Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Read the full following article at: http://www.konformist.com/2000/rudycancer.htm Did Pesticides Cause Giuliani's Cancer? Robert Lederman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) During a Town Hall meeting in College Point Queens on 4/27/2000 Mayor Giuliani responded to a question from activist Joyce Shepard concerning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's reclassification of Malathion as a human carcinogen. The Mayor, who had just hours earlier publicly announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, vehemently denied that Malathion was a carcinogen. He stated that there were no cases of anyone becoming ill or getting a disease from the controversial chemical he had ordered massively sprayed on the City by helicopters in the Fall of 1999. Perhaps Mayor Giuliani, who claimed that he was directly sprayed with Malathion numerous times from helicopters last Fall, is in denial. Perhaps he is characteristically refusing to admit that he is wrong. Either way, the facts are very much at odds with the Mayor's statement. The following brief extract from a report in the Journal of Occupational Medicine specifically addresses a connection between pesticides like Malathion and prostate cancer: Occup Environ Med 1999 Jan;56(1):14-21 Mortality in a cohort of licensed pesticide applicators in Florida. Fleming LE, Bean JA, Rudolph M, Hamilton K Department of Epidemiology and Public Health University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101, USA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] OBJECTIVES: Although the primary hazard to humans associated with pesticide exposure is acute poisoning, there has been considerable concern surrounding the possibility of cancer and other chronic health effects in humans. Given the huge volume of pesticides now used throughout the world, as well as environmental and food residue contamination leading to chronic low level exposure, the study of possible chronic human health effects is important...Among male applicators, prostate cancer mortality (SMR 2.38 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.83 to 3.04) was significantly increased. CONCLUSIONS: Consistent with previous publications on farmers but at odds with current theories about the protective effects of vitamin D, prostate cancer was increased in these pesticide applicators. After his insistent denial that Malathion causes cancer Joyce Shepard begged the Mayor to personally research the chemicals he has said will be used this year instead of Malathion-all of which are also proven carcinogens. The Mayor brushed off her request and handed the microphone to Dr. Neal Cohen, his Commissioner of Health. Cohen, a psychiatrist who is linked to the Giuliani administration by marriage and who has been a vociferous defender of the spraying program, is considered by many to be a puppet totally unqualified to hold his past as Commissioner of Public Health. Later in the evening a man got up from the audience and told the Mayor that last year he had been eating his dinner by an open window and had been directly sprayed. The visibly ill man complained there was no advance warning before the helicopters arrived and reported immediately vomiting, being knocked off his feet and suffering significant health consequences from the direct exposure. The Mayor's unsympathetic response was that in a large operation like the spraying, accidents will happen. Accidents will indeed happen but can one call knowingly exposing millions to a known carcinogen, failing to give adequate notice, ignoring virtually every safety recommendation on the products' label [see links to labels below] and deliberately and repeatedly lying about the known risks of exposure-to be accidents? The Mayor and Dr. Cohen announced that this year they will spray Resmethrin, Sumethrin and Permethrin-all of which were also massively sprayed last year from trucks-across much of the City if there are reports of infected mosquitoes. The quotes following my comments are a minute sample of the huge amount of literature readily available on these chemicals to anyone with a computer or the time to visit a public library. The question is, will the Giuliani administration�s insistence on unnecessarily exposing us to toxic chemicals be an accident again this year? Considering that the City has refused to release the name of a single so-called victim of West Nile-like Virus [WNV], is it unreasonable to question whether this normally non-fatal illness is even present in New York or that if it is, that the certain risk of exposure to these chemicals is worth taking in light of the fact that according to the Department of Health�s and the CDC�s own press releases it is: a. extremely difficult to become infected with WNV and, b. that the vast majority of those infected have few if any symptoms and fully recover without any treatment. Considering that the media has been fully and repeatedly briefed on the non-fatal nature of West Nile Virus by the Mayor, the CDC, the EPA and by the activists in NYC fighting further exposure to these chemicals, is it unfair to ask why they persist in hyping this non-existent epidemic as an urgent public health emergency, as a dread killer disease and as a plague? Would it surprise you to learn that pharmaceutical companies that have untested WNV vaccines stockpiled and ready to be marketed, chemical companies that are among the largest sponsors of the commercial media and bio-warfare labs whose funding is based on creating a sense of panic among the public are the beneficiaries of this manufactured epidemic? [See: "Encephalitis for Population Control and Profit" and "Why is the Media Lying About The West Nile Virus Epidemic?" by Robert Lederman] While the Mayor, with the media's dedicated assistance, is reaping a sudden windfall of good will based solely on his being diagnosed with a disease we can only hope he will take a moment to consider that we the people of New York City have a legal and moral right to not be poisoned by him, by Dr. Cohen or by the corporate interests they are actually working for while pretending to represent our interests. -------------------------------------------------- FEEL FREE TO REPOST, FORWARD OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTE THIS INFORMATION. IF YOU OR A FRIEND WOULD LIKE TO BE SUBSCRIBED TO MAILINGS EXPOSING THE GIULIANI ADMINISTRATION'S MANY CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF NYC SIMPLY SEND AN EMAIL TITLED: SUBSCRIBE. SAVE THIS REPORT FOR YOUR OWN (OR YOUR LAWYER'S) FUTURE USE. BE ASSURED THEY INTEND TO SPRAY AGAIN. DON'T BE LULLED INTO COMPLACENCY OR FEARFUL INACTION. PROTECT YOURSELF AND ESPECIALLY YOUR CHILDREN FOR WHOM THESE CHEMICALS ARE ESPECIALLY TOXIC. CONTACT YOUR LOCAL MEDIA AND PRESSURE THEM TO COVER THE REAL STORY INSTEAD OF HYPING THE IMAGINARY EPIDEMIC EVERY DAY. "Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity." Marshall McLuhan, in his 1972 book Take Today --------------------------------------------- Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist for the Greenwich Village Gazette [See: http://www.gvny.com/ for an extensive archive of Lederman columns] The Shadow, The Vigo-Examiner [see: http://www.vigo-examiner.com/archive.htm ] and Street News, and is the author of hundreds of published essays concerning Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Lederman has been falsely arrested 41 times to date for his anti-Giuliani activities and has never been convicted of any of the charges. He is best known for creating hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator. Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (718) 743-3722 http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html Also see: http://www.levymultimedia.com/lederman/index.htm for Lederman's essays on Malathion and the spraying of insecticides on NYC If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) 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