by
William Thomas
posted
ENS has learned that samples of oily fallout collected
by farmers, truck drivers and pilots in Maryland and Pennsylvania were tested
by Aqua-Tech Environmental of Marion, Ohio in September, 1997 and found to
contain ethylene dibromide (EDB). An extremely hazardous pesticide, EDB was banned by the
But in 1991,
the composition of jet fuel used by commercial and military jet aircraft in the
The 1991 Chemical Hazards of the Workplace warns that
repeated exposure to low levels of ethylene fibroid results in "general
weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, chest pains, coughing and shortness of breath, upper
respiratory tract irritation" and respiratory failure caused by swelling
of the lymph glands in the lungs. "Deterioration of the heart, liver and
kidneys, and hemorrhages in the respiratory tract," can also result from
prolonged contact with JP8.
According to the
Tucson where an official US Air Force study on JP8 was carried out, told
Scientist in March, 1998 that crew chiefs "seem
to have more colds, more bronchitis, more chronic coughs than the people not
exposed to jet fuel."
EDB is 6.5-times heavier than air. Unlike normal
contrails, the thick white streamers being sprayed from downward-pointing tail
booms over at least 39 states does not dissipate, but spreads into an overcast
that refracts a purple color in sunlight and appears suddenly as an oily film
in puddles and ponds.
Hundreds of photographs and videotapes made by ground
observers show pairs or larger formations of aircraft spreading a white mist
that thickens and drifts toward the ground. More than 200 eye-witnesses -
including police officers, pilots, military and public health personnel - have
provided detailed accounts of aerial spraying in characteristic "X"s
and east-to-west grid patterns, followed by occluded skies - and acute
auto-immune reactions and respiratory infections throughout affected regions.
"I keeps coughing phlegm that tastes bad,"
50 year old Mary Young of Sallisaw, Oklahoma told ENS after an aircraft sprayed
her home at rooftop level one night last January with something that struck the
windows like
sand. "My eyes hurt, my joints hurt. I'm not
catching' my breath right. I can't get rid of this
cold. I've had this bad headache - it's not just a
headache. My eyeballs hurt so bad - way in the back -
I just wish they would fall out."
Severe headaches, nosebleeds, shortness of breath,
joint pain and a dry hacking cough "that never leaves" are being
reported by countless Americans jamming hospital Emergency Rooms from
coast to coast.
While December and January are traditionally bad months for asthma sufferers,
patients, doctors and nurses across the U.S. report hospital wards filled to
overflowing with bronchitis, pneumonia and acute asthma admissions at up to
twice normal
winter rates.
Early last month, The News and Observer of
In
at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, told the New York Times on
January 31. "And there have been times when upwards of 40 people have been
admitted but are waiting for someone to be discharged," Friedman added.
"This high fever is not typical of other
flues," Dr. Sigurd Ackerman, the president of St. Luke's-Roosevelt
Hospital Center told the 'Times shortly after a TV cameraman panned up to frame
lingering "X"-shaped contrails over Times-Square. Dr. Robert Saken, a
partner in the Soho Pediatrics Group, told that newspaper,
"It was surprising to me how sick they got and how quickly it
happened."Dr. Ilya Spigland, Montefiore hospital's director of virology, doesn't know the reason for the sudden epidemic of
respiratory cases. It is, Spigland told the New York Times, "very possible
that the increase in respiratory infections may not be due to the flu."
That same day in
The previous weekend, after
In Seattle - where a resident reports "I've lived
here for 26 years never seeing this number of contrails at once" - pneumonia
patient Lowell Barger told ENS that in the hospital where he was admitted in
late January, "their respiratory ward was overflowing with people, and
they were having to put respiratory patients in other wards." At that
time, a resident of
In
being filled with people experiencing breathing
problems.
After a resident of Lexington, Kentucky watched
helicopters circling the city for several days, flying low overhead at 3 a.m.,
"the sky looked like a giant checkerboard from the planes criss-crossing
it, and the air still had the steel mill smell. "According to this eye-witness, "Everyone here is sick. So far six counties have closed all the schools because all the
students were sick with 'flu-like symptoms'. I've been having headaches,
a
sore throat, and an annoying, hacking cough for the past four months and it
seems to get worse after I see these aircraft circling the area."
Similar "chem. trails" sightings continue to
be reported over
hospitalizations vs. last year at 160 or so."
At the same time, hospitals in Portland, Oregon;
Marietta, Georgia; Chandler, Arizona, Bakersfield, Santa Cruz, Redding
and Salinas, California - and other cities across the nation - were jammed with
bronchitis,
pneumonia and other acute respiratory cases after repeated spraying and
cobweb-like fallout was reported in those regions.
"We're getting sprayed real heavily with the
contrails," a south
noticing an all-white jet with "plumes" coming from the rear of the
plane. In early December, local newspaper reported that
The January 7 Philadelphia Daily News reported that
"Emergency Room patients overflowed into the hallways at West Jersey
Hospital in Berlin, New Jersey, and ambulance crews were temporarily
diverted to other
institutions as a wave of respiratory illnesses swept the area." At
In Manitou,
through the sky. These contrails were evenly spaced and covered the whole sky!" from east to west.
Within 24 hours, Korte became very weak and feverish.
After her boyfriend told her that "many in
his family started coming down with the same complaints," the RN
"started noticing a lot of my patients and
their family members were coming down with these symptoms at the same
time." On checking with her colleagues, the former hospital supervisor learned that other nurses and physicians
were complaining
"of being extremely busy with respiratory diagnoses."
In
Where is the mass media's reporting of this mass
phenomenon? Indications of a concerted cover-up came on February 11, when a
retired Southern Baptist preacher named
Americans are not alone in their anxious bewilderment
and suffering. In
more than 8,000 people - mostly elderly - died from pneumonia and other
respiratory complications in the last week of December and the first two
weeks of January, 1999.
According to the BBC, in early January of this year,
more than 97,100 people in
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