Pandemic pr-2

by James Barrington

  Despite what the doctors and scientists tell us, the nature of both AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency [or Immunodeficiency] Syndrome) and the disease itself are still very poorly understood. The Internet hosts literally thousands of sites where eminently qualified doctors and researchers promulgate their own theories and views about AIDS. Many of these theories are mutually exclusive and contradictory, and even a brief survey leads to the inescapable conclusion that nobody actually knows what’s going on.

  There is no accepted consensus about where and when AIDS originated, how it came to enter the human population, what relationship – if any – HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) has to AIDS[1] and, if you believe some of the specialists, whether the HIV virus actually exists. There is even a groundswell of apparently well-informed opinion that suggests AIDS is caused by recreational drug use, and is not a viral infection at all.[2]

  There are a multitude of claims and counter claims, usually completely contradictory. One frequently quoted report stated that by the end of the 1980s some 16,000 health-care workers had become infected by AIDS. Another report, dealing with broadly the same data set, alleged that no health-care workers had contracted AIDS. Clearly one, or even both, of these reports has to be wrong.

  In short, we still don’t really know what’s killing people or what we can do about it.

  However, the generally accepted ‘official’ view of the beginning of the AIDS pandemic is that in the early 1970s an infected green monkey – the source of its own infection being unknown – came out of the rain forest and bit an African, or possibly an African male had sex with an infected green monkey (which it is worth saying is about the size of a chicken), and that single incident precipitated the spread of the disease.

  Quite apart from the total lack of any supporting evidence for this quaint folk tale, there are two very sound biological reasons for dismissing the story as complete fiction.

  First of all, the AIDS virus bears no resemblance whatsoever to any naturally occurring virus ever found in a green monkey, or in any other primate. Specifically, the codon choices (that is, the sequence of three purine and pyrimidine bases in the virus’s ribonucleic acid [RNA] that codes for the production of a particular amino acid by the infected cell) that are present in the AIDS virus are not present in the genes of primates. That means that the chances of the AIDS virus occurring naturally in any monkey, of any species, are microscopically small.[3],[4]

  The key words in the above paragraph are ‘naturally occurring’, because African primates have been found to be carrying Ebola and Marburg (both of which are believed by a significant number of researchers to be manufactured viruses) and AIDS, but only after they have been deliberately injected with them for the purposes of vaccine production, medical studies and biological weapons research.

  Second, it is rare but not impossible for viruses to jump species. Possibly the record is held by the Hendra virus, a member of the paramyxovirus family (the measles virus is a member of this group), which emerged in 1994 in Australia in a species of fruit-eating bat, but was subsequently found to be capable of infecting and killing horses and cats, as well as human beings.[5] However, viruses that do this are the exception: most are highly specific and cannot jump species unless they have been engineered to do so.

  It’s also worth mentioning, and then dismissing, the ‘Patient Zero’ story. This is more or less folklore, but is still for some reason one theory that has been espoused by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as by a number of other people who should certainly know better.

  Patient Zero was Gaetan Dugas, a promiscuous homosexual Canadian airline steward who was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1980: the origin of his infection remains unknown. He is supposed to have been the source for both the New York and San Francisco outbreaks of AIDS in America, despite the fact that he lived in Canada and travelled primarily to Canadian cities. For him to have been the source of these infections, one has to suppose that, for no readily discernible reason, he only had sex in American cities, but not in Canada. AIDS broke out in 1978 in Manhattan and in 1980 in San Francisco, but not in Toronto or Quebec or Ontario or any of the other cities Dugas is known to have visited.[6],[7] The dates of these American infections are, however, highly significant, as I will mention shortly.

  So what really happened?

  Absolute proof is almost never found in situations of this type – there is no ‘smoking gun’ to be discovered – but an analysis of some of the documentation relating to AIDS that has been located by researchers, and a survey of the timescale of various incidents, does point clearly to one appalling hypothesis.

  Most of the following has been derived from a variety of sites on the Internet. Readers who are interested should carry out their own research and form their own conclusions. For me, a lot of what follows has the undeniable ring of truth, but obviously I cannot vouch for the absolute veracity of the whole. Readers should also be aware that the URLs I have listed were available when this note was written, but are not necessarily still extant, the Internet being a fluid and dynamic resource.

  The story begins in the late 1960s, and one of the first documented references is held in the US Senate Library. It’s a record of an Appropriations Hearing that was held in July 1969, when the United States Department of the Army specifically requested (and subsequently received, in 1970) a ten-million-dollar grant to develop a synthetic biological agent that would impair or destroy the human immune system.[8]

  Round about the same time, personnel employed by a number of American medical organizations authored articles that advocated similar kinds of research aiming at the development of a hybrid virus that would have the same function.[9]

  Then, in the early 1970s, Henry Kissinger allegedly wrote a Top Secret document – a National Security Memorandum that subsequently became known as NSM 200 – which essentially stated that the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the Third World should be depopulation. This memorandum, which was declassified in 1990, was apparently adopted by the National Security Council as official US foreign policy towards the Third World.[10]

  Action followed in 1972 when medical teams were sent into Central Africa – into an area that subsequently became known as the ‘AIDS Belt’ – and administered what was described as a smallpox vaccination to several thousand Africans.[11] This event was followed some time later by the first outbreak of AIDS on the planet.

  Earlier, I mentioned the significance of the dates of the American infections. In 1978 a medical programme administered Hepatitis B Vaccine to thousands of male homosexuals living in New York; nineteen months into the AIDS pandemic, five hundred and one of the dead were from New York. In 1980 a similar programme was run in San Francisco, with almost precisely the same results. In both cases, the only common factor in the spread of the disease was that all the victims had either received the hepatitis vaccine or were closely associated with someone who had.[11]

  But everybody knows that AIDS is essentially a venereal disease, transmitted primarily by male homosexuals. Isn’t it? No, it isn’t. At least, not according to the British Royal Society of Medicine, which has stated that AIDS meets none of the criteria of a venereal disease and has suggested that, despite the misrepresentations of the American medical establishment and the American Government, AIDS is not primarily a sexually transmitted disease.[12]

  Semen is just about the least effective transmission medium for AIDS, and the virus is only present in microscopically small numbers in the semen of an infected person. Furthermore, condoms are useless in preventing the spread of AIDS, because the virus is less than half the size of the smallest sub-microscopic holes that are found in every condom.[12],[13]

  But don’t take my word for it. As part of the evidence that was submitted in a memorandum to the British Parliament’s House of Commons Social Services Committee in 1987, Dr John Seale of the Royal Society of Medicine stated: ‘As far as it goes, the tiny research effort into infectiv
ity of bodily fluids indicates that saliva is far more infectious than genital secretions, but that blood is vastly more infectious than either. Consequently, the idea that [the use of] condoms can have any significant effect on the spread of AIDS in a nation is utterly preposterous’.[12]

  And: ‘Governments all over the world are spending millions of pounds, advising their citizens to prevent AIDS by using condoms on the basis of manifestly fraudulent misrepresentation of scientific evidence’.[12]

  A better description of AIDS is just that it’s a transmissible disease, and contracting AIDS does not directly depend on your sexual orientation. That said, most research suggests that male homosexuals are primarily responsible for the spread of the disease in Western society but not, in the main, through exchange of semen or saliva. The principal transmission method appears to be through the bleeding that can accompany certain types of homosexual activity.

  The best method of contracting AIDS is through an injection. Or you can become infected by means of a blood transfusion, or through a cut on your hand. Or from somebody who has the disease sneezing near you. Some mosquitoes in America are believed to carry the virus.

  So what is AIDS? All the independent evidence suggests that it’s a manufactured plague. What the AIDS virus resembles more than anything else is a bonding of Bovine Lymphotrophic or Leukaemia virus (BLV) – a virus that targets lymph cells in cattle and is known to cause cancer – and the sheep Visna virus. The only possible way these two different types of virus, which infect completely different species of animal, could bond together would be by someone engineering it in a laboratory, and then further engineering it, possibly by combining it with the human herpes virus, to allow it to make the jump into a human system.

  And all the indications are that that is precisely what was done. What is not clear is whether the release of this virus into the population was an act of deliberate genocide or simply the result of shoddy laboratory technique. The medical profession, after all, has a long and less than illustrious history of contaminated vaccinations. Probably the most notable of these was the administration in 1955 of improperly inactivated Salk polio vaccine prepared by the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California. Almost eighty children contracted polio, and passed the disease on to a further one hundred and twenty relatives and friends. Eleven died and three-quarters of the victims were paralysed.

  In a chilling foretaste of the media censorship surrounding the AIDS pandemic – of which more later – Bernice Eddy, the doctor who blew the whistle about the Cutter vaccine, was forced out of her laboratory and out of work for daring to suggest the unthinkable.[14]

  The Cutter case was a horrendous example of science gone bad, but it certainly wasn’t the last such incident. The CDC recorded almost forty-nine thousand adverse reactions to vaccinations between 1991 and 1996, and it was estimated by American health authorities that in this period around 90 per cent of the most severe cases were never reported. Extrapolating those figures, perhaps as many as one million Americans may be harmed by vaccines, and tens of thousands seriously injured, every year.[15]

  There are three really terrifying facts about AIDS.

  First, it is a very efficient killer with a mortality rate of exactly 100 per cent. AIDS is, just like Ebola Zaïre, a species-killer: the only difference is that Ebola kills in days, while AIDS takes its time. Virtually all the treatments that are currently available are aimed at prolonging the life of the victim, not curing the disease. As far as is known, nobody has ever been cured of AIDS – it’s just that some victims take longer to die than others.

  Second, the worldwide rate of infection has been doubling about once every twelve to fourteen months – an exponential increase. Simple mathematics predicts that, unless some positive action is taken to halt the spread of AIDS, everybody in the world will eventually contract the disease within the foreseeable future. If that happens, the entire human race could cease to exist within one or two generations. As Dr John Seale said: ‘The war against AIDS is a war of survival. If we lose, Britain and all her people will perish.’[12]

  Third, there is no cure, and it is quite possible that there never will be a cure. For that depressing news, we can thank mathematics as well as virology.

  There are at least six different varieties of the AIDS virus infecting the human population, and each is a recombinant retrovirus. The word ‘recombinant’ means that the virus has the ability to change and recombine into a new strain at will, and it has been calculated that each variety of the AIDS virus has a recombinant potential of about nine thousand to the power of four. For the six known varieties, therefore, the number of possible new strains is inconceivably huge – it’s actually the number 354,294 followed by twenty-one zeros. To put that into perspective, we’re talking about unbelievably massive numbers, such as the total number of grains of sand on all the beaches in the world, or the number of stars in the universe. To develop a cure for each strain would be simply impossible – the number is just too enormous. And we’re nowhere near finding a cure for even one strain yet.

  But if the foregoing is true, why haven’t the news media seized on this information and trumpeted it to the world? Well, it certainly isn’t for the want of people and organizations trying to get the information promulgated, but in virtually every case the articles, letters and reports have been ignored, apparently because the information they contained was considered ‘too controversial’.

  As was stated by Dr John Seale when discussing the infectivity of AIDS: ‘The scale of the deceptions and misinformation perpetrated by virologists, clinicians and editors of scientific and medical journals about the infectivity of genital secretions, compared with that of blood and saliva, has been astonishing. In the presence of a new, lethal virus, spreading amongst people, for which no vaccine or cure is in sight, every person would assume that scientists have been working day and night to verify how it is transmitted.

  ‘On the contrary, having assumed for a variety of motives that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease like syphilis or gonorrhoea, a negligible research effort has gone into the critical matter of transmission. A few preliminary papers were published and their findings have been repeatedly quoted as showing the opposite of what they actually showed. When this was pointed out in letters to the editors of American medical and scientific journals, publication has been refused. No attempt has been made to check or double-check the findings in other laboratories, or to rectify published errors’.[12]

  An American doctor, Robert B. Strecker, a practising gastroenterologist who holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology and is a trained pathologist, spent five years investigating the AIDS phenomenon, and then attempted to interest the world in what he had discovered. Virtually every letter and article he wrote was ignored.

  Almost in desperation, he and his brother compiled some of the most damaging documents he had uncovered into a report which he called ‘This is a Bio-attack Alert’.[3] Copies of this were sent to the governor of every one of the United States, the President, the Vice-President, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and selected members of Congress. He got replies from three of the governors and nothing at all from anybody else. His story is typical, and certainly not unique.

  What is perhaps not so typical of Dr Strecker is what then happened around him.

  First, the CIA warned all agencies that he was a Communist and instructed them not to take anything he said seriously. That, despite the fact that this allegation was a complete fiction, appeared to work.

  Second, his office was burgled but, interestingly, only papers and documents were taken, but nothing of any commercial value.

  Third, on 11 August 1988, his brother Ted was found dead of gunshot wounds at his home in Springfield, Missouri. He was an apparent suicide, although he had been in good spirits, said no goodbyes and left no note or message. He had been actively assisting his brother Robert in trying to uncover links between the American Department of Defense and the development of HIV.

  Fourth, on 22 Se
ptember 1988, Illinois State Representative Douglas Huff of Chicago was found dead alone at home, the victim of an overdose of heroin and cocaine. Douglas Huff was almost a lone voice in the wilderness, the only person who thought Robert Strecker’s theories were of sufficient importance to give him very vocal and very public support. He gave frequent press interviews and appeared on radio and television programmes urging people to be aware of the huge cover-up surrounding AIDS.[16]

  Of course, all these events could be completely unrelated, entirely innocent and totally unconnected with Robert Strecker’s work. And, then again, pigs might fly but most people would agree that they make unlikely aviators.

  So, to return to the question posed earlier, what really happened?

  The least likely scenario is that, uniquely in the history of virus infections, a naturally occurring sheep virus combined itself with a naturally occurring bovine virus, and simple chance tailored the resulting recombinant retrovirus into a form ideally suited to destroying the human immune system. Then the new virus made two species jumps: first from the sheep or cow in which it had been conceived into a green monkey, and then from the monkey into the human population where it’s been wreaking havoc ever since.

  Almost nobody who’s actually done any proper research into AIDS, instead of simply relying on what’s been published in the media, really believes that, but it’s still the ‘official’ explanation. But no matter what one’s personal belief, it is possible to easily disprove this theory using the same entirely unrelated discipline already mentioned – mathematics.

  Because, even if what may be termed the ‘green monkey scenario’ is, by some bizarre mechanism, correct, the numbers don’t work. As stated above, the rate of infection of AIDS is doubling about once every year. The first cases of AIDS in Africa occurred in 1972. If we assume that there was a single source of infection, and the number of victims doubled once every fourteen months, by 1987 there should have been about 8,000 cases of the disease in Africa. Even if the alleged green monkey had gone on a biting spree – for which, of course, there is not a shred of evidence – and had attacked hundreds of people at about the same time, there would still have been well under one million cases.