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- LIE #1: THE ONLY SIDE-EFFECTS OF 'ANVIL' EXPOSURE ARE
COUGHING, STUFFY NOSE, ITCHING AND WATERY EYES
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- Exactly like an allergic reaction to pollen, these responses
to the toxic ingredients of Anvil are an attempt by a person's immune system
to flush the substances from the body. Mucus nasal secretions, tears and
coughing to expel the irritant from the lungs are not the harmful effects
of exposure but are simply proof that the body recognizes Anvil as something
it wants to get rid of immediately. The symptoms of a disease are not the
effects of a disease. If you have emphysema from cigarette smoking you
may feel tired and have difficulty breathing. In response, you might use
an inhaler and temporarily breath better, but that would hardly mean you
had recovered from the disease or from permanent damage to your lung tissue.
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- The suspected and in many cases already proven long term
effects of exposure to Pyrethrins like Anvil include immune system and
liver damage, endocrine disruption, proliferation of breast cancer cells,
lowered sperm count and cognitive difficulties. The latest science concerning
this finds that at even the most minimal exposure serious health effects
and endocrine disruption have been observed. The real damage from exposure
to these chemicals won't be manifested until long after the itching, runny
nose or coughing have stopped. By then, few people will remember or be
able to prove the connection between exposure and their illness. Chemical
companies, just like cigarette manufacturers, depend on this time lag between
exposure and illness to prevent them from being found liable.
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- LIE #2: WEST NILE VIRUS (WNV) IS A DEADLY DISEASE
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- The Mayor and the media keep referring to WNV as a deadly
disease transmitted by killer mosquitoes. Yet, they qualify these claims
by saying that WNV is very hard to become infected by and that most people
who do get infected recover without any treatment and without experiencing
any symptoms. So which is it, a deadly infectious disease, or very mild
and hard to become infected by? It can't be both.
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- According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) the
largest known WNV epidemic in history occurred in Romania in 1996. Approximately
100,000 people allegedly became infected. About 400 of those people became
ill with symptoms of encephalitis. Only 15 of those people, all of whom
were over 65, died. Considering the level of health care in that country
and the poor nutritional status and immune health of its senior citizens,
these statistics indicate that the virus is much less dangerous than the
common cold. See: (www.naba.org/wnvirus.html). In NYC according to the
Department of Health's own study, of the four NYC residents who they claim
died last year from WNV, three were taking immunosuppresant cancer drugs
and the fourth was HIV-positive...meaning that only people with severely
compromised immune systems die from WNV and that even in those cases death
is rare. [See: New York City Department of Health, West Nile Virus: A Briefing,
City Health Information Vol. 19, No. 1 (May 2000) http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/chi/chi.html]
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- LIE #3: SEVEN PEOPLE DIED LAST YEAR FROM WNV
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- Every Giuliani press release and every news report prominently
mentions that seven people died in the general NYC area last year from
WNV. Like the Mayor's crime statistics or the Federal government's claims
that the economy has never been better these statements are unverifiable.
No name, blood sample or tissue sample of any person who allegedly died
from WNV has been made available to independent scientists for confirmation
and testing. Every claim of an infected bird, mosquito or human is based
on reports by the NYC Department of Health or scientists that work for
the CDC or receive funding from them. These are also the same exact source
of the spray policy, creating a perfect loop of "proof" justifying
their own decision to spray. In science an outside independent source verifying
the conclusions and reproducing experimental results is always necessary
before any statement can be taken as a fact. The same is generally true
in law, in journalism and in business. See the end of this report for an
analysis of the reliability of the CDC in this matter.
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- LIE #4: THE PESTICIDE BEING USED, 'ANVIL,' IS NATURAL
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- Anvil is a synthetic imitation of a naturally occurring
substance found in Chrysanthemums. The natural version, which is considered
much safer than the synthetic, is far more expensive and is not being used
anywhere in NYC. This information is plainly stated in the Mayor's press
releases yet he stands up at press conferences directly contradicting it-a
good indication of his truthfulness on the entire WNV issue. Most of the
numerous other ingredients in Anvil are synthetic derivatives of petroleum-based
chemicals such as Benzene and Piperonyl Butoxide. Many of these ingredients
are on the EPA's list of dangerous, toxic and cancer causing substances.
They are about as far from natural as you can get.
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- LIE #5: 'ANVIL' IS SAFE AND NON-TOXIC
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- It is illegal in NY State to describe any pesticide as
safe. If you examine the actual texts of the Mayor's safety claims within
his press releases you will find that each one is qualified by terms like
"relatively safe", "less toxic than" and "safe
when used according to directions". The EPA studies on which pesticide
safety claims are based are done solely by the pesticide manufacturers
themselves, who have an obvious conflict of interest in this regard. The
term safe as used in these studies is very misleading, as a reading of
the studies themselves makes clear. A determination of safe is reached
by feeding rats the chemical or exposing them to its vapors. When only
50% of the rats die, the substance is classified as safe. Every study that
concludes that products like Anvil are safe includes reports of tumors
in rats, developmental problems in young rats, miscarriages and deformities
to name just a few health effects. As long as less than 50% of the rats
get these symptoms the product is considered safe. Since human testing
of this kind is illegal there is no way to tell, short of massively spraying
a population as is being done in NYC, what the effects will be on humans.
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- See Cover Story: 'Kids At Risk' - US News and World
Report 6-19-00 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000619/poison.htm Also
see: http://www.nih.gov/
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- LIE #6: 'ANVIL' DISSIPATES BY THE NEXT MORNING
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- Mayor Giuliani claims, and the media dutifully repeats,
that these pesticides dissipate within two hours of being sprayed. These
claims are deliberately deceptive. As chemical compounds are exposed to
air and sunlight they undergo numerous changes. Malathion for example become
Maloxon a very different substance which is more than 20 times as toxic.
It is true to say the Malathion is gone-but what remains in its place is
far worse. The claim of dissipation is based on ideal conditions-Anvil
on a glass slide in direct sunlight-that have little if anything to do
with the actual conditions in NYC. Much of the spraying was done on damp,
even rainy days-in direct violation of the manufacturer's instructions.
Much of the chemical is deposited in shady areas, on leaves, in cracks
and crevices, in A/C filters, in heating vents and in countless other places
where there is no direct sunlight. Much of it is tracked or drifts into
people's homes where it can persist for weeks, months or years waiting
to be inhaled, eaten or absorbed through the skin. The idea that people
can enter a public park, jog, picnic and lay on grass that was massively
sprayed just two hours before without receiving direct exposure is absurd.
Children playing in that grass and then putting their hands in their mouths
might just as well have been lined up and given a sample of Anvil to drink.
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- LIE #7: ANVIL KILLS MOST OF THE MOSQUITOES
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- The most ironic aspect of the spray policy is that, contrary
to the Mayor's claims, it does not kill most of the mosquitoes. If it did,
the earth, which has endured billions of tons of pesticide exposure, would
already be mosquito-free. The opposite is true. Pesticide spraying, according
to the NY State Department of Health and even the pesticide manufacturers,
directly results in new generations of pesticide-resistant mosquitoes.
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- For those like Mayor Giuliani who missed the past hundred
years of science, this process is called natural selection. In insects,
natural selection can occur in a period of days, weeks or months because
each generation only lives a short time. Reproduction by even one genetically
pesticide-resistant mosquito can result in hundreds of resistant offspring
who then mate and create an entire population with that same genetic quality.
Studies done in Florida where there is a much more severe mosquito problem,
found a 1500% increase in mosquitoes after spraying, virtually all of whom
were now pesticide-resistant. Even worse, many mosquito experts believe
the immune suppression pesticides cause in all living things makes mosquitoes,
birds and humans far more vulnerable to encephalitis infections. Apparently,
only mosquitoes exposed to pesticides can get and transmit the infection
due to damage to their stomach lining. Driving spray trucks past the fronts
of rows of apartment houses to kill mosquitoes breeding in the backyards
is about as effective as shooting a gun in the opposite direction of a
target and hoping it will circumvent the entire earth to strike the target
from behind. It is however, an excellent technique to guarantee an increase
in mosquitoes, dead birds and encephalitis infections thereby justifying
more and more spraying. See http://www.chem-tox.com/brevard/index.htm
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- LIE #8: WE ARE SAVING LIVES BY SPRAYING - IF WE DIDN'T,
MANY MORE PEOPLE WOULD GET SICK
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- The CDC's own studies found that NYC's 1999 so-called
WNV epidemic had peaked and was declining more than a month before spraying
began. See http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4841a3.htm
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- LIE #9: THE SPRAYING IS BEING DONE BY QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS
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- While the Clarke Mosquito Control Co. itself may have
some qualified pesticide applicators the spraying in NYC is being done
by temporary workers solicited through an ad in the NY Post. These untrained
and unqualified workers are being paid $10 an hour to damage their own
and everyone else's health-an excellent example of what Giuliani means
by creating jobs. In direct violation of OSHA rules and the warnings on
the product labels, none of the applicators are wearing protective clothing,
respirators or gloves. Because of the heat, most drive the trucks with
the windows wide open. The police escorts ordered to precede and follow
the spray trucks are likewise totally unprotected and deliberately uninformed
about the risks. This is not an oversight or an accident. If the applicators
and the police escorts were wearing the type of protective gear required
by law, no one would believe the Mayor's claims that the spray is safe.
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- LIE #10: THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE SPRAYING ARE
ENVIRONMENTALISTS WHO CARE MORE ABOUT BIRDS THAN PEOPLE AND ACTIVISTS WHO
OPPOSE ANYTHING GIULIANI DOES
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- While the loudest voices in opposition to the spraying
may include many activists and environmentalists, there are thousands
of medical professionals in the NYC area that oppose the spraying. [Contact
Rivka Lieber (LieberR@aol.com) for a copy of a petition signed by numerous
doctors and scientists opposed to the spraying]. The media simply refuses
to interview any of these people preferring to use sound bites from uninformed
NYC residents or Giuliani supporters who believe anything the Mayor says
no matter how absurd. Many scientists and health professionals are understandably
fearful of losing their jobs, grants from chemical/pharmaceutical companies
and their professional reputation if they speak out too loudly. Most medical
professionals work for institutions that are dependent on receiving money
from the government, from private institutions like Rockefeller University,
from the CDC and from corporations that are actually behind the spray policy
and the entire WNV panic. For them, publicly opposing this policy could
destroy their careers. The same goes for reporters that would like to expose
the facts but have been instructed not to.
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- THE CDC SAYS WE MUST SPRAY-THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE
CDC, THE CIA AND THE WNV ISSUE
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- The CDC bases much of its information concerning international
health issues, epidemics and communicable diseases on reports by the CIA-a
US governmental agency whose official role includes the dissemination of
propaganda and disinformation throughout the world. The CIA oversees CDC
operations in areas classified as a potential health threat to national
security.
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- The CDC has been implicated in numerous health disasters
involving the distribution of vaccines both in the US and in the third
world. Many scientists and researchers believe they are the source for
a number of diseases that never previously existed. All of these diseases
just happen to be associated with bio-warfare research labs working with
or run by the CDC, the CIA and/or the U.S. Army.
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- The CIA has a proven track record of misinforming not
only foreign governments but other US governmental agencies, the Congress,
the US military, the President of the United States and the American people
on issues as diverse as the real condition of the Soviet Union during the
Cold War, Sadamn Hussein's intentions in the Gulf, the state of affairs
in Iran and where U.S. tax dollars are actually being spent on covert operations.
Even some US Senators now believe the CIA is largely responsible for the
crack epidemic in the U.S.
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- As GW Bush and his likely appointee to be Attorney General-Rudy
Giuliani-publicly admit, they get virtually all of their policy "ideas"
directly from the Manhattan Institute, a think tank started by Ronald Reagan's
CIA director William Casey. Immediately after WWII Casey played a major
role in bringing thousands of top Nazi scientists and SS intelligence officials
to the US. Many of them became employees of the newly formed, CIA.
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- Most of the pesticides being used in NYC are derived
from nerve gasses developed by Nazi scientists. The company that patented
and manufactured them in Germany, IG Farben, was a full partner with Rockefeller/Standard
Oil before, during and since WWII. After the war IG Farben was broken up
into four companies that are now the world leaders in chemical and pharmaceutical
manufacturing and research. Rockefeller/Chase Bank just happens to be the
main funder of the Manhattan Institute. No less a high-level source than
former Presidents Roosevelt and Truman considered the Rockefellers to be
traitors to the U.S. who were actively aiding the Nazis throughout WWII
[See The Secret War Against the Jews by Loftus and Aarons].
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- Among the key issues promoted by the Manhattan Institute,
is a campaign to discredit 50 years of science demonstrating that pesticides,
petroleum-based chemical pollution and pharmaceuticals manufactured by
contemporary spin-offs of Standard Oil/Exxon and IG Farben are dangerous
to human health and the environment. All a coincidence? See Peter Huber's
books featured on the Manhattan Institute's webpage http://www.manhattan-institute.org/
Also see http://www.fair.org/media-outlets/stossel.html for an analysis
of John Stossel and his link to the Manhattan Institute.
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- Robert Lederman, President of ARTIST. (Artistsâ*
Response To Illegal State Tactics) <mailto:ARTISTpres@aol.comARTISTpres@aol.com
(718) 743-3722 http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html SEE http://Baltech.org/lederman/spray/
for a detailed exposition on the West Nile issue and detailed references
for many of the statements made in this article.
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- Pay especial attention to those about Oravax, the company
that has been developing a WNV vaccine invented by the U.S. Army.
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