Pandemic (69 page)

There was a long silence in the office. Simpson stared at Richter, then dropped his eyes to the six stapled pages lying on the desk in front of him. When he looked up again, he slowly shook his
head.

‘I really don’t think I can do that,’ he said. ‘I hear what you say, but on balance I think it’s probably better for everyone if we just forget about this and
preserve the status quo. In fact,’ he added, ‘I think it’s better if this document never sees the light of day – ever.’

Before Richter could react, Simpson dropped the pages into the mouth of the large document shredder beside his desk and pressed the button. There was a brief ripping sound, then just the whir of
the cutting blades. Simpson reached down again and pressed the switch: silence fell.

‘So that’s it, is it?’ Richter demanded. He hadn’t even attempted to move as Simpson destroyed the vital document.

‘Yes, I think so.’ Simpson stood up, rubbing his hands together. ‘Unless there’s anything else you want to add.’

Richter got up too, and pushed his chair back, then walked slowly across to the door. He reached out for the handle and then turned back to face Simpson. ‘Yes, I did quite a lot of
research on AIDS yesterday,’ he said, ‘but that wasn’t the only thing I was investigating.’

‘Oh?’ Simpson sounded profoundly disinterested. ‘What else were you looking at?’

Richter smiled slowly and glanced down at Simpson’s document shredder. ‘Colour photocopiers,’ he said. ‘It’s simply amazing what results you can get from colour
photocopiers these days.’

‘The amount of American philanthropy aimed at AIDS is unparalleled and the US funds nearly 30% of the Global Fund’s $4.8 billion budget. President Bush recently
pledged $15 billion to fight HIV/AIDS over the next five years.’

Though what you’ve just read is a novel, with all the usual disclaimers about people living and dead, the above quotation is genuine, as is the analysis which
follows.

AIDS: An analysis

I have had to take one slight liberty in writing this novel: I have no idea how the human body would react if exposed to an unadulterated ‘mother strain’ of
the AIDS virus, or even if such a thing exists. The physical effects I’ve described in this book are violent and dramatic, but are by no means unreal. Victims of infection by either a
filovirus (Ebola and Marburg) or an arenavirus (Lassa) would suffer very much the same symptoms as those I’ve described. The only difference would be the timescale, with Ebola Zaïre
killing its victims the quickest, usually in about a week to ten days.

As I’ve said, this book is a novel, but what follows here is fact, not fiction. It should frighten you – it terrifies me.

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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Action followed in 1972 when medical teams were sent into Central Africa – into an area that subsequently became known as the ‘AIDS Belt’ – and administered what was
described as a smallpox vaccination to several thousand Africans.
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This event was followed some time later by the first outbreak of AIDS on the
planet.

Earlier, I mentioned the significance of the dates of the American infections. In 1978 a medical programme administered Hepatitis B Vaccine to thousands of male homosexuals living in New York;
nineteen months into the AIDS pandemic, five hundred and one of the dead were from New York. In 1980 a similar programme was run in San Francisco, with almost precisely the same results. In both
cases, the only common factor in the spread of the disease was that all the victims had either received the hepatitis vaccine or were closely associated with someone who had.
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But everybody knows that AIDS is essentially a venereal disease, transmitted primarily by male homosexuals. Isn’t it? No, it isn’t. At least, not according to the British Royal
Society of Medicine, which has stated that AIDS meets none of the criteria of a venereal disease and has suggested that, despite the misrepresentations of the American medical establishment and the
American Government, AIDS is not primarily a sexually transmitted disease.
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Semen is just about the least effective transmission medium for AIDS, and the virus is only present in microscopically small numbers in the semen of an infected person. Furthermore, condoms are
useless in preventing the spread of AIDS, because the virus is less than half the size of the smallest sub-microscopic holes that are found in every condom.
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But don’t take my word for it. As part of the evidence that was submitted in a memorandum to the British Parliament’s House of Commons Social Services Committee in 1987, Dr John
Seale of the Royal Society of Medicine stated: ‘As far as it goes, the tiny research effort into infectivity of bodily fluids indicates that saliva is far more infectious than genital
secretions, but that blood is vastly more infectious than either. Consequently, the idea that [the use of] condoms can have any significant effect on the spread of AIDS in a nation is utterly
preposterous’.
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And: ‘Governments all over the world are spending millions of pounds, advising their citizens to prevent AIDS by using condoms on the basis of manifestly fraudulent misrepresentation of
scientific evidence’.
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A better description of AIDS is just that it’s a transmissible disease, and contracting AIDS does not directly depend on your sexual orientation. That said, most research suggests that
male homosexuals are primarily responsible for the spread of the disease in Western society but not, in the main, through exchange of semen or saliva. The principal transmission method appears to
be through the bleeding that can accompany certain types of homosexual activity.

The best method of contracting AIDS is through an injection. Or you can become infected by means of a blood transfusion, or through a cut on your hand. Or from somebody who has the disease
sneezing near you. Some mosquitoes in America are believed to carry the virus.

So what is AIDS? All the independent evidence suggests that it’s a manufactured plague. What the AIDS virus resembles more than anything else is a bonding of Bovine Lymphotrophic or
Leukaemia virus (BLV) – a virus that targets lymph cells in cattle and is known to cause cancer – and the sheep Visna virus. The only possible way these two different types of virus,
which infect completely different species of animal, could bond together would be by someone engineering it in a laboratory, and then further engineering it, possibly by combining it with the human
herpes virus, to allow it to make the jump into a human system.

And all the indications are that that is precisely what was done. What is not clear is whether the release of this virus into the population was an act of deliberate genocide or simply the
result of shoddy laboratory technique. The medical profession, after all, has a long and less than illustrious history of contaminated vaccinations. Probably the most notable of these was the
administration in 1955 of improperly inactivated Salk polio vaccine prepared by the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California. Almost eighty children contracted polio, and passed the disease on
to a further one hundred and twenty relatives and friends. Eleven died and three-quarters of the victims were paralysed.

In a chilling foretaste of the media censorship surrounding the AIDS pandemic – of which more later – Bernice Eddy, the doctor who blew the whistle about the Cutter vaccine, was
forced out of her laboratory and out of work for daring to suggest the unthinkable.
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