Africa, like everywhere else in world, has its fair share of honest, intelligent; hardworking people who want to see their families have a better standard of living. Unfortunately, most of these people are living below poverty line. The reasons that Africa, with all of its natural resources, is an economic basket case are complex. They start with 16th Century Africans' failure to adopt an effective immigration policy. The result was European immigrants divided up continent without regard to historic tribal boundaries. The modern result has been tribal wars waged with modern weapons from Sudan to Rwanda.

After WWII, West's development schemes have been a long litany in stupid projects. A few of my favorite examples include: 1. The British Groundnut Project: After WWII, British found themselves with lots of heavy equipment that needed a use. The British shipped it to Africa and cleared thousands of hectares of tropical jungle. The idea was to grow peanuts and export them back to Britain. Nobody considered fact that soils in a jungle are lateritic and, once jungle was cleared, exposed areas quickly evolved into concrete parking lots. Not one peanut ever reached England. 2. The Americans Built Highways to Nowhere: After WWII, Americans built four lane roads in countries with less than one hundred cars. The local Government owned most of cars. Years later, I sat at a roadside food stand and counted three cars passing in five hours it took only bus to travel that road to pick me up. 3. If you think stupidity is limited to English speakers, consider that Norwegian Government granted US$25 million to build a fish-freezing plant in rural Africa. After plant was built, someone noticed that local people don't catch or eat fish. They herd goats. 4. The Soviets built a milk bottling plant in North Africa. The local people don't drink bottled milk and there is no way to ship milk elsewhere. The plant has yet to ship its first bottle of milk. 5. In East Africa, Yugoslavian Government built a factory to can mangos. The factory has a capacity that exceeds entire world's trade in canned mangos. 6. The Italians built a banana processing plant, but quantity of bananas needed for plant to breakeven exceed entire country's banana production. 7. The Americans designed and Soviet's build Aswan Dam. Before it was built, studies showed that by 2006, amount of new irrigation agriculture developed above dam would be offset by salinization of Nile River Delta below dam. Meanwhile, Egyptian population would grow and result would be a constant threat of national starvation. The studies were right.

The following quote is something that came to me from a fellow researcher who lives near Rosslyn Castle in Scotland. She is a nurse and there are many other things like this I could quote. In fact I had sent her a piece from another researcher with even more detail on similar things. I include it here because Gardner is allied with these Sinclairs of Rosslyn and St. Clair that figures heavily in this quote. I guess I will understand if you regard it as entirely too far fetched but I know it is not. In 1985 I was a partner with John Campbell in Indianapolis. He was a top researcher on AIDS and he said it came from green monkey in Africa.

“In 1969 US military asked for 10 million dollars from Congress to further its cancer studies by developing:

‘A new infective microorganism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organism. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease’.

Quoted from Dept. of Defense Appropriations Hearings, 91st Congress, July 1, 1969, Washington DC regarding Special Virus Cancer Program (SVCP).

The HIV virus, a mutation of monkey leukemia virus SIV, could not be a better fulfillment of this brief. Following DNA tests, leading AIDS scientist Dr. David Ho placed common genetic ancestor of modern AIDS viruses somewhere around "the 1940's or early 50's" - exact time that Mengele and his Nazi backers, then CIA and its numerous military contractors were conducting their genetic engineering research. However, transference of SIV to man would not have required any great leap in technology, as recent fears of new diseases from organ transplantation testifies. Not surprisingly, Israeli scientists led by Dr. Alexander Kalinkovich at International AIDS Conference 2000 in South Africa announced that their latest research shows that HIV may be race-specific to black Africans.

It is accepted that HIV/AIDS was initially spread in Africa by Roman Catholic missionary hospitals and their re-use of "dirty needles". These hospitals regularly get donations of medical supplies/vaccines directly from Roman Catholic order of Knights of Malta, via its members within pharmaceutical industry. Since 1970's Knights of Malta-supported aid organizations such as AmeriCares or Knightsbridge International have provided medical supplies to needy countries including South Africa, Haiti, and Cambodia - countries which are now hardest hit by HIV/AIDS.

When historians/journalists Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln were investigating their book "The Messianic Legacy" about political links between secret societies, Vatican and intelligence agencies, they based much of their study upon Catholic secret society "The Priory of Sion". From 1963 to 1981 Grand Master of Sion was a Catholic abbot, Francois Ducand-Bourget, who prior to this appointment was Magistral Chaplain of Knights of Malta. Michael Baigent's contact within Sion was its new Grand Master Pierre Plantard de St. Clair, of Sinclair "Grail family" of Roslin, Edinburgh, which coincidentally is global center of genetic engineering. Starting in 1982 Plantard indicated that 1984 was to be a critical year in plans of Sion. In 1984 he said ‘everything was in place, nothing could stop it now, time had come to move on, and nothing could now stop it’. When asked was present Pope a potential ally or adversary in whatever schemes were afoot, Plantard replied ‘a rapprochement had been reached with Vatican. Rome would cooperate. Certain concessions had been necessary in return, but they were essentially nominal’.

Nothing unusual occurred in 1984, apart from in April when discovery of HIV virus that causes AIDS was announced to world.