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Thermit
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USAF to spray Houston?
 Thu Jun 14, 2001 11:12 pm
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Okay, it's not Chemtrails, but I still hope they don't ask FEMA to ask the USAF Aerial Spray Unit to spray the poison. I'd rather deal with the mosquitos myself.
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory2/940320
June 13, 2001, 2:20PM
Mosquito population explosion expected after storm
By ERIC BERGER
Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle
Mosquito-control experts are bracing for clouds of mosquitoes to fill the air beginning today -- about a week after the heavens began to open over Houston producing one of the worst floods in recent history.
"It's not bad yet, but it's going to get bad in a few days," said Ray Parsons, director of Harris County's Mosquito Control Division.
Standing water and heat are the two biggest factors in determining a mosquito population, and Houston clearly has both in abundant supply.
Mosquito eggs, once laid in moist soil, can stay dormant for months or even years while waiting for enough water to come along and trigger hatching. Then, in four to seven days, an adult blood-sucker emerges hungry for a meal.
Do the math and it's easy to understand why mosquito exterminators are ready to swing into action. Parsons said his employees will begin spraying with the pesticides malathion and resmithrin when mass hatchings occur later this week, starting in east Harris County where flooding was the worst. They're the same chemicals you can buy to control the pests yourself.
From there the sprayer-equipped trucks will move into areas where the worst infestations are reported around the county, including inside Houston's city limits.
If flooding from Tropical Storm Allison's remnants proves overly troublesome, Parsons said he may ask the Federal Emergency Management Agency to bring special air force planes to spray the area. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have to agree to such a plan.
Parsons said he will decide whether to ask for air force help on Thursday or Friday.
More on the USAF Aerial Spray Unit here...
http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/etc.shtml |
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Lulu
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Thu Jun 14, 2001 11:39 pm
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Excuse my ignorance Thermit, but isn't Malathion banned?!? Interesting is the removable Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) and the fact that one such equiped C-130 can cover 100,000 acres per day. |
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Thermit
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Fri Jun 15, 2001 12:46 am
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Found this:
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http://www.getipm.com/articles/malathion-newsday.htm
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday said it would not prevent malathion's use to control mosquitoes but will further study the "suggestive evidence" that it can cause cancer in lab animals. The announcement was a reversal of a previously undisclosed plan to declare the insecticide a "likely human carcinogen."
Since the evidence suggests that it can cause cancer in lab animals, I guess they need to study it for a few more years or decades before they realize that stuff is nasty for all living things, including people.  |
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Lulu
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Fri Jun 15, 2001 1:29 am
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If Malathion is used in an aerial spray program I don't see how it could not reach and contaminate ground water, people's skin, lungs, eye etc.
Environmental Hazards
Malathion is chemically unstable. This means that it does not persist long in the environment after being applied and therefore presents no long-term hazard. However, during spray operations it can drift away and contaminate nearby areas. It should therefore not be sprayed when winds are greater than 15 km/h.
Malathion should not be allowed to contaminate water supplies; it can kill fish. Waste materials and containers should not be disposed of near water supplies, nor should waste materials be emptied into sewer drains.
Health Hazards
Malathion is slightly toxic by mouth and skin contact; very few cases of poisoning have been reported. Protective gloves (neoprene or synthetic rubber, not fabric) should be worn when handling it. If it is swallowed symptoms of poisoning may not appear for some hours. They include nausea, headache, giddiness, blurred vision, excessive sweating, nasal discharge, excessive tears, diarrhoea, muscle twitching, and convulsions. If any of these symptoms appear, particularly in a person known to have swallowed malathion, medical attention should be obtained immediately. If the product has been swallowed, vomiting should be induced. If eyes have been contaminated, they should be flushed with plenty of clean water for 15 minutes.
http://www.mb.ec.gc.ca/pollution/pesticides/ec00s02.en.html
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RidesTheWind
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Fri Jun 15, 2001 1:42 am
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Malathion is indeed toxic...I studied chemical pesticides for four years fighting the mosquito spraying here in merryland. Its why we had to get rid of it.Then we got Dibrom which is even worse and is an organophosphate!! Indeed Malathion was stopped from use so I am very surprised to see they are going to use that.Thank god we won our battle and got aerial spraying stopped in our county altogether except for emergency use. Thats not cool at all they are using that again.Carcinogenic!  |
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amber
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Fri Jun 15, 2001 3:05 pm
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I didn't want to post this - it was partly responsible for my tears yesterday. But in light of this thread, and the mention of organophosphates, i thought it was relevant, but nauseating. Replace warble fly with mosquito and......
ICI's nerve gas insecticide triggers BSE & human CJD
Fri Jun 8 16:31:22 2001
ICI's nerve gas insecticide triggers BSE & human CJD
by Fintan Dunne
Research Kathy Mc Mahon
29th April 2001
If Mark Purdey is right we are in big trouble. We are destroying our brains with insecticides.
His groundbreaking research into the cause of BSE in cattle and new variant CJD in humans, has been sidelined by United Kingdom officials. They attribute both diseases to ingestion of prion protien found in contaminated beef. But Purdey has evidence the government's anti-parasite campaigns unleashed a chemical holocaust for cattle -resulting in BSE, and that human CJD is accelerated by the same chemical effects.
Could a chemical be that deadly? For fear of attack by Saddam Hussein, most Israeli hospitals have antidotes to a deadly nerve gas developed by Nazi chemists which contains organophosphate(OP) -the same compound found in the insecticides suspected of driving BSE and CJD. The vast bulk of the cattle found staggering around in British fields with their brains burned out, have been treated for warble-fly with a constituient of nerve gas.
The CJD and BSE symptoms also mirror 'manganese madness', an irreversible fatal neuro-psychiatric degenerative syndrome that plagued manganese miners in the first half of the last century. Could manganese and organophosphate be causing these diseases?
Cambridge scientist David R. Brown is hot on the trail. His recent research has shown that the prion protiens linked to BSE can bond destructively with manganese found in animal feeds or mineral licks. His latest, as yet unpublished work has found a tenfold increase in the metal manganese in brains of CJD victims. [Video]
All this is fully consistent with the Purdey hypothesis. These manganese-tipped prions could be the principal cause of the neurological degeneration seen in BSE. But manganese is only the bullet -organophosphate insecticide is the high-velocity gun. It fires manganese into the brain by depleting copper which the manganese then replaces. Purdey says the manganese-tipped prions set off lethal chain reactions that neurologically burn through the animal.
Phosmet organophosphate has been used at high doses in British warble fly campaigns. Privately, scientists will confirm that prions in the bovine spine --along which this insecticide is applied-- can be damaged by ICI's Phosmet organophosphate insecticide. But few will state it publicly or publish it as scientific finding. In 1996, former ICI subsidiary Zeneca sold the phosmet patent to a PO Box company in Arizona called Gowan -just one week before the UK government admitted to a link between BSE and nvCJD.
BONDING THE PRION
Cambridge University prion biochemist, David R. Brown is dismissive of the science behind the infectious model of BSE. He terms it "a very limited amount of science by a few assumed- reputable scientists." He insists there is "no evidence an infectious agent is present in either meat or milk."
"Simple tests on udder walls of cows --which could easily detect an infectious prion-- have not been done, why I don't understand."
A number of researchers have found that organophosphate(OP) in systemic warble fly insecticide can deform the prion molecule, rendering it ineffective at buffering free radical effects in the body. Worse still, the prion is then partial to bond with manganese and become a 'rogue' prion. A chain reaction whereby rogue prions turn others to rogues also, can explain the bovine spongiform disease mechanism.
Brown showed how prion protein bonds benignly with copper, but lethally with manganese. Even natural variations in relative environmental availability of manganese versus copper can trigger prion degradation.
Chickens notoriously excrete most of the supplements fed to them -including manganese. And their manganese-rich excreta have been blended into cattle feed in the UK.
Scientist and organic farmer, Mark Purdey gave evidence to the UK BSE inquiry, that warble fly insecticide was the cause of the disease. The scientist wheeled out to rubbish Purdy's evidence -Dr. David Ray, later turned out to have been receiving funding from the insecticide manufacturer ICI.
A lobby group that includes Bayer, Monsanto, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche and Schering-Plough was behind the effort to discredit Purdey. In December 1999, the same Dr. David Ray was appointed to the UK Veterinary Products Committee (VPC) -a government body that licences animal medicines.
Purdey has been consistently denied even exploratory funding to extend his privately supported research. Yet the Purdey chemical poisoning model matches with the epidermiological spread of CJD clusters in humans. It also predicts the incidence of BSE-type diseases in animals. The accepted infectious model fits neither.
The pharmaceutical industry has key motives to deny the chemical source of BSE and CJD, because a spotlight on chemicals would expose the role the insecticides in Alzheimer's --another neurodegenerative disease. That might lead to claims which would dwarf those from BSE and CJD litigants. In fact, two leading brain researchers into CJD and Alzheimers have died in suspicious circumstances in recent years.
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is already reviewing Phosmet's safety. And the Centers for Disease Control in the US has recently conducted experiments on mice that confirm the organophosphate risk.
According to Purdey, not only is the EC beef slaughter campaign futile -because BSE disease is mostly non-infectious, but unless the underlying chemical cause is addressed, BSE will simply reappear from chemical causes. A new warble fly campaign is already underway in France using the organophosphate insecticide.
His greater concern is that some lotions for scabies and head lice are now priming children and adults for CJD and Alzheimers in later life, and that manganese in unleaded petrol may prove as deadly as the lead it replaced.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by amber on 06-15-2001] |
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