by Michael Davidson and Michael C. Ruppert
2002
from
FromTheWilderness Website
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ED. NOTE: As FTW has begun to
investigate serious discussions by legitimate scientists and
academics on the possible necessity of reducing the world's
population by more than four billion people, no stranger set of
circumstances since Sept. 11 adds credibility to this possibility
than the suspicious deaths of what may be as many as 14 world-class
microbiologists.
Following on the heels of our two-part
series on the coming world oil crisis, this story by Michael
Davidson, a graduate of the Syracuse University School of
Journalism, is one which takes on a unique significance. In our
original story we incorrectly reported the original date of
disappearance of Don Wiley and two other microbiologists.
These errors have been corrected and
we have updated the story to include new deaths that have occurred
since we published an earlier version on Feb. 14. The newest
connections to DynCorp, Hadron and PROMIS software are leads an
amateur would not miss.
How else would any microbiologists
threatening an ultra secret government biological weapons program be
identified than by secretly scanning their databases to see what
they were working on?
- MCR |
FTW - Feb. 28, 2002 - In the four-month period from Nov. 12 through Feb. 11,
seven world-class microbiologists in different parts of the world were
reported dead. Six died of "unnatural" causes, while the cause of the
seventh's death is questionable.
Also on Nov. 12,
DynCorp, a major government
contractor for data processing, military operations and intelligence work,
was awarded a $322 million contract to develop, produce and store vaccines
for the Department of Defense. DynCorp and Hadron (Analex
Corporation aka Hadron, Inc. - Analex originally incorporated in
1964 under the name Biorad which then evolved into Hadron, Inc.), both defense contractors
connected to classified research programs on communicable diseases, have
also been linked to a software program known as
PROMIS, which may have
helped identify and target the victims.
In the six weeks prior to Nov. 12, two additional foreign microbiologists
were reported dead. Some believe there were as many as five more
microbiologists killed during the period, bringing the total as high as 14.
These two to seven additional deaths, however, are not the focus of this
story.
This same period also saw the deaths of three persons involved in
medical research or public health.
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On Nov. 12, Benito Que, 52, was found
comatose in the street near the laboratory where he worked at the
University of Miami Medical School. He died on Dec. 6
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On Nov. 16, Don C. Wiley, 57, vanished,
and his abandoned rental car was found on the Hernando de Soto
Bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. His body was found on Dec. 20
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On Nov. 23, Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, was
found dead in Wiltshire, England, not far from his home
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On Dec. 10, Robert Schwartz, 57, was
found murdered in his rural home in Loudoun County, Va.
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On Dec, 11, Set Van Nguyen, 44, was
found dead in the airlock entrance to a walk-in refrigerator in the
laboratory where he worked in Victoria State, Australia
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On Feb. 8, Vladimir Korshunov, 56, was
found dead on a Moscow street
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And on Feb. 11, Ian Langford, 40, was
found dead in his home in Norwich, England
OOPS...!
Prior to these deaths, on Oct. 4, a commercial jetliner traveling from
Israel to Novosibirsk, Siberia was shot down over the Black Sea by an
"errant" Ukrainian surface-to-air missile, killing all on board. The missile
was over 100 miles off-course.
Despite early news stories reporting it as a
charter, the flight, Air Sibir 1812, was a regularly scheduled flight.
According to several press reports, including a Dec. 5 article by Barry Chamish and one on Jan. 13 by
Jim Rarey (both available at www.rense.com),
the plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as five
passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk are homes
for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the
scientific capital of Siberia, and home to over 50 research facilities and
13 full universities for a population of only 2.5 million people.
At the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists had been sounding
the alarm that two Israeli microbiologists had been recently murdered,
allegedly by terrorists.
On Nov. 24 a Crossair flight from Berlin to Zurich
crashed on its landing approach. Of the 33 persons on board, 24 were killed,
including the head of the hematology department at Israel's Ichilov
Hospital, as well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and
Hebrew University School of Medicine. They were the only Israelis on the
flight.
The names of those killed, as reported in a subsequent Israeli news
story but not matched to their job titles, were Avishai Berkman, Amiramp
Eldor and Yaacov Matzner.
Besides all being microbiologists, six of the seven scientists who died
within weeks of each other died from "unnatural" causes. And four of the
seven were doing virtually identical research - research that has global,
political and financial significance.
QUE PASA?
The public relations office at the University of Miami Medical School said
only that Benito Que was a cell biologist, involved in oncology research in
the hematology department.
This research relies heavily on DNA sequencing
studies. The circumstances of his death raise more questions than they
answer.
Que had left his job at a research laboratory at the University of Miami
Medical School, apparently heading for his Ford Explorer parked on NW 10th
Avenue. The Miami Herald, referring to the death as an "incident," reported
he had no wallet on him, and quoted Miami police as saying his death may
have been the result of a mugging. Police made this statement while at the
same time saying there was a lack of visible trauma to Que's body. There is
firm belief among Que's friends and family that the PhD was attacked by four
men, at least one of whom had a baseball bat.
Que's death has now been
officially ruled "natural," caused by cardiac arrest. Both the Dade County
medical examiner and the Miami Police would not comment on the case, saying
only that it is closed.
A MEMPHIS MYSTERY
Don C. Wiley of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University,
was one of the most prominent microbiologists in the world. He had won many
of the field's most prestigious awards, including the 1995 Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award for work that could make anti-viral vaccines a
reality.
He was heavily involved in research on DNA sequencing. Wiley was
last seen around midnight on Nov. 15, leaving the St. Jude's Children's
Research Advisory dinner held at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn.
Associates attending the dinner said he showed no signs of intoxication, and
no one has admitted to drinking with him.
His rented Mitsubishi Galant was found about four hours later, abandoned on
a bridge across the Mississippi River, headed towards Arkansas. Keys were in
the ignition, the gas tank full, and the hazard flashers had not been turned
on. Wiley's body was found on Dec. 20, snagged on a tree along the
Mississippi River in Vidalia, La., 300 miles south of Memphis. Until his
body was found, Dr. Wiley's death was handled as a missing person case, and
police did no forensic examinations.
Early reports about Wiley's disappearance made no mention of paint marks on
his car or a missing hubcap, which turned up in subsequent reports. The type
of accident needed to knock off the hubcaps (actually a complete wheel
cover) used on recent model Galants would have caused noticeable damage to
the sheet metal on either side of the wheel, and probably the wheel itself.
No damage to the car's body or wheel has been reported.
Wiley's car was found about a five-minute drive from the hotel where he was
last seen. There is a four-hour period in his evening that cannot be
accounted for. There is also no explanation as to why he would have been
headed into Arkansas late at night. Wiley was staying at his father's home
in Memphis.
The Hernando de Soto Bridge carries Interstate 40 out of Memphis, across the
Mississippi River into Arkansas. The traffic on the bridge was reduced to a
single lane in each direction. This would have caused westbound traffic out
of Memphis to slow down and travel in one lane. Anything in the other two
closed lanes would have been plainly obvious to every passing person.
There
are no known witnesses to Wiley stopping his car on the bridge.
On Jan. 14, almost two months after his disappearance, Shelby County Medical
Examiner O.C. Smith announced that his department had ruled Wiley s death to
be "accidental;" the result of massive injuries suffered in a fall from the
Hernando de Soto Bridge.
Smith said there were paint marks on Wiley's rental
car similar to the paint used on construction signs on the bridge, and that
the car's right front hubcap was missing. There has been no report as to
which construction signs Wiley hit. There is also no explanation as to why
this evidence did not move the Memphis police to consider possibilities
other than a "missing person."
Smith theorizes that Wiley pulled over to the outermost lane of the bridge
(that lane being closed at the time) to inspect the damage to his car.
Smith's subsequent explanation for the fall
requires several other things to have occurred simultaneously:
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Wiley had to have had one of the two or
three seizures he has per year due to a rare disorder known only to
family and close friends, that seizure being brought on by use of
alcohol earlier that evening
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A passing truck creating a huge blast of
wind and/or roadway bounce due to heavy traffic
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Wiley had to be standing on the curb
next to the guardrail which, because of Wiley's 6-foot-3-inch
height, would have come only to his mid-thigh.
These conditions would have put Wiley's center
of gravity above the rail, and the seizure would have caused him to lose his
balance as the truck created the bounce and blast of wind, thus causing him
to fall off the bridge.
SCIENCE IS MIGHTIER
THAN THE SWORD?
Robert M. Schwartz was a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology
Association, and the Executive Director of Research and Development at
Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. He was extremely well respected
in biophysics, and regarded as an authority on DNA sequencing.
Co-workers became concerned when he didn't show up at his office on Dec. 10.
He was later found dead at his home. Loudoun County Sheriff's officials said
Schwartz was stabbed on Dec. 8 with a sword, and had an "X" cut into the
back of his neck.
Schwartz's daughter Clara, 19, and three others have been charged in the
case.
The four are said to have a fascination with
fantasy worlds, witchcraft, and the occult. Kyle Hulbert, 18, who allegedly
committed the murder, has a history of mental illness, and is reported by
the Washington Post to have killed Schwartz to prevent the murder of Clara.
At the request of Clara Schwartz's attorneys, on Feb. 13 Judge Pamela
Grizzle ordered all new evidence introduced about her role in the case to be
sealed.
She also issued a temporary gag order covering
the entire case on police, prosecutors and defense attorneys.
BREATHE DEEPLY, AND
CARRY A BIG STICK
Set Van Nguyen was found dead on Dec. 11 at the Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization's animal diseases facility in Geelong,
Australia. He had worked there 15 years.
According to an article on Rense.com by Ian
Gurney, (The
Very Mysterious Deaths of Five Microbiologists) in Jan. 2001 the
magazine Nature published information that two scientists at this facility,
using genetic manipulation and DNA sequencing, had created an incredibly
virulent form of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox.
The researchers were
extremely concerned that if similar manipulation could be done to smallpox,
a terrifying weapon could be unleashed.
According to Victoria Police, Nguyen died after entering a refrigerated
storage facility.
"He did not know the room was full of deadly
gas which had leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Unable to
breathe, Mr. Nguyen collapsed and died," is the official report.
Nitrogen is not a "deadly" gas, and is a part of
air.
An extreme over-abundance of nitrogen in one's
immediate atmosphere would cause shortness of breath, lightheadedness, and
fatigue - conditions a biologist would certainly recognize.
Additionally, a leak sufficient to fill the room
with nitrogen would set off alerts, and would be so massive as to cause a
complete loss of cooling, causing the temperature to rise, which would also
set off alerts these systems are routinely equipped with.
A RUSSIAN, BRITISH
INTELLIGENCE AND OLD CORPSES
In 1989,
Vladimir Pasechnik defected from the
Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Great Britain while on a trip to Paris. He had
been the top scientist in the FSU's bioweapons program, which is heavily
dependent upon DNA sequencing. Pasechnik's death was reported in the New
York Times as having occurred on Nov. 23.
The Times obituary indicated that the announcement of Pasechnik's death was
made in the United States by Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, who
stated that the cause of death was a stroke.
Davis was the member of British intelligence who
de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection. Davis says he left
the intelligence service in 1996, but when asked why a former member of
British intelligence would be the person announcing the death of Pasechnik
to the US media, he replied that it had come about during a conversation
with a reporter he had had a long relationship with.
The reporter Davis named is not the author of
the Times' obituary, and Davis declined to say which branch of British
intelligence he served in. No reports of Pasechnik's death appeared in
Britain for more than a month, until Dec. 29, when his obituary appeared in
the London Telegraph, which did not include a date of death.
Pasechnik spent the 10 years after his defection working at the Centre for
Applied Microbiology and Research at the UK Department of Health, Salisbury.
On Feb. 20, 2000, it was announced that, along with partner Caisey
Harlingten, Pasechnik had formed a company called Regma
Biotechnologies Ltd.
Regma describes itself as "a new drug company
working to provide powerful alternatives to antibiotics."
Like three other microbiologists detailed in
this article, Pasechnik was heavily involved in DNA sequencing research.
During the anthrax panic of this past fall, Pasechnik offered his services
to the British government to help in any way possible.
Despite Regma having a public relations
department that has released many items to the press over the past two
years, the company has not announced the death of one of its two founders.
FEBRUARY, BLOODY
FEBRUARY
On Feb. 9 the news publication Pravda.ru reported that Victor Korshunov
had been killed. At the time, Korshunov was head of the microbiology
sub-facility at the Russian State Medical University. He was found dead in
the entrance to his home with a cranial injury. Pravda reports that
Korshunov had probably invented either a vaccine to protect against
biological weapons, or a weapon itself.
On Feb. 12 a newspaper in Norwich, England reported the previous day's death
of Ian Langford, a senior researcher at the University of East
Anglia. The story went on to say that police "were not treating the death as
suspicious."
The next day, Britain's The Times
reported that Langford was found wedged under a chair "at his
blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home."
The February 12 story, from the Eastern Daily Press, reports that
clerks at a store near Langford's home claim he came in on a daily basis to
buy "a big bottle of vodka." Two of the store's staff also claim Langford
had come into the store a few days earlier wearing "just a jumper and a pair
of shoes."
None of the store's staff would give their name.
It is hard to understand how a man can reach the highest levels of
achievement in a scientific field while drinking "a big bottle of vodka" on
a daily basis, and strolling around his hometown nearly nude. A Feb. 14
follow-up story from the Eastern Daily Press says police believe
Langford died after suffering "one or more falls."
They say this would account for his head
injuries and large amount of blood found at the death scene.
THE HOWARD HUGHES
MEDICAL INSTITUTE - ANOTHER LINK?
There is another intriguing connection between three of the five American
scientists that have died.
Wiley, Schwartz, and Benito Que worked for
medical research facilities that received grants from Howard Hughes
Medical Institute (HHMI). HHMI funds a tremendous number of research
programs at schools, hospitals and research facilities, and has long been
alleged to be conducting "black ops" biomedical research for intelligence
organizations, including the CIA.
Long-time biowarfare investigator Patricia Doyle, Ph.D. reports that
there is a history of people connected to HHMI being murdered.
In 1994,
Jose Trias met with a friend in Houston, Texas and was planning to go
public with his personal knowledge of HHMI "front door" grants being
diverted to "back door" black ops bioresearch. The next day, Trias and his wife were found dead
in their Chevy Chase, Md. home. Chevy Chase is where HHMI is headquartered.
Police described the killings as a professional hit.
Tsunao Saitoh,
who formerly worked at an HHMI-funded lab at Columbia University, was shot
to death on May 7, 1996 while sitting in his car outside his home in La
Jolla, Calif.
Police also described this as a professional
hit.
BEYOND THE BIZARRE
Early-October saw reports that British scientists were planning to exhume
the bodies of 10 London victims of the 1918 type-A flu epidemic known as the
Spanish Flu.
An October 7 report in The Independent,
UK said that victims of the Spanish Flu had been victims of "the world's
most deadly virus." British scientists, according to the story, hope to
uncover the genetic makeup of the virus, making it easier to combat.
Professor John Oxford of London's Queen Mary's School of Medicine,
the British government's flu adviser, acknowledges that the exhumations and
subsequent studies will have to be done with extreme caution so the virus is
not unleashed to cause another epidemic. The uncovering of a pathogen's
genetic structure is the exact work Pasechnik was doing at Regma. Pasechnik
died six weeks after the planned exhumations were announced. The need to
exhume the bodies assumes no Type-A flu virus sample exists in any lab
anywhere in the world.
A piece on MSNBC that aired September 6 makes the British exhumation plans
seem odd. The story refers to an article that was to be published the
following day in the weekly magazine Science, reporting
the 1918 flu virus
had recently been RNA sequenced.
Researchers had traced down and obtained virus
samples from archived lung tissue of WWI soldiers, and from an Inuit woman
who had been buried in the Alaskan permafrost.
HELP WANTED, SPIES,
AND A LINK TO PROMIS
Almost immediately at the outset of the anthrax scare,
the
Bush administration contracted with Bayer Pharmaceuticals for
millions of doses of Cipro, an antibiotic to treat anthrax.
This was done despite many in the medical
community stating that there were several cheaper, better alternatives to
Cipro, which has never been shown to be effective against inhaled anthrax.
The Center for Disease Control's (CDC)
own website states a preference for the antibiotic
doxycycline over
Cipro
for inhalation anthrax. CDC expresses concerns that widespread Cipro use
could cause other bacteria to become immune to antibiotics.
It was announced Jan. 21 that the director of the CDC, Jeffrey Koplan,
is resigning effective March 31. Six days earlier it was announced that
Surgeon General David Satcher is also resigning. And there is
currently no director for the National Institutes of Health - NIH is being
run by an acting director.
The recent resignations leave the three most
significant medical positions in the federal government simultaneously
vacant.
After three months of conflicting reports it is now official that the
anthrax that has killed several Americans since October 5 is from US
military sources connected to CIA research. The FBI has stated that only 10
people could have had access, yet at the same time they are reporting
astounding security breaches at the biowarfare facility at
Fort Detrick, Md. - breaches such as
unauthorized nighttime experiments and lab specimens gone missing.
The militarized anthrax used by the US was developed by
William C.
Patrick III, who holds five classified patents on the process. He has
worked at both Fort Detrick, and the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. Patrick
is now a private biowarfare consultant to the military and CIA.
Patrick developed the process by which anthrax
spores could be concentrated at the level of one trillion spores per gram.
No other country has been able to get concentrations above 500 billion per
gram. The anthrax that was sent around the eastern US last fall was
concentrated at one trillion spores per gram, according to a Jan. 31 report
by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg of the Federation of American Scientists.
In recent years Patrick has worked with Kanatjan Alibekov. Now known
by the Americanized "Ken Alibek", he defected to the US in 1992.
Before defecting, Alibek was the no. 2 man in the FSU's biowarfare program.
His boss was Vladimir Pasechnik.
Currently, Ken Alibek is President of Hadron Advanced Biosystems, a
subsidiary of Alexandria, Va.-based Hadron, Inc. (Analex
Corporation aka Hadron, Inc. - Analex originally incorporated in
1964 under the name Biorad which then evolved into Hadron, Inc.)
Hadron describes itself as a company
specializing in the development of technical solutions for the intelligence
community. As chief scientist at Hadron, Alibek gave extensive testimony to
the House Armed Services Committee about biological weapons on Oct.
20, 1999, and again on May 23, 2000.
Hadron announced on Dec. 20 that as of that
date, the company had received $12 million in funding for medical biodefense
research from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the
US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and the NIH.
Hadron said it was working in the field of
non-specific immunity.
In the 1980s Hadron was founded and headed by Dr. Earl Brian, a
medical doctor and crony of Ronald Reagan and an associate of former
Attorney General Edwin Meese. Brian was convicted in the 1980s on fraud
charges. Both Hadron and Brian have been closely associated in court
documents and numerous credible reports, confirmed since Sept. 11, with the
theft of enhanced
PROMIS software from its owner, the INSLAW
Corporation.
PROMIS is a highly sophisticated computer
program capable of integrating a wide variety of databases. The software has
reportedly been mated in recent years with artificial intelligence. PROMIS
has long been known to have been modified by intelligence agencies with a
back door that allows for surreptitious retrieval of stored data.
Given this unique capability, and Hadron's prior connections to PROMIS, it
is a possibility that the software, by tapping into databases used by each
of the victims, could have identified any lines of research that threatened
to compromise a larger, and as yet unidentified, more sinister covert
operation.
A PATTERN?
The DNA sequencing work by several of the microbiologists discussed earlier
is aimed at developing drugs that will fight pathogens based on the
pathogen's genetic profile.
The work is also aimed at eventually developing
drugs that will work in cooperation with a person's genetic makeup.
Theoretically, a drug could be developed for one specific person. That being
the case, it's obvious that one could go down the ladder, and a drug could
be developed to effectively treat a much broader class of people sharing a
genetic marker. The entire process can also be turned around to develop a
pathogen that will affect a broad class of people sharing a genetic marker.
A broad class of people sharing a genetic marker
could be a group such as a race, or people with brown eyes.
SMALLPOX
An Oct. 17 story in USA Today reported that the US government wanted to
order 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
Apparently, that wish has been granted. On Nov.
28 a British vaccine maker,
Acambis, announced that it had received a
$428 million contract to provide 155 million doses of smallpox
vaccine to
the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This was Acambis'
second contract. The company is already in the process of producing 54
million doses.
The US government has 15.4 million doses
stockpiled, and HHS plans to dilute them five to one. The two contracts and
the dilution program will bring the total HHS stockpile to 286 million
doses.
Smallpox was officially declared eradicated by the World Health Organization
in 1977, after treating the last known case in Merca, Somalia.
MEHPA - MEDICAL
FASCISM
A meeting of the Center for Law and the Public Health (CLPH) was
convened on Oct. 5.
This group is run jointly by Georgetown
University Law School and Johns Hopkins Medical School, and was founded
under the auspices of the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
CLPH was formed one month prior to the 2000 Presidential election. The
purpose of the October meeting was to draft legislation to respond to the
then current bioterrorism threat.
After working only 18 days, on Nov. 23 CLPH released a 40-page document
called the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA).
This was a "model" law that HHS is suggesting be
enacted by the 50 states to handle future public health emergencies such as
bioterrorism. A revised version was released on Dec. 21 containing more
specific definitions of "public health emergency" as it pertains to
bioterrorism and biologic agents, and includes language for those states
that want to use the act for chemical, nuclear or natural disasters.
According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS),
after declaring a "public health emergency", and without consulting with
public health authorities, law enforcement, the legislature or courts, a
state governor using MEHPA, or anyone he/she decides to empower, can among
many things:
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Require any individual to be vaccinated.
Refusal constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.
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Require any individual to undergo
specific medical treatment. Refusal constitutes a crime and
will result in quarantine.
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Seize any property, including real
estate, food, medicine, fuel or clothing, an official thinks
necessary to handle the emergency.
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Seize and destroy any property alleged
to be hazardous. There will be no compensation or recourse.
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Draft you or your business into state
service.
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Impose rationing, price controls, quotas
and transportation controls.
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Suspend any state law, regulation or
rule that is thought to interfere with handling the declared
emergency.
When the federal government wanted the states to
enact the 55 mph speed limit, they coerced the states using the threat of
withholding federal monies.
The same tactic will likely be used with MEHPA.
As of this writing the law has been passed in
Kentucky. According to AAPS, it has been introduced in the legislatures of:
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Arizona
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California
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Delaware
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Illinois
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Massachusetts
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Minnesota
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Mississippi
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Michigan
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Nebraska
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Nevada
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New Jersey
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New Mexico
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New York
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Pennsylvania
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Tennessee
It is expected to be introduced shortly in:
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Colorado
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Connecticut
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Hawaii
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Maine
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Wisconsin
MEHPA is being evaluated by the executive
branches in:
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North Carolina
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Ohio
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Oklahoma
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South Carolina
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Texas
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Virginia
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Washington, DC.
The research the microbiologists were doing
could have developed methods of treating diseases like anthrax and smallpox
without conventional antibiotics or vaccines.
Pharmaceutical contracts to deal with these
diseases will total hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. If
epidemics could be treated in non-traditional ways, MEHPA might not be
necessary. Considering the government's actions nullifying many civil
liberties since last September, MEHPA seems to be a law looking for an
excuse to be enacted. Maybe the microbiologists were in the way of
some peoples' or business' agendas.
We also know that DNA sequencing research can be used to develop
pathogens that target specific genetically related groups.
One company,
DynCorp, handles data processing for many
federal agencies, including:
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the CDC
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the Department of Agriculture
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several branches of the Department of
Justice
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the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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the NIH
On Nov. 12 DynCorp announced that its
subsidiary, DynPort Vaccine, had been awarded a $322 million contract
to develop, produce, test, and store FDA licensed vaccines for use by the
Defense Department.
It would be incredibly easy for DynCorp to hide
information pertaining to the exact make-up, safety, efficacy and purpose of
the drugs and vaccines the US government has contracted for.
Reasons to suspect DynCorp of criminal behavior are not hard to find.
Investigative reporter
Kelly O'Meara of Insight Magazine,
in a story dated February 4, disclosed a massive US military investigation
of how DynCorp employees in Bosnia had engaged in a widespread sex slave
ring, trading children as young as eight and videotaping forced sexual
encounters.
She reviewed government documents and
interviewed Army investigators looking into the activities which had spread
throughout DynCorp s contract operations to service helicopters and
warehouse supplies for the US military. Videos and other evidence of the
crimes are in the Army s possession.
And in a February 23rd story, veteran journalist
Al Giordano of
www.narconews.com reported that a class
action suit had been filed in Washington, D.C. by more than 10,000
Ecuadorian farmers and a labor union against DynCorp for its rampant
spraying of herbicides which have destroyed food crops, weakened the
ecosystem and caused more than 1,100 documented cases of illness.
DynCorp's current Chairman, Paul Lombardi responded to the suit by
sending intimidating letters in an unsuccessful attempt to force the
plaintiffs to withdraw.
DynCorp has also been directly linked to the development and use of PROMIS
software by its founder Bill Hamilton of Inslaw.
DynCorp's former Chairman, current board member
and the lead investor in Capricorn Holdings, is Herbert Pug Winokur.
Winokur was, until recently, Chairman of the Enron Finance Committee.
He claimed ignorance as to the fraudulent
financial activities of Enron's board even though he was charged with their
oversight.