By Gurli Bagnall 22 May, 2006

 The thing that confused me the most when I was first catapulted into this nightmare we refer to as ME, was the inconsistencies. That I was expected to swallow every crazy explanation the "experts" came up with left me wondering if I really WAS mad.

The recent CDC report of their study into genetic mutations in ME brought this to mind rather forcefully.  In the UK, the Wessely "school" claim that the typical ME sufferer comes from the lower socio-economic classes while in the US the  CDC now say the genetic study shows that the hysterical, upper class professional, white woman model of ME, was after all, not correct.  No apology has been issued but then it never is.

Which ever you look at it, both models were designed for the same purpose. They are manipulative,  pathetic and transparent attempts  to maintain control  - to absolve the authorities and society in general of all responsibilities.  But how stupid.  How arrogant.

In the UK, as anywhere else, it is easy for authorities to manipulate and abuse the disenfranchised; ME victims who did not start off in the lower socio-economic group, are generally soon reduced to it.  In the US the CDC model of some twenty years standing, was even more ridiculous. Whoever heard of a woman attaining and keeping the august title of "professional" (and successful at that) if she became hysterical at the drop of a hat?  Ranting, raving, and slamming fists on tables may be regarded as acceptable manly executive behaviour,  but the executive woman who has a fit of the vapours when the going gets tough, would not last five minutes in the job.

The day may well come when we will be told: "Don't blame us for your iatrogenic illnesses and deaths and your genetic mutations!  If you knew the dangers, why did you do as we instructed?"   That gem has already been used on victims of the benzodiazepine scandal.

The situation is identical to that of Gulf War Illnesses.   I refer to the item published in Co-cure on 19 May, 2006.
http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0605c&L=co-cure&P=5058

Having gone round and round the mulberry bush for many years proclaiming Gulf War Syndrome to be a psychiatric disorder  -  anything from PTSD to malingering to lack of education to sheer stupidity - Wessely, Hottopf and all their confused colleagues, have now concluded  that veterans from the 1991 debacle in Iraq suffer a sickness which remains a mystery. Not so those in the current conflict. They  demonstrate a strong presence of PTSD and manic depression, but no mystery illness as such.  Why do I get the feeling that our "experts"  flunked the medical sleuthing course?

According to the article in the Scotsman of 18 May, 2006,  to which I refer, Dr. Dafydd Alun Jones a consultant psychiatrist endorses the above views:  "It goes all the more to argue there was something sinister in the First Gulf War.  The general feeling seems to be it was something to do with the multiple infections."   He got the "sinister" part right. What a pity he did not take it a step further.

 While our sleuths are manfully grappling with these mysteries - and, of course,  the funding that allows them to do so  -  others have come up with answers based on historical facts and although they may not tell the entire story, they offer a much more logical and balanced view. Importantly, a view that makes sense to the affected.
 
For example, from the infectious perspective: "GWI is a communicable, moderately contagious and potentially lethal disease, resulting from a laboratory modified germ warfare agent called Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus). [ED. NOTE: There were actually up to 15 such agents used in Desert Storm by Iraq - - only three have been identified at this writing: mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus), mycoplasma genitalia, and Brucella species.]. Myco- plasma fermentans (incognitus) is a biological which contains most of the (HIV) envelope gene, which was most likely inserted into it in germ warfare laboratories."

"GWI spreads far more easily than AIDS, by sex, by casual contact, through perspiration, or by being close to someone who coughs. Your children can be infected at a playground or school. The Nicolsons, who have isolated the micro-organisms, say that it is airborne and moderately contagiousÅ ..Whole families are now ill.  Nor do the above numbers include babies which are being born dead or severely deformed like the thalidomide babies of the '50's. Some of the baby deformities are Goldenhar syndrome, wherein babies are born with one or more limbs missing, a missing eye or other deformity. It is now estimated that a large percent of babies born to infected veterans are being born deformed or with birth problems."

"The study done for former U.S. Senator Don Riegle (D-MI) concluded that 78% of wives of veterans who are sick are also likely to be sick, that 25% of their children born before the war are also likely to be sick, and that 65% of children born to sick Gulf War veterans after the war also are likely to be sick." ("What is Gulf War Illness (GWI)" by Donald S. McAlvaney, Editor, McAlvaney Intelligence Advisor (MIA), August 1996.) http://nov55.com/mcvy.html

The same author believes that:
 
Gulf War Illness appears to have come from four primary sources:

* Biologicals  -  which Saddam fired at the U.S. and coalition forces via his Scud missiles.
 
* Immunizations  -  forced upon American (and coalition) troops using untested, experimental vaccines.
 
* PB (Pyridostigmine Bromide) pills forced upon our troops by their comnmanders.
 
* Blowback from destroyed bunkers and factories that contained chemical and biological weapons.

 
"Ironically, much of Iraq's chemical arsenal was made by U.S. companies - 80 of which face a class action lawsuit by 2,000 ailing vets." Life, November 1995. [ED. Actually 3/4 of those companies are foreign].

On 2/10/94, the Houston Chronicle carried an article entitled: "U.S. Shipments to Iraq Feared As Cause of Veterans' Ailments" which said: During the 1980's, the U.S. government approved shipments of biological agents to Iraq that could be the cause of debilitating illnesses plaguing Persian Gulf War veterans. Sen. Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI) said Wednesday.

There were 28 countries in the coalition which participated in the Desert Storm War with the U.S. troops, and 27 of them have come down with the GWI.
Only France's soldiers do not have it. France did not let the troops take the experimental inoculations and pills which were forced upon the American and other allied troops. (Germ Warfare Against America: Part IIa - Where Does Gulf War Illness Come From?²   by Donald S. McAlvaney, Editor, McAlvaney Intelligence Advisor (MIA), August 1996)
http://www.naturalhealthholistic.com/part-2a.html

Marvellous isn't it? Even as they calculate their profits, many of those "bright" boys in their natty suits and righteous demeanours,  sneer at their victims.  

All gripping stuff and there is a great deal more of it.  It's enough to make Saddam Hussein look like a naive innocent by comparison.

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