October 21, 2024
From AIDS to COVID, Part One
The AIDS Fraud
By: Nicky Broderick
By the late 1970’s, a new disease began to appear in the United States, primarily within the gay community in major metropolitan areas including San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. Men began showing up in clinics with a condition that usually affects older males: Kaposi’s sarcoma, or KS, which is a form of skin cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Cancer.org, ‘KS is considered an AIDS defining illness.’ AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
After the demise of the ‘war on cancer’ and the failure of the medical community to come up with a viral cause for cancer let alone a cure, AIDS came along at the right moment for the CDC. According to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his book ‘The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health’:
The CDC desperately needed a major disease or epidemic to justify its existence as there had been a precipitous decline in infectious diseases for many years. They were hoping for a new plague. Polio was over. There were memos going around the agency saying: “We need to find a new plague. We need to find something to scare the American people so they will give us more money.
There were two scientists who were at the forefront of this enterprise: Dr. Robert Gallo and Dr. Anthony Fauci. In fact, Dr. Gallo became Dr. Fauci’s partner, close working colleague and confidant. Dr. Fauci became the director of the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a sub agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1984, just as the AIDS epidemic became a crisis. For the next fifty years, Anthony Fauci would rule his agency and all NIH scientific research with an iron fist.
The probable cause of what came to be known as AIDS was discovered by a French team led by the eminent scientist, Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute in France in 1983. At that time, this mysterious disease was known as ‘gay-related immune deficiency’ or GRID. Montagnier and his team examined samples taken from patients and claimed to have found the virus that would later become known as HIV in a lymph node biopsy. They named it ‘lymphadenopathy-associated virus,’ or LAV, and published their findings in the journal Science on May 20, 1983. Based on this research, Robert Gallo at NIH, subsequently ‘proved’ with his own research that LAV was the probable cause of AIDS and renamed it HIV (human immunosuppressive virus).
Largely under pressure from Dr. Gallo, on April 23, 1984, Margaret Heckler, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, made the following announcement at a hastily convened conference:
“The probable cause of AIDS has been found. A variant of known human cancer virus”
The announcement was made before Dr. Gallo published any of his papers and before any other scientists had a chance to review them and comment. Furthermore, it was done right after Dr. Gallo had patented the HIV antibody test. After this announcement, it was made clear by Dr. Fauci that any
scientists interested in researching AIDS must adhere to the HIV/AIDS hypothesis as no other research at NIH would be tolerated and no grants would be issued for any other research.
A politically instigated pandemic of global proportions was officially launched. The following day the New York Times covered the story stating that the cause of AIDS had been discovered, omitting the word ‘probable.’
According to the fear campaign, AIDS was a highly infectious, sexually transmitted disease that could potentially affect everyone, including heterosexual couples, pregnant women and their unborn babies. It was estimated that upwards of ninety million people in the US alone would get AIDS by 1990. Everyone should get tested and if positive, prescribed antiretroviral drugs. By 1987, the drug azidothymidine (AZT), a failed chemotherapy drug considered too toxic to give to terminal cancer patients, was dusted off the shelves at CDC and given to symptomatic and asymptomatic people including pregnant women. The adverse effects of the drug mimicked AIDS symptoms perfectly with the exception of KS. Once patients were prescribed AZT they died within a few months and were counted as AIDS deaths. When hasty AZT trials were conducted by Dr. Fauci and his shop, the only way they could make it work was to give blood transfusions to the AZT cohort in order to keep them alive.
Reliable statistics of AIDS deaths are not available. AIDS activists estimated that half a million gay males died as a result of taking AZT between 1987 and 2000. Some celebrities got caught up in the net of AZT/HIV/AIDS including the Russian ballet dancer, Rudolph Nureyev and the tennis champion, Arthur Ashe. Both men were healthy but tested positive. Arthur Ashe said publicly that he felt the drugs were making him ill but continued to take them so as not to go against his doctor. They both tragically died within a few months of starting treatment.
SO, WHAT IS AIDS EXACTLY?
First of all, AIDS is not a disease, it’s a syndrome. It’s a collection of diseases. And those diseases get called AIDS if they occur in a patient that the doctor concludes is HIV positive based on the HIV antibody test. What first started out in the late 70’s to early 80’s with a couple of conditions such as KS and pneumonia among gay men living a dangerous lifestyle grew to some thirty diseases that were totally unrelated to one another so long as the patient tested positive for HIV. In fact, AIDS was defined as a breakdown of the immune system that was primarily clustered in a subset of the gay community in major cities in the US and Western Europe who practiced a highly dangerous lifestyle. This involved multiple partners, high use of street drugs, prescription antibiotics taken constantly, as well as very high use of a toxic stimulant known as ‘poppers’ (amyl nitrate inhalers). Amyl nitrate was sold under many brand names through gay newspapers and magazines, in nightclubs, bars and bath houses. This is a highly toxic drug that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma which attacks the nasal mucous membrane, lungs, lymph nodes and skin. The market for poppers was astounding – some $50 million a year. Ironically, it was manufactured by Burroughs Wellcome (now known as the Wellcome Trust and predecessor of GlaxoSmithKline plc), the same drug company that manufactured the first drug approved to treat HIV positive patients, AZT.
Next Week: The AIDS Fraud – Part 2: Fraudulent HIV Testing and AIDS in Africa
