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How Food in Black Neighborhoods is Weaponized
III. Weaponized Food, Vaccines and the AIDS Epidemic: The U.S. and South African Collaboration
In the early 1980s, fears of a “black tidal wave” drove white scientists to try to develop a variety of means that could ensure the survival of white South Africa…[R]eportedly part of Project Coast was genetic engineering research, which was being conducted to produce a “black bomb,” bacteria or other biological agents that would kill or weaken blacks not whites. The black bomb could be used to wipe out or incapacitate an entire area where an insurrection was taking place.
If we really want to know what the U.S. Government is capable of vis-à-vis Black people, study the evils of apartheid South Africa, because the mind (and actions) of the apartheid regime mirror the mind (and actions) of its biggest allies, supporters and tutors: America and Israel. The US, Israel and South Africa worked closely together because they all shared the same problem: their most immediate enemy to be disposed of was not another nation-state threatening them from outside. Rather, in all three cases the real enemy threat came from pockets of ethnic populations within their own borders. The U.S. propped up the horrifically racist apartheid regime of South Africa (and Israel) for decades and the US repressed the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. In fact, it was the CIA who tipped off the apartheid government of the whereabouts of Nelson Mandela, leading to his capture in 1962. The US had pegged Mandela as “the world’s most dangerous communist outside the Soviet Union.” Everything was fine in South Africa – from the Afrikaner rulers’ point of view – until the Soweto Uprisings in 1976, which initiated unrest throughout the country. The eruptions in the Black townships of South Africa put the regime in the mind of “total war” and “total onslaught” against the Black South Africans. In 1981 the regime initiated its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program called Project Coast, headed by Dr. Wouter Basson, later known as “Dr. Death.” Why the nickname? Because: “There are many people who think Basson was a war hero—because he killed the blacks big time,” in the words of Daan Goosen, Basson’s subordinate in Project Coast. The South African CBW program was the protégé of the United States CBW establishment. During the 1940s and 1950s South African military officers were trained in CBW by the United States and the United Kingdom. As William Finnegan in The New Yorker observes: “According to Basson, Project Coast was modelled on the American chemical-weapons program, which he first managed to penetrate in the early nineteen-eighties.” Basson received his training in CBW at Fort Detrick in Maryland and Porton Down in the U.K. From the U.S. he got knowledge, equipment, and viruses to weaponize. Basson himself would later confess: “I must confirm that the structure of the [CBW program] project was based on the U.S. system. That’s where we learnt the most.” Thus,
The South African bioterrorist campaign depended upon very close relationships with U.S. scientists…. From 1981 to 1993, the United States supported Wouter Bassoon’s (sic) weaponization programs by financing close collaborations with U.S. scientists and by sponsoring Basson’s sojourns to the United States for conferences education.
The close working relationship between the U.S. and the South African CBW programs is demonstrated here: In 1984, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia provided Project Coast’s original viral samples of the deadly hemorrhagic fevers Ebola, Marbug, and Rift Valley, which the regime weaponized. The CDC sent eight separate shipments to Pretoria and “suddenly, South Africa possessed viruses that could be used with devastating effect in surrounding countries.” South Africa would return the favor. Soviet scientists developed and shared with Basson their nasty flesh-eating bacteria necrotizing fasciitis and its antidote. In 1994, Basson gave both to the U.S. The programs – the US and South Africa – were close because they shared the same mindset. The main aim of Project Coast was the development of a kaffir-killer or ethnic weapon designed to target Black people specifically. Kaffir is the N-word of choice for South African racists. An ethnic weapon is a genetically engineered virus that is coded to, upon entering an organism, scan cells looking for a specific genetic marker or specific combination of genetic markers. When a cell with such genetic markers is found, the virus would insert itself into the host DNA and start the process of infection. In this way the virus attacks only people who have these genetic markers. The South African Defense Force (SADF) Surgeon General Dr. Neil Knobel, who oversaw Project Coast, described the development of a bacterial ethnic weapon or “pigmentation weapon” that would specifically target pigmented or Black people as “the most important project for the country.” This bacterial kaffir-killer, called a “black bomb,” was delivered to South Africa by an American scientist that did CBW work for the U.S. government, Dr. Larry Creed Ford. One of the Kaffir-killing viruses that Basson used to “kill the Blacks big time” was a version of HIV, the AIDS virus. In a safe in the director’s office there was a refrigerator that kept Basson’s personal bottle of freeze-dried blood in which was the weaponized HIV. Basson deployed this weaponized HIV against Black South Africans through three primary ways:
1. Infect a person with the virus, and then send that person on a mission to sexually expose
as many Africans as he or she can. As Stefan Elbe documents:
HIV/AIDS can be used as a weapon of war independent of the practice of rape. One highly disconcerting example involved the apartheid regime in South Africa. In 1998, following the transition to democracy, the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard testimony that the regime may have planned to use HIV against its political enemies .... Bacteriologist Mike Odendaal has stated that the head of the Roodeplaat Research Laboratories near Pretoria, which functioned as a front company for the apartheid military, had given him a bottle with HIV-infected blood taken from a man who had died of AIDS in a military hospital. Odendaal testified that he had received orders to freeze-dry the blood for Wouter Basson, a chemical-warfare specialist who allegedly wanted to use it “against a political opponent".... Willie Nortje and Andries van Heerden, security officers under the apartheid regime, requested amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for their part in a different plan. They tried to use four HIV-positive freedom fighters from the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress, who had switched sides to work for the state security forces, to spread HIV/AIDS among sex workers in two Hillbrow hotels in the 1990s. Nortje and Van Heerden apparently hoped that the sex workers would then spread the virus to their other clients.
2. Under the cover of vaccinations
One arm of the SADF which served Project Coast was the South African Institute of Maritime Research (SAIMR). SAIMR was not only linked to the country’s CBW program, but also “operated with support from the CIA and British intelligence.” SAIMR was headed by Keith Maxwell. Maxwell had no medical qualifications but ran clinics in poor, mostly Black areas around Johannesburg while claiming to be a doctor. That gave him the opportunity for sinister experimentation.” He claimed that “AIDS would ultimately be good for humanity and would decimate the black population in South Africa,” and to insure that that happens, Maxwell and SAIMR “used phony vaccinations in the early 1990s to spread H.I.V….in an attempt to wipe out the black population,” according to former SAIMR intelligence officer Alexander Jones who worked for Maxwell. This was an orchestrated campaign to spread HIV/AIDS among Black people in Africa (including Mozambique as well). “We were at war. Black people in South Africa were the enemy,” Jones says. According to The Independent “The group’s leader (Maxwell) is said to have posed as a philanthropic doctor to give impoverished black South African’s ‘false injections’,” injections containing Basson’s weaponized HIV. Jones says:
While Maxwell presented a public face of a benevolent philanthropist who was trying to discover a cure for AIDS, he was in actuality offering free “healthcare” in order to secretly infect Black people with HIV/AIDS through phony vaccinations. SAIMR was supported by the CIA, who also uses “phony vaccinations” in covert operations.
3. Contaminating food sources
Isak Niehaus and Gunvor Jonsson record:
Allegedly, Dr. Basson distributed HIV by various means. He put it in the food, water reservoirs, and clothes of black people; in the injections given to hospital patients; in TB and smallpox vaccines; and even in the free, government-distributed condoms. However, most informants saw black soldiers as the prime agents for transmitting HIV. Dr. Basson
allegedly placed the virus in the rivers from which soldiers of the ANC‘s [African National Council] military wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), drank, and he laced the malaria tablets given to black South African Defense Force soldiers with HIV. Dr. Basson purposefully created a slow virus so that the soldiers could spread it to as many women as possible.According to these reports. Basson secretly added the virus in free, government distributed condoms and even in the medicine (malaria tablets) made available to Black South Africans! It was the U.S. – governmental CBW researcher Dr. Larry Ford in particular – who taught Project Coast operatives these techniques. How was HIV put in the food? Niehaus and Jonsson report as well:
ANC activists claimed that members of white right-wing movements distributed poisoned bread at the schools of Bushbuckridge and dumped poisoned milk in the forest. It was thought that the whites wished to ensure that few votes were cast for the ANC. At a series of meetings some ANC organizers warned civil servants and ordinary villagers that whites would employ any devious method to defeat the ANC. They alleged that the undergrade potatoes white farmers distributed free of charge in the villages were stained with invisible election ink. When people’s hands were scanned under ultraviolet rays at the polling stations it would appear as though they had already voted. The organizers also cautioned people against accepting T-shirts from seemingly generous whites as these were likely to have been doctored with dangerous chemicals. These allegations were widely accepted as truthful. The advent of HIV/AIDS saw renewed scares. Some men claimed that in 1996 and 1997 white farmers dumped tons of undergrade
oranges and sweet potatoes, which were doctored with blood containing HIV, at a shopping center and at schools. In the village of Brooklyn parents beat children who ate the oranges and warned them that they could contract AIDS. Parents were extremely suspicious of the motives of these farmers. They were hard pressed to believe that racist whites would all of a sudden give away tons of their produce. One informant, Ben Nyambi, raised the following questions: ‘‘It happened here. A white farmer brought us sweet potatoes for free. I saw the truck and the white man. How could this happen? The farmer does not pay his workers well and never transports them to work. But he spent lots of money on petrol and on his truck to bring us sweet potatoes. How can he rob his workers but give us sweet potatoes for free? I think he wants to kill us.”Many of Project Coast’s chemical and biological weapons were covertly deployed through the food and beverages made available to Black South Africans. For example, at African National Congress meetings the food and beverages would be poisoned in order to disrupt the proceedings. Botulinum toxin, the most acutely lethal toxin known, laced chocolates and milk; cigarettes and lipstick were injected with anthrax; food was injected with Hepatitis A; tinned cans of corned beef fed to villagers was injected with thallium, a poison which can cause mental retardation; sugar cubes were laced with salmonella; alcohol was mixed with the weedkiller paraquat as well as with thallium. In fact, it is reported that Basson had thallium-infused beer passed out for free to Black Africans at bus stops. Thus, food, water, and alcohol were thoroughly – and grossly – weaponized against Black Africans of southern Africa by the chemical and biological weapons program of the apartheid regime. The U.S. supported the regime and the CBW program, tutoring the operatives in techniques and providing some chemical and biological weapons. The tactics used by the South African bioterrorists against Black people in Africa were also used by U.S. bioterrorists against Black people in America. That’s the point.
IV. WIC and the Mystery of the Missing Zinc
Zinc (Zn) is an essential nutrient necessary in small amounts for health. As one of the most abundant biological trace metals, zinc is easy to get in developed countries in foods like beef, poultry, and beans. Zinc deficiency in humans can cause an assortment of pathological conditions such as growth retardation, cell-mediated immune disfunction, among others. Zinc deficiency is rare in the U.S. because, due to the easy access to zinc containing foods, most diets provide more than the recommended dietary intake. So an important 2010 study seems then to reveal to us more than the circumstances of an exceptional case of zinc deficiency in an American population, but also hints of a scientific conspiracy. Scientists from Emory University, Grady Hospital and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) studied a group of low-income Black and Hispanic pre-school children (1-5 years of age) in urban Atlanta, Georgia who were on government insurance and were enrolled in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program 2006-2007. WIC is a federal assistance program that provides (among other things) free food packages to low income pregnant and breast feeding women, infants, and children under age 5 in order to supplement diets and provide nutrition. It is administrated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (!). Annual Race/Ethnicity Data indicates that, in general, around 60% of WIC recipients are White and 20% are Black. WIC participation is historically associated with good zinc levels. A 2003 study of a national sample of 7474 mostly non-urban (67%) Whites (61%) found “Less than 1% of (preschool) children had usual zinc intakes below the adequate intake or estimated average requirement” and that "WIC participation was positively associated with zinc intake”. In other words, the food provided through the WIC program provided at least some of the zinc needed to achieve healthy levels. Fifteen years later a 2018 national random sample of 3,235 children found that WIC participants who received the food packages tested better for zinc intake than low-income as well as high-income non-WIC participants. This suggests that the WIC package was a source of zinc for these participants. Jun et al. found that only 2% of this national sample of young infant (0- to 5.9-months-old) WIC recipients and 1.5% of toddlers (12- to 23.9-months-old) had zinc intakes below the estimated average requirement. Even Black children have historically benefited from WIC in this regard. The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994 surveyed the zinc status of a nationwide sample of 29,103 (10,533 White, 8392 Black, 8421 Mexican American) aged two years and older and found that, while Whites do have a better zinc status than African Americans and Mexican Americans in part due to the larger percentage of Whites (mainly female) who can afford to use zinc supplements, “Mean dietary zinc intakes were not statistically different among non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Mexican Americans of the same age and sex group for age/sex groups aged < 51y.” The national zinc status of African Americans (mean 9.5) did not depart significantly from that of the national mean (10.0). So a zinc deficiency is uncharacteristic in America, for both Whites and African Americans. Thus, what was discovered in Atlanta in 2006-2007 is indeed an anomaly that demands explanation. Conrad R. Cole et al.’s 2010 report is an analysis of the zinc status of 280 Black and Hispanic children of urban Atlanta. This is a study of a defined, single metropolitan area group of Black and Hispanic preschoolers dependent (to one degree or another) upon WIC food supplies. The authors found evidence of a zinc deficiency in from 19.4% to upwards of 44% of the Black children: “Mean serum zinc concentrations were significantly lower among African American preschool children than among Hispanic preschool children, and they were significantly lower among those covered by government-sponsored insurance programs than among those with private health insurance”. The risk of zinc deficiency among these Black children was 4-fold that of the Hispanic children. This zinc-deficiency was so prevalent among Black children on WIC that “African American” ethnicity as well as “government sponsored insurance status” were deemed risk factors for zinc-deficiency. This unexpectedly high prevalence of zinc . . . .