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Giuliani Sings
O Solo Mio

by Robert Lederman
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
May 11, 2000

Like the climactic aria sung by the lead tenor in a tragic Italian opera Rudy Giuliani announcing a separation from his second wife was an emotionally memorable performance. But were we seeing reality or an illusion? If we raise the house lights on the Mayor's tearful libretto of cancer and divorce we are confronted by a much less sympathetic character-a man who has deceived the City he claims to love as consistently as he has deceived his wife.

Behind the very real personal tragedy of a family break-up and cancer is the story of a villain posing as a hero; of a supposed public servant who is in rreality a public menace; of a man renowned for honesty, integrity and for upholding the law whose ententire career is based on deception and illillegality.

Consider the timing of the Mayor's announcement. Giuliani was in such a rush to break the news that he didn't tell his wife he was going to publicly announce their separation. She learned of it from reporters. As with all things Giuliani, there's a method to his madness. The marriage breakup completely obscured a story of far more significance to the eight million residents of New York City than Rudy's sordid love life.
The EPA has now officially declared Malathion to be a human carcinogen.

Malathion is the organophosphate nerve gas the Mayor insisted was "completely safe"when he ordered it aerially sprayed on the entire City numerous times last year. Now Giuliani wants us to believe neither he nor anyone in his administration knew there was any question whatsoever about this dangerous chemical's safety. This bold-faced lie is typical of virtually everything that comes from Giuliani and Co.

Daily News 5/11/2000

Rudy: City Told Malathion
Not Cancer-Causing

The city never would have used malathion to battle disease-carrying mosquitoes last summer if there was even a hint the pesticide might cause cancer, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday.


Not even a "hint"? From the second day of the spraying last Fall, I and numerous other concerned activists supplied both the entire NYC media and every NYC official involved in the spraying with detailed scientific reports and newspaper articles documenting decades of controversy about Malathion's role in cancer (including prostate cancer), blindness, damage to the human immune system, birth defects, asthma, miscarriages, DNA damage and environmental destruction. I personally faxed and emailed this information on more than thirty occasions to the Mayor, his commissioners, his press office and to the NY City Health Department.

Anti-pesticide activists and scientists had numerous discussions about these concerns with City officials-including Dr. Neal Cohen, the Commissioner of Health and with the media. In response to our daily warnings about Malathion as a carcinogen, the Mayor denounced us all as, "environmental terrorists".

-Daily News 9/18/99 "More Mosquito War Protests greet new plan for spraying""The mayor dismissed complaints from environmental advocates about the spraying, referring to them as hysterical "environmental terrorists"who "like to get you angry because it gets them on television."The spraying is harmless, he insisted."

Both the NY State Attorney General and Cheminova, the manufacturer of the brand of Malathion used in NYC, expressed dismay over the Mayor's deliberate misuse of the chemical-the label of which makes it unequivocally clear that it is not to be sprayed on humans, over water, during high temperatures or when it is windy-and that the exact precautions the Mayor claimed to be unnecessary were in fact both necessary and/or required by law.

Now that both the Mayor and NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir have been diagnosed with prostate cancer it's not hard to foresee the potential legal and political implications of the EPA's announcement or the emotional response of millions of New Yorkers to it. The insecticides and larvicides the Mayor has ordered to be aerially sprayed on the City this year are also widely suspected of being a threat to human health and to the environment [see excerpts below]. Should we trust this deceptive man with our health again?

The Mayor is being praised for his frankness in dealing with the breakup of his marriage and his supposed honesty in talking about his, "very close friend"Judith Nathan. During the past two years we endured the spectacle of the President of the United States being impeached for having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a low-level whitehouse intern, and lying about it. The President later used his influence to obtain Lewinsky a private sector job in publishing as a way to remove her from public scrutiny.

Compare that to the Mayor's pre-Judith Nathan affair with his press secretary, Cristene Lategano. Lategano, a City employee, was given raises and promotions throughout their relationship. She became the single most powerful City employee next to the Mayor himself. When it became politically expedient to get her out of City Hall due to the Senate campaign the Mayor used his influence to place her in a high level job at taxpayer expense as the unqualified but very well-paid President of the City's Tourism Bureau. To make that position available, the bureau's director was paid $250,000 of the taxpayers money to give up their position.

Daily News 5/11/2000

Her [Lategano's] predecessor as director of the bureau was paid $250,000 to buy out her contract and go away last July.


Keep in mind that this is the same man who, in order to save the City money, illegally denied food stamps to the homeless, kicked mothers off welfare and ordered children removed from homeless parents who refuse to join his below minimum wage workfare program, a program that the NYC Comptroller has declared to be rife with cronyism and corruption.

This is the also same Mayor who closed down the City's sex shops, topless bars and danceclubs and declared that he wanted the Ten Commandments posted in NY City's public schools -all while he was committing serial adultery.

After revealing his prostate cancer the Mayor was described in countless articles as being softer, more human and newly compassionate. Nice words, but unfortunately not true. Within days of announcing his cancer he ordered the false arrests of union members at a May Day rally and of more than 300 young people during the City's yearly Marijuana March. According to the NY Times, most of those arrests were not even for possession of marijuana but for being observed smoking it. Many of the hundreds of teenagers arrested were held for as long as 36 hours in the dungeon like Tombs. Their frightened parents were denied any chance to see them during this time.

Now the Mayor is posing as a heroic spokeperson for prostate cancer screening, the equal of people like Yankee Manager Joe Torres. Was the Mayor also heroic when he cut funding for prostate cancer screening from the 2001 City budget?


Newsday 5/10/2000

Rudy Cuts Funds For Prostate Screening
His budget axes $750G program

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's budget, unveiled last month as he was being tested for prostate cancer, would eliminate a $750,000 program that provides free screenings for the disease for uninsured New Yorkers...Giuliani's budget also includes a $2.1 million cut for city-run child-health clinics serving the poor, and it slashes $1 million from a program providing family-planning services in poor neighborhoods with high infant-mortality rates. Carla Goldstein, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of New York City, said the $1-million cut would derail a two-year demonstration project aimed at saving babies' lives. "How could the mayor cut out this funding at a time when his own administration has recognized the need for these kinds of services?" Goldstein said.


The pesticides and larvicides the Mayor and his cronies have announced they will cover the City with this year are not harmless. Will we only hear an honest admission of this after we've all been exposed to massive doses of these chemicals, or can Mr. frankness and compassion share the bad news before the helicopters are launched?

If one considers only the tens of thousands of false arrests and the hundreds of thousands of unconstitutional searches that have become the Mayor's trademark, Giuliani easily qualifies for the position of the City's biggest criminal. Factor in the harm he has done to our health, the misuse of public funds to pay off a mistress, hire relatives and give top level positions in City government to political cronies and the consistent pattern of lying to the media and public about virtually every issue during the past seven years and there can be no doubt that the time has come to say goodbye to Rudy Giuliani.

For the Republican party and even for Giuliani fanatics like the Post's John Podhoretz, the Mayor is becoming a major embarrassment. Even the CIA's right wing Eugenics think tank, The Manhattan Institute, has begun distancing themselves from their one-time poster boy.

This is not to say the Mayor is unsympathetic. Like most New Yorkers I felt sorry for him, for his wife and for their children during the shocking press conference in which he announced the breakup of his marriage.

In operas as in Greek and Shakespearean tragedies, the main character is often a very flawed person who has inflicted considerable pain on others. In the enormously popular HBO series, the Sopranos, a Mafia boss who commits murders, cheats on his wife and engages in a lifetime of criminality is the highly sympathetic anti-hero we all love to watch.

While Giuliani undoubtedly becomes more interesting as his drama unfolds, we have to remember that this is reality, not television. The corporate criminals that bring us our nightly entertainment also just happen to be the sponsors of our Mayor.

Don't you think it's time they
canceled the Rudy Giuliani show?

NY Times 5/11/2000

Giuliani and Wife of 16 Years
Say They Will Seek Separation

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's marital problems exploded yesterday in a public exchange with his wife, Donna Hanover. The mayor abruptly announced that he was seeking a separation from Ms. Hanover, and Ms. Hanover, caught unaware, then said that the couple's troubles began years ago because of a previous relationship between the mayor and a member of his staff.

"I'm thinking about my family, the people that I love and what can be done that's honest and truthful and that protects them the best," he said. "I'm not thinking about politics. Politics comes at least second, maybe third, maybe fourth, somewhere else. It'll all work itself out some way politically.

Three hours later, Ms. Hanover appeared outside Gracie Mansion and, with a wavering voice and tears in her eyes, said: "Today's turn of events brings me great sadness. I had hoped to keep this marriage together. For several years, it was difficult to participate in Rudy's public life because of his relationship with one staff member."

Joannie Danielides, Ms. Hanover's press secretary, said Ms. Hanover was referring to Cristyne F. Lategano, Mr. Giuliani's former communications director who is now president of NYC and Company, the city's tourism bureau. Friends of Ms. Hanover's said yesterday that she had described the relationship between her husband and Ms. Lategano as intimate while Ms. Lategano worked at City Hall...Friends of Ms. Hanover's said that although she and her husband had talked in recent days about ending their 16-year marriage, Ms. Hanover did not know that Mr. Giuliani was going to announce their separation at his news conference. Friends said she learned of her husband's remarks immediately after the conclusion of the news conference, which was held on the outdoor balcony of the Bryant Park Grill in Midtown Manhattan. The friends described Ms. Hanover as distraught.


Giuliani Press Conference
5/10/2000

"Doing the job of Mayor, and this I can tell you with deepest sincerity and in good conscience, is not affected at all by any of these things. It's a job that, it's a job that I love. I love the people of the City of New York. Some of them love me and some of them hate me, but I think they all have a reaction to me. And none of this, and this is why I'd ask you to consider maybe extending a little privacy. This really isn't job related. It has nothing to do, this has nothing to do with how I do the job of Mayor. People get a chance to assess that day in and day out, the decisions I make about the budget, the decisions that I make about the city, they have -- people strongly agree with it, people strongly disagree with it, but that job is the job that is not affected at all by this, and never will be."


Daily News 5/11/2000

All by himself, he has unraveled his life. Rudolph Giuliani comes to us now as the American public man most in need of a good, long rest. Yesterday, he said he wants to separate from his wife. He said his "zone of privacy"was invaded. Yet he brought his girlfriend into his official home for a Christmas party with reporters. He spent New Year's Eve in Times Square with her. He marched in the St. Patrick's Day Parade before a million people with her. He did everything but spend a night in Macy's window with her."


[Pesticides and prostate cancer] Occup Environ Med 1999 Jan;56(1):14-21
Mortality in a cohort of licensed pesticide applicators in Florida.
Fleming LE, Bean JA, Rudolph M, Hamilton K Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101, USA. email here

OBJECTIVES: Although the primary hazard to humans associated with pesticide exposure is acute poisoning, there has been considerable concern surrounding the possibility of cancer and other chronic health effects in humans. Given the huge volume of pesticides now used throughout the world, as well as environmental and food residue contamination leading to chronic / low level exposure, the study of possible chronic human health effects is important...Among male applicators, prostate cancer mortality (SMR 2.38 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.83 to 3.04) was significantly increased.

CONCLUSIONS: Consistent with previous publications on farmers but at odds with current theories about the protective effects of vitamin D, prostate cancer was increased in these pesticide applicators.


Daily News 5/10/2000

Dangerous Skeeter Fix
Pesticide Is A Carcinogen

The pesticide malathion, deemed safe last year and used widely throughout New York City to fight the West Nile virus outbreak, will likely be reclassified as a low-level carcinogen, two members of Congress said yesterday..."All along we've been making the contention that we think it's a carcinogen, low-level though it might be, and the city's been saying it's completely safe,"Ackerman said....Last year, Mayor Giuliani defended the widespread use of malathion as safe. He often joked that he was sprayed while golfing and didn't suffer any problems.


Daily News 5/10/2000

Safir In Cancer Fight
Joins Rudy In Battle
With Prostate Disease

Police Commissioner Howard Safir revealed yesterday that he is in the early stages of prostate cancer, the disease Mayor Giuliani was diagnosed with last month. "You couldn't write this script,"Safir said of the dark coincidence of New York's mayor and top cop battling the same potentially deadly ailment at the same time....He said he has no intention of stepping down as police commissioner and had not decided on a course of treatment - statements similar to those made 12 days ago by Giuliani, his close friend and boss.


Daily News 5/10/2000

Judge Hits Rudy on
Dorismond Drug Test Leak

A state judge blasted Mayor Giuliani yesterday for blabbing to the media about marijuana traces found in the body of Patrick Dorismond, the unarmed black man killed by an undercover cop March 16. "The results of the toxicology report were leaked to the public anonymously and then confirmed and publicly discussed by the mayor and repeatedly quoted by the media," Gans said in a 10-page decision. "The mayor in his official capacity permitted the wide dissemination of the toxicology results into the public domain," she added. "Moreover, the mayor's discussion of its content made the unconfirmed report credible."


NY Times 5/9/2000

Suburbs' Youth Meet
City's Tough Justice

The mayor's zero tolerance approach to petty crime collided with a new opponent over the weekend -- marijuana-smoking suburbanites. Police arrested 312 protesters, many of them young people from outside the city, at a marijuana legalization rally in Lower Manhattan on Saturday. The result was shock and indignation from protest organizers and dozens of suburban parents, who abruptly learned what some city dwellers, particularly minorities, have complained about for the last several years. Under the Giuliani administration's continuing crackdown intended to improve quality of life, minor offenses ranging from smoking marijuana in public to jumping a turnstile typically result in a night in a sweltering, overcrowded and urine-soaked holding cell.

The police rounded up almost a third of the 1,000 people they estimated participated in the march. The vast majority were charged with smoking marijuana in public, a misdemeanor. The number of the arrests surprised march organizers, participants and dozens of parents who crowded the Manhattan Criminal Courts Building on Sunday, waiting for their children, some of whom were jailed for 36 hours, to be released. Many parents were stunned to learn that New York police generally no longer issue court appearance tickets for minor crimes and that, as a result, they could not see their children for 24 hours. The parents were horrified by the conditions in the building and the sluggish pace of the process. Those arrested complained of abusive treatment by officers who they said seemed to arrest people whether or not they were smoking, roughed-up some protesters and left others locked in sweltering vans for hours.


NY Post 5/6/2000

Bug Spray Could Lead To Parkinson's: Study

People exposed to bug sprays in their home and garden may be at greater risk of Parkinson's disease, a new study says. California researchers, whose findings are bound to stir controversy, said people who were exposed to pesticides at home were twice as likely to develop the disease - an incurable and fatal deterioration of the brain - as those not exposed to pesticides.


[Permethrin is one of the supposely safe pesiticides Mayor Giuliani has announced will be sprayed aerially on the City this year-2000] FROM: Click here PERMETHRIN Permethrin, like all synthetic pyrethroids, is a neurotoxin. Symptoms include tremors, incoordination, elevated body temperature, increased aggressive behavior, and disruption of learning. Laboratory tests suggest that permethrin is more acutely toxic to children than to adults.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified permethrin as a carcinogen because it causes lung tumors in female mice and liver tumors in mice of both sexes. Permethrin inhibits the activity of the immune system in laboratory tests, and also binds to the receptors for a male sex hormone. It causes chromosome aberrations in human and hamster cells.

Effects on Reproduction Permethrin affects both male and female reproductive systems. It binds to receptors for androgen, a male sex hormone, in skin cells from human males, causing researchers to "advise protection from any form of contact or ingestion of the pyrethroids."22 Permethrin also binds to a different receptor, called the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor, that stimulates production of the male sex hormone testosterone.23 In addition, permethrin caused reduced testes weights in a long-term feeding study of mice.24 In females, permethrin exposure has caused embryo loss in pregnant rabbits24 and in pregnant rats.25

Effects on the Immune System Experiments with laboratory animals indicate that the immune system (used by living things to defend themselves from disease) "appears to be a sensitive target for permethrin activity."Ingestion of permethrin reduces the ability of immune system cells called T-lymphocytes to recognize and respond to foreign proteins. Doses equivalent to 1/100 of the LD50 , inhibited T-lymphocytes over 40 percent. Permethrin ingestion also reduced the activity of a second type of immune system cell, natural killer cells, by about 40 percent.20(See Figure 2.) In tests using mouse cell cultures, permethrin had similar effects on the immune system, inhibition of two kinds of lymphocytes.21 Researchers concluded that "the immune system is exquisitely sensitive ... at exposure levels that cause no overt toxicity."20

Other Chronic Effects The liver is a sensitive target for permethrin effects. When EPA summarized 17 medium- and long-term laboratory studies that exposed rats, mice, and dogs to permethrin, effects on the liver were noted at the "lowest effect level"in all of them.24 Other chronic effects in laboratory tests include enlarged adrenal glands at all doses tested in a rabbit feeding study, and increased kidney weights at all doses tested in a rat feeding study.24

Synergy Synergy occurs between two or more chemicals when their combined exposure causes more adverse effects than the sum of their individual effects. A possible cause of the health problems reported by 30,000 veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War is exposure to a combination of chemicals, including permethrin. The combination of permethrin, the anti-nerve gas drug pyridostigmine bromide, and the insect repellent DEET has been tested in laboratory animals. Neurotoxic symptoms, including decreased activity, diarrhea, shortness of breath, tremors, inability to walk, and damage to nerves, were observed in hens exposed to all three chemicals, but not in hens exposed to permethrin alone. Permethrin with just pyridostigmine bromide or just DEET also caused tremors and inability to walk, but symptoms were not as severe.35 Other pesticides interact synergistically with permethrin with in other species. Permethrin and the herbicide atrazine synergistically induce growth of the soil fungus Pythium ultimum, 36 and permethrin and the insecticide amitraz are synergistically toxic to the bollworm.37

•Based on tests with laboratory animals, it appears children may be more sensitive to permethrin than adults. Permethrin is almost 5 times more acutely toxic to 8-day-old rats than it is to adult rats.38(See Figure 4.)

[Resmethrin is another pesiticide the Mayor has said will be aerially sprayed in 2000] See

The pesticide containing resmethrin being used in NY City is called Scourge (TM). It is 18% resmethrin, 54% piperonyl butoxide and 28% inert ingredients. Piperonyl butoxide makes the pesticide more effective by preventing insects from detoxifying resmethrin....Piperonyl butoxide has been classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a possible human carcinogen. Manufacturers are not required to disclose the inert ingredients, although they may be toxic also.

No Malathion - Health Chief:
City Not Spraying Until EPA Gives Okay

By Timothy Williams - The Associated Press

N E W Y O R K, April 14. 2000 - The city will not spray malathion to kill mosquitoes infected with the West Nile virus until the Environmental Protection Agency completes its review of the pesticide sometime late this summer, the city's health director said Thursday.
During several rounds of aerial citywide spraying, Giuliani, Cohen and other officials repeatedly told people that the pesticide was safe...Many residents, however, were doused with the chemical during times that spraying had not been scheduled. Dozens of people complained that the malathion caused rashes and flare-ups of asthma and other respiratory illnesses. As recently as January, Cohen refused to rule out the possible use of malathion and in the health department's report released Thursday on its plan to prevent another outbreak of encephalitis this year, no mention is made of suspending the use of the pesticide.
Instead of malathion, the health department plans to use other pesticides, including resmethrin, sumethrin and permethrin if spraying becomes necessary, Cohen said.

4/25/2000 NEW YORK (Reuters Health)

Poisoning Case May Lead to
Test for Chemical Exposure.

A 7-year-old boy ended up with mild mental retardation after being exposed to chemicals in infancy, researchers report. A closer analysis revealed that the boy had antibodies -- immune system proteins -- in his blood that recognized proteins found in nerve cells, which may have been at least partly related to the neurological damage. The finding may help determine if other people with exposure to the chemicals, which are known as organophosphates and found in insecticides and industrial chemicals, are indeed experiencing problems because of the exposure. Some Gulf War veterans have similar neurological problems as the boy, and may have been exposed to organophosphorus compounds, according to Dr. Mohamed B. Abou-Donia, of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

NY Times 9/10/99

"I ask you not to create any undue or unnecessary alarm or panic," Giuliani said at a City Hall news conference on Thursday morning. "There's no point in not spraying, because there's no harm in spraying. So even if we're overdoing it, there's no risk to anyone in overdoing it...The more dead mosquitoes," he added, "the better. I don't think the media should try to push this out of proportion".

2/2/98 Tampa Tribune

Tampa, Florida: Urban application of malathion questionable "Malathion is part of a chemical class that has been identified by the agency as one of the riskiest classes of chemicals," said Steve Johnson, an EPA pesticide administrator.

Queens Tribune 1/27/2000

Emergency Management Director
Grilled On Mosquito Control

"I have nothing to hide, I'm very comfortable with the spraying of Malathion. If we had to do it again, we would do it the same way". Jerome Hauer, director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management

Newsday 3/10/2000

Queens Find Spurs West Nile Fears

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani refused to rule out the need for widespread insecticide spraying in the event there is another outbreak this year.
Seeking to blunt criticism of last year's spraying, Giuliani brought Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington to the podium at City Hall and said, "This man here, right here, was sprayed with malathion five times. See? Does he look good? All right? And I was sprayed with him. Five times." An aide later said that Washington and the mayor were subjected to five passes by a malathion-spraying helicopter while playing golf in Forest Park, Queens, during the outbreak. Neither mentioned any ill effects, the aide said.

[The larvicides Giuliani is presently spraying on the City are also dangerous] FROM: Click here
15) Bacillus thuringiensis... is an insect pathogen that has been implicated in human and mammalian infections."Stedman's Medical Dictionary (latest edition) 16) "Bacillus thuringiensis toxin (Btk) can be fatal to people using anti-ulcer drugs." Dr. Joseph E. Cummins, Assoc. Professor University of Western Ontario 17) "Foray 48B contains compounds additional to B.t. that are potentially harmful to man and animals, such as sodium hydroxide which is on an EPA hazards list." Dr. Bryan P. Beirne, Professor Emeritus Simon Fraser University

20) "When bacterial (B.t.) spores are inhaled or rubbed into the skin, they become 'foreign proteins' and can cause serious allergic reactions in certain susceptible individuals." Dr. William Olkowski, Pest Management Consultant Common-Sense Pest Control, The Taunton Press 1991 21) "The three reported cases in the Oregon Study have clearly isolated and identified the organism Btk from these patients. The one immuno-compromised patient who subsequently died because of the infection was found to be septicemic and suffered pneumonitis."

Another product monolog ... states that if someone has already developed an allergy to one of the components of Foray 48B or has asthma of a type that could be initiated by irritants such as tobacco smoke or pollens, then this patient could be affected by exposure to even small quantities of Foray 48B. Dr. Jeremy Road, Respirologist, University of British Columbia 25b) B.t. can cause irritation or inflammation. U.S. Department of Agriculture 1995 citing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1986

44) B.t. due to its mutagenic potential may be hazardous to humans and other mammals. Chromosomes were found to be the primary target and in some cases the DNA system became inhibited. B.t. has an action which breaks the cell membrane and research continues on its possible use in studies on cancer cells. Thus, it has the potential to damage all cells. The authors end the study with the following warning: "The data conclusively indicate the need for caution against large scale use of microbial insecticides in crop fields." Cytogenetic Hazards from Agricultural Chemicals C.B.S.R. Sharma et al, Mutation Research #46

"Air sampling results for this project indicate that microbial insecticides of this type (Btk.) can be transmitted throughout the environment. Future sampling efforts and results should indicate the prominence and proliferation these organisms can gain in the environment after such wide scale application. Therefore, careful consideration should be given prior to the deliberate release of genetically modified microorganisms (such as Btk.). The public health, ecological and occupational health consequences must be carefully explored and evaluated before these novel organisms are used."
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Health Hazard Evaluation Report, Gypsy moth control project, Oregon 1986

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