From: cowboygeorge@pioche.igate.com (Cowboygeorge) To: y2k-nwo@egroups.com Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:16:57 GMT Subject: [y2k-nwo] Contrails From Jets A Health Hazard? Message-ID: <919797417@pioche.igate.com> Return-path: Reply-To: y2k-nwo@egroups.com Received: from mx1.boston.juno.com (mx1.boston.juno.com [207.205.100.50]) by x16.boston.juno.com (8.8.6.Beta0/8.8.6.Beta0/2.0.kim) with ESMTP id OAAAA08607 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:25:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from mc.findmail.com (mc.findmail.com [209.185.96.153]) by mx1.boston.juno.com (8.8.6.Beta0/8.8.6.Beta0/2.0.kim) with SMTP id OAAAA18622 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:25:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] by mc.findmail.com with NNFMP; 23 Feb 1999 19:20:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 19790 invoked by uid 7770); 23 Feb 1999 19:16:25 -0000 Received: from www.pioche.igate.com (HELO pioche.igate.com) (207.228.34.80) by vault.findmail.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 1999 19:16:25 -0000 Received: by pioche.igate.com (Wildcat) id 62742W Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:17:02 GMT X-Status: Read X-Juno-Att: 0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Forwarding this from APFN: ---IamDorian@aol.com wrote: > > OK...so here's an article investigating the "Dibromide Contrails" thing. Just > watching this one. > > Dorian > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > HOSPITALS JAMMED AS BANNED PESTICIDE IS SPRAYED FROM THE SKIES > > by > William Thomas > posted February 15,1999 > > > SEATTLE, WA.... As formations of unmarked tanker aircraft continue to > criss-cross American skies on a mission authorities refuse to disclose, an > environmental laboratory has identified an extremely toxic component of the > spray drifting over cities and countryside. > 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 US Environmental Protection Agency in 1983. > But in 1991, the composition of jet fuel used by commercial and military jet > aircraft in the U.S. was changed from JP4 to somewhat less flammable JP8. A > Department of Defence source says the move "has saved some lives" in air > crashes. Ethylene dibromide is a key component of JP8. > The 1991 Chemical Hazards of the Workplace warns that repeated exposure to > low levels of ethylene dibromide 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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's hazardous materials > list: "Ethylene dibromide is a carcinogen and must be handled with extreme > caution." A seven-page summary of this pesticide's extreme toxicity notes > that EDB may also damage the reproductive system. According to the EPA, > "Exposure can irritate the lungs, repeated exposure may cause bronchitis, > development of cough, and shortness of breath. It will damage the liver and > kidneys". > Mark Witten, a respiratory physiologist at the University of Arizona in > 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 tailbooms 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 catchin' 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 Raleigh, North Carolina reported > that respiratory admissions to Durham regional hospital jumped from the > usual 184 patients a day to 247. Ambulance drivers were told that the > hospital was not receiving any more patients. > In New York City, doctors are calling a flood of respiratory cases an > epidemic. "We have people double- and triple-parked in the ER on > stretchers," Dr. Elliot Friedman, associate director of emergency medicine > 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 flus," 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 Lake Havasu, California, headlines in Today's News Herald > announced: "Victims curse unnamed bug, but can't call it the 'flu'." MD Mary > Lou Callername told the Herald "that a nameless virus is bringing at least > 10 patients a day into her office and driving some into the hospital, but > laboratory tests show only a few are suffering from Type A or other > identifiable strains of influenza." > The previous weekend, after San Francisco resident Curtis Schumann noticed > "sky grids in the making," and Melanie Zucker watched nine contrails being > woven over Berkeley, local TV stations reported Bay area emergency rooms > inundated with flu-like cases. > 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 Spokane > listening to a police radio scanner told ENS he heard "many rescue calls for > people with breathing difficulties." > In Palmyra, New Jersey, shortly after Lucrecia Moon watched unusual > lingering contrails from a McDonald's restaurant, a nurse reported "many > people ill." In Las Vegas, Nevada, TV news coverage told of area hospitals > 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 Phoenix, > Arizona. The January 28, 1999 edition of Arizona Republic reported that "The > incidence of bronchial problems in Phoenix this month is 237 > 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 > Pennsylvania resident told ENS. "It's just total saturation." As overfilled > Pennsylvania hospitals were forced to divert respiratory emergencies to > other facilities with bed space, another south-central Pennsylvania > resident, Deborah Kammerer, looked out her window and watched aircraft > "flying and dispersing over the city. It was supposed to be a clear sunny > day. It became more overcast as the day progressed. I observed how the white > trails widened out and settled down creating a haze over everything." > South Florida resident Karen Okenica told ENS she has watched on several > occasions as contrails "criss-crossed or ran parallel to each other. They > did not dissipate but got thicker and stayed in the sky for quite a while." > Okenica says she became frightened after gazing through Nikon binoculars and > noticing an all-white jet with "plumes" coming from the rear of the plane. > In early December, local newspaper reported that Bethesda Memorial and > Delray Community hospitals were full and could not accommodate any more > patients. > 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 > Northern Westchester County Hospital, "there was a 24 hour waiting > period to get in." > In Manitou, Michigan, Registered Nurse Kim Korte was driving north on > M52, when she noticed "stripes" in the sky. "It appeared as if someone > took white paint on their fingers and from north to south ran their fingers > 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 alot 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 Austin, Texas - where Richard Young reports that "The skies here are > filled almost daily with trails crossing each other" - a school nurse > told a worried parent that she had seen over 100 sick children in a single > day. > 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 Everett Burton finally succeeded in reaching C-span. After > voicing his opinion on the Clinton impeachment trial, this former minister > told Americans to get a copy of the Constitution and read it to realize what > they have lost. Rev. Burton then advised viewers not to take his word for > what was happening in the US - but to "just look up in the skies as the > planes regularly spray contrails across the skies, spraying people and > making them ill." At this point, Rev. Burton was cut off. The screen flipped > from C-span to the Tennessee state seal, remained silent for several minutes. > Americans are not alone in their anxious bewilderment and suffering. In > England, after lingering contrails and cobweb-like fallout were reported > over London and Birmingham, the BBC reported on January 14 that > 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 England and Wales were stricken with respiratory ailments in a single > week - almost double the usual rate. Ambulances in the Greater Manchester > and Mersey region were each dealing with more than 1,000 calls every day - > almost twice the norm. Norfolk and Norwich suffered such an unexpected > increase in deaths, a refrigerated semi-trailer capable of holding 36 bodies > was pressed into service as a temporary morgue. [see BBC photo] > The ENS investigation continues. > > > > > > Contrails: Poison From the Sky > by William Thomas > Reply to y2k-nwo@egroups.com See: http://www.esotericworldenws.com/2000.htm (CONTRAILS UPDATE) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Does your free web site address contain more letters than the alphabet? Register a domain name with DomainDirect. A domain with NO hosting fees. Visit http://offers.egroups.com/click/233/0 for full details. eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/y2k-nwo Free Web-based e-mail groups by eGroups.com