It’s taken decades to unmask the story of how AIDS came to be, and far from being an ‘act of nature’, the real story of its origins is one of ruthless ambition and professional rivalries, entrenched interests, racism and the arrogance and the indifference of the ‘master race’ toward their fellow humans and to our closest relative, the chimpanzee, hundreds of whom were needlessly slaughtered allegedly in the cause of ‘science’ and our well-being.
It is also the story of capitalism’s power to subvert the intellect and the emotions with expectations of fame and fortune. Put it all together and you have a recipé for yet another Western-created disaster. Is it any wonder therefore, why the medical-business establishment has closed ranks in a display of collective denial at the idea that the source of AIDS is not the ‘cut hunter’ hypothesis but Western ‘science’ itself?[1]
Had we acted immediately we knew something was wrong (the first AIDS cases were identified in the Congo c.1960, and in the same locations as the vaccinations), perhaps things would have turned out entirely differently? But those dying had no voice, nobody to speak for them (which is perhaps another reason why the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi were chosen as locations for the experiment).
In turn it also tells us much about why the Worobey-led investigation focused not on Africa, the Stanleyville laboratory and the camp at Lindi (the obvious places to begin any investigation) but on Haiti and the entirely unsubstantiated proposition that a lone Haitian had been the vector for AIDS in the US.
That the Belgium Congo was chosen as the location for the first mass testing of what was an experimental polio vaccine also speaks reams about the attitude of the West toward people of colour. We should also remember that the Congo was still a colony of Belgium at the time and a major source of uranium for US nuclear weapons. As one Congolese employee at the Stanleyville laboratory said of the time, “you didn’t question [your colonial masters].”
The history of the emergence of the deadliest disease ever to afflict humanity, AIDS, should be an object lesson for us all, especially those in the so-called civilised world who call themselves scientists, for what is clear is that we produced a disease which will over the next fifty years be responsible for the deaths of perhaps 100 million people, most of them in the under-developed world.
There are those who claim (and not without good reason) that the AIDS retrovirus was created as a deliberate act aimed at exterminating people of colour, after all, the history of colonialism, for example in the Americas, reveals the deliberate infection of the indigenous peoples’ with diseases like smallpox, but what is revealed is in many ways far worse, for it’s the history of denial, indifference and downright lies about the way the West behaves toward people of colour, using them as unwitting guinea pigs.
What we do know for certain:
That there is a directgeographical
correlation between the outbreaks of the first cases of AIDS in the
Congo (at the beginning of the 1960s) and where the experimental oral
polio vaccine was first administered to one million children;
That there is a directchronological correlation between the first occurrence of AIDS in Africa following the experimental mass vaccination campaign;
That
the man in charge, Hilary Koprowski, lied about the use of chimpanzee
tissues, blood and organs in the creation of the experimental vaccine
(what’s not explained is why the use of chimpanzees and not the
monkey?);
That it was known at the time that
both the Salk live polio vaccine (injected) and Koprowski’s oral live
polio vaccine were contaminated with an unknown virus (‘Virus X’ as it
was called then).
Eyewitnesses have testified as to
the slaughter of at least 400 chimpanzees (and perhaps as many as 600)
even though at the time it was known that the use of chimpanzees for
use in the creation of tissue cultures for human vaccines was
clinically inadvisable. Koprowski later denied that chimpanzees had
been used, indeed he denied that tissues cultures had ever been created
at the Stanleyville laboratory, claiming that the Stanleyville
laboratory wasn’t equipped to produce tissue cultures but the evidence
is conclusive, not only had hundreds of chimpanzees been slaughtered
for their tissues and organs, some of their ground-up tissues were also
exported to the US (to the National Institutes of Health, the NIH,
something they later denied).
In fact, in direct contradiction to the evidence, Koprowski later
denied that the Stanleyville laboratory was equipped to prepare tissue
cultures, yet one of the reasons the lab was chosen was precisely because
it was one of most well-equipped labs in Central Africa at the time
(again, individuals employed in the lab at the time corroborate this).
These and other revelations were first exposed by the intrepid
journalist-turned researcher, Edward Hooper who had spent over ten
years putting the story together, in spite of all manner of obstacles
placed in his path by the medical-business establishment including
forcing him to make a public retraction of his claims following a
presentation he made at the Royal Society in the UK.[2]
The retraction was made because other researchers claimed to have found
samples from the lab that contained no traces of HIV, a claim that
later proved to be false because the samples did not
come from Africa, in fact, not a single sample or record appears to
have survived from the original Stanleyville laboratory or the Lindi
camp some 20 kilometers upriver from Stanleyville.
So unless
they've all been (conveniently) destroyed, there are records and
samples of the entire, sordid story kept somewhere, but I note that one
of the people at the Stanleyville lab said that “they were told not to
keep notes”, an unheard of practice in any scientific lab undertaking
experimental work. So what were they trying to hide?[3]
The other important factor here is why are live oral polio vaccines only used in developing countries?
“Officials say vaccine caused Nigeria polio 5 October, 2007
A polio outbreak in Nigeria was caused by the vaccine designed to stop
it, international health officials say, leaving at least 69 children
paralyzed. The outbreak was caused by the live polio virus that is used
in vaccines given orally, the preferred method in developing countries;
in the West, the polio vaccine is given as a shot and uses an
inactivated virus. The CDC and the World Health Organization announced
the cause of the polio outbreak last week, even though they knew about
it last year. Outbreaks caused by the oral vaccine's live virus have
happened before. The continuing Nigerian outbreak follows a nearly
yearlong boycott of the vaccine in Africa's most populous country
because of 'unfounded' fears the vaccine was a Western plot to
sterilize Muslims.”[4]
One reason is the lower cost of the oral vaccine and the other is the
lower cost of administering oral vaccines, this in spite of the fact
that as far back as 1960 it was known that live vaccines are inherently
dangerous as it’s impossible to produce a totally unadulterated live
serum, something Koprowski knew back in the 1950s after twenty
‘handicapped’ children in the US died after he had secretly tested a
live oral polio vaccine on them (how can this man sleep at night?).
It should be obvious by now that there is an awful lot at stake here,
hence the media’s focus on the Worobey ‘Haitian’ connection. The entire
Western medical establishment is on trial here and explains why the
rush to judgement in blaming a ‘lone Haitian’ as the source of AIDS in
the West.
If there is a conspiracy it’s one of silence with the entire Western
medical establishment closing ranks when threatened with exposure. The
other awful end result is the complete loss of trust in preventive
medicine especially where it’s needed most, in the developing world, as
the Nigerian example so tragically demonstrates.
Notes
1. The ‘cut hunter’ hypothesis (the one most widely accepted in the
West) suggests that an African hunter contracted the AIDS virus via a
cut (of course, it couldn’t have been a ‘white hunter’ could it?) which
got infected from the contaminated blood of a chimpanzee (not from a
monkey, as we know that the monkey version of SIV or the Simian Immune
Virus, cannot be transmitted to humans, lending even more credence to
Hooper’s investigation that led him to the Stanleyville laboratory and
the Lindi camp where the chimpanzees were kept and slaughtered). But if
this is the case, why has there been no occurrence of AIDS prior to
c.1960? Surely people in the Congo and elsewhere in Central Africa must
have been hunting monkeys and apes for perhaps thousands of years.
Furthermore, it doesn’t explain how a single infection mutated into
HIV-1, and how convenient that there is not single shred of evidence to
support the idea. It’s yet another ‘prove a negative’ supposition that
Western apologists for all manner of crimes hide behind.
3. For sources on this and other references in this essay, I refer you to this excellent video, probably the most succinct and comprehensive presentation of the facts so far produced.
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AIDS, truly the white man’s burden.
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