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"Bayer (who also produced war material, including explosives, and chemical weapons) survived World War I and also World War II. In 1925, Bayer transferred its assets to I. G. Farbenindstrie AG; although, we won't go into the war crimes of I. G. Farben, like providing killing gases for the concentration camps. For our purposes, it is only important to know that one day the sun shone again on Bayer. The worldwide connections were reestablished; Bayer joined with Deutsche BP to found Erddlchemie GmbH, successfully entering the petrochemical sector. But the pharmaceutical branch wasn't forgotten." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"It means killing the environment. chemical weapons were first used in World War I, when chlorine, phosgene and mustard gas were released by both sides to kill 100,000 people and injure another million. But, Operation Ranch Hand was the first massive employment of herbicides in the history of war. Three major chemical warfare agents were used—Agents Orange, White and Blue. Agent Orange and Agent White accounted for 61 per cent and 28 per cent, respectively, of the total volume dropped. They were aimed mainly at forests." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Still, throughout the twentieth century, governments hoped for even more lethal chemical weapons. Government chemical warfare programs around the world, both before and then escalating after World War II, continued to search for ever-deadlier toxins. A simple chemical substitution in the basic structure of sulfur mustard led to a new group of agents, nitrogen mustards. Like the original toxin, nitrogen mustard is also a blistering agent, through either inhalation or skin contact. It also has an even more potent capacity than its parent compound to attack blood-forming cells." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Plants by far are the biggest manufacturers of chemical weapons on earth. Everybody knows about the beneficial effects we receive because of basic plant chemistry. They convert sunlight and water into sugar by using carbon dioxide they absorb from the atmosphere, in turn producing oxygen, which we get to breathe. But that's just the starting point. Plant chemistry has the power to make a significant impact on its environment, influencing everything from the weather to the number of local predators." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) "Remember, plants' chemical weapons aren't aimed at us for the most part; they're directed more at insects, bacteria, fungi, and, in some cases, mammals that are dedicated herbivores. So if we impose unilateral disarmament on a plant, it's like giving the keys to the candy store to a busload of schoolkids—pretty soon there's nothing left for anyone else to eat. The plant's predators just finish it off. Of course, sometimes plant breeders have gone the other way and bred in too much natural resistance, turning an otherwise edible food into an almost deadly poison." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Many of the workers in the chemical weapons facility eventually started coughing most of the time. The plant supervisors assured Morgenstern that these men could not possibly have been exposed to any of these agents. If there had been even the slightest exposures, he was told, they would have been obviously and immediately sick. Morgenstern wasn't so sure. He asked whether gas escaping at levels too low to be detected could leave these people with impaired breathing. All these so-called specialists saw were slight markings on the bronchi [the lung]." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Psychiatry has only in the last two decades unleashed its devastating attack on children using lucrative chemical weapons on ?addictive psychotropic drugs posing as medication. Psychiatrists have created a generation of drug addicts and to a great extent they are making the crisis in children today worse when they should be helping to make things better for them. Child psychiatrists are one of the most dangerous enemies, not only of children but also of adults. They must be abolished. Dr. Thomas Szasz Professor of Psychiatry According to Dr." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"It entails chemical weapons, biological weapons, training in their application. And he's working on nuclear weapons. The message is very clear—we have no time to lose, Saddam must be removed from office. Every day that goes by is a day in which we are exposed to dangers on a far larger scale than the tragedy of September 11.... I think we're moving not nearly fast enough, but clearly in the right direction. Bureaucracies are sluggish. And, we had an administration that wasn't prepared to contemplate military action to remove Saddam. So it was a standing start." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"That is the case with biological and chemical weapons, too; they are hard to control and deliver. That's why terrorists, as well as traditional military forces, usually stick to things that blow up the old-fashioned way. All the terrorism in the United States over the past 200 years has killed fewer people than the war George Bush launched against it in 2001. Actually, the most effective response to terrorism is the one most likely to frustrate terrorists and least likely to become public policy—ignore it. "Get on the damn elevator!" writes Senator John McCain. "Fly on the damn plane!" - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "Soon thereafter, you may find him at the local hardware store, buying duct tape and plastic to seal off his house against terrorists' chemical weapons attacks. Or maybe you will see him walking around town with a plastic water bottle, convinced he must hydrate himself every hour of the day. Then there are the 321 financial markets, where he is susceptible to not only embarrassment, but impoverishment. Money may make the world go round, but in matters of money, as in other things, the whirl of the public spectacle tends to make a man's head spin just as fast." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Encourage universal adherence to and implementation of the biological weapons convention and the chemical weapons convention. • Hold states and corporations accountable for the impact of military production, testing, and use on the environment and health. • Build a civil society movement for the abolition of war. Sound impossible? Read on as we show how people around the globe have found the courage to speak truth about power and change their societies' beliefs that violence is inevitable." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"December 24, 1993, Moscow revealed that tens of thousands of people had died who were involved with the production of chemical weapons in the former Soviet Union.The medical consequences of the production of chemical weapons was disastrous in that country. Estimates indicate that over I million people live in 300 towns in which chemical weapons were produced, stored, tested or destroyed.Today, these towns are highly contaminated areas where babies are born sick or abnormal in some way." - Suzann Marie Angelus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A.I.D.s & Immune Dysfunction Disease : The Cause and the Cure (Get the book.)

"Senate overwhelmingly ratified the chemical weapons Convention which would ban such weapons (Knight-Ridder Newspapers, 4/25/97). The worldwide treaty banning chemical weapons went into effect, without ratification from Russia, Iraq, and North Korea, at midnight, April 28, 1997. 7. Contra gate: The Costa Rica Connection 1986 SYNOPSIS: As 1986 ended, each day seemed to bring new evidence of the Reagan Administration's involvement in the Iran-contra arms scandal. But even now, one major chapter in the sordid story remains to be told. It involves Lt. Col." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, the report noted, the government had grossly underfunded programs with Russia to prevent 10,000 former Soviet biological and chemical weapons scientists from being recruited by terrorists and hostile states like Iraq and Iran, and had also underfinanced the most important means of detecting a biological attack: a nationwide disease surveillance system. Still, scientists on the front lines of protecting the public would rather overprepare than be caught short in an emergency. One defender is Phyllis Della-Latta,26 an associate professor of clinical pathology at Columbia University." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Unlike nuclear or chemical weapons, they self-propagate and adapt. They jump continents with ease. And a small amount can cause 231 vast damage; after World War II, for instance, the U.S. Army concocted a botulinum toxin so potent that a pound, if expertly dispersed, could kill a billion people. Chemical weapons are poisonous substances that are inorganic and manmade. Biowarfare agents, by contrast, are living organisms, or toxins secreted by living organisms, that can be used against people, animals, or crops. When TNT or chemical bombs explode, emergency crews rush to the scene." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

"The medical consequences of the production of chemical weapons was disastrous in that country. Estimates indicate that over I million people live in 300 towns in which chemical weapons were produced, stored, tested or destroyed.Today, these towns are highly contaminated areas where babies are born sick or abnormal in some way. The results of the Soviet nuclear program are being felt by its citizens from one end of the union to the other. This secret program resulted in chemical pollution that has spoiled much of the ecology and threatens the health of its citizens." - Suzann Marie Angelus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A.I.D.s & Immune Dysfunction Disease : The Cause and the Cure (Get the book.)

"Your daily shower could be killing you softly with the same toxins used to kill lab rats and in chemical weapons." The toxic substances in most municipal water systems have been used in the past to kill laboratory animals and as a weapon of war. It may be more dangerous to shower in municipal water than even drinking it. Your body absorbs up to four times more toxins in a shower than drinking the same water. If you drink tap water, or shower or bathe, or swim in a pool you are categorically loading your body with poisonous toxins, which lead to and cause disease." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"The ostensible reason for the war—that Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)—was ultimately proven erroneous, but to label it a mendacious ploy is unmerited. The precipitating justification for the war was Saddam Hussein's refusal to let UN inspectors visit all the sites they deemed necessary to look through. Among these were a dozen extensive underground bunkers engineered by German contractors during the 1980s. The bunkers had been labeled "presidential palaces" by Saddam and placed off limits to UN inspectors." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"For example, he tested the active ingredients in nerve gas and other chemical weapons on prisoners, to determine for the army "the minimum effective dose needed to mentally disable fifty percent of a given population." When Dioxin became a big environmental issue, it turned out that Kligman had tested that on prisoners, too. Perhaps the most chilling work Kligman did on prisoners, however, was tests to see if skin could be artificially hardened to increase its resistance to chemical weapons. "Experimental Accommodation in Humans" was the name of one 1967 study." - Stephen Fried, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (Get the book.)

"While the skin is permeable to some degree, it is also equipped with chemical weapons to help it ward off attack. One of these weapons is the oil secreted by our sebaceous (oil) glands. Sebaceous glands are found near the root of every hair. This oil is secreted along the hair shaft to lubricate the hair and skin. Some have described this oil as "nature's skin cream" because it prevents drying and cracking of the skin. It also has another very important function. It contains medium-chain fatty acids to fight invading microorganisms." - Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara, The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil (Get the book.)

"Higher dosages or different, more potent chemical weapons are then required to maintain control. In 1950, fewer than 20 species of insects showed signs of pesticide resistance. By 1960, Rachel Carson had documented an alarming 137 species resistant to at least one pesticide and urged that we should hear in this statistic the early rumblings of an avalanche. She was right. By 1990, the number of pesticide-resistant insect and mite species stood at 504. In creating pests impervious to the arsenal of chemical weapons directed at them, the story of herbicides reiterates the story of insecticides." - Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream (Get the book.)

"In Wau, Sudan, Iraqi scientists were once again manufacturing chemical weapons in the German-made Yarmook facility. And, the report also claimed, in Libya, Iraqi-made biological and chemical weapons were mounted on medium-range ballistic missiles capable of hitting targets up to 3,000 kilometers from Tripoli. About a dozen Iraqi scientists were making anthrax and botulinum in the General Health Laboratories, located in Tripoli.37 Though many experts felt that much of the report could not be substantiated, it set a mood in Washington, and among U.S. allies." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"In early 1997 the final report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses confirmed the Pentagon was slow in investigating whether chemical weapons could be causing health problems, saying there was no evidence of exposure to chemical weapons (Washington Post, 1/7/97). It was not until January 21,1997, that a federal agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs, acknowledged for the first time a direct link between toxic chemicals and Gulf War Syndrome (The New York Times, 1/22/97)." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

"Uic use •f chemical weapons by other nations and to provide a retaliatory capability if deterrence fall*. b. The renunciation of the first use of lethal chemical weapon* is rcaffirmod. C. This renunciation is hereby applied to incapacitating chemical weapons as well, d. This renunciation does not apply lo the use of riot control agents or herbicides. A special NSDM on authorixalionvfor » tfceir use will be i.suod. J.( [ l\ to l?.W5 {)1SC _ g." - Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Get the book.)

"These esters are the principal components and byproducts of chemical weapons, such as nerve gas and mustard gas. So lethal are these chemicals that normal doses are generally measured in milligrams.They are also used in the manufacture of pesticides which are extremely toxic.' 0 During 1993, Paris was the meeting place of representatives from over 100 nations world-wide, who ne- gotiated and signed a complex treaty intended to ban the manufacture, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons." - Suzann Marie Angelus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A.I.D.s & Immune Dysfunction Disease : The Cause and the Cure (Get the book.)

"Sensors for chemical weapons such as mustard gas that burn people's lungs or skin (not biological ones that transmit killer diseases) are already deployed in several subway stations in Washington, D.C. One experimental device unveiled in 2001 is a plastic, battery-powered unit the size of a pack of cigarettes, made by Cepheid in Sunnyvale, California. Airborne contaminants waft through a grating at one end into small interior channels filled with chemicals that amplify patches of different pathogenic DNA." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Something tells me that when all is known, our military record regarding chemical weapons will not be any better. What has come to light to date would indicate that a very similar philosophy has prevailed in the U.S. The January signing of the treaty to ban chemical weapons was a major step in the right direction. I urge the members of the same nations to take another look at the facts and consider the possibility that the same chemicals in pesticides might also have serious effects on thousands, perhaps millions of people." - Suzann Marie Angelus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A.I.D.s & Immune Dysfunction Disease : The Cause and the Cure (Get the book.)

"Further, there were minimally 8,400 liters of anthrax and tons of chemical weapons in Iraq. The congressional report further charged that Iraq possessed ship-mounted drones capable of dropping biobombs on Europe and select spots in the Middle East. Biobombs and missiles were hidden from UNSCOM in Sudan and Libya. In Wau, Sudan, Iraqi scientists were once again manufacturing chemical weapons in the German-made Yarmook facility." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"An expected derangement in Cortisol and thyroid hormone parameters was reported among soldiers exposed to chemical weapons containing sulfur mustard. These individuals responded with a predictable increase in Cortisol concentrations that did not normalize until the fifth week following the chemical insult. Concomitant with the sulfur mustard-induced impact on Cortisol, both fT4 and fT3 decreased while rT3 increased. Similar to Cortisol values, serum thyroid concentrations did not normalize until the fifth week after exposure." - Michael Friedman, ND, Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology (Get the book.)

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