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Why Retroviruses Appear in AIDS, Cancer andAutoimmune Diseases

part 1 | part 2 | part 3

By Cal Crilly, 27 May 2006
edited by Fintan Dunne, Editor MyLongLife.com
www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/05/30/
why_retroviruses_appear_in_aids_cancer_and_autoimmune_diseases.htm
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"HIV is so 80's.
That's why it's called a retro virus."



Section 1

"First of all I'm not qualified. I've been an electronics factory worker for the last decade. I've done half a year part-time of university biology but discovered that under our government's cutbacks, night classes don't exist anymore --so all of this was researched during tea breaks."

I'm here because I read John Lauritsen's AIDS War and for me HIV/AIDS was over once I discovered the truth about the AIDS drugs. That book was written in 1994, so why am I even writing this now? I don't know.

I also became incredibly ill from Phenol (Benzene) exposure at work and that's why I know the fine details. This is because Benzene is still the most obvious culprit involved in the T-cell depletion that causes AIDS.

"By carefully measuring individual laborers' exposure to benzene and other chemicals, the researchers showed that the 109 workers exposed below the 1 ppm level still had white blood cell counts almost 15 percent lower than similar workers who were not exposed. The reduction was larger for individuals subjected to more than 10 ppm of benzene."

My first shot, if I ever say Benzene causes more T-cell depletion than HIV I get called a holocaust denier. Oh well.

Section 2

So on to retroviruses.

Retrovirus is a misnomer.

Just because Robert Gallo declared a retrovirus to be the probable cause of AIDS in 1984 at a press conference doesn't mean a thing. He knew nothing about retroviruses back then and his main peer Peter Duesberg said he was wrong immediately.

This was all a commercial gold rush set up by the American government via the NIH who employed Gallo to sell two new tests, one was the HIV antibody test which still to this day has on the inserts warnings saying things like this.

"The AMPLICOR HIV-1 MONITOR [Viral Load] test is not intended to be used as a screening test for HIV or as a diagnostic test to confirm the presence of HIV infection..."

"Do not use this kit as the sole basis of diagnosis of HIV-1 infection" (Abbott Laboratories HIV Test, Roche Viral Load Test and Epitope, Inc. Western Blot Test...)"

"Positive test results can occur due to "prior pregnancy, blood transfusions...and other potential nonspecific reactions" (Vironostika HIV Test, 2003)."


The other was the Michael Gottlieb's T-cell test, completely confusing when put into practice, terrifying healthy people with low T-cell counts who only have low T-cell counts because they aren't sick and therefore don't need T-cells to be on massive alert.

If you have a high T-cell count it could mean you have an autoimmune disease or allergies but they tell you that you're well. All a giant stuff up, in fact I would say both of these guys are like the Derek Zoolanders of Biology, who led everyone up a creek where the boat got stuck.

And that's where we are now.

Section 3

After the Genome project happened we discovered -Lord, Oh Lordie-- that about 40% of our Genome was made up of RNA transposable elements, in other words they replicate differently to DNA and move around or transpose. Before the Genome Project these were called 'Junk DNA' because we didn't know what they were --and 8% of those transposable elements are called Long Terminal Repeats by the geneticists.

Long Terminal Repeats are also called retroviruses.

The way our genome keeps them in check to stop them moving round aimlessly is with a process called DNA Methylation.

Tucked away in my university book 'Principles of Genetics' by Snustad and Simmons is this quote.

"Where Methylated DNA is found, it is associated with transcriptional repression. This is most dramatically seen in female mammals where the inactive X chromosome is extensively methylated. Regions of the mammalian genome that contain repetitive sequences , including those rich in transposable elements are also methylated, perhaps as a way of protecting the organism against the deleterious effects of transposable expression and movement" (Page 620 if you need to look.)

So retroviruses are not infectious, they are in us, all the time. They are involved in fetal and cell growth and you find them everywhere especially in the placenta in large amounts during early pregnancy because fetal cells are Methylating and Demethylating over and over as the growth happens.

"Epigenetic alterations, including changes in DNA methylation status, are among the most common molecular alterations in human neoplasia. DNA methylation changes are also involved in mammalian development, starting with a wave of demethylation during cleavage, followed by genome-wide de novo methylation after implantation. Recently, Ohgane et al. reported that the differentiation of a trophoblast lineage is associated with DNA methylation and demethylation."

So what do we do? We panic and test our women for a theoretical retrovirus that was 'The probable cause of AIDS' back in 1984 and then it gets worse because we give them anti-retroviral drugs to stop these evil retroviruses.

Never mind that the drugs even have warnings saying "These drugs can cause mutations", this is an ideological crusade just to keep ourselves satisfied that we are winning the war on AIDS.

I've cried about this, got so angry my adrenal glands hurt, been abused for telling people, lost friends, lost a lot of time, maybe more, felt insane and ended up saying tragic jokes like "I think I might have the AGE virus, it's going to get me one day."

Section 4

Retrovirus is a misnomer. Here's the HERV-W retrovirus involved in cell to cell fusion when pregnancy happens, when this came on the net I saw it straight away and my alarm bells went off.

Robert Gallo did not know any of this in 1984.

HIV is so 80's.That's why it's called a retro virus.

"We demonstrate that HERV-W encodes a highly fusogenic membrane glycoprotein able to induce syncytium formation upon interaction with the type D mammalian retrovirus receptor expressed in primate and pig cells. Moreover, we found that HERV-W was expressed in placenta cells, suggesting that it may be involved in normal placenta function."

Highly fusogenic means they stick to us, no wonder everyone thought they were infectious.

They are certainly involved in cell growth. What I believe is happening is they are holding us together and the most dramatic example is the collapse of collagen and skin in AIDS patients who take the anti- retrovirals.

.Just go to www.facialwasting.org and see what I mean.

Here is an example of our retroviruses appearing in our skin.

"This tissue-tropism should be seen in relation to the high expression previously found in syncytiotrophoblasts in placenta and sebaceous glands of the skin, suggesting profound influences by steroid hormonal regulation."

The "profound influence of steroid hormonal regulation" just means our hormones give the signals to the cells to grow and the retroviruses are part of the process.

This is why they say don't take too much Vitamin A in pregnancy because it can cause defects but likewise if you don't have enough you get defects as well because there is a "wave of demethylation during cleavage" of the fetal cells.

And the retroviruses appear with demethylation.

It's all about balance in an unbalanced world. Now I have a folder called Nerd in my newly repaired Bitza computer with it's 8gig hard drive (woohoo and thanks Ward, he's the computer nerd that is making this possible). That folder has 1.6meg in word document quotes just to prove this. Unfortunately the real research on retroviruses has not been done yet, so come on I'm waiting, but in the meantime I can show you a lot they've all missed using their own data.

Section 5

So how did Gallo stuff up? Well he was a failed retrovirologist who thought because he found retroviruses in leukemia that he could extract that retrovirus and infect some other poor mammal and give them leukemia.

Well it didn't work just the same as the poor chimps now in retirement zoos who were infected with HIV, they didn't get sick.

When some poor gay guys from the disco era who had used Amyl Nitrate, Coke and party drugs followed by over prescription of Antibiotics, Cortisone (an immune suppressant drug) and more (there were also Benzene contaminated lubricants called Hot Oils on the market), finally got ill and came down with pneumonia --Gallo turned up with his retrovirus test and, lo and behold, got a few positives.

We are talking about a handful of guys, literally --and the press, who were in full Reagan mode and wanted a pogrom against gays, simply went with it. Bigots.

How does this effect science now? Here's my funniest example.

I'm from Brisbane in Australia, we get called the Deep North up here, everyone thinks we're hicks with IQ's of 60 (mine's 152 just to be a show off). We have Koalas here, and the greenies get very upset that they are going to disappear from the city zone and they probably will. This is because they are a bit dumb and even if we made corridors for them to travel through when breeding season comes they are so hot for sex they run out under cars and into back yards where dogs just crunch them.

But down near the Gold Coast (bit like a Florida zone) there's one of those theme parks called Dreamworld. This is a study of the koalas there who are kept old and alive long enough for the researchers to notice that they are riddled with Lymphomas.

Why?

Well these researchers have blamed the Koala retrovirus (so don't have sex with the critters), and if they have their way the female koalas will be put on anti-retrovirals to stop mother to child transmission. I'm not kidding, that's how scientists think.

"Koala retrovirus (KoRV) is a newly described endogenous retrovirus and is unusual in that inserts comprise a full-length replication competent genome. As koalas are known to suffer from an extremely high incidence of leukaemia/lymphoma, the association between this retrovirus and disease in koalas was examined. Using quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase PCR it was demonstrated that KoRV RNA levels in plasma are significantly increased in animals suffering from leukaemia or lymphoma when compared with healthy animals.

Why on earth do koalas suffer an extremely high incidence of leukaemia/lymphoma?

Well, remember DNA Methylation keeps retroviruses in check. If you look at cancer studies they mention that global demethylation of the Genome is a big risk factor for getting cancer, here's one saying what happens with the retroviruses.

"In addition, when researchers treat cells or mice with drugs that demethylate the genome, the result is activation of previously silent retroviruses and endogenous genes."

Retrovirus is a misnomer again, they are just coming out because our DNA is not being methylated. Demethylation is the cause of the disease, and this is because the nutrients needed for Methylation to happen are also antioxidants that protect cells.

When the cells are falling apart that's when the retroviruses come out.

Harold Foster is running what seem already to be successful trials with selenium on AIDS patients in Africa. I'm writing this also because he was the one that noticed that selenium deficiency causes AIDS.

Koalas only eat Eucalyptus leaves and on that diet they get selenium deficient.

"In addition, analyses done for the agroforestry program showed that little selenium accumulated in the eucalyptus leaves or wood fiber; however, it was noted that high concentrations of selenium accumulated in the sap."

Also here in South East Queensland where Brisbane and the Gold Coast are we have low selenium levels in our soil.

"selenium deficiency is usually associated with acid or sandy soils where the annual rainfall is over 450mm. This occurs in the northern and southern tablelands of NSW, coastal and south east Queensland, parts of Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia and the eastern half of Tasmania"

The koalas are selenium deficient and selenium in the form of S-adenosyl-methionine or SAM is needed for Methylation to happen.

"Interestingly, the continuous feeding of a diet deficient in choline and methionine is recognized to lead to global DNA hypomethylation and cause hepatocellular carcinomas in rats in the absence of any exogenous carcinogen."

"Dietary deficiencies of the SAM precursors folate, methionine, vitamin B12, and choline have been associated with increased cancer risk."

This is why we give pregnant mums folic acid. We forgot the selenium and the koalas, they just have to breed quickly before they get leukemia.

Harry Foster is right to use selenium. Thankfully someone noticed.

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