Biological Warfare – are we already seeing the casualties?
Ian Brockwell
December 07, 2008
If we are to believe the government, scientists, drug companies and media, biological warfare is a possibility for the future, only a week ago we were told that the United States could be the target of such an attack by terrorists before 2013.
Although the report said terrorist groups still lack the needed scientific and technical ability to make weapons out of pathogens, that gap can be easily overcome, if terrorists find scientists willing to share or sell their know-how. It was interesting that the following comment was also made by the panel "The United States should be less concerned that terrorists will become biologists and far more concerned that biologists will become terrorists,"
Of course, if we were to suggest that there may be some truth to that statement and the "biologists" were in fact gathering on the US mainland, and not some far away country situated in the Middle East (for example), we would immediately be accused of creating a "conspiracy theory". The mainstream media would ridicule the idea and the public would accept their word without question (and support it) as they always do.
Throughout history man has always tried to find weapons more powerful than their "enemies". First a club, then a spear, then a bow, a gun, cannon, a missile and so on. However, the search for the ultimate weapon has always been the dream of the scientists willing to sell their discoveries to governments and the military.
Could it be that such a weapon already exists and a biological war has begun? But who are the victims and what is the purpose?
An article by Marjorie Tietjen called "Discreet Methods of Biological Warfare" offers some interesting points and some food for thought.
In her article she mentions Lyme disease and whilst 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."
Let´s explain this disease more (information obtained from MedicineNet.com). Lyme disease is a bacterial illness caused by a bacterium called a "spirochete" In the United States, the actual name of the bacterium is Borrelia burgdorferi. In Europe, another bacterium, Borrelia afzelii, also causes Lyme disease. Certain ticks found on deer harbor the bacterium in their stomachs. Lyme disease is spread by these ticks when they bite the skin, which permits the bacterium to infect the body. Lyme disease is not contagious from an affected person to someone else, and the disease can cause abnormalities in the skin, joints, heart, and nervous system. (According to Alan MacDonald, M.D Lyme disease can also be passed on by 'vertical transmission' from mother to fetus)
Interestingly, the disease only became apparent in 1975 when mothers of a group of children who lived near each other in Lyme, Connecticut, made researchers aware that their children all were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. This unusual grouping of illness that appeared "rheumatoid" eventually led researchers to the identification of the bacterial cause of the children's condition, what was then called "Lyme disease" in 1982.
Lyme disease affects different areas of the body in varying degrees as it progresses. The site where the tick bites the body is where the bacteria enter through the skin. Initially, the disease affects the skin, causing an expanding reddish rash often associated with "flu-like" symptoms. Later, it can produce abnormalities in the joints, heart, and nervous system.
Lyme disease is medically described in three phases as: (1) early localized disease with skin inflammation; (2) early disseminated disease with heart and nervous system involvement, including palsies and meningitis; and (3) late disease featuring motor and sensory nerve damage and brain inflammation and arthritis.
One of the interesting areas of Lyme disease is the "three phases" and the following article by Alan MacDonald, M.D. is highly recommended. Unfortunately, there is too much information to include all of it here, so I shall just add a few extracts.
Dr. MacDonald became interested in Alzheimer's disease and Lyme when attending a Lyme disease conference in Vienna, Austria. "The speakers were describing Lyme disease as having three stages: primary, secondary and tertiary. Since those terms are also used to describe syphilis, it occurred to him that if Lyme disease had a tertiary, late-stage form, perhaps the late manifestation could be dementia. Like syphilis, which also had late stage dementia, Lyme disease may reoccur thirty or forty years after infection. He hypothesized that if there is a dementia occurring in late-stage Lyme, it might be an Alzheimer's-like illness, a late manifestation of bacterial infection in the brain."
Dr. MacDonald explains how "spirochetes have more diverse forms than just the corkscrew, or spiral form." And this explains why many doctors (and the commercially available tests) are unable to discover the disease. As Dr. MacDonald says "If you're looking for evidence of an infection in tissue you want to see the bug. And if you're looking for the bug and you only look for spiral forms, you may miss the other forms, forms that are granular or rounded cyst forms or L-forms."
In another article by Elena Cook "Spirochete Warfare" she says "Borrelia, the microbes which cause Lyme disease, are a sub-type of the wider biological classification of spirochetes. Now it has become apparent that the spirochetes were weaponized over 75 years ago."
Again, this is quite a long article and we would suggest using the link to read all the information, but here is a small extract from the article:
"We now know, for example, that the US allowed leading Nazi bioweaponeer Erich Traub to play a major role in setting up research at their biowarfare lab on Plum Island, a stone's throw away from Lyme, Connecticut, where the first recorded outbreak of Lyme disease in America occurred in the 1970's. Traub's germ warfare knowledge was considered so important that, his Nazi past notwithstanding, he was invited to take charge of scientific research on the Island in the 1950's."
It may be of interest to the public that the research complex on Plum Island, about 1.5 miles off the eastern shore of New York's Long Island, is almost certain to be relocated to a new site in Kansas (Government recommends Kansas for biodefense lab). "The Bush administration acknowledged this year that accidents have happened" on Plum Island and one must wonder at the logic of bringing such a complex to the mainland.
Although "officially" the new lab will study foot-and-mouth disease, African swine fever, Japanese encephalitis, Rift Valley fever and the Hendra and Nipah viruses, there is no way of telling what else may be included.
Biological Warfare can be used in many ways, it can be developed to kill selected races, disable a country by "infecting" large numbers of the population, birth control and perhaps even making the public more susceptible to authority?
It would be easy to dismiss these possibilities as science fiction, but with the destructive force of nuclear weapons already abundant on our planet, we know our leaders are capable of producing (and using) such methods, even though they put our very existence at risk. Sadly, the country that lectures others the most about nuclear and biological weapons (and leads in both of these fields), is the United States, a country that has the dubious "honor" of being the first (and so far only) nation to ever use a nuclear bomb on an enemy.
With this thought in mind, we should remember that any country with the capability of using biological weapons is a danger and no one is immune from the temptation of putting such destructive weapons to use. It is up to us (the public) to guard against this madness, because we are the ones that will pay the ultimate price.
Although the report said terrorist groups still lack the needed scientific and technical ability to make weapons out of pathogens, that gap can be easily overcome, if terrorists find scientists willing to share or sell their know-how. It was interesting that the following comment was also made by the panel "The United States should be less concerned that terrorists will become biologists and far more concerned that biologists will become terrorists,"
Of course, if we were to suggest that there may be some truth to that statement and the "biologists" were in fact gathering on the US mainland, and not some far away country situated in the Middle East (for example), we would immediately be accused of creating a "conspiracy theory". The mainstream media would ridicule the idea and the public would accept their word without question (and support it) as they always do.
Throughout history man has always tried to find weapons more powerful than their "enemies". First a club, then a spear, then a bow, a gun, cannon, a missile and so on. However, the search for the ultimate weapon has always been the dream of the scientists willing to sell their discoveries to governments and the military.Could it be that such a weapon already exists and a biological war has begun? But who are the victims and what is the purpose?
An article by Marjorie Tietjen called "Discreet Methods of Biological Warfare" offers some interesting points and some food for thought.
In her article she mentions Lyme disease and whilst 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."
Let´s explain this disease more (information obtained from MedicineNet.com). Lyme disease is a bacterial illness caused by a bacterium called a "spirochete" In the United States, the actual name of the bacterium is Borrelia burgdorferi. In Europe, another bacterium, Borrelia afzelii, also causes Lyme disease. Certain ticks found on deer harbor the bacterium in their stomachs. Lyme disease is spread by these ticks when they bite the skin, which permits the bacterium to infect the body. Lyme disease is not contagious from an affected person to someone else, and the disease can cause abnormalities in the skin, joints, heart, and nervous system. (According to Alan MacDonald, M.D Lyme disease can also be passed on by 'vertical transmission' from mother to fetus)
Interestingly, the disease only became apparent in 1975 when mothers of a group of children who lived near each other in Lyme, Connecticut, made researchers aware that their children all were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. This unusual grouping of illness that appeared "rheumatoid" eventually led researchers to the identification of the bacterial cause of the children's condition, what was then called "Lyme disease" in 1982.
Lyme disease affects different areas of the body in varying degrees as it progresses. The site where the tick bites the body is where the bacteria enter through the skin. Initially, the disease affects the skin, causing an expanding reddish rash often associated with "flu-like" symptoms. Later, it can produce abnormalities in the joints, heart, and nervous system.
Lyme disease is medically described in three phases as: (1) early localized disease with skin inflammation; (2) early disseminated disease with heart and nervous system involvement, including palsies and meningitis; and (3) late disease featuring motor and sensory nerve damage and brain inflammation and arthritis.
One of the interesting areas of Lyme disease is the "three phases" and the following article by Alan MacDonald, M.D. is highly recommended. Unfortunately, there is too much information to include all of it here, so I shall just add a few extracts.
Dr. MacDonald became interested in Alzheimer's disease and Lyme when attending a Lyme disease conference in Vienna, Austria. "The speakers were describing Lyme disease as having three stages: primary, secondary and tertiary. Since those terms are also used to describe syphilis, it occurred to him that if Lyme disease had a tertiary, late-stage form, perhaps the late manifestation could be dementia. Like syphilis, which also had late stage dementia, Lyme disease may reoccur thirty or forty years after infection. He hypothesized that if there is a dementia occurring in late-stage Lyme, it might be an Alzheimer's-like illness, a late manifestation of bacterial infection in the brain."
Dr. MacDonald explains how "spirochetes have more diverse forms than just the corkscrew, or spiral form." And this explains why many doctors (and the commercially available tests) are unable to discover the disease. As Dr. MacDonald says "If you're looking for evidence of an infection in tissue you want to see the bug. And if you're looking for the bug and you only look for spiral forms, you may miss the other forms, forms that are granular or rounded cyst forms or L-forms."
In another article by Elena Cook "Spirochete Warfare" she says "Borrelia, the microbes which cause Lyme disease, are a sub-type of the wider biological classification of spirochetes. Now it has become apparent that the spirochetes were weaponized over 75 years ago."
Again, this is quite a long article and we would suggest using the link to read all the information, but here is a small extract from the article:
"We now know, for example, that the US allowed leading Nazi bioweaponeer Erich Traub to play a major role in setting up research at their biowarfare lab on Plum Island, a stone's throw away from Lyme, Connecticut, where the first recorded outbreak of Lyme disease in America occurred in the 1970's. Traub's germ warfare knowledge was considered so important that, his Nazi past notwithstanding, he was invited to take charge of scientific research on the Island in the 1950's."
It may be of interest to the public that the research complex on Plum Island, about 1.5 miles off the eastern shore of New York's Long Island, is almost certain to be relocated to a new site in Kansas (Government recommends Kansas for biodefense lab). "The Bush administration acknowledged this year that accidents have happened" on Plum Island and one must wonder at the logic of bringing such a complex to the mainland.
Although "officially" the new lab will study foot-and-mouth disease, African swine fever, Japanese encephalitis, Rift Valley fever and the Hendra and Nipah viruses, there is no way of telling what else may be included.
Biological Warfare can be used in many ways, it can be developed to kill selected races, disable a country by "infecting" large numbers of the population, birth control and perhaps even making the public more susceptible to authority?
It would be easy to dismiss these possibilities as science fiction, but with the destructive force of nuclear weapons already abundant on our planet, we know our leaders are capable of producing (and using) such methods, even though they put our very existence at risk. Sadly, the country that lectures others the most about nuclear and biological weapons (and leads in both of these fields), is the United States, a country that has the dubious "honor" of being the first (and so far only) nation to ever use a nuclear bomb on an enemy.
With this thought in mind, we should remember that any country with the capability of using biological weapons is a danger and no one is immune from the temptation of putting such destructive weapons to use. It is up to us (the public) to guard against this madness, because we are the ones that will pay the ultimate price.
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