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Old AIDS case challenges chimpanzee link

News/Current Events News Keywords: AIDS
Source: Reuters
Published: August 12, 1999
Posted on 08/13/1999 07:07:23 PDT by cholerajoe

SYDNEY, Reuters [WS]: Tissue taken from the frozen body of a teenage male prostitute who died 30 years ago in a St Louis hospital has challenged the theory that HIV came from apes, a U.S. scientist said on Thursday.

Robert Garry, professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane University, said his findings -- presented to an international virology conference in Sydney this week -- suggested the virus mutated for hundreds of years before becoming a pandemic. ``Current thinking is that the virus came from chimps 50 to 60 years ago,'' Garry told Reuters. ``This evidence shows strains of the virus began mutating in humans a long time before that.''

In 1968, a 15-year-old black male was admitted to St Louis City hospital with mysterious symptoms, later diagnosed as Kaposi sarcoma, a cancer now associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Doctors froze tissue samples from the boy that showed evidence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), making it the earliest case identified in the United States and showing the virus existed there a decade earlier than previously thought. Garry said the virus identified in the boy's tissue suggested that HIV had mutated less quickly than previously thought. He said the findings did not necessarily rule out that the virus had jumped species from the chimpanzee, but that theory was now challenged.

``It might knock on the head some of the most racist notions of what causes HIV,'' added Robin Gorna, executive director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations. ``It seems to be an interesting part of the jigsaw,'' Gorna told Reuters. But she added: ``How critical it is in the discovery of a vaccine or cure is questionable.''

[Copyright 1999, Reuters]


Things do get curiouser, don't they?

1 Posted on 08/13/1999 07:07:23 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

Bump

2 Posted on 08/13/1999 07:23:53 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

And your point is?

3 Posted on 08/13/1999 07:28:35 PDT by harrowup
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To: harrowup

My point would be that everyone has blamed the entry of HIV into this country on an airline employee who allegedly brought the infection from Africa in the late 70's. The discovery of HIV in the US nearly a decade earlier, raises some significant questions:

Where and when did the virus really enter the US?

Can a link to the simian virus truly be proven?

The Australian researcher alluded to "racist" theories of AIDS' origin. Can those now be challenged?

4 Posted on 08/13/1999 07:51:28 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

That is not accurate. There was wide spread clinical recognition even as early as 1979 that previous elements of the virus had been isolated, particularly one scientist who died in the Netherlands after an assignment in Africa. While ...And the Band Played On gives a reasonably accurate portrait of the disease progression, the author was not perfect, nor was he necessarily as objective as one might wish.

I am unaware of the "racist" assertion regarding the disease.

5 Posted on 08/13/1999 08:21:26 PDT by harrowup
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To: harrowup

I am unaware of the "racist" assertion regarding the disease.

Me, too. Anybody know what she was talking about?

From a clinical standpoint, this probably is the earliest documented case in the US. Wonder how many other frozen enigmas are still around?

6 Posted on 08/13/1999 08:28:27 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

She might be implying the "racist notions" are the disease was brought into the U.S. from Africa.

7 Posted on 08/13/1999 08:35:28 PDT by metalbird1
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To: cholerajoe

Wasn't there evidence of a British merchant seaman having HIV back in the 50s?

8 Posted on 08/13/1999 08:36:00 PDT by Junior
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To: metalbird1

I think she was implying a racist connection.. It sure gets muddy..

Yesterday I heard an Arayan Nation theory that blew me completely out of the water. They evidently teach that Eve's sin was her relations with the snake (Satan) that produced Cain (a Negro). I'm still dumbfounded!

9 Posted on 08/13/1999 08:48:14 PDT by astonished
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To: astonished

I'm still dumbfounded!

And all this time I thought you were astonished.

You never know what sort of wild story the white supremacists will come up with to justify their hatred.

10 Posted on 08/13/1999 08:53:03 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

``It might knock on the head some of the most racist notions of what causes HIV,'' added Robin Gorna, executive director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.

Liberals don't fully understand the consequences of their degradation of language and words. They apply such words as "racist" for their stigmatizing effect anywhere they desire. But then, as here, they use the word and expect us to know what they're talking about. Gorna could mean anything at all that he's ever disliked.

11 Posted on 08/13/1999 09:03:18 PDT by VadeRetro
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To: cholerajoe

You never know what sort of wild story the white supremacists will come up with to justify their hatred.

You never know what sort of wild story that kooks (whether white, black, brown, yellow, or little green martians) will come up with to justify their hatred.

12 Posted on 08/13/1999 09:06:55 PDT by Frumious Bandersnatch
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To: Frumious Bandersnatch

You never know what sort of wild story that kooks (whether white, black, brown, yellow, or little green martians) will come up with to justify their hatred.

Well said.

13 Posted on 08/13/1999 09:11:07 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: Junior

I think I've read about the case you're describing. Two British doctors had a patient who fit the AIDS symptoms perfectly back in the '50s. The problem may be--I don't remember--that there are no tissue samples preserved.

14 Posted on 08/13/1999 09:12:52 PDT by VadeRetro
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To: cholerajoe

LOL.. that too! Maybe I should changed my screen name.

I was stumped all day yesterday over the term "Christian Identity Group"...Uhhh, what's that again?

Did you notice the camera shots of the Arayan Nation HQ in Idaho or Illinois or wherever? They were flying the Confederate Stars and Bars. Geez.

Thanks for the Aids post. Every little piece in the puzzle is exciting news... even with the stupid racist slur.

15 Posted on 08/13/1999 10:05:55 PDT by astonished
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To: cholerajoe

In 1968, a 15-year-old black male was admitted to St Louis City hospital with mysterious symptoms, later diagnosed as Kaposi sarcoma, a cancer now associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

I would be curious as to whether or not this boy came into contact with anyone from that Greewich Village Hepatitis B vaccine experiment run by Schmuness(sp?) in the mid '60's?

It seems like all the early cases of Aids presented with Kaposi; while now, the first symptoms are pnuemonia.

In that book the Band Played On, there was a fellow who went to a psychic (this was in the early days before the disease was identified) and she said that he had toxoplasmosis, which was a disease of cats...Do you believe this disease was manufactured from other strains, which is my theory?

It is so nice to have a doctor on the Internet.

16 Posted on 08/13/1999 11:40:36 PDT by rubbertramp
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To: rubbertramp

Do you believe this disease was manufactured from other strains, which is my theory?

I doubt AIDS is due to a manufactured virus. Nobody has been able to perfect that (yet). It could be highly evolved, though.

Interesting that you mention the early cases presenting with Kaposi's Sarcoma. That was such a rare malignancy that it got a lot of attention. I suspect there was still a lot of Pneumocystis pneumonia but it wasn't recognized.

The big combo these days is drug-resistant TB and HIV. Fortunately, we have fairly effective drugs to treat HIV these days. I have a couple of patients who were at death's door a few years ago and are fully functional now.

It's nice to have a doctor on the Internet

Glad you think so.

17 Posted on 08/13/1999 11:59:52 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

Dang, this is old news! I read about it years ago at least. I wonder why the emphasis now.

18 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:15:22 PDT by aruanan
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To: cholerajoe

Let's face it, AIDS 'scientists' just make it up as they go along, and always have. Wonder if anyone has done a retrospective analysis of blood samples from say, 1960, to see if the incidence of HIV in the population has changed at all in the last forty years.

19 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:27:03 PDT by Clinton's a rapist
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To: cholerajoe metalbird1 ALL

I urge you to read through Wallaby's article on Theory on the Origin of AIDS

I'll be heading over to hospital to talk to the doctor and drop some of the Bloodword off for his review.


20 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:32:19 PDT by askel5
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To: Wallaby Budge T'wit BigM Prince Charles BLOODHOUNDS

Heads up.

21 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:33:27 PDT by askel5
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To: aruanan

Why indeed?

22 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:33:46 PDT by askel5
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To: Clinton's a rapist

Please read Wallaby's article. Lots of journalese in there but some seriously stunning cites. The Who What Where has GOT to be updated (ASKEL!!!) but has more than enough information in it at present to sate you.

23 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:35:15 PDT by askel5
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To: harrowup

He does do a good job of reporting the self-serving (and ultimately fatal) reactions of the PR conscious gay lobby and desperate for Factor VIII hemophiliacs that precluded profiling ... the one thing EVERYONE could agree on by November '82, however, was that Prison Blood Plasma was OUT.

Canada had ceased its use in 1971. The American Red Cross followed suit shortly after the CDC conference. Why then did Bruce Babbitt, Bill Clinton, Edwin Edwards and others farm their prison populations through the 80's. Arkansas and Louisiana didn't stop until 1994!!!

This table needs corrections -- particularliy Louisiana (should be Treen, Romer and Edwards, I think) but it gives you some idea.

States that Collected Prison Plasma When Tainted Blood was Exported



State Known Dates of Prison Plasma ProgramPlasma CompanyPrison(s) Governor(s)Term(s)of Office
Arizona
1966 - 87
Cutter Biological Arizona State Prison, Florence Bruce Edward Babbitt (D) 1978 - 86
Arkansas
1963 - 94
Pine Bluff Biologicals

Health Management Associates
Cummins State Prison, Grady William Jefferson Clinton (D)

Frank D. White (R)
1979 - 81; 1983 - 93

1981 - 83
Florida
1979 - 83
Southern Biotech Union Correctional Institution at Raiford

Avon Park Correctional Institution
D. Robert "Bob" Graham (D) 1978 - 86
Idaho
1985


John Victor Evans (D) 1977 - 86
Iowa
1985

Anamosa

Mount Pleasant
Terry E. Branstad (R) 1983 - 99
Louisiana
? - 1994
Sara Inc. (? - 1981)

Louisiana Biologicals (1981 - 1994)
Angola State Prison

Hunt Correctional Institute

East Baton Rouge Parish Prison
D. Robert "Bob" Graham (D) 1978 - 86
Missouri
1985


John David Ashcroft (R) 1985 - 92
Nevada
1985


Richard H. Bryan (D)1983 - 89
Tennessee
1985


Andrew Lamar Alexander (R) 1979 - 87


24 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:38:54 PDT by askel5
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To: Clinton's a rapist

You do the good guys a diservice...

25 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:41:15 PDT by astonished
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To: askel5

Relations among the FDA, CDC and Boards of the Blood Brokers have always been quite cozy. You'll note the (R)'s on the table as well as the (D)'s. Evidently Liddie Dole's too busy memorizing briefing books and weeping over Bob's Albanians to even mention the fact that this TRAVESTY is the PRIMARY reason we taxpayers will be footing the bill for liver transplants and Hep-C, AIDS treatments in our prisons ...

AND IN OUR OWN FAMILIES. Have you not noticed the continual pleas for volunteer donations of blood? Do you not notice the federal management of livers and other organs going on right now? That stench is the smell of tainted blood that's infected the world (and us ... ) and is moving upriver slowly but surely.

26 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:41:44 PDT by askel5
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To: cholerajoe

The Australian researcher alluded to "racist" theories of AIDS' origin. Can those now be challenged?

Is he possibly referring to the allegations of a CIA experiment gone awray in Africa to develop a biological warfare agent?

27 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:45:13 PDT by houlihan
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To: astonished

There are good guys out there ... one is Thomas Drees who headed up Alpha Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Japan's GREEN CROSS which was founded by esteemed NIH member and former bio-weopons experimenter at a little bit of Hell on Earth they called "Unit 731" in China during WWII. Dr. Naito liked to use the "murata" or logs that were Chinese and some Americans for his experiments which included LIVE VIVISECTION.

Drees is testifying in Japan right now in the hopes that innocent Japanese sentenced to death by tainted blood will have some reparation from GREEN CROSS who purposefully imported blood until they could come up with their own successful heat treatments for cleansing same.

These are some really evil men.

The Blood Trail is the lynchpin, my friends, to exposing not only the cross-bred corruption among parties, the complicity of the media but ALSO to enjoining AIDS victims, GAYS, women, the gamut of semi-socilist pawns to OUR SIDE. Wouldn't hurt to remind folks of the fact that EVIL and EVIL men still do exists and still do nonchanlantly make a buck on your death and suffering.

28 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:47:00 PDT by askel5
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To: rubbertramp ForceTen memphisbelle mommadoo

Have you read Wallaby's piece ... you are one of the few who can "get" most of the background documentation without a medical dictionary.

Heads up to the rest of you guys as well.

29 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:48:35 PDT by askel5
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To: askel5

OK_ bump for your good argument. If I knew how to make a smiley, I would.....

Freegards,

30 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:51:34 PDT by astonished
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To: VadeRetro

In the Who What Where is the story of a octegenarian Japanese who wanted to come here for a Symposium on Human Rights a few years ago. He was summarily stopped by Customs at Chicago. Turns out his name (and the few dozen other survivors of Unit 731, Mukden, et al.) had been added by RENO'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT to "watch lists" issues in 1995 and '96 I think.

Odd, isn't it? But old Dr. Naito and Dr. Kitano were esteemed members of the NIH who traveled freely in and out of the U.S. as they established their million-dollar complex in LA for GREEN CROSS and oversaw the brokering of tainted blood product through Alpha.

Yeah, this poor bastard was sorry and wanted to talk about it. Wanted everyone to know that the Japanese there believed they were superior. That the "Murata" or "logs" on which they experimented, which they froze alive and sawed apart, infected with bio-toxins and vivisected live ... they were subhuman.

THAT'S RACIST ... THAT'S THE TRUTH ... but it's not going to get out without your help.

31 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:52:48 PDT by askel5
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To: astonished

=) Hey astonished ... trust all is well.

32 Posted on 08/13/1999 18:54:15 PDT by askel5
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To: askel5

Don't you find it odd, since the articles that you cite make much of the prevalence of Kaposi's sarcoma in Africa, that no transfusion AIDS victim has ever died of that disease? For another view, check out The AIDS dilemna: drug diseases blamed on a passenger virus, Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick, Genetica, volume 104, issue 2, 1998 (pp. 85-132).

33 Posted on 08/13/1999 19:09:23 PDT by Clinton's a rapist
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To: Clinton's a rapist

> that no transfusion AIDS victim has ever died of that disease?

Of Kaposi's? Please be clearer. A great number of transfusion AIDS victims have died of something.

34 Posted on 08/13/1999 19:51:19 PDT by Mwaaa
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To: Mwaaa

Of Kaposi's, yes, exactly. See Duesberg and Rasnik's article for more details.

35 Posted on 08/13/1999 19:54:58 PDT by Clinton's a rapist
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To: askel5

A bump and a drip!

I hope you enjoy the Alberta Report story "The Arkansas Connection"

36 Posted on 08/13/1999 21:54:42 PDT by BigM
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To: Frumious Bandersnatch

Has anybody seen my dog?!

37 Posted on 08/13/1999 22:01:22 PDT by JFKJR
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To: askel5

"That the "Murata" or "logs" on which they experimented, which they froze alive and sawed apart, infected with bio-toxins and vivisected live ... they were subhuman."

That's "MARUTA." Murata is a common surname. Kanji graphics available if you really need me to go through all that.

Otherwise a good post.

White man askel5 speak truth.

38 Posted on 08/13/1999 22:11:33 PDT by dsc
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To: askel5, Wallaby, Concerned Others: More on origins of AIDS.

I received the following e-mail 7-23-99:

Quote: "My name is Boyd Graves and I have AIDS. Last September I filed suit against the U.S. for the 'creation, production and proliferation of the AIDS virus.' I submitted to the U.S. federal court, page 129 of U.S. House Bill 15090. It is the U.S. Pentagon's incriminating testimony about creating a new virus (July 1, 1969)."

"NOW we have the 'progress reports' of a hidden federal program entitled 'Special Virus'. The 'Special Virus' program began in 1962 [according to the progress reports]. The program inoculated monkeys with human viruses and then released them into the wilds of Africa. The U.S. owns a primate colony in Uganda. In progress report #8 (1971) we have discovered a paper by Dr. Robert Gallo that is identical to his 1984 announcement of the co-discovery of AIDS. I have been called by the Pentagon and the Center for Disease Control out of Atlanta."

"However nothing compares to the incriminating testimony the Pentagon gave on June 9, 1969. On June 9, 1969 the Pentagon admits that it was doing research on an offensive biological agent that would lead to 'world-wide scourge and black-death type plague in certain geographical areas of the world.'"

"The major press in the U.S. refuses to view the Pentagon testimony or the progress reports of this 'hidden' federal program. Even the U.S. federal court set aside the direct evidence and ruled this to be 'frivolous.'"

"The world needs to view this testimony from June and July 1969, and the progress reports of the U.S.'s 'Special Virus' program. These are the 'missing links' in that they provide the data, experiments and contracts that concocted the HIV enzyme."

"This evidence is SELF-EVIDENT. It is their work."

"The people of the world need for this information to come out. The progress reports are absolutely extraordinary and astonishing in proving the culpability of the United States of America." Signed: Boyd Graves, Director--AIDS Concerns, Common Cause Foundation. E-mail: bgra365527@aol.com. Tel: 216-397-0801. Address: 1008 Elbon Rd., Cleveland, OH 44121-1429

39 Posted on 08/13/1999 22:15:29 PDT by metalbird1
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To: cholerajoe

"I have a couple of patients who were at death's door a few years ago and are fully functional now."

I've heard those drugs are expensive. What are they doing about the indigent?

40 Posted on 08/13/1999 22:17:04 PDT by dsc
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To: dsc

I've heard those drugs are expensive. What are they doing about the indigent?

They're hideously expensive. Uninsured and indigent patients have access to the drugs through M'caid or through several indigent drug programs. Don't know too much about the latter, the Social Workers handle it.

41 Posted on 08/14/1999 04:09:41 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

Are we now allowed to finally quash the theory that the CIA developed this virus, was experimenting with it in Africa and it got away from them? And if so...who gets to tell Rep. Maxine Waters, the Rev. Al Sharpton etc. and the rest of the race hustlers?

42 Posted on 08/14/1999 04:29:28 PDT by Jimmy Valentine
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To: Clinton's a rapist, Mwaaa

Here's the party line on KS and HIV

From: Sande and Volberding: Medical Management of AIDS, 5th ed., Copyright 1997 W. B. Saunders Company

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), once a rarely reported malignancy, is the most common neoplasm affecting HIV-infected individuals. It is seen primarily in homosexual men and has only rarely been reported in IV drug users or other risk groups. [109] [142] The proportion of AIDS patients with KS as the initial AIDS diagnosis has changed since the first cases were reported in 1981. [22] In New York City, KS was the initial AIDS diagnosis in 50% of non-IV-drug-using homosexual men diagnosed between 1981 and 1983. Between 1984 and 1987, however, this proportion had fallen to 30%. Similar trends have been reported from San Francisco. [141] However, in a study of infectious diseases and cancers among persons dying of HIV infection, national multiple-cause mortality data showed no significant trend in the prevalence of KS between 1987 (10.4%) and 1992 (12.1%).

The pathogenesis of KS in HIV-infected patients remains uncertain. The decline in the incidence of KS in the homosexual male population during a period of time when sexual practices were changing and the nearly exclusive confinement of this neoplasm to the homosexual male population support the concept of another sexually transmitted agent's being involved in the pathogenesis of KS.

Although KS is usually not a direct cause of death in HIV-infected patients, the morbidity associated with more advanced disease can be significant.

Treatment

Because most patients do not die as a direct result of KS, it would seem unlikely that therapy directed toward this neoplasm would have a significant impact on survival. Although the data are retrospective, a review of 194 cases of KS by Volberding et al [171] suggests that this is, in fact, the case. There was no significant difference in survival time between the group of patients treated with chemotherapy (or alpha-interferon) and those who received no treatment.

Truth is KS usually doesn't cause death. But CAR's right. Most cases of KS occur in gay males not transfusion related patients. Don't know if I'd go so far as to say it NEVER occurs though.

43 Posted on 08/14/1999 04:42:18 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Are we now allowed to finally quash the theory that the CIA developed this virus, was experimenting with it in Africa and it got away from them?

Don't know if I should go there. As some posters in the conspiracy threads say - My clearance doesn't go that high.

44 Posted on 08/14/1999 04:47:05 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: metalbird1

Foil hat on but mind open.

Can you help me understand why HIV would be an effective biologic warfare agent since even in the untreated state it takes months to years to incapcitate and kill? There are plenty of bacterial and viral agents already in nature that incapcitate and kill in hours to days.

To name a few: Anthrax, Botulism, Cholera (my personal favorite for obvious reasons), Dengue, Ebola...Plague, Typhoid.

Biologic agents must quickly incapacitate the enemy's troops or civilian population and overwhelm his medical infrastructure in order to be effective

OTOH HIV could have been developed not as a warfare agent but as a genocide agent.

But my clearance doesn't go that high..

45 Posted on 08/14/1999 05:15:18 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: metalbird1

Well, I guess there's a little anachronism with Boyd's dates for the inception of the program and tissue samples from 4 years previous to that in an I-am-my-own-grandpa sort of way.

46 Posted on 08/14/1999 05:25:45 PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

Actually, though the article at the head of this thread says 1968, the story I read several years ago gave the year as 1958.

47 Posted on 08/14/1999 05:27:29 PDT by aruanan
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To: cholerajoe

This was in 1968. I believe I read some years ago about a homosexual British sailor who died in the 1950's of something that now sounds, from the symptoms, like AIDS. If my recollection is correct, not only did that sailor spend time in Africa, but later analysis of his remains showed the presence of the HIV virus. Does anybody else remember this?

48 Posted on 08/14/1999 05:37:42 PDT by aristeides (demosthenes@olg.com)
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To: aristeides

I just ran a search of the world's AIDS literature using the keyword "british seaman/sailor" and got no hits. Several other posters mentioned the same type of case. If anyone can find a link, I'll appreciate it.

However, I did find an article that showed a marked increase in Kaposi's Sarcoma in Israel starting in the mid-sixties. One wonders if this steep rise was due to HIV infection that wasn't recognized?

If the 15 year old boy mentioned in the top article died in 1968, he had to have been infected several years earlier say 1965. Where did he get it? St. Louis is not exactly an international crossraods, although TWA is headquartered there.

49 Posted on 08/14/1999 06:14:27 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

"They're hideously expensive. Uninsured and indigent patients have access to the drugs through M'caid or through several indigent drug programs. Don't know too much about the latter, the Social Workers handle it."

IOW, the taxpayer's picking up the tab?

50 Posted on 08/14/1999 06:20:30 PDT by dsc
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To: dsc

BINGO!

51 Posted on 08/14/1999 06:22:40 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

Shouldn't that give the taxpayers some right to insist that proper procedures (whatever epidemiology determines them to be) be applied to slow the spread of the disease?

52 Posted on 08/14/1999 06:48:56 PDT by dsc
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To: cholerajoe

"You never know what sort of wild story the white supremacists will come up with to justify their hatred."

Uh--you might want to read some of the similar stuff published by the BLACK racists. According to some of them, white people are the offspring of space aliens, and it goes downhill from there.

Racists of ANY "color" are not nice folks. Or do you subscribe to the theory that only whites can be racist????

53 Posted on 08/14/1999 06:56:30 PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: dsc

Shouldn't that give the taxpayers some right to insist that proper procedures (whatever epidemiology determines them to be) be applied to slow the spread of the disease?

I guess so. Unless you're thinking quarantine, internment or sewing up certain orfices.

54 Posted on 08/14/1999 07:03:36 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: Wonder Warthog

Racists of ANY "color" are not nice folks.

Agreed.

Or do you subscribe to the theory that only whites can be racist????

Of course, racists of other colors are referred to as "activists."

< /sarcasm>

55 Posted on 08/14/1999 07:08:29 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

Thank you for your information on KS.

I have been following Aids since a dear friend died of it way back in'74.

My theory is that the initial test cases had a high degree of KS. The ones who were involved in the initial Hep B protocol all seemed to have this symptom. Later the disease spread through the gay community (in this country) and as the retrovirus mutated and became more established in its host, KS was not as prevalent.

The reason this disease was used as a biological weapon IMO is that there is a stigma attached to homosexuality and if one has this disease, one can be discredited. There are two ways to get this disease, sex and injection, yet the sexual aspect has been played up. In socialist countries, such as USSR in sixties, (Schmuness was a soviet trained Hungarian), there was much discrimination against homosexuals and denial of homosexuality's occurrence. This group was deliberately targeted in the Hep B protocol. Since then, we have learned that there are biological warfare designs which have targeted certain genetic groups.

This is what I believe happened. Of course, the Hep B vaccine was exported to African neonates...where Aids is a heterosexual disease.

56 Posted on 08/14/1999 07:36:04 PDT by rubbertramp
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To: dsc

Social workers can't spin money out of thin air....otherwise, they would be so rich that they wouldn't need to work. Gays are a big lobby, so many times medicaid does cover their needs. Many indigent groups with serious illness are not so lucky. The real benefactors of Medicaid are insurance companies...as Johnny Carson once said..they don't name those big downtown buildings after Mother Theresa.

As a Libertarian, I believe in giving to a reputable charity. My favorite is the Salvation Army. They always deliver the goods. That is if you really care and are not just beating your gums.

57 Posted on 08/14/1999 07:46:59 PDT by rubbertramp
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To: rubbertramp

I have been following Aids since a dear friend died of it way back in'74.

Sorry about your friend. If it was in 1974, don't guess anybody called it AIDS since that term wasn't coined until about 82. Out of curiousity, what did the doctors say caused your friend's death?

58 Posted on 08/14/1999 07:52:49 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

"I guess so. Unless you're thinking quarantine, internment or sewing up certain orfices."

Well, I'm not a trained epidemiologist, but isn't it the case that people with highly contagious diseases are usually quarantined? Are not TB patients quarantined even today?

What other means would you suggest? I doubt that we could get them to walk around ringing a bell and shouting "unclean."

59 Posted on 08/14/1999 08:26:19 PDT by dsc
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To: cholerajoe

Initially, I remember his making a remark that just about everyone had Hepatitis B (which wasn't the case in my circle) and then he got pnuemonia and KS. I remember seeing the purple spots on his skin but I wasn't privy to a diagnosis. He wasted away fairly quickly.

The group he travelled with were well-to-do artists, extremely talented. By around '85 all those fellows were dead of Aids.

I remember the funeral..opera singers, artists, actors. What a waste. They were all world-travelers, wealthy, handsome young men..all gone.

60 Posted on 08/14/1999 08:40:49 PDT by rubbertramp
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To: dsc

Well, I'm not a trained epidemiologist, but isn't it the case that people with highly contagious diseases are usually quarantined?

Usually only when the disease is contagious through airborne spread and only until treatment is begun.

Are not TB patients quarantined even today?

Typically not. Once they are started on medication and not seriously ill anymore, they can go home. I usually suggest that they stay home for a couple of weeks or wear a mask when they go out.. The TB Sanatoriums closed in the late 60s. Most patients with TB don't have to be hospitalized at all if they're not in respiratory distress or severely malnourished.

I was referring to some comments on other threads about AIDS patients being rounded up, and shipped to internment camps. Or worse.

61 Posted on 08/14/1999 08:41:05 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: rubbertramp

Wow. Sad story. A lot of talented people died from AIDS.

Guess it didn't reach the Deep South till the 80's. I didn't see anything that remotely resembled AIDS until '83. Then I started seeing lots of it.

62 Posted on 08/14/1999 08:48:46 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

This group lived in Boston and traveled a lot by plane to both coasts because of their art and show business ties. It shows how silent and insidious this form of biowarfare can be...if that is what it is.

63 Posted on 08/14/1999 08:55:03 PDT by rubbertramp
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To: rubbertramp

It shows how silent and insidious this form of biowarfare can be...if that is what it is.

I'm very skeptical about the biowarfare thing. Doesn't make military sense or economic sense.

64 Posted on 08/14/1999 09:01:43 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

Larry Flint did chickens, who's to say anything is new. Gays going native for little black boys is hardly new either.

65 Posted on 08/14/1999 09:05:56 PDT by James Gunn
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To: cholerajoe

The kind of KS which shows up in gay males and was the original 'signature disease' of AIDS tends to be associated with the upper body, frequently starting in the lungs. It seems likely, given the fact that a massive, federally-funded wild-goose chase for viral causes of cancer turned up few, if any, oncoviruses of any clinical significance, that the recent claim by the AIDS orthodoxy that gay Kaposi's is the result of yet another sexually-transmitted virus is simply an ad hoc rationalization, just like the rationalizations which have lead them to postulate ever longer 'latent periods' for the HIV virus (what is it supposed to be now, 15 years, 20 years?). A more plausible explanation is that the rise in incidence of this type of KS is the result of the recent popularity of extremely carcinogenic nitrate inhalants, the "poppers" which were ubiquitous on the gay party scene in the seventies.

Even if you accept the new viral hypothesis regarding KS, it ought to make you wonder whether the early construction of AIDS as a single disease was valid. It may be that, as Duesberg and others have argued for more than ten years, the surge in the levels of a variety of both immunity-related and non-immunity related diseases among gay men and drug addicts in the 1980s simply tracked the massive increase in the use of psychoactive drugs, steroids, and antibiotics in these groups in the preceding decade, much as lung cancer and emphysema, previously rare conditions, became commonplace a few decades after cigarette smoking took off earlier this century. The misidentification of a harmless retrovirus, HIV, as the causative agent, Duesberg suggests, lead to a disastrous expansion of the 'epidemic' through the administration of highly toxic DNA chain-terminators such as AZT to a vast body of people who, in many cases, might be perfectly all right if they just got some rest, watched their partying, and ate properly.

66 Posted on 08/14/1999 09:07:47 PDT by Clinton's a rapist
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To: cholerajoe

I am unaware of the "racist" assertion regarding the disease.

Me, too. Anybody know what she was talking about?


The contention that AIDS was a US government plot to wipe out African-Americans is a robust conspiracy theory in
some parts of the black community. I don't know the origins, but I suspect that The Nation of Islam has
something to do with the origin or propagation of this theory.

Just yesterday, I heard Al Rantel on KABC radio here in Los Angeles discussing how people are no longer
conscientiously using "protection" as they think the AIDS crisis has passed. He AIDS was a plot to wipe out the black
man. Of course, he couldn't explain why so many white gay men, some women and children had to die.

67 Posted on 08/14/1999 09:38:52 PDT by voa
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To: Clinton's a rapist

The misidentification of a harmless retrovirus, HIV, as the causative agent, Duesberg suggests, lead to a disastrous expansion of the 'epidemic' through the administration of highly toxic DNA chain-terminators such as AZT to a vast body of people who, in many cases, might be perfectly all right if they just got some rest, watched their partying, and ate properly.

I don't think babies born with HIV party much. But they'll sure die quick if they're not treated.

The article I posted about KS alludes to some cause in addition to HIV.

Duesberg's wild guesses would have much more credibility if they had been published in a mainstream US journal and been peer-reviewed.

68 Posted on 08/14/1999 09:41:05 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: Clinton's a rapist

Interesting link on HIV origin. Don't know if it's legit but it is informative.

Here

69 Posted on 08/14/1999 09:44:13 PDT by wolfpsy
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To: Clinton's a rapist

How do you explain AIDS arising concurrently in Haiti and Africa, where it occurs in rural families...mothers and babies primarily? These are clean living people who resorted to UN methods of innoculation.

70 Posted on 08/14/1999 09:44:34 PDT by rubbertramp
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To: cholerajoe

It doesn't make military sense or economic sense....like Anthrax vaccinations?

I probably can't convince you, but to certain people, homosexuals and negroes are considered expendible. If you perceive that the world is overpopulated with 'useless eaters', vaccination is a fool-proof way to remedy that under the guise of medicine. Doctors would not know what is in each batch of vaccine and by the time the public at large caught on..it would be twenty years down the road, if at all.

It is difficult to think like a sociopath.

71 Posted on 08/14/1999 09:55:02 PDT by rubbertramp
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To: rubbertramp

How would you go about limiting the impact of bio-warfare to only homosexuals or people of any specific gender or enthnicity?

72 Posted on 08/14/1999 10:11:12 PDT by astonished
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To: rubbertramp et al

HIV & AIDS - Rethinking AIDS WebSite - Controversy

A growing group of scientists think the AIDS virus is harmless and AIDS is not contagious.
RETHINKING AIDS HOMEPAGE


CONTROVERSY


  • Dr. Walter Gilbert, Professor in Molecular Biology, 1980 Nobel prize for chemistry: Prof. Walter Gilbert

"I would not be surprised if there were another cause of AIDS and even that HIV is not involved." (Omni June 1993)

"If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document." (Sunday Times (London) 28 nov. 1993)

  • Dr. Harry Rubin, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley:Prof. Harry Rubin

"It is not proven that AIDS is caused by HIV infection, nor is it proven that it plays no role whatever in the syndrome." (Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994)

  • Dr. Richard Strohman, Emeritus Professor of Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley:

"In the old days it was required that a scientist address the possibilities of proving his hypothesis wrong as well as right. Now there's none of that in standard HIV-AIDS program with all its billions of dollars." (Penthouse April 1994)

  • Dr. Roger Cunningham, Immunologist, Microbiologist and Director of the Centre for Immunology at the State University of New York at Buffalo:

"Unfortunately, an AIDS 'establishment' seems to have formed that intends to discourage challenges to the dogma on one side and often insists on following discredited ideas on the other." (Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994)

  • Dr. Luc Montagnier, Virologist, discoverer of HIV, Institute Pasteur Paris:Prof. Luc Montagnier

"There are too many shortcomings in the theory that HIV causes all signs of AIDS" (Miami Herald 23 Dec. 1990)

  • Dr. Steven Jonas, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Suny Stony Brook, NY:

"Evidence is rapidly accumulating that the original theory of HIV is not correct." (Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994)

  • Dr. Harvey Bialy, Molecular Biologist, editor of Bio/Technology: Harvey Bialy

"HIV is an ordinary retrovirus. There is nothing about this virus that is unique. Everything that is discovered about HIV has an analogue in other retroviruses that don't cause AIDS. HIV only contains a very small piece of genetic information. There's no way it can do all these elaborate things they say it does." (Spin June 1992)

"AIDS is a behavioural disease. It is multifactorial, brought on by several simultaneous strains on the immune system - drugs, pharmaceutical and recreational, sexually transmitted diseases, multiple viral infections." (Spin June 1992)

  • Dr. Alfred Hässig, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Bern, former director Swiss Red Cross blood banks:Prof. Alfred Hassig

"The sentence of death accompanying the medical diagnosis of AIDS should be abolished." (Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994)

  • Dr. Charles Thomas, former Professor of Biochemistry, Harvard and John Hopkins Universities:

"The HIV-causes-AIDS dogma represents the grandest and perhaps the most morally destructive fraud that has ever been perpetrated on young men and women of the Western world." (Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994)

  • Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, New York Physician, founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR):Joe Sonnabend

"The marketing of HIV, through press releases and statements, as a killer virus causing AIDS without the need for any other factors, has so distorted research and treatment that it may have caused thousands of people to suffer and die." (Sunday times (London) 17 May 1992)

  • Dr. Bernard Forscher, former editor of the U.S. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences:

"The HIV hypothesis ranks with the 'bad air' theory for malaria and the 'bacterial infection' theory of beriberi and pellagra [caused by nutritional deficiencies]. It is a hoax that became a scam." (Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994)


See this site for more info. Click here for the website of Dr. Peter Duesberg, UC Berkeley.

73 Posted on 08/14/1999 10:29:02 PDT by Clinton's a rapist
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To: astonished

It is easy. Say you target a group, women who dye their hair. You advertize in the paper that you are running a study on that group and will pay them. You develop a lethal slow acting strain of something which is not catching. You inject all the members of that group. They die over time..but meanwhile the vaccination is given a benign status and is reported as a preventative from cancer for people who use hair dye. Pretty soon, many vain women are dying but only crackpots on the internet notice and are not taken seriously by doctors because they don't publish in respectable journals that also market beauty products.

74 Posted on 08/14/1999 10:33:39 PDT by rubbertramp
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To: rubbertramp

I'll have to think about your idea.. My whole (large) family has had repeated vaccinations for every obscure disease on the planet and we're all very healthy... Your scenario would be somewhat like Hitler's final solution only covert.

75 Posted on 08/14/1999 11:07:20 PDT by astonished
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To: metalbird1

In typewriter days, people like this wrote letters to the newspaper, all typed in capital letters and red ink. Some still talk about getting messages in their tooth fillings.

76 Posted on 08/14/1999 11:13:38 PDT by Mwaaa
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To: metalbird1, aristeides

Thanks, metalbird, for posting this. I have also heard comments from faculty members at three Universities that the pattern of outbreaks in Africa centered on a region where a special vaccination program was instituted for "Polio". I do not think the military scientists capable of fabricating the HIV but they may very well have run into cases such as Aristeides' sailor and isolated and bred the virus.

We certainly manage to kill a lot of black Africans with so called health and aid projects, which might make feasible the argument that AIDS too was propagated intentionally. It is not easily transmissible if you are a good Catholic so it very well might have seemed a very deadly and very controllable agent for population control. They took the extra precaution of trying it out in Central Africa, far from the East Coast of the U.S. and were probably surprised when there was a transmission to people they did not directly inoculate.

The problem is that any group which practices promiscuous anal sex provides the population group necessary for a rapid geometric increase in cases of the disease. The military scientists did not count on that, nor did people passing blood from one to another directly apparently seem likely to them. Also in a well-organized rational society no one would be buying blood at 20 bucks/pint in the Bronx. So monkeys were the first victims, not the source. Needle worshipers increased the problem. Then cholerajoe and his mates do their best to keep the infection out there among the general population. ("I don't know where the money comes from but I sure do know how to mis-use it!") Thanks to what cholerajoe calls progress we now have a major health problem that threatens the entire society.

What the medical community and politicians ignore (or conveniently forget) is that these kind of viral mutations occur all the time but the mutants are in normal conditions biological losers in the game of natural selection. Transmissible HIV will have occurred sporadically in individuals throughout human history. In 1950 or 1960 for example the mutants had very little possibility of spreading through any significant populations, the victim died, society just had to dig one grave more. Whether the CIA gave this one a boost, or just the "ideals" of our present society, is now a moot point. But someone should wake up to the danger of the stupidity of the medical community in dealing with AIDS before a vaccine is found...the CIA could do wonders with that program. I hope this was readable, if so it should dissolve the "mystery" of these cases. There is no mystery, just, as with every problem in society today, a lot of ignorance among the "experts" and immorality among the "victims". Just why do people think mankind developed learning, law, and morality anyway? Regards, "Nikola".

77 Posted on 08/14/1999 11:15:57 PDT by nikolatesla
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To: Clinton's a rapist

I think Haessig -- or if not he, someone in the very nearly the same position -- was tried for criminal negligence for knowingly distributing blood products tainted by HIV and HCV. Some of those people died. To have him speak to this question is bizarre.

78 Posted on 08/14/1999 11:20:10 PDT by Mwaaa
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To: Mwaaa

Except that that assumes what is in dispute in the first place.

79 Posted on 08/14/1999 11:35:00 PDT by Clinton's a rapist
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To: cholerajoe

I recommend Dr. Len Horowitz' book "Emerging Viruses." He provides government documents that are the smoking gun that AIDS was the result of biowarfare research. In the '60s the government had labs in New Orleans where they were bombarding viruses in particle accelerators to produce mutant viruses. I shudder to guess what they did overseas. You're right, AIDS would not produce immediate death needed for traditional biowarfare. But we're talking genocide, not traditional biowarfare. Why do you think they're researching gene-specific viruses? And remember Nixon's "War on Cancer"? Funny how cancer rates have since skyrocketed. See Horowitz' site at http://www.tetrahedron.org.

80 Posted on 08/14/1999 12:14:19 PDT by jedediah smith
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To: all

All right y'all. My wife drags me to the mall for a few hours and you turn this place into KOOK central.

HIV is a poor biologic warfare agent because it kills slowly. Maybe it could be used for genocide but it doesn't take a major brain to figure out that a virus spread by sexual transmission is going to work its way into populations for which it wasn't intended.

Clinton's a Rapist's post quoting Nobel Laureates is 5 years out of date.

Nikolatesla jumps in with his usual ad hominum attack.

Rubbertramp's beating the drum for vaccine contamination

and Jedediah Smith has particle accelerators in the Big Easy back in the '60s. Heck half the houses in New Orleans didn't have indoor plumbing then.

AIDS is a clinical syndrome due to infection with HIV. It is spread by heterosexual and homosexual intercourse, blood products, contaminated needles and mother-to-child. That's IT, people. Deal with it and move along.

81 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:04:29 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: dsc

Thanks so much ... I do go off half-cocked and am always hopeful I get most of it right ... keep the box nearby so others can check me! Definitely count on the Bloodhounds for that sort of thing.

Regards, dsc!

82 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:16:48 PDT by askel5
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To: metalbird1

Wow ... thanks. Please keep us apprised if you come across a "Dr. Stough."

83 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:17:59 PDT by askel5
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To: cholerajoe LadyDoc

Thanks for this new edge to a puzzle piece that should be taken into consideration.

LadyDoc ... you've spoken on AIDS/transfusion in Africa; any info on KS with regard to the above post and a couple others before it?

84 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:21:08 PDT by askel5
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To: cholerajoe

Unfortunately, my clearance does -- I vote Genocide. A genocide (like it's companion "tragedy" with regard to guns) that enables the same folks profiting from and spreading it around to turn around and benefit from policy-making and world-aid efforts used to "combat the deadly spread of this unholy epidemic."

When you get a chance, check the Clinton timeline in the Blood Box. I split him out as both worst-case scenario, obvious following on FR and, natch, our esteemed President HOWEVER, you can't tell me that he (1) was not making huge amounts on pin money on the plasma and (2) didn't know exactly the whys and wherefores of his prison plasma program's being "STUDIED TO DEATH" by the FDA and ILPP out of Berkeley. (Re-upped his buddies in the blood business anyway ... )

85 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:24:32 PDT by askel5
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To: cholerajoe

I don't think of it as bio-warfare as such.

We're talking Utopians here and they employ a certain amount of Death ... particularly as starry-eyed Socialists and dispassionate Eugenicists and manipulative monied elite begin to work in concert as opposed to simply turning a blind eye from time to time as each other advanced their own agenda.

Clearly blacks (particularly in Africa where--as opposed to Serbia--Rwanda was NOT genocide but an "internal civil conflict into which we could not possible intervene") are still "inferior". Clinton uses preachers like organ grinder monkey at the prayer breakfast, lets disease and strife clearcut Africa and -- policy-wise -- reduces the black man to an animal clearly unfit and completely unable to take responsibility for his behavior or breeding. Likewise, for all the lip service paid homosexuals or the handicipped (I'm zeroing in on hemophiliacs here ... certainly "unfit" from a eugenicist's point of view) they are distanced enough from the mainstream and easy marks for annihiliation.

REMEMBERING, of course, that a certain amount of traction can be gained by public rending of the Presidential seal over the plight of gays -- which only further splinters a population that's been told it's the gay's lifestyle that's solely responsible for their plight. At this point, no question but what barebacking is an abomination of carnal Russian Roulette. HOWEVER, more evil and worthy of condemnation for me is the CONSCIOUS dissemination of a TAINTED BLOOD PLASMA from seedy prisons which was then brokered AROUND THE WORLD and even here at home.

Can you see my cap glinting from here? I have a friend who knew Vinnie Foster in the '70's and '80's. Used to yell at him "Hey Security!!" because he'd always be sort of up tight and standing back during parties where the coke and the girls were plentiful. Frankly, I do believe that when confronted with Canada's breaking scandal over tainted blood, Foster DID make the mistake of finally adhering to conscience and lost his life for fear his cooperation with Canada would result in full exposure of Clinton and others as the utterly depraved, complicitous and completely nonchalant barons of death they are.

86 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:37:17 PDT by askel5
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To: rubbertramp

I explain it the same way I explain it's arising in Ireland, England, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, China, Iran ... etc.

Wallaby's got some interesting internal memoranda the Canadians dug up from Cryosan. Seems they got busted by the BOB one time for having Angola (Louisiana) prison blood in their batches. "Yeah, we'll have to destroy that," they said. Next thing you know, they're cancelling sales to France and suggesting that "well, with current questions as to stability" of the current batches, perhaps they ought to explore sales to some "underdeveloped" countries.

Hello Iran. Don't take it personal, now.

I'm telling you ... in your wildest dreams you never saw such evil as you can find, in black and white, on the Blood Trail.

87 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:41:52 PDT by askel5
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To: Clinton's a rapist

Thanks for your great posts in ... provocative.

Please please please read Wallaby's article I linked somewhere up there with the bleedin' box and let me know what you think.

88 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:43:15 PDT by askel5
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To: Mwaaa

That always reminds me of my Dad who was hot to do some public defender work until having to defend some "dental bombers" at Ft. Sam during his initial hitch.

Regards!

89 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:44:46 PDT by askel5
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To: nikolatesla

Excellent thoughts. Hope you'll check out Wallaby's article at the very least. You're right on many counts, IMHO.

90 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:46:10 PDT by askel5
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To: jedediah smith

Hey jedediah ... thanks for the link. I'd lost it.

91 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:47:07 PDT by askel5
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To: cholerajoe

Here's a 1995 posting that I found on Usenet. Note that it exhibits knowledge not only with the British sailor but also with the St. Louis case:

" "IN THE BEGINNING Scientists are always interested in the origin of an epidemic, how it began and why. This is an especially important question in the case of AIDS, which appeared to burst on the scene suddenly in 1981 (although the earliest cases as of this writing have been traced to a St. Louis boy, Robert R., and to a British sailor in the 1950s). . . The one thing most of these theories have in common is that they all point to the Beligan Congo as the birthplace of HIV. Another characteristic these theories share is that they all have a link to monkeys."

Here's the link: Re: Earliest Appearance of AIDS? .

92 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:47:21 PDT by aristeides (demosthenes@olg.com)
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To: cholerajoe

I have singlehandedly turned the lights back on at "Kook Central." Hope you don't mind my replying repeatedly as I read through the thread.

It's really worse than you think, cholerajoe.

Regards!

93 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:48:44 PDT by askel5
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To: cholerajoe

And here's another posting from April of 1999 that I found on Usenet:

In 1959 a British sailor died in Manchester, England, of Pneumocystis carinii (PCP) at disease typically associated with the terminal phase of HIV-1 infection, i.e., AIDS. His physicians were unable to explain the failure of his immune system to fight disease [16].
In 1959 a 48-year-old Haitian male died of PCP in New York City. In the early-to-mid 1980s Haitians were considered to be a high-risk group for AIDS [17].
 
In 1966 a 50-year-old black female died in Miami, Florida, and autopsy results revealed extensive Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) but no apparent immune deficiency was observed. She had suffered from chills, fever, weight loss and weakness which are typical symptoms of AIDS [18].
 
In 1966 a black male, aged 54 years, was admitted to St. Anthony Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, with KS [19].
 
In 1967 a black male, aged 15 years, was admitted to a St. Louis, Missouri, hospital showing signs of AIDS, e.g., lymphadenopathy, KS and PCP. In retrospective blood sera analysis using the Western Blot test, which is quite sensitive to HIV-1 presence, the individual's results were, in 1987, confirmed positive for HIV-1 [20].
 
Top AIDS researchers from around the globe have at one time or another considered the origin of HIV-1 offering various opinions yet the mystery of HIV-1's genesis continues. Included as major authorities on HIV-1 from the United States, France, and England are:
John Coffin (Tufts University, Maryland)
 
Max Essex (Harvard School of Public Health)
 
Robert C. Gallo (National Cancer Institute)
 
Ashley Haase (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
 
Jay A. Levy (University of California, San Francisco)
 
Luc Montagnier (Pasteur Institute, Paris)
 
Seven Oroszlan (Frederick Cancer Research Center, Frederick, Maryland)
 
Natalie Teich (Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London)
 
Howard Temin (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
 
Kumao Toyoshima (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
 
Harold Varmus (University of California, San Francisco)
 
Peter Vogt (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
 
Robin Weiss (Institute of Cancer Research, London)
 
These investigators have an extensive background in retrovirus research and have made significant contribution to knowledge of various cancer-causing viruses. Clearly a logical approach to attempt to determine the origin of HIV-1 is the systematic analysis of their and others' historical research -- perhaps by understanding where we have been we may find where we are now. Such, then, is the purpose of this book -- an historical review of immune deficiency/suppression research conducted by scientists primarily in the United States, France and England during the last 50 years. An investigation of this type, presented in a systematic and understandable fashion, may help to resolve the mystery surrounding the origin of this "modern plague."
 
Supportive to this type of investigation, since 1987 there have been several individuals from the medical community publishing on the probability that HIV-1 was a human-made virus. Among those who have alleged HIV-1 is a human-created agent are: Dr. Alan Cantwell, Dr. William Douglas, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, and others. In the March/April 1996 issue of Well Being Journal, under the article titled "Magic and AIDS", Dr. Leonard Horowitz of Harvard University confirmed the HIV virus "is a result of a biological warfare program, created by national cancer researchers under the auspices of a Federally funded Special Cancer Virus Program." [21]
 
Dr. Jakob Segal's theory is that HIV was formed from visna (a sheep virus) and HTLV-I (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus) by US army biological research labs in 1977 or 1978. The virus supposedly escaped accidentally after being tested on prisoners [22]. Dr. Robert Strecker's theory is that HIV was formed from visna and BLV (Bovine Leukemia Virus) by the US in the 1970's after 30-40 years of work. The virus was supposedly tested on populations in Africa and was deliberately introduced into the US homosexual community through the hepatitis B vaccination program [23].

The link: Re: AIDS/HIV & The Band Queen: Known In 1975 >.

94 Posted on 08/14/1999 13:52:59 PDT by aristeides (demosthenes@olg.com)
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To: cholerajoe

This Usenet posting from April of 1998 indicates that the British sailor (whom it identifies as Carr) was not infected with HIV, but that traces survive of HIV infection in Africa from as early as 1959, the year Carr died:

In <1998042013010200.JAA09739@ladder01.news.aol.com> davblade11@aol.com
(DAVBLADE11) writes:
 
>What HIV/AIDS Epidemic?
>
>By Paul Philpott
>
>Low Totals and Downward Trends Continue for Both HIV and AIDS;
>Case Load Remains Confined to Drug Users, Blood Recipients, AZT
Victims
 
>(2) HIV is not a newly introduced virus, as is required by the
contagious AIDS >theory. When germs are introduced into a population, incidence of infection >increases over time until it reaches a constant, "endemic" level. Periods of
>increase are called "epidemics" (or "pandemics" when occurring at the
same time >among people in different nations). But epidemics can also result when sanitary >conditions change for the worse, permitting old viruses to infect more people >at one time.
>
>Epidemics caused by new germs are easy to distinguish from those
caused by >sanitary breakdowns. When a new germ is introduced, incidence of that germ will >increase in the entire population, while positivity for germs already residing >in the population will remain constant. On the other hand, when an epidemic
>results from poor sanitation, positivity for all germs will increase,
but only >in sub-groups experiencing the poor sanitation.
>
>The available evidence demonstrates that positivity for all germs--not
just >HIV--jumped among individuals who adopted unsanitary practices that prior to >the 1970s were relatively uncommon: drug-driven "fast lane" gay sex, drug >injecting, and therapy with hemophilia clotting factor.(9) Meanwhile, incidence >of HIV has remained constant and low in the surrounding general population.(1) This strongly suggests that HIV is a virus that has resided in the American
>population as long as any other.
 
 
    No, it only suggests that it COULD have resided in the American population as long as any other (example: hepatitis B, which did experience a resurgence in gay men at about this time, but was not a newly introduced microbe).
 
  But there is specific evidence that HIV was ALSO newly introduced at about this time, in this population.  Sera collected for hepatitis B studies in gay men in large cities do not show HIV until 1978, after which incidence steadily climbs.  The same is true for HIV in sera collected from hemophiliacs.  The first case of AIDS recognized in restrospect in the US, and documented fully, occured in 1980.  Contrary to suggestions by skeptics, there is no reason to think the lack of positive serum samples represents some kind of breakdown of storage conditions before 1978-- the storage conditions have not changed, and are adequate to preserve the virus as long as necessary.  Rather, evidence is better that that first and primary vector of HIV into the US, a French Canadian Airline steward named Dugas, did not begin spreading the virus until 1976.  Cases which appear earlier in the US, do not have full documentation of the genome of the virus behind them.
 
  In contrast, the samples of HIV from Africa date from at least 1959, and this 1959 sample has been fully sequenced. (This is not the same case as the British sailor named Carr, who died in 1959 but appears not to be a case of HIV).  At this time the best evidence is that AIDS spread from African to France in the mid 1970's, and was transmitted from there to the American bathhouse-going gay community by the airline steward Dugas, at about the same time.
 
                                      Steven B. Harris, M.D.

Here's the link: Re: What HIV/AIDS Epidemic? .

95 Posted on 08/14/1999 14:02:05 PDT by aristeides (demosthenes@olg.com)
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To: askel5

Thanks for the info. Blood trail I understand. I'm having trouble linking prison blood with african monkeys. What am I missing?

96 Posted on 08/14/1999 15:49:53 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: aristeides

I'd be careful equating pneumocystis in the 50's with HIV. Pneumocystis was and remains a common infection that manifests itself in normal and immunosuppressed people.

In this article:

PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII INFECTION: EVIDENCE FOR HIGH PREVALENCE IN NORMAL AND IMMUNOSUPPRESSED CHILDREN

Pifer LL - Pediatrics; 61(1):35-41 1978

By 4 yr of age two-thirds of the normal children were found to have antibody to P carinii in titers of 1:16 or greater. These studies indicate that subclinical P carinii infection is highly prevalent in normal children, analogous to other opportunistic infections where active disease is manifest predominantly in the compromised host. (Author abstract) (16 Refs)

from 78, researchers at St. Jude in Memphis found antibodies to PCP in normal kids. Sorry i can't post a link to the full article, the abstract is all there is available in an article this old.

97 Posted on 08/14/1999 15:57:11 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

You have answered your own question. It would be as a genocide agent.

And consider the fallout from that mechanism: Government control of the research through directed funding, and the proliferating of more non-profits with their agendas and spinning. [Note also their directing the research toward vaccines, which we've read so much about here lately--one scam on top of another...]

And what of the pharmaceuticals? How nice to have a disease which is not cured but maintained with expensive drugs: Where those who can pay are soaked for blood money, and those who can't are at the public trough. So: Umpty-billions either way are paid to and made by the pharmacetuicals whose shares are held through cutouts by the elites [namely the Rockefellers]. Read: If your going to have a genocidal, depopulation operation, why not have it to make a buck in the process.

98 Posted on 08/14/1999 16:13:08 PDT by metalbird1
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To: metalbird1, askel5

What do I need to do to get my clearance upgraded to KOOK?

I was TS/SCI/SIOP-ESI/CNWDDI in the Air Force and I own a tinfoil hat.

99 Posted on 08/14/1999 17:19:42 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: rubbertramp

When Zaire became independent, they had only about 20 college graduates. They imported Haitians to work. The theory is that the Haitians brought it home, in the same way the Cuban soldiers from Angola brought it home.

Similarly, studies done on an earlier epidemic in Zaire was done, and showed that HIV went back further than they thought. (Help me out guys: I think it was the epidemic of Green river fever in the 1960's, but don't have the information here). To their astonishment, most of these HIV people who blood samples from the 60's were positive were still alive.

The theory is that HIV either evolved, or has several different types (3 types are now known) and that maybe weaker types used to be prevalent.

FYI: the racism in this is that when scientists announced that chimps gave HIV to humans, few reports supplied the information that chimp meat is eaten in those countries. Some people, knowing that HIV is sexually transmitted, suspected bestiality as the culprit.(Anyone who knows wild adult monkeys in reality, rather than in movies, would know they are nasty dirty things, and that even a pervert wouldn't try this, but never mind).

100 Posted on 08/14/1999 17:28:21 PDT by LadyDoc
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To: metalbird1

Very well stated. Incidentally, a military contact of mine said they were seeing AIDS or similar viruses in Africa in the fifties. Dr. Horowitz has heard that too from several people. Consider also that virus research was initiated in Africa in 1936 in Uganda by the Rockefeller Foundation. Imagine what they could have developed by the fifties. IMHO AIDS is old, low-tech biowarfare. They probably have developed Ebola-type viruses spread aerially (e.g. the Hanta virus outbreaks; coincidentally, of course, occurring on Indian reservations in the southwest).

101 Posted on 08/14/1999 17:38:50 PDT by jedediah smith
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To: LadyDoc

.(Anyone who knows wild adult monkeys in reality, rather than in movies, would know they are nasty dirty things, and that even a pervert wouldn't try this, but never mind).

I'm not saying it didn't happen but you and I have probably seen equally strange things or worse. Iguanas? Sheep? Interns?

Never underestimate a pervert. Especially one elected to office.

102 Posted on 08/14/1999 18:02:09 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

Let me get this straight: you post an article questioning the origin of AIDS, with which you presumably agree. We presume from your post that you want more information and/or evidence. Upon receiving such data, it does not fit your worldview, hence you reject it and call us kooks. For the record, my comment on virus mutation experiments with particle accelerators comes from an interview with several doctors, and I believe specifically it was made by Dr. Alan Cantwell, Jr.

In case you don't think the government would ever do things like this, consider the following examples of secret biowarfare experimentation on the public (from pg. 313 of "Emerging Viruses;" in: Hearings before the Subcommitte on Health and Scientific Research to examine Army biological warfare research programs, 1977).
Washington, D.C. (1950)-Dispersed Serratia marcescens
USS Coral Sea (1950)-Bacillus globigii, S. marcescens
San Francisco, CA (1950)-B. globigii, S. marcescens
Port Huenene, CA (1952)-B. globigii
Panama City, FL (1953)-B. globigii, S. marcescens
Offshore of Santa Barbara, CA (1956)-B. globigii
Penn. St. Hwy 16 (1955)-B. globigii
Penn. Turnpike tunnels (1955)-B. globigii
Offshore Hawaii (1963)-B. globigii
Ft. Greeley, AL (1964)-E. coli
Central Alaska (1965)--E. coli
Washington, D.C. (1965)--E. coli
New York, N.Y. (1966)-B. globigii
Key West, FL (1969)-S. marcescens

103 Posted on 08/14/1999 18:21:28 PDT by jedediah smith
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To: cholerajoe + jedediah smith

Dr. Cholerajoe: I would suppose clearance attainments are a factor of career advancement; additional programming would be conjectural.

Jed: Good posts, 101 & 103.

104 Posted on 08/14/1999 19:22:57 PDT by metalbird1
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To: jedediah smith

More info on AIDS

This may be helpful.. A large part of the problem in Africa is poverty. Looks like they are only able to spend $10.00 US per year per person on healthcare... and one should consider they are compromised anyway by other diseases. Projections are that fully 70% of newborns will be infected with HIV and longevity numbers are steadily going down to from 69 years to now 49 years and projected to go to 40 Yrs.

105 Posted on 08/14/1999 20:18:40 PDT by astonished
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To: cholerajoe

You stated your security clearances as follows:

TS/SCI/SIOP-ESI/CNWDDI.

Two questions:

1-What is each? [I know TS would be "Top Secret".]

2-Why would you, as a doctor, have those kind of clearances?

106 Posted on 08/14/1999 20:57:48 PDT by metalbird1
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To: jedediah smith + all: More on the origins of AIDS

Might I offer this as a hypothetical, and stated as such:

Perhaps the HIV per se is not the cause of AIDS.

Rather, it is only a carrier for a bit of inserted DNA which blocks the immune system function.

107 Posted on 08/14/1999 21:55:48 PDT by metalbird1
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To: harrowup

harrowup, are you sure of the "widespread" info in 1979? Just asking. I remember reading the first report in NEJM and I thought it was in 79 or 80. But, I probably have faulty memory.

108 Posted on 08/14/1999 22:27:30 PDT by jammer
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To: metalbird1

-What is each? [I know TS would be "Top Secret".]

TS=Top Secret

SCI=Sensitve Comparmented Information - Communications Intelligence

SIOP/ESI=Single Integrated Operations Plan/Extremely Sensitive Information - Nuclear Warfighting

CNWDDI=Critical Nuclear Weapons Design and Deployment Information

2-Why would you, as a doctor, have those kind of clearances?

I've often asked myself the same questions. I was in Strategic Air Command - Nuclear Bombers and Missles. In order to properly prepare the aircrews and missle crews for their missions, I had to be familiar with some of the human factors involved. Also, if they were ill, they had to be able to discuss their jobs with a medical professional cleared at more or less the same level.

Example: If a crew member returned from a classified deployment and became ill, he had to be able to discuss with a doc where he was and what he was doing so I could figure out if any of that contributed to his illness.

Or, God forbid, there was an accident with one of the weapons, I had to be able to compute radiation released and potential contamination.

Sorry, nothing spooky or exotic. Also, not much demand for that sort of thing in private practice.

109 Posted on 08/15/1999 02:50:14 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: cholerajoe

I thank you for your response.

110 Posted on 08/15/1999 02:57:50 PDT by metalbird1
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To: jedediah smith

I am very familiar with the Serratia experiments. Serratia was supposed to be a harmless bacteria that could be used to track wind currents and model for potential contamination in case an enemy released biologic agents in the US.

The military released huge amounts of the bugs over numerous populated areas. About 15-20 years later we began to see human infections with Serratia. Mainly pneumonia at first in people with existing lung disease, but later heart valve infections in drug addicts and finally all sorts of infections.

Serratia produces a crimson pigment that is characteristic. The Serratia infected wounds drained pink pus. Disgusting.

Everyone's attitude was, "Oh well, they didn't know it was dangerous." I'm as open minded as the next guy about government experiments gone awry but particle accelerators bombarding viruses in New Orleans of all places sounds too far fetched.

111 Posted on 08/15/1999 03:13:23 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: Lady Doc

Can't read any more posts because my machine won't allow it. Time for a new thread.

112 Posted on 08/15/1999 08:16:45 PDT by rubbertramp
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To: aristeides

aristeides, I remember reading about this several years ago too. I have thought about this since I read your post yesterday and I think I read it in a Readers Digest.

113 Posted on 08/15/1999 20:24:27 PDT by muggs
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To: metalbird1

Very excellent point about HIV as a carrier. I believe you would find parts of Dr. Horowitz' new book, "Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse" of interest. He discusses prions being used to change DNA and cause disease. If I'm not mistaken he mentioned the possibility of carrier molecules, whose purpose is to inject DNA into cells. The most frightening part of the book was the evidence of conspiracy he found in the Webster's dictionary, which contains secret codes which only the "illuminated" can understand. I read some of the book really fast, as some of it is pretty far out.

114 Posted on 08/16/1999 05:57:30 PDT by jedediah smith
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To: jedediah smith

New thread here

115 Posted on 08/16/1999 06:07:26 PDT by cholerajoe
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To: Clinton's a rapist

> Except that that assumes what is in dispute in the first place.

People died from the tainted blood. This was not disputed by anyone, including the defendant. The victims were known and surviving kin of some of them attended the trial.

If your theory can't explain their deaths, you are talking to the wind.

116 Posted on 08/16/1999 07:01:28 PDT by Mwaaa
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To: jedediah smith

> The most frightening part of the book was the evidence of conspiracy he found in the Webster's dictionary, which contains secret codes which only the "illuminated" can understand

"Frightening"? This is nuts. Bonkers. Stark, raving mad. If you trust one word this man says, your own judgment sinks to his level.

117 Posted on 08/16/1999 07:41:57 PDT by Mwaaa
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To: aristeides, cholerajoe

HIV has mutated over the years to form 10 distinct subtypes, lettered A through J. One of these, subtype B, is the dominant strain in the United States and Europe, while subtype D is most common in Africa.

The family tree of HIV looks like a bush with the various subtypes forming the limbs. Ho said the 1959 HIV is near the trunk, around the point where subtypes B and D branch off.

"This is no doubt an ancestor to B and D," he said.

Zhu said this suggests all the HIV subtypes evolved from one introduction of HIV into people, rather than from many crossovers from animals to humans, as some have speculated.

Given the steady rate at which HIV mutates, it also means the virus probably first got into people sometime in the 1940s or early '50s.

A few years ago, British researchers reported that a Manchester sailor, who also died in 1959, was the oldest case. Ho's group provided evidence that the HIV in that man's blood was actually contamination, which entered the sample long after he died.

(" Earliest AIDS death pinpointed in 1959 Ancestor of virus suggests it arose in Africa in 1940s," Daniel Haney, ASSOCIATED PRESS The Toronto Star; NEWS; Pg. A12, February 4, 1998, Wednesday, METRO EDITION)

118 Posted on 08/16/1999 09:57:21 PDT by Wallaby (wallaby@altavista.net)
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To: jedediah smith

That's very interesting.

I was just trying some problem-solving as to how it might have been accomplished. I suppose I will find out soon enough if you have posted this same response on the other thread. I hope you did.

119 Posted on 08/16/1999 14:46:43 PDT by metalbird1
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To: muggs

As you may have noticed from my later postings on this thread (and from some postings by others on the second thread,) people are now denying that the HIV originally said to have been found in the sailor's blood was genuine. They're now saying it's the result of contamination. I wonder.

120 Posted on 08/16/1999 18:14:52 PDT by aristeides (demosthenes@olg.com)
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To: cholerajoe

Sorry, nothing spooky or exotic.

Boy, put you through your paces on this thread.

121 Posted on 10/23/1999 17:35:08 PDT by Askel5 (KEYES-2000 -- A conscience is a terrible thing to waste ! !)
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To: Askel5

Boy, put you through your paces on this thread.

No kidding. Interesting re-read. Thanks.

122 Posted on 10/24/1999 05:37:19 PDT by CholeraJoe
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