Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize this year. I’ve not seen any real explanation for her award, but this probably has much to do with it:
“She said (HIV/AIDS) was invented as a bio-weapon in some laboratory in the West,” a senior State Department official said.
The West is evil, and the root of everything bad in the world.
Nominate me for a Nobel prize, please!
I believe sushi has mysterious properties that keep you wanting more and more.
Comment by Alex — October 10, 2004 @ 1:02 pm
Read the book “A higher form of Killing”, by Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman. They detail how US Army has asked congress in the past for funding of the study of “agents that are refractory to the human immune system”. Did congress authorize these expenditures? Did some of these agents get “built”?? Legitimate questions in my view.
Comment by Bubba Bo Bob Brain — October 10, 2004 @ 2:28 pm
There is one thing I’ve learned about conspiracies– the biggest one being that people will only keep their mouths shut for so long.
As a rule, people who advocate conspiracies tend to be among the greatest conspirators of all.
Comment by Alex — October 10, 2004 @ 2:57 pm
Legitimate questions they may be. But I would doubt there is any truth to the AIDS virus being developed in that way. A researcher somewhere would have discerned that by now.
As it developed and spread via homosexual activity, I would surmise it originated through some form of Kinseyan sexual act.
Comment by Bunker — October 10, 2004 @ 3:08 pm
A brief history of AIDS: It apparently been present in the simian class of primates for a very long time. The virus seems to have “jumped species” around the mid-fities or there-abouts. It was largely and is still largely a hetero-sexual manace on the African continent. It bacame a largely “homo-sexual” problem here in the west when patient zero, a French Canadian airline steward(whose name escapes me just now) had unprotected sex with several partners. So for you to “annoit” it exclusively a homo-sexual problem is ill-informed. Your reference to Kinsey will be lost on many.
Comment by Bubba Bo Bob Brain — October 10, 2004 @ 6:19 pm
I don’t recall it was an issue until that flight attendant (I can’t remember his name, either), who was quite proud of himself, brought it over. Whether it was homosexual in nature in the beginning or not, I can only assume due to the rapid spread in that group. I had heard it was a simian disease, but didn’t say that because I didn’t know.
It is now definitely a heterosexual issue in Africa, although I couldn’t agree that it began that way simply because of how it spread. For many years it was simply classified as a “homosexual disease.”
It is interesting to me that someone who wins a Nobel Peace Prize is most noted for a comment such as this.
Comment by Bunker — October 10, 2004 @ 7:08 pm
Radical comments like that do tend to turn off most Americans. While I don’t necessarily agree with these kind of comments they do make me want to research and find out why someone feels this way.
Comment by Bubba Bo Bob Brain — October 10, 2004 @ 7:26 pm
I don’t take such things as a challenge to research more. When something that wild comes out without explanation, it tells me there is none.
Comment by Bunker — October 11, 2004 @ 5:40 am
I generally reach the same conclusion, but I research the comments anyway so as to force myself to know what the facts are.
Comment by Bubba Bo Bob Brain — October 11, 2004 @ 8:33 pm