AIDS is the weapon of a powerful segment of society whose spiritual forefathers date back centuries. The
epidemic is the culmination of the intellectual and spiritual tradition of some of the richest and most
powerful people alive, many of them famous and respected figures from families whose names are
household words and held in high esteem by the public. Their indifference—or contempt—for the lives of
common humanity should not come as a surprise, nor be hard to believe.
Since at least the height of British colonial domination of the world, there has been a potent strain of
thinking among "aristocrats" about superior races (white, English speaking, educated and rich) and
inferior races (white or black or colored, uneducated and poor). The entire British colonial system was
based on the ruthless domination by a few of the "superior" over vast numbers of the "inferior."
America itself was founded in rebellion against that domination. The American Revolution was an
overthrow of those old ideas about who should rule—and how. And then the new Americans turned right
around and did the same thing to their own "inferiors," allowing slavery for blacks and committing
genocide against Native Americans with a rapacity that would have gratified the most ruthless British
colonialists.
Philosophers revered as great thinkers by the British aristocrats of those centuries openly expressed their
views that the inferior peoples of the planet must not be allowed to increase sufficiently in numbers to use
up the earth's precious natural resources and, eventually, to overrun by sheer numbers the existing
political and economic system.
Adam Smith
The most prominent 18th Century spokesman for the British East India Company policies of global
genocide was the economist Adam Smith. His book, The Wealth of Nations, is still required reading in
college economics classes. He wrote several works on forced population reduction, the most notable being
The Treatise of Human Nature and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in which he placed mankind on the
level of animals.
Eugenics
This aristocratic tradition of "population control" found its expression in America in the early 20th
Century with the formation in 1904 of what was then known as the "Station for Experimental Evolution."
Funded by generous grants from Andrew Carnegie—who stated publicly that he was a hearty supporter of
Malthus' ideas on "population control"—Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, the
Station conducted experiments involving different races.
One of their goals was to learn how to curb the rapid birth rate of blacks and other "coloreds." As
outrageous as it may sound now, this was a goal that was very much on the minds of the Eastern rich in
America. They were as frightened of being overrun by the masses—particularly the blacks—as the British
had been of the natives they ruled in their colonies.
In 1910, Mrs. E. H. Harriman donated 80 acres of land at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, and $300,000
to the Station for Experimental Evolution to establish a "Eugenics Records Office." The widow of the
man who created America's first great railroad fortune—the man who bankrolled the posse clever enough
to track Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, frightening them off to South America—her fortune was
estimated at somewhere around a half billion dollars.
The newspapers called her the richest woman in the world, and she became a driving force behind
eugenics research in America. (Eugenics is defined as "the study of hereditary improvement by genetic
control.") The thrust of the research conducted at Cold Spring Harbor was to improve the superiority of
the white race. Mrs. Harriman wanted a world-wide campaign of sterilization of defectives "to make race
perfect." The creation of a Master Race, in other words.
Madison Grant
The records of that era which are still available indicate that this was a socially acceptable view among
the rich who supported Cold Spring Harbor. They were determinedly making plans to halt the birth rate of
blacks and colored people—Indians and Asians—especially in Africa and the United States. A typical
attitude among this group was expressed publicly by the vice president of the Immigration Restriction
League, Madison Grant, a friend of Teddy Roosevelt's and a trustee of the Museum of Natural History:
"In Europe today, the amount of Nordic blood in each nation is a very fair measure of its strength in war
and its standing in civilization. In the City of New York, and elsewhere in the United States there is a
native American Aristocracy resting upon layer upon layer of immigrants of lower races…It has taken us
50 years to learn that speaking English, wearing good clothes and going to school and church does not
transform a Negro into a white man…Americans will have a similar experience with the Polish Jew,
whose dwarf stature, peculiar mentality and ruthless concentration on self-interests are being grafted upon
the stock of the nation. Indiscriminate efforts to preserve babies among the lower classes often results in
serious injury to the race."
Thomas Malthus
Grant was a worthy heir to the spiritual tradition of Thomas Malthus—and he summarized nicely the
world view of those who poured their money into the eugenics work of Cold Spring Harbor, both then and
in the future. From 1915 until shortly before World War II, the Olympians opened the facilities at Cold
Spring Harbor to many of Germany's leading genetic scientists. They conducted extensive research into
the origins of various races and designed eugenics experiments to rid the world of the mentally
retarded—who were called "undesirables" or "defectives." Cold Spring Harbor gained the reputation as
the world's leader in eugenics research. The scions of the most respected American families, such as the
Harrimans, funded these experiments—which continue until this day and led to the creation of the AIDS
virus.
In the early days, they weren't even terribly secretive. There were seven superrich families who just
accepted as their God-given privilege that they would someday own America—its natural resources and
productive capacity—outright. Their ideas were not much advanced beyond feudalism. And they were so
certain in their self-righteous rectitude that they openly told the press exactly what they planned. The
press respectfully, even admiringly, published it. (Not completely unlike today's press.) These were the
actual headlines from the New York World newspaper on September 4, 1915:
"Mrs. E. H. Harriman Backs a Gigantic Step in Eugenics Would Curb Defectives by
the Hundreds of Thousands Over Series of Years.
To Make Race Perfect.
Aid of Rockefeller and Carnegie Hoped For in World-Wide Campaign."
The story began: "A world-wide campaign for the sterilization of defectives is called for in a report to the
Eugenic Society, which has its headquarters at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island and is generously aided
financially by Mrs. E. H. Harriman. John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie are expected to
contribute."
The Eugenics Office inflicted its cruelty from the beginning. Very early on, in 1915, they discovered in
their scientific research that pellagra—a disease that still inflicted a high death toll—was caused by an
insufficiency of niacin. The cure was a simple dietary one. Instead of spreading that information publicly,
the Eugenics Office urged a diet of corn, which provides no niacin, and then viciously attacked other
medical researchers who claimed that niacin prevented pellagra.
William Davenport
In particular, Mrs. Harriman ordered the Eugenics Office director, William Davenport, to heap contempt
on the "niacin theory." She knew he wouldn't let her down. What had drawn her to hire him in the first
place was an article in which he singled out the Irish as "defectives who genetically were not able to ward
off tuberculosis." So with that moral and scientific view of humanity, he had no qualms about complying
with her demand.
Financed by Mrs. Harriman, he published voluminous position papers discrediting the theory about
niacin. Naturally, the Eugenics Records Office carried great weight in the medical community, and as a
result, it was not until 1935 that the evidence about niacin was so incontrovertible that the Cold Spring
Harbor theory—and its recommended corn diet—were discredited. But the fraud worked. During that
generation, from 1915 to 1935, the Records Office stated that millions of "undesirable Southern poor
whites and negroes died from the ravages of pellagra."
In 1932, the Third International Conference of Eugenics was held at the Museum of Natural History in
New York City. It was sponsored by Mrs. H. R. duPont of the Delaware duPont family and a short roster
of America's wealthiest—and most rabid—racists masquerading as environmentalists and eugenics
benefactors: Mrs. Mary Averill Harriman, Major Leonard Darwin—the son of Charles Darwin, famous
for his "Survival of the Fittest" natural selection philosophy—Mrs. John T. Pratt, Mrs. Walter Jennings,
Dr. J. Harvey Kellogg, Henry Fairchild Osborn, Colonel William Draper and Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland H.
Dodge.
Charles Pratt
Mrs. Pratt was of the Standard Oil Pratts, as was Mrs. Jennings. Kellogg made his fortune from breakfast
cereal—and was widely known for the "eccentricity" of his views. Colonel Draper founded the Draper
Foundation (which later used Robert Strange McNamara, Maxwell Taylor and McGeorge Bundy to
forward its racial-environmental views) and Mr. Dodge was the financial brains behind President
Woodrow Wilson, who rhapsodized lovingly about the environment in his 1913 inaugural address not
long before he geared up to send American troops into the carnage of World War I.
These people wanted the natural resources of the world preserved for the present and future use of their
own friends and families. They had no use whatsoever for the world's "useless eaters," as Lord Russell
called them. In the modern vernacular, their views would be seen for what they were: unregenerately
racist—pure and simple. It was no accident that the founders of the modern day environmentalist
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