{"article":{"id":175028,"heading":"GMO Disease Epidemics: (13) Toxic Oil Syndrome","author":"Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD","created":"2006-08-20 13:15:50","modified":"2006-08-20 13:15:50","last_modified":"Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:15:50","article":"
\r\nMyron (Mike) Stagman, PhD
\r\nConcerned Citizens Information Network
\r\nwww.ccin.info  (environmental website)
\r\nwww.MyronStagman.com
\r\nemail: artemesium@gmail.com
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\r\nGMO\r\nDISEASE EPIDEMICS:
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\r\n(13) \r\nToxic Oil Syndrome (very<\/span>\r\nprobably)
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\r\nI. \r\nThe Face of Frankenstein's Monster<\/span>
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\r\nGenetic\r\nEngineering Biotechnology (GE, GM, GMOs) evades Evolution's safeguards\r\nby injecting genes of one species into a totally unrelated species,\r\nsomething impossible in Nature.
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\r\nGM evades Evolution's safeguards, and may therefore give rise to PATHOGENS<\/span> that can\r\n-- and HAVE, many times --  caused crippling and deadly\r\nDISEASE EPIDEMICS <\/span>-- documented but unpublicised.
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\r\nGenetic Engineering is also ideal for developing horrific biological\r\nand other military weapons --- sufficient cause to OUTLAW GM<\/span>.
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\r\nThe Greatest Racket in History (Listen to this !): ---
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\r\nGM contamination is virulent, spread by wind, bird, insect, animals and\r\ntravelling  human beings.  Co-Existence with GM is\r\ncompletely impossible, only fools or liars would say differently.<\/span>
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\r\nGM\r\nhas contaminated  crops in areas of North America which dwarf\r\nthe UK\r\nand even Western Europe.   Planetary contamination is\r\ninevitable, if We\r\ndon't stop it.
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\r\nThe Biotechnology corporations know oh-so-well how contamination\r\nspreads and spreads and spreads.
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\r\nNow\r\nget this:   Through their political influence, these\r\nCorporations have\r\nbeen able to acquire the obscene, sacrilegious, and indeed revolutionary \r\nPATENTS on LIFE-FORMS<\/span>.
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\r\nBefore\r\nthese revolutionary Patents on Life,  a farmer could have sued\r\nthe\r\nBiotechnology corporation -- successfully without any doubt\r\n--  for\r\nhaving contaminated, poisoned his crops.
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\r\nHowever, given these Patents on Life (here, on the seeds<\/span>), the\r\nCorporation can -- and DOES, successfully -- sue the\r\nvictimised farmer for (Hold your nose) \"infringement of patent\".<\/span>
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\r\n[Our tainted, corrupted\r\npolitical systems allow this monstrosity.]<\/span>
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\r\nThus the formula the reader might keep in mind:
\r\nGM Contamination + Patents on Life-Forms  equals Corporate\r\nOwnership Rights in the crops of victimised farmers.
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\r\nThis formula spells the\r\nserfdom and ruin of all small family farmers on this planet.<\/span> \r\n(They are the majority of the population in Asia, Africa, and Latin\r\nAmerica).
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\r\nThe\r\nChemical-Drug-Biotechnology syndicate and its Enforcers <\/span>(corrupted\r\ngovernments in the West and Third World, corporation-dominated\r\norganisations like the WTO, World Bank, IMF) have started a WORLDWIDE\r\nAGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION.<\/span> <\/span>
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\r\nThey want to destroy small family farming, and have only gigantic\r\nCorporate GM Plantations with farmers working as serfs.
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\r\n[This\r\nprocess is underway, especially in South America where the U.S.\r\nMilitary has begun to intervene on behalf of GM Plantations to crush\r\nfarmer opposition.]
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\r\nAlready, according to the Research Foundation for Science, Technology\r\nand Ecology (RFSTE) in New Delhi,  40,000\r\nfarmers in India have committed suicide<\/span>\r\nprimarily as a result of the Corporate Enforcers' so-called \"free\r\ntrade\" policies --- dumping heavily-subsidised Western farm produce\r\nonto glutted Indian markets, pushing GM crops, insisting that Patents\r\non Life-Forms be accepted so farmers must sign contracts with GM\r\nCorporations and can no longer save seeds, etc.
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\r\nThe\r\nGreatest Racket in History<\/span>\r\n--- GM Contamination + Patents on Life-Forms equals Corporate\r\nProprietary Rights in the crops of victimised farmers, and spells the\r\nserdom and ruin of small family farmers everywhere on this planet.
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\r\nWe\r\nMUST OUTLAW GM and PATENTS on LIFE-FORMS -- or else !! <\/span>\r\n
\r\n(e.g. No more organic, healthy food --- you and your children will only\r\nbe able to eat unsafe GM) 
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\r\nSee the Action Plan in Part III designed to OUTLAW GM and PATENTS on\r\nLIFE-FORMS. 
\r\nBut beforehand, read the next in our series of \"GMO Disease\r\nEpidemics\". 
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\r\nII.<\/span>  Genetically-Engineered\r\n<\/span>\r\nToxic Oil Syndrome<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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\r\n  <\/span>Apparently\r\nthe first GMO disease epidemic took place in Spain in\r\n1981.   20,000\r\npersons were affected, and over 300 died shortly after the onset of the\r\nepidemic.  How many have died since then as a proximate result\r\nof Toxic\r\nOil Syndrome (TOS), I do not know.<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>As\r\nalways,  scientists and the corporate media have turned a\r\nblind eye to\r\nevidence that TOS was GMO-induced.  Back in 1981, an early\r\nyear for GM,\r\nit may have been forgivable.  But certainly not after 1989\r\nwhen the\r\nGM-Tryptophan epidemic hit the USA and other countries. 
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\r\nSome\r\nscientific literature on Toxic Oil Syndrome even mentions the\r\nGM-Tryptophan-caused Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome (EMS), due to the\r\nsimilarity in key medical symptoms, but in no case do scientists\r\nbreathe into the public air the dreaded term \"Genetic Engineering\".
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\r\nWhat reasons underpin a \"very<\/span>\r\nprobable\" status for Toxic Oil Syndrome as a genetically-engineered\r\ndisease epidemic?
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\r\n1.  Rapeseed\r\nOil<\/span>\r\n---  The source of the epidemic was traced to the consumption\r\nof\r\nrapeseed oil (oilseed rape, canola).  Today, rapeseed oil is\r\none of the\r\nbig 4 GM crops -- together with maize (corn), soya, and cotton.
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\r\nRapeseed oil was first genetically engineered in 1974, seven years\r\nprior to the TOS outbreak in 1981.
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\r\n2. \r\nMedical symptoms<\/span> -- Toxic Oil Syndrome, like\r\nGM-Tryptophan's EMS, featured a\r\nrange of chronic<\/span> symptoms following the acute stage.
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\r\nTOS\r\nwas characterised by multiple-organ diseases, like EMS. (Genetic\r\nEngineering has the capacity to do this, apparently by attacking\r\nforcefully the central nervous system).
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\r\nCHRONIC MYALGIA<\/span>\r\n(myalgia: muscle pain) was characteristic of TOS, as of course was the\r\ncase with Eosinophilia MYALGIA Syndrome.  And other symptoms\r\nof TOS\r\nremind of EMS.
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\r\n<\/span>3.<\/span><\/span>  Like Eosinophilia\r\nMyalgia Syndrome,  Toxic Oil Syndrome is new to science, a\r\npreviously unrecorded condition.<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>4.  Experimental\r\nstudies have failed to reproduce symptoms of human TOS.  (Try\r\ngene-splicing, fellas, and you may get closer.)<\/span><\/span>
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\r\n5.  The\r\nfirst cases of Toxic Oil Syndrome occurred in Madrid near the Torrejon U.S. Military base<\/span>.<\/span><\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>Commen<\/span>t:<\/span>\r\n  <\/span> <\/span>A genetically modified\r\norganism<\/span>
\r\n may\r\nhave come out of that U.S. military base, accidentally or purposely as\r\nan experiment.  The U.S. government has been secretly\r\nconducting a\r\nvariety of illegal experiments on civilian populations for 50\r\nyears. <\/span><\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>6. <\/span><\/span>\r\nThis is quite important --- Great secrecy surrounded the official\r\ninvestigations into Toxic Oil Syndrome, fueling Spanish suspicions of a\r\nconspiracy and cover-up.
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\r\nOf considerable\r\nsignificance, independent investigators were met with Government\r\nrepression. <\/span>
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\r\nThere\r\nwas a definite cover-up, and, to my mind, ONLY  a Genetic\r\nEngineering\r\ninvolvement in TOS could  have caused  such secrecy\r\nand repression of\r\nwhat appeared offhand to be a simple case of \r\nfood-poisoning. 
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\r\nNotice\r\nhow governments, especially those of the U.S.and UK, have a horror of\r\nindependent and honest public inquiries into disasters.  Guess\r\nwhy.
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\r\n<\/span><\/span>The\r\nSpanish Government's official explanation of \"impure\" (for industrial\r\nuse did they say?) rapeseed oil accidentally getting onto the market,\r\nwas of course the usual whitewash.
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\r\n[\"The\r\nSpanish Toxic Oil Syndrome 20 Years After its Onset: A\r\nMultidisciplinary Review of Scientific Knowledge\", Emilio Gelpi et\r\nal, \r\nEnvironmental Health Perspectivies, vol. 110, no. 5, May\r\n2002;  re\r\norigin of GM rapeseed oil,  \"Canola---Canola's Oil Spill Onto\r\nthe\r\nAmerican Market\", Janet Allen, www.rense.com\/politics6\/canola.htm]<\/span><\/span>
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\r\nIII.  Conclusion\r\nand What To Do<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>Human beings and Nature, as we have known them, cannot\r\nsurvive in a GMO-Frankenstein world.  
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\r\nThe nightmare technology of Genetic Engineering Biotechnology, and its\r\nincestuous Patents on Life-Forms, must be OUTLAWED.
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\r\nHow To Do It<\/span>?
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\r\nThere is only one way to overcome this extremely powerful, \r\nruthless Corporation-Government-corporate Mass Media axis.
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\r\nIt\r\nis to conduct grassroots Public Education Campaigns to educate and\r\npolitically activate the General Public, university \/ college students\r\nin particular.<\/span>
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\r\nThe General\r\nPublic<\/span>\r\n!!   Stop forever talking to the Converted. \r\nTo get around the\r\ncorporate media's suppression and distortion of truth,  one\r\nmust talk<\/span>\r\nto people and go\r\ndoor-to-door with leaflets and vocal messages. <\/span>
\r\nAnd major efforts must be made to inform and activate <\/span>university students.<\/span><\/span>
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\r\nImportant Hints: 
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\r\n(1)   Concentrate on  university students<\/span>. \r\n
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\r\n And  senior\r\ncitizens.<\/span>
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\r\nI\r\nspeak to you now, elder citizens like\r\nmyself.    Put moral purpose into\r\nyour lives and help rescue this planet and your grandchildren.
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\r\n(2)   AVOID\r\nNGOs and all established organisations, especially large ones.<\/span> \r\nThey are not what they seem.
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\r\nTheir hierarchies and decision-making are corporation-influenced if not\r\noutright purchased.
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\r\nNever ever join\r\nthem.  Never ever give them Money. <\/span> \r\n
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\r\n  [see George Monbiot's very important article in The Guardian,  <\/span>4\r\nSeptember 2001, \"Sleeping\r\nwith the Enemy:  Consumer and Environmental Groups are Getting\r\ninto Bed with Big Corporations<\/span>]
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\r\n[Note: In\r\ndeveloping countries there are some exceptions, but very very very few\r\nin the West. If by a miracle one of them ever conducts a genuine and\r\nsensible public education campaign, then you can help ou<\/span>t. \r\nBut NEVER<\/span>\r\njoin or give money to them.]
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\r\nThe environmental field especially is riddled with<\/span><\/span> wealthy, prestigious, deceptive<\/span>\r\norganisations adept at dilutng and derailing environmental\r\ncauses,  GM in particular. 
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\r\n[I am thinking at this moment of one such organisation I have observed\r\nover a long period of time, in my view a very slick and dangerous FOE<\/span>\r\nof environmentalism, originally created by polluting Corporations to\r\ndeal with the growing environmental movement.
\r\nDon't go anywhere\r\nnear this one.]<\/span>
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\r\nWhen they talk about being 'practical' and seeking 'Coexistence'<\/span>\r\nwith GM,  let a red\r\nflag<\/span> go up.
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\r\nNothing short of OUTLAWING GENETIC ENGINEERING and PATENTS ON\r\nLIFE-FORMS will save us and our planet.
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\r\nDo your educational work\r\nas individuals or in small groups of people you know.<\/span>
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\r\nIn a little of your\r\nSPARETIME (perhaps 3 or 4 hours a week, but regularly, as part of an\r\nethical life-style):<\/span>
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\r\nEducate and activate\r\nthe Public by writing and telephoning and just talking to your family\r\nmembers, friends and acquantances; 
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\r\nWrite letters and make telephone calls to local, regional and national\r\nmedia<\/span>; 
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\r\nWrite, call and especially visit your legislative representatives and\r\nother government personnel,  and
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\r\nTake appropriate Direct\r\nAction<\/span>.<\/span><\/span>
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\r\nGood Luck to You.
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\r\nP.S. \r\nFor a detailed Action Plan on conducting education\/activation campaigns\r\n(e.g. composing A4 leaflets for distribution, lobbying your legislative\r\nrepresentative) see \"Creating a Grassroots Democracy While Outlawing\r\nGenetic Engineering\"currently on the Indymedia Biotech\r\nwebsite.  Or\r\nemail me and request it.<\/span>
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\r\nFor extensive information on\r\nthe casualties and unprecedented dangers of Genetic Engineering, see\r\n\"Genetic Engineering Fact-Sheet\" on the website of the Concerned\r\nCitizens Information Network,  www.ccin.info<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n\n","contact":"artemesium@gmail.com","link":"www.ccin.info","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 13th in a series revealing the epidemics, dealing here with Toxic Oil Syndrome which afflicted Spain in 1981, involving one of today's big 4 GM crops -- canola (oilseed rape).","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/08\/175028.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}