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Maple Grief

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MAPLE GRIEF  - By Mark Purdey 

If you go down to the woods today , you can be sure of a big surprise.

Few in North America will know about the quaint little English village of Queniborough, and how it has hosted the most intensive cluster of variant CJD in the world. Furthermore, British secrecy has been so closely guarded, that few, if any folk in Queniborough itself seem to know that their local munition factory "The Queniborough Ordnance Depot" was into the big time production of chemical weaponry during world war two.

For Winston Churchill had ordered that hundreds of thousands of tons of phosgene, mustard gas and other undisclosed chemical munitions, detonators and triggers were assembled on this massive 130 acre site, and stored around the lanes of Queniborough to evade the German bombing sorties.

The loaded bombs were later dispatched to various woodland depots close to the bomber bases all the way down the east coast of England, from Northern Scotland to Kent, in readiness to blitz every German city with chemical munitions, if it looked like the Allies were going to loose the war. Fortunately they were never used, although hundreds of thousands of tons of these munitions (including the organo phosphates) were taken out by boat to the North and Irish seas, and then dumped onto the sea bed. But once sufficient years had passed for the canisters to start corroding, the sinister legacy of these evil substances has come back to haunt us in the form of BSE and vCJD – plus numerous other conditions no doubt.

When meat and bone meal was ironically banned in 1988, the animal feed merchants increased the usage of other sources of protein, such as fish meal, which had been sourced from the very areas of UK waters where these nerve gases had been dumped. The rates of BSE then escalated right up until 1993, at which point the epidemic peaked at 3,500 cases per month, and then gradually went into decline up to present day. In this respect, the consumption of a plate of good old English fish and chips could have had more to do with the cause of vCJD than beef.

Given that every victim of vCJD in the Queniborough cluster had had direct contact with the former site of this munitions factory in their village, and the other rural clusters of vCJD had emerged in villages which adjoin the woodlands and former airfields where these ‘persistent’ munitions were stored, immediate attention should be directed towards unravelling this riddle of TSE cause.

It is interesting that the majority of vCJD victims had a tendency to be involved in outdoor lifestyles; where woodcutters, farm workers, horse riders , kennel workers ,etc, had developed vCJD – the very people who were eating the local game birds/rabbits and wild fruit/nuts, etc, that had been grown from the ecosystems of these contaminated woodlands.

But, true to Establishment form, the research investigation into the cause of vCJD is conveniently closed on the ‘beef cause’ – despite the gaping flaws in the theory. The local health researcher from Leicester finds himself knighted for successfully scape-goating the blame of the Queniborough vCJD cluster onto the innocuous butchery practises of the local Butcher – hardly a plausible explanation for the unique emergence of such a rare disease cluster, when these butchery practises are carried out at every rural butcher’s shop across the UK!

Likewise, another local butcher at Lymphstone village in Devon found himself misappropriated into the firing line of blame for another collection of vCJD cases. This was particularly stupid because one of these victims was billeted at the local military marine camp on the edge of the village, and the marines invariably purchase their meat supplies from the large wholesale consortiums. After all, one meal of meat at the marine camp would have bought out the entire stocks of the village butcher !!

Cluster buster.

I have visited and sampled every well renowned cluster of TSEs across the world, and in each location I have identified excessively high levels of one or other of the types of metal micro-crystal – strontium, barium, silver or phosphorus – that act as nucleators in the bio-system and seed the growth of metal-prion protein- ferritin crystals. Each different species of metal generates a different strain of spongiform disease.

But in any truly impartial, free thinking society, one would have thought that the existence of this unique toxic metal ‘common denominator’ that I have observed in each cluster ecosystem warrants an immediate full scale public health investigation. But despite publication of some of my data in peer reviewed science journals, this important observation is being blatantly ignored.

Nonetheless, the academic community and gullible mass media keep on bleating out about the latest experiments from the lab benches of Prusiner et al; where mis-folded prions injected into misfortunate lab animals will produce TSEs as a direct result. Sure, this is highly interesting research, but the mis-folded prions are a secondary factor in the cause of TSEs. They are not the primary initiators. And Prusiner and others know only too well, that they had to create their first generation mis-folded prions in the lab in the first place. This transformation from healthy prion protein to mis-folded prion protein did not simply happen on its own accord. For many scientific teams have produced these mis-folded prions in the lab, but they have had to expose them to sound waves and metals/chemicals in order to induce a stable conformational alteration of the prion protein – the very prerequisites that I have been hypothesising to act as the primary environmental initiators that cause TSEs.

Yet these academic fanatics are simply too reductionist and unintelligent to make a little cross leap in their thinking, and project the ‘in vitro’ initiators that have been involved in their lab experiments across to the ‘in vivo’ context of the open environment and the real world of the living cow – where a cocktail of chemicals and sonic shock waves are all part and parcel of our modern multi-polluted environments – thus why we are seeing so many new diseases, like BSE, emerging as a result. These environmental studies are all published in the scientific literature, and readily accessible through Pub Med database.

So why do the Establishment ignore the fact that every case (I repeat, every case) of TSE from the remotest corner of this earth is correlating with some mode of exposure to the metal micro-crystal nucleating agents - usually associated with the production, storage, incineration, testing of munitions. The reality of these observation cannot continue to be denied indefinitely.

After all, It is not as though this concept was conceived during a whimsical session of bar stool banter - like some theories. It was carefully developed over 15 years of intensive global travel, scientific analyses, local discussion/observation of the REAL WORLD environment in these unique TSE cluster hotspot locations around the world.

For example, The Canadian clusters of TSEs along the Albertan/Saskatchewan borders, all relate to the atmospheric discharge of munition micro crystals from the exploding ordnance at the Cold Lake air weapons range and Camp Wainwright shelling range - or in the regions where, not so many moons ago, NATO went "on safari" to test chemical weapons on the wild animal populations (deer, etc) in that area.

And then there is the case of the late senator of the isle of Guam who had died of CJD, who had accidentally unearthed dumped US ordnance on farmland adjacent to his family home prior to contracting CJD. And not that far from there, the famous Fore tribe who thrived in the remote highland region of Papua New Guinea, who were supposed to have cannibalised themselves to death by developing a type of CJD called kuru. But, in truth, the Fore folk had accidentally exploded bombs whilst scavenging crashed USAF bombers that had been shot down over their territory during world war two. By the 1950s, the survivors had all developed the kuru syndrome. This was the exclusive event that had caused this exclusive outbreak of CJD in Papua New Guinea. Nevertheless, this cluster was conveniently blamed upon their cannibalistic practises by US military medical researchers, despite the remaining 98% of the population across New Guinea (who have been Kuru-free) practising cannibalism in the same way as the Fore.

Having been sceptical of the mainstream propaganda on the cannibalistic cause of this cluster, I have always wondered what substances were in the exploding bombs that had exclusively affected that area . My recent analyses of the soil in those highland craters has confirmed the full circle.

The Nerve Agents.

The strange thing about the current state of play in the Canadian cattle battle is that nobody in authority seems to care about the plight of their own rural community; particularly ironic, since these communities provide a key role in pillaring up the Canadian economy. And for the few who actually get CJD, nobody really seems to care about them either. They are just told that the disease has no cure, and are sent home to die.

Stranger still, is the total betrayal of the Canadian government (or any government for that matter) towards the best interests of their own people. Their indifferent stance towards the damages that have been caused by the politics of BSE is most strange; particularly when those damages only exist as a direct result of the way that BSE has been artificially drummed up into such a major political, cultural and economic threat; when all along, the pure science behind the story indicates that this disease is not actually infectious in the true sense of the word.

Whilst we clearly do need to investigate and eradicate this horrendous disease – simply because of the terror that it must impose upon its poor victims - we can only begin to achieve this by identifying and accepting the disease’s true cause.

But the official indifference that has been adopted by the Canadian Establishment towards its ailing rural communities is rapidly reversed into a state of enthusiastic co-operation when you witness them launching any kind of venture with the multinational corporates. Yet it is the corporates who are forging a big business out of BSE. They need people to be scared of BSE, in order to create a climate where they can mass market their multi billion pound packages of ‘live cow BSE tests’, BSE-resistant GM cows, or, better still, replace the world’s ‘dangerously infected’ meat and milk protein supply with their own genetically modified package of chemically grown, sterile GM arable protein crops (soya, etc) – guaranteed to be free of ‘dangerous’ pathogens .

In this respect, the Canadian mandarins are feeding the very multinational monster that is vampiring the life blood out of the backbone of their own people.

The Multinational policy for global take over of the protein supply is being exercised by a mere handful of key individuals from the corporate underworld who have installed themselves into prime positions of power in virtually every country. In Canada, their field officers have back scratched their way into the upper echelons of the Canadian Agriworld – the deer and cattle associations – where they are representing anything but the best interests of their own membership. It’s much the same here in the UK, where the corporations have installed their own double agents into the UK government’s civil service. They operate on the principle that if you place your people onto both sides of the chess board, then you will be sure to win the game at the end of the day.

And it is all but a game, a mere money game to them. But to the ranchers, it represents generations of hard crafted evolution, intuitive wisdom and a lifestyle that requires an immense degree of inner integrity to sustain. Are we prepared to sit back and watch a whole chunk of our cultural heritage going down the pan, merely to appease the short term synthetic profits of a handful of global tycoons – all for the purchase of products for which we have no useful need.

In this respect, the root of the real problem seems to stem from the fact that too many vested interests have become involved in the Business of BSE. The resulting commercial pressures have corrupted the science, making it hard to expect any hard scientific facts to carry much weight with the government policy makers and advisors at the end of the day. The government departments are simply not at all interested in anything that counters the commercial master plan.

The evidence for this is out there. For a battery of ‘Bio’ companies are working up their marketplace in Canada right now . Most of these international based companies are incestuously connected back to one of the leading global corporations, who have been only to keen to keep the main governments hoodwinked on the illusory hyper-infectious ‘health risks’ posed by BSE. This is purely aimed at coercing governments to give the ‘nod’ to the mass marketing of their four dollar per cow live BSE test; essentially so that it implicates every single rancher across North America in buying their test - not to mention their scheme to unleash GM prion protein knock out designer cows (guaranteed BSE resistant) onto the farm scene.

This indicates that there is a great deal of money at stake for these companies. But what they have overlooked is the overall effect of their sustained campaign of scare mongering and its negative repercussions on the economic status of the farming community at large. For the sheer momentum of misappropriated media coverage that has been levied against the livestock farming communities over recent years, has been sufficient to bankrupt the heartbeat of our farmlands .

It is therefore hard to see how the Corporates will be able to market their 4 dollar per cow BSE live test, since the impact of their propaganda to get governments to run with their tests has ironically ended up rendering the poor old cow totally worthless .

One way forwards is to plead with our governments that they return to the days when they acted more independently of commercial interests. We need them to call into question all of the junk science that has been laid down about the origins of BSE to date, and get them to reopen a truly independent investigation into the origins of this mysterious disease.

After all, It seems unfair that the very companies who have been allowed to create BSE through the sales of their organo phosphate insecticides/war gas prerequisites, are now out and about looking for a further double whammy revenue to make out of the "crisis" itself - by offering a commercial solution to the very problems that their products had created in the first instance.

Mark Purdey - January 2005

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