And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I usually don't distribute information from this list. but, I had the opportunity to speak with some people involved with this research a couple of years ago..and can verify they are saying the same thing now that they did at the time we spoke. Your government at work....Ptooey. Ish >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-envelope-info: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) >Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:08:17 -0600 >To: Kepi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Kepi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [BIOWAR] * IMPORTANT READ* Check out gulf >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by afterburner.sonic.net id UAA09696 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: Kepi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>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>. 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