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PatriotWarrior
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« on: February 27, 2005, 04:39:24 PM »

By David Comissiong:

I wish somebody would do me a favour and explain to John Goddard, Jack Leacock, Peter Morgan, the U.S. Embassy, Philip Goddard, David Thompson, Andrew Hatch, Richard Hoad, Tom Fields, Denzil Agard, Sleepy Smith, and the other over-zealous "guard dogs" of the local and international status quo, that none of them is capable of intimidating me or the Clement Payne Movement.

You see, the Clement Payne Movement goes back a long way. We have been in existence for 14 long years and have never flinched from fearlessly "speaking truth to power". And we don't intend to start now!

I have a specific three-year contract with the Government of Barbados to carry out a particular function as Director of the Commission For Pan-African Affairs. This contractual relationship does not prohibit me from functioning as an attorney-at-law, nor as President of the Clement Payne Movement, nor as a citizen of Barbados!

Now, if Philip Goddard, the U.S. Embassy and the Pan-American Health Organization choose to believe the racist myth that the AIDS virus was developed naturally by a chimpanzee in the "deep, black primitive jungles" of the Congo in "darkest Africa", that is their right. They are also entitled to believe that the moon is made of green cheese and that the earth is flat!

I, however, like thousands of medical specialists and AIDS activists all over the world, am more persuaded by the theory that HIV is a man-made virus that was created in a laboratory.

One of the more prominent exponents of this theory is Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a medical specialist with a master's degree in Public Health from Harvard University.

In his 1996 book "Emerging Viruses - AIDS & Ebola", Dr. Horowitz reveals that in the 1960s, a team of U.S. scientists was employed, with U.S. government funding, to develop new infectious agents for which the immune system would have no defence.

According to Horowitz, the funding for the project included a portion of the 1970 budget of the U.S. Department of Defense.

One of the team members was Dr. Robert Gallo, who shares credit for the "discovery" of the AIDS virus with Dr. Luc Montagnier. Much of Gallo's work was done as part of a semi-secret Special Virus Cancer Program, under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute.

The National Cancer Institute's vast Cancer Research Facility in Maryland, (which had formerly been the Fort Detrick Biological Warfare Facility), was managed by Litton Bionethics, one of the U.S. Government's major biological weapons contractors.

The year 1969-70, and Maryland, U.S.A. are a key date and location in the search for the origin of the AIDS virus. According to William Blum in his book "Rogue State", on June 9, 1969, Dr. Donald M. MacArthur, Deputy Director, Research and Engineering, U.S. Department of Defense, testified before the U.S. Congress as follows:-

"Within the next 5 to 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro-organism which would differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organism. Most important of these is that it might be refractory (resistant) to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease".

All of this has to be seen against the background of a long, sordid record of U.S. Government involvement in chemical and biological warfare and experimentation.

Let me give one example which is detailed in the book "Bad Blood" by James H. Jones.

In 1932, the U.S Government's Public Health Service initiated a study to determine the long term effects of untreated syphilis on human beings.

They selected the poor, black, male population of Tuskegee, Alabama as their human guinea-pigs, and deliberately subjected hundreds of syphilitic black men to decades of non-treatment for this deadly venereal disease. They carried out their syphilis experimentation on these black people for 40 uninterrupted years, thereby inflecting disease, madness and death not only on these men, but on their wives, children, and sexual partners.

For years the U.S Government denied the very existence of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, which lasted until the year 1972.

Indeed, it was only many years after, during the Clinton Administration, that an official acknowledgement of guilt, and a Presidential apology was tendered.

I now look forward to the further response of all the "guard dogs" on this matter.

(David Comissiong is President of the Clement Payne Movement)

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This article on HIV/AIDS was written by David Comissiong, President of the Clement Payne Movement, at the time he was Director of the Barbados Government Commission For Pan-African Affairs. David was responding to the U.S. Embassy and members of the Descendants of the Planter Class that enslaved Afrikans in Barbados and elsewhere. This article was printed in the Nation Newspaper in Barbados.

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Oshun_Auset
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« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2005, 11:56:29 AM »

Looks like there is another "experiment" going on...


New Virus May Have Come from Monkeys, Experts Say


By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two new retroviruses never before seen in humans have turned up among people who regularly hunt monkeys in Cameroon, researchers reported on Friday.


Like the AIDS (news - web sites) virus, these viruses insert their genetic material directly into cells and perhaps even into a person's or animal's chromosomes. Closely related versions of the viruses cause leukemia, inflammatory and neurological diseases.


The two new viruses are called human T-lymphotropic virus types 3 and 4 or HTLV-3 and HTLV-4. They are closely related to two known viruses called HTLV-1 and HTLV-2, which experts believe were transmitted to people, like HIV (news - web sites), from monkeys and apes.


"Because HIV originated as a cross-species infection from a non-human primate virus, the question was how much cross-species retrovirus infections are occurring and what are the consequences of these infections," said Walid Hemeine of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites), who led the study.


They examined blood samples from 930 Cameroonians who had handled or eaten bush meat -- monkeys or apes hunted for food.


They used antibody screening and genetic analysis to find at least six different simian retroviruses had infected 13 of the people.


"Two hunters were infected with two previously unknown HTLV viruses. One person was infected with HTLV-3, which is genetically similar to a simian virus, STLV-3, and represents the first documented human infection with this virus," the researchers told the 12th Annual Retrovirus Conference being held in Boston.


"The second hunter was infected with HTLV-4, a virus distinct from all previously known human or simian T-lymphotropic viruses."


"It's totally new so we don't know any other simian virus that is related to it," Hemeine said in a telephone interview.


Now the team, which includes researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, plans to look more extensively in Central Africa for the virus, Hemeine said. "They could be more widespread than we think they are," he said.


Hemeine said up to 25 million people globally are infected with HTLV-1 and 2.


Currently, specialized tests are needed to find the viruses, he said.


"It's a new virus. You pause, you say, where is this virus coming from. I don't think you should be taking it lightly," Hemeine said.


After infecting one person, simian viruses often spread from person to person through sex, mother-to-child transmission, and other exchanges of blood and body fluids.


Like HIV, the incubation period for HTLV viruses to cause disease can last decades, the CDC said.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=7746293
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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2005, 06:17:58 PM »

I have a 3 hour tape of the making of the virus HIV. The laboratory which the disease was created is still in kongo in bandundu. The scientists experimented with chimpanzees for over 2 years perfecting the disease. Then they administered it to the local children and babies, they where telling the people that it was the vaccination for polio. It a real funny tape, it shows how ignorant people can be? The people who created the disease claimed it was a mistake, but they showed no remorse or sympathy.
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« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2005, 02:51:18 PM »

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks

March 4, 2005

Posted to the web March 4, 2005


Addis Ababa

More than 80 million people living in Africa could die from AIDS by 2025 unless concerted actions are taken that could save some of these lives, a new report by UNAIDS said on Friday.

Entitled "AIDS in Africa: Three scenarios to 2025" [pdf; 5.5Mbytes], the report paints a bleak picture of the impact of HIV on the continent. It gives a detailed glimpse into the epidemic over a 20-year period and outlines three different scenarios.

According to the report, the worst of the epidemic is still to come. It says there is no magic bullet solution and there is a danger of AIDS fatigue, meaning the momentum to fight the epidemic could wane. Women, it adds, were increasingly bearing the brunt of the epidemic.

"There is no single policy prescription that will change the outcome of the epidemic," the report, due to be launched in Addis Ababa on Friday by UNAIDS head Peter Piot, states. "The death toll will continue to rise no matter what is done.

"Above all, these scenarios tell us that while on the one hand, any action is already too late for the millions who have died from AIDS, on the other hand, there is still time to change the future for many, many millions more," it adds.

Even with massive funding and better treatment the number of people in Africa who are going to die from AIDS is likely to top 67 million in the near future, the report said.

UNAIDS estimates that nearly US $200 billion is needed to save 16 million people from death and 43 million people from becoming infected. It did, however, stress that the lessons of the past 20 years were crucial for curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS over the next 20, saying major inroads could be made if the will was there.

"What we do today will change the future," urges the report, drawn up by leading experts and people living with HIV. "These scenarios demonstrate that, while societies will have to deal with AIDS for some time to come, the extent of the epidemic's impact will depend on the responses and investment now."

It added: "If by 2025 millions of African people are still becoming infected with HIV each year, these scenarios suggest that it will not be because there was no choice. It will be because, collectively, there was insufficient political will to change behaviour at all levels from the institution, to the community, to the individual and halt the forces driving the AIDS epidemic in Africa."

UNAIDS pointed out five "critical and uncertain forces", which it said were driving HIV/AIDS in Africa. First was the disintegration of society and community. Second were the beliefs about how HIV is spread and how it can be prevented. Next, mobilising resources - not just funding but increased coordination, using new knowledge about the virus and its spread. Finally, UNAIDS listed the importance of power in society and whether it is centralised or shared, and the importance of gender and age.

At the moment, UNAIDS added, 25 million people were infected and life expectancy in nine African countries has dropped below 40. There were 11 million orphans, while 6,500 people were dying each day. In 2004, some 3.1 million people were newly infected.

The three scenarios spell out a best-case situation, a mid-case and a current-case scenario drawn out over two decades.

The first scenario involves a substantial and sustained increase in funding to $195 billion. According to UNAIDS, under this plan, trade rules will improve, aid flows will double and HIV/AIDS specific funding increasing nine percent year on year - with spending reaching $10 billion per year by 2014.

By 2019, spending can begin to decline as the number of people living with HIV/AIDS begins, for the first time since the emergence of the virus in the 1980s, to fall.

The second scenario sees African leaders take a stand, where HIV/AIDS is tackled as part of a medium- and long-term strategy, regardless of fluctuating aid or economic growth. UNAIDS estimated that under this scenario, 75 million people will have died from AIDS by 2025, while 65 million will be infected. Some $98 billion under this situation would help avert 24 million new infections.

Under the worst-case scenario, experts have plotted current anti-HIV/AIDS policies and funding over the next two decades and conclude that the epidemic will still present a "clear and present danger". They see a future where poverty further depletes capacity to fight AIDS, leaders go for quick results to meet quotas rather than long term change, divisions and stigma in society, and aid dependency and Africa failing to benefit from trade rounds or foreign investment exacerbate the crisis.

The death toll - equal to one in ten of Africa's current population - will leap fourfold, while infections could soar from the current 25 million, UNAIDS added. It estimates there will be 83 million cumulative deaths, 89 million infections, and the cost of fighting HIV/AIDS will be around $70 billion.

SOURCE: http://allafrica.com/stories/200503040043.html


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