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THE
POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND
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New Report: The Censored Truth About ‘100% Pure New Zealand’]
Do
You Know Any Victim Of New Zealand Poisoning?
Outbreaks of cancer and other serious
diseases like multiple sclerosis, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Hepatitis
C., Downs Syndrome and Spina Bifida caused by exposure to toxic chemicals
have appeared in clusters around New Zealand . Investigate Magazine
published a report, which was subsequently censored by the mainstream
media.
New Zealand
manufactured substantial quantities of the deadly defoliant Agent Orange
(2,4-D and 2,4,5,T), a weapon of mass destruction containing the lethal
chemical dioxin, which was used against the Vietnamese with devastating
effects.
Agent Orange was manufactured in
New Zealand
between 1960 and 1987. Dioxin has a 30-year envelop and will continue to
poison people and the environment until at least 2017.
A former top
official for the manufacturers has confirmed that the leftover Agent
Orange was buried in secret toxic waste dumps: “We bulldozed big pits
and dumped thousands of tonnes of chemicals there." http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-05.htm
Can you help us set up
an international register for the victims of New Zealand Poisoning?
1. Do you know anyone
who has visited New Zealand since about 1962, or anyone who might have
been exposed to meat, fruit and vegetables, wine, dairy produce, or the
derivatives produced in and has subsequently died of cancer, sugar
diabetes, or strokes?
2. Do you know anyone who has children
with birth defects (babies born with no brain, deformed ears and faces,
blisters that look like major burns), Downs Syndrome, cancer or learning
difficulties who might have visited New Zealand or been exposed to meat,
fruit and vegetables, wine, dairy produce or the derivatives imported from
New Zealand?
3. Do you know anyone with cervical cancer, melanoma, multiple sclerosis,
Hepatitis C., lymphosarcoma, Spina Bifida, tumors, immunodeficiencies, or
infertility who might have visited New Zealand or been exposed to meat,
fruit and vegetables, wine, dairy produce or the derivatives imported from
New Zealand?
If you are a victim of New Zealand
Poisoning, wish to help other victims, or would like to claim
compensation, please contact MSRB.
Full report by
Simon Jones is available at Investigate
Magazine and Agent
Orange Dump found under New Zealand Town
Walk down any street in New Plymouth and you will probably hear a mixture
of coughing and spluttering. Look inside any school and there appears to
be more special needs children than is the norm for a city the size of New
Plymouth. It's often been said that everyone knows someone with a serious
disease, whether it be cancer or multiple sclerosis.
...
The story centers around one of the city's major employers, the Ivon
Watkins Dow Plant.
Since the early 1960s, and up until 1987, it manufactured the 2,4,5T
herbicide - which contains the deadly dioxin also used to form Agent
Orange - a weapon of huge destruction in the Vietnam War.
In New Zealand and around the world 2,4,5T is used to kill scrub, gorse
and blackberry. In Vietnam, with concentrations of dioxin much higher, it
had the same effect - to the extent where it devastated the country's
crops and caused major health problems amongst veterans, including cancer,
multiple sclerosis, while creating learning difficulties amongst the vets'
children.
...
Yet recently, in a draft report leaked to the Washington Post, the US
government upgraded dioxin to a 'human carcinogen' - in other words a
substance which is a major cause of cancer, as well as birth defects and
infertility.
...
"The problem with dioxin exposure is that there is a 30-year
envelope. The historical effects are only beginning to come through
now." [and will continue to at least 2017]
...
The manufacture of 2,4,5-T is said to have started in New Zealand around
1962 and by 1970 the number of birth defects in New Plymouth doubled and
the number of cases nationwide started to rise.
Because of international health concerns 2,4,5-T production was halted
around the world - with the exception of one factory, the Ivon Watkins Dow
Plant in New Plymouth which persevered until 1987. The plant is still in
operation today but only produces pesticides.
...
Initially residents and workers were happy with health assurances from
company bosses, particularly with the way waste was disposed through
burning. But only recently have secret dumps been found around the city,
dumps which residents say have infected soil and water.
In 1986 the Ministry of Environment held an official inquiry into dioxin
contamination after 300kg of vapor accidentally leaked from the plant.
Yet, interestingly, company bosses admitted that over 250kg of vapor was
normally discharged as a result of the normal process anyway.
...
Take, for example, the case of Ross Lawrence, 43, who lived within a
stone's throw of the plant and worked there as a storeman between 1980 and
1985. He contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Hepatitis C in 1998 - one
year after his wife, Patricia, 41, was diagnosed with breast cancer. To
add salt into the wounds, the 17-year-old family dog, Ena, died of cancer
last year and both Ross's children suffer from a mixture of skin
complaints and bleeding noses.
...
"I came home from Pakistan where I was working on an oil rig in 1997
to look after my wife," said Ross. "Shortly after I went to the
doctor after complaining about flu-type symptoms only to be told that I
had cancer and Hepatitis C. Isn't it strange how three of us could get
cancer in one household?"
An extensive course of chemotherapy seems to have thankfully cleared the
cancer, and after having her glands removed, his wife managed to keep both
breasts. But the trauma also brought its psychological toll. The stress
and strain of illness coupled with the loss of his $100,000-a-year job
effectively ended their marriage.
"This could have cost my life," says Lawrence, "and it
probably will in the end because Hep. C never goes away. They should be
made accountable. How many other people have died of cancer without
knowing the cause? How many other people are going to die?"
Ross Lawrence, like other employees, had few concerns at the time of
working at the Ivon Watkins Plant. "We knew about the dangers of
2,4,5-T, but it was such a safety orientated company. They held regular
safety meetings and did everything by the book.
"We were told that the waste was incinerated at temperatures which
were so high that there would be no residue because everything would be
dissolved. It was only when dumps containing the waste were found that I
really started to worry," he adds.
"There is still a cover-up going on. If you walk the streets of New
Plymouth people wouldn't know. Most didn't know what the factory made. The
local paper, the Daily News prints little on the subject. And the local MP
doesn't want to know."
Now Lawrence is actively working on the local rigs but campaigns with
others to lift what they say is a veil of secrecy over this health
scandal.
Another leading the campaign is Andrew Gibbs, who helped set up the Dioxin
Investigation Network. Recently Gibbs sent one sample of blood and a
sample of breast milk to America to check for traces of dioxin, the
particular type of which is called 2378 TCDD which is the most toxic type
known to man. Gibbs claims previous blood tests have been worthless
because 2,4,5-T passes through the system so quickly it leaves no trace.
The difference here is that they would also be testing for its residual,
2378 TCCD.
When they sent the samples to the US, taken from his partner, Iris, and
her sister, Lesley, they went missing for four days. Despite being clearly
marked for an Atlanta laboratory, they ended up in Los Angeles. More than
160 days later, they are still waiting for the results.
"In Vietnam they have found levels of 30 to 108 parts per trillion in
blood," he said. "Levels in Maori women around the Bay of
Plenty, where the herbicide was extensively sprayed, have already been
found to be up around 26.7ppt. As of yet we still don't know what the
blood levels are in New Plymouth."
Gibbs says even burning the waste didn't destroy it. Instead waste streams
left residue in the soil, on washing hanging out to dry and on barbecues.
"We ate it, breathed it and wore it. When the Yanks burnt it off
after Vietnam they burnt it off 80-90 miles down wind from Johnson Island.
"We burnt ours downwind on the whole town of New Plymouth. In the
1987 enquiry they said they found no evidence of dioxin in people or soil.
But what they had was a 1,500 ppt safe level. The highest recorded in
Vietnam was 808 ppt. In New Plymouth we've already levels up to 310 ppt."
His views may be ignored by health officials in New Zealand, but they have
found credence in America. George Lucier, director of the National
Toxicology Programme, and author of the Environmental Protection Agency
report, says there is no avoiding dioxin.
"Even penguins in Antarctica have dioxin in them. No one sets out
purposely to make dioxin. It is an unwanted side-product that you get from
burning. Anytime you combine heat, chlorine and organic material, there is
the possibility of making dioxins."
Lucier says scientists did not quite understand how dioxin damaged the
body, but did know it acted on a universal mechanism controlling cell
functions.
Dioxin attaches, or binds tightly, to the AII receptor - a kind of
cellular doorway found in virtually all cells in the body. Once there, it
changes the function of hundreds of genes. It will either stimulate gene
expression of suppress it.
Dioxin exposure has been linked to many different tumors, especially
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, respiratory cancers, soft tissue sarcoma and
prostate cancer. One Italian study of dioxin in children found hormonal
changes.
"When they have children, most or all their kids are girls, not
boys," says Lucier. "Dioxin affects pathways that are involved
in normal growth and differentiation, so it can cause birth defects,"
he adds. "It can affect sperm counts."
...
"It's normal to get quite a variation everywhere for all cancers. One
area might have a predominantly old group of people for example. But in
many cases no-one is exactly sure why." Yet since 1980 the birth
defects rate in Taranaki has been about 50 per cent higher than the
average for the rest of the country. While it's fair to say regional
disparities also occur in other areas for different types of diseases and
abnormalities, Taranaki usually falls victim to all of them.
Roy
Drake Story
Almost blind and
unable to walk, 50-year-old Roy Drake lives close to the Ivon Watkins Dow
Plant. In 1988 he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
...
"If you look at any major chemical plant anywhere in the world you
will find massive rates of the same sorts of diseases. Here in New
Plymouth, Down's Syndrome and Spina Bifida are going through the roof.
"Our local school has 1200 kids and in 1999 they advertised for ten
special needs teachers. I've found out in one Kindergarten alone there are
four kids with cancer.
"People of New Plymouth are very illiterate to it all. That's because
there has been a huge cover up. Imagine the legal implications of this.
The damages would run into billions.
"Half of my friends are dead or have brain tumors. Not many people
live to a ripe old age round here. They all die five or ten years short of
their time. I am very angry and cannot understand why this has been
ignored for such a long time."
"Drake says even his caregivers are riddled with disease. 'I've had
one who had sugar diabetes, two with strokes. The girl currently looking
after me has cervical cancer.'"
...
"Drake thought the new Labor government, with its Green allies, would order
a fresh enquiry following new American evidence on the damaging effects of
dioxin. Instead, he says, they are happy to sweep the issue under the
carpet. In June of this year Health Minister Annette King refused calls
for a new enquiry, relying on conclusions found in 1986 - interestingly a
report delivered under the previous Labor Government."
"While I appreciate the ongoing concerns about the health of people
living around New Plymouth, from the advice I have received from Ministry
officials, I am satisfied that the monitoring and investigation carried
out around IWD previously were adequate to show that significant exposure
of the local population did not occur."
...
"Not surprisingly, Andrew Gibbs disagrees. He says they are looking for
recognition and help. He points that areas like Gisborne [and most
probably throughout New Zealand], where 2,4,5T was
sprayed has almost identical ratios of motor neurone disease as Vietnam -
isn't it time we were at least prepared to look at the situation again?
"Yet it seems the government is blinded by issues on the grounds of cost.
The residents of New Plymouth say they have already paid a high enough
price for dioxin contamination, including many lives. Their search for
truth and a sympathetic ear goes on - but so far, few people are willing
to listen.
An
Extract From:
AGENT
ORANGE, A KILLER THEN AND A KILLER NOW!
[http://cybersarges.tripod.com/AO.html]
The following diseases
are those officially recognized by VA as related to herbicide exposure.
WARNING:
This list may change
-
Diabetes
- Prostate
Cancer
- Peripheral
Neuropathy (acute and sub-acute)
- Spina Bifida in children
of Vietnam Veterans
- Chloracne
- Chronic
Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
- Non-Hodgkin's
Lymphoma, including any diagnosis of a lymphoma [except Hodgkin's
lymphoma], mycosis fungoides, and old terms such as lymphosarcoma,
reticulum cell sarcoma and Sternberg's sarcoma
- Porphyria
cutanea tarda
- Respiratory cancers including cancer of the
lung,
bronchus,
larynx,
trachea
- Multiple myeloma
Hodgkin's disease Soft Tissue Sarcomas, including:
- Adult fibrosarcoma
- Dermatofibrosarcoma
protuberans
- Malignant fibrous
histiocytoma
- Liposarcoma
- Leiomyosarcoma
- Epithelioid
leiomyosarcoma (malignant leiomyoblastoma)
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Ectomesenchymoma
- Angiosarcoma (hemangiosarcoma
and lymphangiosarcoma)
- Proliferating (systemic)
angioendo- theliomatosis
- Malignant glomus tumor
- Malignant
hemangiopericytoma
- Synovial sarcoma
(malignant synovioma)
- Malignant giant cell
tumor of tendon sheath
- Malignant schwannoma,
including malignant schwannoma with rhabdomyoblastic differentiation
(malignant Triton tumor), glandular and epithelioid malignant schwannomas
Malignant mesenchymoma
- Malignant granular cell
tumor
- Alveolar soft part
sarcoma
- Epithelioid sarcoma
- Clear cell sarcoma of
tendons and aponeuroses
- Extraskeletal Ewing's
sarcoma
- Congenital and infantile
fibrosarcoma
- Malignant ganglioneuroma
- Under the VA rule, soft
tissue sarcoma does not include osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi's
sarcoma, or mesothelioma.
Links to Agent Orange Information
[Source: http://cybersarges.tripod.com/]
AO Info;
http://veteransinfo.org/id4.html
Most recent AO Info "2003/2004";http://cybersarges.tripod.com/aonew.html
The AO Cover-up: Dioxin KILLS Web Site http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/8212/dioxinkills.html
Thesis on AO by Deana Feist; http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/8212/feist.html
AO and general information, (Vietnam Veterans Page/Lots of Good
info);
http://www.tpromo.com/usvi/ag_org.htm
AO page from the 2/94th, 175mm Arty; http://www.2ndbattalion94thartillery.com/Chas/AgentOrangePage.htm
Dioxin (AO) Study by Charles Kelley;
http://www.2ndbattalion94thartillery.com/Chas/HouseCom.htm
Agent Orange OUTSIDE of Vietnam; http://cybersarges.tripod.com/aooutside.html
NEW VA Hepatitis C Web Site;
http://www.hepatitis.va.gov/
CHAMPVA claim rejected codes http://www.va.gov/hac/forbeneficiaries/champva/rejected_claims.asp
INFO on submitting AO claims from TVVET and VSPA ;
http://www.vspa.com/k9/agentorange5.htm
Johnston
Island
and Agent Orange; http://cybersarges.tripod.com/johnstoniland.html
AN old article on AO from Publisher of Hustler Magazine;
http://cybersarges.tripod.com/AOarticle.html
Supreme Court's Decision on AGENT
ORANGE "June 2002"
http://cybersarges.tripod.com/aocourt.html
VVA's Guide on AGENT ORANGE http://www.vva.org/benefits/vvgagent.htm
The Mystry of cancer in Alaska: http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF2102/Campbell/Campbell.html
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000 http://newton.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/10098
AO Spray Map & Info "Must See"; AO Spray Map II; Gallons
of Agent Orange, White & Blue Sprayed in
Vietnam
; The Story Of Agent Orange; Article on Defoliation; MORE info on AO
Chemicals; MORE Problems Caused by AGENT ORANGE; http://cybersarges.tripod.com/
Operation Ranch Hand Web Site http://cpcug.org/user/billb/ranchhand/ranchhand.html
Agent Orange in
Korea
http://cybersarges.tripod.com/aoinkorea.html
Dow Chemical's Nasty Little
Secret Agent Orange Dump found under
New Zealand
Town
http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-05.htm
THE POISONING OF
NEW ZEALAND http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-16c.htm
Surge in Childhood Cancer Rates
in
New Zealand
www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-19.htm http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-05-town.htm
http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-05.htm#UPDATE:%20%207/26/2001
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