Jeremiah Wright’s Controversial AIDS Charge
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | April 28, 2008
The Soviet KGB had planted charges in a propaganda operation designed to conceal the hand of the KGB.
Asked
during the question-and-answer period following his National Press Club speech
on Monday why he charged the U.S. Government with manufacturing the AIDS virus
to kill black people, Barack Obama’s “former” pastor Jeremiah Wright cited a
1996 book by Leonard Horowitz, Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola. This
rang a bell. I had exchanged correspondences with Horowitz several years ago
because I caught him promoting an old Soviet disinformation theme that has been
disavowed by former Soviet and KGB officials.
Is
Wright parroting communist propaganda? If so, he may also have seen it on the
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
The
charge that AIDS is a plot against blacks has been used by people like Jeremiah
Wright and Louis Farrakhan to inflame race relations. Louis Farrakhan’s
newspaper, The Final Call, ran
an article (December 15, 1999) quoting Horowitz as saying that AIDS is a
“genocidal plot” against blacks. The paper’s on-line version carried a link to
the Horowitz website. Horowitz claims a copy of his book was used in the Will Smith movie, “I Am
Legend,” about a plague that kills most people on earth and transforms some
that are left into mutants.
As
a skeptic of some of the claims about AIDS, I examined the Horowitz book.
Horowitz, who has quite a following and speaks around the country, raises some
legitimate questions about AIDS, vaccines, and the medical establishment. The U.S. certainly
studied the feasibility of using viruses or germs as weapons. But the claims
about AIDS being manufactured by the U.S. Government as a weapon of population
control have been debunked. I told him the evidence showed the Soviets had used
the AIDS charge against the U.S.
to divert attention from their own biological weapons program.
He
replied, in part: “I am happy to
learn that the Nation of Islam’s The Final Call, a newspaper that issues Louis
Farrakhan’s concerns regarding HIV/AIDS as genocide, has a direct link to our
website. I applaud Minister Farrakhan, and a half dozen other Black leaders,
who have grasped the truth about HIV/AIDS as a utilitarian population control
plot, and have the guts to say it.”
Horowitz
released another book, Death in the Air, which purports to include
information about the “intentional targeting of black Americans and Africans
for population control, including depopulation, as is being accomplished by the
AIDS epidemic today.” The release for the book cited an alleged “secretly
dispatched National Security Memorandum 46 to cabinet chiefs only” from
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was national security adviser in the Carter
Administration. The release said, “This document, the most telling, authorized
the FBI and CIA to initiate genocidal policies.”
This
document was reproduced in “Soviet Active Measures: Hearings before the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives,
Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session, July 13, 14, 1982.” These 1982
hearings produced evidence that the document was a forgery, possibly of Soviet
origin, designed to hurt U.S.
relations with Africa. An analysis showed that
one of the individuals involved in its distribution was a former member of the
Communist Party USA who became affiliated with the World Peace Council, a
Soviet front.
The
document, an obvious hoax, included no reference to genocide. Rather, it
outlined a bogus government effort to monitor and provoke blacks at home and
abroad. There was an authentic Presidential Review Memorandum 46, but it
concerned events in Central America. It can be
found in a listing of Carter presidential National Security Council documents.
Wright
isn’t the first public figure to repeat the claim that AIDS is a U.S. weapon to
kill people. The claim that AIDS was manufactured by the United States
was reported by CBS Evening News anchor Dan
Rather on a March 30, 1987, broadcast. Rather was widely criticized for playing into a
Soviet KGB disinformation campaign. The charge had appeared in a number of
Soviet and Third World publications before
Rather picked it up.
Horowitz
went farther than Rather, suggesting the charge is backed up by “evidence.” In
his book, Emerging Viruses, on page 363, he wrote that “For years
preceding the end of the Cold War, the KGB gathered evidence, that Russian
officials ultimately reported, suggesting an American origin of AIDS. Officials
alleged that the AIDS virus had been a Pentagon invention―a germ unleashed for
political purposes in Zaire.”
The
Soviet KGB had planted charges in a propaganda operation designed to conceal
the hand of the KGB. This is the nature of an “active measures” campaign. A
report on this matter is “Soviet
Influence Activities: A Report on Active Measures and Propaganda, 1986-87,”
published in August 1987 by the U.S. Department of State. The published
hearings of the House Intelligence Committee are also very useful.
The
Horowitz book, on page 364, reproduced a Soviet “Pravda” cartoon depicting the “American origin” of the AIDS
virus. He gave “courtesy” credit to Covert
Action Information Bulletin. In fact, he cites individuals associated
with Covert Action Information
Bulletin as legitimate sources of information on this topic. Yet this
publication, according to 1980 hearings of the House Intelligence Committee,
published a Soviet forgery of a NATO document as if it were authentic. Covert Action Information Bulletin
was associated with Philip Agee, the CIA defector who collaborated with the
Cuban Communists.
The
AIDS charge against the Pentagon was disavowed in late 1987 by then Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachev, who said, “No more lying. No More disinformation,”
in an effort at a more open foreign policy. (In fact, the Russians have
continued these disinformation campaigns since the fall of the old Soviet Union, as the book, Comrade
J, documents).
At
the time, however, Russian officials were trying to put on a fresh face. In
fact, four years before the Horowitz book was published, Yevgeni Primakov,
former head of the KGB, admitted that “the KGB planted stories in the late
1980s which alleged that the HIV virus was the result of a Pentagon
experiment.”
In
1992, two former officers of the East German intelligence service, the Stasi,
published a book in which they described how they collaborated with the KGB to
promote the AIDS disinformation, using Russian-born East German professor Dr.
Jakob Segal. This is mentioned in John O. Koehler’s 1999 book, Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German
Secret Police.
Former
KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky admitted the Soviet KGB role in spreading the AIDS
charge against the U.S.
in his 1990 book, The KGB - The Inside
Story. Gordievsky called the charge a “fabrication” that “also took in some
of the Western media.” The leading Soviet AIDS expert, Viktor M. Zhdanov, also
repudiated the anti-American charge.
All
of this is not to say that questions should not be raised about the science
behind and even origin of AIDS.
Journalist
Celia Farber wrote a provocative piece, “Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of
Medical Science.” The daughter of famed radio talk-show host, Barry Farber, she
will be honored by the Semmelweis
Society on May 13 in Washington, D.C., with its Clean Hands Award. The
organization is dedicated to ethical conduct in science and medicine.
April
23 was “Rethinking AIDS Day,” dedicated to
questioning the basic HIV=AIDS connection. There is a growing “HIV Survival”
movement of people who have been diagnosed with HIV but avoid AIDS treatments
and lead healthy lives.
It
would be a tragedy if Wright’s wild charges prevent an open and honest debate
about the nature of AIDS. After all, 24 years after HIV was declared at an
April 23, 1984, Washington
news conference, as the probable cause of AIDS, there is still no cure or
vaccine. About $200 billion has already been spent by the U.S. Government on
HIV/AIDS but investigations have found corruption in the various programs that
test and distribute anti-AIDS drugs. The United Nations has been caught
red-handed inflating the number of AIDS cases, even while a U.N.-backed
international airline tax is being implemented country by country to spend even
more money.
But
now that Wright has reaffirmed his
belief in the outrageous claim that AIDS is a weapon waged by the U.S. against
black people, Senator Obama should be asked by the media what he thinks of it.
If
the media want an issue in this campaign, they’ve got it.
Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at
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A very good ‘puff’ piece for continuing the disinformation propaganda machine!
Sorry. No sale. Too much independant info contradicting this.
RAM
“The 1971 flowchart makes it perfectly clear, the design, intent and purpose of the U.S. Special Virus program. As Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS says, the HIV/AIDS virus is the result of many steps in the laboratory, it was no accident.
The 1971 flowchart provides absolute evidence of the United States’ intent to kill its own citizens and others.” - Dr. Boyd E. Graves
It is amazing what goes on under the shadow of “Religion”. I am saddened that this is what the world is willing to accept. On the other hand, It is good that someone is willing to call the outrageous claims for what they are and call for accountability. Unfortunately, the forum is small here, and the masses tend to listen to the hysteria. Keep the diligence.
Boyd Graves definitely has documents, but it’s no surprise that the US government was investigating viruses and cancer. That was the whole problem with the “War on Cancer”, it was far too heavily focussed on viruses as the cause rather than environmental toxins. Perhaps someone had the brilliant idea to create a synthetic virus and cure cancer with it, and perhaps some generals decided that it could be a weapon.
I don’t know about that, but I do know that far more fundamental questions need to be asked about HIV. Let’s start with purification. The virus has never been purified. Consequently, it is impossible to validate HIV tests (since the tests must be validated against the unambiguous presence or absence of the virus). And without the HIV test everything else falls apart.
Why are people getting sick and dying? Well, every ‘risk group’ also has another exposure to immunosuppressive and/or carcinogenic compounds ... inhalant and injection drugs, injected blood products, malnutrition.
The real criminality of HIV/AIDS is the selling of fear, and the selling of highly toxic drugs as ‘life saving’, despite the reams of scientific information indicating that they are deadly. The HIV/AIDS drug train is careening out of control. And Rev. Wright is on that train, promoting HIV testing and AIDS drug use. His fear-mongering will just help get more blacks to falsely accept a death sentence and then take expensive pharmaceutical compounds to ‘cure’ it.
One more thing, you can listen to me debate Boyd Graves at:
http://aras.ab.ca/audio/20080401-The Great AIDS Debate - Dr. Graves vs. Mr. Crowe.mp3
RAM,
as I have told Boyd Graves before, his flow chart proves intent (but not success) by the US government to develop a race specific biological weapon. And that intent isn’t really a secret. Anyone who lived the 70s may remember that there was ample discussion of that intent in the press at one time.
It’s the success where Graves’ theory falls down.
HIV, being a retrovirus, has no mechanism to cause anything. It isn’t even present in a large number of people with AIDS, HIV Tests notwithstanding - they check for non-specific proteins thought to be associated with antibodies to the virus.
The “epidemic” is real, however it is entirely iatrogenic.
Wrong diagnosis and damaging treatment, combined with huge amounts of money for research and drugs make for an ugly mix. But we have already seen similar scenarios in other areas such as cancer. Actually, it was the “war on cancer” that gave us research into retrovira as a possible infective cause for cancer. Didn’t work out, so the retroviral meme was recycled into Aids.
“It would be a tragedy if Wright’s wild charges prevent an open and honest debate about the nature of AIDS.” Yes, indeed, but it hardly seems fair to imply that Wright could conceivably bear some primary responsibility for preventing a fair scientific discussion of the nature of HIV and AIDS. This much needed debate has been actively suppressed for many years by the very officials at the CDC and HIH whom we entrust to nurture and fund such debates. The pubic trust has been betrayed, yes, but it started long before Reverend Wright entered the scene.
For an example of what a responsible debate might resemble, have a look at Henry Bauer’s HIVSkeptic blog.
Thanks for sheddding some light on this unbelievable story. The first time I heard of this was when all the Wright comments hit the news. At the very least your article throws this AIDS conspiracy theory into the realm of the speculative, which classifies it as just another conspiracy theory. It might be fodder for some far fetched media outlet like Coast to Coast AM, but for CBS to air this proves their gullibilty, their stupidity, and their complete irresponsibility as a news agency. I’ll paraphrase Newton’s third law a little to apply here: For every truth their is an opposite untruth or fabrication. This story falls under the latter. Wright, Farrakan and Horowitz have traded the truth for a lie to promote their anti-American sentiment. Here’s another black victimiztion fabrication: President Bush deliberately withheld aid from New Orleans after Katrina because he wanted blacks to die. What absolute fabrications these stories are, yet they are believed by some. Here’s one more Newton analogy: For every intelligent, unbiased, critical thinking human being there is an opposite prejudiced fool who will believe anything.
The HIV dissent “movement,” has no particular political tint, but one can readily state that it has been attacked almost exclusively by the haute left--the Voice, Nation, CJR, etc.
The conservative media mostly haven’t weighed in, while the Libertarian media have more or less joined in the drubbing of dissidents as “denialists.” (Brian Doherty at REASON is one notable exception.)
The left love government and more or less love Pharma, as an extention of Nanny State. They love sick people because sick people allow them to pump indignation, moral superiority, and facile notions about how and why sickness occurs, which places blame squarely at the feet of Daddy (which is a fusion of State, Corporations, Politicians, etc--never the individual who might wish to heal him or herself.)
The left love genetic determinsim and the concept of Viral Plagues, a la Laurie Garrett’s unending glut of never fulfilled Plague scenarios.
The left essentially created the AIDS PR zeppelin as we know it, and their hatred of dissidents reflects this.
The right, I would say, are more open to the anti-pharmaceutical movement as they realize how much Big Pharma is morphing into Big Brother, and desecrating human freedoms. Ferocious attacks on HIV Rethinkers from the right are limited to Michael Fumento, and a few others here and there.
The HIV Rethinking movement is steeped in humanist values: An opposition to state coersion, “science” that is rogue and unproven and limits personal freedom starting with the freedom not to be killed, the importance of parental rights in the face of pharma/state violence, the importance of open debate and a free media, and last but not least, a rejection of the lurid racism implicit in the HIV paradigm.
For this reason, you will find people of all political persuasions, colors, ages, stripes in the HIV Rethinkers ever expanding tent--from conservative writer Tom Bethell to radical Olympic gold medalist Lee Evans.
Anybody who hopes to use it for political gain will be disappointed; It is the intersection of Lysenkoist science and whole new freedom movement in the pharmaceutical age.
The media have failed the story catastrophically, and been the driving force in the 24 year pogrom of censorship, violence, shaming, and professional assassination that has been the plight of every single journalist who tried to approach this as a story to simply be reported.
It has all been documented.
This is the big story here--how media managed to keep an elephant of a story in the room, invisible, for a quarter of a century, inside western democracies.
Fortunately, mass media is itself the shot and sagging elephant Orwell gave us to depict Colonialism in his famous essay. Going down slowly, unable to comprehend why.
The truth could set you free…
of any need to invoke conspiracy theories
and of havingn to accept the view that black people are disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS because of their behavior.
All published data about “HIV prevalence” show that it has been stable for two decades and has been distributed geographically in unaltered fashion for two decades; no infection, no sexually transmitted disease, behaves like that.
Testing “HIV positive” does not detect a virus, still less an active infection by a virus; it is a non-specific physiological response, which is why it varies with age, sex, and race in a perfectly predictable and reproducible way.
The only way to recognize this truth is to actually look at the evidence. Anyone can do this because the CDC documents, and at least abstracts of most articles in medical science including about “HIV” and “AIDS”, are freely available. Several hundred of the relevant publications are cited in my book The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory (McFarland 2007), see http://failingsofhivaidstheory.homestead.com/
The choice is rather clear: accept opinions of other people, or look at the evidence for yourself.
I have questioned, challenged and debunked the junk science surrounding HIV/AIDS since 1984 and I am just beginning to realize that we are discussing the cause of something that has no proof for its basic assumption, namely that a CD4 cell deficiency is a valid scientific explanation for any clinical disease, let alone AIDS.
The Concorde study (1993) demonstrated that CD4 cells neither correlate to nor predict, either disease progression or death, in people said to have AIDS and yet, since 1993, two thirds of all the AIDS cases are people who, with no clinical illness and no AIDS indicator diseases, are claimed to have AIDS because they test positive on a non-specific antibody test and have low CD4 counts.
Something is very wrong with this picture!
Wright’s right, but he has the wrong pathogen.
Hiv’s a totally benign retrovirus which was created by modifying a harmless chimpanzee virus known as SIV--Simian Immunodepressive Virus. The real AIDS pathogen is Mycoplasma Fermentans Incognitus. Read all about it by searching (googling) patent number 5242820 and decide for yourself whether this manufactured cell-wall deficient bacteria-like form can do all of the things falsely attributed to HIV; and whether M.Fermentans Incognitus satisfies Koch’s Postulates as the most likely causative agent for the kind of immune depression present in Aids patients. Hiv does not. For the novice all of these issues are available for study on the internet.
Hiv is a “false-flag” pathogen, created and “discovered” to throw researchers off the trail of the real Aids pathogen because a study of these mycoplasmas would lead directly to the true origin of Aids and other illnesses such as Gulf War Syndrome. This origin lies in biological warfare research and targeting of specific communities--gays, blacks and drug addicts. Is it just a coincidence that these communities remain the greatest risk groups for Aids?
Aids was vectored directly into the gay community by way of hepatits B vaccine. Before Gallo and Heckler made their big announcement that he had discovered the cause of Aids, the hepatitis B vaccine was viewed by many as the most likely vector for the disease. After the announcement all research was focused directly on HTLV-lll/LAV, which is HIV, and other areas of research were abandoned. HIV performed just as hoped for by the Aidists and has been doing so ever since to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars
It is commonly believed that scientists have answered the most basic question about Aids: “Why gays?” But there is nothing in the literature which makes a convincing case that gays should be any more susceptible to immune depression than any other community.
There is a branch of the Aids “rethinking” movement, perhaps lead by Peter Duesberg and David Crowe, which claims that Aids was originally a result of the misuse of recreational and illegal street drugs, but I believe that this kind of etiology and epidemiology employs the same method as that used by those who claim that hiv causes Aids: epiphenomenal correlation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
Wright got it right, but hiv is innocent. Hiv was created using the same kind of genetic engineering as was used in the creation of SHIV--Simian Human Immunodepressive Virus. And it was created as a scapegoat for the true cause of the illness.
Google: “chimeric viruses” and read all about it.
African Aids has nothing to do with HIV. It’s just more of the same old illnesses brought on by poverty, contaminated drinking water, and other so-called “Aids-defining” illnesses such as T.B. The repackaging of these diseases under the name “Aids” has been one of the greatest marketing coups in pharmacorpial history. False-flag Hiv probably arrived in Africa by way of small-pox vaccination. It has been proven that Africans did not carry the virus before the Aids debacle began in America.
A vaccine will never be developed for hiv because the human immune system does not see this simple, 9-kilobase retrovirus as a threat. The vaccine hunters have painted themselves into a corner because, having created the surrogate markers of antibody positivity, viral load and CD4 count with which to diagnose Aids, they must therefore use these same surrogates with which to test the efficacy of their vaccines--which makes me suspect that there is a god, after all. The Aidists will never overcome the “intelligence” of the human immune system to needlessly force upon it something for which it has no use--a preventive vaccine to prod the immune system into doing something that it is already doing well--creating antibodies. Remember this: It is the existence of these antibodies which the Aidists claim heralds immunodepression. So why attempt to create a vaccine that will goad the immune system into creating antibodies? Hopefully, the absurdity of this hiv vaccine search will become apparent to the general community, and the many billions wasted on this research will be redeployed in the near future.
Preliminary hiv screening depends upon the patient having a positive antibody reaction to hiv antigens. The existence of these antibodies means that the patient’s immune system is functioning properly, not that fatal immune depression and death is impending.
Being hiv-positive means absolutely nothing except that the immune system has successfully responded to the presence of hiv antigens.
The “hiv-causes-aids” paradigm represents a complete corruption of the sciences of virology and immunology, and medical science in general.
There are two possible avenues of resolution to this controversy.
The first lies in the objective and scientifically viable statistical analysis of hiv-positive people over a period of ten years. This would necessitate that all of the existing medical records regarding antiretroviral treatment and lifestyle be made available to a non-conflicted research agency. The second method of resolution of the controversy is that a thousand low-risk individuals with healthy immune systems volunteer to be injected with hiv with their progress studied over a ten-year period.
The result of such studies would be that hiv-positive people who live a healthy lifestyle and who refuse to take the anti-retroviral drugs would be at no greater risk of developing Aids than anyone else in the general community.
The antiretrovirals, in many cases cause the very illnesses which they are intended to treat, because they are chemotherapies and target every cell in the human body with their cell- replication-preventing capabilities.
Nancy Padian proved that hiv is only marginally transmissable by sex: One in one thousand instances.(Although she claims that she proved no such thing). The studies I have suggested would prove that Hiv doesn’t cause Aids.
Mr Kincaid,
We wrote a post on myspace.com/blac_ny, that ‘Wright is ‘right’, US government created HIV’. Let me say we simply cited the many books (we don’t think every one was ‘communist misinformation) supporting this pervasive belief in the Black community that HIV was created in a ‘lab’ (We question the position that HIV and AIDS was created to kill Black people. We know it first came to the media’s attention because of its effect on White gay men. So, if HIV was man made, it must have been created to kill both ‘outcast’ populations) First, we think we r on the same page (the fight against misinformation on HIV and AIDS). Although we (I) have lived with a so-called ‘positive’ HIV test since 1992 (started and stopped AIDS meds years ago) and ‘my’ brother, on AIDS drugs, died from liver disease with a so-called ‘undetectable viral load’, ‘I’ still have questioned over the years the theory that HIV causes AIDS (and I have an open mind on the existence of HIV)This includes my questions about the effectiveness of the AIDS ‘cocktail’. We have always liked David Crowne, Pres. of ‘Rethinking AIDS’ (we heard the ‘Boyd/Crowne debate) and we r members of ‘Rethinking AIDS’. I have personally attended NYC HEAL meeting . Plus, I ‘love’ Henry Bauer’s book which challenges the believe that HIV is a epidermic. . Our questions were directed toward the comment by Rev. Wright that the US government created AIDS(although we believe Wright has hurt Obama’s campaign). 80% of Black people believe the ‘HIV was created by the US government long before the Wright controversy. NO question, the Wright comment directly challenges the belief that HIV has never been scientifically proven to exist and it challenges the HIV’doesn’t discriminate’ dogma. Clearly, the Black community has ‘not’ been largely engaged in the ‘does AIDS exist debate (except for Dr. Boyd and Tony Brown’s belief that AIDS was created by man) Providing Black people with the information on the different beliefs and Books supporting the belief that HIV was created in a biowarfare lab is a part of our mission. You must admit, the fact that Africa is the so-call epicenter of AIDS and a disproportionate number of the Black community has positive HIV test results, adds gas to the conspiracy theories. Perhaps the ‘debate’ will create more interest in the truth among Blacks where the belief that HIV is a ‘crisis’ in the Black community dominates much of what is said about HIV and AIDS. Respect. DENNIS
Reverend Wright - and Boyd Graves - could not be more wrong about the knuckleheads at the NIH. In fact they were looking for a virus that caused cancer - it was part of Nixon’s War On Cancer. It was a total failure because there is no such virus. When the “gay plague” came along - immune illness primarily among malnourished gay men who were using nitrite poppers and other drugs - Gallo and others saw the opportunity to save the “virus cancer” labs and his career.
Boyd Graves misunderstands the historical evidence, and makes his living selling the purported “documents” allegedly proving the evil intent, through Internet spam. He has no answer to the fact that HIV has never been purified, that the tests do not and cannot test for it. They in fact test for antibodies and other biomarkers, and are positive for 60+ ordinary diseases and even pregnancy, with a bias against African Americans. If anything, there is the conspiracy.
By pushing the “government created virus” conspiracy, Boyd Graves, and his followers such as Reverend Wright, do an injustice to African Americans by diverting them from learning the truth about HIV testing and AIDS.
I too share many of the above sentiments and there isn’t any need to repeat them. As a full-blown AIDS person, who has a high viral load and low CD4’s and do not take the antiretroviral medications and there are many others such as myself out here, we must question the validity of HIV causing AIDS.
Antiretroviral medications and not HIV are causing AIDS along with the life-styles, etc. of those who acquire AIDS. It is right to question the HIV hypothesis, as this is the biggest, medical blunder of all time.
I was very encouraged to read the comments of Noreen Martin and D. Levy--both hiv-positive. It is through the candid and unafraid voices of hiv-positive people that this disgusting medical hoax will eventually be exposed. The right to reliable and valid medical treatment must be considered a human right. I have long advocated that the Aids rethinking movement needs to be recharged as a conventional civil rights movement, employing all of the tactics of former movements, including protest marches and civil disobedience.
In order for this to happen the victims, who are the hiv-positive people, must lead the way, as it has alway fallen to the oppressed to be the authors of their own liberation.
The medical farce works by encouraging people in high risk groups to have an hiv antibody test. If they should test “positive,” they are lured, shamed and sometimes even forced, to begin the surrogate marker examinations, (viral load, CD4 count), then the murderous antiretroviral treatments which cause the very symptoms and disorders that are wrongly designated as “hiv-related illnesses.”
It’s almost the perfect scam.
When the patients come down with the symptoms--really side effects of the meds--their doctors will most often tell them that the symptoms are a sign that their so-called “hiv-illness” (the latest marketing coup), is progressing or that the side-effects may be troubling, but that the alternative--a more rapid progression to “full-blown Aids"--will be much worse.
As an example of this I encourage the reader to do an internet study of so-called “hiv-related neuropathy,” and “hiv medication related neuropathy,” and to decide which is the likely cause of the disorder, the virus or the medication.
Thanks again to Noreen Martin and D. Levy for speaking out.
Curious that an atypical bacterium, mycoplasma, has been proposed as the real culprit in those apparently infected with HIV. Were this the case, responses to macrolide antiobiotics would long since have been documented and published. Mr. Green might best spend some time on the wards to see that macrolides of all types have had little or no effect on this illness. To state otherwise requires some references. Mr Green? Hello?
Thanks for the question, Chris Foley. The answer came immediately to mind. Mycoplasma fermentans incognitus is intrinsically resistant to the macrolides. The reference is on the PubMed site. Search for: “Mutations in 23rRNA Account For The Intrinsic Resistance To Macrolides in Mycoplasma Hominis and Mycoplasma Fermentans And For Acquired Resistance To Macrolides in M. Hominis.”
by S.Pereyre, P.Gonzales et al.
Chris Foley, Truman Green:
Luc Montagnier’s team pubished two sorely neglected papers reporting that “HIV” doesn’t kill cells in the presence of tetracycline antibiotics. They concluded that the actual pathogen is a mycoplasma: Lemaitre et al., Research in Virology 141 (1990) 5-16; INfetion and Immunity, 60 (1992) 742-8
Phyllis Pease, “AIDS, Cancer and Arthritis” (2005), is a cogent critique of the neglect of mycoplasmas as pathogens, inclduing in AIDS
Obviously, there are many plausible causes of AIDS. One which is not given too much credit is HHV6A, which is certainly more deadly than HIV. Doctors Knox and Carrigan are studying it and a doctor in Texas found it in all of his AIDS patients who had died from AIDS. There are many theories as to what causes AIDS but unfortunately, there aren’t any studies being done to rule anything out or to prove that HIV is the culprit.
Why does the cause of AIDS have to be infectious? There’s little evidence that it is infectious (see Padian study, African studies that show women more likely to be positive than men etc.) and how can we even talk about the “cause of AIDS”, when AIDS is about 30 different diseases linked only by HIV. Remove HIV from the picture and there’s just 30 different diseases. Why the desire for a single cause for them?
Good point David but society is programmed to the viurs that causes AIDS, bird flu, and what ever may be lurking around the corner. I don’t have a problem with calling a severly, immune depressed person, AIDS but I agree too that maybe other factors lead and contribute this this such as, drugs, life-style habits, environmental influences,etc.
I don’t think that the term AIDS will go away because it is too big a cash cow for so many and those who are cashing in on all of this don’t want it to end.
David Crowe, I believe there may be an error in your logic. No one is suggesting that the 30 illnesses to which you refer are causing the immune depression; only that they result from it.
Henry Bauer, you are correct, Luc Montaigner, co-discoverer of HTLV-lll/LAV (HIV), believes that HIV is harmless without a mycoplasma, and that hiv could never do the things attributed to it by conventional Aidism.
HIV is indeed, very dangerous, not in itself, but rather because of what often accompanies it--mycoplasma fermentans incognitus.
I hope everyone will google: “patent 5242820” to study exactly why its discoverer, US Army employee, Shih Ching Lo, claimed that this “novel” mycoplasma could do everything which has been falsely attributed to HIV.
My proposal for the delivery of these agents to blacks, gays and drug addicts:
1. Gays by hepatitis B vaccine
2. Blacks because none or very few of us have the CCR5 32 base pair deletion which arrived in the European population as a mutation and which saved many of them from the smallpox virus, which is, like HIV a CCR5-tropic virus. This makes blacks approx. 5 times more likely to contract hiv than whites, which coincides with the statistics.
3. Users of illegal street drugs by way of contamination of the drugs.
A gay, black drug addict would therefore be a member of the group with the highest risk for HIV and AIDS.
Hello-
HEAL-NYC Hosted a Luc Montagner and Shih Ching Lo forum in NYC. Luc distanced himself from HIV and supported a multifactorial approach to research and recommended further reasearch on Shih Ching Lo’s mycoplasma theory.
The early GRID/AIDS cases were dead in months and if you weren’t paying close attention - you might miss the iatrogenic reason for this and consider that a sexually transmitted mycoplasma—could be undermining their natural defenses.
Two problems emerged:
Both Montagner and Lo agreed that although, “bottoms” had a greater risk of infection, mycoplasmas would be expected to be transmitted rather easily between tops and bottoms and well,those early AIDS cases were mostly showing up in bottoms, at least according to the late Michael Callen and according to what people were sharing in HEAL meetings between 1982 and 1984.
The second problem with the mycoplasma theory is the extended latancy period—both Montagner and Lo stated that mycoplasmas hit hard and fast--
In my opinion, the change from treating very sick people with high dose chemos and radiation and then high dose AZT to treating basically healthy people with lower dose combos is responsible for the seemingly extended periods between so-called infections and death…
Just think about it—Okay?
I certainly am not an expert on this subject. But I do want to convey to all of you, including the “scientific experts”
I had a conversation with a gay man in San Fransisco in the spring of 1971. He said that men who participated in anal sex were dying at a young age. He said it was wideapread and that none one knew the cause.
So, my message is” HIV/Aids began yearsa before the “experts” say it did.
You guys need to research further.
April 28 at 11:24 pm | #1 | Link
Mr. Kincaid:
Even I was going to take the easy way out of this one, just put head in sand and refuse to attempt de-threading the AIDS angle to the media’s Wright/Obama confusion. I’m so grateful you took it on. I read your piece and was very impressed at the way you untangled it all so accurately.
You taught me things I did not know--despite 22 years on the beat--or had forgotten.
I pulled down the Koehler book, and wanted to share this amazing tidbit: The Indian newspaper that first broke the AIDS Virus As US Biological Weapon “story” in 1986, (The Patriot) was funded by the KGB and its editor was the recipient of the astonishingly named “Stalin Peace Prize.”
This is very critical, what you bring up here--the Cold War roots of all these notions.
The media reserves a clump of disdain for anybody who objects to anything that has ever occurred under the mushroom cloud of “the fight against AIDS.”
In this regard, they are exhibiting Bolshivik tendencies-- auto-hostility against ‘counter-revolutionaries.’
They’ve always accused the AIDS “denialists,” formerly “dissidents,” of being frothing right wingers. I have personally been equated with the KKK, with Holocaust Deniers, Flat-earthers, Homophobes, and people who walk round wishing to kill Africans, born and unborn.
My father always finds the humor in it, even when I don’t.
He speaks very admiringly of you, and suggested in the past that I lay some stuff on you but I am glad to see you were already on the story.
Thank you.
Great job.
May angels grant you the stamina to keep going. This is a very, very big story.