AT LAST IT has been admitted that the government pays network television to include propaganda promoting the War on (Some) Drugs in the scripts of popular shows. Only fools were surprised. On all of these networks we have since heard some very tepid "slippery slope" type criticism presented as op-ed. We have heard no shame. We have heard no promise to stop. Most importantly, we have not heard any discussion of what other propaganda has been secretly, and not so secretly, embedded in the shows we view. To believe TV, the world is overrun with thieves, rapists, and psychotic cop-killers – and the only reason they haven't broken into your house, raped you, murdered you, and stolen your TV yet is because somewhere some young, good-looking cop was willing to "bend" the rules a little. Yeah, right.
TV is infested with a variety of insidious propaganda campaigns. Let's take a look at another one. It too is "drug-related."
In the late '20s and early '30s, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels perfected a propaganda technique that proved to be so effective it has been adopted across the globe. Goebbels used a few, simple symbols and a few, short slogans that were repeated and repeated until they had been drummed so deep into the collective subconscious of the German people that they were willing to throw caution, reason, and recent experience to the winds and go to war on two fronts against the very same overwhelmingly superior enemies who had kicked their butts the last time. A simple head count would have dissuaded most rational minds. Germans are not by nature an irrational people. But Goebbels's incessant propaganda had bludgeoned their minds numb.
How many times does a phrase need to be repeated before it is true? The short answer is that no matter how many times you tell a lie, no matter how big a lie it is, it is still not true. Unfortunately this self-evident truth has apparently not yet sunk in to our own collective subconscious.
How many times have you turned on the TV and heard the phrase, "HIV, the virus that causes AIDS"? It's not as common as it used to be. For a while, during the late '80s and early '90s, it was hard to watch TV for an hour without hearing this phase repeated. And who, pray tell, is it that says that HIV is the cause of AIDS? Is it the scientific community expressing consensus? No, it is the United States government. Remember them? They're the ones who told us the Spanish blew up the Maine, the North Vietnamese shot first in the Gulf of Tonkin, and the president "never had sex with that woman." More to the point, they're the ones who brought us the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and fed plutonium to disabled children to see what it would do to them.
Let's look at this oft-repeated statement scientifically. After all, it might be true. But then again the HIV Hypothesis fails to meet the scientific standard, Koch's Postulates. Some people with HIV don't get AIDS. Some people with AIDS don't have HIV. Ergo, by definition, HIV is not the sole cause of AIDS. HIV may very well not cause AIDS at all. Some people with AIDS do test positive for HIV. This does not demonstrate causation. This demonstrates some degree of correlation, nothing more. Consider, for example, the men buried on Boot Hill. They are buried there because they died with their boots on. Did they die because of the boots? Not. Correlation – keep it in mind as you evaluate the proclamations of the government regarding HIV.
This is not to say that HIV causes no disease. Let's be perfectly clear about this. It is entirely possible that in some AIDS cases HIV may play some role. More than that has yet to be demonstrated by science. It has only been declared so by the Center for Disease Control. This happened at a time and in a way that the director of the CDC made a great deal of money due to that declaration being taken for fact by the public at large. The HIV hypothesis has been the focus of a propaganda campaign the likes of which that rivals those of the Cold War and the War on (Some) Drugs. Unless a method of direct causation is adequately demonstrated, the HIV hypothesis is that and nothing more. It is definitely not a proven theorem.
Some AIDS dissidents call the HIV hypothesis the "HIV Myth." I don't go quite that far. Certainly a number of myths have grown up around HIV. But as far as I'm concerned, the degree of correlation is strong enough to warrant further research. There may very well be something we can accurately call "HIV Disease." It may even present as immune system breakdown. But despite the avalanche of propaganda, the truth of the matter is we simply don't know for sure. So I'm going to reserve my judgment on the possibility until we do.
As for AIDS itself, no single cause explains it. That, combined with atrociously unscientific reporting procedures, makes it extremely difficult for the objective, nonbrainwashed researcher to get a handle on it. If a patient tests positive for HIV, the case is written up as an AIDS statistic no matter what (s)he is actually ailing from. What's worse, in parts of the Third World where accurate testing is cost-prohibitive, anyone with more than a hundred symptoms officially designated by the World Health Organization as symptoms of AIDS is written up as an AIDS statistic. If, for example, you are starving, and you drag your emaciated frame to what passes for a hospital, only to die there, you can be written up as an AIDS statistic. Why? Emaciation is one of the WHO's official symptoms for AIDS. So it's really hard to tell what is going on. To let repetitive propaganda convince you otherwise is unscientific.
What then is the phenomenon we know as AIDS? Is it the result, as not a few speculate, of some chemical-biological warfare weapon-development experiment that just got "out of hand?" Or worse, is it a weapon being used against us? What a great way of bankrupting an enemy country's medical care system. Or worse yet, is it a tool of husbandry in the hands of those to whom we are simply livestock? Or consider how useful it could be to certain groups if it were applied to social engineering. And what a dandy population control tool it would make. What a marvelous cover, and scapegoat for genocide. Then there's all the money that's to be made selling cures.
Both motive, means and multiple corpses are present, yet we have only the government's word that AIDS should be investigated as a medical case and not as a case of mass murder. It is rare indeed that murder is committed and no lies are told about it. One way to catch liars in the act is to note their contradictions. The U.S. government contradicts itself about AIDS. One branch of the government, the Centers for Disease Control, tells us that the cause of AIDS is a virus, HIV. On Dec. 5, 1987, a different branch of the government, the Patent Office, issued Salvatore Catapano the Patent No. 4,711,876 for an AIDS treatment based on typhoid vaccine. This treatment, which has been shown to be effective, could have no possible effect on HIV, because typhoid vaccine does not affect viruses. Catapano had learned that before the advent of penicillin in the early 1940s, the typhoid vaccine had been used to treat another disease, syphilis. Catapano says that in many cases the "AIDS" illnesses are identical to syphilis ailments he treated during his four decades as a medical technologist in the navy and for the U.S. Public Health Service.
Either the government is lying, or it is confused. If it is confused, it is also lying, because it tells us it is not confused. The government has a long, thick, rich history of lying, as well as of experimenting on the populace and not telling us about it until 50 years later, if at all. It also has a long, rich history of genocide. In a very real sense, it was an act of genocide – and not an act of rebellion – that gave birth to our nation-state. Genocide is the American way. It's how we got here. Ask any Native American. Biological warfare was part of that genocide. It's as American as apple pie and Chevrolet. At least one of its perpetrators has been honored by having a town named after him. Amherst, Mass. is named for a man who gave Indians blankets contaminated with smallpox during the 1754-67 French and Indian War.
Then there's the documentable certainty that research into race-specific biological weapons has been going on since at least 1951, when navy personnel deliberately contaminated 10 wooden crates with Serratia marcescens, Basillus globigii, and Aspergillus fumagatus before they were shipped from a supply depot in Pennsylvania to the navy base in Norfolk, Virginia. This test was designed to establish how easily bacteriological weapons might be disseminated among the people employed to handle the boxes. Of the three infectious bacteria, Aspergillus fumigatis had been specifically chosen because African American workers at the base would be particularly susceptible to it.
The evidence fails to fully support the thesis that HIV causes AIDS or anything. If AIDS is what we are told it is, far more people would have been affected by now. It has now been two decades. Why have other promiscuous subcultures not been stricken to the degree that gay men have? Consider hippies, punk rockers, jocks, bikers, or swingers, to name a few. Each of these groups is known, among other things, for its high rate of promiscuity. Each group contains a minority of members who are bisexual and others who shoot up. If AIDS is what we are told it was it would have spread the way we were told it would spread – and they would be dying like flies by now. They are not. Why not? More importantly, why are the overwhelming majority of AIDS victims heterosexual Africans and African Americans? Could the majority of AIDS cases be the result of race-based bio war? Given our history, it would be unwise to dismiss the possibility out of hand.
Clearly, we have been mislead. We must then consider other possibilities than the dominant, government-enforced paradigm. It could be possible, for example, that Dr. Peter Duesburg is part right, and HIV is just one of four hundred similar critters that inhabit T-Cells causing no harm whatsoever. On the other hand, Duesburg is quite obviously dead wrong about drug abuse, as the majority of drug abusers never get AIDS, and the majority of AIDS patients never abused drugs.
Some people believe that HIV actually is the "virus that causes AIDS" and was intentionally created through the modern magic of gene splicing. One end of the virus does indeed look a lot like one end of a visna virus, and the other end does indeed look a lot like the other end of a bovine leukemia virus. This could be merely coincidence. Coincidence does indeed play a role in human events. However, the size of this role is often unduly exaggerated by those unwilling to face the implications of a conspiracy and by those to whom the very admission of a conspiracy's existence could be a fatal error. If HIV was created but does not cause AIDS, what is it doing in the blood of so many PWAs? Could it be a marker, causing no harm, but used to track individuals in a population? Considering that to our rulers we are livestock, nothing more, it would be unwise to assume that we are not tagged for purposes of tracking. Is it paranoid to also consider that perhaps, like all well husbanded herds, we are occasionally culled?
AIDS need not be caused by only a single agent to be caused by biological warfare. It is not even necessary for all AIDS cases to be caused by biological warfare in order for those that are to be. Clearly, many cases of "AIDS" are caused by certain types of environmental pollution, including the steadily rising background radiation. Overuse and misuse of antibiotics have contributed heavily to overall immune response problems in the general population. In some subpopulations this effect is even more evident. But bio war cannot be ignored in any objective inquiry into the etiology of AIDS.
We must consider, for example, the aerosol distribution of bio-war agents such as brucellosis, a technique perfected by Rosebury at Camp Detrick during WWII. It could easily have come in through ventilation ducts in bars and bathhouses. As far as we know, aerosol distribution of biological agents through ventilation ducts was first tested in the ducts of the Pentagon building in 1950. The New York City subway system was also contaminated as part of a series of tests conducted by the Chemical Corps Special Operations Division in 1966. Aerosol distribution of bio-war agents was tested on the San Francisco Bay Area between Sept. 20 and 26, 1950. Bio-war agent "simulants," Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii, were distributed by air from two ships just outside the Golden Gate. Every single person in the Bay Area was contaminated. One man died. Though not usually fatal, inhaled Brucellosis can present as immune system breakdown. While easily treated if recognized for what it is, it is unlikely to be suspected (and tested for) in patients who have had no contact with live cattle. This is particularly true if the patient tests positive for HIV. If the patient tests positive for HIV, no further testing is considered necessary before a "diagnosis" is reached. Has genetic engineering produced a more virulent strain of brucellosis? Given the history of bio-war research, we would be foolish not to consider the possibility.
One government agency, the CIA, has admitted to using a simulated whorehouse and real live whores to study (link to "Climax") effects of one of its other chemical weapons, LSD, on unwitting johns. It had the whores dose the johns, and then watched and filmed through two-way mirrors. This happened in San Francisco's North Beach in the '50s. North Beach is a 20-minute walk from Folsom Street, where the '70s saw the burgeoning of dozens of sex clubs, many mirrored and ventilated. The CIA claims to not do this sort of thing anymore. I see no real reason to believe that. The CIA is highly motivated to lie about things like this. The agency was never widely known for its veracity in the first place. Any number of bio-war agents could have been introduced into those ventilation systems. Aerosol distribution of bio-war agents has been studied by our government at least since the early days of WWII.
There are other chemical and biological weapons in our government's arsenal, many others. The list has grown considerably since colonial Americans first gave away those smallpox-infected blankets to the rightful owners of the continent. J. H. Rothschild, once Commanding General of the U. S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command, wrote this in his 1964 text Tomorrow's Weapons. His list of disease agents useful as biological weapons included anthrax, blastomycosis, botulism, brucellosis, cholera, coccidiodomycosis, crypttococosis, dengue fever, bacillary dystentery, encephalitis, encephalomyelitis, glanders, influenza, melioidosis, bubonic plague, psittacosis, Q fever, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, salmonella gastroenteritis, smallpox, tularemia, typhoid fever, typhus, yellow fever. Senator R. D. McCarthy, in his 1969 text The Ultimate Folly, added chikungunya fever to this list, while a 1984 article in Science magazine included Lassa fever, Ebola fever, Marburg disease, and hemorrhagic fevers. Ultimately, any organism capable of producing disease is of interest to BW researchers.
More than they are biological, biological weapons are weapons. Weapons are almost always used in combinations. One does not storm a beach with small arms. One storms a beach with landing craft, small arms, and naval artillery. The possibility that AIDS results from a combination of cofactors becomes ever more suspect when viewed in light of the possibility of chemical-biological warfare. This is particularly true given the tremendous amount of research that has been done on binary chemical weapons. Binary weapons are composed of two parts, each harmless by itself, that form a deadly weapon when combined. The bio-war research community clearly has done a great deal of thinking along these lines.
The lack of certain substances can kill you as dead as the presence of others. Consider, if you will, the curious case of aqueous penicillin.
Before the discovery of penicillin, the treatment for syphilis was another I. G. Farben product, an arsenic compound called neoarsphenamine, better known by its generic name, salvarsan. This stuff wasn't all that effective, but it was all we had. The treatment was painful and often took up to a year. If you were lucky, it killed the spirochetes before it killed you. It was so valuable that during WWI, before America was sucked into combat by Britain's cynical sacrifice of the Lusitania, a German cargo submarine ran the British blockade to smuggle the stuff to America. Americans paid handsomely.
In 1932, when syphilis was still endemic, the Public Health Service began a hideous experiment on a cohort of four hundred African American sharecroppers in and around Tuskegee, Alabama. Keep in mind that the Centers for Disease Control is a division of the PHS. Some of these "patients" (unwitting human guinea pigs is more to the truth – victims, I call them) had been treated with salvarsan. Some had not. Once the the experiment began, all treatment was stopped. These men were then tracked for the next 40 years. The bulk of the data collection and "patient" management work involved was done by a African American nurse named Rivers. One by one the men died, and were dissected. As a result, medical science knows everything there is to know about the effects of untreated and undertreated syphilis in the "untermenchen." Mengele would have been proud.
A decade and a half into the experiment, a cure for syphilis, aqueous penicillin, was discovered. It was never made available to the subjects of the Tuskegee Study. This unquestionably resulted in unnecessary and unpleasant deaths and misery. The lack of certain substances can kill you as dead as the presence of others.
In 1972, the experiment was stopped after a horrified bureaucrat at the PHS spilled the beans to a reporter named Jean Heller, and Heller blew the whistle. That this took 40 years to come about tells us much about bureaucrats.
True to their goal of pursuing the subjects until the last one had died, PHS officers were still conducting the experiment when Heller broke the story on July 25, 1972, in the Washington Star. Ironically, a ghost out of a public servant's medical past appeared simultaneously. The Tuskegee Study had to compete for headlines with the sensational disclosure that Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, Senator George McGovern's running mate (in the election that gave us Watergate), had a medical history of bouts with depression requiring hospitalization and shock therapy. Coincidence? Perhaps.
A high ranking official in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare confessed privately to Heller that he was relieved that the Tuskegee Study and the Eagleton affair hit the front pages of the nation's newspapers on the same day. "He kept us beneath the fold," the official sighed.
One can well imagine the effect the story might have had that volatile summer, particularly in our overwhelmingly African American nation's capital, had it not been overshadowed. Those of us who believe our news is manipulated, and we are manipulated by it, are not surprised. The rest of you are fools.
Three years later, the official AMA protocol for the treatment of syphilis was changed. The way organized medicine works is if you don't do it the AMA way, you don't get to do it at all. They'll yank your ticket. Three years after the Tuskegee Study came to an abrupt halt, the AMA way of treating syphilis changed. Perhaps they had learned enough. Perhaps they realized that they just weren't going to learn any more. Sometimes, you just have to go with what you got, because that's all there's going to be.
Prior to 1975, syphilis was treated with a regimen of aqueous penicillin shots spaced 12 hours apart for a period of time determined by the amount of time since your last clean blood test. Subsequent to 1975, the approved treatment became a shot of benzethine penicillin, every two weeks. The main difference between aqueous penicillin and benzethine penicillin is that benzethine penicillin is not water soluble and so stays in the blood a great deal longer. The supposed rationale for the change was that use of benzethine penicillin meant fewer office visits were necessary.
There is another difference between these two forms of penicillin, and that difference is central to my thesis here. Benzethine penicillin does not pass through the blood brain barrier in the amount necessary to get the job done right. Aqueous penicillin does.
If you are treated for syphilis with benzethine penicillin, it kills the little critters that swim in your blood, but not the ones in your brain, or in your vitreous humor. You can pass a Wasserman test. The dark field illumination microscope necessary to detect spirochetes does not show them in your blood. The doctor thinks they're gone. He tells you you're cured and he believes it to be the truth. After all, the AMA told him so. And of course you believe him, because he's a doctor.
But you're not cured. The spirochetes are still in your brain. There they can fester, to eventually break out, four or five years later, to cause tertiary syphilis, the third, and most insidious stage of the disease. Keep in mind that with no treatment at all, about a third of all syphilis cases present no symptoms whatever. But if they do, watch out. It can get very, very nasty.
Tertiary syphilis is a curious disease. It presents in a wide variety of ways, sometimes in one way, sometimes in another. Before the discovery of trepomena palladium, it was exceedingly difficult to diagnose, even for those with the proper training. It did not come to be called "the Great Imitator" without reason. In those days, when syphilis was truly endemic, one page in three of the dermatology textbooks read by med students was about syphilis. Syphilis was studied to the extreme. It was the cancer of its day. Cancer, of course, was relatively rare then, nowhere near the plague it is today. But that's another tale.
Not only does its great variance of form make tertiary syphilis extremely difficult for even a trained physician to spot, but we no longer train them. This has resulted in a serious problem. Today, we have gone through three generations of doctors who have never been trained to recognize tertiary syphilis. The rationale is that with the advent of penicillin, primary syphilis has been conquered, and tertiary syphilis is no longer a problem. Would that it weren't.
Sometimes tertiary syphilis presents as central nervous system damage. Spasms, awkward gait, even dementia result. This form is not so difficult for the trained eye to recognize. Sometimes, great ulcers appear on the skin that refuse to heal. This too, is a dead giveaway to the trained eye.
Sometimes tertiary syphilis presents in a way that is virtually indistinguishable from what we today call AIDS. The immune system breaks down and opportunistic infections set in. This is much more difficult to recognize. Lack of training complicates the matter greatly. So does the HIV hypothesis.
If you show up at the doctor's with tertiary syphilis presenting as immune system breakdown, you're in deep trouble. Odds are that the doctor, especially if he is young, won't spot it. He doesn't look for it. He doesn't even consider the possibility. He believes that syphilis has been conquered. It's not his fault – he only knows what he's been taught. He knows "AIDS" when he sees it, particularly if you "fit the profile."
He administers an HIV test, because that's what the AMA tells him to do and if he doesn't toe the AMA line, he'll be out of business fairly quickly. The AMA leaves him no choice. Besides, he believes the organization. He has been trained to believe it, just as you have been trained to believe him.
Should the test prove positive, your diagnosis is AIDS, and he looks no further. He turns, of course, (where else?) to the official AMA protocol for direction as to your treatment. The AMA says give 'em (you guessed it) AZT – itself a deadly poison and a powerful immune suppressant in its own right.
Of course this scenario doesn't explain all AIDS cases, no single cause does. But it does at least raise serious questions about some, especially the first wave, the ones that happened just long enough after the benzethine penicillin regimen was instituted to bring tertiary syphilis on to the list of possible suspects.
We must be suspicious. Science demands it. So does everything we know about the history of propaganda campaigns based on the constant repetition of a simple phrase. So too, it would now appear, does the way we find such campaigns woven into the plots of movies and TV shows. When was the last time you heard the HIV hypothesis questioned on TV at all, let alone in the context of dialogue or plot? Was it on ER? I don't think so. How about The Practice or Ally McBeal? Not this week. Not for a long time. Like John Judge always says, Goebbels would have given his saluting arm for a modern TV network.
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