James Barrington - Pandemic

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] ‘Conspiracy of silence’ by Neville Hodgkinson. The Sunday Times , 3 April 1994. URL: http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/nhconspiracy.htm . 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] ‘The AIDS Dilemma: drug diseases blamed on a passenger virus’ by Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick. Genetica 104: 85–132. 1998. An abstract is available at the following URL: http://www.duesberg.com/papers/pddrgenetica.html or the full article is available at: http://www.duesberg.com/images/pddrgenetica.pdf (this requires Acrobat Reader).

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] This is a Bio-attack Alert by Theodore A. Strecker M.D., Ph.D., 28 March 1986. URL: http://www.umoja-research.com/bio-attack_doc.htm . , [4] Emerging viruses by Leonard G. Horowitz D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Tetrahedron Publishing Group, ISBN: 0–923550–12–7, page 87.

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] Hendra virus. Further details of this virus outbreak can be found at the URL: http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/zoonoses/hendra/hendraindex.html . 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] Queer Blood – The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot by Alan Cantwell Jr., M.D. URL: http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/health/062397he.htm . , [7] Emerging viruses by Leonard G. Horowitz D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Tetrahedron Publishing Group, ISBN: 0–923550–12–7, page 95. 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] Department of Defense Appropriations 1970, Part 6, starting page 104. A transcript is available at URL: http://groups.msn.com/GOVERNMENTGoneWrong/dodhearing.msnw .

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] For example, W.H.O.’s annual bulletin 1972, page 259.

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] ‘The Case of Africa: A dark age or a renaissance?’ by Linda de Hoyos. Executive Intelligence Review , 8 October 1999, pp. 25–29. A copy of this is available at the URL: http://www.aboutsudan.com/conferences/schiller_institute/dark_age_or_renaissance.htm .