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New Zealander Donna Bird Poisoned By Spraying "You guys in America have to stop that"

by Donna Bird
New Zealand singer Donna Bird and her son were poisoned by spraying of a product developed by Davis based Agraquest. She sings about what the song has done to her life
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you tube moth spray song-Injured New Zealand Resident Donna Bird Sings About Being Sprayed and Sickened By Agraquest Developed Product


"You guys in America have got to stop that"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDdCpchbFwE


LBAM PAM MOTH SPRAY SPRAYING Painted apple moth light brown apple moth GMO GE Poisoning


Here is a statement by Donna Bird about her experience.
donnabird(at)xtra.co.nz
I live in new Zealand and we were sprayed with BTK foray 48B (a genetically modified [GMO] bacteria - Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki) for the panted apple moth The patent is listed as United States Patent #6,406,691 and was filed with the United States Patent Office of January 26, 1998 and Iissued to Valent Bioscience Corporation in Libertyville, Illinois (published on June 18, 2002). The inventors of Patent #6,406,69 are; Manker, Denise C. (Davis, CA), Lidster, William D. (Sacramento, CA), Macintosh, Susan C. (Woodland, CA), and Starnes, Robert L. (Sacramento, CA). United States Patent 6,406,691 Manker , et al. June 18, 2002 Assignee: Valent Biosciences Corp. (Libertyville, IL) Appl. No.: 09/013,488 Filed: January 26, 1998 Inventors: Manker; Denise C. (Davis, CA), Lidster; William D. (Sacramento, CA), MacIntosh; Susan C. (Woodland, CA), Starnes; Robert L. (Sacramento, CA)

I was sprayed on my arms and legs. were partly paralyzed and my friend’s legs were amputated, but they did manage to save his arm I am now full of tumors, my son has twenty tumors on his arms and my mum has an enlarged heart. All of this is the result of what we were sprayed with. We have had so many people die since the spraying, about ONE A MONTH just amongst the people I know. In about 2 weeks time I am going to present the information I have found over the last tree years of researching and Applying for official information that I have gathered all lead back to PAM MARRONE. I have asked the leading expert here in New Zealand, Dr. Peter Wigley about the BTK that was sprayed on us and to test my son’s tumors for the presence of the spray. His reply was “Hell no, that would be paramount to treason”.

I was also wondering about another patent of particular interest, it’s on CIPO patent 2167178 it for the BT crystals. It originally belonged to Entotech and Nordisk Biotech, inc U.S.A. The diagrams show the staph aureus being blasted into the crystals and also a GMO ecoli with Brucella abortus. The agent of brucellosis which was apparently weaponized back in the 40s. Canadian Patents Database Patent Application: (CA 2167178) •FORMATION OF AND METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LARGE BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS CRYSTALS WITH INCREASED PESTICIDAL ACTIVITY •FORMATION ET METHODES DE PRODUCTION DE GRANDS CRISTAUX DE BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS, POSSEDANT UNE PLUS GRANDE ACTIVITE PESTICIDEABSTRACT ABSTRACT The invention relates to a method for producing an integrant(s) of Bacillus thuringiensis which produces a larger quantity of a crystal delta-endotoxin with greater pesticidal activity as compared to the crystal delta-endotoxin produced by the corresponding parental strain. The crystal delta-endotoxin produced by the integrant Bacillus thuringiensis will have an activity directed towards the same pest(s) as its parent Bacillus thuringiensis crystal delta-endotoxin. The invention further relates to such integrants, compositions comprising such integrants, as well as methods for controlling a pest(s) using these compositions. •PCT Filing Number: PCT/US1994/007955 •International publication number: WO1995/002695 •National Entry: 1996-01-12 Incidentally, Dr. Peter Wigley is listed as [co] “inventor” on patents with a former scientist from Monsanto, Pam Marrone and two former scientists from Entotech (Novo Nordisk - sold to Abbott Laboratories), Pam Marrone and Denise Carol Manker (Mrs Thadouz Molinski)

These patents include:

*** THIS UNITED STATES PATENT WAS ASSIGNED TO BOTH AGRAQUEST & BIODISCOVERY NEW ZEALAND LTD. (TITRANGI, NZ) •United States Patent 6,077,506 Marrone , et al. June 20, 2000 Assignee: AgraQuest, Inc. (Davis, CA) BioDiscovery New Zealand Ltd. (Titrangi, NZ) Appl. No.: 09/296,225 Filed: April 22, 1999 Inventors: Marrone; Pamela Gail (Davis, CA), Heins; Sherry D. (Davis, CA), Manker; Denise C. (Davis, CA), Jimenez; Desmond R. (Woodland, CA), Chilcott; Chris N. (Titirangi, NZ), Wigley; Peter (Titirangi, NZ), Broadwell; Andrew (Mt. Albert, NZ)

***THIS UNITED STATES PATENT WAS ASSIGNED TO AGRAQUEST •United States Patent 5,919,447 Marrone , et al. July 6, 1999 Assignee: Agraquest, Inc. (Davis, CA) Appl. No.: 08/789,334 Filed: January 22, 1997 Inventors: Marrone; Pamela Gail (Davis, CA), Heins; Sherry D. (Davis, CA), Manker; Denise C. (Davis, CA), Jimenez; Desmond R. (Woodland, CA), Chilcott; Chris N. (Auckland, NZ), Wigley; Peter (Auckland, NZ), Broadwell; Andrew (Auckland, NZ)

***THIS PATENT WAS ISSUED TO BIODISCOVERY NEW ZEALAND, LTD. (AUCKLAND, NA AND AGRAQUEST) •United States Patent 5,645,831 Chilcott , et al. July 8, 1997 Assignee: BioDiscovery New Zealand Ltd. (Auckland, NZ) AgraQuest, Inc. (Davis, CA) Appl. No.: 08/621,774 Filed: March 22, 1996 Inventors: Chilcott; Chris N. (Auckland, NZ), Wigley; Peter (Auckland, NZ), Broadwell; Andrew (Auckland, NZ), Heins; Sherry Darlene (Davis, CA), Marrone; Pamela Gail (Davis, CA) Assignee: BioDiscovery New Zealand Ltd. (Auckland, NZ)

PAM MARRONE [http://www.mcb.arizona.edu/careers/marrone.html] MONSANTO From 1983 to 1990, Pam Marrone was in charge of the Insect Control group at Monsanto Agricultural Company. PAM MARRONE: “I was recruited by Monsanto. They had an on-campus recruiter at NC State. So they interviewed several of us and decided which of us they would bring to Monsanto.” PAM MARRONE: “I was hired by Monsanto Agricultural Company to head up their new insect biotechnology program. They were putting genes into plants for insect control. I was head of that entomology program, which was about twelve to fifteen research people, for seven years.” Her group was instrumental in pioneering projects in genetically engineered microbial pesticides and transgenic crops for insect control.

NOVO NORDISK - ENTOTECH After Monsanto, Pam was founding president of Entotech, Inc. (subsidiary of Novo Nordisk a Denmark based company). PAM MARRONE: “For Novo Nordisk, they were trying to find somebody to head up this new company in Davis. I ran across the Novo people because I had created a working group, an industry consortium looking at a particular problem - insects developing resistance to genetically engineered plants. And I began that work when I was at Monsanto. So I was in a leadership position in the industry. And Novo was a member of that consortium. Because of that, they plucked me out and recruited me from Monsanto.” PAM MARRONE: “Then I was hired by a Danish company called Novo Nordisk, which produces insulin and enzymes. They were starting a new program in biological pesticides. They asked me to start up a new company in Davis, California, doing biological pesticide work.”. “So I moved from St. Louis to Davis and started up the company. We named it Entotech. Entotech was operational for about five years, but three years into it, I knew that Novo was not going to stay in it. Novo Nordisk - agriculture was not their forte, and so I had inklings that they were going to sell us.” Under her tenure as president of Entotech , the company discovered, developed, and marketed microbial pesticides.

AGRAQUEST Later, Pam left to start up a new company called AgraQuest, Inc., which discovers, develops, and markets safe, environmentally friendly, and effective natural products for farm, home, and public health pest PAM MARRONE: “I left [ENTOTECH] in January of 1995 and incorporated the new company, which we named AgraQuest, took some employees from the old company, started up with some of our own money, but most of the money we raised from people we knew. We raised about $500,000 to start up the company. We sold stock in a private placement, $5,000 blocks of stock each, and that's how we raised the money to start up. That got the company up to the point where it was more attractive to big investors. In order to continue to fund the company, we needed millions of dollars.” PAM MARRONE: “When I started AgraQuest, I thought it would be really difficult to recruit people because we're small and start-up and real risky. And we get over a hundred to two hundred resumes for every job as well. The climate today is such that it's volatile in any industry - there's downsizing, mergers, acquisitions, so you don't know. We felt like we'd be less attractive as a big company, but we found we're actually very attractive to people because we offer stock options and the ability for a scientist to own part of the company. Let's say we give stock options at 35 cents a share, and we go public on the stock market at $10 a share.”“.

DENISE CAROL MANKER (DENISE CAROL MOLINSKI) Denise Manker was one of the founding scientists of Agraquest, Inc. with Pam Marrone and apparantley they both left Entotech (Novo Nordisk) around the same time.

Can you see the connections?

Donna Bird
New Zealand




DONNA’S STORY


On the morning of 7 January 2003 I was reading a book when I heard an aircraft flying very low over the house. I went outside to see what was going on. A small yellow plane appeared to be in trouble. Plumes of smoke appeared to be coming from a sputtering engine. My thought was that he was struggling to stay in the air and might have been trying to make a crash landing in the harbour on the mudflats nearby. Beach Haven is an area that planes regularly fly over while landing and taking off from the nearby airport at Hobsonville.

I stood on the deck of my 2-storey house and saw the plane flying straight at me. I was sure I was going to get chopped up by the propeller - I could see the pilot in the cockpit - he was that close. The plane swooped and just cleared the roof with engine spluttering. I yelled to a young man nearby “He’s going to crash - look at all the smoke!” He yelled back “No, he’s spraying.” At that point panic set in - I shut the doors and ran for the shower. I spent ages in there.

Oh well, I’m OK, I said to myself. About 2 hours later I started to get a pain I’d never felt before - bone crunching joint pain in the pelvis. That was the beginning of a serious illness that would later be diagnosed first as a virus, then arthritis, then fibromyalgia.

Many trips to the doctors ensued. The hospital asked stupid questions eg, have you ever had joint pain before? It’s like asking have you ever had the flu before? Who has not, I said.

The pain would change joints from time to time and mainly affected my limbs. My arms and legs were partly paralysed - it would take an hour to put some clothes on in the morning. At night cold chills would run up and down my spine. Driving back from the doctor one day my arms lost all feeling, my eyesight became blurry and my sense of distance was impaired. My body would become itchy all over - it felt like fibreglass had got into my skin and penetrated it. My body temperature would soar, I would overheat and have to try to get cool. I began to suffer from blinding headaches and memory loss. I found trying to do anything would take all day. I also got a stomach ulcer.

I was more concerned about my friend Richard. He had an ulcerated leg he had been managing for some time. He had in the past stood on a sea urchin in the tropics. He got blood clots after but hadn’t had any since - until the spraying. After the spraying his leg started to blow up – it was like it turned into a sieve and he had to have it debrided and later amputated. He had nine operations. During the spraying his arm clotted and he almost lost that as well. The perfectly healthy leg - well that was amputated too. He had problems with itching and overheating and the skin on his hands was badly affected.

A lot of bad things happened that year - people were angry and aggressive and the normally peaceful people seemed to erupt in violence including a murder just up the road. My cousin wrecked a car with herself and her kids in it, luckily they walked away, and another friend further up the road - her daughter was killed in a crash.

It wasn’t until two years after the spraying I thought hell, there’s something really wrong here. I was looking at a poster in the hospital - it said one in ten women get breast cancer in New Zealand. My boobs were full of lumps - suddenly they multiplied after the spraying. I went home after a biopsy and was thinking - the answer’s got to be close to home. I put my investigative skills to work and started by dissecting my kitchen cupboards. I found out all about the food additives (and there were a lot) and some were banned and illegal in other countries. My cousin gave birth that month as well - the baby lived for 2 hours.

Then I started looking at other things we had in common - vaccines etc. Well, that was a story on its own, but we haven’t all had the same vaccines and we did not all eat the same food. Now years later people come to me with their medicines and ask me to look up what’s in it and find out if there are any problems with it. I do this for free.

It still did not explain what had happened. It didn’t explain the people looking bedraggled and walking so slowly with walking sticks and crutches. During the spraying a chronic fatigue support group started up and also one for fibromyalgia. 60 cases of fibromyalgia on the North Shore, 200 out West. Something we had never heard of before. And people started getting motor neurone disease and loads of kids with rickets popped up, and 14,000 people with stomach ulcers that year - the place had gone mad.

The bees all disappeared, the tui, the pigeons, the lizards and the red tide – the toxic algal bloom. The beaches closed, the shellfish poisoned, dead zoo animals and heaps of dead fish. Heaps of people were dead and dying. And then I remembered the Painted Apple Moth spray.

And so I began a long journey of discovery. These were the only 3 things left that we all had in common - our water supply, the air we breathe and the Painted Apple Moth spray Foray 48B - the endotoxin crystal Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki. It turned out the water supply was sprayed with this anyway and apparently normal water treatment does not kill the spores. My understanding is water is the catalyst to bring them to life. Before this they are put into a sort of endospore like coma with a small amount of antibiotic called chloramphenicol.

The ingredients for the moth spray can be found in the patents, however each patent is connected to another patent. They are written in such a way as to confuse the reader. I call it bullshit baffles brains and once they know there is something wrong with their inventions the patents are onsold at great speed like sodium fluoroacetate 1080 etc. Due to trade secrets being more important than people’s health and wellbeing, confidentiality agreements were signed by those in the know such as Peter Wigley, a NZ scientist who holds patents for such insecticides. And there is no guarantee the person making the spray or that each batch of ingredients will be identical.

So the big questions are - why were some affected and not others? And why were some affected in different ways?

Firstly, the level of exposure - one cup of coffee is great, drink 20 and you become a high tension unit.

Secondly, your level of fitness and health at the time. I had done years of unarmed combat, my body was physically fit thus strong enough to come out the other side and mentally unwilling to except defeat no matter what. I will fight like a man before I die like a dog!

As for different types of symptoms - I put this down to the batch not being identical and having been sprayed in different places with some alteration in ingredients. And just like some people can eat peanuts others cannot.

Now that sea urchin that Richard stood on many years ago has a chemical that looks the same as one in the moth spray.

The fibroid tumour I had removed recently - I hypothesize that it was my body’s way of trying to expel all the poison. I first noticed the hard lump in my belly 2 years after the spraying - my friend one street over had the same thing in the same place in the same month as I did.

And my son’s arms - the cysts all over them. I reckon his body is doing the same thing and trying to contain the poison in the form of a cyst.

And my mother’s enlarged heart ballooning - well thousands of people across the city now have this problem and I keep meeting people who are having stents put in.

And then what was dubbed the moth cough - you have a cough but it doesn’t turn into the flu, heaps of people had this. One day I sneezed and a thing like a giant piece of white rubber with holes in it came out of my nose, the whole side of my face went numb and my jaw seemed to lock.

I don’t have a PhD or a Masters in anything, in fact aside from my Diploma in Investigative Services I only have about 2 years schooling hence the phonetic spelling and not sure what caused the dyslexia. What I know for sure is that I am not stupid enough to fly a crop duster in a residential area and spray thousands of people with insecticide.

This is the short version of what happened.

PS: There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. And there is no point in complaining to the UN as our former Prime Minister Helen Clark is now working there. I think this is called covering one’s arse.

Donna Bird
donnabird(at)xtra.co.nz
May 2009

Additional Websites

http://www.workersmemorialday.org
http://biotechawareness.com/
http://planetthrive.com/cgi-bin/members/communityalbums.cgi?action=displaypopupimage&imageid=9980317441948&order=&asc=ASC
http://planetthrive.com/members/profiles/manuwaiata/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2567912703426192318
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8772395089110184693

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