Then Samuel Smith suddenly became violently ill and died on 30 July 1844. This added suspicion of murder to the escalating drama. Council of Fifty member and physician John M Bernhisel told William Smith that anti-Mormons had somehow poisoned his brother. William learned from Samuel’s widow that Hosea Stout, a Missouri Danite and senior officer of Nauvoo’s police, had acted as his brother’s nurse. Stout had given him ‘white powder’ medicine daily until his death. Samuel became ill within days of the discussion of his succession right, and by 24 July was ‘very sick’. There had been enough talk about Samuel’s succession claims that the newspaper in Springfield, Illinois, reported: ‘A son of Joe Smith Senior it is said, had received the revelation that he was to be the successor of the prophet’.
William Smith eventually concluded that Apostle Willard Richards asked Stout to murder (his brother) Samuel H Smith. The motive was to prevent Samuel from becoming church president before Brigham Young and the full Quorum of Twelve arrived (in Nauvoo). William’s suspicions about Stout are believable since Brigham Young allowed William Clayton to go with the pioneer company to Utah three years later only because Stout threatened to murder Clayton as soon as the apostles left. Clayton regarded Hosea Stout as capable of homicide and recorded no attempt by Young to dispute that assessment concerning the former Danite. D Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. Victor Hugo
I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. Vladimir Nabokov
He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment. P G Wodehouse, Carry on, Jeeves
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it. apocryphal and probably misattributed
The one-time officer with the successor to the KGB fled to the UK where he became a fierce critic of the Kremlin and worked for security service MI6.
A public inquiry into the London death of the 43-year-old opens on Tuesday.
Mr Litvinenko’s widow says the inquiry will give people ‘a chance to understand who killed my husband.’
Marina Litvinenko says he blamed the Kremlin as he lay dying in hospital but Russia denies any involvement.
Her lawyer has described his murder as ‘an act of state-sponsored nuclear terrorism on the streets of London.’ BBC online article 27th January 2015, ‘Alexander Litvinenko killed on third attempt’
American spies secretly intercepted communications between those involved in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and provided the key evidence that he was killed in a Russian-backed ‘state execution’, The Telegraph can disclose.
The National Security Agency (NSA) obtained electronic communications between key individuals in London and Moscow from the time that the former spy was poisoned with radioactive material in central London. The evidence was passed to the British authorities.
A source familiar with the investigation confirmed the existence of American ‘intelligence material’. They said it would have been ‘inadmissible’ in court, but that the British authorities were ‘confident that this was a state execution’. Telegraph online article 23rd January 2015 ‘Litvinenko inquiry: the proof Russia was involved in dissident’s murder: National Security Agency (NSA) obtained communications between key individuals in London and Moscow from the time that Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive material’
When he was doing this work he usually managed to get himself smeared all over with the white lead, and this circumstance, and the fact that he was always handling paint or some poisonous material or other was doubtless the cause of the terrible pains he often had in his stomach – pains that sometimes caused him to throw himself down and roll on the ground in agony. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
[Agatha] Christie used poisons more often than any other crime writer. Andrew Marr, Sleuths, Spies & Sourcerers I, BBC 2016
Last month the university of San Francisco made an alarming discovery: that 93% of Americans tested had traces of the chemical called Glyphosate in their urine … the main ingredient in Monsanto’s flagship product Round Up, a pesticide sprayed all over almost every acre of food ground. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: Monsanto, America’s Monster, Youtube 2016
Monsanto Town: ‘created to be a sewer’. Today, it’s a toxic wasteland. ibid.
Industrial chemicals called PCBs … Monsanto is also responsible for irradiating American citizens … on pregnant women and their unborn babies. ibid.
Monsanto produced plane-loads of one of the world’s first pesticides: DDT. ibid.
The military’s top producer of a deadly chemical weapon known as Agent Orange. ibid.
The new chapter … Aspartame … a growing health controversy … Rumsfeld joined Reagan’s administration. ibid.
Every administration has worked closely with Monsanto … Obama has been one of the most pro-Monsanto presidents so far. ibid.
Hawaii: The US Navy stores 200 million gallons of in tanks buried 100 feet above O’ahu’s biggest aquifer. Known as Red Hill, the facility has leaked fuel regularly for decades. In November, leaked fuel was found in tap water at 350 times the safe limit. The Navy has tried to cover up the disaster which mainly poisoned military families. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: Hawaiians Fight US Navy for Polluting Island’s Water, Abby Martin online 2021
On December 12th 2021 native Hawaiians went to the gates of the US Navy Command. ibid.
The asbestos industry is able to thrive in Russia because very little attention is given to human rights. Why the Deadly Asbestos Industry is Alive and Well, Vice 2016, expert
The most notorious industrial carcinogen known. ibid.
We suggest you consider this material for your home. ibid. old expert promoting asbestos
Asbestos kills more than 300,000 people a year. ibid.
One poison above all: arsenic. Arsenic was sold at most hardware stores as a way to control rats. It was an odourless powder that caused symptoms common to many natural diseases. Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals III: Instruments of Murder, BBC 2015
‘Mr Yushchenko’s condition was caused by dioxin poisoning.’ Facing Putin s1e4, doctor’s press conference, National Geographic 2016
Gloria Ramirez February 19th 1994: advanced cancer … ‘there was an oily sheen on her body, kind of a garlicky smell’ … Gloria’s blood is full of strange crystals; it also has a weird odour. Somehow Gloria’s blood reeks of the hazardous chemical ammonia … Suddenly nurse Susan King is overcome with nausea; before Marie can react she also blacks out … Whatever it is it’s coming from Gloria … She tragically dies … 23 of the 37 ER staff have bizarre and frightening symptoms … Dimethyl Sulfoxide: the key is a home remedy Gloria was using … At the time the area was the meth capital of the world … Weird or What? s3e9: More Medical Mysteries, Discovery 2017
These individuals are all in their nineties, grandparents living ordinary lives. But 70 years ago they were part of a secret organisation that planned one of the most terrible acts of revenge in history. In May 1945 Hitler’s thousand-year Reich lay in ruins. Evidence of the mass slaughter of Europe’s Jews began to emerge. And the most senior Nazis were put on trial. But for one group of holocaust survivors this wasn’t enough. They dedicated themselves to seeking the ultimate retribution killing six million Germans for the six million Jews murdered. They called themselves The Avengers. Secret History: Holocaust: The Revenge Plot, Channel 4 2018
Their chosen weapon was poison … Their plan was to infiltrate the water works in each city and then poison the water supplies to six million people. The only thing missing was the lethal chemical itself. ibid.
Attempt To Poison 15,000 Nazi S.S. Men: Arsenic in Bread; 2,283 P.o.W. Sent to Hospital. ibid. newspaper article
Pont-Saint-Esprit: The story of what happened here in August 1951 when an episode of mass hysteria broke out: over a period of several days people fell victim to wild hallucinations, intense stomach pains and sensations of being consumed by fire which led some to leap from windows. Five died and dozens more were hospitalised for weeks … I have a document supplied by an American writer … that it all could have been the result of a secret experiment by the CIA using the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Document: 23/08/2010: BBC Radio 4
‘If I go back to Russia, I won’t live long. Better to die in England in the fresh air.’ Putin, Russia and the West II: Democracy Threatens, Litvinenko, BBC 2012
[Alexander] Litvenyenko became a British citizen. Ten days later he was poisoned with radioactive polonium. ibid.
The State of West Virginia issued the DuPont company a permit for them to run their contaminated waste water down through two farms here down into this stream of water. Storyville: Poisoning America: The Devil We Know, BBC 2018
In 1945 Dupont began making Teflon. Today, one of the chemicals used to make it is in the blood of 99% of all Americans. This is where it began. ibid.
DuPoint Reassigns 50 Women Workers In Chemical Case: Substance, Produced by 3M, Was Linked During Test. ibid. The Wall Street Journal 8 April 1981
‘The documents in this case they really tell the story about what the company knew.’ ibid.
In 2001, Dupont settled with the Tennants for an undisclosed sum. Mr Tennant was diagnosed with cancer before suffering a fatal heart attack in 2009 at the age of 67. His wife died of cancer 2 years later. ibid.