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October 12, 2004

 

Wangari Maathai: Nobel Calls AIDS 'Weapon Of Mass Destruction'

Epidemics

 

 

9 October 2004 - Wangari Maathai, is a Kenyan ecologist and the

first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which she received

for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.

Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, comprised mainly of

women, which says it has planted about 30 million trees across Africa.

 

According to a report on the African News24 site titled Nobel

winner: Aids a WMD, Maathai reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus

was a deliberately created biological agent.

 

" Some say that Aids came from the monkeys, and I doubt that

because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial,

others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that. "

 

While she does not specify who created AIDS, certainly the

devastation wreaked with African lives by re-defining common illnesses

as AIDS and treating them with highly toxic retrovirals has the same

effect as one would expect of an attack with weapons of mass destruction.

 

The Western press has largely ignored Maathai's controversial

stand on the issue. An exception is Australia, where the story has

been picked up by the Herald Sun and Maathai is quoted as saying:

 

" Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask

where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me

suspicious. "

 

In an interview in Time Magazine, Maathai responds to a question

about her stand on AIDS:

 

" I have no idea who created aids and whether it is a

biological agent or not. But I do know things like that don't come

from the moon. I have always thought that it is important to tell

people the truth, but I guess there is some truth that must not be too

exposed. "

 

Yes, the truth about AIDS should be exposed - and certainly we

have not been treated to much information on this by the media. Let me

show you where to look.

 

Recent data indicates that AIDS might be amenable to treatment

with natural medicines and simple nutrients.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/02/16/south_africa_traditional_medicin\

e_to_fight_aids_poverty.htm

 

Vitamins slow AIDS progression, as shown by research undertaken by

Wafaie Fawzi, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the

Harvard School of Public Health.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/01/harvard_research_in_tanzania_con\

firms_multivitamin_slows_aids_progression.htm

 

 

Four important nutrients completely reverse AIDS symptoms says Harold

Foster, a Canadian scientist, who published his research in a book

titled " What really causes AIDS " . Foster says that

 

http://www.hdfoster.com/index.html#Publications

 

" ... there is nothing really surprising about HIV-positive

people not developing AIDS because they are eating the correct diet.

AIDS is a nutrient deficiency disorder caused by a virus. If you eat

higher than normal amounts of the four nutrients that HIV is removing

from the body (selenium, cysteine, tryptophan and glutamine) you never

develop deficiencies and, therefore, remain AIDS free. Conversely, if

you have AIDS, but eat the correct amounts of the four nutrients all

symptoms disappear and you can be back at work in a month. "

 

Beldeu Singh, a physical anthropologist from Malaysia, advocates a

paradigm shift away from immunotoxic medication. He concurs that the

use of antioxidants prevents AIDS symptoms from appearing and fingers

benzene and its derivatives as major environmental toxins implicated

in the epidemic. Read his highly interesting paper titled AIDS,

NON-HIV AIDS AND PRESCRIPTION AIDS here:

 

AIDS, NON-HIV AIDS AND PRESCRIPTION AIDS

 

by BELDEU SINGH

 

 

AS a physical anthropologist with a special interest in commercial

science and new product development, I normally scan research papers

and reports. I enjoy putting together seemingly unrelated facts and

information and sometimes that creates a new picture and may make new

sense or new meaning with potential prospects for paradigm shifts or

new products.

 

This time, the accumulating literature on non-HIV AIDS caught my

attention. HIV was announced to be the " probable cause " of AIDS by

Robert Gallo at a government press conference. It was popularized as

the cause of AIDS because HIV is found in virtually all AIDS patients

(90%); HIV has been identified inside and on the surface of T4 cells

of HIV positive and AIDS patients using electron microscopy; HIV-DNA

can be found in as many as 1 of 10 blood lymphocytes of persons with

AIDS; Antibodies against the virus, viral antigens and HIV-RNA have

been found in HIV positive and AIDS patients; The virus has been found

in HIV positive and AIDS patients, but not in healthy, low-behavioral

risk individuals; The virus has been found both in low-risk and

high-risk hemophiliacs.

 

Going through all the literature thus far has led me to conclude

that among other things, that since 1984 no scientist has been able to

explain how the HIV virus causes AIDS which they have done so well as

in the case of, say the Salmonella microbe and the existence of the

ICL group or non-HIV AIDS cases, the HIV virus is not the causative

agent of AIDS. There are thousands of infected people who show no sign

of AIDS. If it is pathogenic, why does it not produce the same disease

in all patients? It has not conclusively proven to be an

immunosuppressant. That is the key.

 

On the other hand, the automobile population exploded after 1970

which coincided with the significantly increasing use of sexual

lubricants which have very toxic carcinogenic and immunosuppresive

agents including benzene or its derivatives and talc plus silicon

lubrication in condoms. Ten to fourteen years later the earliest cases

of AIDS were reported and the " incubation " period also coincides with

the time frame after which AIDS is said to manifest in people infected

with the HIV virus. Benzene is added to gasoline, shellac removers,

varnishes, cement, paints, glue, rubber and the post 70s era coincides

with a property boom and economic development in many areas and in

several countries.

 

There was a phenomenal increase of atmospheric pollution as well

which corresponds with the increase in the automobile population after

1970. The culprits are more likely to be lead and later benzene which

replaced lead in gasoline and its derivatives. The causative factors

are these chemicals which act as immunosuppressants and the attendant

free-radical damage to the auto-immune system. That is exactly what

needs testing and verification.

 

The Toxic Oil Syndrome in Spain in 1981 was first suspected to

have a viral cause because of immune suppression among thousands of

people, many of whom were relatives but the culprit turned out to be

benzene which contaminated olive oil!

 

Bacterial strains used to produce the amino-acid tryptophan, if

they become tainted and instead produce toxins related to the benzene

ring and causes benzene poisoning with symptoms of " AIDS " as in the

case of Haitians who were singled out by the CDC as an " AIDS risk group " .

 

Chronic benzene poisoning results in great individual variation in

signs and symptoms and includes lymphomas, myeloid leukemia, Hodgkin's

disease etc., much like in AIDS and mutagenesis due to severe

free-radical damage. The cumulative effect of benzene and its

derivatives takes a few to several years to develop and manifest, in

most cases up to 10-12 years.

 

Free-radical damage reactions in cells produce toxic chemicals,

destroy enzymes and kill cells. They also start chain reactions that

are harmful to health and long term exposure to free-radicals can lead

to chronic illness, chronic fatigue, cancers or early symptoms of

aging. Benzene " burns out " the endocrine system and speeds up the

aging process 100 fold, so in some AIDS cases the patients. The early

cases of AIDS left a lasting impression of people who " died horrible

deaths and looked like shriveled old men " due to immune system

destruction caused by anaemia and leukocytopenia.

 

Free-radical reactions are vicious reactions. They produce other

highly secondary products such as alkanes, alcohols, acids and

carbonyls which react with proteins, amino-acids, amines and DNA

leading to mutagenesis, cancers and promote aging. Some tumours have

been shown by gas chromatography studies to exude minute amounts of

formaldehyde, alkanes and benzene derivatives not found in healthy

tissues and that is probably why young-adult dogs with no brain

impairments can sniff out cancerous tumours in human beings. So,

another postulate is that chronic benzene poisoning produces cancer

cells that in turn produces benzine derivatives that continue the

free-radical chain reactions in the body.

 

Chronic intravenous drug abuse results in the same " AIDS defining

illness. " Cocaine, heroin and crystal methamphetamine are manufactured

using coal tar derivatives like kerosene which has high benzene

content. Illicit drugs are routinely prepared with acetone which

affects carbohydrate metabolism, muscle weakness, kidney damage,

vomiting etc. Such drugs have been implicated in immune suppression.

 

Oestrogen helps to inhibit and protect the body from benzene, as

reported, and its free-radical damage simply because it is a very

powerful anti-oxidant which means that the post-menopausal age group

is at a much higher risk.

 

More research is needed to further prove what happens to toxic

chemicals when they enter the body through the skin or ingestion or

through rectal absorption, the later being 8 times more effective in

putting toxic lubricants into the bloodstream and confirm their

free-radical activity in the cells and how they generate more

free-radicals.

 

Excessive mitochondrial damage causes weakness and fatigue. Both

of these symptoms are found in people with HIV infection and

associated with the use of anti-HIV drugs such as AZT. One group of

researchers found evidence of increased free radical damage in people

with HIV and in laboratory mice treated with AZT. They reported that

high doses of vitamin E and vitamin C protected mouse muscle from such

damage. We know that vitamins E and C are powerful anti-oxidants.

 

Mitochondrial disorders can be acquired while under drug

treatment. AZT treatment in AIDS patients has been shown to cause mDNA

depletion which in turn causes myopathic changes that are reversible

upon termination of treatment. Chemotherapy agents such as fosfamide

have been reported to decrease mitochondrial function. For

mitochondria to reproduce themselves, a specific enzyme called

gamma-DNA-polymerase or " pol-gamma " is required. Many medications have

been found to interrupt pol gamma. Studies suggest that virtually all

the nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NARTIs)

including AZT interrupt pol gamma to some extent. One study has

already demonstrated that people given AZT had significant depletion

of mitochondrial DNA in muscle tissue. So, free radical damage to

mitochondria, whether by benzene and its derivatives or AZT or other

toxic chemicals can cause the " chronic fatigue " and weight loss

symptoms diagnosed in early AIDS patients.

 

Mitochondrial damage can possibly be a primary cause for low

platelet count (thrombocytopenia), anaemia and low neutophil count,

regardless of HIV serostatus.

 

A study on cardiovascular toxicology reports " AZT treatment

increases superoxide (free radical) production " and " the effects of

AZT on endothelium-dependent relaxation are eliminated by pretreatment

with a free radical scavenger " (anti-oxidant).

 

There is evidence of alcoholic toxicity being mediated via the

generation of free radical species. Ethanol also induces free radical

formation that damages mitochondria and alters metabolism in

mitochondria. The consumption of alcohol results in the formation of

two very toxic compounds; acetaldehyde and malondialhyde which

generate massive amounts of free radicals throughout the body. This

type of free radical damage is both to the cell wall and the mitochondria.

 

The HIV virus is able to pass through the cell wall that is

damaged by free radicals and it being a retro-virus takes control of

the genetic material. This explains why alcoholics as a group are an

HIV risk group and explains why the symptoms in alcoholics may be

different from other groups. So, an alcoholic could get AIDS from free

radical damage to the immune system or HIV-AIDS.

 

Again anti-oxidants play a vital role. If a proper combination of

anti-oxidants is taken shortly before alcohol consumption the cellular

damage caused by alcohol generated free radicals may be prevented.

There is data to suggest that the administration of vitamin C (an

anti-oxidant) may be useful in limiting those aspects of alcohol

toxicity mediated by circulating acetaldehyde. Also administration of

large amounts of vitamin C appears to accelerate ethanol and

acetaldehyde metabolism and reduce their adverse health effects.

Vitamin E and glutathione, which are anti-oxidants reduces the toxic

activity of acetaldehyde.

 

Heroin use results in damage to the brain tissue from free

radicals and in long term drug abusers there may be free radical

damage that breaks or weakens the blood-brain barrier leading to

infections in the brain. In this group of drug users, the free radical

are different and the damage may be more specific and localized and

explains why the symptoms may be different from the alcohol-abuse

group, in whom the free-radical damage is throughout the body with an

exacerbation in the liver or other risk groups including the

AZT-induced AIDS group.

 

Chemical stressors can act as free radicals or stimulate the

production of free radicals that may initiate harmful chain reactions

in the body. Practically every single medicament from the following

groups have been found to have immunotoxic properties: antibiotics,

antifungal, antiviral, and antiparasitic agents; tranquilizers,

antiepiliptics, antiparkinson, and anesthetics; antihypertensive,

anti-anginal, and antiarrhythmic drugs; gastrointestinal medications;

antidiabetics, antithyroid drugs, and sex hormones including oral

contraceptives; antiallergics; bronchodilating agents; anticoagulants,

drugs acting on fibrinolysis, blood expanders, clotting factors, and

inhibitors of platelet aggregation; non-steroidal anti-inflammatory

drugs, corticosteroids, antirheumatismal, and anti gout drugs; and

immunodepressive and immunomodulating drugs such as antitumoral drugs

and medications to avoid graft rejection.

 

The immunotoxicity of AZT has been solidly documented.

Azidothymide (AZT) and AZT monophosphate (AZT-MP) in concentrations as

low as 10 and 50 microM, respectively promote oxidation. This

prescription drug for AIDS patients is a very toxic medication that

promotes free radical generation in a cell free system and in the body.

 

AZT is a poison that is cytotoxic. It was originally developed for

chemotherapy but was never approved for use in humans because of its

toxicity. It kills healthy cells by terminating the DNA synthesis in

cells. Its mDNA depletion activity explains muscular fatigue and

muscular atrophy later in long term use. AZT is confirmed to be

carcinogenic in mice. In humans, AZT increases the risk of lymphomas

by 50 times. AZT decreases white blood cells by killing young CD4

lymphocites. It causes anemia, vomiting, lactic acidosis, fatigue,

muscles wasting and lymphocytopenia and it stimulates leukemias – all

the classic symptoms of AIDS!

 

A rheumatoid arthritis drug, Remicade will have its label revised

to warn of a three fold increase of lymphoma, a blood cancer. In fact

all drugs that block or inhibit inflammatory proteins, especially

those that cause edema or increase the risk of heart attacks and

strokes should be studied to determine their free radical generating

capacity in vitro and in the body, in particular their immunotoxic and

immunosuppressive potency. As time passes, more and more metabolic and

endocrine disturbances will be described in individuals placed on

protease inhibitors while in tribal societies that rely more on herbs

that are anti-inflammatory, the incidence of disturbances will be much

lower or totally absent.

 

Industrial chemical and environmental pollutants are another

important source of different abnormalities upon lymphocyte

activation, proliferation and differentiation, cytokine production,

cytotoxic effect, antibody production, phagocytosis, natural killer

cell activity, complement, etc. Also here, immunotoxicity has been

found in practically every single chemical that has been tested from

the following groups: heavy metals, pesticides, aliphatic and aromatic

hydrocarbons and derivatives, alcohols, phenols, and derivatives

airborne pollutants including diesel engine emissions, nitrogen

dioxide, ozone, sulfuric acid and food additives and preservatives.

 

The adverse effects of alcohol and other drugs on the immune

system have been documented since the beginning of last century. There

is a growing body of human and animal evidence of the immunotoxicity

of tobacco smoke, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroine, alkyl

nitrites, metamphetamines, qualones and other street drugs. The bottom

line is that all immunosuppresants help in generating AIDS. These

facts form some of the scientific basis for the " drug-AIDS hypothesis " .

 

The only logical hypothesis is that toxic chemicals, whether or

not they are approved for medication, if they generate free radicals

in the body that decrease white blood cell count or kill T4 cells or

damage the cell walls of cells of the immune system or the endocrine

system will generate AIDS. It is results in immune deficiencies or

immune disorders or damage to the genetic material and explains the

variation of the symptoms of the AIDS and that also means there will

be no such thing as an AIDS vaccine.

 

Remicade and Enbrel are drugs that possibly fall in this category

as indicated by the contraction of TB in 12 patients in California and

its risk in causing blood cancer. They provide a good example that

like AZT, they weaken or impair the immune system sufficiently

allowing drug-induced opportunistic infections (DIOIs) or interfere

with the genetic material in cells to result in cancers. The worldwide

rise of TB may in fact be DIOI-TB while HIV-linked TB is attributable

to the ravaging effects of AZT on the immune system or due to the

immunosupprresive drugs. It appears that we are under siege by

allopathic drugs.

 

In my current opinion the HIV virus only causes disease after the

auto-immune system is weakened or destroyed by immunosuppressants and

free-radical damage caused to the auto-immune system and the endocrine

system by benzene and its derivatives. It is not the first direct

cause. This is the synopsis that must be proven or disproved based on

science and lab work.

 

The picture that emerges is as follows:

 

1. We have generated huge amounts of atmospheric pollutants since

1970 and many toxic chemicals that enter the body and cause free

radical chain reactions.

 

2. We created a large number of chemical-based products since 1970

for use in industry and in homes, including sexual lubricants and

condoms with toxic chemicals that generate free radicals in the body.

 

3. We developed a very large number of prescription drugs and

medication that are also toxic and generate free radicals in the body

some of which cause mitochondrial depletion or have immunotoxic

properties.

 

There is an obvious case to distinguish four types of AIDS: one

that is caused by free radicals generated by pollutants; another

caused by lifestyle toxic chemicals such as in alcoholics, drug

abusers and the gay population; the third being correctly labeled as

" prescription AIDS " as it is caused by prescribed medications; and in

any of these cases where there is HIV virus infection, the virus gains

entry into the cell through the cell wall that has suffered free

radical damage. In of all these cases, only when the immune and

endocrine systems degenerate severely or are destroyed will the

opportunistic infections set in to manifest the full blown AIDS.

 

There is also the obvious pointer to include anti-oxidants into

the practice of medicine and develop an alternative approach that

considers concoctions from herbs that boosts the immune system or has

a restorative effect on the endocrine system to protect the body from

the mayhem of free radicals. The natural approach is to consider an

anti-oxidant pharmacoepia to strengthen or boost the immune system and

restore the hormonal imbalances. We need to make a paradigm shift away

from immunotoxic medication. And that requires a rethink on the free

radical allopathic pharmacopeia (FRAP).

 

BELDEU SINGH

 

Malaysia

 

 

See also related:

 

'Green Gasoline' Benzene Leukemia Risk In Children Confirmed

 

Harvard Research in Tanzania Confirms: Multivitamin Slows AIDS

Progression

 

AIDS Surviver Teaches Africans How To Overcome 'HIV Infection'

 

Aids Test Unscientific: Test Kit Makers Sued in Kansas

 

HIV-Aids: A Tragic Error

 

AIDS in Africa

 

AIDS 'made to kill blacks'

 

Nobel winner: Aids a WMD

 

10 Questions: Wangari Maathai

 

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