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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 07 Num. 36
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 36
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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AIDS Inc. -- Part 7
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There was such a response to the previous CN (CN 7.23) on the
banning in the United States of the book *Why We Will Never Win
the War on AIDS* by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg, that I
thought I would re-post the following. It is my synopsis of Jon
Rappoport's book, *AIDS Inc.* Because Rappoport covers Dr.
Duesberg's challenge to official AIDS dogma, they may be banning
his book next! (Or, late breaking, thanks to Rep. Schumer and his
proposed H.R. 2580 -- outlawing discussion of what he calls
"baseless conspiracy theories" -- they may be banning Conspiracy
Nation!)
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[...continued...]
Where did AIDS come from?
In 1987, The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was saying that
there was no official version as to the origin of AIDS. A Don
Robusky of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated "The
accepted wisdom on the origin of AIDS is the green monkey
(African). But nobody's really sure."
How would AIDS have been transferred from monkey to human? There
are several scenarios:
*** Jungle insects bit green monkeys, then bit humans
*** Humans killed monkeys and monkey blood washed through human
sores or cuts
*** Humans ate monkeys
*** [B.R. Humans had sex with monkeys (?) Just conjecture.]
The author, Jon Rappoport, suggests that a possible source for
AIDS may be African Swine Fever (ASF). "In 1971 and 1980, Cuba
suffered epidemics of ASF. Press coverage in the *San Francisco
Chronicle* and *Newsday*, and by Jack Anderson, as well as
references in William Blum's *The CIA, Its Forgotten History*,
trace possible CIA involvement in the 1971 epidemic."
An article appearing in the January 9, 1977 issue of *Newsday*
describes how operatives having at least tacit CIA approval
introduced African Swine Fever into Cuba: "A U.S. intelligence
source told *Newsday* he was given the virus in a sealed,
unmarked container at a U.S. Army base and CIA training ground in
the Panama Canal Zone, with instructions to turn it over to [an]
anti-Castro group."
A Cuban national, on trial in New York Federal District Court,
testified that in 1980, "as part of a biological warfare scheme
against the Castro Cuban economy, 'a ship traveled from Florida
to Cuba with germs...'"
Rappoport points to the mariel Cuban boatlift as the possible
means by which ASF was transported back to the U.S.
Could ASF be one of the factors behind so-called AIDS? "In 1983,
two Boston scientists, John Beldekas (Boston University School of
Medicine) and Jane Teas (Harvard School of Public Health),
wondered whether ASF was, in fact, the AIDS virus... They found
evidence that ASF was showing up in the blood of AIDS patients,
'even though Swine Fever isn't supposed to infect humans,'
Beldekas comments."
Teas went to Florida. She recalls that while there she "heard
rumors that some Haitians, after eating pork, were contracting an
odd illness... Regardless, it was already clear that in some
areas where you saw a concentration of AIDS (Africa, Brazil,
Haiti), you saw outbreaks of Swine Fever in herds of pigs.
Although the pork industry and government scientists won't admit
it, there are ASF-infected wild pigs in Florida."
In July, 1986, Douglas Feldman, a medical anthropologist at Yale,
concluded a letter to the *New York Times* as follows:
"...epidemiologists and veterinarians might do well to explore
the possibility that this virus [ASF] is a co-factor in AIDS
transmission in central Africa and perhaps other regions of the
world." But, as of 1988, no such exploratory study had been
undertaken.
In September 1985, the NYC Health Department tested 160 *random*
blood donors for evidence of Swine Fever. "Five showed signs of
having contacted the [ASF] virus. This is quite remarkable, since
the prevailing wisdom on African Swine Fever is that humans can't
catch it."
Needless to say, the billion-dollar pork industry would be
disturbed at charges that:
1) There is a trace of Swine Fever among hogs in the U.S.
2) ASF might be connected with AIDS.
3) AIDS might be contracted from eating pork.
In an article in the October 7, 1985 *Washington Post*, John
Beldekas [Boston University School of Medicine, see above] tells
the authors of the article "that after he had found signs of ASF
in the blood of people diagnosed with AIDS, U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture officials told him to keep his mouth shut about it,
'for national security reasons...'"
Rappoport concludes this section by mentioning that
1) the mariel Cuban boatlift "was at least one-third gay... the
major number of these men ended up in New York, L.A., and San
Francisco, the three cities where AIDS cases have been reported
in large numbers."
2) The *New York Native* (June 2, 1985) attributes the following
statement to the U.S. Department of Agriculture: "On the export
side, if African Swine Fever Virus became established in the
U.S., there would be an annual loss of some 300 million dollars
in pork and related products..."
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The author includes a copy of a letter written by one Michael
Callen to the "People With AIDS Coalition." Following are some
excerpts from that letter:
One advantage of believing that HIV is the cause of AIDS
is that it's such a simple explanation. All you have to
say is that a killer virus is on the loose which, like
some *Pac Man* video game, eats T-4 cells. Such a
simplistic explanation seems tailor made for the TV
age...
I am a multifactorialist. I believe that *multiple*
factors conspire to produce the immune deficiency which
we now call AIDS.
...now that we have both HIV-1 and HIV-2, we're being
asked to believe that two viruses whose genetic make-ups
are different enough to consider them different viruses
could appear at the same time and happen to cause the
same disease.
If AIDS were truly caused by one virus, we ought to have
seen cases of AIDS appear *simultaneously* in every
major city where there are gay men and IV drug users...
Why were the overwhelming majority of all cases of AIDS
confined almost exclusively to New York, San Francisco
and Los Angeles for the first several years of this
epidemic?
Trying to convince America that everyone is equally at
risk for AIDS has been a successful fundraising ploy.
But it has also caused a lot of panic and needless
social disruption. Many people who are the unlikeliest
candidates to ever develop AIDS are nevertheless
suffering tremendously from the fear of AIDS.
The deafening silence in response to Professor
Duesberg's devastating challenge to HIV is a scandal!
Science doesn't progress by ignoring embarrassing
criticisms of received wisdom. If Duesberg is wrong, his
claims should be easy to refute. Duesberg's devastating
challenge to HIV has gone unanswered long enough.
"Most alternative theories of how AIDS came to be assume that
AIDS exists, it is one thing, the reports of cases around the
world are accurate, and HIV-blood testing is accurate and
meaningful."
However, "when you try to say that immune suppression, which
gives rise to opportunistic infections, wasting away,
pneumonia... when you say this immune suppression comes from one
cause, one germ, you're asking for trouble. All over the world
there is immune suppression, there is reduced T-cell formation,
reduced macrophage function, there is the sprouting of
opportunistic infections. This is nothing new."
"To define a syndrome so loosely that it virtually includes any
sort of immune suppression ever seen -- this is bound to fail. It
just doesn't work."
"Alternative theories, if they prove anything, make stronger the
suggestion that AIDS is not one thing."
"After such a failure as AIDS-research, in all its aspects, the
most intelligent thing to do for the health of the U.S. may be to
cut off funding for NIH, disband it, dismantle the buildings,
throw some seed on the ground, forget it was ever there and start
over."
Health "has nothing necessarily to do with selling cascades of
new pharmaceuticals. It doesn't have anything to do with winning
Laskers and Nobels. If a researcher likes shucking the public,
let him go into selling. If he enjoys participating in useless
and false research in a silent way, let him become a
speechwriter. But get him out of public health."
{ --- Recommended Reading --- }
{ }
{ Badgley, Laurence E., M.D. *Healing AIDS Naturally* }
{ }
{ Cantwell, Alan, M.D. *AIDS, The Mystery and the Solution* }
{ }
{ ------------------ *AIDS and the Doctors of Death* }
{ }
{ Coulter, Harris. *AIDS and Syphilis, the Hidden Link* }
{ (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 1987) }
{ }
{ Jones, James. *Bad Blood* (Macmillan, 1981) }
{ }
{ National Antivivisection Society of London. *Biohazard* }
{ }
{ Paxman, Jeremy and Harris, Robert. *A Higher Form of }
{ Killing*. (Hill and Wang publishers, 1982). }
{ }
{ Piller and Yamamoto. *Gene Wars*. (William Morrow and }
{ Company, 1988). }
{ }
{ Weir, David and Shapiro, Mark. *Circle of Poison* }
{ (Institute for Food and Development Policy, }
{ San Francisco, 1981) }
"The outstanding book in the field describing the alternative
view on AIDS is *AIDS Inc.*, by Jon Rappoport. It is available
for $13.95 plus $2.00 postage (total $15.95) from: Human Energy
Press, Suite D, 370 West San Bruno Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066.
If you, the reader, read but one book on AIDS in your lifetime,
make it this one. It may save your life." [CN -- *Caveat emptor*.
This info (above) as to availability of the book *AIDS Inc.* may
not be current. I got the book via my local bookstore, i.e. they
ordered it for me.]
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