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Bravo, Bravo to our valued Support Group Member, Hotz. Please let

us know if you have any trouble with any links.

Hopefully this will be circulated wide and far.

Never truer than now ...

" if not us, then who?

if not now, then when? "

I'm going to go link this immediately to my webpage and hope others will do

the same.

http://www.humanticsfoundation.com/greatlinks.html

Thanks , what a wonderful coup to get this published.

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From: " Hotz " <ahotz@...>:

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/storm_warnings/poison.html

POISON FOR PROFIT

CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN!

By Hotz

May 15, 2002 - The huge transnational companies that produce toxic

chemicals found in pesticides, herbicides and industrial and household

products profit not only from the sale of these products, but also from the

symptoms and chronic illnesses that they can trigger.

The vast majority of chemicals found in pesticides and other products,

undergo little or no testing for chronic, low level exposures and for

chronic health effects.

The same chemical companies that produce toxic chemicals also produce

prescription drugs, veterinary medicines, a wide array of medical products

and imaging technologies, hold cancer treatment and medical device patents,

and a produce a staggering assortment of over-the-counter palliatives.

Families with toxin induced illnesses often spend large sums for drugs and

medical treatment. This circle of profit is not conspiracy theory, but an

easily provable fact.

Below are chem/pharm web sites for the largest companies in the world.

There you can see quickly and clearly that these companies profit from all

sides of the picture.

Aventis was launched in December 1999 through the merger of Hoechst AG of

Germany and Rhône-Poulenc SA of France. Main Home Page for Aventis--go to

top right and click on " Aventis Worldwide " to see medical, agrochemical and

pharmaceutical categories of business.

http://www.aventis.com/main/0,1003,EN-XX-100---,FF.html

Aventis " crop sciences " include herbicides, fungicides, pesticides and

genetically engineered food.

http://www.cropscience.aventis.com/products/products.htm

Aventis Pharma is the pharmaceutical division:

http://www.aventis.com/main/0,1003,EN-XX-24770-37160--,FF.html

Monsanto is owned by Pharmacia. The Pharmacia Corporation was created

through the merger of Pharmacia Upjohn with Monsanto Company and its G.D.

Searle unit. Pharmacia employs 59,000 people worldwide and has research,

manufacturing and administrative sales operations in more than 60

countries. Monsanto:

http://www.monsanto.com

Pharmacia: http://www.pharmacia.com/About/Index.asp

BASF-fungicides, herbicides, pesticides:

http://www.basf.de/en/produkte/gesundheit/pflanzen/products/

BASF - pharmaceuticals: http://www.basf.de/en/produkte/gesundheit/nahrung/

Merck is known widely as a pharmaceutical company http://www.merck.com/

Merck Research Company; Applications to Register Pesticide:

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/1996/July/Day-10/pr-796.html

Merck produces chemicals and precursors for pesticides and other

neurotoxins.

Merck Chemicals for Industrial Applications - Listed in alphabetical order:

http://www.merck-ti.de/tabelle/cia_tabelle.htm

" Our broad range of Chemicals for Industrial Applications is widely used in

many fields of production within the chemical and technical industries. "

http://www.merck-ti.de/set_cia.html

Dow Chemical produces both toxic chemicals and pharmaceuticals. (Click on

the drop-down list here):

http://www.dow.com/products_services/index.html

Dow Pharmaceuticals: http://www.dowpharm.com/

Dow's pesticide products include the organophosphate pesticide Dursban

(a/k/a Chlorpyrifos/a/k/a RAID a/k/a Lorsban and is found in about 800

other pesticide products). Dursban was to be phased out and banned from

indoor, yard and garden use last year because of what it does to the

developing brain.

EPA was going to allow Dursban to " continue to be sold until current stocks

run out " but Dow has been scrambling to get this delayed, and has been

conducting short term clinical trials by feeding Dursban pills to healthy

teenagers in an attempt to get it back on the market:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020422/poisons.html

Dupont Chemical recently sold a pharmaceutical division to Bristol Myers

Squibb. Dupont makes pesticides and drugs:

http://www.dupontpharma.com/

Here is a list of other chemicals and neurotoxins that they produce:

http://www1.dupont.com/NASApp/dupontcom/jsp/products/products/productsMain.j

sp

Do you take Bayer aspirin? Did you know that Bayer also makes other drugs,

pesticides, chemicals? When you get to the Bayer site from the following

URL, go to the " application " search engine and scroll down to pesticides.

At the first URL here, go to the right side and click on the drop-down list

to see the spectrum of products -- for industrial chemicals and " crop

protection " products, to pharmaceuticals.

http://www.bayer.com/en/index_en.php

Bayer pharmaceuticals:

http://www.pharma.bayer.com/

It is interesting to note that the Bayer corporation was originally the

I.G. Farben Company with deep ties to the Nazis during the 1920s and 30s.

I.G. Farben produced Zyklon-B gas which was used in the Nazi death camps.

Other big chem/pharm manufacturers became owners of pieces of I.G. Farben

during the lengthy process of dissolving its assets after decades of

lawsuits and pressures from international organizations for alleged

I.G.Farben Nazi crimes.

Here is a quote from the BBC: " Most of the company's assets were

confiscated after World War II and were transferred to four big German

corporations: Bayer, Hoechst, Agfa and BASF. "

See BBC article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1549000/1549092.stm

Many of these huge transnationals have merged with each other. For example,

CibaGeigy, Sandoz and other multinational chemical/pharmaceutical companies

merged to become Novartis. Then Novartis Agribusiness merged with Zeneca

(Astra-Zeneca) Agrochemicals to form Syngenta:

http://www.syngenta.com/en/syngenta/facts.asp

Standard and Poor's Stock Exchange profile on Novartis:

http://www.advisorinsight.com/pub/maccess/nyse/nvtsy_66987v_profile.htm

Novartis pharmaceuticals, seeds, genetic engineering:

http://www.novartis.com

Novartis owns Syngenta -- produces pesticides, herbicides, etc:

http://www.syngenta-us.com/

Novartis AG -- incredible list of products, relationships and subsidiaries:

http://www.transnationale.org/fiches/70.htm

Then there is Astra Zeneca that sold off part of its agrochemical business

to Novartis. AstraZeneca. For some listings of its pharmaceuticals:

http://www.astrazeneca.com/mainnav1/s_products/s_prod_brands/c_prod_list/ind

ex.h

tml

MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS & SPIN-OFFS IN THE CHEMICALS INDUSTRY 1998

2001: http://www.icem.org/events/BKK/chem/ma.html

AMVAC makes the insecticide NALED a/k/a DIBROM, and nineteen other

products. AMVAC Chemical Company is owned by American Vanguard Corporation,

which makes herbicides, pesticides. A major portion of its revenues comes

from selling its specialty chemicals to the pharmaceutical industry. It is

also in the business of " environmental remediation " and " toxic waste

management. " (Like other chem/pharm companies, American Vanguard profits

from pollution that they help make, and then get paid to clean up).

http://www.thestandard.com/companies/dossier/0,1922,271462,00.html

AMVAC's brother subsidiaries include, GemChem, Inc. and Environmental

Mediation, Inc. AMVAC's brother GemChem: " ... committed to exceeding

industry standards as a national chemical distributor. In addition to

representing AMVAC as its domestic sales force, GemChem also sells into the

cosmetic, nutritional and pharmaceutical markets. "

AMVAC's brother Environmental Mediation, Inc. provides clients with:

" complex investigative and remedial activities. With... core expertise in

the areas of hazardous waste, air toxics, and water quality... "

Environmental Mediation, Inc. offers its clients expertise in:

Issue Analysis Strategic Planning Government Relations Regulatory Strategy

Environmental Consulting Public Affairs

American Home Products pharmaceuticals and veterinary medicines has

subsidiaries galore, including American Cyanimid among others. American

Cyanimid produced many chemical products including pesticides and

pharmaceutical chemicals.

http://www.amvac-chemical.com/investor_page/Subsidiaries/subsidiaries.htm

AHP later changed its name to WYETH, a major holding company:

http://www.wyeth.com

American Home Products was gobbled up by the chem/pharm giat BASF:

http://www.basf.com/static/OpenMarket/Xcelerate/Preview_cid-974236855115_pub

id-

974236850984_c-Article.html

See paragraph nine:

http://www.rrz.unihamburg.de/biologie/b_online/ppigb/company.htm

And this just shows the cycle of profit in all of its glory when you see

the Chemical Business Research website --Click on: " Code " C4 " : Cancer

Opportunities in the New Millennium "

http://ecom.sric.sri.com/CBRD/Public/Staff/

Did you know that thousands of toxic chemicals are impregnated into

products that we come in intimate contact with every day that have woefully

inadequate testing? Synthetic chemicals are found in clothing, furniture,

bedding, paper, food storage containers, building materials, pillow

feathers, pillow covers, inks, mattresses, food, cosmetics, carbonless

paper, fragrances, and tampons. A wide variety of fat soluable pesticides

are even impregnated into animal feed (fat soluable means it stores in

fat). One of the reasons this is done is to cut down on flies in the

barnyard. The fecal matter becomes so toxic that it ends up killing the

flies! So the questions is -- does the animal fat cause us to get dosed

with low levels of this stuff? See EPA web site:

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_99/40cfr186_99.html

Most of the public is completely unaware of how pervasive toxic chemicals

are in our homes and offices. If it were just one or two of the

chemicals--the effects might be tolerable. But that is not the case at all

because the relentless cumulative and synergistic effects of these

chemicals is causing great harm to human, animal and environmental health.

When we, our children and our animals suffer symptoms or become ill, have

trouble with our reproductive systems -- we spend many thousands of dollars

on medical imaging, tests, treatments, operations, hospitals and drugs... a

circle of profit that has no equal in the corporate world. Again this year

- the chemical/pharmaceutical industry was declared the most profitable

industry in the world.

What a business plan!