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September 3, 1997: Gulf War Syndrome - Joyce Riley | Ocean Warming - Stan Deyo
Published 2 years, 4 months ago
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Art Bell welcomes nurse-turned-advocate Joyce Riley, who presents declassified government documents about experimental vaccines given to Gulf War veterans without informed consent. Riley reveals that a Tri-Service Vaccine Task Force authorized untested immunizations, including an investigational cholera vaccine and hepatitis A vaccine, as part of what internal memos called a "Manhattan-like project" to evaluate vaccines in an operational setting.
Riley shares her belief that squalene, an unapproved oil-based adjuvant found in the blood of 400 Gulf War veterans, points to a secret anti-AIDS vaccine experiment conducted on military personnel. She reports that 80 percent of affected veterans have transmitted the illness to family members and that 700,000 shot records have gone missing. Riley also discusses video evidence of U.S.-marked chemical weapons found inside Iraqi bunkers at Khamisiyah.
In the final hours, Stan Deyo joins from Perth, Australia, to discuss alarming ocean warming patterns in the Pacific. He describes sea surface temperatures reaching 500 percent above the previous year and warns of coming crop failures and severe weather tied to what the UN calls potentially the most damaging El Nino event ever recorded.
Riley shares her belief that squalene, an unapproved oil-based adjuvant found in the blood of 400 Gulf War veterans, points to a secret anti-AIDS vaccine experiment conducted on military personnel. She reports that 80 percent of affected veterans have transmitted the illness to family members and that 700,000 shot records have gone missing. Riley also discusses video evidence of U.S.-marked chemical weapons found inside Iraqi bunkers at Khamisiyah.
In the final hours, Stan Deyo joins from Perth, Australia, to discuss alarming ocean warming patterns in the Pacific. He describes sea surface temperatures reaching 500 percent above the previous year and warns of coming crop failures and severe weather tied to what the UN calls potentially the most damaging El Nino event ever recorded.