USPHS corp/Novello/OPMC/Gubler/Steere

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****** URL for the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

http://www.usphs.gov/default.htm

Check out this URL for info on the USPHS physician corp (a MILITARY

website).The USPHS Commissioned Corps is specifically designed for officers

to hold DUAL APPOINTMENTS IN FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCIES. This includes the

DOD, CDC, NIH, etc.

In reading what I've posted below, also keep in mind that ANTONIA NOVELLO, MD

of the New York Department of Health (of which the NY OPMC is a division) is

former U.S. SURGEON GENERAL. The U.S. Surgeon General is the highest ranking

officer of the USPHS Commissioned Corps and is chief of the corps.

More likely than not, Antonia Novello, MD is presently active duty military,

at the same time she holds the appointment as Director of the New York State

Department of Health. It might be interesting to look at the NY DOH website

and see if she is pictured in military uniform.

Interesting facts:

(1) Steere lists his years as a CDC EIS officer as " military experience " on

his CV but there is no mention of whether this is Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.

either on the CV or in his deposition. An educated guess would be that he was

a USPHS officer in the Commissioned Corps. Could Steere still be active duty

USPHS or in the USPHS Reserves?

(2) Gubler is likely active duty USPHS in his post at the CDC. " American Men

and Women in Science, " a multi-volume reference publication, lists Gubler as

holding positions in the U.S. Navy as " USPHS " prior to his appointment at the

CDC. Because the USPHS Commissioned Corps is designed for dual appointments

in federal agencies, it is extremely likely that Gubler is active duty.

(3) The 1990 version of the AMA Physician Directory lists Klempner as " USPHS "

with a business address of New England Medical Center (NEMC). The directory

lists him as doing research at NEMC. Is it possible that being employed under

an NIH grant awarded to a private university sufficient connection to a

federal agency to allow one to be active duty USPHS? Subsequent volumes do

not mention any concurrent appointments Klempner has with the USPHS. Prior to

being at NEMC, Klempner also completed his internal medicine residency at a

Naval Hospital. This would be unusual unless he held a military appointment.

(4) Ascher, MD PhD is also listed in the 1995-96 edition of " American

Men and Women of Science " as holding a concurrent position as " USPHS " while

employed full-time by the California DHS. Ascher is an important figure in

the California DHS and is one of the main players orchestrating the usual

propaganda about Lyme disease, the undercounting of cases, and likely what we

have to look forward to -- the prosecution of physicians (there are glimmers

of this on the horizon). Ascher moves in the same circles as Gubler and

Dennis and is a major figure in the California DHS. I don't know if the

current volume of " American Men and Women of Science " describes Ascher as

presently holding a concurrent appointment with the USPHS, however, it is

well known among employees at the California DHS that Ascher is active duty

military at the same time holding his appointment within the California DHS.

Apparently he leaves several times a year to go to do required military

training types of activities. Prior to coming to the California DHS 11-12

years ago, Ascher was employed at Fort Detrick. " American Men & Women of

Science " describes his appointment at Fort Detrick as through the " USPHS. "

Ascher also bragged to me about working at Fort Detrick when I met him at a

bioterrorism conference put on by the Santa Clara County Health Dept/DHS/CDC.

Ascher is also the point person for organizing the bioterrorism project for

the California DHS. There is new money flowing into California DHS from the

DOD for bioterrorism and entire new division devoted to " bioterrorism " has

been opened at DHS.

Question: how many EIS officers are employed through the USPHS? While there

is a physician corp, there are also positions for vets, nurses, PAs, etc. Or

could employment as an EIS officer entail an automatic appointment with the

USPHS?

There is MILITARY RANK among the individuals holding USPHS appointments. For

example, what is the relationship between GUBLER and ANTONIA NOVELLO, MD with

respect to MILITARY RANK??? Now that's a mind bender. What are the

implications for what is going on at the NY OPMC?

The relationship of military rank may also explain why Steere answers to

Gubler. For example, you could hypothesize that Steere is in the USPHS

Reserves and Gubler is active duty and of senior rank in the USPHS. Prior to

his appointment at the CDC, Gubler has held directorships of Navy research

laboratories while active duty USPHS. You'd think that would make him fairly

high rank in relationship to any of these other guys (Klempner, Ascher).

I am belaboring this because obviously this might define what gets done vis a

vis Lyme disease with these core players ---- at the same time, all we see

and assume is that these are just civilians working in civilian public health

agencies or private universities committing a variety of medical and

scientific frauds and have certain apparent conflicts of interest, etc. That

may be all that meets the eye -- the other relationships being difficult or

impossible to discern.

Military rank could also define the relationship between Gubler and other

individuals with links to the USPHS at the fifty state public health

departments, some of whom, like Ascher, MD PhD are active duty. Some

could be in the USPHS Reserves.

Another way to also look at the financial conflicts of interest that have

been documented is to consider how war is being redefined as biological in

nature. Just as we had the military industrial complex and all its graft when

war was defined as nuclear and tanks and missiles, etc. -- what we are

stumbling over may simply be what is simply the new " military biotech

complex. " We know from the anthrax vaccine controversy and the military

websites that the DOD is totally smitten with vaccines.

" Conspiracy " may not be the correct characterization of what is going on.

Hypothetically, if there is some military project related to borrelia and

tick borne diseases in general as part of the current military build up

related to biowarfare/bioterrorism, it seems surreal, but all they could be

doing is responding to orders.

Lynn