf War vets. > >More Mysteries > > On Feb. 9th, 1994, former Michigan Sen. Don Riegle, Jr., took to the floor >of the U.S. Senate and reported: > > "Records available from the supplier for the period from 1985 until the >present show that during this period, pathogenicbiologic agents meaning >poisonous and other materials were exported to Iraq pursuant to application >and licensing by the U.S. Department of Commerce. > > "Records prior to 1985 were not available, according to the supplier. These >exported materials were not attenuated or weakened and were capable of >reproduction. Thus, from at least 1985 through 1989, the United States >government approved the sale of quantities of potentially lethal biological >agents that could have been cultured or grown in large quantities in an Iraqi >biological warfare program. . . . > > "I find it especially troubling that, according to the supplier's records, >these materials were requested by and sent to Iraqi government agencies, >including the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, the Iraq Ministry of Higher >Education, the State Company for Drug Industries, and the Ministry of Trade. >While there may be legitimate needs for pathogens in medical research, closer >scrutiny should be exercised." > > Among the chemicals sent to Iraq Riegle cited were Bacillus Anthacis, >Clostridium Botulinum, Histoplasma Capsulatum, and Brucella Melitensis. > > "If you look at what the Iraqis were ordering," said Dr. Nicolson, "they >were ordering far more than what they would need for legitimate testing >purposes as controls for diagnostic testing." > > Among the companies granted export licenses to ship these toxic agents >abroad was the American Type Culture Collection of Rockville, Md., and the >federal government's own Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta was >responsible for shipping some of the materials, according to Riegle's >investigation. > >Strange Twists > > One of the strangest facts among the millions uncovered by investigators >such as the Nicolsons and Captain Riley is that Nobel laureate Joshua >Lederberg of Rockefeller University is on American Type Culture Collection's >board of directors. > > Lederberg is not only one of the world's leading experts on cuttingedge >molecular biology and genetics, but was also named to lead the presidential >commission to investigate the Gulf War disease by President Clinton. > > Lederberg, a member of the Department of Defense Science Board and an >advocate of biological warfare, has helped steer Defense funds to >organizations working on biological warfare. > > As chairman of the government's investigators into GWI, Lederberg claimed >that his researchers could not discover any cause for Gulf War Illness. > > Another Nobel laureate who figures in this drama is Dr. James Watson, who >won a Nobel in 1962 for physiology and medicine with two British scientists, >Francis Crick and Maurice Wilson, for his role in unraveling the molecular >structure of DNA. > > In 1968, Watson became director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of >Quantitative Biology in New York, where he is a leading researcher in the >Human Genome Project. > > Watson, with other doctors, was involved in the development of the flu >vaccine which was used on the inmates in Texas prisons. > > Meanwhile, as the Clinton administration slowly changes its official >position that Gulf War Illness is a myth, the Department of Defense >acknowledges its past shortcomings in handling complaints related to GWI and >research on its causes; the Veterans Administration has reported that the >activeduty tumor rate in the U.S. military has increased more than 600% since >1990; there is a health crisis in the gulf states, with an estimated 15%20% of >populations "sick" at any given time; birth defects and infant deaths are >soaring. > > In a September, 1996 appearance at Washington University in St. Louis, Nobel >laureate Edward O. Wilson, an environmental scientist, spoke on the subject of >downsizing the earth's population. > > The mildmannered Harvard professor of entomology, reported The St. Louis >PostDispatch (Sept. 12th, 1996), explained how the earth's population had to >be brought down to "'the hundreds of millions' for a true ecological balance. >. . . > > "A single global policy on population is unfeasible, he said. But efforts >are under way in this and other populous nations to achieve zero population >growth and even depopulation, he said." > > The March/April, 1996 edition of Foreign Affairs published an article for >its elite readership, "Why We Need a Smaller U.S. Population and How We Can >Achieve It." > > The stuff of fiction? Not anymore. > > "This story gets more and more tangled the deeper you dig," Dr. Nicolson >told The Wanderer. > > Indeed it does, especially as GWI is exploding in the civilian population. > >+ + + > > For Gulf War vets, there is some good news, Dr. Nicolson said. "The >Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs are now allowing >physicians to treat microplasma infections in Gulf War Illness patients with >antibiotics, according to our published protocols. > > "This was not allowed just a few months ago." > > > > > >Copies of this article can be found at; > > > >http://www.thewandererpress.com > > *********************************************************************** BIOWAR-L Biowar/Bioterrorism/Toxins Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: unsubscribe BIOWAR-L or subscribe BIOWAR-L. Post to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Archive: <http://www.sonic.net/~west/digest.htm>. BIOWAR Web site: <http://www.sonic.net/~west/biowar.htm>. -Wes Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
