#obviously both species always have and always will produce exceptions frequently!
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Very soft right now for not merely the fact that humans artificially selected dogs to have a biological inclination toward loving humans but that simultaneously -- as a direct result of the mutualist survival success between the two species -- humans were naturally selected to have a biological inclination toward loving dogs in turn.
Like human social groups that didn't have dogs didn't survive. Humans that utilized dogs more survived longer, produced more offspring before death. Offspring that didn't inherit dog-loving genes had lower reproductive success.
Dogs are biologically human-loving and humans are biologically dog-loving.
so soft for this right now.
#obviously both species always have and always will produce exceptions frequently!#but oguh. uohg. gouh
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Witches
Disclaimer: I’ve probably taken more creative liberties with the Fomorians than with any other Irish and/or Celtic folklore. My ‘fics are not intended to be an accurate representation of them, and in fact I’ve considered combing through my works and changing the term Fomorians to something else unless I’m referencing their lore specifically.
I have drawn inspiration and used the name, but in order to include them in backstory ‘fics, I shifted their stories back a few million years and associated their supernatural powers with the elements of the Fae zodiac. Thus, the stories about Fomorians exist, but they happened long, long ago and happened to members of the seven elemental species under the Fomorian umbrella.
I’ve described the Fomorians as an ancient supernatural race divided into seven tribes, each one based off an element on the Fae zodiac. Those who hold Zodii beliefs believe each of the zodiac spirits handmade one of the Fomorian tribes, while other fae believe any parallels to be simple coincidence and wishful thinking.
The Fomorians are neither Aliens nor Fae. They are simply another class of powerful beings altogether, categorized as Dawnfolk alongside other notable races such as the Tuatha Dé Danann and the nature spirits.
Most witches are born from Fomorian x Alien unions, or from Fomorian x Angel unions. The only witches we see in Cloudlands AU have Fomorian heritage, so this post will focus on that.
If you’re curious, the Creature Directory (AKA, the list of possible witch parentage combinations) can be found HERE.
WHAT IS A WITCH?
Officially, a witch is a being with one magical parent and one non-magical one (This excludes nature spirit x mortal combinations since they are known as demigods). Witches themselves are magical beings, and thus can produce more witches. Magic abilities vary between witches according to the race of their magical parent.
As stated above, we will only discuss witches with Fomorian heritage in this post, as we will only see witches with Fomorian heritage in story.
Fomorian magic is sentient. It thinks, sleeps, has desires, and tries to obtain those desires if given the opportunity. Some people make little distinction between a Fomorian or witch and their magic, believing both to have the same mind- For example, that the user is greedy and constantly takes what it wants, or that the user is essentially a husk, and the magic has taken full control of the former owner’s body.
Magic is most powerful in the Fomorians themselves and is watered down with each successive witch generation. Fomorians vary despite sharing the title Fomorians.
For example, genies obviously wield magic, and always seem to have full control over their powers. However, merfolk don’t seem to have any control over their powers at all; they are simply magical beings who can’t utilize magic, only reap its silent benefits.
CHARACTERISTICS
A magical parent will pass a third sex chromosome onto children they have with a non-magical individual. In humans, this results in magical variations of syndromes very similar to Triple X syndrome for girls (resulting in XXZ sex chromosomes) and Klinefelter syndrome for boys (XYZ sex chromosomes).
Because of this, witch heritage can only be passed down by the mother, as male witches are always sterile.
While exceptions can occur, these traits tend to be associated with witches:
MALES
- Taller than average for their age
- Reduced testosterone production leading to less facial and body hair, and the development of more feminine physical traits (Breast enlargement, wider hips, etc.)
- Highly youthful and energetic even as they age
- Sterility
- “Witch’s hips” (Pelvic bones similar to snake vertebrae)
- Increased risk of health problems
- Much more likely to have black or blond hair than female witches (Sex-linked coloration, like male orange cats)
- Frequently stereotyped as being overactive, annoying, and not too smart
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FEMALES
- Shorter than average for their age
- Hands may appear more crooked / gnarled (Think stereotypical witch)
- More reserved and less energetic than male witches
- Early signs of wrinkles and graying hair
- “Witch’s hips” (Pelvic bones similar to snake vertebrae)
- Reduced risk of health problems
- Much more likely to have brown or red hair than male witches (Sex-linked - coloration, like female calico cats)
- Frequently stereotyped as being clever, creative, and not too social
Witchhood is a separate concept from the actual Triple X and Klinefelter syndromes; many of the characteristics overlap, but those syndromes are real and witchhood is entirely a fanmade concept.
THE COLOR ORANGE
Except where merfolk are concerned, orange coloration is rare in the magical world. Finding a naturally orange magic user is like finding a shiny Pokémon. They don’t have any extra special powers. They just look a bit different, and those who are in the know might stop and stare.
If two orange Fairies or genies had a kid, and you would more likely than not get a baby who would be classified as either yellow or red. It’s not much more likely to breed an orange than it would be to breed two shiny Pokémon and expect another shiny.
As rare as natural orange coloration is in the Fairy and Fomorian populations, it’s even rarer among witches.
TRIBES
In Cloudlands AU, there are seven snake-like magical races, each one tied to one of the seven elements. Because of this, the Fomorians are sometimes called the eelementals.
A true Fomorian appears humanoid from the waist up and snake-like from the waist down in their natural state. Powerful magic allows them to alter their forms temporarily, so they can mimic the reproductive system of another creature (such as an alien or human), and successfully reproduce.
The seven tribes are as follows:
Succubi - The Love Tribe. Considered very beautiful, although their hands are birds’ claws and their lower halves flow as though made of silky cloth. Basically temptresses akin to sirens. Males are usually known as incubi, but are still considered part of the same race.
Witches of Succubus descent are highly empathetic and in tune with others, and can even read the thoughts of those they bond with, even from far away.
They have an affinity with snowy weather.
The stereotype is that they’re all flirty and highly promiscuous.
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Genies - The Fire Tribe. The only wish-granters of the lot, and famous for being imprisoned in lamps that only non-magical creatures can release them from. Their lower halves are made of smoke.
Witches of Genie descent have the ability to rapidly create, alter, and destroy matter even on a large scale.
They have an affinity with clear, bright, sunny weather.
The stereotype is that they’re all cunning and claustrophobic.
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Merfolk - The Water Tribe. This goes without saying. They dwell in oceans across many planets and their lower halves mimic those of fish. People in the magical world debate on whether Marrow are classified as Merfolk.
Witches of Merfolk descent have far-reaching senses that grant them extra awareness of their surroundings from a distance.
They have an affinity with rainy weather.
The stereotype is that they’re all narcissistic and grudge-holding.
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Pressyne - The Sky Tribe. Technically, “Pressyne” is the name for the wife of King Elynas and the mother of Melusine, a woman of myth whose legs became a snake-like tail every Saturday. In my works, Pressyne are a whole species for worldbuilding purposes. Their tails resemble various types of clouds.
Witches of Pressyne descent have the ability to float.
They have an affinity with stormy weather, particularly when lightning is involved.
The stereotype is that they’re all flighty and ungrounded in reality.
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Milesians - The Soil Tribe. Their lower halves are made of dirt, rock, sand, and/or clay. Material can vary depending on the planet they reside on.
Witches of Milesian descent have the ability to melt into the background, often becoming entirely invisible.
They have an affinity with hot, dry weather.
The stereotype is that they’re all stubborn and not very sociable.
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Djanggawul - The Breath Tribe. Life-giving spirits of Australian folklore. Their lower halves appear to be rainbow ribbons.
Witches of Djanggawul descent have powerful dreams, and can even tune into the dreams of others nearby.
They have an affinity with cool, cloudy, fresh weather.
The stereotype is that they’re all overly polite and charitable.
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Cnemida - The Leaves Tribe. There isn’t an “actual” mythological creature known as a Cnemid. Cnemidophorus is the genus with several asexually-reproducing lizards in it. The Cnemida have lizard-like arms, though the scales can vary from being shoulder-down, elbow-down, or wrist-down depending on the individual. They tend to have grassy, flowery lower halves.
Witches of Cnemid descent tend to be highly spiritual, connecting strongly with nature and animals.
They have an affinity with warm, humid weather.
The stereotype is that they’re all judgmental and ultra-vegan.
CLASSIFICATIONS
Along with being descended from a certain Fomorian tribe, witches differ in the way they express their powers, bringing us to three classifications:
Commensalistic-Class (C-Class) - Witches with magic that can be actively manipulated by its host without much struggle. Most prominent in early-generation witches, since this is how raw Fomorian magic works. The host benefits in this relationship; the magic does not.
Mutualistic-Class (M-Class) - Witches with magic that activates of its own will to manipulate its surroundings, usually to benefit its host (Ex: Host is falling to their death, magic kicks in and helps them survive in one way or another). Most prominent after a few generations. Fomorian magic is so powerful that it seems to have a mind of its own. Both host and magic benefit in this relationship.
Parasitic-Class (P-Class) - Witches with magic that is parasitic and will eventually take control of the body of its host. Most prominent in witches far removed from the original Fomorian ancestor. If you can’t handle all that Fomorian magic, then all that Fomorian magic will handle you. The magic benefits in this relationship; the host does not.
These classifications are not described in my works in detail as they are not particularly relevant to what I write, but a few characters who are in the know occasionally toss around this vocabulary.
KNOWN WITCHES
Alden Bitterroot and the Crocker Family - The Crockers are Pressyne-descended and belong to the Sky tribe. Denzel is an M-Class witch whose powers result in his flailing and floating tics; he can’t control himself there. Kevin is a C-Class witch; his powers are polite and don’t like to bother him... but they don’t really help him, either.
These powers, being sentient, have their own sleeping schedule. When both Kevin and his powers are awake, he can see “living memories” of people, objects, and animals in places where stinky magic has built up. If his powers are awake while he’s asleep, he might dream about past events he’s never witnessed.
Denzel doesn’t have this ability, as he got the floating. Kevin can jump, but not float; he gets the memory-viewing power instead. Mrs. Crocker can sense the emotions of her loved ones even from afar. Kevin’s mom can move at incredible speeds.
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Happy Peppy Gary - Gary is Genie-descended and belongs to the Fire Tribe. He is an M-Class witch; he has moderate control over his powers. His powers can get restless at times, but normally he’s able to keep them in line. However, they become very excited around music and tend to cause trouble while in that state- during the song “Get Flappy” from the Musical, he created multiple clones of himself. That’s one of his witch powers.
Gary is the only orange witch documented in fae history, which makes him a (small) celebrity in the cloudlands. He is six generations removed from his genie ancestor, which means his magic is more powerful than Elmer’s and most of the Crockers’. More difficult to control, too. Because of his Genie heritage, Gary also has the ability to temporarily transfer his powers to someone he exchanges body fluids with. In Pink and Gray, H.P. and Sanderson are constantly pushing him to kiss Betty for this reason.
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Elmer - Elmer is Genie-descended and belongs to the Fire Tribe too. He is a P-Class witch; his magic is parasitic and has taken the form of Bob the boil. The older he gets, the more Elmer wrestles for control of his body with the sentient magic he’s suppressing. All the magic in Elmer’s family is rather primal by nature with little on their minds except overtaking their hosts and living however they please.
Side note - the boils appear due to magical build-up and stress. Elmer’s mom is the witch and she spread magic - i.e. the boil - to her husband by being regularly intimate with him. If she stopped for a long time, his boil would fade because he’s not a magical being and can’t sustain it.
Elmer’s boil appeared at a young age due to stress as he tried and failed to catch Timmy’s attention. That’s my explanation for why he didn’t have it in “It’s a Wishful Life” when Timmy wished he’d never been born (even though I don’t consider that episode canon anyway).
Elmer’s powers are fairly dangerous since Bob actively plots world domination. Elmer has a plot arc in the ‘fic Along the Cherry Lane that focuses on his struggle with Bob as the years go by.
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Some relatives of the above characters are also witches, but these are our only notable witch characters.
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Wanted to actually outline the hierarchy system in my FOP fanfics rather than juggling it all in my head. Those on the same line are more or less considered to be of equal rank. Fuzzy gray areas may apply. Details under the cut.
Fairy Elder - Only mentioned in the Season 8 episode “Timmy’s Secret Wish”, although no details were given about her apart from the fact that she “had [the Hocus Poconos] totally redone”, and turned the Giant French Doors of Time into the Window of Time. She wears yellow robes. She appeared in my one-shot, “Minion”, and will later appear in Origin of the Pixies.
Wise Ancients - Extremely powerful nature spirits. Some of these would be Mother Nature (“Balance of Flour”), Father Time (“Timmy’s Secret Wish”), The Darkness (“Wishology”), the Grim Reaper (“Man’s Worst Friend”), and the Cycling Hen (“Chicken Poofs”). The spirit bears are also considered Wise Ancients. They were most notably discussed in “This Is Halloween”.
Zodiac spirits - The seven nature spirits who represent the seven elements on the Fairy zodiac. I discussed them each in detail HERE. The days of the week are named after them. They were first mentioned during Sanderson’s shrine song in “Grand Father” and are frequently mentioned in Frayed Knots.
Supreme Fairy Council - Four Fairies and three Anti-Fairies who are elected to sit on either the Fairy Council or Anti-Fairy Council. The seven are collectively referred to as the Supreme Fairy Council. Each member is called a Robe, and wears a robe in the color of the region (political state) they represent. I named and briefly discussed them HERE.
Eros family - Cupid’s bloodline. Always cherubs, always triplets, and allegedly tasked by the gods to maintain Fairy genealogies and prevent any species in the universe from truly going extinct. I discussed their social status HERE. In Origin, H.P. was captured by the Eroses for study for several chapters starting in “The Chapter With Nine Snakes In It”.
Keeper of Da Rules - Jorgen’s position, obviously. The Keeper of Da Rules maintains order in the cloudlands by ensuring Da Rules are followed. Following the War of the Angels (“Balance of Flour”), the Keeper of Da Rules also became ambassador for the common fairy subspecies. H.P. and Sanderson encountered Adelinda von Strangle, the former Keeper of Da Rules, in “Minion”.
Lower-ranked nature spirits - The children and grandchildren of the zodiac spirits. Some are more powerful than others. Some notable ones include Twis and Sunnie’s daughter, the winter goddess Beira (Wikipedia / Fanfic mention), and Sunnie’s grandson, Fergus Mór mac Eirc (Wikipedia / Fanfic mention).
Alien ambassadors - Aliens who represent other worlds, including entire planets. Venus Eros hosted several alien ambassadors during “Snowflake”. Technically speaking, Jimmy Neutron is also recognized as one of these due to the events of “Power Hour”.
High Count and High Countess - Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda’s positions. Politically, they are complete legal equals, and have the authority to override each other’s orders. In practice, Anti-Cosmo is more commanding, and is widely considered to be ranked above Anti-Wanda (especially by Fairies). While the titles imply separate male and female positions, they can be filled by a same-sex pair. Although equals from a political standpoint, the High Count is still considered head of the household, mirroring the creche father rank in actual bat colonies.
Head Pixie - Obviously, the rank from the show. The title is often abbreviated H.P. Only the reigning Head Pixie has the authority to make drastic changes to the Pixie social structure, and he rules until his death. Following his death, he is succeeded by the Vice President of Pixies Inc. H.P. set the social structure precedent in “Playing With the Big Kids”.
Fairy subspecies ambassadors - Ambassadors of various races under the Fairy umbrella who attend Council meetings. Some are elected, while others are kings and queens born and raised in royal families.
First General - The follower drake of the High Count- AKA, a high-ranking male Anti-Fairy who was allowed to stay in the Blue Castle colony upon coming of age instead of being run off, or choosing to leave and join a bachelor colony. As the High Count’s follower drake, the First General organizes and oversees troops in war. In times of peace, he also performs ceremonies, and breaks gridlock arguments among the camarilla. This position is always filled by a male.
Temple acolytes - High-ranking Anti-Fairies seemingly akin to shamans who reside in and care for the Zodiac Temples. Considered experts in matters of architecture and feng shui. They spend decades studying such things in Zodiac Temples before they can design monuments to the nature spirits or offer their designing services to clients. They’re so renowned for their skill that hopeful Fairy architects will train beneath them instead of attending the Academy.
Head Anti-Pixie - Leader of the anti-pixie race. Generally given the cold shoulder and not taken seriously considering that anti-pixies are stereotyped as constantly-drunk party-loving lunatics. Holds very little political power.
Vice President of Pixies Inc. - The pixie intended to be the Head Pixie’s successor; until then, he helps the Head however he is instructed to. He’s also a forager who keeps the grocery stores stocked, and he takes on a lot of child-rearing duties. Only pixie gynes are intended to hold this rank, although if no gyne pixies can be found, a drone can take up the position instead. This is Longwood’s current rank, much to Sanderson’s chagrin.
Chief Pixie of PixieCo - The gyne who oversees pixies in the Hawthorn Haven cloudland colony. The title is also abbreviated C.P. of PixieCo; as there are no other Chief Pixies at this time, the title “Chief Pixie” can be used without the PixieCo clarification. The C.P. is still subject to the Head, like a manager to a larger company. We’ll hear about this position for the first time in the upcoming “The Other One” Prompt.
Pixie ambassador - H.P. became Pixie ambassador to the Supreme Fairy Council by default. However, he can elect to pass the position to someone else if he wants to. He attended his first Council meeting in “Cotton Candy Oatmeal”.
Keepers [of Da Rules] - Not to be confused with the singular position. These would be the folks dressed in light blue uniforms whom we saw assisting Jorgen in “Fairly Odd Baby”. They’re essentially the Fairy World police force, and are trained to organize as militia if necessary.
Camarilla court - Six Anti-Fairies selected by the High Count and six selected by the High Countess who weigh in on matters of political and social importance. While the High Count and High Countess technically hold seats on the camarilla too, the name “camarilla” is colloquially used to encompass everyone else. In total, there are two people on the camarilla court representing each of the seven elements on the Fairy zodiac. Most of the Anti-Fairies seated around the dining table in “Fairly Odd Baby” are on the camarilla. I identified them HERE.
Heir to the High Seat / “High heir” - A child of either the High Count or Countess (sometimes both) born with the “iris virus”- colorful eyes instead of dull red. A potential heir born without the iris virus would automatically be rejected as the heir for not carrying “the sacred blessing of the nature spirits”. Foop is the heir to the High Count seat in present day, although his title could be revoked if he is deemed unsuitable before his coronation. In times of desperation when no legitimate heir can be produced, another color-eyed child of nobility (most likely an extended family member) could be adopted into the bloodline instead. As the iris virus is actually an STD, it can be transmitted to intimate partners.
H.P.’s alpha retinue drone - A gyne’s primary drone; the drone who oversees the other drones, and can assist his gyne in distributing his pheromones through the ranks. This is Sanderson’s current position. He was given this title in “Cotton Candy Oatmeal”, and he discussed it more in “Grooming”. An alpha retinue drone ~technically~ has the same rights as a service animal regarding where he can and can’t go.
Vice President of PixieCo - Simply, the pixie who succeeds the Chief Pixie of PixieCo, and assists him until then. Like the Vice President of Pixies Inc., the V.P. of PixieCo should be a gyne. Again, we’ll be introduced to this position in “The Other One”.
Other von Strangle family members - Nana Boom-Boom. Invisible Leonard. People we saw in “Cosmo Rules”. You know what I mean.
Creche fathers of other colonies - While there are some exceptions, colonies of Anti-Fairies are naturally patriarchal; the creche father is the highest-ranking male in the colony. While leadership skills are valued, his main role consists of caring for the young pups in the colony. If you’re a lower rank than they are, it’s polite to greet them with an honorary rather than expecting them to greet you. It’s worth noting that a creche is a group of baby bats.
Heir’s betrothed - The intended mate to the “High heir”, and therefore the assumed new High Count or Countess. This person doesn’t hold real legal authority, but is treated with respect. As it stands right now, Anti-Coriander seems to hold this position unofficially; while not officially betrothed to Foop, she is certainly the girl his parents have urged him to woo.
Chief Sunchosen - A self-proclaimed, unofficial title currently held by Dame Artemis Cairo. The intention is that one day, this position will be for Refracts what the High Count and Countess are for Anti-Fairies. There’s still a long way to go. Dame Artemis first appeared in “Think Positive”.
C.P.’s alpha retinue drone - Same as H.P.’s alpha retinue drone, but he belongs to the Chief Pixie of PixieCo.
Other celebrities - The Tooth Fairy, famous actors like Blonda, TV show hosts like Billy Crystal Ball, successful writers, and so on.
Mates of camarilla members - Nobles simply as a result of who they marry. Obviously, they lose this title if their mate is removed from the camarilla. Generally, camarilla mates will contract the iris virus from their mate.
Other irises - Other carriers of the iris virus. Generally nobles and former nobles who are treated with a hint more respect than commoners. This is actually sort of a fuzzy area; prostitutes selling the iris virus are an actual problem that causes headaches for the higher-ups.
Successful farmers - If you lived in a magical cloud world with limited ability to farm nutritious food, you would value farmers who provided you with high-quality crops too.
Most Refracted - An angelic, pious race of gold and white bird-based people, quite opposite of the stereotype of the evil blue and black Anti-Fairy. The Refracted manage many of the Daoist shrines and ceremonies, and are generally well-liked even though they can be pompous and annoying.
Gynes - Large, freckled Fairies - always male - who ate a lot of jelly as children. In actual insect colonies, gynes are the “princesses” who take over from the queen, often by killing her in a battle to the death. Likewise, Fairy gynes are naturally very territorial and often fight each other. Gynes with more dominant pheromones have the ability to suppress the reproductive systems of subordinate gynes. Gynes with many dark freckles are considered more attractive than those with few. The actual rank of a gyne varies in regard to other social status factors, but people generally give them respect.
Upper-class Fairy citizens - High-ranking people who aren’t considered celebrities, per se. The Whimsifinado family would fall into this category. I suppose the Fairywinkles would too.
Kids of camarilla members and their mates - Children of nobility, often considered nobles themselves. They’re likely to carry the iris virus.
Average Fairy citizens - Self-explanatory. Regular, non-celebrity folk. Fairy culture is still largely dominated by their caste system / social ladder, although they’re starting to move away from it in present day. (Ladder Part 1 / Part 2)
Anti-Fairy commoners - Average Anti-Fairies who aren’t considered nobility; as a result, they’re highly unlikely to carry the iris virus, and probably have red eyes. Those who live in colonies are considered more socially acceptable than rogues. Many males travel in bachelor colonies during their adolescent years.
Tourists (Aliens) - Cloudland foreigners. Aliens don’t typically settle in the cloudlands since there’s really nothing to do there if you’re not magical, and the buildings tend to be very small. Several tourists were seen in “Think Positive”.
Genies - Generally looked down upon; profiled as dirty, manipulative trouble-makers who enjoy laughing at the expense of others. Technically, it’s difficult to officially rank them since there just aren’t very many in the first place, let alone freely wandering the cloudlands.
Drones - Stereotyped as natural-born servants, always male, and born only if their father is either a gyne or a drone. Despite the name “drone”, their natural behaviors are most similar to those of worker bees. They’re attracted to gyne pheromones, so gynes tend to form retinues of drones who take pride in serving him. A drone will be born sterile approximately 75% of the time. Pixie drones, being infected with Wolbachia pipientis, are an exception to this rule.
Will o’ the wisps - Stereotyped as gorgeous temptresses akin to sirens who seduce males and keep harems. Universally, they fear floods and come out of their underground tunnels when it rains. Goldie Goldenglow is a wisp.
Anti-will o’ the wisps - Stereotyped as prostitutes (“Mistresses” in Anti-Fairy World) and generally looked down upon for having insect wings instead of bat ones; also known as mothdames. Foop’s friend Anti-Marigold is an anti-wisp.
Finfolk - Very similar to will o’ the wisps, although they live underwater. They capture potential spouses from land and drag them underwater, where they’re often treated like servants. That’s the stereotype, anyway. Sort of like reverse selkies.
Redcaps - Stereotyped as psychotic hillbillies. They’re looked down upon because they need to coat their hats in blood regularly in order to survive, or they’ll die. Kind of like vampires. They have five eyes and are immune to all poisons and venoms, and are just generally considered really creepy.
Brownies - Highly shunned for their venomous saliva. Generally considered meek servants without much brain power; to call someone a brownie-kisser implies that they’re so incapable of wooing anyone that they took advantage of a poor, dumb, innocent creature instead. However, brownies aren’t inherently less intelligent than other Fairies- they just keep ending up in disadvantaged situations. Still not the type of person you’d want your child to marry, considering their deadly kisses and all.
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Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”? Part 2
Policemen wearing masks provided by the American Red Cross in Seattle, 1918. Image source.
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Part 1:
Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”?
Did a Vaccine Experiment on US Soldiers Cause the Spanish Flu? (Part 2 of 5)
Did contaminated vaccines and other medical products made in horses play a critical role in killing 50-100 million in 1918-19?
By Kevin Barry, President First Freedoms, Inc.
Introduction
The “Spanish Flu” killed an estimated 50-100 million people during a pandemic 1918-19.
What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn't true? What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?
Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.
In looking back on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, we need to delve deeper to solve this mystery.
Summary from Part 1 (1):
More soldiers died from disease than bullets during WWI.
The Spanish Flu was neither Spanish nor Flu. According to a 2008 study by the U.S. National Institute of Health, the “predominant” killer in 1918-19 was bacterial pneumonia, and the first cases were not in Spain.
Initial outbreaks can be traced to U.S. military bases. A bacterial vaccine experiment on soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas is one of the military epicenters of the epidemic.
The serums, anti-toxins and vaccines used on soldiers were made in horses at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (and in NJ). The same horses were used “in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum.” Same horses, multiple pathogens.
When WW1 ended on November 11, 1918, soldiers returned to their home countries and colonial outposts, spreading the killer bacterial pneumonia worldwide.
During WW1, the Rockefeller Institute also sent similar batches of the antimeningococcus serum used at Fort Riley to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries.
Vaccine experiments like the WWI experiments on soldiers in WW1 are not a thing of the past. Watch as Dr. Stanley Plotkin,(2) the Godfather of the US vaccine program, describes his vaccine experiments on the mentally handicapped, orphans, children of mothers in prison. Dr. Plotkin expresses a preference for experimenting “on children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.” The deposition was taken in January 2018.
In Part 1, I asked if medical products made in horses may have played a role in the new disease which killed millions worldwide in the pandemic of 1918-19.
The December 1917 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine (3) sheds light on the vaccine manufacturing process of 100 years ago.
The feature article, “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army” describes processes in place in 1917:
“After the horse has been inoculated with the disease poison in gradually increasing doses he is bled and his serum is found to be antitoxin.
This is administered to human beings and renders them immune to the disease …. Some horses give more antitoxin serum than others.
The same horse may be used at several different times for the preparation of distinctly different antitoxins … Horses are used in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum. “
It is difficult to believe that they used the same horses to make multiple disease serums, but they did.
If safety had been a concern, perhaps certain horses would have been dedicated to producing serum for one disease (or “poison” as the article calls it), but safety does not appear to be on the list of concerns.
These muddled and potentially contaminated serums were then given to soldiers (and to the public).
SPECIES JUMP?
Were pathogens transferred from these horses to humans in mass quantities in ways they had never transferred before?
Humans and horses had interacted closely for centuries, but horse serum had not been injected into humans in that way before, bypassing the human immune system.
Is it possible that this new method of exposure caused the bacterial pneumonias which ripped human lungs apart in ways never seen before?
Could pathogens relatively harmless to horse lungs make a species-jump and destroy human lungs?
In 1919, a Dutch military veterinarian named Captain Emile Bemelmans “developed an extensive theory on the relation between human and animal influenza …. In 1919, he argued that 'the human 'flu' and the so-called 'infectious disease of the breast' of horses are exactly identical in aetiological, bacteriological and epidemiological senses'.
In her 2014 paper “'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic”, Dr. Floor Haalboom describes Bemelmans's work:
“In 1919, Bemelmans's argument on the identical nature of human and horse influenza in the Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (the Dutch medical journal) was reviewed in the veterinary journal,
… in 1914 he extended his theory on horse flu to several human and animal infectious diseases in an article in the Dutch medical journal. Bemelmans listed human influenza as an example among many other animal and human diseases which he thought were accompanied by (deadly) infections of streptococci.
Although he did not yet argue that human and horse flu were exactly equal, he did explicitly note their similarities: 'Also between the human influenza and the so-called breast disease in horses peculiar similarities exist'…
… In these papers, Bemelmans addressed the nature of influenza (although he still preferred the name 'flu') of both humans and horses. He opposed the ideas that Pfeiffer's bacterium or a filterable virus caused the disease, but thought toxins made by the bacteria streptococci were responsible for its deadly secondary complications. “ (4)
Dr. Bemelmans's contemporaneous observations have largely been lost to history, in part because of the self important attitude of the medical community.
The hubris of the medical community prevented them from listening to a lowly veterinarian.
However, Dr. Bemelmans's observations and persistence in getting them published are extraordinarily valuable. His awareness at the time that bateria was the killer of both humans and horses in the pandemic of 1918-19 put him decades ahead of his contemporaries.
The NIH paper describing bacteria as the predominant killer was published in 2008.(5)
If Dr. Bemelmans was correct that horses and humans were suffering from an identical disease, are there diseases identical (or very similar) in both horses and humans? Do any of those diseases target the lungs?
“Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource”, Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D.N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 (6)
In a 1969 paper, Kansas State University veterinarian Dr. Charles E. Cornelius compiled a list of diseases which were very similar or identical in humans and various other species. Among the diseases identical/very similar in humans and horses is pulmonary emphysema, which targets the lungs.
Did a pathogen which causes pulmonary emphysema “species-jump” from horses to humans in these serums and vaccines?
The vaccines were obviously manufactured in primitive, unavoidably unsafe conditions and then given to WW1 soldiers as an experiment.
What exactly was in the serums and vaccines made in the horses at the Rockefeller Institute – especially considering that the same individual horses were used to for variety of serums for multiple diseases?
Recall from Part 1 that Streptococci bacteria were commonly found in the tissue samples from the autopsies of those who died in 1918-19. (5)
Cornelius said human and horse pulmonary emphysema are identical. Bemelmans reported that humans and horses were suffering from the same disease.
Did doctors treating soldiers suffering from “Spanish Flu” report on encountering a new killer type of pulmonary emphysema, causing lung damage that they had ever seen before?
PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AT CAMP HANCOCK GEORGIA
“Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia”Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 (7)
Captain Dr. Torrey served at Camp Hancock, just outside of Augusta, GA. The soldiers who came through Camp Hancock were likely on their way to Charleston, SC to board ships to France, but many of them would not survive to get to the front.
Thousands died at Camp Hancock. Some who survived the illness likely made it to the ships, potentially passing the infectious bacteria to other soldiers in the unsanitary conditions which were rampant during WWI.
From Dr. Torrey's report:
“Summary
… Certain conditions were invariably present, including an intense bronchitis and peribronchitis similar to that found in a previous epidemic of pure hemolytic streptococcus infection (Scarlet Fever). There was also present from the first a destructive softening of the lung parenchyma.
In addition to this there was always an early and persisting generalized pulmonary emphysema which frequently was the main factor in causing death by interference with the mass movement of venous blood.
These conditions were found in every case examined at autopsy. Except for frequent otitis media (ear infection) there were almost no complications or sequelae outside of the chest.
The pulmonary emphysema, with consequent venous stasis, accounted for the cyanosis (turning blue/purple color), epistaxis (nosebleeds) and fixation of the chest in the phase of extreme inspiration (inhaling), with low stand of the diaphragm, which characterized these cases, and also accounted for the paradoxical physical signs (paradoxical breathing) in which fluid developed in the chest.”
Torrey describes what happened to these soldiers as they died. They were coughing, becoming “cloud adults” (8) (as described in Part 1).
It looked like a bacterial infection to him. Autopsies showed lung tissue had been damaged, which restricted blood flow, turning the dying a bluish/purple color, due to lack of oxygen.
When the patients tried to inhale, their diaphragms constricted instead of expanded, the opposite of what diaphragms are supposed to do.(9) Fluids then filled their lungs, and many did not survive, literally the fluid in their lungs strangling the soldiers to death.
FLUID IN THE LUNGS STRANGLED THE HUMAN VICTIMS OF SPANISH FLU – STRANGLES?
There is a highly contagious horse respiratory infection called Strangles (or Distemper). If this disease can kill horses, what would it do to human lungs if introduced into humans, via injection and therefore bypassing the immune system, on a mass scale?
“Strangles is a highly contagious upper respiratory infection of horses caused by the bacteria Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi). It is transmitted by inhalation or direct contact with contaminated surfaces (for example horses sharing water buckets).“ (10)
Did streptococcus equi contaminate the serums and vaccines made in horses produced at the Rockefeller Institute and injected into soldiers in a vaccine experiment? Was streptococcus equi in the medical serums given to the soldiers as treatments? Was it some other pathogen which species jumped?
Did medical hubris lead to a mistake which caused a species jump which killed 50-100 million people 100 years ago?
WHAT NOW?
The vaccine industry is always looking for human test subjects. They have the most success when they are able to find populations who are not in a position to refuse. Soldiers (11), infants, the disabled, prisoners, those in developing nations – anyone not in a position to refuse.
Vaccine experimentation on vulnerable populations is not an issue of the past.
Watch this video clip of Dr. Stanley Plotkin where he describes using experimental vaccines on orphans, the mentally retarded, prisoners, and those under colonial rule.
The deposition was in January 2018.
The hubris of the medical community is the same or worse now than it was 100 years ago.
Watch as Dr. Plotkin admits to writing,
“The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.”
Please watch the horrifying video clip. (12)
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In part because the global community is well aware of medical hubris and well aware of the poor record of medical ethics, the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (13) developed international standards regarding the right to informed consent to preventative medical procedures like vaccination.
The international community is well aware that the pharmaceutical industry makes mistakes and is always on the lookout for human test subjects.
The Declaration states that individuals have the human right to consent to any preventative medical intervention like vaccination.
Article 3 – Human dignity and human rights
1. Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected. 2. The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
Article 6 – Consent
1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. (13)
Clean water, sanitation, flushing toilets, refrigerated foods and healthy diets have done and still do far more to protect humanity from infectious diseases than any vaccine program. Doctors and the vaccine industry have usurped credit which rightfully belongs to plumbers, electricians, sandhogs, engineers and city planners.
For these reasons, policy makers at all levels of government should protect the human rights and individual liberties of individuals to opt out of vaccine programs via exemptions.
The hubris of the medical community will never go away. Policy makers need to know that vaccines like all medical interventions are not infallible. Vaccines are not magic. We all have different susceptibility to disease. Human beings are not one size fits all.
In 1918-19, the vaccine industry experimented on soldiers, likely with disastrous results.
In 2018, the vaccine industry experiments on infants every day. The vaccine schedule has never been tested as it is given. The results of the experiment are in: 1 in 7 American children is in some form of special education and over 50% have some form of chronic illness. (14)
In 1918-19, there was no safety follow up after vaccines were delivered.
In 2018, there is virtually no safety follow up after a vaccine is delivered. Who exactly gave you that flu shot at Rite Aid? Do you have the cell number of the store employee if something goes wrong?
In 1918-19, there was no liability to the manufacturer for injuries or death caused by vaccines.
In 2018, there is no liability for vaccine manufacturers for injuries or death caused by vaccines, which was formalized in 1986. (15)
In 1918-19, there was no independent investigative follow up challenging the official story that “Spanish Flu” was some mystery illness which dropped from the sky.
I suspect that many of those at the Rockefeller Institute knew what happened, and that many of the doctors who administered the vaccines to the troops knew what happened, but those people are long dead.
In 2018, the Pharmaceutical industry is the largest campaign donor to politicians and the largest advertiser in all forms of media, so not much has changed over 100 years. This story will likely be ignored by mainstream media because their salaries are paid by pharmaceutical advertising.
The next time you hear someone say “vaccines save lives” please remember that the true story of the cost/benefit of vaccines is much more complicated than their three word slogan.
Also remember that vaccines may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-19. If true, those costs greatly outweighed any benefit, especially considering that plumbers, electricians, sandhogs and engineers did, and continue to do, the real work which reduces mortality from disease.
Vaccines are not magic.(16) Human rights and bioethics are critically important. Policy makers should understand the history of medical hubris and protect individual and parental human rights as described in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
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Kevin Barry is the President of First Freedoms, Inc. a 501.c.3. He is a former federal attorney, a rep at the UN HQ in New York and the author of Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC. Please support his work at www.firstfreedoms.org
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REFERENCES
1. Part 1 of this series www.firstfreedoms.org
2. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
3. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
4. Haalboom, F., 2014. 'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. Studium, 7(3), pp.124–139. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/studium.9830
5,. J Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1; 198(7): 962–970. Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Anthony S. Fauci https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/
6. Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D. Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University October 23, 1969 N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196910232811706
7. “Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia” Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/0470flu.0016.740/1/–acute-pulmonary-emphysema-observed-during-the-epidemic?view=image
8. Horse Strangles | Streptococcus equi subsp equi infection in horses (2015) Ashley G. Boyle, DVM, DACVIM (Large Animal Internal Medicine), Department of Clinical Studies, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine http://vetspecialists.com/horse-strangles-streptococcus-equi-subsp-equi-infection-in-horses/
9. Deaths from Bacterial Pneumonia during 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic John F. Brundage* and G. Dennis Shanks† Author affiliations: *Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; †Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1313_article
10. What is paradoxical breathing? Sun 5 November 2017 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319924.php
11. Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century, A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, December 1994 https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=438835
12. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
13. Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (19 October 2005) http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
14. CDC Offers New Stats On Disability Prevalence https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/03/14/cdc-disability-prevalence/22034/
15. 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/childhood-vaccine-injury-act-protect/
16. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
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Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”? Part 2
Policemen wearing masks provided by the American Red Cross in Seattle, 1918. Image source.
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Part 1:
Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”?
Did a Vaccine Experiment on US Soldiers Cause the Spanish Flu? (Part 2 of 5)
Did contaminated vaccines and other medical products made in horses play a critical role in killing 50-100 million in 1918-19?
By Kevin Barry, President First Freedoms, Inc.
Introduction
The “Spanish Flu” killed an estimated 50-100 million people during a pandemic 1918-19.
What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn't true? What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?
Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.
In looking back on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, we need to delve deeper to solve this mystery.
Summary from Part 1 (1):
More soldiers died from disease than bullets during WWI.
The Spanish Flu was neither Spanish nor Flu. According to a 2008 study by the U.S. National Institute of Health, the “predominant” killer in 1918-19 was bacterial pneumonia, and the first cases were not in Spain.
Initial outbreaks can be traced to U.S. military bases. A bacterial vaccine experiment on soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas is one of the military epicenters of the epidemic.
The serums, anti-toxins and vaccines used on soldiers were made in horses at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (and in NJ). The same horses were used “in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum.” Same horses, multiple pathogens.
When WW1 ended on November 11, 1918, soldiers returned to their home countries and colonial outposts, spreading the killer bacterial pneumonia worldwide.
During WW1, the Rockefeller Institute also sent similar batches of the antimeningococcus serum used at Fort Riley to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries.
Vaccine experiments like the WWI experiments on soldiers in WW1 are not a thing of the past. Watch as Dr. Stanley Plotkin,(2) the Godfather of the US vaccine program, describes his vaccine experiments on the mentally handicapped, orphans, children of mothers in prison. Dr. Plotkin expresses a preference for experimenting “on children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.” The deposition was taken in January 2018.
In Part 1, I asked if medical products made in horses may have played a role in the new disease which killed millions worldwide in the pandemic of 1918-19.
The December 1917 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine (3) sheds light on the vaccine manufacturing process of 100 years ago.
The feature article, “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army” describes processes in place in 1917:
“After the horse has been inoculated with the disease poison in gradually increasing doses he is bled and his serum is found to be antitoxin.
This is administered to human beings and renders them immune to the disease …. Some horses give more antitoxin serum than others.
The same horse may be used at several different times for the preparation of distinctly different antitoxins … Horses are used in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum. “
It is difficult to believe that they used the same horses to make multiple disease serums, but they did.
If safety had been a concern, perhaps certain horses would have been dedicated to producing serum for one disease (or “poison” as the article calls it), but safety does not appear to be on the list of concerns.
These muddled and potentially contaminated serums were then given to soldiers (and to the public).
SPECIES JUMP?
Were pathogens transferred from these horses to humans in mass quantities in ways they had never transferred before?
Humans and horses had interacted closely for centuries, but horse serum had not been injected into humans in that way before, bypassing the human immune system.
Is it possible that this new method of exposure caused the bacterial pneumonias which ripped human lungs apart in ways never seen before?
Could pathogens relatively harmless to horse lungs make a species-jump and destroy human lungs?
In 1919, a Dutch military veterinarian named Captain Emile Bemelmans “developed an extensive theory on the relation between human and animal influenza …. In 1919, he argued that 'the human 'flu' and the so-called 'infectious disease of the breast' of horses are exactly identical in aetiological, bacteriological and epidemiological senses'.
In her 2014 paper “'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic”, Dr. Floor Haalboom describes Bemelmans's work:
“In 1919, Bemelmans's argument on the identical nature of human and horse influenza in the Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (the Dutch medical journal) was reviewed in the veterinary journal,
… in 1914 he extended his theory on horse flu to several human and animal infectious diseases in an article in the Dutch medical journal. Bemelmans listed human influenza as an example among many other animal and human diseases which he thought were accompanied by (deadly) infections of streptococci.
Although he did not yet argue that human and horse flu were exactly equal, he did explicitly note their similarities: 'Also between the human influenza and the so-called breast disease in horses peculiar similarities exist'…
… In these papers, Bemelmans addressed the nature of influenza (although he still preferred the name 'flu') of both humans and horses. He opposed the ideas that Pfeiffer's bacterium or a filterable virus caused the disease, but thought toxins made by the bacteria streptococci were responsible for its deadly secondary complications. “ (4)
Dr. Bemelmans's contemporaneous observations have largely been lost to history, in part because of the self important attitude of the medical community.
The hubris of the medical community prevented them from listening to a lowly veterinarian.
However, Dr. Bemelmans's observations and persistence in getting them published are extraordinarily valuable. His awareness at the time that bateria was the killer of both humans and horses in the pandemic of 1918-19 put him decades ahead of his contemporaries.
The NIH paper describing bacteria as the predominant killer was published in 2008.(5)
If Dr. Bemelmans was correct that horses and humans were suffering from an identical disease, are there diseases identical (or very similar) in both horses and humans? Do any of those diseases target the lungs?
“Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource”, Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D.N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 (6)
In a 1969 paper, Kansas State University veterinarian Dr. Charles E. Cornelius compiled a list of diseases which were very similar or identical in humans and various other species. Among the diseases identical/very similar in humans and horses is pulmonary emphysema, which targets the lungs.
Did a pathogen which causes pulmonary emphysema “species-jump” from horses to humans in these serums and vaccines?
The vaccines were obviously manufactured in primitive, unavoidably unsafe conditions and then given to WW1 soldiers as an experiment.
What exactly was in the serums and vaccines made in the horses at the Rockefeller Institute – especially considering that the same individual horses were used to for variety of serums for multiple diseases?
Recall from Part 1 that Streptococci bacteria were commonly found in the tissue samples from the autopsies of those who died in 1918-19. (5)
Cornelius said human and horse pulmonary emphysema are identical. Bemelmans reported that humans and horses were suffering from the same disease.
Did doctors treating soldiers suffering from “Spanish Flu” report on encountering a new killer type of pulmonary emphysema, causing lung damage that they had ever seen before?
PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AT CAMP HANCOCK GEORGIA
“Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia”Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 (7)
Captain Dr. Torrey served at Camp Hancock, just outside of Augusta, GA. The soldiers who came through Camp Hancock were likely on their way to Charleston, SC to board ships to France, but many of them would not survive to get to the front.
Thousands died at Camp Hancock. Some who survived the illness likely made it to the ships, potentially passing the infectious bacteria to other soldiers in the unsanitary conditions which were rampant during WWI.
From Dr. Torrey's report:
“Summary
… Certain conditions were invariably present, including an intense bronchitis and peribronchitis similar to that found in a previous epidemic of pure hemolytic streptococcus infection (Scarlet Fever). There was also present from the first a destructive softening of the lung parenchyma.
In addition to this there was always an early and persisting generalized pulmonary emphysema which frequently was the main factor in causing death by interference with the mass movement of venous blood.
These conditions were found in every case examined at autopsy. Except for frequent otitis media (ear infection) there were almost no complications or sequelae outside of the chest.
The pulmonary emphysema, with consequent venous stasis, accounted for the cyanosis (turning blue/purple color), epistaxis (nosebleeds) and fixation of the chest in the phase of extreme inspiration (inhaling), with low stand of the diaphragm, which characterized these cases, and also accounted for the paradoxical physical signs (paradoxical breathing) in which fluid developed in the chest.”
Torrey describes what happened to these soldiers as they died. They were coughing, becoming “cloud adults” (8) (as described in Part 1).
It looked like a bacterial infection to him. Autopsies showed lung tissue had been damaged, which restricted blood flow, turning the dying a bluish/purple color, due to lack of oxygen.
When the patients tried to inhale, their diaphragms constricted instead of expanded, the opposite of what diaphragms are supposed to do.(9) Fluids then filled their lungs, and many did not survive, literally the fluid in their lungs strangling the soldiers to death.
FLUID IN THE LUNGS STRANGLED THE HUMAN VICTIMS OF SPANISH FLU – STRANGLES?
There is a highly contagious horse respiratory infection called Strangles (or Distemper). If this disease can kill horses, what would it do to human lungs if introduced into humans, via injection and therefore bypassing the immune system, on a mass scale?
“Strangles is a highly contagious upper respiratory infection of horses caused by the bacteria Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi). It is transmitted by inhalation or direct contact with contaminated surfaces (for example horses sharing water buckets).“ (10)
Did streptococcus equi contaminate the serums and vaccines made in horses produced at the Rockefeller Institute and injected into soldiers in a vaccine experiment? Was streptococcus equi in the medical serums given to the soldiers as treatments? Was it some other pathogen which species jumped?
Did medical hubris lead to a mistake which caused a species jump which killed 50-100 million people 100 years ago?
WHAT NOW?
The vaccine industry is always looking for human test subjects. They have the most success when they are able to find populations who are not in a position to refuse. Soldiers (11), infants, the disabled, prisoners, those in developing nations – anyone not in a position to refuse.
Vaccine experimentation on vulnerable populations is not an issue of the past.
Watch this video clip of Dr. Stanley Plotkin where he describes using experimental vaccines on orphans, the mentally retarded, prisoners, and those under colonial rule.
The deposition was in January 2018.
The hubris of the medical community is the same or worse now than it was 100 years ago.
Watch as Dr. Plotkin admits to writing,
“The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.”
Please watch the horrifying video clip. (12)
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In part because the global community is well aware of medical hubris and well aware of the poor record of medical ethics, the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (13) developed international standards regarding the right to informed consent to preventative medical procedures like vaccination.
The international community is well aware that the pharmaceutical industry makes mistakes and is always on the lookout for human test subjects.
The Declaration states that individuals have the human right to consent to any preventative medical intervention like vaccination.
Article 3 – Human dignity and human rights
1. Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected. 2. The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
Article 6 – Consent
1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. (13)
Clean water, sanitation, flushing toilets, refrigerated foods and healthy diets have done and still do far more to protect humanity from infectious diseases than any vaccine program. Doctors and the vaccine industry have usurped credit which rightfully belongs to plumbers, electricians, sandhogs, engineers and city planners.
For these reasons, policy makers at all levels of government should protect the human rights and individual liberties of individuals to opt out of vaccine programs via exemptions.
The hubris of the medical community will never go away. Policy makers need to know that vaccines like all medical interventions are not infallible. Vaccines are not magic. We all have different susceptibility to disease. Human beings are not one size fits all.
In 1918-19, the vaccine industry experimented on soldiers, likely with disastrous results.
In 2018, the vaccine industry experiments on infants every day. The vaccine schedule has never been tested as it is given. The results of the experiment are in: 1 in 7 American children is in some form of special education and over 50% have some form of chronic illness. (14)
In 1918-19, there was no safety follow up after vaccines were delivered.
In 2018, there is virtually no safety follow up after a vaccine is delivered. Who exactly gave you that flu shot at Rite Aid? Do you have the cell number of the store employee if something goes wrong?
In 1918-19, there was no liability to the manufacturer for injuries or death caused by vaccines.
In 2018, there is no liability for vaccine manufacturers for injuries or death caused by vaccines, which was formalized in 1986. (15)
In 1918-19, there was no independent investigative follow up challenging the official story that “Spanish Flu” was some mystery illness which dropped from the sky.
I suspect that many of those at the Rockefeller Institute knew what happened, and that many of the doctors who administered the vaccines to the troops knew what happened, but those people are long dead.
In 2018, the Pharmaceutical industry is the largest campaign donor to politicians and the largest advertiser in all forms of media, so not much has changed over 100 years. This story will likely be ignored by mainstream media because their salaries are paid by pharmaceutical advertising.
The next time you hear someone say “vaccines save lives” please remember that the true story of the cost/benefit of vaccines is much more complicated than their three word slogan.
Also remember that vaccines may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-19. If true, those costs greatly outweighed any benefit, especially considering that plumbers, electricians, sandhogs and engineers did, and continue to do, the real work which reduces mortality from disease.
Vaccines are not magic.(16) Human rights and bioethics are critically important. Policy makers should understand the history of medical hubris and protect individual and parental human rights as described in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
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REFERENCES
1. Part 1 of this series www.firstfreedoms.org
2. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
3. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
4. Haalboom, F., 2014. 'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. Studium, 7(3), pp.124–139. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/studium.9830
5,. J Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1; 198(7): 962–970. Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Anthony S. Fauci https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/
6. Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D. Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University October 23, 1969 N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196910232811706
7. “Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia” Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/0470flu.0016.740/1/–acute-pulmonary-emphysema-observed-during-the-epidemic?view=image
8. Horse Strangles | Streptococcus equi subsp equi infection in horses (2015) Ashley G. Boyle, DVM, DACVIM (Large Animal Internal Medicine), Department of Clinical Studies, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine http://vetspecialists.com/horse-strangles-streptococcus-equi-subsp-equi-infection-in-horses/
9. Deaths from Bacterial Pneumonia during 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic John F. Brundage* and G. Dennis Shanks† Author affiliations: *Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; †Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1313_article
10. What is paradoxical breathing? Sun 5 November 2017 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319924.php
11. Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century, A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, December 1994 https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=438835
12. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
13. Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (19 October 2005) http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
14. CDC Offers New Stats On Disability Prevalence https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/03/14/cdc-disability-prevalence/22034/
15. 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/childhood-vaccine-injury-act-protect/
16. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
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Animals in Aetheri
Hello! This month on Tape Hiss, we’ll be doing a topic I’ve put off for a long time—the fauna in Aetheri, native or otherwise! I’ll be talking about not just the wildlife, but also pet ownership, animal products, livestock…lots of stuff. As usual, the rest (with lots of drawings this time) is under the cut.
So we have seen a few animals so far in Aetheri, obviously, both in statue form and living around the Palace. I’ll start with the below—the kuuv, suoki, laar, and hurrtai, since we’re familiar with them.
Quick sidebar: the dragons you see in statue form around the Palace are not Aetherian, nor are they ‘animals’ in the sense we usually mean, i.e. seemingly insentient critters without a culture/civilization etc.
The kuuv we see in the comic is a domestic animal, akin to a cow. There are wild versions, but they don’t actually exist in Aetheri anymore—they are root-eaters, using the large front-claws seen here to dig up tree roots. There’s no longer any substantial forests in Aetheri large enough to support a wild population, so those that exist live in large herds at Aetheri’s northern border, at the edge of the Laith territories, in foothills near the timberline. The domesticated versions are much smaller (comparatively), eat tubers, and have, over time, grown well accustomed to hay—although this last thing has to be supplied for them by spirits, since they are not exactly well equipped to pull up and eat grass. This makes them dependent on people in a way that most animals are not.
Domestic kuuv are generally extremely friendly and smart. They are not fast and will not make trouble if supplied with enough food and some company. In Aetheri they are most often used for milk (kuuv milk is thick, very yak-like), meat, hides, and for pulling wagons over long distances.
Now seems like a good time to talk about domestication in Aetheri. As humans have, spirits have over the course of their history domesticated many animals and bred them selectively. However, spirits have never elected to get *too* fancy with it—at least not in Aetheri, where they have been utilitarians for a very, very long time. Most selective breeding was done with the purpose of making animals more placid or easier to manage. This has to do with Aetherian attitudes towards animals, which I’ll get to.
Speaking of domestic vs wild, let’s talk about suoki.
While there aren’t any wild kuuv in Aetherian lands, there are certainly wild suoki. Size and temperament are really the only differences between a domestic suoki and a wild one, though; even over the many thousands of years that they’ve been domesticated, suoki have retained their black-and-white colors (though pet suoki come in a range of patterns that wild ones do not) and general feral look. I’d posit that things are slow to change in Aetheri not just in spirits but in all creatures—mutations do not happen as often, at least not naturally. This is what enables spirits to live so long and with fewer mutation-related illnesses (i.e. cancer) but also reduces variety. (Disclaimer: I am not a geneticist.)
Anyway, I’ve talked about suoki before. They are for spirits what dogs are for humans—they act as companions, they guard people and property, they do work. They can talk some, their bark sounds like laughter, their bites are very very strong, and they are on the whole extremely obedient and easy to train. People new to Aetheri usually find them very creepy, but you have nothing to fear from a suoki as long as you have nothing to fear from their owner.
Wild suoki are very thickly-furred, as above, and are solitary; they, along with bandits and slavers, are what makes trade in Aetheri hazardous, as they don’t have many qualms about attacking caravans pulled by kuuv. They mainly hunt laar (being one of the few animals fast enough to catch one occasionally) and huurtai. Domestic suoki were bred to have very short, smooth coats described as being seal-like, and Aetherians tend to just feed them whatever they themselves are eating; the concept of ‘dog food’ as being its own thing is weird to them.
The domestic suoki is also the symbol of the du Russi house, along with an edible flower called the enlar and the colors blue and red.
We’ve seen plenty of laar. They’re split-hoofed herbivorous animals that are capable of reaching top speeds of 90mph and can turn on a dime. In Aetheri they are used for racing, herding, and in battle—laar-riding is a very, very difficult art, as a rider needs to be small and very strong. Laar backs are not rigid like a horse’s, nor do their heads stay relatively still as they run; their gaits look more like a greyhound’s than a horse’s, so a rider has to basically crouch over their backs when going any faster than a brisk walk. Conventional Aetherian wisdom dictates that someone who rides a laar for a living is not to be messed with, as they could likely crush your skull with their thighs.
Domestic laar are without antlers; wild laar have swept-back antlers that are really only for show and are shed every year. While not easy to ride, laar are fairly easy to train, and they do love running. They communicate by whistling, though it’s a comical kind of guinea pig sound.
The wild laar is the symbol of the d’Escala house, along with nine tubular bells and the colors purple-grey and gold.
The huurtai is pretty straightforward; they exist in the gap between the slow but powerful kuuv and the slight but fast laar. They are straight-backed, single-toed animals with fur very like that of an alpaca; they are used for distance and recreational riding, herding, and for fur and meat. They are not very vocal but make a noise that sounds alarmingly like a very large goose.
The domesticated version is not as well-bred for temperament as some other Aetherian animals. They tend to be rather squirrelly and obnoxious, but will also get very attached to their handlers. It’s rather like having a very large, four-legged parrot. In the wild, they live in herds and are omnivorous; they use their large beaks to strip certain plants of berries and millet-like seeds, but also to catch and eat small creatures living in the grasslands.
We haven’t seen many actual living rit in the comic yet—I think the only ones we’ve seen have been in the form of constructs. Actual rit come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and are omnivorous creatures that live just about everywhere. They don’t have feathers so much as scaly keratin structures that resemble feathers; they have large compound eyes, and little toothy mouths, hidden almost always by their scales. Their compound eyes see a much wider gamut of color than humans or spirits, and they do not have ears, using their antennae instead to detect vibration. They do vocalize, but the rit native to Aetheri don’t have quite the variety in song as rit native to more tropical parts of the planet; most in this part of the world stick to soft whooping, cooing, or sighing sounds.
There is only one kind of domesticated rit, a ground-dwelling variety used for eggs and (somewhat less frequently) meat. All rit lay soft-shelled, oblong, small eggs that are usually cooked in-shell and eaten whole, or else split open when unfertilized for use in baking. The meat takes some getting used to, as it’s described as having a consistency very much like tofu or seitan, but like those two examples it takes on other flavors very well.
The rit is the symbol of the du Cuppra (again, now a political group rather than a familial house) along with the nilaqudh (a knotted ribbon used in Aetherian ‘marriages’) and the colors yellow and indigo.
That there are no other domesticated kinds of rit points to Aetherian attitudes towards keeping animals, which I’ll finally go into. Aetherians do eat meat, though it’s not hard to avoid doing so in Aetheri (unless you also hate grains, in which case you’re just about out of luck.) There are Aetherians who do not eat meat or animal products, but they’re sort of few and far between. The Aetherian food industry is not big, and there is very little waste, and not much surplus either (not for lack of ability to produce, but for lack of demand.) The slaughtering of an animal is done quickly and painlessly, and every single part of an animal is used in some way, owing as much to Aetherian love of efficiency as to their respect for the animal. Spirits are as much an animal as anything they eat, and spirits have been a prey species in the past, so they’re pretty well in the mindset that eating meat is simply the way of things—it’s down to them as creatures of higher sentience to make their consumption of meat a cleaner and less vicious experience than it would be for an animal to get eaten by another in the wild.
The dhuullena is a creature we haven’t seen in the comic yet, and I don’t even know when we would. Their main function as domesticated animals is for labor and trade; you will almost never see them in an urban setting, they’re just too big. They’re mostly used for pulling caravans that go off-road to the remote villages in the plains, or for hauling wood down from the Laith territories to the north. They are very docile plant-eaters that use their front legs to pull up grass and reeds. There are wild, very territorial versions as well; the domesticated dhuullena is the best example of how Aetherian selective breeding has produced a placid, obliging creature from a wild one.
The fetthu is a sort of exception to Aetheri’s domestication norms. They are not native to Aetheri at all—they’re from Cavillace, a tropical country far to the east that Aetheri has occasionally traded with in the past. Fetthut are pretty much the only invasive species in Aetheri, and are sort of domesticated…they don’t bond with people the way cats do and are best not kept indoors (they smell like mildew, destroy things, are nocturnal, and swallow prey whole before barfing up the bones, hair, etc in the form of pellets.) So they aren’t really pets, but they’re not wild animals either really. Their ecological niche, at least in Aetheri, rests entirely on being allowed to wander around and eat the sorts of pests attracted to civilization.
We’ve seen them in the comic, but not with their horrible mouths open. They come in a variety of colors, some kind of outlandish, and make croaking and hooting sounds mostly. They have a coat texture rather like a chinchilla’s, but they will not let you pet them.
The matuury is not Aetheri’s only small pest—there are a lot animals I’m not doing for this post, come on, I can’t draw every animal—but it’s the one we’re most likely to see. The interesting thing about matuuryt is they are a creature entirely dependent on civilization. They are blind and live exclusively in the dark parts of structures, i.e. behind walls, in basements, in the extensive tunnel systems under major towns. They do not live outside of towns and cities, because during the day there’s few places for them to shelter entirely in the plains. They have evolved rather rapidly over time to be suited to the environment of spirit-made structures.
They mainly eat arthropods (insects, or what passes for them in Aetheri) but will eat anything put in front of them, up to and absolutely including living creatures if they are hungry enough and the creature is incapacitated. One of the longest-held and darkest rumors about the d’Escala family is that, with the big population of matuuryt in the Palace, they’ve gotten rid of more than one enemy by merely tying them up and letting them be eaten alive. This is…plausible.
The river running through Aetheri is home to its own ecosystem as well, of course. Most water-breathing, river-dwelling, swimming animals tend towards a longer, snakier shape than maybe we’re used to in river fish, although I frankly don’t think I can out-design nature on weird water animals. The collective name for these critters is lrecca. (Fun fact: the Aetherian word for dragon is freillrecca, which translates to ‘big fish’ more or less.)
Almost everything that lives in the water has a third eye, in most cases situated on top of the head--you can see that here. These third eyes are not (in most species) fully formed eyeballs, more light-sensitive photoreceptors not unlike those that some animals have which helps the animal detect both predator and prey.
Also pictured is a lum, which is a very cnidarian-like creature that eats small lrecca. It is bioluminescent and, rather than floating freely in the river’s swift currents, pulls itself along the bottom by keeping hold of weeds and rocks. The Aetherian River is very deep and fast, but you can often see lum moving slowly along the bottom at night, glowing very faintly.
People eat most of these river things too, of course. None of it tastes or has the consistency of fish (nothing really does in Aetheri—a lot of spirits therefore find the flaky texture of fish upsetting.) Most lrecca seem to have a texture more like freshwater eel or squid. People even use lumt as an ingredient, as they can be made to have a consistency rather like gelatin and have no real taste; the most common application is to set it in cubes with a heavily-flavored syrup and eat it with shaved ice in the summer. (They can also use a gelatin derived from river weeds, but it’s generally agreed that this doesn’t hold the flavor as well.)
Lastly there’s the ydde (pronounced ‘ee-dee’) which despite its appearance is an egg-layer. They eat just about anything, and are solitary and territorial. They don’t stray far from the shore of the river, and they use their plated skulls to knock heads with rivals over territory. They will even get aggressive with people approaching their section of the shore, though despite their fearsome teeth they almost never actually attack anything bigger than themselves—it’s best just to ignore them, and they’ll hang around a ways off huffing and stomping and making hwouping noises at you. They tend to avoid Escalus due to how busy the waterway is, but occasionally one will get lost in the little canal system off the river proper and cause some excitement by ending up in someone’s courtyard.
That’s about it for this small Aetherian bestiary! It’s just a brief look. Your mileage may vary with these critters—I designed them to be plausible above all else, something you look at and say ‘I could see that existing on Earth somewhere, probably.’ So I worked with the idea of a long planet history, a long presence of domestication, a climate shift (after the great war) from forest to plains, and how cold it gets in Aetheri in mind. I figured getting to weird with it would make spirits seem really bizarrely out of place by comparison.
Thanks for reading y’all!
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information about whispers !!
whispers are super cool, and my own creation, so please do not steal them. you can always approach me and ask to use my idea for a character of your own, but please don’t just take the idea. it’s mine, and i’ve worked hard on developing it. this post will be updated frequently with new ideas.
q: so, eru, what exactly is a whisper?
a: thanks so much for asking! a whisper is a supernatural creature that edits itself out of the mind of all other creatures that don’t have the whisper’s dna.
q: wow, okay. so what does that mean?
a: basically, if you’re a human, vampire, werewolf, witch, etc, etc, you will not be able to remember ever having met a whisper generally within in twenty four hours. they emit some supernatural mojo that edits your memory until you can never remember having met them. kinda freaky, right?
q: so they’re kind of like the silence from doctor who?
a: in the most superficial way possible, yes. both species erase memories, but that’s about as far as the similarities go. whispers are humanoid, meaning they’re indistinguishable on the outside from humans. whispers also have different ways of editing memory. you won’t forget them immediately after you’ve met them. generally, your memories will go fuzzy after about 12 hours, and by the 24 hour point, you won’t remember anything about them. this timeline can vary depending on the interaction, and its length and intensity. these memories will begin to fade will also begin to fade whether or not you’re still interacting with said whisper.
most importantly, once lost, memories of meeting whispers cannot be recovered by any means, supernatural or not. not even if you encounter the same whisper again will you remember them. they’re permanently deleted from your mental hard drive. gone. bye bye.
q: that sounds like quite the lonely existence. are you trying to torment your characters? do they do this on purpose?
a: yes, i do. no, they don’t do it on purpose, it’s just a natural byproduct of existing. it just happens. but fear not! as i mentioned before, things that share whisper dna can remember whispers.
q: okay, now what does that mean?
a: for starters, all whispers have the ability to remember other whispers. whisper memory erasure does not work on other whispers. next up, if you share DNA with a whisper, you’ll be able to remember them.
for example, let’s use my characters from this blog here: inmyvcins.
charlie is the eldest sibling of ivy, ilyssa, ian, and isadora. his mother met his father, who was a whisper, and got impregnated with his child. however, when the baby was born and he left, she forgot him altogether. charlie, however, was a whisper, but she never forgot him. why? because he shared his mother’s DNA. charlie’s ability recognized his mother’s DNA as half of his own, and therefore, she can remember him ( and the rest of the whisper siblings. ) however, her memory is affected normally by all other whispers.
the final way to remember a whisper is to ingest a whisper’s DNA. when you take in whisper DNA, a whisper’s abilities will recognize you as another whisper and memory erasure will not take effect. (taking in whisper DNA once daily generally does the trick to keep memory erasure at bay.)
q: that seems a little complex, and a little gross. how do you ingest whisper DNA?
a: obviously, there are a few gross ways to do this. (the discussion of polyjuice potion in hp and the chamber of secrets comes to mind). but really, anything that is produced from a whisper’s body will do the trick. some obvious ways are ingesting various liquids from a whisper’s body ( yes this is gross sounding but bear with me. ) the preferred method of the quadruplets is blood intake. they’ll put a little of their blood in a soluble capsule and you take this like a pill once daily. spit can also be used, and, yes, so i don’t have people asking me this repeatedly, i’ll just put it here: sexual liquids work also ( if you know what i mean. )
that being said, there are some more surprising ways of staying abreast of whisper erasure. pregnancy with the child of a whisper is one of them. your memory will not be affected by any whisper, due to the whisper inside of you, until you give birth.
q: what about photographs and videos of whispers?
a: excellent question! you can take photographs and videos of whispers, and no they will not be permanently erased from technology. however, you will forget that you saw the image of a whisper often within minutes of seeing it. this supernatural mojo is tied largely to the image of a whisper, so it will effect even photographs and videos of them. you can try and capture them on screen, but you’ll forget a. why or how you got it and b. forget quickly afterwards that you ever saw it.
q: okay, so these mind erasing powers affect everyone around a whisper?
a: there are a few rare exceptions. animals are not affected by a whisper’s powers. for this reason, many whispers love animals. some angels are also able to retain information about whispers, the higher ranked the angel, the more information they retain. this is because angels aren’t tied to human bodies. while their vessels will not retain the information, angels are less effected. this is true of demons as well, though only very high demons are able to retain a lot of information about whispers. for the most part though, whisper mojo will still erase their memories.
q: okay, so whispers have a super neat power! do they do anything else?
a: why yes they do! whispers have very developed mental abilities. the majority of them are incredibly smart, and they have telepathic and telekinetic abilities. whisper families are usually able to easily communicate telepathically across large distance, and whispers can read and influence the minds of people. often times, they can plant ideas and thoughts in your mind so that you act on them without quite knowing why. they can move and control objects with their minds, as well as inflict mental pain on people. 98% of whispers, however, cannot control memory erasure. it’s simply a byproduct of their existence.
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Genre : Fantasy, drama, yaoi, catboys, almostmullets
Length: 30-50 years
Studio: Nitro+ Chiral
It seems the Ribika (a race that evolved from cats) have just about reached the end of their rope. Not only has a terrible epidemic killed most of their females, bringing their species to the brink of extinction, but some type of terrible calamity is making their world itself reject them. Little by little, the world is being taken over by the Void, making great swaths of territory lethal to the Ribika and cutting off their resources. In these bleak times, the best a cat can hope for is to lead a quiet life and die a painless death. And that’s exactly what Konoe was planning to do but it seems he’s at the center of something bigger than he could ever imagine. As he finds himself swept away by an adventure full of danger, demons and ancient magic, can he find the strength within himself to save the world. Luckily, a lot of pretty pretty catboys are happy to help.
It says something about me that my autocorrect doesn’t even pick up the word “catboy” anymore. Something along the lines: Irina is awesome, you should be her friend!
How you doin’
I actually have quite a history with Lamento. I had been a fan of Nitro+ for a while. Their 5pb studio has produced some of my favorite Visual Novels in general, the main studio is responsible for such titles as the flawed but still worthwhile Saya no Uta and Hanachirasu, and of course they collaborated with Type-Moon on the massively popular Fate franchise. Point is, Nitroplus knows how to craft a Visual Novel. It’s no surprise that eventually I got curious about their BL imprint Nitro+Chiral.
My very first encounter with Yaoi in general was the Visual Novel Dramatical Murders. An experience I found so amusing that I quickly decided to try something else from the studio. True Blood looked a little too standard and while Sweet Pool seemed to be a bottomless pit of wtf, I couldn’t find a version I could play. This left Lamento which wasn’t a bad thing at all. In fact, the cover art and description were exactly suited to my tastes and I couldn’t wait to dig in.
oh no…I forgot to move my mouse…
What followed was a study in ambivalence. Right off the bat I really liked Lamento. I loved the high fantasy setting and deep lore. This being a Nitro+ game of course, the production was irreproachable, with a large fully voiced cast, even extras get their own actors, and all of them are very good. The music plays an important role in the story and has obviously been given a lot of special attention. The art is beautiful, and a huge collection of sprites and transition effects, give the impression of animation.
crowds can get loud
Even by today’s standards, this is a high quality visual novel. There aren’t too many choices to make and most are obvious, but some are still rather intriguing, and I did feel some interactivity. The way the story branches out and then intertwines in the various routes, makes second playthroughs much more engaging than in some other titles.
Nad for all that, I couldn’t finish it. Not even a single route. I played for a bit then sort of abandoned it for close to a year. By the time I decided to pick it up again, I had forgotten most of it and started over. I played for a few weeks and didn’t catch up to my first playthrough. You see, that 30-50 years length time isn’t a typo. This game is soooooo long.
painfully long
It feels as if an excellent team of writers put it together, but they had no money left over for editors. It’s full of description and little side events that, while well written, bring nothing to the story overall. I think that you could have taken out about half the script without really affecting the substance in any way. The pacing is just terrible.
And because of this, it takes a while to truly get into it. You have to read through hours of exposition and establishing text, remember dozens of characters, before you get any meaningful development that would cause you to empathize with anyone. Except Bardo – Bardo is the best from minute one but of course he only shows many hours into the game and you’ll need a few more before you can get on his route and actually get to know the character at all.
the best I tell you!
Of course, once you’ve finished one route, you can skip previously read text in subsequent playthroughs but, as this is an older game, you don’t have an autoskip button. You have to hold down the shift key (at least on my version). There are a few around this, like playing in window mode, holding down shift then bringing a different window in front (like Youtube for instance), then you can let go of shift and it will go on skipping (which is really just fastforwading) on it’s on. It’s still a bit of a hassle. Without exaggeration, I believe my second playthrough consisted of at least 30 minutes of skipping. That should give you an idea of the gargantuan size of this thing.
bigger isn’t always better
So time and time again, despite liking every single element of Lamento, I ended up getting discouraged and dropping it before it truly got the chance to start. For some reason, after finishing a few VNs and Otomes in a row, I decided to give it another go a few weeks ago. I figured I would control my completionist tendencies and skip over bits I remembered and concentrate only on scenes I had zero recollection of. This helped a bit. It still took a while but, possibly having gained patience with age (Ha!) I stuck it out, and boy am I glad I did.
Nitro+ knows how to put together a visual novel. A few days in, I had caught up to my first playthrough and was firmly on adorably idiot Asato’s route. It took me another week to finish the game mind you, I know, cause I didn’t sleep for 5 days… Catboys…
who’s the cute kitty
The story is classic fantasy stuff, a few routes seem to have some plot holes and you will need to play everything to get the whole picture but it’s decent. I would like to see an anime version of this. I enjoyed how fleshed out and interesting all the supporting characters were, even minor ones. The dramatic aspect of the story is undercut by frequent humorous interactions and the devils are always good for a laugh.
Although explicit consent is a little iffy, there no actual rape scenes (except two of the very bad endings) and at most suitors will pester Konoe into romantic situations but never force him. Probably one of the most respectful BL games I’ve played in that regard.
there was a lot more trust building than snuggling…
The power dynamics are excellent as well, and different in every route but consistent with the characters’ personalities. As for the sexy times, they are pretty sexy indeed. Just ridiculous enough.
As an aside, there’s frequent touches of cat behavior – i.e. grooming, purring, playing with grass blades or chasing mice, that are just adorkably hilarious.
unfortunately I have no screencaps of those – so you get a hug
I’m not going to put a full playthrough here, but if you’re interested in that I refer you to domshiki’s fantastic, marvelous, I wish they would start posting again but that’s probably not happening blog. Warning, very NSFW and spoilers (duh).
I will however give you a taste of those fine catboys that have made my local coffee shop a fortune:
Konoe
That’s me! Nice huh. It could be you too! Konoe is a BL game protagonist. He’s pleasant and down to earth. Usually the straight man…um, well, you know what I mean…. He was however a bit more tsundere and prone to lashing out that the average, a trait majorly brought out in Bardo’s route. Konoe is in way over his head but he’s pretty rational and doesn’t play the damsel in distress much. In every route the characters sort of take turns helping each other out and I really like this. I enjoyed being Konoe quite a bit.
Rai
I think he’s the main route. His is the longest in any case and has the most CGs. (And they were almost all naughty, that’s why you guys get these…) I remember hating this guy the first times I played. Again, I’m not sure what happened in the last few months, but I really didn’t mind him this time around, at least at first.
He’s the stoic, super arrogant, cold type and it takes him forever to warm up but when he does, it’s pretty gaaahhhh. He’s not abusive though, just very distant. Oddly, I found him more annoying towards the end of the route when his arrogance seemed to go up yet one more level. It was already too high.
Konoe is the closest to a stereotypical MC in this route. Strong headed but still generally submissive and hopelessly devoted to his partner. This said, he does put Rai back in his place a few times and make fun of him, so not entirely hopeless. At the start of the game (for the first 2871443825t86 hours) I thought this would be the one route I have to drag myself through for the sake of completion, but I did end up enjoying quite a bit of it. Not just the CGs… I mean they didn’t hurt…
Asato
Asato is a big ol puppy dog in kitty form. He has some serious trauma in his past which I suspect involves getting dropped on his head a lot. He’s a little slow but brimming with good will and madly in love with Konoe. His voice actor does a tremendous job really bringing out both the slow and the love.
Since he’s nothing but a big ball of adorableness, Konoe can’t help but to get a bit protective of him in this route and you end up taking a more dominant, leading role. For some time, Asato is obviously much more interested but Konoe eventually starts sharing the affection and the natural development of their relationship is really very sweet.
Both characters go through a huge amount of growth and this would be my favorite route except..
Bardo
I loves me a troll. Always have.
Bardo is the dirty ol man with the big mouth. He’s super easygoing and endlessly teases, well pretty much everybody, but Konoe in particular. As the older more experienced one he tends to take the lead in situations and seems to relish in embarrassing Konoe as much as possible. Which makes the younger kitten lash out every two seconds.
This is by far the funniest route for the most part but of course we eventually get a strong dose of dark and troubled past! This is sort of the opposite of Rai, as Bardo seems to have fallen deeply for Konoe while the latter tends to ignore and push him away for the most of the run. However, it’s also the only time we get any hint of jealousy out of Konoe which was fun.
Bardo mixes all the playfulness with a good amount of comforting and he is by far the most reliable partner for Konoe. In quieter scenes, when his voice actor went for a tired or worried tone, he was so delightfully attentive, it actually comforted ME.
As I said there are a ton of fantastic side characters, antagonists and demons, all of which are really just a delightful.
See even my post for this game went on FOREVER.
TL:DR Lamento is a very good game with very bad pacing. If it weren’t for the length, it would probably be one of my favorite Visual Novels. I miss my catboys already.
Favorite character: Firi (I didn’t even get to talk about Firi…) and Bardo
What this VN taught me: PATIENCE
Suggested drink: a Devil’s Cat
Every time Konoe gets snappy – take a sip
Every time Asato says Konoe – take a sip
Every time a Devil makes an appearance – take a sip
Every time kuims are mentioned – get a snack
Every time Rai tchs – get some water
Every time Froud or Verg laugh – take a sip
Every time Firi makes an appearance – raise your glass
Every time Leaks is mentioned – take a sip
Every time we see the poet – take a sip
Every sexy time– put the glass down, you don’t wanna spill
And here are all the screencaps I couldn’t even fit in this monster post!
Lamento Beyond the Void or How to Ruin Your Sleep Schedule with Catboys Genre : Fantasy, drama, yaoi, catboys, almostmullets Length: 30-50 years Studio: Nitro+ Chiral It seems the Ribika (a race that evolved from cats) have just about reached the end of their rope.
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Pacific Angler Friday Fishing Report: January 26, 2018
OUTLOOK
Welcome to another edition of the Friday Fishing Report. The big news this week is that we were a little off on our predictions last week. We are sorry – you can send any hate mail to [email protected] we promise to respond with a longwinded heartfelt apology.
What happened? The storm was pretty intense; the wind blew away a majority of the forecasted precipitation. Rivers did rise and in some instances blew out but not as badly as we thought. Monday and Tuesday were good days to be out on the rivers and we have a number of reports from the Capilano, Vedder and Squamish. Take a look at them in the river section of the report.
Obviously with the storm, the saltwater fishing was a slog this last weekend but we did have boats that managed to find safe areas sheltered from the wind and they were rewarded with surprisingly hot fishing. Jason has all the details in this week’s saltwater fishing report. We have some more wind and rain in the forecast but if you can get out to Point Atkinson or up the sound, you have a good chance of catching fish.
In other news, we just released a new video in our “Learn How With Pacific Angler” video series. Matt invited Scott Baker, the West Coast Simms rep to look at how to care, maintain and fix breathable waders. If you are not getting out on the water, it is a great time to wash, fix and make sure your waders are properly stored for when you do get out. Check out the video here.
If you’re short on time – Matt and Scott do talk a lot 🙂 – the coles notes for the video are:
Always make sure to dry out your waders both inside and out after every trip – never store them damp
Waders should be washed at least a few times a year if you are getting out regularly – If you haven’t done this it worth watching the video for cleaning tricks and tips.
If you think you have a small leak or have noticed dampness, washing can fix the problem but after washing the wader go through the inside of the wader with rubbing alcohol. Pin whole leaks will turn a dark almost purple color. It is easy do and super affective. – Again check out the video for how to do this and fix the wholes you see.
We hope you all like the video – We will also have a video soon on how to treat you waders with a Durable Water Repellent (DWR) reviver to get them wicking water again. This is also very important for maintaining your waders and we recommend you do it on all waders over 2 years old. Tune into the video or come down to the shop. We have the right spray and we can show you how to do it properly.
CLASSES + COURSES
February is almost here and that means a new set of courses! We’ve had 2 spots open up in our sold out Mastering Local Saltwater Salmon Course – grab a spot before they’re gone.
Mastering Local Saltwater Salmon Fishing – 2 SPOTS OPENED UP!! Over 50 million salmon migrate past Vancouver annually. Learn how to catch these fish with a Pacific Angler. This course offers an in-depth look at the local saltwater scene. We cover the local saltwater salmon fishing for the entire year, showing you the how, when, and where. This course includes a 6hr weekend seminar and a fully guided day on the water in one of our Grady Whites.
Dates: Seminar: Feb 4 Guided: Feb 19 Cost: $300.00+GST Seminar Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm – with a one hour break for lunch. There are two restaurants on site for students to have lunch at their cost. Coffee/Tea and water will be provided.
Seminar held at Pacific Gateway Hotel – 3500 Cessna Drive, Richmond, BC
Guided Day: Full day on the water
Tying Essential Bulltrout Patterns Bulltrout / dollies ….. let’s just call them char are an interesting species. These fish have a diverse habitat, a very interesting life cycle and within the species they have very different characteristics in both size, color and feeding habits depending on their environment. The feeding habits are what we look at in this course. This is a fishing course within a tying course. Instructor, Matt Sharp has caught bulltrout from here to Alaska will share with you an overview of his guide theories on fly selection for char in their different habitats. He will then tech you to tie three of his guide favorites. His sculpin pattern, the Cherokee intruder and then his go to intruder that has a name that is not fit for print.
This seminar is well suited to tiers who have taken our beginner course and have basic tying skills. Advanced tiers will find the first two patterns fairly easy but they can challenge themselves with variations of the last pattern. If you are an experienced tier you probably already know that sometimes the skill, effectiveness and beauty of many great guide flies comes from their simplicity. Students are required to supply their own vise, tools and materials. A 10% discount is available on materials and tools purchased for the course.
Dates: Feb 20 Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm Cost: $45.00+GST
Introduction To Fly Fishing This course was specifically designed to give the new fly fisher the basic knowledge, casting skills and fly fishing strategies to effectively fish our local BC waters. This course is comprised of two sessions; 3hr evening seminar and a 3hr casting session. The dates below show the seminar date first and casting date second.
Dates: Seminar Feb 21 & Casting Feb 24 Seminar Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm Casting Time(s): 10am – 1pm or 2pm -5pm Cost: $125.00 +GST
Introduction To Spey Casting This 2-part course is designed to introduce you to the art of Spey fishing and establish the fundamental techniques required for basic Spey casts used on our local rivers.
Dates: Seminar: Feb 28 Casting: Mar 3 (Squamish) Seminar Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm Cost: $150.00+GST
FRESHWATER FISHING REPORTS
Chilliwack River Fishing Report The Vedder shaped up nicely the past few days and while it is still a bit on the slow side we have heard reports of a couple good bumps of fish. Things might get a little dicey this coming week with the next winter “storm” we are going to get; lots of precipitation with a mixture of both rain and snow if the forecast can be believed. This is not necessarily a bad thing as higher water will spread the fish out more and the poor weather conditions will keep all but the diehards off of the system. Keep an eye on the graph and for those that don’t already know, you can take a real-time look at the visibility at this page.
The water has been a bit chalky recently so fish bigger presentations like pink worms, colorado blades, and of course big intruders if you are swinging a fly. Also don’t forget to fish in tight when the water gets turbulent; like most other river fish they will follow the path of least resistance and sometimes that means hugging the shoreline. The cloudy water will give them a bit of cover as well in the shallows.
Get out there and get ’em!
Alex Au-Yeung
Capilano River Fishing Report Water is still very high at the Capilano River but steelhead are showing up. Although the rain isn’t predicted to stop, keep an eye on the levels. If and when they close the dam, get out fishing. We expect fish to be in the system.
With the higher water there are areas where float fishing has been difficult. We have heard one good report with an angler fishing K-wobblers in the higher dirty water and it is a good reminder than if you can’t fish a spot with the float or you have already covered it thoroughly with a dead drift presentation, take a few shots with a big spoon. Though it is cold, early fish will sometimes go for a big flashy presentation over a floated presentation.
Please release ALL steelhead with care as the system is very fragile.
Watch out for fast-rising water and do not attempt to cross the river as there might be holes that might get you to fall in.
Stop by the shop if you get a nice one and stay safe out there.
Dustin Oh
Squamish River Fishing Report Not much has changed this past week with the exception of water levels. Fish are still being found throughout the lower and upper areas of the Squamish, with beads and streamers playing a major role. Matt was a little off last week, or should we say the weatherman was a little off. Matt apologizes for both of them. The storm was nasty but not as much rain hit the river as expected. There were days that the water was high and dirty but it did not blow out as hard as we expected. For those who braved the nasty weather there where moments of good fishing.
A bulltrout from my trip up to Squamish this week.
The water has been up and down this past week. This helped cycle and move fish around, as well as stir up eggs or push baitfish out of usual hiding spots. Monday was probably the best day. We were out later in the week and once again, my proven producer was my C3 streamer in an olive over yellow with white tail. The water was quite clear by the time we made it out, so going to the more natural colour was an obvious choice.
The olive over yellow C3 produced this week.
Egging has still proven successful for anglers as well, with water colour and clarity dictating egg size and colour- with paler beads being chosen more frequently.
Though some fish can be hard to distinguish (bull trout and dolly varden), the difference between a fish and piano are obvious: you can always tune a piano but you can’t tuna fish. Jordan Simpson
Stave River Fishing Report The water level has been fluctuating at the Stave. This has turned on the resident fish and we have heard a few more steelhead reports.
The stave is a short river and you will be rewarded if you move around to find steelhead. Swing flies and drift with bait, plastic worms, gooey bob, corkies and spin-N-glos. Also try throwing spinners or spoons, as it is likely for steelhead to chase things as the water warms up a bit. Make sure to release wild Steelhead with care.
Stay safe out there,
Dustin Oh
SALTWATER FISHING REPORTS
Vancouver Saltwater Salmon Fishing Report Well it has been a bit of a nasty week filled with big winds and heavy rains, but that didn’t stop Eddie and some guest from heading out this week and the fish were in a rewarding kind of mood! They had a great day with a limit of 4 chinook and released a few nice ones as well. There were some smaller fish in the mix too, resulting in a very active and productive day. Best part was there was nobody else there…
A couple of nice ones from Eddie’s trip this week!
When it comes to winter chinook fishing, you have to go when you can go, despite the winds and the rain. Our boats are equipped with non-slip deck boots and full sets of rain gear so you will stay dry during the trip. We also have heaters on board to take the edge off the coldest and wettest of days. If you wait for a day when the wind forecast is for light variable and it is nice and sunny, well lets just say you might be waiting awhile. It will also be crowded. These kinds of days are usually extremely busy and that can make for slower fishing at times. So put on the winter clothes and get out there to enjoy what has been an excellent season so far.
As far as tackle, not much has changed. Eddie reports he has been doing well on a variety of glow flashers and his top spoon has been a 3.0 or 3.5 Irish Cream. Keep your gear close to the bottom, cover ground, look for the bait, and stay in that area and you should do well.
Speaking of raingear. I have to put mine on now and head down to the dock this morning to do some maintenance on the boats.
Jason Tonelli
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None too soon, I was steered away from the disquieting splendors of my garden chair. Drooping in green parabolas from the hedge, the ivy fronds shone with a kind of glassy, jade-like radiance. A moment later a clump of Red Hot Pokers, in full bloom, had exploded into my field of vision. So passionately alive that they seemed to be standing on the very brink of utterance, the flowers strained upwards into the blue. Like the chair under the laths, they protected too much. I looked down at the leaves and discovered a cavernous intricacy of the most delicate green lights and shadows, pulsing with undecipherable mystery.
Roses : The flowers are easy to paint, The leaves difficult.Shiki’s
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(which I quote in R. H. Blyth’s translation) expresses, by indirection, exactly what I then felt– the excessive, the too obvious glory of the flowers, as contrasted with the subtler miracle of their foliage.
We walked out into the street. A large pale blue automobile was standing at the curb. At the sight of it, I was suddenly overcome by enormous merriment. What complacency, what an absurd self-satisfaction beamed from those bulging surfaces of glossiest enamel! Man had created the thing in his own image–or rather in the image of his favorite character in fiction. I laughed till the tears ran down my cheeks.
We re-entered the house. A meal had been prepared. Somebody, who was not yet identical with myself, fell to with ravenous appetite. From a considerable distance and without much interest, I looked on.
When the meal had been eaten, we got into the car and went for a drive. The effects of the mescalin were already on the decline: but the flowers in the gardens still trembled on the brink of being supernatural, the pepper trees and carobs along the side streets still manifestly belonged to some sacred grove. Eden alternated with Dodona. Yggdrasil with the mystic Rose. And then, abruptly, we were at an intersection, waiting to cross Sunset Boulevard. Before us the cars were rolling by in a steady stream–thousands of them, all bright and shiny like an advertiser’s dream and each more ludicrous than the last. Once again I was convulsed with laughter.
The Red Sea of traffic parted at last, and we crossed into another oasis of trees and lawns and roses. In a few minutes we had climbed to a vantage point in the hills, and there was the city spread out beneath us. Rather disappointingly, it looked very like the city I had seen on other occasions. So far as I was concerned, transfiguration was proportional to distance. The nearer, the more divinely other. This vast, dim panorama was hardly different from itself.
We drove on, and so long as we remained in the hills, with view succeeding distant view, significance was at its everyday level, well below transfiguration point. The magic began to work again only when we turned down into a new suburb and were gliding between two rows of houses. Here, in spite of the peculiar hideousness of the architecture, there were renewals of transcendental otherness, hints of the morning’s heaven. Brick chimneys and green composition roofs glowed in the sunshine, like fragments of the New Jerusalem. And all at once I saw what Guardi had seen and (with what incomparable skill) had so often rendered in his paintings–a stucco wall with a shadow slanting across it, blank but unforgettably beautiful, empty but charged with all the meaning and the mystery of existence. The revelation dawned and was gone again within a fraction of a second. The car had moved on; time was uncovering another manifestation of the eternal Suchness. “Within sameness there is difference. But that difference should be different from sameness is in no wise the intention of all the Buddhas. Their intention is both totality and differentiation.” This bank of red and white geraniums, for example–it was entirely different from that stucco wall a hundred yards up the road. But the “is-ness” of both was the same, the eternal quality of their transience was the same.
An hour later, with ten more miles and the visit to the World’s Biggest Drug Store safely behind us, we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as “being in one’s right mind.”
That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul. Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory–all these have served, in H. G. Wells’s phrase, as Doors in the Wall. And for private, far everyday use there have always been chemical intoxicants. All the vegetable sedatives and narcotics, all the euphorics that grow on trees, the hallucinogens that ripen in berries or can be squeezed from roots–all, without exception, have been known and systematically used by human beings from time immemorial. And to these natural modifiers of consciousness modern science has added its quota of synthetics–chloral, for example, and benzedrine, the bromides and the barbiturates.
Most of these modifiers of consciousness cannot now be taken except under doctor’s orders, or else illegally and at considerable risk. For unrestricted use the West has permitted only alcohol and tobacco. All the other chemical Doors in the Wall are labeled Dope, and their unauthorized takers are Fiends.
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time. The urge to do something for the young is strong only in parents, and in them only for the few years during which their children go to school. Equally unsurprising is the current attitude towards drink and smoke. In spite of the growing army of hopeless alcoholics, in spite of the hundreds of thousands of persons annually maimed or killed by drunken drivers, popular comedians still crack jokes about alcohol and its addicts. And in spite of the evidence linking cigarettes with lung cancer, practically everybody regards tobacco smoking as being hardly less normal and natural than eating. From the point of view of the rationalist utilitarian this may seem odd. For the historian, it is exactly what you would expect. A firm conviction of the material reality of Hell never prevented medieval Christians from doing what their ambition, lust or covetousness suggested. Lung cancer, traffic accidents and the millions of miserable and misery-creating alcoholics are facts even more certain than was, in Dante’s day, the fact of the Inferno. But all such facts are remote and unsubstantial compared with the near, felt fact of a craving, here and now, for release or sedation, for a drink or a smoke.
Ours is the age, among other things, of the automobile and of rocketing population. Alcohol is incompatible with safety on the roads, and its production, like that of tobacco, condemns to virtual sterility many millions of acres of the most fertile soil. The problems raised by alcohol and tobacco cannot, it goes without saying, be solved by prohibition. The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the currently popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old bad habits for new and less harmful ones. Some of these other, better doors will be social and technological in nature, others religious or psychological, others dietetic, educational, athletic. But the need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short. Such a drug must be potent in minute doses and synthesizable. If it does not possess these qualities, its production, like that of wine, beer, spirits and tobacco will interfere with the raising of indispensable food and fibers. It must be less toxic than opium or cocaine, less likely to produce undesirable social consequences than alcohol or the barbiturates, less inimical to heart and lungs than the tars and nicotine of cigarettes. And, on the positive side, it should produce changes in consciousness more interesting, more intrinsically valuable than mere sedation or dreaminess, delusions of omnipotence or release from inhibition.
To most people, mescalin is almost completely innocuous. Unlike alcohol, it does not drive the taker into the kind of uninhibited action which results in brawls, crimes of violence and traffic accidents. A man under the influence of mescalin quietly minds his own business. Moreover, the business he minds is an experience of the most enlightening kind, which does not have to be paid for (and this is surely important) by a compensatory hangover. Of the long-range consequences of regular mescalin taking we know very little. The Indians who consume peyote buttons do not seem to be physically or morally degraded by the habit. However, the available evidence is still scarce and sketchy.* Although obviously superior to cocaine, opium, alcohol and tobacco, mescalin is not yet the ideal drug. Along with the happily transfigured majority of mescalin takers there is a minority that finds in the drug only hell or purgatory. Moreover, for a drug that is to be used, like alcohol, for general consumption, its effects last for an inconveniently long time. But chemistry and physiology are capable nowadays of practically anything. If the psychologists and sociologists will define the ideal, the neurologists and pharmacologists can be relied upon to discover the means whereby that ideal can be realized or at least (for perhaps this kind of ideal can never, in the very nature of things, be fully realized) more nearly approached than in the wine-bibbing past, the whisky- drinking, marijuana-smoking and barbiturate-swallowing present.
The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul. When, for whatever reason, men and women fail to transcend themselves by means of worship, good works and spiritual exercises, they are apt to resort to religion’s chemical surrogates-alcohol and “goof pills” in the modern West, alcohol and opium in the East, hashish in the Mohammedan world, alcohol and marijuana in Central America, alcohol and coca in the Andes, alcohol and the barbiturates in the more up-to-date regions of South America. In Poisons Sacres, Ivresses Divines Philippe de Felice has written at length and with a wealth of documentation on the immemorial connection between religion and the taking of drugs. Here, in summary or in direct quotation, are his conclusions. The employment for religious purposes of toxic substances is “extraordinarily widespread…. The practices studied in this volume can be observed in every region of the earth, among primitives no less than among those who have reached a high pitch of civilization. We are therefore dealing not with exceptional facts, which might justifiably be overlooked, but with a general and, in the widest sense of the word, a human phenomenon, the kind of phenomenon which cannot be disregarded by anyone who is trying to discover what religion is, and what are the deep needs which it must satisfy.”
Ideally, everyone should be able to find self-transcendence in some form of pure or applied religion. In practice it seems very unlikely that this hoped for consummation will ever be realized. There are, and doubtless there always will be, good churchmen and good churchwomen for whom, unfortunately, piety is not enough. The late G. K. Chesterton, who wrote at least as lyrically of drink as of devotion, may serve as their eloquent spokesman.
The modern churches, with some exceptions among the Protestant denominations, tolerate alcohol; but even the most tolerant have made no attempt to convert the drug to Christianity, or to sacramentalize its use. The pious drinker is forced to take his religion in one compartment, his religion-surrogate in another. And perhaps this is inevitable. Drinking cannot be sacramentalized except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair. The rites of Christianity are incompatible with even religious drunkenness. This does no harm to the distillers, but is very bad for Christianity. Countless persons desire self-transcendence and would be glad to find it in church. But, alas, “the hungry sheep look up and are not fed.” They take part in rites, they listen to sermons, they repeat prayers; but their thirst remains unassuaged. Disappointed, they turn to the bottle. For a time at least and in a kind of way, it works. Church may still be attended; but it is no more than the Musical Bank of Butler’s Erewhon. God may still be acknowledged; but He is God only on the verbal level, only in a strictly Pickwickian sense. The effective object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state of uninhibited and belligerent euphoria which follows the ingestion of the third cocktail.
We see, then, that Christianity and alcohol do not and cannot mix. Christianity and mescalin seem to be much more compatible. This has been demonstrated by many tribes of Indians, from Texas to as far north as Wisconsin. Among these tribes are to be found groups affiliated with the Native American Church, a sect whose principal rite is a kind of Early Christian agape, or love feast, where slices of peyote take the place of the sacramental bread and wine. These Native Americans regard the cactus as God’s special gift to the Indians, and equate its effects with the workings of the divine Spirit.
Professor J. S. Slotkin, one of the very few white men ever to have participated in the rites of a Peyotist congregation, says of his fellow worshipers that they are “certainly not stupefied or drunk…. They never get out of rhythm or fumble their words, as a drunken or stupefied man would do…. They are all quiet, courteous and considerate of one another. I have never been in any white man’s house of worship where there is either so much religious feeling or decorum.” And what, we may ask, are these devout and well-behaved Peyotists experiencing? Not the mild sense of virtue which sustains the average Sunday churchgoer through ninety minutes of boredom. Not even those high feelings, inspired by thoughts of the Creator and the Redeemer, the Judge and the Comforter, which animate the pious. For these Native Americans, religious experience is something more direct and illuminating, more spontaneous, less the homemade product of the superficial, self-conscious mind. Sometimes (according to the reports collected by Dr. Slotkin) they see visions, which may be of Christ Himself. Sometimes they hear the voice of the Great Spirit. Sometimes they become aware of the presence of God and of those personal shortcomings which must be corrected if they are to do His will. The practical consequences of these chemical openings of doors into the Other World seem to be wholly good. Dr. Slotkin reports that habitual Peyotists are on the whole more industrious, more temperate (many of them abstain altogether from alcohol), more Peaceable than non-Peyotists. A tree with such satisfactory fruits cannot be condemned out of hand as evil.
In sacramentalizing the use of peyote, the Indians of the Native American Church have done something which is at once psychologically sound and historically respectable. In the early centuries of Christianity many pagan rites and festivals were baptized, so to say, and made to serve the purposes of the Church. These jollifications were not particularly edifying; but they assuaged a certain psychological hunger and, instead of trying to suppress them, the earlier missionaries had the sense to accept them for what they were, soul-satisfying expressions of fundamental urges, and to incorporate them into the fabric of the new religion. What the Native Americans have done is essentially similar. They have taken a pagan custom (a custom, incidentally, far more elevating and enlightening than most of the rather brutish carousals and mummeries adopted from European paganism) and given it a Christian significance.
Though but recently introduced into the northern United States, peyote-eating and the religion based upon it have become important symbols of the red man’s right to spiritual independence. Some Indians have reacted to white supremacy by becoming Americanized, others by retreating into traditional Indianism. But some have tried to make the best of both worlds, indeed of all the worlds–the best of Indianism, the best of Christianity, and the best of those Other Worlds of transcendental experience, where the soul knows itself as unconditioned and of like nature with the divine. Hence the Native American Church. In it two great appetites of the soul– the urge to independence and self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence-were fused with, and interpreted in the light of, a third–the urge to worship, to justify the ways of God to man, to explain the universe by means of a coherent theology.
Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mindClothes him in front, but leaves him bare behind.
But actually it is we, the rich and highly educated whites, who have left ourselves bare behind. We cover our anterior nakedness with some philosophy-Christian, Marxian, Freudo-Physicalist-but abaft we remain uncovered, at the mercy of all the winds of circumstance. The poor Indian, on the other hand, has had the wit to protect his rear by supplementing the fig leaf of a theology with the breechclout of transcendental experience.
I am not so foolish as to equate what happens under the influence of mescalin or of any other drug, prepared or in the future preparable, with the realization of the end and ultimate purpose of human life: Enlightenment, the Beatific Vision. All I am suggesting is that the mescalin experience is what Catholic theologians call “a gratuitous grace,” not necessary to salvation but potentially helpful and to be accepted thankfully, if made available. To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large–this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual. For the intellectual is by definition the man for whom, in Goethe’s phrase, “the word is essentially fruitful.” He is the man who feels that “what we perceive by the eye is foreign to us as such and need not impress us deeply.” And yet, though himself an intellectual and one of the supreme masters of language, Goethe did not always agree with his own evaluation of the word. “We talk,” he wrote in middle life, “far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches. That fig tree, this little snake, the cocoon on my window sill quietly awaiting its future-all these are momentous signatures. A person able to decipher their meaning properly would soon be able to dispense with the written or the spoken word altogether. The more I think of it, there is something futile, mediocre, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast, how the gravity of Nature and her silence startle you, when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of the ancient hills.” We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that we have raised ourselves above the brutes, to the level of human beings. But we can easily become the victims as well as the beneficiaries of these systems. We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction.
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else’s.
Gestalt psychologists, such as Samuel Renshaw, have devised methods for widening the range and increasing the acuity of human perceptions. But do our educators apply them? The answer is, No.
Teachers in every field of psyche-physical skill, from seeing to tennis, from tightrope walking to prayer, have discovered, by trial and error, the conditions of optimum functioning within their special fields. But have any of the great Foundations financed a project for co-ordinating these empirical findings into a general theory and practice of heightened creativeness? Again, so far as I am aware, the answer is, No.
All sorts of cultists and queer fish teach all kinds of techniques for achieving health, contentment, peace of mind; and for many of their hearers many of these techniques are demonstrably effective. But do we see respectable psychologists, philosophers and clergymen boldly descending into those odd and sometimes malodorous wells, at the bottom of which poor Truth is so often condemned to sit? Yet once more the answer is, No.
And now look at the history of mescalin research. Seventy years ago men of first-rate ability described the transcendental experiences which come to those who, in good health, under proper conditions and in the right spirit, take the drug. How many philosophers, how many theologians, how many professional educators have had the curiosity to open this Door in the Wall? The answer, for all practical purposes, is, None.
In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions. There is always money for, there are always doctorates in, the learned foolery of research into what, for scholars, is the all-important problem: Who influenced whom to say what when? Even in this age of technology the verbal humanities are honored. The non-verbal humanities, the arts of being directly aware of the given facts of our existence, ale almost completely ignored. A catalogue, a bibliography, a definitive edition of a third-rate versier’s ipsissima verba, a stupendous index to end all indexes-any genuinely Alexandrian project is sure of approval and financial support: But when it comes to finding out how you and I, our children and grandchildren, may become more perceptive, more intensely aware of inward and outward reality, more open to the Spirit, less apt, by psychological malpractices, to make ourselves physically ill, and more capable of controlling our own autonomic nervous system–when it comes to any form of non-verbal education more fundamental (and more likely to be of some practical use) than Swedish drill, no really respectable person in any really respectable university or church will do anything about it. Verbalists are suspicious of the non-verbal; rationalists fear the given, non-rational fact; intellectuals feel that “what we perceive by the eye (or in any other way) is foreign to us as such and need not impress us deeply.” Besides, this malter of education in the non-verbal humanities will not fit into any of the established pigeonholes. It is not religion, not neurology, not gymnastics, not morality or civics, not even experimental psychology. This being so the subject is, for academic and ecclesiastical purposes, non-existent and may safely be ignored altogether or left, with a Patronizing smile, to those whom the Pharisees of verbal orthodoxy call cranks, quacks, charlatans and unqualified amateurs.
“I have always found,” Blake wrote rather bitterly, “that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. This they do with a confident insolence sprouting from systematic reasoning.”
Systematic reasoning is something we could not, as a species or as individuals, possibly do without. But neither, if we are to remain sane, can we possibly do without direct perception, the more unsystematic the better, of the inner and outer worlds into which we have been born. This given reality is an infinite which passes all understanding and yet admits of being directly and in some sort totally apprehended. It is a transcendence belonging to another order than the human, and yet it may be present to us as a felt immanence, an experienced participation. To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness-to be aware of it and yet to remain in a condition to survive as an animal, to think and feel as a human being, to resort whenever expedient to systematic reasoning. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves. Meanwhile, however, there are gratuitous graces in the form of partial and fleeting realizations. Under a more realistic, a less exclusively verbal system of education than ours, every Angel (in Blake’s sense of that word) would be permitted as a sabbatical treat, would be urged and even, if necessary, compelled to take an occasional trip through some chemical Door in the Wall into the world of transcendental experience. If it terrified him, it would be unfortunate but probably salutary. If it brought him a brief but timeless illumination, so much the better. In either case the Angel might lose a little of the confident insolence sprouting from systematic reasoning and the consciousness of having read all the books.
Near the end of his life Aquinas experienced Infused Contemplation. Thereafter he refused to go back to work on his unfinished book. Compared with this, everything he had read and argued about and written–Aristotle and the Sentences, the Questions, the Propositions, the majestic Summas-was no better than chaff or straw, For most intellectuals such a sit-down strike would be inadvisable, even morally wrong. But the Angelic Doctor had done more systematic reasoning than any twelve ordinary Angels, and was already ripe for death. He had earned the right, in those last months of his mortality, to turn away from merely symbolic straw and chaff to the bread of actual and substantial Fact. For Angels of a lower order and with better prospects of longevity, there must be a return to the straw. But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.
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A sunny time just has an uplifting impact on even the absolute most pessimistic of people
Summertime is an occasion of fun. A sunny time just has an uplifting impact on even the absolute most pessimistic of people. Grinning and laughter seem intuitive, and most people just enjoy the outdoors. It's possibly expected that most wedding happen in summertime, in the end it is that season when many people are actually hot and comfortable. Positive there are exceptions, but typically distinct, hot temperature has a tendency to change into distinct, hot temperament.
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When it comes to summertime wedding flowers typically the most popular flowers would certainly include (although maybe not be limited) to the following:
1. Sunflowers
A firm favorite at many a summertime wedding. This can be a actually large rose that produces an immediate statement. The title sunflower says it all. Definitely the very best rose ambassador for the bright summertime sun, these fiery roses with a black or black center are especially common in orange, and apparently may also be obtainable in red, brown, orange, bronze and mahogany. Come early july wedding rose functions as a distinct key point in every arrangements. Typically a summertime bride can create her layout about a pick few sunflowers.
2. Gazanias
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3. Gerbera Daisies
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4. Dahlia
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5. Dark Eyed Susan
Just the word black-eyed susan conjures up some fascinating images with brides. Obviously in mention of the a marriage rose, rather than a femme fatale. Typically considered to be always a crazy rose present in open woods and road sides, they produce excellent summertime wedding flowers and are especially popular with the more vintage and rustic-type weddings.
Just like daffodils they're especially well-known for their impressive orange shades and black stores, and are great friends with bees and butterflies. These daisy-like flowers may also be obtainable in orange, brown, red and often in a multi-hued appearance.
6. Poppy
Poppies often simply get poor reputation, specifically making use of their associations with the drugs trade. The reality is these flowers produce for beautiful wedding flowers and stay ever popular with summertime weddings.
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7. Cosmos
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A favorite idea with brides is to often use these flowers solely, but to design a arrangement using various shade cosmos established in a fairly symmetrical fashion.
8. Tuberose
If you adore angelic bright as a color, you will like the tuberose as a summertime selection. Known by way of a effective, special aroma that even includes a commercial association with certain perfumes, these tubular-shaped flowers are in no way linked to flowers despite the similar title, even though both feature clearly as sought-after wedding flowers. These flowers may also be often found in warm destinations to make leis.
9. Peony
Commonly obtainable in bright, cream, pinks, rose, mahogany red and, these large flowers have a distinct disheveled, fluffy search, even though disheveled in a kind of teddy carry fashion. Related to look at to hydrangeas, these flowers are available in a much diversity of styles and work well in many floral plans, but especially in bouquets, specially when used being an special rose within an special color.
10. Chrysanthemum
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Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”? Part 2
Policemen wearing masks provided by the American Red Cross in Seattle, 1918. Image source.
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Part 1:
Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”?
Did a Vaccine Experiment on US Soldiers Cause the Spanish Flu? (Part 2 of 5)
Did contaminated vaccines and other medical products made in horses play a critical role in killing 50-100 million in 1918-19?
By Kevin Barry, President First Freedoms, Inc.
Introduction
The “Spanish Flu” killed an estimated 50-100 million people during a pandemic 1918-19.
What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn't true? What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?
Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.
In looking back on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, we need to delve deeper to solve this mystery.
Summary from Part 1 (1):
More soldiers died from disease than bullets during WWI.
The Spanish Flu was neither Spanish nor Flu. According to a 2008 study by the U.S. National Institute of Health, the “predominant” killer in 1918-19 was bacterial pneumonia, and the first cases were not in Spain.
Initial outbreaks can be traced to U.S. military bases. A bacterial vaccine experiment on soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas is one of the military epicenters of the epidemic.
The serums, anti-toxins and vaccines used on soldiers were made in horses at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (and in NJ). The same horses were used “in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum.” Same horses, multiple pathogens.
When WW1 ended on November 11, 1918, soldiers returned to their home countries and colonial outposts, spreading the killer bacterial pneumonia worldwide.
During WW1, the Rockefeller Institute also sent similar batches of the antimeningococcus serum used at Fort Riley to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries.
Vaccine experiments like the WWI experiments on soldiers in WW1 are not a thing of the past. Watch as Dr. Stanley Plotkin,(2) the Godfather of the US vaccine program, describes his vaccine experiments on the mentally handicapped, orphans, children of mothers in prison. Dr. Plotkin expresses a preference for experimenting “on children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.” The deposition was taken in January 2018.
In Part 1, I asked if medical products made in horses may have played a role in the new disease which killed millions worldwide in the pandemic of 1918-19.
The December 1917 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine (3) sheds light on the vaccine manufacturing process of 100 years ago.
The feature article, “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army” describes processes in place in 1917:
“After the horse has been inoculated with the disease poison in gradually increasing doses he is bled and his serum is found to be antitoxin.
This is administered to human beings and renders them immune to the disease …. Some horses give more antitoxin serum than others.
The same horse may be used at several different times for the preparation of distinctly different antitoxins … Horses are used in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum. “
It is difficult to believe that they used the same horses to make multiple disease serums, but they did.
If safety had been a concern, perhaps certain horses would have been dedicated to producing serum for one disease (or “poison” as the article calls it), but safety does not appear to be on the list of concerns.
These muddled and potentially contaminated serums were then given to soldiers (and to the public).
SPECIES JUMP?
Were pathogens transferred from these horses to humans in mass quantities in ways they had never transferred before?
Humans and horses had interacted closely for centuries, but horse serum had not been injected into humans in that way before, bypassing the human immune system.
Is it possible that this new method of exposure caused the bacterial pneumonias which ripped human lungs apart in ways never seen before?
Could pathogens relatively harmless to horse lungs make a species-jump and destroy human lungs?
In 1919, a Dutch military veterinarian named Captain Emile Bemelmans “developed an extensive theory on the relation between human and animal influenza …. In 1919, he argued that 'the human 'flu' and the so-called 'infectious disease of the breast' of horses are exactly identical in aetiological, bacteriological and epidemiological senses'.
In her 2014 paper “'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic”, Dr. Floor Haalboom describes Bemelmans's work:
“In 1919, Bemelmans's argument on the identical nature of human and horse influenza in the Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (the Dutch medical journal) was reviewed in the veterinary journal,
… in 1914 he extended his theory on horse flu to several human and animal infectious diseases in an article in the Dutch medical journal. Bemelmans listed human influenza as an example among many other animal and human diseases which he thought were accompanied by (deadly) infections of streptococci.
Although he did not yet argue that human and horse flu were exactly equal, he did explicitly note their similarities: 'Also between the human influenza and the so-called breast disease in horses peculiar similarities exist'…
… In these papers, Bemelmans addressed the nature of influenza (although he still preferred the name 'flu') of both humans and horses. He opposed the ideas that Pfeiffer's bacterium or a filterable virus caused the disease, but thought toxins made by the bacteria streptococci were responsible for its deadly secondary complications. “ (4)
Dr. Bemelmans's contemporaneous observations have largely been lost to history, in part because of the self important attitude of the medical community.
The hubris of the medical community prevented them from listening to a lowly veterinarian.
However, Dr. Bemelmans's observations and persistence in getting them published are extraordinarily valuable. His awareness at the time that bateria was the killer of both humans and horses in the pandemic of 1918-19 put him decades ahead of his contemporaries.
The NIH paper describing bacteria as the predominant killer was published in 2008.(5)
If Dr. Bemelmans was correct that horses and humans were suffering from an identical disease, are there diseases identical (or very similar) in both horses and humans? Do any of those diseases target the lungs?
“Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource”, Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D.N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 (6)
In a 1969 paper, Kansas State University veterinarian Dr. Charles E. Cornelius compiled a list of diseases which were very similar or identical in humans and various other species. Among the diseases identical/very similar in humans and horses is pulmonary emphysema, which targets the lungs.
Did a pathogen which causes pulmonary emphysema “species-jump” from horses to humans in these serums and vaccines?
The vaccines were obviously manufactured in primitive, unavoidably unsafe conditions and then given to WW1 soldiers as an experiment.
What exactly was in the serums and vaccines made in the horses at the Rockefeller Institute – especially considering that the same individual horses were used to for variety of serums for multiple diseases?
Recall from Part 1 that Streptococci bacteria were commonly found in the tissue samples from the autopsies of those who died in 1918-19. (5)
Cornelius said human and horse pulmonary emphysema are identical. Bemelmans reported that humans and horses were suffering from the same disease.
Did doctors treating soldiers suffering from “Spanish Flu” report on encountering a new killer type of pulmonary emphysema, causing lung damage that they had ever seen before?
PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AT CAMP HANCOCK GEORGIA
“Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia”Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 (7)
Captain Dr. Torrey served at Camp Hancock, just outside of Augusta, GA. The soldiers who came through Camp Hancock were likely on their way to Charleston, SC to board ships to France, but many of them would not survive to get to the front.
Thousands died at Camp Hancock. Some who survived the illness likely made it to the ships, potentially passing the infectious bacteria to other soldiers in the unsanitary conditions which were rampant during WWI.
From Dr. Torrey's report:
“Summary
… Certain conditions were invariably present, including an intense bronchitis and peribronchitis similar to that found in a previous epidemic of pure hemolytic streptococcus infection (Scarlet Fever). There was also present from the first a destructive softening of the lung parenchyma.
In addition to this there was always an early and persisting generalized pulmonary emphysema which frequently was the main factor in causing death by interference with the mass movement of venous blood.
These conditions were found in every case examined at autopsy. Except for frequent otitis media (ear infection) there were almost no complications or sequelae outside of the chest.
The pulmonary emphysema, with consequent venous stasis, accounted for the cyanosis (turning blue/purple color), epistaxis (nosebleeds) and fixation of the chest in the phase of extreme inspiration (inhaling), with low stand of the diaphragm, which characterized these cases, and also accounted for the paradoxical physical signs (paradoxical breathing) in which fluid developed in the chest.”
Torrey describes what happened to these soldiers as they died. They were coughing, becoming “cloud adults” (8) (as described in Part 1).
It looked like a bacterial infection to him. Autopsies showed lung tissue had been damaged, which restricted blood flow, turning the dying a bluish/purple color, due to lack of oxygen.
When the patients tried to inhale, their diaphragms constricted instead of expanded, the opposite of what diaphragms are supposed to do.(9) Fluids then filled their lungs, and many did not survive, literally the fluid in their lungs strangling the soldiers to death.
FLUID IN THE LUNGS STRANGLED THE HUMAN VICTIMS OF SPANISH FLU – STRANGLES?
There is a highly contagious horse respiratory infection called Strangles (or Distemper). If this disease can kill horses, what would it do to human lungs if introduced into humans, via injection and therefore bypassing the immune system, on a mass scale?
“Strangles is a highly contagious upper respiratory infection of horses caused by the bacteria Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi). It is transmitted by inhalation or direct contact with contaminated surfaces (for example horses sharing water buckets).“ (10)
Did streptococcus equi contaminate the serums and vaccines made in horses produced at the Rockefeller Institute and injected into soldiers in a vaccine experiment? Was streptococcus equi in the medical serums given to the soldiers as treatments? Was it some other pathogen which species jumped?
Did medical hubris lead to a mistake which caused a species jump which killed 50-100 million people 100 years ago?
WHAT NOW?
The vaccine industry is always looking for human test subjects. They have the most success when they are able to find populations who are not in a position to refuse. Soldiers (11), infants, the disabled, prisoners, those in developing nations – anyone not in a position to refuse.
Vaccine experimentation on vulnerable populations is not an issue of the past.
Watch this video clip of Dr. Stanley Plotkin where he describes using experimental vaccines on orphans, the mentally retarded, prisoners, and those under colonial rule.
The deposition was in January 2018.
The hubris of the medical community is the same or worse now than it was 100 years ago.
Watch as Dr. Plotkin admits to writing,
“The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.”
Please watch the horrifying video clip. (12)
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In part because the global community is well aware of medical hubris and well aware of the poor record of medical ethics, the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (13) developed international standards regarding the right to informed consent to preventative medical procedures like vaccination.
The international community is well aware that the pharmaceutical industry makes mistakes and is always on the lookout for human test subjects.
The Declaration states that individuals have the human right to consent to any preventative medical intervention like vaccination.
Article 3 – Human dignity and human rights
1. Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected. 2. The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
Article 6 – Consent
1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. (13)
Clean water, sanitation, flushing toilets, refrigerated foods and healthy diets have done and still do far more to protect humanity from infectious diseases than any vaccine program. Doctors and the vaccine industry have usurped credit which rightfully belongs to plumbers, electricians, sandhogs, engineers and city planners.
For these reasons, policy makers at all levels of government should protect the human rights and individual liberties of individuals to opt out of vaccine programs via exemptions.
The hubris of the medical community will never go away. Policy makers need to know that vaccines like all medical interventions are not infallible. Vaccines are not magic. We all have different susceptibility to disease. Human beings are not one size fits all.
In 1918-19, the vaccine industry experimented on soldiers, likely with disastrous results.
In 2018, the vaccine industry experiments on infants every day. The vaccine schedule has never been tested as it is given. The results of the experiment are in: 1 in 7 American children is in some form of special education and over 50% have some form of chronic illness. (14)
In 1918-19, there was no safety follow up after vaccines were delivered.
In 2018, there is virtually no safety follow up after a vaccine is delivered. Who exactly gave you that flu shot at Rite Aid? Do you have the cell number of the store employee if something goes wrong?
In 1918-19, there was no liability to the manufacturer for injuries or death caused by vaccines.
In 2018, there is no liability for vaccine manufacturers for injuries or death caused by vaccines, which was formalized in 1986. (15)
In 1918-19, there was no independent investigative follow up challenging the official story that “Spanish Flu” was some mystery illness which dropped from the sky.
I suspect that many of those at the Rockefeller Institute knew what happened, and that many of the doctors who administered the vaccines to the troops knew what happened, but those people are long dead.
In 2018, the Pharmaceutical industry is the largest campaign donor to politicians and the largest advertiser in all forms of media, so not much has changed over 100 years. This story will likely be ignored by mainstream media because their salaries are paid by pharmaceutical advertising.
The next time you hear someone say “vaccines save lives” please remember that the true story of the cost/benefit of vaccines is much more complicated than their three word slogan.
Also remember that vaccines may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-19. If true, those costs greatly outweighed any benefit, especially considering that plumbers, electricians, sandhogs and engineers did, and continue to do, the real work which reduces mortality from disease.
Vaccines are not magic.(16) Human rights and bioethics are critically important. Policy makers should understand the history of medical hubris and protect individual and parental human rights as described in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
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Kevin Barry is the President of First Freedoms, Inc. a 501.c.3. He is a former federal attorney, a rep at the UN HQ in New York and the author of Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC. Please support his work at www.firstfreedoms.org
Read the full article at FirstFreedoms.org.
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REFERENCES
1. Part 1 of this series www.firstfreedoms.org
2. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
3. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
4. Haalboom, F., 2014. 'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. Studium, 7(3), pp.124–139. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/studium.9830
5,. J Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1; 198(7): 962–970. Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Anthony S. Fauci https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/
6. Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D. Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University October 23, 1969 N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196910232811706
7. “Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia” Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/0470flu.0016.740/1/–acute-pulmonary-emphysema-observed-during-the-epidemic?view=image
8. Horse Strangles | Streptococcus equi subsp equi infection in horses (2015) Ashley G. Boyle, DVM, DACVIM (Large Animal Internal Medicine), Department of Clinical Studies, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine http://vetspecialists.com/horse-strangles-streptococcus-equi-subsp-equi-infection-in-horses/
9. Deaths from Bacterial Pneumonia during 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic John F. Brundage* and G. Dennis Shanks† Author affiliations: *Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; †Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1313_article
10. What is paradoxical breathing? Sun 5 November 2017 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319924.php
11. Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century, A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, December 1994 https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=438835
12. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
13. Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (19 October 2005) http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
14. CDC Offers New Stats On Disability Prevalence https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/03/14/cdc-disability-prevalence/22034/
15. 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/childhood-vaccine-injury-act-protect/
16. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
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Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”? Part 2
Policemen wearing masks provided by the American Red Cross in Seattle, 1918. Image source.
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Part 1:
Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”?
Did a Vaccine Experiment on US Soldiers Cause the Spanish Flu? (Part 2 of 5)
Did contaminated vaccines and other medical products made in horses play a critical role in killing 50-100 million in 1918-19?
By Kevin Barry, President First Freedoms, Inc.
Introduction
The “Spanish Flu” killed an estimated 50-100 million people during a pandemic 1918-19.
What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn't true? What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?
Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.
In looking back on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, we need to delve deeper to solve this mystery.
Summary from Part 1 (1):
More soldiers died from disease than bullets during WWI.
The Spanish Flu was neither Spanish nor Flu. According to a 2008 study by the U.S. National Institute of Health, the “predominant” killer in 1918-19 was bacterial pneumonia, and the first cases were not in Spain.
Initial outbreaks can be traced to U.S. military bases. A bacterial vaccine experiment on soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas is one of the military epicenters of the epidemic.
The serums, anti-toxins and vaccines used on soldiers were made in horses at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (and in NJ). The same horses were used “in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum.” Same horses, multiple pathogens.
When WW1 ended on November 11, 1918, soldiers returned to their home countries and colonial outposts, spreading the killer bacterial pneumonia worldwide.
During WW1, the Rockefeller Institute also sent similar batches of the antimeningococcus serum used at Fort Riley to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries.
Vaccine experiments like the WWI experiments on soldiers in WW1 are not a thing of the past. Watch as Dr. Stanley Plotkin,(2) the Godfather of the US vaccine program, describes his vaccine experiments on the mentally handicapped, orphans, children of mothers in prison. Dr. Plotkin expresses a preference for experimenting “on children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.” The deposition was taken in January 2018.
In Part 1, I asked if medical products made in horses may have played a role in the new disease which killed millions worldwide in the pandemic of 1918-19.
The December 1917 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine (3) sheds light on the vaccine manufacturing process of 100 years ago.
The feature article, “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army” describes processes in place in 1917:
“After the horse has been inoculated with the disease poison in gradually increasing doses he is bled and his serum is found to be antitoxin.
This is administered to human beings and renders them immune to the disease …. Some horses give more antitoxin serum than others.
The same horse may be used at several different times for the preparation of distinctly different antitoxins … Horses are used in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum. “
It is difficult to believe that they used the same horses to make multiple disease serums, but they did.
If safety had been a concern, perhaps certain horses would have been dedicated to producing serum for one disease (or “poison” as the article calls it), but safety does not appear to be on the list of concerns.
These muddled and potentially contaminated serums were then given to soldiers (and to the public).
SPECIES JUMP?
Were pathogens transferred from these horses to humans in mass quantities in ways they had never transferred before?
Humans and horses had interacted closely for centuries, but horse serum had not been injected into humans in that way before, bypassing the human immune system.
Is it possible that this new method of exposure caused the bacterial pneumonias which ripped human lungs apart in ways never seen before?
Could pathogens relatively harmless to horse lungs make a species-jump and destroy human lungs?
In 1919, a Dutch military veterinarian named Captain Emile Bemelmans “developed an extensive theory on the relation between human and animal influenza …. In 1919, he argued that 'the human 'flu' and the so-called 'infectious disease of the breast' of horses are exactly identical in aetiological, bacteriological and epidemiological senses'.
In her 2014 paper “'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic”, Dr. Floor Haalboom describes Bemelmans's work:
“In 1919, Bemelmans's argument on the identical nature of human and horse influenza in the Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (the Dutch medical journal) was reviewed in the veterinary journal,
… in 1914 he extended his theory on horse flu to several human and animal infectious diseases in an article in the Dutch medical journal. Bemelmans listed human influenza as an example among many other animal and human diseases which he thought were accompanied by (deadly) infections of streptococci.
Although he did not yet argue that human and horse flu were exactly equal, he did explicitly note their similarities: 'Also between the human influenza and the so-called breast disease in horses peculiar similarities exist'…
… In these papers, Bemelmans addressed the nature of influenza (although he still preferred the name 'flu') of both humans and horses. He opposed the ideas that Pfeiffer's bacterium or a filterable virus caused the disease, but thought toxins made by the bacteria streptococci were responsible for its deadly secondary complications. “ (4)
Dr. Bemelmans's contemporaneous observations have largely been lost to history, in part because of the self important attitude of the medical community.
The hubris of the medical community prevented them from listening to a lowly veterinarian.
However, Dr. Bemelmans's observations and persistence in getting them published are extraordinarily valuable. His awareness at the time that bateria was the killer of both humans and horses in the pandemic of 1918-19 put him decades ahead of his contemporaries.
The NIH paper describing bacteria as the predominant killer was published in 2008.(5)
If Dr. Bemelmans was correct that horses and humans were suffering from an identical disease, are there diseases identical (or very similar) in both horses and humans? Do any of those diseases target the lungs?
“Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource”, Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D.N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 (6)
In a 1969 paper, Kansas State University veterinarian Dr. Charles E. Cornelius compiled a list of diseases which were very similar or identical in humans and various other species. Among the diseases identical/very similar in humans and horses is pulmonary emphysema, which targets the lungs.
Did a pathogen which causes pulmonary emphysema “species-jump” from horses to humans in these serums and vaccines?
The vaccines were obviously manufactured in primitive, unavoidably unsafe conditions and then given to WW1 soldiers as an experiment.
What exactly was in the serums and vaccines made in the horses at the Rockefeller Institute – especially considering that the same individual horses were used to for variety of serums for multiple diseases?
Recall from Part 1 that Streptococci bacteria were commonly found in the tissue samples from the autopsies of those who died in 1918-19. (5)
Cornelius said human and horse pulmonary emphysema are identical. Bemelmans reported that humans and horses were suffering from the same disease.
Did doctors treating soldiers suffering from “Spanish Flu” report on encountering a new killer type of pulmonary emphysema, causing lung damage that they had ever seen before?
PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AT CAMP HANCOCK GEORGIA
“Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia”Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 (7)
Captain Dr. Torrey served at Camp Hancock, just outside of Augusta, GA. The soldiers who came through Camp Hancock were likely on their way to Charleston, SC to board ships to France, but many of them would not survive to get to the front.
Thousands died at Camp Hancock. Some who survived the illness likely made it to the ships, potentially passing the infectious bacteria to other soldiers in the unsanitary conditions which were rampant during WWI.
From Dr. Torrey's report:
“Summary
… Certain conditions were invariably present, including an intense bronchitis and peribronchitis similar to that found in a previous epidemic of pure hemolytic streptococcus infection (Scarlet Fever). There was also present from the first a destructive softening of the lung parenchyma.
In addition to this there was always an early and persisting generalized pulmonary emphysema which frequently was the main factor in causing death by interference with the mass movement of venous blood.
These conditions were found in every case examined at autopsy. Except for frequent otitis media (ear infection) there were almost no complications or sequelae outside of the chest.
The pulmonary emphysema, with consequent venous stasis, accounted for the cyanosis (turning blue/purple color), epistaxis (nosebleeds) and fixation of the chest in the phase of extreme inspiration (inhaling), with low stand of the diaphragm, which characterized these cases, and also accounted for the paradoxical physical signs (paradoxical breathing) in which fluid developed in the chest.”
Torrey describes what happened to these soldiers as they died. They were coughing, becoming “cloud adults” (8) (as described in Part 1).
It looked like a bacterial infection to him. Autopsies showed lung tissue had been damaged, which restricted blood flow, turning the dying a bluish/purple color, due to lack of oxygen.
When the patients tried to inhale, their diaphragms constricted instead of expanded, the opposite of what diaphragms are supposed to do.(9) Fluids then filled their lungs, and many did not survive, literally the fluid in their lungs strangling the soldiers to death.
FLUID IN THE LUNGS STRANGLED THE HUMAN VICTIMS OF SPANISH FLU – STRANGLES?
There is a highly contagious horse respiratory infection called Strangles (or Distemper). If this disease can kill horses, what would it do to human lungs if introduced into humans, via injection and therefore bypassing the immune system, on a mass scale?
“Strangles is a highly contagious upper respiratory infection of horses caused by the bacteria Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi). It is transmitted by inhalation or direct contact with contaminated surfaces (for example horses sharing water buckets).“ (10)
Did streptococcus equi contaminate the serums and vaccines made in horses produced at the Rockefeller Institute and injected into soldiers in a vaccine experiment? Was streptococcus equi in the medical serums given to the soldiers as treatments? Was it some other pathogen which species jumped?
Did medical hubris lead to a mistake which caused a species jump which killed 50-100 million people 100 years ago?
WHAT NOW?
The vaccine industry is always looking for human test subjects. They have the most success when they are able to find populations who are not in a position to refuse. Soldiers (11), infants, the disabled, prisoners, those in developing nations – anyone not in a position to refuse.
Vaccine experimentation on vulnerable populations is not an issue of the past.
Watch this video clip of Dr. Stanley Plotkin where he describes using experimental vaccines on orphans, the mentally retarded, prisoners, and those under colonial rule.
The deposition was in January 2018.
The hubris of the medical community is the same or worse now than it was 100 years ago.
Watch as Dr. Plotkin admits to writing,
“The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.”
Please watch the horrifying video clip. (12)
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In part because the global community is well aware of medical hubris and well aware of the poor record of medical ethics, the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (13) developed international standards regarding the right to informed consent to preventative medical procedures like vaccination.
The international community is well aware that the pharmaceutical industry makes mistakes and is always on the lookout for human test subjects.
The Declaration states that individuals have the human right to consent to any preventative medical intervention like vaccination.
Article 3 – Human dignity and human rights
1. Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected. 2. The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
Article 6 – Consent
1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. (13)
Clean water, sanitation, flushing toilets, refrigerated foods and healthy diets have done and still do far more to protect humanity from infectious diseases than any vaccine program. Doctors and the vaccine industry have usurped credit which rightfully belongs to plumbers, electricians, sandhogs, engineers and city planners.
For these reasons, policy makers at all levels of government should protect the human rights and individual liberties of individuals to opt out of vaccine programs via exemptions.
The hubris of the medical community will never go away. Policy makers need to know that vaccines like all medical interventions are not infallible. Vaccines are not magic. We all have different susceptibility to disease. Human beings are not one size fits all.
In 1918-19, the vaccine industry experimented on soldiers, likely with disastrous results.
In 2018, the vaccine industry experiments on infants every day. The vaccine schedule has never been tested as it is given. The results of the experiment are in: 1 in 7 American children is in some form of special education and over 50% have some form of chronic illness. (14)
In 1918-19, there was no safety follow up after vaccines were delivered.
In 2018, there is virtually no safety follow up after a vaccine is delivered. Who exactly gave you that flu shot at Rite Aid? Do you have the cell number of the store employee if something goes wrong?
In 1918-19, there was no liability to the manufacturer for injuries or death caused by vaccines.
In 2018, there is no liability for vaccine manufacturers for injuries or death caused by vaccines, which was formalized in 1986. (15)
In 1918-19, there was no independent investigative follow up challenging the official story that “Spanish Flu” was some mystery illness which dropped from the sky.
I suspect that many of those at the Rockefeller Institute knew what happened, and that many of the doctors who administered the vaccines to the troops knew what happened, but those people are long dead.
In 2018, the Pharmaceutical industry is the largest campaign donor to politicians and the largest advertiser in all forms of media, so not much has changed over 100 years. This story will likely be ignored by mainstream media because their salaries are paid by pharmaceutical advertising.
The next time you hear someone say “vaccines save lives” please remember that the true story of the cost/benefit of vaccines is much more complicated than their three word slogan.
Also remember that vaccines may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-19. If true, those costs greatly outweighed any benefit, especially considering that plumbers, electricians, sandhogs and engineers did, and continue to do, the real work which reduces mortality from disease.
Vaccines are not magic.(16) Human rights and bioethics are critically important. Policy makers should understand the history of medical hubris and protect individual and parental human rights as described in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
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Kevin Barry is the President of First Freedoms, Inc. a 501.c.3. He is a former federal attorney, a rep at the UN HQ in New York and the author of Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC. Please support his work at www.firstfreedoms.org
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REFERENCES
1. Part 1 of this series www.firstfreedoms.org
2. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
3. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
4. Haalboom, F., 2014. 'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. Studium, 7(3), pp.124–139. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/studium.9830
5,. J Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1; 198(7): 962–970. Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Anthony S. Fauci https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/
6. Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D. Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University October 23, 1969 N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196910232811706
7. “Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia” Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/0470flu.0016.740/1/–acute-pulmonary-emphysema-observed-during-the-epidemic?view=image
8. Horse Strangles | Streptococcus equi subsp equi infection in horses (2015) Ashley G. Boyle, DVM, DACVIM (Large Animal Internal Medicine), Department of Clinical Studies, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine http://vetspecialists.com/horse-strangles-streptococcus-equi-subsp-equi-infection-in-horses/
9. Deaths from Bacterial Pneumonia during 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic John F. Brundage* and G. Dennis Shanks† Author affiliations: *Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; †Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1313_article
10. What is paradoxical breathing? Sun 5 November 2017 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319924.php
11. Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century, A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, December 1994 https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=438835
12. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
13. Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (19 October 2005) http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
14. CDC Offers New Stats On Disability Prevalence https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/03/14/cdc-disability-prevalence/22034/
15. 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/childhood-vaccine-injury-act-protect/
16. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
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Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”? Part 2
Policemen wearing masks provided by the American Red Cross in Seattle, 1918. Image source.
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Part 1:
Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”?
Did a Vaccine Experiment on US Soldiers Cause the Spanish Flu? (Part 2 of 5)
Did contaminated vaccines and other medical products made in horses play a critical role in killing 50-100 million in 1918-19?
By Kevin Barry, President First Freedoms, Inc.
Introduction
The “Spanish Flu” killed an estimated 50-100 million people during a pandemic 1918-19.
What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn't true? What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?
Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.
In looking back on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, we need to delve deeper to solve this mystery.
Summary from Part 1 (1):
More soldiers died from disease than bullets during WWI.
The Spanish Flu was neither Spanish nor Flu. According to a 2008 study by the U.S. National Institute of Health, the “predominant” killer in 1918-19 was bacterial pneumonia, and the first cases were not in Spain.
Initial outbreaks can be traced to U.S. military bases. A bacterial vaccine experiment on soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas is one of the military epicenters of the epidemic.
The serums, anti-toxins and vaccines used on soldiers were made in horses at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (and in NJ). The same horses were used “in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum.” Same horses, multiple pathogens.
When WW1 ended on November 11, 1918, soldiers returned to their home countries and colonial outposts, spreading the killer bacterial pneumonia worldwide.
During WW1, the Rockefeller Institute also sent similar batches of the antimeningococcus serum used at Fort Riley to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries.
Vaccine experiments like the WWI experiments on soldiers in WW1 are not a thing of the past. Watch as Dr. Stanley Plotkin,(2) the Godfather of the US vaccine program, describes his vaccine experiments on the mentally handicapped, orphans, children of mothers in prison. Dr. Plotkin expresses a preference for experimenting “on children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.” The deposition was taken in January 2018.
In Part 1, I asked if medical products made in horses may have played a role in the new disease which killed millions worldwide in the pandemic of 1918-19.
The December 1917 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine (3) sheds light on the vaccine manufacturing process of 100 years ago.
The feature article, “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army” describes processes in place in 1917:
“After the horse has been inoculated with the disease poison in gradually increasing doses he is bled and his serum is found to be antitoxin.
This is administered to human beings and renders them immune to the disease …. Some horses give more antitoxin serum than others.
The same horse may be used at several different times for the preparation of distinctly different antitoxins … Horses are used in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum. “
It is difficult to believe that they used the same horses to make multiple disease serums, but they did.
If safety had been a concern, perhaps certain horses would have been dedicated to producing serum for one disease (or “poison” as the article calls it), but safety does not appear to be on the list of concerns.
These muddled and potentially contaminated serums were then given to soldiers (and to the public).
SPECIES JUMP?
Were pathogens transferred from these horses to humans in mass quantities in ways they had never transferred before?
Humans and horses had interacted closely for centuries, but horse serum had not been injected into humans in that way before, bypassing the human immune system.
Is it possible that this new method of exposure caused the bacterial pneumonias which ripped human lungs apart in ways never seen before?
Could pathogens relatively harmless to horse lungs make a species-jump and destroy human lungs?
In 1919, a Dutch military veterinarian named Captain Emile Bemelmans “developed an extensive theory on the relation between human and animal influenza …. In 1919, he argued that 'the human 'flu' and the so-called 'infectious disease of the breast' of horses are exactly identical in aetiological, bacteriological and epidemiological senses'.
In her 2014 paper “'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic”, Dr. Floor Haalboom describes Bemelmans's work:
“In 1919, Bemelmans's argument on the identical nature of human and horse influenza in the Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (the Dutch medical journal) was reviewed in the veterinary journal,
… in 1914 he extended his theory on horse flu to several human and animal infectious diseases in an article in the Dutch medical journal. Bemelmans listed human influenza as an example among many other animal and human diseases which he thought were accompanied by (deadly) infections of streptococci.
Although he did not yet argue that human and horse flu were exactly equal, he did explicitly note their similarities: 'Also between the human influenza and the so-called breast disease in horses peculiar similarities exist'…
… In these papers, Bemelmans addressed the nature of influenza (although he still preferred the name 'flu') of both humans and horses. He opposed the ideas that Pfeiffer's bacterium or a filterable virus caused the disease, but thought toxins made by the bacteria streptococci were responsible for its deadly secondary complications. “ (4)
Dr. Bemelmans's contemporaneous observations have largely been lost to history, in part because of the self important attitude of the medical community.
The hubris of the medical community prevented them from listening to a lowly veterinarian.
However, Dr. Bemelmans's observations and persistence in getting them published are extraordinarily valuable. His awareness at the time that bateria was the killer of both humans and horses in the pandemic of 1918-19 put him decades ahead of his contemporaries.
The NIH paper describing bacteria as the predominant killer was published in 2008.(5)
If Dr. Bemelmans was correct that horses and humans were suffering from an identical disease, are there diseases identical (or very similar) in both horses and humans? Do any of those diseases target the lungs?
“Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource”, Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D.N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 (6)
In a 1969 paper, Kansas State University veterinarian Dr. Charles E. Cornelius compiled a list of diseases which were very similar or identical in humans and various other species. Among the diseases identical/very similar in humans and horses is pulmonary emphysema, which targets the lungs.
Did a pathogen which causes pulmonary emphysema “species-jump” from horses to humans in these serums and vaccines?
The vaccines were obviously manufactured in primitive, unavoidably unsafe conditions and then given to WW1 soldiers as an experiment.
What exactly was in the serums and vaccines made in the horses at the Rockefeller Institute – especially considering that the same individual horses were used to for variety of serums for multiple diseases?
Recall from Part 1 that Streptococci bacteria were commonly found in the tissue samples from the autopsies of those who died in 1918-19. (5)
Cornelius said human and horse pulmonary emphysema are identical. Bemelmans reported that humans and horses were suffering from the same disease.
Did doctors treating soldiers suffering from “Spanish Flu” report on encountering a new killer type of pulmonary emphysema, causing lung damage that they had ever seen before?
PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AT CAMP HANCOCK GEORGIA
“Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia”Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 (7)
Captain Dr. Torrey served at Camp Hancock, just outside of Augusta, GA. The soldiers who came through Camp Hancock were likely on their way to Charleston, SC to board ships to France, but many of them would not survive to get to the front.
Thousands died at Camp Hancock. Some who survived the illness likely made it to the ships, potentially passing the infectious bacteria to other soldiers in the unsanitary conditions which were rampant during WWI.
From Dr. Torrey's report:
“Summary
… Certain conditions were invariably present, including an intense bronchitis and peribronchitis similar to that found in a previous epidemic of pure hemolytic streptococcus infection (Scarlet Fever). There was also present from the first a destructive softening of the lung parenchyma.
In addition to this there was always an early and persisting generalized pulmonary emphysema which frequently was the main factor in causing death by interference with the mass movement of venous blood.
These conditions were found in every case examined at autopsy. Except for frequent otitis media (ear infection) there were almost no complications or sequelae outside of the chest.
The pulmonary emphysema, with consequent venous stasis, accounted for the cyanosis (turning blue/purple color), epistaxis (nosebleeds) and fixation of the chest in the phase of extreme inspiration (inhaling), with low stand of the diaphragm, which characterized these cases, and also accounted for the paradoxical physical signs (paradoxical breathing) in which fluid developed in the chest.”
Torrey describes what happened to these soldiers as they died. They were coughing, becoming “cloud adults” (8) (as described in Part 1).
It looked like a bacterial infection to him. Autopsies showed lung tissue had been damaged, which restricted blood flow, turning the dying a bluish/purple color, due to lack of oxygen.
When the patients tried to inhale, their diaphragms constricted instead of expanded, the opposite of what diaphragms are supposed to do.(9) Fluids then filled their lungs, and many did not survive, literally the fluid in their lungs strangling the soldiers to death.
FLUID IN THE LUNGS STRANGLED THE HUMAN VICTIMS OF SPANISH FLU – STRANGLES?
There is a highly contagious horse respiratory infection called Strangles (or Distemper). If this disease can kill horses, what would it do to human lungs if introduced into humans, via injection and therefore bypassing the immune system, on a mass scale?
“Strangles is a highly contagious upper respiratory infection of horses caused by the bacteria Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi). It is transmitted by inhalation or direct contact with contaminated surfaces (for example horses sharing water buckets).“ (10)
Did streptococcus equi contaminate the serums and vaccines made in horses produced at the Rockefeller Institute and injected into soldiers in a vaccine experiment? Was streptococcus equi in the medical serums given to the soldiers as treatments? Was it some other pathogen which species jumped?
Did medical hubris lead to a mistake which caused a species jump which killed 50-100 million people 100 years ago?
WHAT NOW?
The vaccine industry is always looking for human test subjects. They have the most success when they are able to find populations who are not in a position to refuse. Soldiers (11), infants, the disabled, prisoners, those in developing nations – anyone not in a position to refuse.
Vaccine experimentation on vulnerable populations is not an issue of the past.
Watch this video clip of Dr. Stanley Plotkin where he describes using experimental vaccines on orphans, the mentally retarded, prisoners, and those under colonial rule.
The deposition was in January 2018.
The hubris of the medical community is the same or worse now than it was 100 years ago.
Watch as Dr. Plotkin admits to writing,
“The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.”
Please watch the horrifying video clip. (12)
youtube
In part because the global community is well aware of medical hubris and well aware of the poor record of medical ethics, the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (13) developed international standards regarding the right to informed consent to preventative medical procedures like vaccination.
The international community is well aware that the pharmaceutical industry makes mistakes and is always on the lookout for human test subjects.
The Declaration states that individuals have the human right to consent to any preventative medical intervention like vaccination.
Article 3 – Human dignity and human rights
1. Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected. 2. The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
Article 6 – Consent
1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. (13)
Clean water, sanitation, flushing toilets, refrigerated foods and healthy diets have done and still do far more to protect humanity from infectious diseases than any vaccine program. Doctors and the vaccine industry have usurped credit which rightfully belongs to plumbers, electricians, sandhogs, engineers and city planners.
For these reasons, policy makers at all levels of government should protect the human rights and individual liberties of individuals to opt out of vaccine programs via exemptions.
The hubris of the medical community will never go away. Policy makers need to know that vaccines like all medical interventions are not infallible. Vaccines are not magic. We all have different susceptibility to disease. Human beings are not one size fits all.
In 1918-19, the vaccine industry experimented on soldiers, likely with disastrous results.
In 2018, the vaccine industry experiments on infants every day. The vaccine schedule has never been tested as it is given. The results of the experiment are in: 1 in 7 American children is in some form of special education and over 50% have some form of chronic illness. (14)
In 1918-19, there was no safety follow up after vaccines were delivered.
In 2018, there is virtually no safety follow up after a vaccine is delivered. Who exactly gave you that flu shot at Rite Aid? Do you have the cell number of the store employee if something goes wrong?
In 1918-19, there was no liability to the manufacturer for injuries or death caused by vaccines.
In 2018, there is no liability for vaccine manufacturers for injuries or death caused by vaccines, which was formalized in 1986. (15)
In 1918-19, there was no independent investigative follow up challenging the official story that “Spanish Flu” was some mystery illness which dropped from the sky.
I suspect that many of those at the Rockefeller Institute knew what happened, and that many of the doctors who administered the vaccines to the troops knew what happened, but those people are long dead.
In 2018, the Pharmaceutical industry is the largest campaign donor to politicians and the largest advertiser in all forms of media, so not much has changed over 100 years. This story will likely be ignored by mainstream media because their salaries are paid by pharmaceutical advertising.
The next time you hear someone say “vaccines save lives” please remember that the true story of the cost/benefit of vaccines is much more complicated than their three word slogan.
Also remember that vaccines may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-19. If true, those costs greatly outweighed any benefit, especially considering that plumbers, electricians, sandhogs and engineers did, and continue to do, the real work which reduces mortality from disease.
Vaccines are not magic.(16) Human rights and bioethics are critically important. Policy makers should understand the history of medical hubris and protect individual and parental human rights as described in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
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Kevin Barry is the President of First Freedoms, Inc. a 501.c.3. He is a former federal attorney, a rep at the UN HQ in New York and the author of Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC. Please support his work at www.firstfreedoms.org
Read the full article at FirstFreedoms.org.
Comment on this article at VaccineImpact.com.
REFERENCES
1. Part 1 of this series www.firstfreedoms.org
2. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
3. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
4. Haalboom, F., 2014. 'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. Studium, 7(3), pp.124–139. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/studium.9830
5,. J Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1; 198(7): 962–970. Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Anthony S. Fauci https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/
6. Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D. Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University October 23, 1969 N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196910232811706
7. “Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia” Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/0470flu.0016.740/1/–acute-pulmonary-emphysema-observed-during-the-epidemic?view=image
8. Horse Strangles | Streptococcus equi subsp equi infection in horses (2015) Ashley G. Boyle, DVM, DACVIM (Large Animal Internal Medicine), Department of Clinical Studies, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine http://vetspecialists.com/horse-strangles-streptococcus-equi-subsp-equi-infection-in-horses/
9. Deaths from Bacterial Pneumonia during 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic John F. Brundage* and G. Dennis Shanks† Author affiliations: *Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; †Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1313_article
10. What is paradoxical breathing? Sun 5 November 2017 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319924.php
11. Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century, A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, December 1994 https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=438835
12. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
13. Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (19 October 2005) http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
14. CDC Offers New Stats On Disability Prevalence https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/03/14/cdc-disability-prevalence/22034/
15. 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/childhood-vaccine-injury-act-protect/
16. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
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Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”? Part 2
Policemen wearing masks provided by the American Red Cross in Seattle, 1918. Image source.
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Part 1:
Did a Military Experimental Vaccine in 1918 Kill 50-100 Million People Blamed as “Spanish Flu”?
Did a Vaccine Experiment on US Soldiers Cause the Spanish Flu? (Part 2 of 5)
Did contaminated vaccines and other medical products made in horses play a critical role in killing 50-100 million in 1918-19?
By Kevin Barry, President First Freedoms, Inc.
Introduction
The “Spanish Flu” killed an estimated 50-100 million people during a pandemic 1918-19.
What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn't true? What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?
Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.
In looking back on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, we need to delve deeper to solve this mystery.
Summary from Part 1 (1):
More soldiers died from disease than bullets during WWI.
The Spanish Flu was neither Spanish nor Flu. According to a 2008 study by the U.S. National Institute of Health, the “predominant” killer in 1918-19 was bacterial pneumonia, and the first cases were not in Spain.
Initial outbreaks can be traced to U.S. military bases. A bacterial vaccine experiment on soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas is one of the military epicenters of the epidemic.
The serums, anti-toxins and vaccines used on soldiers were made in horses at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (and in NJ). The same horses were used “in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum.” Same horses, multiple pathogens.
When WW1 ended on November 11, 1918, soldiers returned to their home countries and colonial outposts, spreading the killer bacterial pneumonia worldwide.
During WW1, the Rockefeller Institute also sent similar batches of the antimeningococcus serum used at Fort Riley to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries.
Vaccine experiments like the WWI experiments on soldiers in WW1 are not a thing of the past. Watch as Dr. Stanley Plotkin,(2) the Godfather of the US vaccine program, describes his vaccine experiments on the mentally handicapped, orphans, children of mothers in prison. Dr. Plotkin expresses a preference for experimenting “on children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.” The deposition was taken in January 2018.
In Part 1, I asked if medical products made in horses may have played a role in the new disease which killed millions worldwide in the pandemic of 1918-19.
The December 1917 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine (3) sheds light on the vaccine manufacturing process of 100 years ago.
The feature article, “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army” describes processes in place in 1917:
“After the horse has been inoculated with the disease poison in gradually increasing doses he is bled and his serum is found to be antitoxin.
This is administered to human beings and renders them immune to the disease …. Some horses give more antitoxin serum than others.
The same horse may be used at several different times for the preparation of distinctly different antitoxins … Horses are used in the preparation of diphtheria, tetanus antitoxin and antimeningococcus serum. “
It is difficult to believe that they used the same horses to make multiple disease serums, but they did.
If safety had been a concern, perhaps certain horses would have been dedicated to producing serum for one disease (or “poison” as the article calls it), but safety does not appear to be on the list of concerns.
These muddled and potentially contaminated serums were then given to soldiers (and to the public).
SPECIES JUMP?
Were pathogens transferred from these horses to humans in mass quantities in ways they had never transferred before?
Humans and horses had interacted closely for centuries, but horse serum had not been injected into humans in that way before, bypassing the human immune system.
Is it possible that this new method of exposure caused the bacterial pneumonias which ripped human lungs apart in ways never seen before?
Could pathogens relatively harmless to horse lungs make a species-jump and destroy human lungs?
In 1919, a Dutch military veterinarian named Captain Emile Bemelmans “developed an extensive theory on the relation between human and animal influenza …. In 1919, he argued that 'the human 'flu' and the so-called 'infectious disease of the breast' of horses are exactly identical in aetiological, bacteriological and epidemiological senses'.
In her 2014 paper “'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic”, Dr. Floor Haalboom describes Bemelmans's work:
“In 1919, Bemelmans's argument on the identical nature of human and horse influenza in the Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (the Dutch medical journal) was reviewed in the veterinary journal,
… in 1914 he extended his theory on horse flu to several human and animal infectious diseases in an article in the Dutch medical journal. Bemelmans listed human influenza as an example among many other animal and human diseases which he thought were accompanied by (deadly) infections of streptococci.
Although he did not yet argue that human and horse flu were exactly equal, he did explicitly note their similarities: 'Also between the human influenza and the so-called breast disease in horses peculiar similarities exist'…
… In these papers, Bemelmans addressed the nature of influenza (although he still preferred the name 'flu') of both humans and horses. He opposed the ideas that Pfeiffer's bacterium or a filterable virus caused the disease, but thought toxins made by the bacteria streptococci were responsible for its deadly secondary complications. “ (4)
Dr. Bemelmans's contemporaneous observations have largely been lost to history, in part because of the self important attitude of the medical community.
The hubris of the medical community prevented them from listening to a lowly veterinarian.
However, Dr. Bemelmans's observations and persistence in getting them published are extraordinarily valuable. His awareness at the time that bateria was the killer of both humans and horses in the pandemic of 1918-19 put him decades ahead of his contemporaries.
The NIH paper describing bacteria as the predominant killer was published in 2008.(5)
If Dr. Bemelmans was correct that horses and humans were suffering from an identical disease, are there diseases identical (or very similar) in both horses and humans? Do any of those diseases target the lungs?
“Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource”, Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D.N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 (6)
In a 1969 paper, Kansas State University veterinarian Dr. Charles E. Cornelius compiled a list of diseases which were very similar or identical in humans and various other species. Among the diseases identical/very similar in humans and horses is pulmonary emphysema, which targets the lungs.
Did a pathogen which causes pulmonary emphysema “species-jump” from horses to humans in these serums and vaccines?
The vaccines were obviously manufactured in primitive, unavoidably unsafe conditions and then given to WW1 soldiers as an experiment.
What exactly was in the serums and vaccines made in the horses at the Rockefeller Institute – especially considering that the same individual horses were used to for variety of serums for multiple diseases?
Recall from Part 1 that Streptococci bacteria were commonly found in the tissue samples from the autopsies of those who died in 1918-19. (5)
Cornelius said human and horse pulmonary emphysema are identical. Bemelmans reported that humans and horses were suffering from the same disease.
Did doctors treating soldiers suffering from “Spanish Flu” report on encountering a new killer type of pulmonary emphysema, causing lung damage that they had ever seen before?
PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AT CAMP HANCOCK GEORGIA
“Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia”Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 (7)
Captain Dr. Torrey served at Camp Hancock, just outside of Augusta, GA. The soldiers who came through Camp Hancock were likely on their way to Charleston, SC to board ships to France, but many of them would not survive to get to the front.
Thousands died at Camp Hancock. Some who survived the illness likely made it to the ships, potentially passing the infectious bacteria to other soldiers in the unsanitary conditions which were rampant during WWI.
From Dr. Torrey's report:
“Summary
… Certain conditions were invariably present, including an intense bronchitis and peribronchitis similar to that found in a previous epidemic of pure hemolytic streptococcus infection (Scarlet Fever). There was also present from the first a destructive softening of the lung parenchyma.
In addition to this there was always an early and persisting generalized pulmonary emphysema which frequently was the main factor in causing death by interference with the mass movement of venous blood.
These conditions were found in every case examined at autopsy. Except for frequent otitis media (ear infection) there were almost no complications or sequelae outside of the chest.
The pulmonary emphysema, with consequent venous stasis, accounted for the cyanosis (turning blue/purple color), epistaxis (nosebleeds) and fixation of the chest in the phase of extreme inspiration (inhaling), with low stand of the diaphragm, which characterized these cases, and also accounted for the paradoxical physical signs (paradoxical breathing) in which fluid developed in the chest.”
Torrey describes what happened to these soldiers as they died. They were coughing, becoming “cloud adults” (8) (as described in Part 1).
It looked like a bacterial infection to him. Autopsies showed lung tissue had been damaged, which restricted blood flow, turning the dying a bluish/purple color, due to lack of oxygen.
When the patients tried to inhale, their diaphragms constricted instead of expanded, the opposite of what diaphragms are supposed to do.(9) Fluids then filled their lungs, and many did not survive, literally the fluid in their lungs strangling the soldiers to death.
FLUID IN THE LUNGS STRANGLED THE HUMAN VICTIMS OF SPANISH FLU – STRANGLES?
There is a highly contagious horse respiratory infection called Strangles (or Distemper). If this disease can kill horses, what would it do to human lungs if introduced into humans, via injection and therefore bypassing the immune system, on a mass scale?
“Strangles is a highly contagious upper respiratory infection of horses caused by the bacteria Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi). It is transmitted by inhalation or direct contact with contaminated surfaces (for example horses sharing water buckets).“ (10)
Did streptococcus equi contaminate the serums and vaccines made in horses produced at the Rockefeller Institute and injected into soldiers in a vaccine experiment? Was streptococcus equi in the medical serums given to the soldiers as treatments? Was it some other pathogen which species jumped?
Did medical hubris lead to a mistake which caused a species jump which killed 50-100 million people 100 years ago?
WHAT NOW?
The vaccine industry is always looking for human test subjects. They have the most success when they are able to find populations who are not in a position to refuse. Soldiers (11), infants, the disabled, prisoners, those in developing nations – anyone not in a position to refuse.
Vaccine experimentation on vulnerable populations is not an issue of the past.
Watch this video clip of Dr. Stanley Plotkin where he describes using experimental vaccines on orphans, the mentally retarded, prisoners, and those under colonial rule.
The deposition was in January 2018.
The hubris of the medical community is the same or worse now than it was 100 years ago.
Watch as Dr. Plotkin admits to writing,
“The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.”
Please watch the horrifying video clip. (12)
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In part because the global community is well aware of medical hubris and well aware of the poor record of medical ethics, the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (13) developed international standards regarding the right to informed consent to preventative medical procedures like vaccination.
The international community is well aware that the pharmaceutical industry makes mistakes and is always on the lookout for human test subjects.
The Declaration states that individuals have the human right to consent to any preventative medical intervention like vaccination.
Article 3 – Human dignity and human rights
1. Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected. 2. The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
Article 6 – Consent
1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. (13)
Clean water, sanitation, flushing toilets, refrigerated foods and healthy diets have done and still do far more to protect humanity from infectious diseases than any vaccine program. Doctors and the vaccine industry have usurped credit which rightfully belongs to plumbers, electricians, sandhogs, engineers and city planners.
For these reasons, policy makers at all levels of government should protect the human rights and individual liberties of individuals to opt out of vaccine programs via exemptions.
The hubris of the medical community will never go away. Policy makers need to know that vaccines like all medical interventions are not infallible. Vaccines are not magic. We all have different susceptibility to disease. Human beings are not one size fits all.
In 1918-19, the vaccine industry experimented on soldiers, likely with disastrous results.
In 2018, the vaccine industry experiments on infants every day. The vaccine schedule has never been tested as it is given. The results of the experiment are in: 1 in 7 American children is in some form of special education and over 50% have some form of chronic illness. (14)
In 1918-19, there was no safety follow up after vaccines were delivered.
In 2018, there is virtually no safety follow up after a vaccine is delivered. Who exactly gave you that flu shot at Rite Aid? Do you have the cell number of the store employee if something goes wrong?
In 1918-19, there was no liability to the manufacturer for injuries or death caused by vaccines.
In 2018, there is no liability for vaccine manufacturers for injuries or death caused by vaccines, which was formalized in 1986. (15)
In 1918-19, there was no independent investigative follow up challenging the official story that “Spanish Flu” was some mystery illness which dropped from the sky.
I suspect that many of those at the Rockefeller Institute knew what happened, and that many of the doctors who administered the vaccines to the troops knew what happened, but those people are long dead.
In 2018, the Pharmaceutical industry is the largest campaign donor to politicians and the largest advertiser in all forms of media, so not much has changed over 100 years. This story will likely be ignored by mainstream media because their salaries are paid by pharmaceutical advertising.
The next time you hear someone say “vaccines save lives” please remember that the true story of the cost/benefit of vaccines is much more complicated than their three word slogan.
Also remember that vaccines may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-19. If true, those costs greatly outweighed any benefit, especially considering that plumbers, electricians, sandhogs and engineers did, and continue to do, the real work which reduces mortality from disease.
Vaccines are not magic.(16) Human rights and bioethics are critically important. Policy makers should understand the history of medical hubris and protect individual and parental human rights as described in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
------–
Kevin Barry is the President of First Freedoms, Inc. a 501.c.3. He is a former federal attorney, a rep at the UN HQ in New York and the author of Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC. Please support his work at www.firstfreedoms.org
Read the full article at FirstFreedoms.org.
Comment on this article at VaccineImpact.com.
REFERENCES
1. Part 1 of this series www.firstfreedoms.org
2. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
3. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
4. Haalboom, F., 2014. 'Spanish' flu and army horses: what historians and biologists can learn from a history of animals with flu during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. Studium, 7(3), pp.124–139. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/studium.9830
5,. J Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1; 198(7): 962–970. Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Anthony S. Fauci https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/
6. Animal Models – A Neglected Medical Resource Cornelius, CE, DVM, Ph.D. Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University October 23, 1969 N Engl J Med 1969; 281:934-944 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196910232811706
7. “Acute Pulmonary Emphysema Observed During the Epidemic of Influenzal Pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Georgia” Robert G. Torrey American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1919, p. 170 – 181 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/0470flu.0016.740/1/–acute-pulmonary-emphysema-observed-during-the-epidemic?view=image
8. Horse Strangles | Streptococcus equi subsp equi infection in horses (2015) Ashley G. Boyle, DVM, DACVIM (Large Animal Internal Medicine), Department of Clinical Studies, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine http://vetspecialists.com/horse-strangles-streptococcus-equi-subsp-equi-infection-in-horses/
9. Deaths from Bacterial Pneumonia during 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic John F. Brundage* and G. Dennis Shanks† Author affiliations: *Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; †Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1313_article
10. What is paradoxical breathing? Sun 5 November 2017 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319924.php
11. Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century, A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, December 1994 https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=438835
12. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: vaccine experiments on orphans, the mentally retarded, and others (January 2018)
13. Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (19 October 2005) http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
14. CDC Offers New Stats On Disability Prevalence https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/03/14/cdc-disability-prevalence/22034/
15. 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/childhood-vaccine-injury-act-protect/
16. “How New York City's Health Department Makes Serums and Vaccines for the United States Army,” see Slide 7 Popular Science, December 1917 Courtesy Smithsonian Libraries, National Museum of American History https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-living-factories.html
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