Topic: If you want to know... the secret history of Lyme Disease.
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An Excellent Article On The US Government's Creation Of Lyme Disease As A Biological Weapon
"It Is The First Responsibility Of Every Citizen To Question Authority"
Benjamin Franklin
As the readers of this blog are well aware, I have been circulating information in regard to Lyme Disease as having been created as a biological weapon for nearly a decade.
After reading a book which was recommended to me by another chronic Lyme sufferer (the Brucellosis Triangle By Dr. Donald Scott) nearly 10 years ago, I began circulating this information through a Lyme Disease newsletter that I cofounded and published with another long-term chronic Lyme patient.
Shortly after this I noticed that I was being followed whereever I traveled to, and that my harassment as a Target who was being covertly monitored was gradually becoming more overt. By 2003 this harassment would become fully overt in efforts to destroy my reputation, relationships, sanity, finances, and finally what was left of my health.
Given the fact that chronic Lyme disease destroyed my once robust health, I have been on a mission to expose this aspect of the US Government's crimes against humanity (since they regularly use American citizens as non consensual human experimentees for testing government created chemical, biological and electronic warfare weapons).
Consequently, at anytime that I find information that supports these facts, I publish it here. And the following article is one of the best that I have seen to date regarding the facts behind the US Government's (and other governments) creation of biological weapons which are deployed against their unwitting citizenry.
Nearly 10 years ago when I first began to circulate my belief that Lyme was indeed a biological weapon, I was largely dismissed as being paranoid. However, given irrefutable facts offered by way of the US Freedom Of Information Act, this belief is now becoming more commonly accepted.
And unfortunately, as I would discover years later, it was only the tip of the iceberg in regard to the US Federal Government's inhumane crimes against its own people.
Please circulate the following article to everyone you know. Lyme Disease is no longer just an epidemic -- it has crossed continents which means that it's now a pandemic. It is one of the easiest diseases to contract as it can be transmitted from a number of different sources.
While deer ticks have always been thought to be the most common carriers of Borrelia Burghdorferi (Lyme Diease), there are a great number of other types of ticks that carry it as well as mosquitoes, sandmites, fleas, and the greenheaded fly. There are other vectors as well.
What is far less known is that Lyme Disease can be transmitted sexually from one partner who has this illness to one who does not.
Moreover, a woman who has Lyme Disease can pass this infection to her unborn child -- this has been documented scientifically. The following is perhaps the best article ever written in regard to how Lyme Disease can affect a fetus. You can read the abstract (citation) at this Website and purchase the full article if you so choose.
Gestational Lyme Borreliosis - Implications For The Fetus
Any chronically ill Lyme Disease patients who've had their lives destroyed by this biological weapon and in turn become involved in activism to expose it for what it is will tell you, US Government agencies like the Centers For Disease Control and the National Institutes Of Health are not being candid with the public in regard to Lyme's bioweapon origins.
They will also tell you that the International Lyme And Associated Diseases Society (which is composed of the best Lyme Disease clinicians in the United States) is the organization that all knowledgeable Lyme patients obtain their latest information regarding Lyme Disease from.
This organization includes some of the most outstanding physicians in the United States -- in particular one of the early pioneers in the treatment and research of this bioweapon -- Dr. J J B.
The head of ILADS, Dr. R S, has stated to the American press that based on the research done by ILADS, he now believes that Lyme Disease is a biological weapon.
Dr. S would not have made this statement unless he had seen compelling evidence to back it up. And there is now a significant amount of evidence implicating the United States Federal Government in the creation of this bioweapon, and in attempts to mislead the public in regard to its military roots.
Several years ago, I was at the office of my former Lyme Disease physician, the aformentioned Dr. J B, when I broached the subject of Lyme Disease being a biological weapon.
I had expected him to dismiss me as being paranoid. However, something interesting happened when I asked him as to whether or not he thought Lyme might be a biological weapon. He simply said that he would not rule it out.
Now given that B is one of the founders of ILADS, it's pretty clear that he too believes based on Dr. Striker's comment, that Lyme Disease was created as a biological weapon.
This is extremely important because doctors like B and S have far more credibilty with chronically ill Lyme Disease patients like myself, than organizations like the Centers For Disease Control, National Institutes Of Health, and the American Medical Association do, simply because the latter have routinely supported those doctors who've misdiagnosed and mistreated chronically ill Lyme patients, while aiding and abetting those doctors who've sought to destroy the reputations of those brave Lyme physicians who've treated Lyme patients aggressively.
As further information offered by way of the Freedom Of Information Act continues to circulate -- documentation which offers irrefutable proof that Lyme Disease was created by the US Military as a biological weapon and illegally deployed on the American people to determine its efficacy -- the Lyme community will be holding not only the US Military responsible for this crime against humanity, but also the US Government Health Organizations and those physicians (including Dr. Raymond Datwyler, Dr. Allen Steere, Dr. Alan Barbour and a host of other criminal conspirators) who've aided and abetted them in a conspiracy to not only deny proper healthcare treatment to chronically ill Lyme patients, but also destroy the careers of the many physicians who have stepped up to the plate to do right by us.
I've included a link to the ILADS Website at the end of today's post. If you value your life and the lives of your family and friends, you owe it to yourself to visit this site, since you can contract Lyme Disease far more easily than you might think.
Take it from someone who was bedridden for a good part of the 1990's due to this bioweapon. Lyme Disease is NOT an illness that you want to contract much less take lightly.
Don't be fooled by the benign sounding name. Lyme is a pathogenic neurosystemic biological weapon that can slowly destroy both your immune and central nervous systems!
The following is an excellent article by Elena Cook (pseudoname) which discusses Lyme Disease as the biological weapon that it was created to be.
Lyme is a Biowarfare Issue
A brief history by Elena Cook
Introduction
The world of Lyme disease medicine is split into two camps - the US government-backed ``Steere camp'', which maintains the disease is hard-to-catch, easily cured, and rarely causes chronic neurological damage, and the ``ILADS camp'', which maintains the opposite. The Steere camp is intricately bound up with the American biowarfare establishment, as well as with giant insurance and other corporate interests with a stake in the issue.
The ILADS doctors lack such connections, but are supported instead by tens of thousands of patients rallying behind them.
Because the Steere camp has been massively funded and promoted by federal agencies, its view has dominated Lyme medicine not just in the US, but across much of the world. The result has been suffering on a grand scale. Below is a concise history of the military aspects of this cover-up.
The development of biological weapons has never been confined to dictatorships or ``rogue'' regimes. During the Second World War America, Britain and Canada collaborated closely on developing offensive bioweapons, and offensive research continued as an openly acknowledged activity of the US scientific establishment during the Cold War.
Only in 1972 was this work banned by international treaty. Meanwhile the Maryland-based labs at Fort Detrick, for example, had produced millions of mosquitoes, ticks and other vectors for the purpose of spreading lethal germs.[i]
The island of Gruinard, off the coast of Scotland, was only declared habitable again in 1990, nearly fifty years after the British first contaminated it during anthrax experiments. [ii]
Ticks, which vector Lyme disease, have been studied as biowarfare instruments for decades. Such well-known biowar agents as tularaemia and Q-fever are tick-borne.
The Borrelia genus of bacteria, which encompasses the Borrelia burgdorferi species-group (to which Lyme disease is attributed), was studied by the infamous WW2 Japanese biowar Unit 731, who carried out horrific experiments on prisoners in Manchuria, including dissection of live human beings. [iii] Unit 731 also worked on a number of other tick-borne pathogens.
After the war, the butchers of Unit 731 were shielded from prosecution by the US authorities, who wanted their expertise for the Cold War. [iv]
The US government also protected and recruited German Nazi bioweaponeers under the aegis of the top-secret Operation Paperclip. [v]
Borreliosis, or infection with microbes belonging to the borrelia genus, had been dreaded during the Second World War as a cause of the often-fatal disease relapsing fever.
The new post-war era of penicillin meant that many bacterial infections could now be easily cured.
However, borrelia were known for their ability to adopt different forms under conditions of stress (such as exposure to antibiotics). Shedding their outer wall, (which is the target of penicillin and related drugs), they could ward off attack and continue to exist in the body.
Lyme disease is not usually fatal, and it is sometimes argued that, with rapidly lethal agents like smallpox and plague available, an army would have no interest in it.
However, what is important to understand here is that incapacitating or ``non-lethal'' bioweapons are a major part of biowarfare R&D[vi], and have been for decades.
For example, during the Second World War, brucellosis, chronically disabling but not usually fatal, was a major preoccupation.
Military strategists understand that disabling an enemy's soldiers can sometimes cause more damage than killing them, as large amount of resources are then tied up in caring for the casualties.
An efficient incapacitating weapon dispersed over a civilian population could destroy a country's economy and infrastructure without firing a shot. People would either be too sick to work, or too busy looking after those who were.
The EIS and the ``Discovery'' of Lyme
Modern Lyme history begins in 1975 when a mother in the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut reported the outbreak of a strange, multi-system disease.
The town lies directly opposite the Plum Island biowarfare research lab where, according to former Justice official John Loftus, Nazi scientists brought to the US after WW2 may have test-dropped ``poison ticks''. [vii]
It should be noted that Loftus' reputation for gathering accurate, hard-hitting information is strong - strong enough to bring down in disgrace the former Chancellor of Austria and Secretary-General of the UN Kurt Waldheim, after the latter's wartime SS record was revealed.
While it's not yet known if Plum Island experimented on Lyme-causing borrelia, the lab's directors openly admitted to Michael Carroll, author of a recently-published book which is endorsed by two former State Governors, that they kept ``tick colonies''.
The ``hard tick'' Amblyomma americanum, a known carrier of Borrelia burgdorferi, was one of the subjects of the Island's experiments. [viii]
This tick is not the one most commonly associated with transmitting Borrelia burgdorferi, but it is implicated in harbouring Borrelia lonestari, believed to be the cause of a ``Lyme-like illness'' in the American south. [ix]
Carroll's book reveals a shocking disregard for safety, in this lab handling some of the most dangerous germs on earth. Eyewitnesses described how infected animals were kept in open-air pens.
Birds swooping down into the pens could have picked up and spread infected ticks worldwide.
When Polly Murray made her now-famous call to the Connecticut health department to report the strange epidemic among children and adults in her town, her initial reception was lukewarm.
However, some weeks later, she got an unexpected call from a Dr David Snydman, of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), who was very interested.
He arranged for fellow EIS officer Dr Allen Steere to get involved. By the time Mrs. Murray turned up for her appointment at Yale, the doctor she had expected to see had been relegated to the role of an onlooker.
Allen Steere had taken charge - and his views were to shape the course of Lyme medicine for the next thirty years, up till today. [x]
To understand the significance of all this, we need a closer look at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, the EIS.
The EIS is an elite, quasi-military unit of Infectious Disease experts set up in the 1950's to develop an offensive biowarfare capability.
Despite the banning of offensive biowar in the 1970's, the crack troops of the EIS continue to exist, ostensibly for non-offensive research into ``emerging disease'' threats, a blanket phrase covering both bioweapon attacks and natural epidemics at the same time.
Graduates of the EIS training program are sent in to occupy strategic positions in the US health infrastructure, taking leadership at federal and state health agencies, in academia, industry and the media.
The organisation also extends its influence abroad, training officers for public health agencies in Britain, France, the Netherlands etc. [xi] [xii]
In fact a high proportion of Steere camp Lyme experts are involved with the EIS.
Given that the EIS is a small, elite force, (in 2001 the CDC revealed there were less than 2500 EIS officers in existence since the unit was first created in 1951 [xiii]), it seems incredible that so many of America's top Infectious Disease experts would devote their careers to what they themselves claim is a ``hard-to-catch, easily-cured'' disease.
Within a few years of Steere's ``discovery'' of Lyme disease (the unique Lyme rash, and certain associated symptoms, had been recognised in Europe nearly a century before), it was announced that its bacterial cause had been identified.
The microbe was accidentally found by biowarfare scientist Willy Burgdorfer and was subsequently named for him.
Burgdorfer has championed the Lyme patients' movement and is not suspected of any wrongdoing. However it is not impossible that he was unwittingly caught up in a chain of events that were not as random as they might have seemed.
Burgdorfer was a Swiss scientist who had been recruited by the US Public Health Service in the 1950's.
He was highly experienced with both ticks and borrelia, but after being told that the government were not interesting in funding work with the latter, he switched to work with Rickettsia and other pathogens. [xiv]
In 1981, Burgdorfer was sent a batch of deer ticks by a team studying Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever on the East Coast. In charge of the team was one Dr Jorge Benach. [xv] Benach subsequently spent much of his career as a Steere camp Lyme researcher. In 2004 he was chosen as recipient for a $3 million biowarfare research grant. [xvi]
Cutting open some of Benach' ticks, Burgdorfer noticed microfilaria (microscopic worm young).
This was a subject he had been studying recently, only these microfilaria were different. They were exceptionally large, large enough to be seen with the naked eye.[xvii]
His curiosity naturally piqued, he opened up several more ticks. There he was surprised to find the spiral-shaped germs of borrelia.
Cultivation is necessary in order to isolate bacteria for study, so that diagnostic tests, vaccines or cures can be developed.
Borrelia are very difficult to grow in culture. However, by ``lucky coincidence'', another scientist had recently joined the lab where he worked, and had apparently been involved in an amazing breakthrough in this area. So naturally Burgdorfer handed the infected ticks over to him. [xviii]
That scientist was Dr. Alan Barbour, an officer, like Steere and Snydman, of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, with a background in work on anthrax, one of the most terrifying biowarfare agents known. [xix]
EIS man Barbour therefore became the first to isolate the prototype organism on which all subsequent Lyme disease blood tests would be based. [xx]
This is very significant, as a huge body of evidence [xxi] indicates the unreliability of these tests, which are routinely used to rule out the disease.
Additionally, all DNA detection of the Lyme agent in ticks and animals is ultimately based, directly or indirectly, on the genetic profile of the strain first isolated by Barbour.
Shortly after Barbour's discovery, other species and strains of the Lyme-causing bacteria were isolated, especially in Europe.
They were all classified based on their resemblance to Barbour's organism, and have been grouped into a category called Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato or ``Bbsl'' for short.
However, a borrelia was subsequently found in the southern US (referred to briefly above) which appears not to be a member of Barbour's Bbsl group at all.[xxii]
The bacteria, named Borrelia lonestari, often evades detection on Lyme blood tests, is not found using DNA tests, and does not grow in Barbour's culture medium which is used world-wide for lab study. [xxiii]
And yet, it appears to cause an illness identical to Lyme - down to the ``bullseye rash'', which, though not present in all patients, is considered unique to Lyme disease.
In 2005 Barbour, who spent much of his career studying the ``hard-to-catch, easy-to-cure'' Lyme disease, was placed in charge of the multi-million new biowarfare mega-complex based at University of California at Irvine (UCI). [xxiv]
Barbour is joined there by his close colleague and fellow Steerite Jonas Bunikis, author of recent papers calling for a restrictive approach to Lyme diagnosis.
The Spread and the Spin
By the late 1980's it was realised that Lyme disease was rapidly spreading out of control.
Cases were reported across America, Europe and Asia. Federal health agencies launched a major propaganda effort to limit diagnosis and so artificially ``contain'' the epidemic.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) appointed biowarfare expert Edward McSweegan as Lyme Program officer. [xxv]
Under his leadership the diagnostic criteria was skewed to exclude most sufferers, especially those with chronic neurological illness. McSweegan's successor at NIH, Dr Phil Baker, is an anthrax expert [xxvi], and has continued his policies.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is another federal body which has had a major impact on how Lyme is diagnosed and treated.
Its influence extends abroad, with European public health departments drawing up policies based on CDC guidelines. It should be remembered that it is the CDC which trains the Epidemic Intelligence Service, and much of the leadership of CDC has traditionally been drawn from EIS ranks.
Therefore it comes as no surprise to learn that David Dennis, the head of vector-borne diseases at CDC, with massive influence over Lyme issues, was involved with the EIS. However, we could legitimately wonder why, at lower levels of the CDC hierarchy, EIS officers - the nation's heavyweight infectious disease experts - continue to play such a major role in investigating the supposedly ``hard-to-catch, easily cured'' Lyme. (For example, EIS officers Martin Schriefer and Captain Paul Mead.) [xxvii].[xxviii]
In 2001, responding to the protest of thousands of patients that standard two or three-week antibiotic courses were not sufficient, the NIH commissioned biowarfare scientist Mark Klempner to study persistence of Lyme infection.
ILADS doctors had found that patients left untreated in the early phase often needed long courses of antibiotics, [xxix] sometimes for years. Klempner, however, concluded that persistent Lyme infection did not exist.
In 2003 Klempner was appointed head of the new $1.6 billion biowarfare top-security facility being developed at Boston University.
Shortly after, the news emerged that there had been an escape of the deadly bug tularaemia which was not properly reported to the authorities. [xxx]
In 2005 the author discovered a document on the NIH website listing Lyme as one of the potential bioterrorism agents studied in BSL-4 (top security) labs.
After this was publicised, the NIH announced they had made a ``mistake'', and removed the words ``Lyme disease'' from the page. (At the time of writing, the original is still available in cached Internet archives. [xxxi])
However, at around the same time, a CDC source leaked the identical information to the Associated Press. [xxxii]
Moreover, the Science Coalition, comprising entities as prestigious as the American Medical Association, Yale University, and the American Red Cross, maintain a website which, at the time of writing, also lists Lyme as a disease studied for its biowarfare potential. [xxxiii] Could these three major organisations all have, co-incidentally, made the same ``mistake''?
In 2004 the UK government denied that Lyme was a threat in Britain and told Parliament that no Lyme research had been conducted since 1999. [xxxiv]
Yet the report of the official UK delegation to an international conference on the prevention of bioterrorism revealed that Lyme was being studied at Porton Down, Britain's top biowarfare facility. [xxxv] Britain, and many other European countries, take their lead on Lyme from a body called EUCALB, rooted in Steere camp methodology.
NATO has also been directly involved in moves to ``harmonise'' European Lyme diagnosis along Steerite lines
A Bug of Many Talents
Lyme's ability to evade detection on routine medical tests, its myriad presentations which can baffle doctors by mimicking 100 different diseases, its amazing abilities to evade the immune system and antibiotic treatment, would make it an attractive choice to bioweaponeers looking for an incapacitating agent.
Lyme's abilities as ``the great imitator'' might mean that an attack could be misinterpreted as simply a rise in the incidence of different, naturally-occurring diseases such as autism, MS, lupus and chronic fatigue syndrome (M.E.).
Borrelia's inherent ability to swap outer surface proteins, which may also vary widely from strain to strain, would make the production of an effective vaccine extremely difficult. (A vaccine developed for the public by the Steere camp in collaboration with Glaxo Smithkline was pulled from the market a few years ago amid class action lawsuits [xxxvi].)
Finally, the delay before the appearance of the most incapacitating symptoms would allow plenty of time for an attacker to move away from the scene, as well as preventing people in a contaminated zone from realising they had been infected and seeking treatment.
Often in the early period there is no rash, only vague flu-like or other non-specific symptoms which might be dismissed by GP's, or ignored by the patient.
The 2003 proposal for a rapid-detection method for biowarfare by Dr JJ Dunn of Brookhaven National Lab seems to add further grounds for suspicion. It is based on the use of two ``sentinel'' germs - plague and Lyme. [xxxvii]
In 1999 Lyme patient advocacy leader Pat Smith was amazed to find, on visiting an Army base at an old biowar testing ground in Maryland, that the US Dept. of Defence has developed a satellite-linked system that enables soldiers to read, in real-time, off a display on their helmet's visor, information about the rate of Lyme-infected ticks wherever they may be on earth. Unit commanders could update the database using state-of-the-art portable PCR machines, which test for Lyme DNA in soldiers bitten by ticks. [xxxviii]
The use of such cutting-edge technology for a supposedly ``hard-to-catch, easy-to-cure'' illness seems odd, to say the least!
Lyme is often complicated by the presence of co-infecting diseases in the same tick, e.g. those caused by the microbes of babesia, bartonella, mycoplasma (believed by some researchers to be the cause of Gulf War illness), ehrlichia, microfilaria and encephalitis viruses. Investigations into some of these, too, have been led by American biowar experts.
It could be argued that some of these Lyme researchers have been awarded biowar-related grants simply because they are Infectious Disease specialists, which is a natural terrain from which to recruit.
After all, research budgets for biowar have ballooned massively since the anthrax attacks of 2001; there is a demand for large numbers of personnel to work on such projects.
Well, there are two things that could be said here. First, researchers who have spent much or most of their careers studying a ``hard-to-catch, easily-cured'' disease would not appear to be the best choice as recipients of this type of grant, unless the ``easily-cured'' disease had some relation to biowarfare.
Second, while some infectious disease specialists began to study biowarfare organisms for the first time after 2001, this is not necessarily the case with the Steerites.
Klempner, for example, was studying ways to increase the virulence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, over 20 years ago [xxxix]; Barbour researched anthrax for the Army in the 1970's. [xl]
The defeat of Saddam Hussein in the 1991 Gulf War was followed by the drawing up, by the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) of a list of microbes to be monitored in Iraq. Among them - the borrelia genus in general, and Borrelia burgdorferi in particular. [xli] UNSCOM also included organisms such as ehrlichia and babesia, which are often present in Lyme-infected ticks, and are acquired as concurrent illnesses when a person is bitten.
There are other organisms on the UN list not generally associated, in the public mind, with biowarfare, and it could be argued that the UN was simply being extra cautious by casting a wide net.
However, whether Lyme bacteria were present in Iraq at that time or not, they certainly are today, and US Army manuals warn soldiers to protect themselves from the disease [xlii]
If we are to accept the traditional Steerite explanation for the rise of Lyme - that it is a natural consequence of a recent population explosion of deer due to reforestation, combined suburbanisation, bringing humans into contact with forests - then the presence of Lyme in the dusty sand dunes of Iraq seems perverse.
And what of the doctors of the opposing camp, those associated with ILADS? ILADS doctors and researchers increasingly find themselves persecuted, victims of spurious charges made against them to Medical Boards, and are hounded out of their professions.
At the time of writing, paediatrician Dr C J, credited by thousands of parents with restoring the health of their disabled children, is under trial, accused of misconduct.
A few years ago, Dr L M, a Nobel Prize nominee who worked on an alternative culture medium for Lyme, was ordered to shut down operations by police who arrived at her lab with handcuffs.
Dozens of doctors who had been treating Lyme successfully according to their clinical judgement, rather than relying on insensitive blood tests or arbitrary limits on antibiotic duration, have been forced to stop.
The president of ILADS, Dr R S, has told the press he believes Lyme disease is a bioweapon.
Summary
Lyme disease is the subject of hot controversy, with the ``Steere camp'' claiming it is an easily cured ailment, while the ILADS camp views it as a severely disabling, multi-symptom neurological disease.
The number of Steere camp Lyme researchers with a background in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and/or biowarfare research is too numerous to be pure co-incidence.
Two scientists who have played a central role in the Lyme story, Barbour and Klempner, have been placed in charge of new biowar super-labs set up in the aftermath of 9-11, where they are aided by some of their Steerite colleagues.
Others, while not in charge of super-labs, are nevertheless in receipt of substantial grants for biowarfare research.
The United States and some of its NATO allies have a long and sordid history of experimentation into biological weapons of mass destruction and mass incapacitation.
The Borrelia genus and ticks as biowar vectors have been studied for decades, and recent revelations about the Plum Island disease lab, across the water from old Lyme, Connecticut are worrying.
The development of the so-called ``non-lethal weapons'' has been a major part of biowar science for decades.
Suspicion is further fuelled by the declaration by America's National Institute of Health that a document on their website listing Lyme as a microbe studied for bioterrorism potential was a ``mistake'', just at the time that a CDC source leaked the same ``mistake'' to the Associated Press.
British delegates at an international conference on the prevention of bioterrorism revealed that intense work on Lyme and other tick-borne disease is conducted at the UK's top biowar lab at Porton Down.
Lyme has been chosen as a ``sentinel organism'' in a method of rapidly detecting bioweapons, and the whole genus, or category, of borrelia was included among those to be monitored by the UN in Iraq after the first Gulf War.
US soldiers in Iraq today are warned by the military to protect themselves against the disease.
It's possible to see the modern history of Lyme as a string of events with an EIS member at every crucial node.
The discovery of new Lyme-causing borrelia, genetically distinct from the Borrelia burgdorferi group first cultured by EIS officer Alan Barbour, throws up the question as to whether the Bbsl organisms he introduced to medicine was the only, (or even the most) relevant borrelia.
The testing and diagnostic regimens based on the views of Barbour, Steere, etc and backed by federal health agencies such as CDC and NIH currently condemn huge numbers of Lyme patients to a medical limbo, without treatment or recognition for their disease. The cost in human suffering may be unimaginable.
The following are two excellent books exposing the US Government's culpablity in both manufacturing and deploying biological weapons against the American people. These books are a MUST READ for all Americans, and of particular interest to those who are living in the Northeastern part of the United States.
The Lyme Disease Blog -- This Is An Excellent Website For Those Who Want To Keep Apprised Of The Latest Goings On With The Lyme Disease Controversy -- Unlike Many Of The "Agenda" Organizations Such As The CDC, NIH, And American Lyme Foundation, Which Are Deliberately Covering Up The Truth About Lyme Disease's Bioweapon's Roots And Grossly Undereporting The Numbers Of Cases Each Year, This Blog Is Covering The Unpopular Truth About This Insideous Illness And The US Government's Attempts To Obfuscate Any Attempts To Expose The Truth.
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Just a reminder that we are not allowed to post the full name of lyme treating doctors.
Could you please remove their full name and just put the initial?
Hello, Jeff - This is an excellent historical documentation of Plum Island's history even before it became the USDA Plum Island.
The history goes back to operation paperclip and to PROVEN tick research on Plum Island dating back to the 1950s.
Plum Island also worked with lone star ticks. ...I wondered how lone star ticks from Texas would get to my backyard in NY. The ticks had some help, i.e. germ scientists...and Plum Island.
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In the mid-1970's Lyme Disease broke out in Connecticut and it has since spread through much of the United States.
This program examines the possibility that Lyme Disease may have spread as a result of clandestine experimentation on biological warfare on Plum Island-a Department of Agriculture facility that doubled as an Army BW research facility.
Dedicated to the study of animal diseases, Plum Island appears to have been the site of experiments with disease-infected ticks conducted by Nazi scientists brought into the United States under Project Paperclip.
One of the Nazi scientists who appears to have been involved with Plum Island was Dr. Erich Traub, who was in charge of the Third Reich's virological and bacteriological warfare program in World War II. Was Traub involved with experiments that led to the spread of Lyme Disease?
Program Highlights Include: Examination of Traub's studies in the US prior to World War II;
Traub's pro-Nazi activities inside the US before the war; John Loftus' discovery of references in the National Archives to Nazi scientists experimenting with diseased ticks on Plum Island; Lyme Disease activist Steven Nostrum's discovery of Loftus' findings and his work investigating Plum Island;
Details of Traub's involvement with Plum Island; files about Tick Research and Erich Traub that have been purged; Scientific American's dismissal of the Plum Island/Traub/Paperclip/Lyme Disease link; the Nazi heritage of the Von Holtzbrinck firm-which owns Scientific American;
Plum Island experimentation with the disease-carrying "Lone Star Tick"; the fact that the Lone Star Tick-native to Texas-has somehow spread to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut!
1. In order to understand how Erich Traub came to the United States, it is important to understand Project PAPERCLIP. The program begins with a synoptic account of that project and how its prosecution led to Traub's entry to the United States and his involvement with Plum Island: "Nearing the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union raced to recruit German scientists for postwar purposes.
Under a top-secret program code-named Project PAPERCLIP, the U.S. military pursued Nazi scientific talent 'like forbidden fruit,' bringing them to America under employment contracts and offering them full U.S. citizenship.
The recruits were supposed to be nominal participants in Nazi activities. But the zealous military recruited more than two thousand scientists, many of whom had dark Nazi party pasts." (Lab 257: the Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory; by Michael Christopher Carroll; Copyright 2004 by Michael Christopher Carroll; HarperCollins [HC]; p. 7.)
2. "American scientists viewed these Germans as peers, and quickly forgot they were on opposite sides of a ghastly global war in which millions perished.
Fearing brutal retaliation from the Soviets for the Nazis' vicious treatment of them, some scientists cooperated with the Americans to earn amnesty.
Others played the two nations off each other to get the best financial deal in exchange for their services. Dr. Erich Traub was troubling on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain after the war, and ordered to research germ warfare viruses for the Russians.
He pulled off a daring escape with his family to West Berlin in 1949. Applying for Project Paperclip employment, Traub affirmed he wanted to 'do scientific work in the U.S.A., become an American citizen, and be protected from Russian reprisals.'" (Idem.)
3. The program sets forth Traub's work for the Third Reich: "As lab chief of Insel Riems-a secret Nazi biological warfare laboratory on a crescent-shaped island nestled in the Baltic Sea-Traub worked directly for Adolf Hitler's second-in-charge, SS Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler, on live germ trials. . . ." (Ibid.; pp. 7-8.)
4. Traub had studied in the United States before the war (at the Rockefeller Institute) and had been involved in Nazi activities inside the U.S. prior to 1939 (the outbreak of World War II). " . . .
Traub also listed his 1930's membership in Amerika-Deutscher Volksbund, a German-American 'club' also known as Camp Sigfriend. Just thirty miles west of Plum Island in Yaphank, Long Island, Camp Sigfried was the national headquarters of the American Nazi movement. . . .
Ironically, Traub spent the prewar period of his scientific career on a fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, perfecting his skills in viruses and bacteria under the tutelage of American experts before returning to Nazi Germany on the eve of war.
Despite Traub's troubling war record, the U.S. Navy recruited him for its scientific designs, and stationed him at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland." (Ibid.; p. 8.)
5. Nominally under the jurisdiction of the USDA (Department of Agriculture), Plum Island was also used for military biological warfare research on animal diseases.
In that regard, it was involved with Fort Dietrick, the Army's top chemical and biological warfare facility. Note that Traub was at the foundation of the Plum Island/biological warfare nexus.
"Just months into his PAPERCLIP contract, the germ warriors of Fort Detrick, the Army's biological warfare headquarters, in Frederick, Maryland, and CIA operatives invited Traub in for a talk, later reported in a declassified top-secret summary: Dr. Traub is a noted authority on viruses and diseases in Germany and Europe.
This interrogation revealed much information of value to the animal disease program from a Biological Warfare point of view. Dr. Traub discussed work done at a German animal disease station during World War II and subsequent to the war when the station was under Russian control.'
Traub's detailed explanation of the secret operation on Insel Riems, and his activities there during the war and for the Soviets, laid the ground work for Fort Detrick's offshore germ warfare animal diseased lab on Plum Island. Traub was a founding father. . . ." (Ibid.; pp. 8-9.)
6. It is interesting to note that the Third Reich's biological warfare program had the cover name of "Cancer Research Program." (In RFA#16-available from Spitfire-as well as FTR#'s 16, 73, we look at the National Cancer Institute's Special Viral Cancer Research Program and the evidence suggesting that the project was actually a front for the continuation of biological warfare research. Erich Traub appears to have been involved with the projects related to the SVCRP.) " . . .
Everybody seemed willing to forget about Erich Traub's dirty past-that he played a crucial role in the Nazis' 'Cancer Research Program,' the cover name for their biological warfare program, and that he worked directly under SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler.
They seemed willing to overlook that Traub in the 1930's faithfully attended Camp Sigfried. In fact, the USDA liked him so much, it glossed over his dubious past and offered him the top scientist job at the new Plum Island Laboratory-not once, but twice.
Just months after the 1952 public hearings on selecting Plum Island, Doc Shahan dialed Dr. Traub at the naval laboratory to discuss plans for establishing the germ laboratory and a position on Plum Island." (Ibid.; p. 10.)
7. More about how Traub came to be in a significant position at Plum Island. "Six years later-and only two years after Traub squirmed in his seat at the Plum Island dedication ceremonies-senior scientist Dr. Jacob Traum retired. The USDA needed someone of 'outstanding caliber, with a long established reputation, internationally as well as nationally,' to fill Dr. Traum's shoes.
But somehow it couldn't find a suitable American. 'As a last resort it is now proposed that a foreigner be employed.' The aggies' choice? Erich Traub, who was in their view 'the most desirable candidate from any source.'
The 1958 secret USDA memorandum 'Justification for Employment of Dr. Erich Traub' conveniently omitted his World War II activities; but it did emphasize that 'his originality, scientific abilities, and general competence as an investigator' were developed at the Rockefeller Institute in New Jersey in the 1930's." (Idem.)
8. The push to employ Traub as the director of Plum Island involved professional recommendations that omitted his work for the Third Reich:
"The letters supporting Traub to lead Plum Island came in from fellow Plum Island founders. 'I hope that every effort will be made to get him.
He has had long and productive experience in both prewar and postwar Germany,' said Dr. William Hagan, dean of the Cornell University veterinary school, carefully dispensing with his wartime activities.
The final word came from his dear American friend and old Rockefeller Institute boss Dr. Richard Shope, who described Traub as 'careful, skill, productive and very original' and 'one of this world's most outstanding virologists.' Shope's sole reference to Traub at war: 'During the war he was in Germany serving in the German Army.'" (Idem.)
9. Traub declined the offer to lead the lab. There is considerable evidence that he was involved with biological warfare research at Plum Island.
"Declining the USDA's offer, Traub continued his directorship of the Tubingen laboratory in West Germany, though he visited Plum Island frequently. In 1960, he was forced to resign as Tubingen's director under a dark cloud of financial embezzlement.
Traub continued sporadic lab research for another three years, and then left Tubingen for good--a scandalous end to a checkered career. In the late 1970's, the esteemed virologist Dr. Robert Shope, on business in Munich, paid his father Richard's old Rockefeller Institute disciple a visit.
The germ warrior had been in early retirement for about a decade by then. 'I had dinner with Traub one day-out of old time's sake-and he was a pretty defeated man by then.' On May 18, 1985, the Nazis' virus warrior Dr. Erich Traub died unexpectedly in his sleep in West Germany. He was seventy-eight years old." (Ibid.; pp. 10-11.)
10. "A biological warfare mercenary who worked under three flags-Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the UnitedStates-Traub was never investigated for war crimes.
He escaped any inquiry into his wartime past. The full extent of his sordid endeavors went with him to his grave. While America brought a handful of Nazi war criminals to justice, it safeguarded many others in exchange for verses to the new state religion-modern science and espionage.
Records detailing a fraction of Eric Traub's activities are now available to the public, but most are withheld by Army intelligence and the CIA on grounds of national security. But there's enough of a glimpse to draw quite a sketch." (Ibid.; p. 11.)
11. An important chapter in the story of how the inquiry into the possible link between Plum Island, Erich Traub's work on behalf of the US and the spread of Lyme Disease concerns the work of former Justice Department prosecutor John Loftus.
In his book The Belarus Secret, Loftus referred to work done on Plum Island in the early 1950's in which Nazi scientists were experimenting on diseased ticks. Might that have referred to Traub?! " . . .
Attorney John Loftus was hired in 1979 by the Office of Special Investigations, a unit set up by the Justice Department to expose Nazi war crimes and unearth Nazis hiding in the United States. Given top-secret clearance to review files that had been sealed for thirty-five years, Loftus found a treasure trove of information on America's postwar Nazi recruiting.
In 1982, publicly challenging the government's complacency with the wrongdoing, he told 60 minutes that top Nazi officers had been protected and harbored in America by the CIA and the State Department. 'They got the Emmy Award,' Loftus wrote. 'My family got the death threats.'" (Ibid.; p. 13.)
12. "Old spies reached out to him after the publication of his book, The Belarus Secret, encouraged that he-unlike other authors-submitted his manuscript to the government, agreeing to censor portions to protect national security.
The spooks gave him copies of secret documents and told him stories of clandestine operations. From these leads, Loftus ferreted out the dubious Nazi past of Austrian president and U.N. secretary general Kurt Waldheim.
Loftus revealed that during World War II, Waldheim had been an officer in a German Army unit that committed atrocities in Yugoslavia. A disgraced Kurt Waldheim faded from the international scene soon thereafter." (Idem.)
13. "In the preface of The Belarus Secret, Loftus laid out a striking piece of information gleaned from his spy network: 'Even more disturbing are the records of the Nazi germ warfare scientists who came to America.
They experimented with poison ticks dropped from planes to spread rare diseases. I have received some information suggesting that the U.S. tested some of these poison ticks on the Plum Island artillery range off the coast of Connecticut during the early 1950's. . . .
Most of the germ warfare records have been shredded, but there is a top secret U.S. document confirming that 'clandestine attacks on crops and animals' took place at this time." (Idem.)
14. More pieces of evidence on the tantalizing trail of evidence pointing to a possible Plum Island/Traub/Lyme disease link: "Erich Traub had been working for the American biological warfare program from his 1949 Soviet escape until 1953.
We know he consulted with Fort Dietrick scientists and CIA operatives; that he worked for the USDA for a brief stint; and that he spoke regularly with Plum Island director Doc Shahan in 1952.
Traub can be physically placed on Plum Island at least three times-on dedication day in 1956 and two visits, once in 1957 and again in the spring of 1958. Shahan, who enforced an ultrastrict policy against outside visitors, each time received special clearance from the State Department to allow Traub on Plum Island soil." (Ibid.; p. 14.)
15. If in fact Traub was involved with research on Plum Island, this development would have been consistent with programs being conducted at that time involving experimentation on unwitting American citizens with biological and chemical warfare research agents:
"Research unearthed three USDA files from the vault of the National Archives-two were labeled TICK RESEARCH and a third E.TRAUB. All three folders were empty. The caked-on dust confirms the file boxes hadn't been open since the moment before they were taped shut in the 1950's.
Preposterous as it sounds, clandestine outdoor germ warfare trials were almost routine during this period. In 1952, the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for a 'vigorous, well-planned, large-scale [biological warfare] test to the secretary of defense later that year stated, 'Steps should be take to make certain of adequate facilities are available, including those at Fort Detrick, Dugway Proving Ground, Fort Terry (Plum Island) and an island field testing area.' Was Plum Island the island field testing area?
Indeed, when the Army first scouted Plum Island for its Cold War designs, they charted wind speeds and direction and found that, much to their liking, the prevailing winds blew out to sea." (Idem.)
16. "One of the participating 'interested agencies' was the USDA, which admittedly set up large plots of land throughout the Midwest for airborne anticrop germ spray tests.
Fort Detrick's Special Operations Division ran 'vulnerability tests' in which operatives walked around Washington, D.C., and San Francisco with suitcases holding Serratia marcescens-a bacteria recommended to Fort Detrick by Traub's nominal supervisor, Nazi germ czar and Nuremberg defendant Dr. Kurt Blome.
Tiny perforations allowed the germs' release so they could trace the flow of the germs through airports and bus terminals. Shortly thereafter, eleven elderly men and women checked into hospitals with never-before-seen Serratia marcescens infections.
One patient died. Decades later when the germ tests were disclosed, the Army denied responsibility. . . . In the summer of 1966, Special Operations men walked into three New York City subway stations and tossed lightbulbs filled Bacillus subtilis, a benign bacteria, onto the tracks.
The subway trains pushed the germs through the entire system and theoretically killed over a million passengers." (Idem.)
17. "Tests were also run with live, virulent, anti-animal germ agents. Two hog-cholera bombs were exploded at an altitude of 1,500 feet over pigpens set up at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. And turkey feathers laced with Newcastle disease virus were dropped on animals grazing on a University of Wisconsin farm." (Ibid.; p. 15.)
18. "The Army never fully withdrew its germ warfare efforts against food animals. Two years after the Army gave Plum Island to the USDA-and three years after it told President Eisenhower it had ended all biological warfare against food animals-the Joint Chiefs advised that 'research on anti-animal agent-munition combinations should' continue, as well as 'field testing of anti-food agent munition combinations. . . .'
In November 1957, military intelligence examined the elimination of the food supply of the Sino-Soviet Bloc, right down to the calories required for victory:
'In order to have a crippling effect on the economy of the USSR, the food and animal crop resources of the USSR would have to be damaged within a single growing season to the extent necessary to reduce the present average daily caloric intake from 2,800 calories to 1,400 calories; i.e., the starvation level.
Reduction of food resources to this level, if maintained for twelve months, would produce 20 percent fatalities, and would decrease manual labor performance by 95 percent and clerical and light labor performance by 80 percent.'
At least six outdoor stockyard tests occurred in 1964-65. Simulants were sprayed into stockyards in Fort Worth, Kansas City, St. Paul, Sioux Falls, and Omaha in tests determining how much foot-and-mouth disease virus would be required to destroy the food supply." (Idem.)
19. "Had the Army commandeered Plum Island for an outdoor trial? Maybe the USDA lent a hand with the trial, as it had done out west by furnishing the large test fields.
After all, the Plum Island agreement between the Army and the USDA allowed the Army to borrow the island from the USDA when necessary and in the national interest." (Idem.)
20. A former employee at Plum Island in the 1950's has personal recollection of a "Nazi scientist" releasing ticks outdoors on Plum Island.
"Traub might have monitored the tests. A source who worked on Plum Island in the 1950's recalls that animal handlers and a scientist released ticks outdoors on the island.
'They called him the Nazi scientist, when they came in, in 1951-they were inoculating these ticks,' and a picture he once saw 'shows the animal handler pointing to the area on Plum where they released the ticks.'
Dr. Traub's World War II handiwork consisted of aerial virus sprays developed on Insel Riems and tested over occupied Russia, and of field work for Heinrich Himmler in Turkey.
Indeed, his colleagues conducted bug trials by dropping live beetles from planes. An outdoor tick trial would have been de rigueur for Erich Traub." (Ibid.; pp. 15-16.)
21. Next, the program sets forth the case of Steve Nostrum-an early Lyme Disease victim whose reading of Loftus' book spurred him to begin inquiring about the Plum Island/Traub connection.
"Somebody gave Steve Nostrum a copy of John Loftus's The Belarus Secret at one of his support group meetings. Steve had long suspected that Plum Island played a role in the evolution of Lyme disease, given the nature of its business and its proximity to Old Lyme, Connecticut.
But he never publicly voiced the hunch, fearing a loss of credibility; hard facts and statistics earned him a reputation as a leader in the Lyme disease field. Now in his hands, he had a book written by a Justice Department attorney who not only had appeared on 60 Minutes but also had brought down the secretary general of the United Nations.
Nostrum disclosed the possible Plum-Lyme connection on his own television show. He invited local news reporter and Plum Island ombudsman Karl Grossman to help him explore the possibilities in light of the island's biological mishaps.
Asked why he wrote about Loftus's book in his weekly newspaper column, Grossman says, 'To let the theory rise or fall. To let the public consider it. And it seemed to me that the author was a Nazi hunter and a reputable attorney-this was not trivial information provided [and it was provided] by some reliable person.'" (Idem.)
22. "In October 1995, Nostrum, fresh off nursing duty (having earned an RN degree to help Lyme disease patients), rushed to a rare public meeting held by the USDA.
In a white nurse's coat, stethoscope still around his neck, Nostrum rose. Trembling, his blond beard now streaked with gray, he clutched his copy of The Belarus Secret as he read the damning passage out loud for the USDA and the public to hear.
'I don't know whether this is true,' he said, looking at the dais. 'If it is true, there must be an investigation-if it's not true, then John Loftus needs to be prosecuted.'
People in the audience clapped, and some were astonished. A few gawked, thinking he was nuts. How did the official USDA officials react? 'If stares could kill, I would have been dead,' remembers Nostrum." (Idem.)
23. "Hiding behind the same aloof veil of secrecy they had employed for decades, the USDA brazenly cut him off. 'There are those who think that little green men are hiding out there,' the officials responded to Nostrum.
'But trust us when we say there are no space aliens and no five-legged cows.' A few laughs erupted in the crowd. 'It did nothing but detract from what I was saying,' says Nostrum. 'But I said it, and I had the documentation to support it.'" (Idem.)
24. The author speculates about the deer and birds that visited Plum Island, and the possibility that some of the infected ticks may well have traveled to the mainland from the island on those vectors. (Carroll explains that white-tailed deer regularly swim the two miles to the island to forage and migrating birds stop on Plum Island on their way North and South during their annual migrations.) " . . .
If Dr. Traub continued his outdoor germ experiments with the Army and experimented with ticks outdoors, the ticks would have made contact with mice, deer, and more than 140 species of wild birds known to frequent and nest on Plum Island.
The birds spread their toxic cargo to resting and nesting perches atop the great elms and oaks of Old Lyme and elsewhere, just like they spread the West Nile virus throughout the United States." (Ibid.; p. 21.)
25. After noting that allegations of the discovery of Bb (the bacterium that causes Lyme Disease) in the late 1940's coincides with Traub's arrival on the island, the broadcast sets forth the denials by a USDA spokesperson that there was any BW/Traub/Plum Island link to the spread of the Lyme infection.
Note that Scientific American dismissed the possibility of a "Nazi scientist" link to Plum Island. In FTR#240-part of the long FTR series about "German Corporate Control over American Media"--it was noted that the Von Holtzbrinck firm controls that magazine. Like its larger competitor Bertelsmann, the Von Holtzbrinck firm is rooted firmly in the Third Reich.
In FTR#226, we examined the Nazi heritage of Von Holtzbrinck and the possibility that they may employed the notorious SS officer and Goebbels prot�g� Werner Naumann.
The possibility that the Von Holtzbrinck/Scientific American link may have had something to do with the magazine's casual dismissal of the Traub/Plum/Lyme link is not one to be too readily dismissed.
"Researchers trying to prove that Lyme disease existed before 1975 claim to have isolated Bb [the bacterium that causes the infection] in ticks collected on nearby Shelter Island and Long Island in the late 1940's.
That timing coincides with both Erich Traub's arrival in the United States on Project PAPERCLIP and the Army's selection of Plum Island as its offshore biological warfare laboratory.
The USDA's spokesperson, Sandy Miller Hays, is unconvinced about the possibility of a link between Lyme disease and Plum Island: . . .
A PR expert, Hays had Scientific American eating out of her hand in June 2000, when they reported her as saying, ' 'We still get asked about the Nazi scientists,' . . . [with] the slightest trace of weariness creeping into her voice.'
In their feature story on Plum Island, the prestigious magazine dubbed the intrigue surrounding the island as a 'fanciful fictional tapestry.'" (Ibid.; pp. 21-22.)
26. The program concludes with examination of Plum Island's work with the "Lone Star Tick"-native to Texas.
The focal point of experimentation on Plum Island in the 1970's, the Lone Star tick-like Lyme Disease--is now spread throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. How did that happen? " . . .
The lab chief [Dr. Charles Mebus] failed to mention that Plum Island also worked on 'hard ticks,' a crucial distinction.
A long overlooked document, obtained from the files of an investigation by the office of former Long Island Congressman Thomas Downey, sheds new light on the second, more damning connection to Lyme disease.
A USDA 1978 internal research document titled 'African Swine Fever' notes that in 1975 and 1976, contemporaneous with the strange outbreak in Old Lyme, Connecticut, 'the adult and nymphal stages of Abylomma americanum and Abylomma cajunense were found to be incapable of harboring and transmitting African swine fever virus.'
In laymen's terms, Plum Island was experimenting with the Lone Star tick and the Cayenne tick-feeding them on viruses and testing them on pigs-during the ground zero year of Lyme disease.
They did not transmit African swine fever to pigs, said the document, but they might have transmitted Bb to researchers or to the island's vectors.
The Lone Star tick, named after the white star on the back of the female, is a hard tick; along with its cousin, the deer tick, it is a culprit in the spread of Lyme disease.
Interestingly, at that time, the Lone Star tick's habitat was confined to Texas. Today, however, it is endemic throughout New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
And no one can really explain how it migrated all the way from Texas. . . ." (Ibid.; pp. 24-25.)
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The article mentions the name of a MD. I am only commenting that his name is misspelled nothing else about this MD.
It would be different if I said where he treated what he treated or where he is located. All I am saying is his name is misspelled. Sheesh!
Terry your links goes to this statement:
""Lou, at the moment I know of a half dozen or more of docs under scrutiny. A few of the docs have websites and go out there, but most don't. The major websites do not post names. I do not use names when I speak about docs, we do not use them on materials in testimony and try to train patients not to use them."
By the way this MD has a website so according to Pat "he goes out there"
I am not trying to break any rule. I am merely correcting a misspelling.
Terroism: Al Qaeda hasn't made an attack since 9/11. We've been looking for BIG attacks. Is that what Al Qaeda would do? Or would they do something like a bioweapon? Maybe they already made another successful attack.
Populaton Control: In the late 70's we all heard how the Chinese government restricted the citizens from having more than 1 child. In America, we where shocked at this action. America would never do anything like that - even if population control was needed. Would a rogue part of the governement use infected Ticks to "thin the herd"?
How We Treat Other Countries: The USA gets very annoyed when counties we fear show any interest in nuclear testing. Yet we are the most armed Nuclear country. We have raised much fuss with Saddam's Iraq because of their bioweapons programs. Does that mean that USA is the biggest player in the bioweapons game?
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I don't think it's Al Qaeda... Lyme was "discovered" in the 70's.
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"Monster Island"--New York's Plum Island is a level-4 bioresearch facility
By Alan Cabal NY Press.com As presented by Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
What exactly is going on there?
I make it a rule to never ascribe malicious intent to any occurrence that can be reasonably attributed to human stupidity. There is no such thing as a completely fail-safe system; at least, none that human ingenuity can devise.
Likewise, I acknowledge the role of coincidence in the course of human events. Synchronicity does not necessarily imply a designing will. **** happens, as they say. The tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia is a classic illustration of both of these principles: The shuttle is as close to a fail-safe system as our species is capable of.
No one at NASA wants to lose an astronaut to an accident. The fact that it broke up over Palestine, TX, while carrying an Israeli war hero is simply a coincidence. It was not brought down by a stone-throwing child, an errant kite or a suicide bomber.
There are those who see the Hand of God in coincidences such as this. I am not one of those people.
That said, I do tend to agree with the ancient Greeks that hubris leads inevitably to a correction of some sort. As hubris has become as ubiquitous as obesity in America lately, I try not to concern myself too much with it. Inasmuch as I can, I keep my concerns local.
And locally, there is no more terrifying example of hubris than the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center. Located just two miles off the tip of Long Island and six miles from the Connecticut coastline, Plum Island is home to a Bio-Safety Level 4 (BSL-4) research facility.
The only comparable government facilities in the country are the United States Army laboratory at Fort Detrick, MD, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Plum Island is specifically engaged in the study of zoonotic diseases. Zoonotic diseases are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans, like West Nile, like Lyme disease. Like Ebola.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture established the research facility there after acquiring the 840-acre island from the military at the end of World War II. The initial charter from Congress mandated the study of animal diseases, particularly foot-and-mouth disease, with an eye toward eradicating these maladies from the nation's livestock.
It seemed an ideal location for such an endeavor: prevailing winds, after all, blow out to sea. In 1954, the research took a more aggressive turn, with scientists looking to cook up ways to inflict damage on Soviet livestock. The Cuban government alleges that in the 1960s and 70s, bioweapons developed at Plum were deployed against Cuban agriculture, targeting pork, tobacco and sugar cane.
Back in 1999, Floyd P. Horn, administrator of the Agriculture Research Service, persuaded President Clinton to include Plum Island in his expanded bioterrorism program based on the possibility of a biological attack on the nation's agricultural base.
Last year the administration of the island's research facilities was transferred from USDA to the Department of Homeland Security. The 200-odd employees do not live on the island; they commute from their homes in Connecticut and Long Island.
The facility is only accessible by government ferry, and local sailors who have strayed too close have reported being warned off in no uncertain terms by armed military personnel.
The diseases being researched do not live exclusively under glass"there are quite a number of infected live animals for study there. Some of these diseases have an incubation period extending for days.
Which means that it is entirely possible for a researcher to be unknowingly infected on a Friday and then spend the weekend cheerfully spreading some hideous plague from the Hamptons to Tribeca.
The government claims that there has only been one outbreak on the island"foot-and-mouth in 1978"which they contained by killing all the livestock. They further maintain that there has never been a leak to the mainland.
Apparently the first appearance of what we now call Lyme disease a mere 13 miles northeast of the facility falls under the category of coincidence, as does the mysterious and still unexplained appearance of West Nile virus in Long Island and New York City.
Coincidences, it seems, abound at Plum. Until 1991, all of the employees were federal. During 1991 and 92, the workforce bifurcated, with many of the jobs being turned over to the private sector, which naturally led to a simmering resentment in the ranks.
On August 13, 2002, the resentment came to a full boil and a strike was called: 76 members of the International Union of Operating Engineers walked out at midnight after negotiations on wages and benefits broke down.
The union members, employed by a government subcontractor, LB&B Associates, headquartered in Columbia, MD, were responsible for essential support services such as decontamination, waste-water treatment, keeping the generators in working order and other maintenance and safety-oriented occupations.
For the duration of the strike, temps were brought in to replace them, the sentinels and technicians of the island's infrastructure. By the end of that month, the FBI had been called to the island to investigate allegations of sabotage. It seems that the water pressure on the island fell precipitously, disabling decontamination facilities and the necropsy rooms used to examine dead animals.
The union blamed the problem on the inexperienced temporary replacement workers, suggesting that they had not been adequately screened and lacked the training to properly maintain the essential daily activity of the island, let alone handle an emergency.
Jacob Bunch, a spokesman for LB&B, refused to comment on the FBI investigation and responded to a New York Times reporter's query about the replacement workers by stating that "In terms of training, I will tell you that people are well trained or they wouldn,t be there. I am not going to get into how they are trained." He flatly refused to discuss the issue of security clearances.
The strike and the FBI investigation drew unwanted attention to the island. Local residents in Connecticut and Long Island have long harbored suspicions about the nature of the research being done on "Mystery Island," as some call it.
One local politician was quoted as saying, "I have gotten calls from constituents asking if it is safe. People worry about Plum Island under routine circumstances, so you can expect that they worry more when circumstances are as unusual as these."
Press requests to visit the island were denied by both the FBI and the USDA, but one union official claimed to have received a frantic call from one of the replacement workers. As he put it, "They were sleeping on cots, working 12- hour shifts and not being able to make calls off the island. He described their condition as being held captive."
The chief operating officer of LB&B, Ed Brandon, scoffed at the report, saying that the worker in question had already left the island and that everything was under control and running smoothly.
As a result of the FBI investigation, one of the strikers, Mark J. DePonte, pleaded guilty to tampering with government property.
Coincidentally, in October a 600-gallon container of liquid nitrogen somehow managed to tumble off the rear of one of the island's ferries. Shortly thereafter, it was revealed that at least one of the replacement workers had an arrest record. During the fifth month of the strike, a three-hour power outage renewed public interest in the island.
It certainly piqued my interest. On that day, I could not help but fixate on Stephen King's The Stand and Larry Underwood's trek through a sea of corpses in the Lincoln Tunnel, clawing his way out to Jersey.
I found the failure of all three of the island's backup generators particularly provocative. Jovial corporate gasbag Ed Brandon had nothing to say about the inability of the replacement workers to operate the generators after five months on the job, and his erstwhile associate Jacob Bunch was equally dumbstruck.
I packed up the car, picked up my girlfriend and headed to the Jersey Shore, just to be on the safe side. Coincidence and stupidity will kill you just as dead as conspiracy and evil genius, if the wind is right, so we holed up in a motel in Ocean City and followed the story from there.
The only reason the incident went public at all was that one of the replacement workers basically flipped a gasket and called Hillary Clinton's office, spilling the beans on the power failure to one of her staffers. The worker stated that, "The reason I am coming forward is because what I have seen at the center is really out of hand and something needs to be done about it."
And just like that, the possibility of disaster was in the open. Without power, the air filtration systems are inoperable. Without power, decontamination procedures break down. Without power, the seals in the pressurized airlock doors start to deflate. According to one report, workers were desperately sealing the doors with duct tape.
My girlfriend and I stayed in Ocean City for a few days, walking the deserted frozen boardwalk together and monitoring the news for any signs of an incipient human die-off in New York.
The most frightening book I have ever read is Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague, a comprehensive overview of emerging rain-forest viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I was so badly rattled that I actually put the book down about three-quarters of the way through.
Sitting down there at the Jersey Shore, watching the whitecaps roll in through the desolate frozen darkness on the longest night of the year, it was all too easy to imagine Manhattan in the throes of a deadly epidemic triggered by some half-wit scab's inability to figure out the basics of generator maintenance and operation.
I took an inventory of the worst zoonotic plagues I could think of: Nipah virus, anthrax, Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, Hanta virus. Hanta, I recalled, is transmitted in rodent feces. There was an outbreak in the Four Corners area in the southwest, back in the early 90s. The vector? Pinola nuts contaminated by rat ****.
I reflected on the mother of all plagues, the incomparable Ebola virus, the deadliest strain of which, Ebola Zaire, has a 90 percent kill rate. Transmission is ridiculously easy: The victim starts sneezing at a certain point early in the infection, and the sneeze contains aerosolized droplets of infected blood.
Ba-da-bing, ba-da-bang, ba-da-boom"you've got it. In about 10 days, you bleed out and die as your cardio-vascular system . . ..well, your cardio-vascular system just sort of melts. Ebola Zaire would burn through this city like a fire in a cardboard factory.
Up in New Haven, CT, in 1994, a worker at Yale University's Arbovirus Laboratory became infected with Sabia virus, went home, then took a little jaunt to Boston, where it became apparent to him that his symptoms were serious.
More recently, in February of this year, a Fort Detrick researcher inadvertently stuck herself with a needle containing one of the three known Ebola variants.
None of the reports of the incident specified which strain, but one can only assume it was the relatively benign Ebola Reston, as she was permitted to go home and gather some "necessities" before being placed in quarantine the next day. She was released from quarantine on March 3. Sometimes you get lucky.
The research at Plum Island has taken some very alarming turns. In 2001, the New York Times revealed the existence of the Defense Department's "Project Jefferson," an effort to develop a vaccine-resistant form of anthrax.
The Pentagon responded to the story by asserting that the project would be completed and the results classified. Last year, a St. Louis University virologist by the name of Mark Buller revealed in a characteristically dry academic report that he was tinkering with a more lethal form of mousepox, a relative of smallpox, and intended to extend this work to cowpox, which can infect humans.
Buller's intent is to devise countermeasures against making pox viruses more lethal, but the central conundrum of bioweaponry defense research is that, by necessity, it entails offensive bioweaponry research.
For his part, Buller is aware of the problem. "When you have thrown a lot of money at it," he told Mother Jones magazine, "people start to think very hard about what is possible, losing sight of what is practical." Problem is, this research doesn't take place in a vacuum.
These researchers are academics; they publish. As the hackers have been telling us for three decades, information wants to be free.
So, creating increasingly deadly bioweapons in order to determine how they can be thwarted generates an endless spiral of increasingly potent plagues that must inevitably succumb to that most familiar and unforgiving of universal principles, Murphy's Law.
A lot of people in the know are sounding alarms about this.
Richard Ebright, lab director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, is quoted by Michael Scherer in this month's Mother Jones as saying, "That is work that creates a new vulnerability for the United States and the world. It's like the National Institute of Health was funding a research and development arm of Al Qaeda."
Scherer also points out that the government is going full speed ahead with this sort of thing, doubling the Pentagon budget for chemical/biological warfare and pouring up to $10 billion into bioweaponry projects alone.
We are knee-deep in a new arms race, far more terrifying than anything the nukes race had to offer.
Accidents happened with our nuclear launch protocols; during the Cold War we came close, far too close, on several occasions and it's far easier to accidentally release a tick or a mosquito into the environment, or scratch oneself with an infected needle, than it is to inadvertently launch a missile.
Plum Island is 136 miles from the city, as the crow flies. If that crow should happen to land there briefly, perhaps to snack on a tempting bit of carrion, there is a realistic chance that the crow might then become patient zero, carrying back with it some unwholesome and unwelcome souvenir.
Or consider the disgruntled, overworked generator mechanic suffering under the burden of a difficult divorce compounded by a bad reaction to Zoloft who goes postal on a whole new level. Or maybe a series of unfortunate, coincidental and entirely benign failures will pile up like SUVs on black ice.
The list of possibilities for disaster goes on and on. I prefer not to be in close proximity to people who insist on flouting Murphy's Law, especially when they're toying around with what we euphemistically refer to these days as Weapons of Mass Destruction. It's like drinking in a cop bar.
There's been a lot of blather and hoo-hah in the news around here lately that New Yorkers are unprepared for another major disaster along the lines of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Very few businesses have established any kind of emergency preparedness drills or protocols, and the average citizen seems to be living in some hideously banal postmodern fog of confusion and denial.
A friend of mine up in Inwood bought an ultralight kayak, figuring to haul it down to the estuary there and paddle away to Jersey if and when the bodies start piling up. Even if nothing ever happens, it's a great toy in the summer months.
For more on Plum Island, see Jim Knipfel's review of Michael Christopher Carroll's Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory, p. 40. http://www.nypress.com/17/11/news&columns/feature.cfm Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board.
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Some of these articles may have been posted already... sorry if there's a redundancy.
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Discreet Methods of Biological Warfare
By Marjorie Tietjen
How many of us are burdened with chronic disease or know a friend or family member who is totally or partially disabled? It is almost as if it has become normal and accepted for a large portion of the population to be ill with conditions or "autoimmune " diseases which have no known definitive tests, causes or cures.
Certainly our diet and the chemicals in our environment play a significant role in determining our state of health. However, we need to begin to question as to whether or not something more deceptive may also be taking place.
The media has become a monstrous propaganda machine. Apparently their main goals are to mislead, distract and manipulate the population through fear.
When we become aware of the tools used by the media to control us, that is the first step in gaining back our freedom and autonomy.
The Centers for Disease Control, the Media, The Dept. of Defense, and other government agencies, would have us believe that the most threatening biological agents are lethal microbes which cause acute disease and then death.
A couple of examples would be anthrax and smallpox. It appears that we are being intentionally misled as to where the real danger lies.
Government biological warfare documents speak of incapacitating agents as being the most effective weapons for disabling a nation.
When a population is infected with a lethal agent, it is very obvious that protective measures need to be taken, such as quarantine, antibiotics, etc.
These actions help to curb and abort the epidemic. A much more discreet, diabolical and effective method of disabling a country, would be to employ a moderately infectious organism, or combination of organisms (Russian Doll Cocktail), which would pass slowly through the population unnoticed.
Some of the criteria for effective disabling agents are:
1. A biological agent which lacks objective signs that can be determined by medical testing.
Many patients who are extremely ill with Lyme disease, mycoplasmas or other emerging co infections, are told all their tests are normal and therefore their problems must be all in their heads.
Many people labeled with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness, and Fibromyalgia, are told the same thing.....if they would only get a new job, a hobby, or begin to exercise.....then they would be fine.
2. An agent which would produce so many symptoms throughout the body that it would appear as if the patient was malingering or faking.
This criteria prevents the medical community from taking the disease seriously. In the meantime it moves quietly through the population, being labeled as many separate diseases and conditions.
3. If the disabling agent is a combination of several diseases or microbes, some of which could be genetically engineered, then it becomes very difficult, if not impossible to diagnose and treat.
4. Diseases which are spread by insect vectors are very much sought after and have been used for years in biological warfare. Using insect vectors makes an epidemic much easier to pass off as a natural event, while concealing the identity of the perpetrators.
The following quotes are from Science Daily, Sept 3, 2004.
They suggest that ticks, especially Ioxdes Scapularis (the deer tick which spreads Lyme disease) would make a very appropriate candidate for vectoring biological warfare agents.
As you read these quotes, ask yourself if the Ixodes Scapularis ticks could have already been utilized for this purpose.
"Ticks as small as a freckle can transmit a number of illnesses for which there is no vaccine, and in some cases, no cure. These creatures could even become bio-terrorism weapons."
Perdue University and The University of Connecticut, at the time this Science daily article was written, were undertaking the project of unraveling the genetics of the tick species Ixodes Scapularis.
Catherine Hill, Purdue's co-principal investigator, tells us that "From a bio- terrorism standpoint, it's pretty clear ticks could transmit a number of diseases that intentionally could be introduced and conveyed to people."
Another quote from the same article in Science Daily : "A number of ticks in the United States spread pathogens that the CDC considers potential bio-terrorism agents.
The family to which I. Scapularis belongs, Ixodidae, carries many of the microbes included on the CDC's Select Biological Agents and Toxins list."
These researchers are hoping that a better understanding of ticks will help them discover better treatments for the diseases they spread.
Not only are ticks considered an efficient means of transmitting biological weapons, but the spirochete, borrelia burgdorferi (the agent which causes Lyme disease) has also been considered by researchers, as a potential bio-warfare agent.
In fact,some advisory board members to Lyme disease organizations have extensive backgrounds in bio-warfare research.
Dr. Donald MacArthur, who was in charge of the development and testing of biological weapons for the Pentagon, had this to say at a Hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations in 1969.
"Incapacitating agents are a more recent development and are in the research and development (R&D) phase (in 1969). In fact the prime emphasis in agent R&D is on developing better incapacitating agents.
We are synthesizing new compounds and testing them in animals. I should mention that there is a rule of thumb we use before an agent can be classified as an incapacitant, we feel that the mortality should be very low (emphasis mine).
Therefore the ratio of the lethal dose to the incapacitating dose has to be very high. Now this is a technical job. We have some of the top scientists in the country working for years on how to get more effective incapacitating agents. It is not easy."
He also tells us that an incapacitating agent "imposes a greater logistic burden on the enemy when he has to look after disabled people."
When a large portion of the population is sick and unable to work, this puts an enormous strain on the economy. Think for a moment about the Lyme/co-infection epidemic and how many people are unable to work.
We are not just talking about those who have been diagnosed with Lyme, but also the thousands upon thousands of people who are being mislabeled with depression.....and the ever-growing list of those people with so-called "autoimmune diseases".
Many readers are already aware of the great difficulty Lyme patients experience in trying to get diagnosed and treated. It is becoming increasingly obvious that this denial of treatment is intentional.
We are told that Lyme disease has been around for hundreds of years and that ticks are filthy organisms which can spread many diseases in one single bite.
This appears to be true, but, is this due to a natural evolutionary process or is this sudden proliferation of countless co-infections, a process which has had some help from bio-warfare researchers?
Are all these ticks, carrying multiple pathogens, naturally this way or are they the result of the Russian Doll Concept?
Have ticks themselves been modified to endure harsh weather extremes?
The ticks which carry Lyme disease appear to be surviving in climates previously inhospitable to this species.
In fact, this disease is becoming endemic in many parts of the world at once and it seems to be just as controversial everywhere it spreads.
As I mentioned before, one of the criteria for an effective bio-warfare agent is resistance to antibiotics.
Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, can often present with persistent infection and is many times incurable with the standard antibiotic regimes. In many cases it is obvious that a patient's symptoms are due to ongoing infection.
There is positive response to antibiotics,(even if not a total or permanent cure), herxheimer reactions, positive tests and even sometimes positive cultured biopsies and autopsies......all after what the mainstream medical system calls an "appropriate course of antibiotics."
Why are they denying that Lyme disease can persist in the body, despite what they consider adequate treatment? I don't believe this stance is due to stupidity or ignorance.
While usually extended antibiotics are necessary in controlling and improving a tenacious Lyme infection, it appears that the organism may never be totally eradicated.
It is known that there are techniques used to enhance bacterial resistance to antibiotics. So....while on the one hand the medical authorities are warning us of the dangers of the overuse of antibiotics and even limiting their valid applications....on the other hand they are creating and perhaps even letting loose antibiotic resistant germs.
I would like to quote Thomas Keske from his "Origin of Lyme Disease, part 2.
The quotes in his excerpts are from the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
"Oddly, the Lyme agent, though it is a supposedly "old" disease, has a somewhat curious genetic structure that looks like it "was captured in mid-shuttle," like it is "still undergoing construction."
It is riddled with gene duplications and pseudo-genes, fragments with inversions, deletions, frame-shift mutations, inappropriately placed stop codones.
Perhaps the untidy genetic structure is a statistical fluke.
Of course another possibility not mentioned is that an odd genetic structure might conceivably be a product of genetic experimentation."
Please take some time to review the qualifications for an effective biological warfare agent and think about them in relation to the Lyme/co-infection epidemic.
Contemplate how Lyme patients are being treated. We are often labeled as hysterical, depressed and as having antibiotic seeking behavior.
By the chance that there is an intentional epidemic being caused by "whomever", this psychological labeling causes doctors to ignore an epidemic which may be passed not only by ticks and other insects but through the blood supply, organ donation, intercourse, breast feeding and through the placenta during pregnancy.
Why are there no studies being conducted in these areas?
We need to put on our thinking caps and not be afraid to mention the unthinkable.
When things just don't seem to add up, we must begin to ask difficult questions. We don't want to simply make wild statements which create fear.
However, we do need to raise our serious doubts in a concerned rational manner. How can we resolve a problem without knowing it's real cause?
And......how can we determine the real cause if we don't explore all the possibilities?
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Why would "they" contaminate their own environment? Poison the well from which they drink? So to speak. The same vector that makes us ill would be all around them also. People (even researchers) have an annate desire to live. Does not make sense to me. -p
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The power elite have ways to protect themselves from the hazards they expose us to. I believe there is a cure for Lyme that is being withheld from the public.
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Why would they release it?
1) One person might have done so who had a grudge, although in such case, I don't know how it also showed up around Ft Detrick and in northern California etc.
2) They may have "experimented" in what they stupidly regarded as confined hot spots they selected, like the little town of Old Lyme CT, never thinking about how it would spread. Look at GM modified foods, they never anticipated they would spread to organic farms and contaminate them. They really don't think about whole ecosystems or evolution. They ain't too smart sometimes. They're just tunneled into their well-funded "research".
3) It may have simply gone across on birds. Plum Island had a lot of wildlife.
Look at the various accidents in bioweapons labs around the world. Humans play with pathogens, they escape. Its just nature's way.
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YES, the ARE out to kill us... when i mean "they," i mean the american medical system, which is all part of the big shabang that runs everything behind the scenes. that is why ilads is more or less "underground" in the eyes of big pharma and insurance companies.... it's all connected.
hopefully some things will change over the next several years (no this post should not be about politics). yes, i do sound like a conspiracy theorist, i admit it.
i am not that paranoid but i do feel strongly that "they" need some of use to be sick- there are too many of us on the planet. resources of all kinds are running out.
i don't trust our government, and i definitely do not trust our medical system, which is so complex and has little interest in keeping people cured of ailments.
even dr w himself lectures about bb being biowarfare weapon in ww2. no one is chastising him in germany for saying this stuff. over here- forget it- you are now on a list.
sketchy, sketchy, sketchy.
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I think it's important to understand this so we know what we are up against in regards to treatment.
Most doctors will not admit that Lyme is or may be a bio-weapon.
I've seen it mentioned a few times that abx may cause a "Russian Doll" effect. The abx can trigger the bacteria to change into something else & cause other types of health issues that are not traceable to the original cause.
I'm not saying not to use abx... we just need to look into a multiplicity of treatments since we are not dealing with an "ordinary" bacteria.
It's very hard to say if there is an agenda or if the release of Lyme bacteria was an accident. There is evidence for both.
I believe what adamm stated... I think they do have a cure for people in certain circles. I think George Bush got Lyme earlier this year (or was it last year?). Do you think he will have a problem with it?
I'll post more info when I have time.
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This is from the Journal of Homeland Security, and the scientist being interviewed in the article,(Popov),worked for Vector, the U.S.S.R.'s offensive bioweapons organization in the mid- 70's .
When was Lyme first determined to be endemic in/around Lyme,Ct.?
Pay particular attention to the interview paragraph that starts with, "Let me provide you with another example....." Just thought that there's more here than meets the eye.....Joe
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President Bush hasn't been seen much the past year. It was reported that he has vertigo from an inner ear infecction. The offical report is he has no health issues related to the Tick bite.
He does walk OK. Looks tired. I dunno.
If he did get treatment, I doubt he was tested with the CDC test script that most hospitals and labs follow. I'd like to know what the treatment was, and how it compares to mine.
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mookiewill re: President Bush..I found an article related to either Bush's White House Dr.(or Drs.) looking for a consult with Dr.S regarding advice on Lyme..
This is the article where it's mentioned..It would be interesting to know, however, what eventual treatment ensued, as it's not mentioned in the write-up, and I've seen nothing since.
I think it's pretty safe to say, it probably wasn't 100mg Doxy, 2xday for two weeks....Joe
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If the Powers That Be want the citizens of this country to continue to thrive and to work and pay into social security and the stock market and pay taxes, then a cure (if it exists) should be provided to us.
I don't think it behooves this country to have a lot of disabled people living here.
So I don't think there is a cure for certain people and not others... jus the way I see it.
But yes, I do think Lyme is a biowarfare agent butthe government would never admit that it escaped from Plum Island or the Russians or Al Quaeda is infecting us if that's true.
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jklynd that article was not really clear that there was even any real connection between Bush or his doctors or the paranoid MD who admitted he was paranoid.
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Angelica, I agree with you,however,the article does mention that Dr.S is known to treat Lyme disease. Being on the West coast, and getting a call from a Dr.in Washington, whose name was not mentioned (in the article), and whose name that Dr.S did not recognize,asking about treatment would make me paranoid.
One of my first questions would have been, "Who are you?, What organization/hospital are you affiliated with?, and Why the need to know?" If it were me,as a total stranger to the "calling" Dr., my first reaction would probably be, "Why are you calling me?"
The article does not specifically mention that the Dr. that called was part of a cadre of "White House" Dr's., or even the President's personal physician..
One thing is certain,some Dr.'s have gotten into trouble giving "diagnoses" or treatment guidelines,sight unseen,over the phone.
Another is the fact that even though the "White House Press Announcement" came out about a year later, Dr.S must have made his "connection". Maybe he said,to the caller,"Let me call you back shortly", did some research ,and realized the Dr. had something to do with the White House..
The bottom line is this: (From article)
" said the call made sense a year later, when news broke that President Bush in summer 2006 had been treated for Lyme disease and that his physicians deemed him cured when Bush got his annual physical last month."
Think you'll ever find out the truth about how serious Bush's Lyme was, how long he was treated,and with what?
To quote the IDSA.. "Hard to catch-easy to cure"--What would you say,whoever that Dr. was,the reasoning behind calling Dr.S, when the IDSA is just a few miles away in Virginia?
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IMO - I don't think MOST doctors think Lyme Disease is a Bio-weapon: Here's what I think - the doctors are thinking:
1. Lyme is a complicated disease to dx and treat, I was not trained for this - go with the CDC protocolit's easy and it's the CDC.
2. Long term antibiotics are dangerous - now this I did learn in school - or was it from reading my monthly medical journal?
3. Long term antibiotics are often causing problems with the patient's GI tract and interupt the body's immune response to keep bacteria in check - so why do they take them?
4. These people are just a "super bug" incident waiting to happen - then all of us will suffer.
I really think most doctors have been subjected to the same misinformation and fear tactics as the patients. Add to that the harassment by insurance companies and medical review boards. I just wish they could realize the world of medicine is ever changing. That what they learned in school can't keep up with what they are experiencing in practice every day - and they should keep an open mind. Too often they look something up in a journal and fully commit themselves, at our expense.
-just my 2 cents- -p
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Have a hard time believing lyme is the product of some govt experiment. However, the concept is interesting to me as I live near Plum Island, (a stone throw away) and my little one has lyme.
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This just supports my feelings of being a human "guinea pig".
As for President Bush, my LLMD was summoned to the White House.
Spoke for hours to assistants in regards to Lyme and treatment.
He told me so.
Do you really think Bush got the standard treatment?
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My LLMD thinks it's a bioweapon.
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I don't think there is a "cure" being withheld from us out there. I think an important person like the President will not need to jump through hoops like we do - but will get early Dx and treatment - through treatment - which is key here. If ther was a magic "cure" it would be made available to many who are sick with Lyme. Remember this is a greedy, money hungry - instant gradification world we live in. This kind of thing would not be secret - someone would want to prosper from it!
There would be no loss of a bio-weapon - now cured. There are plenty of other germs for the researchers to play with - and this one got out of control.
LYME IS EVERYWHERE -P
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re: Bush's treatment... (BTW - He wasn't given a test for Lyme.)
America wants to know: Why wasn't President Bush TESTED for Lyme disease? January 21, 2008
BLOGGERS and Lyme bulletin boards are smoking as doctors, researchers and ordinary citizens alike try to figure out why President George Bush's medical team refused to test him for Lyme disease before they treated him for the infection.
Until the White House chooses to answer that question, like everyone else, I've got my theories.
Because Lyme tests are either wildly inaccurate (ELISA and Western blot), or experimental, (Bowen QriBb and Igenex), it's entirely possibly that the president's doctors decided NOT to test to avoid what surely would have been an ambiguous outcome.
Such an inconclusive or debatable result would have thrown the president's diagnosis into the public arena for discussion and debate, leading to:
- public anxiety and panic, - fear and perhaps outrage, - calls for impeachment or for the president to step down for health reasons.
I'm not defending the handling of the case - far from it. I think the president should have been forthcoming about the tick bite and his diagnosis of Lyme, not 12 months after the fact, but the day he was diagnosed.
After all, he could have used his sickness to put a spotlight on Lyme and the need for more research, better testing, and in the cases of people who aren't getting well, better treatments.
Instead, the White House kept Mr. Bush's sickness TOP SECRET. And now, a year later, spokesmen seemingly are trying to justify the diagnosis of Lyme without a test by claiming the president had a bullseye rash.
For those who don't know, a spreading rash - including a bullseye rash - is the only ``definitive marker'' of Lyme, per the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
So, by insisting the president had a bullseye rash, the White House is, in effect, saying a test was not needed to determine infection.
Here's what's wrong with that. Every day in the United States hundreds if not thousands of ordinary citizens are told they DO NOT have Lyme and DO NOT qualify for insurance coverage and treatment because they HAVEN'T BEEN TESTED for Lyme whether they had a rash or not.
And that's a tragedy of the first magnitude - an outrage - because Lyme left untreated shatters good and happy lives, putting individuals and families in the poorhouse, unable to work, and all too often, confined to a home or bed.
These ``Ordinary Janes and Everyday Joes'' might not work in the Oval Office. And very few of them have the kind of top-tier doctors that fuss over the health of presidents and politicians on Capitol Hill.
And that's the real rub. Because as anybody who knows anything about this infection will tell you, you don't need a great doctor to treat Lyme disease when it's caught early.
In fact, a child could write the prescription.
Any broad-spectrum antibiotic is good medicine against Lyme.
In the realm of natural medicines, potent anti-microbial herbs such as Cat's Claw and Carnivora are in wide and trusted use. Simple. Very, very simple.
In truth, the only complication is when Lyme illiterate doctors start ordering up tests that are known to be inaccurate. Things go downhill from there, when physicians who know little or nothing about Lyme start trying to interpret the results of those tests.
Ask yourself this: If Lyme tests aren't good enough for the president, then why on Earth are regular people forced to take them before their doctor will dare diagnose Lyme, which, as everyone knows, paves the way for insurance to help foot the treatment bill?
Could it be that insurance companies don't want to pay these bills? Think about it. And if you don't like the ``smell'' of this, please, write to your congressmen and give them a piece of your mind. (You can get their e-mail addresses at National Lyme Report)
At any rate, and on a high note, the president's diagnosis and treatment (which credible sources have told National Lyme Report included two antibiotics and quite possibly a medicinal herb) calls attention to Lyme as a national and international epidemic.
And that's a good thing.
What do YOU think? Write to me at National Lyme Report. And, yes, I do read and answer every e-mail.
What do YOU think? Write to National Lyme Report Editor Derek Clontz. He reads and answers every e-mail.
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If Lyme were a "regular" disease - why would there would be this level of secrecy surrounding the president's infection & treatment...? Given that the issue of his colon polyps which ocured at a similar time were fully disclosed...
There are a number of other articles about this if you search Google raising questions about his cognitive ability, treatment, why it took a year to disclose the infection, etc.
From reading this, is's hard to say if they really do have cures that aren't given to the public... Seems that the almost former pres did the same thing most of us do - herbs & abx.
It just seems that if something of this nature is released into the environment... they would have something to cure it. Maybe not & we're all $crewed...? or doing as best as we can with what's available.
If may be disinformation, though... Kind of odd that 80 year old daddy Bush parachuted out of a plane on his 80th birthday. He must be doing something right to keep fit.
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excerpt from the article jklynd posted -
Serguei Popov: Certainly. In general, there is a basic technique to make a viral or bacterial genome easier to manipulate genetically.
First you take a gene of interest and you put it in a suitable biological vehicle, often called a vector. Here the gene can be changed, and new properties can be added.
More importantly, the vector could be introduced into a bacterial strain, so that the bacteria will carry it, and will acquire the properties to produce the substance the gene codes for.
Usually, the bacterial host is harmless, but it can be pathogenic. The gene product can be pathogenic as well. In the above case of the myelin peptide, [the] immune system eliminates the bacteria that produced it, but the peptide triggers a slow destructive immune response.
And you are right when you say people in biodefense have never considered this approach.
Let me provide you with another example of a new bioweapon idea, which was under development when I left Russia.
Imagine plague carrying a whole copy of a virus. You would expect that people infected with genetically engineered strains of plague would be treated for plague.
But the antibiotic treatment would actually make the patient worse because of the antibiotic-induced release of the virus from its copy.
A virus infection on top of a bacterial infection may be a situation you will never be able to properly deal with.
Homeland Defense: So you don't have the virus until you kill the bacteria?
Serguei Popov: No, you don't.
Homeland Defense: In the exercise we did in May, called ``Topoff,'' in Denver, we did the simulation of a plague attack, and they chose plague because treatment, in theory, is simple.
You just need to provide people with antibiotics. But in your scenario, it wouldn't matter. No matter how effective we are at controlling it, the more antibiotics you pass out, the more viruses you release?
Serguei Popov: Exactly. Each disease has completely different symptoms and incubation periods, which means treated people will appear healthy and think they are fine.
But the treated people are still sick. They simply don't know it. And a new viral disease can appear after a few days in cases of recombinant plague, or two or three weeks in case of recombinant Legionella.
People will experience paralysis, and their central nervous system will cease to function.
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There's also mention of proteins & peptides inserted into genes.
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Homeland Defense: Now, Dr. Alibek told us last month about how Biopreparat developed plague that was resistant to our ten most common antibiotics.
They couldn't find a strain of plague resistant to ten, so they took one strain, made it resistant to five, and another to another five. Were you just looking for more effective ways to achieve the same result?
Serguei Popov: Not exactly. When we talk about the whole program of genetically engineered weapons, it was a combination of several projects.
For example, projects like ``Bonfire'' were specifically aimed at developing antibiotically resistant strains.
But there was a much bigger program, called ``Factor.'' It was a program to create strains with the ability to produce certain biologically active substances as new pathogenic factors.
It was not about an improvement of what was generally known. But the final goal of Factor was to create strains with completely new properties.
Homeland Defense: Did Factor also work with the classical agents?
Serguei Popov: Yes. The initial vision was that the old classical biological weapons would acquire new, unusual properties so that, for example, prophylaxis would be difficult.
Project goals included high virulence, high stability, and surprising new outcomes for the disease in order to confuse treatment.
To achieve those goals, there were several directions. The first was to express short biologically active peptides. Then there was an attempt to introduce toxin genes into those strains.
The toxin genes could be short peptide toxins or they could be proteins.
(I'm not a scientist so I don't know exactly what this means but it sounds kind of suspicious...)
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One of the most striking features of B. burgdorferi as compared with other eubacteria is its unusual genome, which includes a linear chromosome approximately one megabase in size and numerous linear and circular plasmids.
Long-term culture of B. burgdorferi results in a loss of some plasmids and changes in expressed protein profiles.
Associated with the loss of plasmids is a loss in the ability of the organism to infect laboratory animals, suggesting that the plasmids encode key genes involved in virulence.
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Borrelia burgdorferi grows slowly compared to most bacteria. Each spirochete divides into two cells after 12 to 24 hours of elongation.
Although the organism can be cultured in media, continuous passage may result in biological changes resulting in a population quite different from their naturally occurring ancestors.
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Are there any scientists out there who would be able to interpret this in regards to biological engineering?
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About Gulf War Syndrome.... (it may sound familiar to some of you...)
There is substantial evidence to suggest that in the use of chemical weapons, the Iraqi military adhered to, at least in part, Soviet military doctrine.
Soviet military doctrine's modus operandi is that chemical warfare should be conducted with mixed agents. Mixed agents, often referred to as "cocktails" are intended to enhance the capabilities of nerve agents and defeat the precautions taken by the enemy.
Cocktails can be made by combining a wide variety of biotoxins, nerve agents, vesicants, and some biological agents - such as bacteria and fungi.
[ED. NOTE: The Russian approach to biological warfare agents is also called "Russian Doll Cocktails." The Russians make dolls with a smaller one inside a larger one, and smaller one inside a smaller one, and a still smaller one inside the smaller one.
They do the same with the germ warfare agents, making it very difficult to detect which agents are present].
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In many cases, Gulf War Syndrome appears to be transmissible - unlike Agent Orange, which was not passed on to family members by the veteran.
In addition to the 50,000 veterans who are sick, there are thousands of spouses, parents, and children who are also suffering from the same debilitating illnesses - and in the case of a disportionate number of newborns, birth defects and physical abnormalities.
CONCLUSION: Gulf War Syndrome is the direct health consequence of prolonged (chronic) exposure to low (non-lethal) levels of chemical and biological agents released primarily by direct Iraqi attack via missiles, rockets, artillery, or aircraft munitions and by fallout from allied bombings of Iraqi chemical warfare munitions facilities during the 38-day air war.
The effects of these exposures were exacerbated by the deleterious and synergistic side effects of unproven pyridostigmine bromide pills (nerve agent pre-treatment pills which were administered involuntarily), the investigational botulinum toxoid vaccines (which were also administered involuntarily), anthrax vaccines, and depleted uranium residues principally from battlefield vehicles damaged by depleted uranium-tipped armor-penetrating munitions.
Infinite numbers of combinations and permutations of the effects of chronic exposure to low, non-lethal levels of cumulatively-effecting chemical nerve agents, to blister agents, biological agents, and "cocktails", coupled with the effects of nerve agent pills, botulinum and anthrax vaccines, depleted uranium dusts, and other environmental contaminants, has produced the infinite variations in symptoma- tologies in Gulf War veterans. Therefore, the "mystery illness".
There is, however, one principal cause - germ warfare directed against our troops.
The Dept. of Defense, however, continues to deny that chemical and biological agents were used during the Gulf War.
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Award-winning journalist Will Thomas has reported that lab analysis showed spray samples contained over 360 different varieties of mold and fungi in addition to gene-splicing markers and extremely thin, red human blood cells.6
The chemtrail samples also contained a new breed of designer chemicals about which little is known in the public domain but which appear to be very dangerous, plus aluminum particulates approximately 1 micron in diameter.
Chemtrail particles are carried by air currents, spreading a fine dust of pathogenic materials throughout the environment. The dust is nearly impossible to avoid since people can ingest it simply by breathing, eating and drinking.
It is logical to assume that those who have initiated this spraying program are well aware of its inescapable properties. What is more disturbing is the ease with which a more deadly substance could be substituted for the current chemtrail mix.
Should this happen, it seems likely that the chemtrail program could exterminate all above-ground human populations in North America in approximately one week.
Medical doctors often misdiagnose fungal conditions because they are taught that fungi cannot live in the blood stream (become systemic), nor can the resolution of the microscopes (1,000 x magnification) commonly used by doctors reveal the presence of fungi in blood samples. However, there is a microscope (8,000 to 15,000 x magnification) that can, and does, reveal fungus in the blood.
This microscope has a camera that can record the enlarged images on video, providing irrefutable documentation.
The inventor of this microscope, Dr. Robert Bradford of American Biologics, was actually run out of the United States for his efforts to help mankind and now has an office in Tijuana, Mexico. Doctors possessing these super-microscopes are intensely "regulated" by the federal government, which closely monitors their research. Under the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules, patients cannot be shown images or test results from the microscope.
Research is also subject to inspection at any time of the day or night, and the FDA charges the targeted researchers $250 each time they show up.
Designer Fungus and Cancer
Dr. Marijah McCain, founder of the Herbal Healer Academy in Mountain View, Arkansas, has conducted extensive studies with her $40,000 super-microscope. In one study she discovered and documented a contagious leukemia virus.
In another study, testing thirty patients, Dr. McCain found that eighty-three percent had systemic fungus in the blood. Her research also shows a direct link between the presence of fungus in the blood and the spread of cancer.7
Dr. McCain said, "Every single patient that I have seen that is terminal with cancer has the most incredible fungus overgrowth in the blood stream. Cancer is a slow-moving growth of mutating cells. The (allopathic) doctors will tell you it's fast moving and it's going to kill you very quickly.
What can kill you is the fungus because the fungus moves very quickly and it's caused directly by the use of the chemotherapy. I have documented this in every instance."
What Dr. McCain is saying is that fungus/yeast is a plant and the growth of plants is accelerated by some chemicals and by radiation. She has also discovered that many cases of arthritis are not arthritis, but systemic fungus/yeast in the blood that clogs the arteries, causing them to swell.
Dr. McCain has been relentlessly hounded by the FDA. There is evidence that FDA activities are covertly directed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) using executives from top-secret contractors like Monsanto Corporation who are appointed to high FDA policy-making positions despite obvious conflict of interest.8 Dr.
McCain has also had numerous attempts on her life. In one case, a high-powered rifle fired through the walls of her home. In another case, an unmarked helicopter sprayed her with poison. (In 1997, an unmarked, white helicopter sprayed me with an unknown substance while hovering about sixty feet above my home in Los Angeles for approximately five minutes.).
Microbiologist Mortality Goes Up
Interestingly, there now appears to be a global assassination program of the world's top microbiologists. Since 9-11-01, fifteen leading microbiologists have met untimely ends due to everything from gunshots to baseball bats to falling off bridges. Many of these men were considered the world's leading experts in infectious disease. See http://www.copvcia.com for more details.
Barium Found in Chemtrails
A Mr. Clifford Carnicom has cultured chemtrail spray samples in New Mexico and proven that barium is present.10
His test procedures and results are posted at http://www.carnicom.com. Barium suppresses human T-cell production, making the human body very susceptible to infectious agents.
Barium also has electromagnetic properties and may be both amplifying and more evenly dispersing pulsed-energy waves first uncovered by a deceased University of Chapel Hill professor, Dr. David Fraser, in 1975. These waves are now most likely blanketing all cities and towns in North America for the purpose of mood and mind control.
Carnicom has also confirmed the existence of the pulsed energy in every location he has tested and has created a method by which it can be measured and recorded that is posted on his website, http://www.carnicom.com .
Pulsed-energy mind-control technology for mass populations was first tested on Medford, Oregon, making it the suicide capital of the nation overnight in the mid-seventies. See my article, "The Secret War Against Medford, Oregon."
The Spider's Web
Carnicom also received two similar spray samples picked up by separate eyewitnesses wanting to know what the strange weblike material was. One of the samples was fifty feet long by a half-inch wide.
A small portion was sent to a laboratory for detailed analysis, whereupon two PhD's steadfastly maintained that the material was either silk or wool fibers. However, these men abruptly broke off all communication once their conclusion was challenged by simple, ordinary facts.
Human hair ranges from 60 to 100 microns thick. Wool fibers are 15 to 25 microns thick. Asbestos fibers are 2 to 3 microns thick. But the extremely adhesive, weblike fibers were essentially invisible to the human eye, measuring 0.2 to 0.3 microns in diameter. Under microscopic analysis they appeared wavy and of a synthetic nature. "Sufficiently unique to warrant further investigation," said Carnicom.
EPA Says "Drop Dead."
A sample was then sent to Carol M. Browner at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by certified mail.3 The EPA has since refused to acknowledge possession of the sample and has issued a statement saying they are "unaware" of any program to distribute materials over the population of the United States through the use of aircraft.
Doctors Become Alarmed
Eight doctors have come together to start the Morgellons Research Foundation, a grassroots organization, dedicated to finding the cause of an increasingly prevalent skin disease of unknown origin.
Their website, http://www.morgellons.org , is a treasure-trove of medical documentation that includes photographs of the microfibers.
The disease consists of skin lesions that contain "fiber-like objects as well as clear filament-like objects of unknown origin." "We are attempting to isolate this organism and determine how it is able to cause the intense itching, stinging and disfiguring skin lesions which are the main symptoms of this disease."
At the moment, the doctors say most reports are coming from California, Texas and Florida. "The working hypothesis of this foundation is that an infection with Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) (the bacteria that causes Lyme disease), may alter the individual's immune system and allow this unknown organism to become an opportunistic co-infection."11
So far, ninety-five percent of those afflicted with this skin disease who were tested for Bb have tested positive. The fibers have been analyzed by FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy) and are composed of cellulose. A mystery fungus is also thought to play a role in the disease.
Because the symptoms and physical findings are so unusual, most physicians just assume the patient is misinterpreting their condition.
Many adults comp laining of a hardening or thickening of the skin, hair loss, lymphedema, skin lesions, profound fatigue and joint pain, are receiving a diagnosis of Delusional Parasitosis. The Morgellons doctors added that, "Objects described as granules are often found associated with (the) skin lesions as well.
Several people have had lymph nodes surgically removed due to obstruction." You can contact the doctors at [email protected] or fax them at (760) 457-3441.
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