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JENKINS VIA FLICKR // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0In the late 1800s, New England was in the midst of a vampire fad—but it was nothing like the Twilight saga vampires of today or Anne Rice's Vampire Coven. No, these New England vampire scares were rooted in a distorted perception of reality. Not so real that the supposed vampires were, in fact, vampires, but real enough considering that a disease was spreading and consuming humans.Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont were all suffering from outbreaks of tuberculosis, called consumption at the time.[1] Its cause was still unknown at the time, although people knew that once one family member got the disease, others were soon to follow.Consumption (also known as tuberculosis) was a leading cause of death in the 1800s; by all accounts, it was a gruesome way to die. As tuberculosis spread from the cities out into the countryside, people didn’t know what caused it or how to stop it. Tuberculosis was entrenched in the Americas even before the United States existed as a country. President George Washington himself likely fought the disease after contracting it from his brother—ironically, on a trip taken to Barbados in an attempt to treat Lawrence Washington’s illness.[2] Washington wasn’t alone, other notable American sufferers of tuberculosis included James Monroe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Washington Irving, John “Doc” Holliday, and Helen Hunt Jackson.[3]In some New England towns, such as Lynn, Massachusetts, it was the leading cause of death.[4] Entire families were wiped out, and there didn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to who caught the illness. In 1786, when health officials first began recording mortality rates connected to the deadly infection, Massachusetts alone recorded 300 consumption deaths for every 100,000 residents.[5] Between that year and 1800, tuberculosis killed 2 percent of New England’s population.[6] In many cases, communal living and extended families provided a prime breeding ground for the disease to spread throughout an entire family. It was estimated that anywhere from 70 to 90 percent of the American population had latent or active tuberculosis infections.[7]When New Englanders Blamed Vampires for Tuberculosis DeathsIt was not a pleasant way to die. Symptoms included an extremely high fever, wasting,, night sweats,fatigue, sunken eyes and a persistent cough that sometimes produced white phlegm or foamy blood.[8] Occasionally, the cough turned into hemorrhaging. Those who caught it could not know if they would eventually recover, painfully waste away over the course of years, or die in a matter of months from the “galloping” form of the disease.[9] If they did recover, there was always the fear that the illness would return.Cholera, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, influenza, and measles were fast-burning epidemics that appeared, killed, and then went dormant as immunities kicked in.[10] Tuberculosis did not. It was an unrelenting fact of life in the 1800s. With no other explanations, people turned to the supernatural to understand the epidemic, and to offer hope of a cure.The popular theory of the time was that the first infected member of a family was believed to drain the life force of their loved ones through some spiritual connection that continued even after death.[11] Those who died from consumption were exhumed and examined. If their body seemed “too fresh”, it was assumed to be still feeding on the living.There were a number of ways proposed to stop this vampiric feeding. In parts of Massachusetts and Maine, bodies were simply flipped over and left alone facing the dirt, the simplest and least gruesome of practices.[12] In Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont, villagers burned the hearts and livers from bodies of suspected vampires.[13] Sometimes, this was combined with decapitation. Some even believed that inhaling the smoke and ash from the burned organs would cure their tuberculosis.[14]Mercy Brown – MercyMercy Lena Brown and her family lived in Exeter, Rhode Island.[15] The area was sparsely populated and farmers struggled to cultivate the hardscrabble land. Consumption, like many afflictions, was not entirely understood by residents, and was viewed with fear. In fact, many residents regarded consumption as a dark and mysterious thief in the night.Beginning in December 1882, the Brown family began to die from consumption in rapid succession. First was Mary Eliza, Mercy’s mother. The following year, Mercy’s sister, Mary Olive, died at the age of 20. Mary’s obituary described her suffering as having been so great that she was ready for the afterlife.[16] Next, Mercy’s brother Edwin, known as a big and husky man, began to wither away, but quickly left New England for Colorado Springs in the hopes that a better climate would cure him.[17]By the time Edwin returned a decade later, Mercy herself was on the threshold of death. She had been suffering from a more silent form of consumption for years—galloping consumption—named so because of its fast transition from invisible to fatal.[18] An attending doctor informed Mercy’s father George that medical care was useless. In January 1892, Mercy died, her simple obituary reading: “Miss Lena Brown, who has been suffering from consumption, died Sunday morning.”[19]When Edwin returned home after Mercy’s death, his health declined. His desperate father turned to an old folk belief: when members of the same family waste away from consumption, it could be because one of the deceased was draining the life force of their living relatives.[20] Desperate for an answer to cure his family's misfortune, patriarch George Brown was convinced by his neighbors that there might be something supernatural leeching their strength. Two centuries after the Salem Witch Trials, New Englanders continued to search for monsters in their midst. Townsfolk reported seeing Mercy walking about both in the cemetery and through fields. Her brother Edwin who had recently returned from a wellness center in Colorado and who was succumbing quickly to the disease reported that his sister Mercy was "siting on his chest" suffocating him.[21]Brown family plot at Chestnut Hill Cemetery (The Vampire Case of Mercy Brown - Locations of Lore)The neighbors asked George Brown’s permission to exhume the bodies of his wife and two daughters to check for fresh blood in their hearts. He agreed, and with village doctor Harold Metcalf and town undertaker George T. Cranston, with some neighbors in tow, the exhumations took place on the morning of March 17, 1892.[22]Accounts differ as to whether Mercy’s body had already been buried or if it rested in a crypt until the ground could thaw and undertakers could dig a grave.[23] After nearly 10 years, Mary Olive and Mary Eliza were almost entirely decomposed. But Mercy, had been interred for nine weeks in the cold New England weather, was almost perfectly preserved.[24] The vampire hunters of Exeter had found their target.Despite assertions from the doctor that this was fairly standard and not a sign of the supernatural, the community's course of action was clear. Dr. Metcalf explained in vain that the weather conditions would have kept her preserved and that her lungs were clearly showing symptoms of tuberculosis, but the people of Exeter were not going to be dissuaded.[25] Upon cutting open her heart, the doctor found decayed blood. An examination of her lungs indicated the dormant presence of consumption germs.The community believed that Mercy continued her reign of terror from beyond the grave. On the assumption that Mercy had been preying on her family since she was just a small girl, they removed her heart and liver, burned her heart to ashes on an adjacent rock, and fed the resulting ashes to Edwin.[26] But it was no use. Edwin Brown died two months later on May 2, 1892. The remainder of Mercy’s violated body was buried in Exeter’s Baptist Church Cemetery.[27]The rock adjacent to the Brown family plot, where it is theorized that Mercy's organs were burned (The Vampire Case of Mercy Brown - Locations of Lore)Maybe it seems strange that vampires were at the forefront of Exeter's mind. The reason is that Mercy Brown was really only the most recent of many similar vampire hunts during what was known as New England Vampire Panic — although they had largely died down in the late 19th century.[28] Newspapers were quick to connect these folk rituals with vampire legends, especially those of Eastern Europe. Vampire stories from all over were featured on the front pages of 19th-century New England[29] , describing similar stories in distant locations. Like the New Englanders, people in remote parts of Europe were exhuming bodies when people fell ill, and burning or planting stakes in those that seemed too full of life.One of the more remarkable cases is that of the Rev. Justus Forward and his daughter Mercy (no relation to Mercy Brown). In 1788, the minister had already lost three daughters to consumption; Mercy and another sister were fighting the illness.[30] As Mercy Forward traveled to a neighboring town with her father one day, she began to hemorrhage.Rev Justus Forward (1730-1814) - Find A Grave...Forward was reluctant to try opening the graves of his deceased family members, but allowed himself to be convinced, willing to do anything to save his daughter. His mother-in-law’s grave was opened first, without result.[31] However, he soon found a grave that fit the requirements. From a letter written by Forward:“Since I had begun to search, I concluded to search further ... and this morning opened the grave of my daughter ... who had died—the last of my three daughters—almost six years ago ... On opening the body, the lungs were not dissolved, but had blood in them, though not fresh, but clotted. The lungs did not appear as we would suppose they would in a body just dead, but far nearer a state of soundness than could be expected. The liver, I am told, was as sound as the lungs. We put the lungs and liver in a separate box, and buried it in the same grave, ten inches or a foot, above the coffin.”[32]The act didn’t save Mercy, but Forward’s other children seemed to recover. And the willingness of Forward and his family to attempt the ritual impartially helped to relieve fear in his community. He ultimately authorized a ritual that, in effect, reestablished social stability, essentially proclaiming that the dead were, indeed, dead once again.There were other cases as well. At the end of the 19th century, Daniel Ransom wrote in his journal about his brother Frederick, a Dartmouth College student who died of tuberculosis in 1817.[33] The boys’ father worried that Frederick would feed on the rest of the family, and had Frederick exhumed and his heart burned at a blacksmith’s forge.[34] The cure didn’t work, however, and Daniel Ransom lost his mother and three siblings over the next several years.New England 'Vampire' Was Likely a Farmer Named JohnIn the 1850s, Henry Ray of Jewett City, Connecticut exhumed the bodies of his brothers and cremated them when he, too, contracted tuberculosis.[35] In a nearby case, a grave belonging to someone known only as “J.B.” was broken into—possibly by family members or friends, who often conducted the rituals—and the skeletal remains were rearranged into a skull and crossbones shape.[36] Researchers speculate that it might have been done to stop J.B. from becoming a vampire, or because he was blamed for a living person’s illness.Henry David Thoreau wrote of another case in his journal in September 1859:“The savage in man is never quite eradicated. I have just read of a family in Vermont—who, several of its members having died of consumption, just burned the lungs & heart & liver of the last deceased, in order to prevent any more from having it.”[37]Isaac Johnson (A Double Exhumation in 1784 Connecticut)The vampire legend may have made its way into New England as an early version of the unproven “miracle cure” for tuberculosis. In 1784, a newspaper published a letter about a foreign “quack doctor” who had been disseminating an unusual cure for consumption.[38] According to the letter, when a third member of the Willington, Connecticut family of Isaac Johnson contracted the disease, the quack doctor advised him to dig up two family members who had already died of the illness.[39] The bodies were inspected for any sprouting plants, and the letter writer—who said he was an eyewitness—reported that sorrel was found. The doctor advised the Johnson family to burn the sorrel with the vital organs to remove sickness from his family, an idea the letter-writer called an imposture.[40]In 1882, Dr. Robert Koch identified the causative agent of tuberculosis.[41] The sad fact was that, until drug treatments became available in the 1940s, a person afflicted with the disease would have to basically just hope for the best. That could explain why people were so eager to find another explanation for their symptoms.Today, most people understand that tuberculosis is spread through the air, by inhaling the bacteria from those with active infections in their lungs or throats.[42] There are vaccines, though they’re rarely used in the U.S., and treatments for those who contract active tuberculosis infections.[43]In the 1800s, however, germ theory was only just beginning to gain supporters among the medical community. Through 1895, doctors continued to argue over the causes of tuberculosis and treatment mainly consisted of leaving large cities like New York and Boston, where the disease ran rampant, for places like California, Colorado and New Mexico where the climate was supposed to help ease the symptoms.[44] Until the rise of the sanatoria movement (basically, rest-oriented treatment centers) at the end of the 19th century, few medical treatments worked.[45] Even sanatoria only helped some patients.An 1864 French lithograph showing farmers exhuming a body believed to be a vampire (Did Vampires Really Stalk New England Farm Families? - New England Historical Society)Before Koch's discovery, though, supernatural explanations were even more common. One suspected vampire was "J.B." (from the letters spelled out in brass tacks on his coffin). He was one of several bodies found in a forgotten 1830s cemetery in Griswold, Connecticut in 1990.[46] But unlike the other remains found in that place, J.B. had been decapitated, his skull and thighbones placed atop his vertebrae and ribs.[47] Experts believe his corpse had been desecrated in an attempt to prevent him from returning from the dead.The rituals continued until Mercy Brown’s exhumation in 1892, 10 years after Koch discovered the bacteria that caused tuberculosis.[48] Eventually, germ theory began to take hold, and contagion was better understood. Infection rates began to go down as hygiene and nutrition improved. But until then, people were often willing to cling to any chance for themselves and their loved ones under the gnawing sense of hopelessness those with the disease lived with. In short, for the pragmatic Yankee, the bottom line was, ‘What do I have to do to stop this scourge?’[49] The ritual was a folk remedy rather than an elaborated detailed belief system.In death, Mercy Brown has achieved a a cult following of sorts, comprised of both sympathizers and vampire enthusiasts. She has been the inspiration for numerous writings, including H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shunned House, [50] and supposedly, for the character of Lucy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.Footnotes[1] http://Sledzik, Paul S.; Nicholas Bellantoni (1994). "Bioarcheological and biocultural evidence for the New England vampire folk belief" (PDF). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 94 (2): 269–274. [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/[3] A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord[4] Hospital for treatment of tuberculosis[5] The Forgotten Plague | American Experience | PBS[6] When New Englanders Blamed Vampires for Tuberculosis Deaths[7] Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics[8] What are the signs and symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) (consumption)?[9] Galloping consumption - PubMed[10] Evaluating plague and smallpox as historical selective pressures for the CCR5-Δ32 HIV-resistance allele[11] The history of tuberculosis: from the first historical records to the isolation of Koch's bacillus[12] When New Englanders Blamed Vampires for Tuberculosis Deaths[13] Google News Archive Search[14] A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock village & other tales[15] Mercy Brown vampire incident - Wikipedia[16] The story of Mercy Brown: New England’s last vampire[17] When A Mob Burned The Heart Of A Teenage "Vampire" Suspected Of Killing Her Family[18] Vampires and the Tuberculous Family - Hektoen International[19] The story of Mercy Brown: New England’s last vampire[20] The Great New England Vampire Panic[21] Mercy Lena Brown (1872-1892) - Find A Grave...[22] http://smallstatebighistory.com/vampires-in-exeter-the-gruesome-tale-of-mercy-l-and-edwin-a-brown/[23] The Last American Vampire[24] The Mercy Brown Vampire Story | Historic Mysteries[25] The Vampire Case of Mercy Brown - Locations of Lore[26] http://smallstatebighistory.com/vampires-in-exeter-the-gruesome-tale-of-mercy-l-and-edwin-a-brown/[27] https://archive.org/details/foodfordead00mich[28] New England's Vampire History | Legends and Hysteria[29] The St. Charles herald. 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New York: Berghahn, 2019.[32] Justus Forward papers[33] Then Again: When vampires were to blame for a deadly wasting disease - VTDigger[34] Meet the Real-Life Vampires of New England and Abroad[35] Jewett City Vampires[36] New England 'Vampire' Was Likely a Farmer Named John[37] “The Savage in Man is Never Quite Eradicated“ - The New England Vampire Panic[38] How Tuberculosis Inspired the 19th-Century New England Vampire Panic[39] A Double Exhumation in 1784 Connecticut [40] THE WILLINGTON VAMPIRES[41] The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905[42] Understanding Tuberculosis: Perspectives and Experiences of the People of Sabah, East Malaysia[43] Vaccines | Basic TB Facts | TB | CDC[44] Early Research and Treatment of Tuberculosis in the 19th Century - American Lung Association Crusade[45] The history of tuberculosis: the social role of sanatoria for the treatment of tuberculosis in Italy between the end of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th[46] https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/10/nyregion/28-graves-giving-up-secrets-of-the-1700-s.html[47] New London County, Conn.[48] Robert Koch: Centenary of the Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus, 1882[49] Tuberculosis: From an incurable scourge to a curable disease - journey over a millennium[50] The Shunned House by H. 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A centralized repository will make it infinitely easier:For insurance companies to discriminate against consumers with a simple code - much like the TSA uses S's to indicate a flyer is on the "no-fly" list or is a security risk.For the haves and have nots to be stratified in ways that continue to destroy the middle class and to eliminate health care for people of color and of lower financial and class status because they can't afford health care or preventive care.If Wikileaks has taught us anything, it's that any system can be hacked. Medical hackers working for insurance companies can hack into such systems in order to gain access to information for who knows what purposes.Companies who award credit scores can ruin a person's good credit based on a probability number that the person may become ill at some point. Credit reports are already used to deny people housing, employment and opportunities to earn a living wage. People whose credit is ruined by divorce, medical crisis or layoffs etc. are lumped in the same category as people who abuse and misuse credit and have criminal reasons for poor credit. HR directors routinely run credit checks to determine the "employ-ability" of individuals, as do landlords, finance companies and medical professionals offering payment plans.Entire sections of the country - such as the terminal cancer tri-angle in Virginia due to the high deposits of uranium in N. VA/VA beach etc from fertilizers leaching into the water table, can be tracked and more insurance coverage denied in high risk areas. Insurance rates are already determined by factors such as age, gender, weight, health habits (exercise, smoking, drinking, zip code etc). Adding criteria such as living in a high cancer area is not inconceivable.For there to be a rebirth of eugenics - albeit under a different, more politically correct name such as "Financial eugenics," or "Medical eugenics." The U.S. Government, who will administer a national health care data base is most certainly interested in a central database for research. After all:Sixty years ago the US government deliberately infected almost 700 hundred people, many of them mentally ill patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis as part of a medical testing program. The people, all Guatemalans, were infected without their knowledge or consent and are now suing the US government.It wasn’t the first time or the last time the government would experiment with deadly diseases on its citizens or the citizens of other countries, or on children. Age, race, health – nothing mattered really. And if someone hadn’t discovered the testing and blown the whistle on this testing, no one would have ever known.Prof Susan Reverby at Wellesley College discovered the Guatemalan testing records. She says the Guatemalan government gave permission for the tests.Reverby also did research on the Tuskegee experiment, where the US authorities measured the progress of syphilis in African-American men without telling them they had the disease or adequately treating it. What is heart breaking is that many of the nurses in this program were also black and participated in it knowing what was going on.The Tuskegee experiment ran from 1932 to 1972, with President Bill Clinton eventually apologizing for it.Big Pharmaceutical companies drive a lot of these tests – many of them overseas without the control, knowledge or oversight of any organization or government. Vanity Fair wrote an article about this practice recently. It’s a good read – and one that will and should scare you. Why? Lots of reasons.Vanity Fair wrote about Celebrex trials in other countries and the cover-ups pharmaceutical companies went to in order to hide the deadly truth. Not only did Pfizer suppress a study calling attention to the fact that people taking Celebrex are more likely to suffer heart attacks and strokes than those taking older and cheaper painkillers, but they denied they suppressed it!These aren’t one-time bad decisions. There’s a pattern of big pharmaceuticals deliberately dumping bad drugs, bad blood and killing people in the name of finding a drug they can profit from. They’re willing to falsify data, pay off doctors, make up statistics and skew results to do it.Bayer - remember that name? Yeah, the folks who make aspirin. They do more. They kill people deliberately too. The New York Times reported about how in the 80’s Bayer deliberately moved AIDS tainted blood to Europe and sold it there – ultimately killing thousands of hemophiliacs. They were having problems selling the blood in the US, and later Europe but kept on making and promoting it even after new product was available because the old product was cheaper to produce. Bayer, Abbott Labs and others recruited people from prisons and at risk populations to get the plasma to create their product. They couldn’t screen out AIDS at the time and knew the plasma likely carried the virus – but oh well. There was money to be made.Bayer bought Cutter Labs – a name you might not know. Cutter produced polio vaccines with LIVE POLIO VIRUS in the vaccine. According to Wikipedia: 40,000 children who received the vaccine developed abortive poliomyelitis (a form of the disease that does not involve the central nervous system), 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis and of these 5 children died as a result of polio infection.In 2004/2005 Pharmaceutical lobbyists managed to pass a bill mandating the psychiatric testing and drugging of ALL school children – without parental consent. If your child is deemed ADHD, or depressed, or bi-polar (beginning in grade ONE!) then they are prescribed drugs and must take the drug or the parent could lose the child to protective services. Nightmare? You bet.Aren’t these random incidents? NO!!In this article and time line below from Health News Net you can see – trusting our government isn’t a smart thing. Their site, http://healthnewsnet.com is awesome by the way:A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation3-25-31931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations.1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs tocombat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.1943 In response to Japan’s full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.1945 “Program F” is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word “experiments” to “investigations” or “observations” whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation’s veteran’s hospitals.1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.1950 I n an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.1951 Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed.1953 U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.1953 Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.1955 The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army’s biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.1955 Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958.1956 U.S. military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects.1958 LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army’s Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.1960 The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the european population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT.1965 Project CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals.1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists.1970 Funding for the synthetic biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the army’s top secret biological weapons facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses.1970 United States intensifies its development of “ethnic weapons” (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA.1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick’s Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.1978 Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men.1981 First cases of AIDS are confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis B vaccine1985 According to the journal Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.1986 According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.1986 A report to Congress reveals that the U.S. Government’s current generation of biological agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines.1987 Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation.1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an “experimental” measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.1994 With a technique called “gene tracking,” Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War .1995 U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.1996 Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents.1997 Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.© 1998-2000 Health News NetworkAll Rights ReservedBecause people will be fearful of being discriminated against for seeking medical care fewer people will get the treatment they need and we'll see an increase in things like tuberculosis and infectious diseases.Non-medical practitioners will have a field day - as will those holistic practitioners who heal with touch, herbs and supplements - meaning civil courts will be clogged as the industry and the criminal justice system seek to incarcerate and eliminate a hugely effective form of medical care.Some 80% of all diseases can be traced back to stress, childhood sexual abuse and poor diet and eating habits. Centralized repositories mean that individuals who change their diet, lose weight and achieve greater health after these changes will continue to be discriminated against because these repositories don't track HEALTH, they track illness.Women who have abortions may find their medical records become political time bombs - especially if they decide to enter public office. Because the medical records of our politicians are "open" - we'll all know if you had an abortion, have a history of sexually transmitted diseases, participated in an orgy in college and had to have a gerbil removed from your anus, were/are an addict, alcoholic or rape survivor. While not legally required to release their medical records, in today's political climate refusing to release such information to the public (media pressure) is tatamount to saying you have *something to hide* The issue of privacy when it comes to public figures, particularly if a mental illness or addiction is involved, is a moot point. Like their finances and personal relationships, voters believe they should have access to their leaders medical records and are fighting for it.eg: The debate over whether Ronald Regan had Alzheimers while in office, or if Dick Cheney's heart was healthy enough to sustain the pressures of a term as president do concern voters. Given the mainstream media's almost obsessive fascination with the personal failings of everyone but their own - if you're an ordinary person and those files/records are hacked - the whole world will know your history - including depression, suicide attempts, physical exams and so on. If the media can't afford to expose your private records - someone will - as evidenced by Crivella West and MSNBC's willingness to pay to organize and host a digital data-base of Sarah Palin's emails while in office as the governor of Alaska.A history of not having all the required (and expensive) tests that the medical industry requires or recommends could put you at risk of not being approved for surgery or treatment of a disease. For instance, if you don't have a mammogram every other year, or you don't get a colon exam every year after 50 and you get cancer, you could be denied treatment for "failure to follow best practices."The list could go on and on...but remember, before you can globalize the world you have to globalize the countries in the world. We're well on our way to a one-world government. This is just another step in the process.

I don't think Donald Trump knows the meaning of an Olive Branch. I don't believe he knows how to apologize or the word sorry. I would have to check, but I don't believe that after things came out during the campaign that he was extremely criticized or after basic decency that he lacked he knows how to apologize or even knows the word sorry.Even after the audio was released from the bus from Access Hollywood, and Trump made some kind of pre-recorded statement about regretting what he said, I think he was almost as good as Hillary regarding dancing around certain words. Saying everything about the definition of the word sorry never actually saying the word per se. I'm pretty sure he never did apologize or say that he was sorry over those tapes, and clearly that was one of the bigger things during the campaign that he should've apologized for.I mean the list of things he should've apologized for is almost endless. McCain not being a war hero because he was captured? Six years that man spent at The Hanoi Hilton, while Trump got five deferments, interestingly the same number as Darth Vader a.k.a. Dick Cheney, and the last one or two was because he failed the medical exam because of a tiny bone spur in his foot. You can't make this stuff up. Of course there was that infamous mocking of the New York Times reporter with the Handicap, and that was strange because he said he never remembered that guy but also at the same time told us that he had the best memory in the world. What else?Obviously his xenophobia and misogynistic tendencies. Wanting to ban 1.2 billion people based on their religion from coming into this country. Mexicans are he was also undoubtedly a racist. I really just could go on and on and on and then I realized that I am not properly segueing from your question.I don't think Donald Trump would do this, although there are reasons why former presidents to not criticize current ones, especially the one right before them. I can get into that if you want in another question. As you remember, George W. Bush and you never commented on Obama's policy in any recorded interview. Maybe the one good thing he did, but it wasn't done to be magnanimous and not petty, it was done for self survival so Obama would not instruct The Justice Department to investigate him on actions that violated the Geneva convention, that were mostly also codified into US law. So push certainly did not want to upset Obama, and there are things I'm sure we don't know about, then after eight years, Obama may have committed some crime, and he won't want trump to think about looking into such allegations, which is probably why he's been so hospitable to him, even though I can't imagine anything in the world that ate up Obama more then having Trump in the Oval Office with him.That judge is an American citizen, born in the United States, but because his parents were of Mexican heritage and he was talking every single minute about this great wall that he's never going to really build, that the judge could not be objective because it dealt with something related to Mexico. Encouraging the crowds at his rallies to violently subdue protesters, even offering to pay for their legal defense (I wish Cory Lewandowski had been indicted by the state’s attorney of Cook County).They are a little German reasons why much of the time federal judges on all three levels recuse themselves from cases because they might have some time to the case itself. Judge Sotamayor after she was first on the court, she recused yourself from a lot of cases, because I think her law firm had either direct or in direct ties to one of the litigants. It's certainly a thing that you as a judge, must err on the side of caution. I'm trying to remember now why Rehnquist recused himself from the Nixon tape verdict, which was 8–0.Yes I know, another non sequitur, but interesting nonetheless. You may notice that current Justices very rarely comment on almost anything, not to tip their hand as how they might rule on such a case.But this judge had absolutely no reason to recuse himself and for Trump to request every Heusel based on his heritage, is far past insulting. I would like to see him have the intelligence to have a United States President appoint him to the federal bench. So yet another attack on Mexicans. Which of course he never apologize for. How about not releasing his taxes which he tiptoed around the fact that he would in fact release them. It's funny regarding that, because when you are audited, the IRS sent you a general form letter explaining that you will be audited, and it does not release any financial information. Why have we never seen that letter?There is a multitude of reasons why he doesn't want them released. Those include, the lack of income taxes he paid, the lack of charitable donations, and maybe the biggest thing, which is that he is not worth anywhere near what he has claimed. The man suffers from uncontrollable hyperbolic statements.What was the question again?It's ironic that he so publicly admired Justice Scalia, because actually they were on opposite sides on constitutionality on many fronts, but of course if Trump actually ever read, the constitution, in my opinion an overly truncated document that is missing vital details. The recent issue with flagburning. Trump tweeted, like all presidents do, that it was an insult and the perpetrator should get a sentence of one year in jail and possibly lose his citizenship to the United States. This for example, was in direct opposition of justice Scalia’s prior rulings in 1989 and 1990 (just another reason why all of you small government conservatives need a large federal government, for oversight if nothing else).Scalia, Who I am truly embarrassed to come from the same ancestry as him, was on a junket paid for by a corporation. I don't know what ties that corporation might've had to him, but more than 50% of the time, he accepted vacations from individuals companies that had a case either currently in front of the Supreme Court, or pending with the four justices voting to decide that the case be heard, and granting a writ of certiorari.Judge Merrick Garland is a real moderate centers, in the scheme of justice Anthony Kennedy. Everyone always thinks about abortion as being the continuing main issue not the Supreme Court could act on. The Supreme Court will never touch Roe v. Wade, in the thinking on the court right now feels with many other issues, and technology has a lot to do with many of them.I agree with Bernie Sanders that the biggest case in maybe generations, was the disgusting citizens United Decision. When I first started out volunteering for politicians, I really got a kick out of a lot of public speaking I did, at rallies and with tons of people either at a site they are protesting something about, or really anywhere, baby in front of one police plaza where many of these things are released. Or City Hall maybe.So when the politician I was working for at that time was up in Albany during the first half of the year where most of their work gets done, I would be his Sarah get on the stump speeches; actually often writing them myself. There was this issue with the fireboxes in New York City. This was 1994, way before cell phones became the norm. The mayor, I guess it was Rudolph Giuliani, at that time, was looking to cut money from the budget, and was going to have the speaker of the unicameral body of the New York City legislature passed a law, after he signed it, that would read the city of all of these fireboxes.Just to be clear, fireboxes I am talking about, which those of you not from New York or were too young then, were pretty much what it sounds like. Hundreds and hundreds of these red fire boxes that would alert the FDNY about a possible fire. And as you can imagine, it was generally the minorities and impoverished people who fought against this, as they may not have had a phone, maybe the phone was inside their house which was far away, etc., and I just gave a televised (if C-SPAN counts) peech on The need for them and even though I have written countless speeches for politicians, I did this one right off my head, because I didn't believe it unfairly punished low income people, and the financial benefits of removing them was simply not that great.Anyway, they did wind up leaving the boxes, but the point was that after a rally about that or something else outside of City Hall where I spoke in front of several hundred people, the former mayor of the city of New York, Ed Koch, who I did not even know was there, came up to me when I got down from the platform, and told me he had seen me give several oratories, and was very impressed. He wanted me to run for office. City Council, state legislature, or even Congress. I'm not gonna flatter myself with the details of why he told me he thought the sky was the limit, regarding my speaking abilities.I was 22 at a time, so I could not even run for Congress if I wanted to. Well I guess I could've run, but if I one, they could not have sworn me in, as the Constitution states that you must be 25 years old to be a member of the House of Representatives, 30 years old to be a United States senator and 35 years old to be President of the United States.He actually became a big fan of mine, except when I had to drive him around in my old Mustang where while they're technically were backseats, it basically was extremely uncomfortable to sit there for any period of time.In my first paid, your long, congressional primary which was the defect oh election, as the district was 85% registered Democrats, so whoever got the democratic nomination in the primary, I would almost certainly win the general election.The assemblyman who was the candidate, Dan Feldman, I met originally as a professor of mine in college, and at that time I had no idea what I wanted to do. However within three weeks I caught the political bug and started volunteering for him at nights, driving into Brooklyn from Long Island. His accomplishments in 18 years we're truly astounding. He offered and came up with the idea, is some help from his legislative director Mindy and me, of Maegans law.That was certainly a landmark law, love you ACLU automatically challenged in federal court that among other things, it was ex post facto, clearly a constitutional violation. In other words you cannot borrow a book from the library and then the next day legislation was passed law saying that any books rented within the last 30 days, had to be considered now as theft if they were not returned within a reasonable period of time, with a punishment of up to one year in jail. I honestly did not think that registering as a sex offender her with the local police department where you live, was onerous at all. First of all, almost anyone who is released from prison, does so on parole, so you would be checked by the parole board at least on a weekly basis. So if you had to already go Weekly to meet with your parole officer, they are often in police stations anyway, so I could not see the punishment of him having to release the fact that he was a convicted sex offender.There are many rules that must be followed when on paroleReally it would not have been a problem if we just passed the bill from that date, and grandfathered anyone already arrested (as while cops many times have an IQ of 9, combined, and they simply would not have the first idea what to charge me on. I say this not out of arrogance, but out of the fact that the police departments in this country have gone rogue where the standard NYPD cadet, spent one whole entire week, 40 hours of learning criminal law. In law school, in your first year we are talking about 2000 hours of criminal law and since I was interested in the topic, I took a second criminal law class in my second year, so I lost school graduate with 4000 hours of learning criminal law has absolutely no legal power to determine probable cause wait for arresting someone, and we don't have that right, although the idea of a citizens arrest which I won't spend 10 more paragraphs explaining the nuances, and some people joke around, is a very real legal option. You must have seen the crime, and then somehow "legally imprisoned” the suspectuntil the police arrived. There are many problems however. You do not enjoy the qualified immunity that a police officer he gets when making an honest false arrest, but if you do eit as a civilian, you could face criminal and civil charges if you turn out to be wrong. It's also not going to work very well outside of states with very loose gun control laws, because how else could you keep this personally against their will unless you are armed, unless of course you, or unless you happened to carry a refrigerator wherever you went, are pretty obviously not going to be able to keep and hold someone against their will (although I remember in law school learning about security officers having some minimal arrest or detainment power, possibly as being a peace officer, if the suspect was thought to be shoplifting, for example.,such as in a department ,year(apology to all of my law-enforcement friends. First of all at least half are in the federal government which you don't see people being shot from the back every other day so there would be no ex facto issue facto issue.