World Press Freedom Week: Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees Calls Reach PLC, Gags ‘Embarrassing’ Bristol Post Journalist Tristan Cork And Assange A Political Prisoner – ‘Science Media Centre’: Big Pharma Funded TV Propaganda Machine Pushing Megavax Agenda – Almost Thirty Bilderbergers Now Employed In Covid Hysteria Vaccine Railroading Ivermectin Suppression Program – Chancellor Rishi Sunak And Home Secretary Priti Patel Part Of ‘Hindu Nationalist’ International Mafia Conspiracy? – Conspiracy Classics 5: Christopher Booker In 2010 ‘Global Warming Real Or False’ On The ‘Climate Hoax’ – NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling
Friday 7th May 2021
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BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers was forced off FM, now online only. ‘Rested due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 by BCfm charity ‘CEO’ Pat Hart who is a personal friend of the right-wing ‘Labour’ Bristol mayor Marvin Rees. This Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is now available 17:00-20:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart has replaced us with a dumbed-down student show repeating BBC stories called The Bristol Agenda. If you’d like to request our reinstatement you can contact the BCfm board and manager here.
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Part One – News Review and Investigative Reports
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Local elections. Bristol ballot boxes left 36 hours before counting over two nights at City Hall, Oasis Academy in Brislington and City Academy in – open to fraud by notorious Bristol Waste private security? Labour lost Hartlepool for first time ever. Andy Burnham does well in Manchester.
Tristan Cork said ‘The irony of a Bristol mayor candidate paying to have a wraparound website ad & advertorial Q&As with nice questions, while being too scared to do a single 1to1 interview with a Bristol Post journalist for the past 18 months’. Quoted by Bristol mayor’s PR controller Kevin Slocombe ‘The irony of a journalist criticising advertising spend in the company who pay his wages’, quoted by Laurence Fox ‘I pay your salary chum’. You lot should learn how to say thank you’. Tristan Cork from The Post was contacted by Reach PLC and then deleted his Tweet about Marvin’s cowardly advertorial, as ‘adverts keep the paper afloat’. BBC local democracy reporters. Marvin side lining Councillors and accused of bullying by Labour Councillor, Jo Sergeant. Former Labour councillor launches scathing attack on Bristol mayor and local party leadership Claims of a culture of ‘fear and bullying’ dismissed as ‘personal vendetta’ by mayor’s office Making public accusations which a small handful of Labour councillors have expressed privately, Cllr Sergeant said Mr Rees sees local councillors as an “annoying inconvenience” and has “no respect” for any members other than those Labour individuals in his “inner circle”. She said he set up the City Office and One City Boards as an “alternative council” to make policy in a way that “circumvents democratic process”. Cllr Sergeant’s comments drew both criticism and support from other Labour councillors on social media. Rebel backbencher Nicola Bowden-Jones, who also voted against the council rent freeze and was the only Labour member to vote against next year’s budget on February 23, said she was “proud” of her “courageous” colleague for going public. “I support everything you have said, and respect how difficult a decision this has been for you,” Cllr Bowden-Jones said.
Bristol Post columnist and sports reporter Neil Maggs, on his ‘Bristol Unpacked’ show, interviews Marvin asking whether he is an egoist and a bully. Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Labour Bristol Mayor candidate Marvin Rees, on his record, style and politics In this robust interview Neil and Marvin discuss his successes, criticisms and what is driving and guiding the Labour candidate. Marvin Rees is standing for the third time as a candidate for Bristol mayor. Having lost in 2012, Rees came back to comfortably win in 2016. Now after five years in office, Rees has a record to promote and to defend, attracting a lot of support and criticism from diverse quarters. In this in-depth interview, Neil and Marvin get into the personal, political and policy of the current mayor.
Ladbrokes odds on next Bristol Mayor. Marvin and Sandy – Common Purpose graduates? Until Labour remainers properly accept Brexit, the party will be stuck in limbo Larry Elliott, The Guardian – Until Labour Accepts Brexit the Party Will Be in Limbo
100s removed from Labour Party due to anti Semitism. Election for Police and Crime Commissioner. Metro Mayor election.
Uxbridge preacher John Sherwood arrested for ‘hate speech’ – Baroness Cox on Talk Radio about free speech. Police arrest preacher for saying what the Bible says about marriage 28 April 2021 Pastor John Sherwood was arrested in North West London on Friday 23 April 2021 and detained overnight – all for speaking about what the Bible says about marriage. John, in his early 70s, is minister of a north London church, and was preaching with a colleague in the centre of Uxbridge on Friday, as he regularly does. After speaking on the final verses in Genesis 1, where it says that God created mankind in his own image, creating them male and female, a number of police officers appeared on the scene. Reportedly, three complaints had been received about the pastor’s teaching, and the police accused him of causing ‘alarm and distress’ to the public. After speaking to the police, John resumed his preaching, speaking on freedom of speech. However, a couple of bystanders in the crowd apparently shouted that John’s preaching was ‘homophobic’ and ‘hate speech’. John spoke to the police once more. What quickly followed was a brutal arrest, where an officer took away the pastor’s Bible and pulled him from the steps where he had been preaching. Three officers gathered around him to handcuff him and take him away.
World Press Freedom Day – 2021 World Press Freedom Index: Journalism, the vaccine against disinformation, blocked in more than 130 countries The 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows that journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 73% of the 180 countries ranked by the organisation. This year’s Index, which evaluates the press freedom situation in 180 countries and territories annually, shows that journalism, journalism, which is arguably the best vaccine against the virus of disinformation, is totally blocked or seriously impeded in 73 countries and constrained in 59 others, which together represent 73% of the countries evaluated. These countries are classified as having “very bad,” “bad” or “problematic” environments for press freedom, and are identified accordingly in black, red or orange on the World Press Freedom map. The Index data reflect a dramatic deterioration in people’s access to information and an increase in obstacles to news coverage. The coronavirus pandemic has been used as grounds to block journalists’ access to information sources and reporting in the field. Will this access be restored when the pandemic is over? The data shows that journalists are finding it increasingly hard to investigate and report sensitive stories, especially in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Azerbaijani president nails BBC journalist Orla Guerin on ‘media freedom’ by bringing up Assange – Islam Times – BBC News correspondent Orla Guerin got more than she bargained for when her questioning of President Aliyev about the supposed lack of media freedom in his country ended up with him grilling her on Julian Assange’s imprisonment.Guerin’s interview with Aliyev on Monday took an unexpected turn when the journalist alleged that the Azerbaijani people lacked access to non-state-sanctioned media and could not enjoy their human rights to the fullest, As evidence, she cited “many independent sources,” but did not name them. The remark drew an angry rebuke from the president, who said the UK had “no moral right” to “lecture” other nations on the issue of freedom and human rights, particularly in light of the treatment of Julian Assange, who has suffered at the hands of British justice. ‘You have no moral right to talk about free media when you do these things’: President Ilham #Aliyev reminds #BBC about ‘morally & physically killing’ of Julian #Assange for journalistic activity when asked about free media in #Azerbaijan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvzxdiuMk0I
President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, when questioned about his country’s poor press freedom, asks why Julian Assange is imprisoned in UK.
‘Escape from Belmarsh’ for Assange? Snowden on Radio Cuba about West’s poor press freedom. Britain is damaging its reputation by keeping Julian Assange in jail, says partner Stella Moris says continued detention of WikiLeaks founder is compromising UK’s global standing Britain would be on stronger ground campaigning against authoritarian regimes if it pressed the Biden administration to drop its call to extradite Julian Assange on espionage charges, Stella Moris, Assange’s partner, has told the Guardian. Moris – who has two children with Assange – is trying to broaden the campaign of support for him by pointing to the global damage caused to the UK’s reputation by keeping him in jail for so long. In an interview coinciding with the second anniversary of his detention in the high-security Belmarsh prison in south-east London, she says: “The treatment of Julian is compromising the UK constantly all round the world. It’s giving authoritarian governments points to score all round the world both privately and in international fora like the UN. You cannot start a new values competition with China with Julian Assange in Belmarsh for publishing war crimes. It just does not work. You don’t get to take the moral high ground with this as your starting point.
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Part Two – Covid-19 Scamdemic Casedemic latest and investigations
POLICE SPIES OUT OF LIVES – Spy Cops. History of spying techniques, including double agents. Testimony from lady activists who had relationships and sometimes children with spy cops. New spy cops bill. Blacklisting – Deceived into relationships with undercover cops. This video shows ‘Lisa’ and Kate explaining what happened
These are words of four women affected by relationships with undercover officers. There are many more stories like these. They, and others like them, are fighting for the police to be held to account, the truth about what happened to them, and for this abuse to never happen again. The Guardian, Undercover Research, and The Canary have been pivotal over the last few years in exposing the work of ‘spycops’. In particular, the fake and in some cases real identities of the undercover officers (UCOs) involved. Some UCOs formed long-term sexual relationships with women activists. At least thirty women were exploited in this way. Kennedy was one of the UCOs who exploited women: with ‘Lisa Jones’ over six years; with Kate (‘Lily’) over two years; with ‘Naomi’; and with Sarah Hampton.
‘Monopoly – Follow The Money’ documentary – a handful of corporations in charge. Monopoly: an overview of the Great Reset. This informative video gives an overview of what is currently happening in the world in just 1 hour. The video shows the modern global systems, and focusses on the situation in the Netherlands. We believe though, that people from all over the world will recognise this situation. In consultation with Tim Gielen, the maker of this video, and in cooperation with others who strive for freedom, we translated it into English. We think it is a very important video to share with the world, so we can change things for the better
Merchant Venturers run Bristol – how can we see their accounts? – ask Jacob Rees Mogg, Chair of the Privy Council.
Intelligence Services CONTROL of the mass media with John Stockwell recorded in the 1980s, former CIA colonel and author of ‘In Search of Enemies’, on media agents of the CIA and Operation Mockingbird. Gareth Williams – GCHQ spy in a bag.
Dr. Tess Lawrie, from Evidence Based Medicine, gives an impassioned closing speech to the online conference about Ivermectin for Covid, about the unhealthy power of the pharmaceutical companies.
FLCCC weekly Thursday podcast – Mike Defensor, Congressman from Philippines, on Ivermectin. Geopolitics, economy, and Covid. WEF taking over from UN? G7 and G20.
Science Media Centre, ‘Independent’ Covid Press Office that pushes Covid stories on the press, is funded by big pharmaceuticals and Welcome Foundation. So. Who’s paying for the so called impartial Science Media Centre? I’ve reversed the order of their major funders – highest amount first, rather than last now. Over £30,000 Wellcome UKRI £20,000 – £30,000 GlaskoSmithKline (GSK) The Gatsby Charitable Foundation £10,000 – £19,999 AstraZeneca CropLife International Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) Limited Nature Sanofi £5,000 – £9,999 Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) BASF Plc Bayer Plc BP International Ltd Chemical Industries Association (CIA) Covestro Danone EDF Energy GE Healthcare Imperial College London Sellafield Ltd
Wikispooks has a list of Bilderberg attendees who have played a role in Covid 19 event – Bilderbergers who have played major roles in the COVID-19 event include: Jared Kushner – 2019 – Charged with fast tracking a Covid vaccine, announced Operation Warp Speed.[2] Ursula von der Leyen – 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015 – President of the European Commission since December 2019, in 2021 announced a proposal to “revive the EU tourism industry and for cross-border friendships to rekindle – safely,” referring to permitting travel only for recipients of the COVID-19/Vaccine[3] Tom Tugendhat – 2019 – UK MP who in November 2020 suggested that COVID vaccination could be mandated for UK workers or travellers.[4] In 2021, asked for investigation of the claim of Matthew Pottinger (also a 2019 Bilderberger) that the virus came from the WIV.[5] Matthew Pottinger – 2019 – Member of Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force, told world leaders in 2019 that he believed SARS-CoV-2 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.[6] Henry Kissinger – 2019 … (over 40 intermediate meetings) … 1957 February – deep politician, numerous influential public pronouncements on COVID-19 Sylvia Burwell – 2018 – Co-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations’s “Independent Task Force on Improving Pandemic Preparedness” Vittorio Colao – 2018 – Leader of a special task force to handle “Phase 2” of the Italian Covid Task Force Demis Hassabis – 2018, 2016, 2015 – Dialed in to a meeting of SAGE, which promoted the UK COVID Lockdown. Kyriakos Mitsotakis – 2018, 2016 – As Greek PM displayed Klaus Schwab’s The Great Reset on his desk. In 2021 he was promoting the idea of a “vaccine passport”.[7] Avril Haines – 2017 – US Deep State actor who participated in Event 201. Holder of senior spooky positions with US Deep State connections. Christopher Liddell – 2017 – White House Coronavirus Task Force Jens Spahn – 2017 – As German Federal Minister of Health aggressive promoted vaccinations and played a key role in the German lockdowns. Jeffrey Zients – 2017 -Became White House coronavirus coordinator in 2021.[8] Dido Harding – 2016 – Placed in charge of producing the widely condemned NHSX app mass surveillance tool Shiraz Maher – 2015 – A “Terror expert” who reportedly had a case of COVID-19 which was “classified as “mild” by British health authorities”. Maher wrote a “horrifying account of his experience with COVID-19” which was picked up by the commercially-controlled media after it “went viral” on Twitter.[9] Emmanuel Macron – 2014 – As French President, set up France’s COVID-19 Scientific Council in March 2020.[10] Mitchell Daniels – 2012 – Member of the Council on Foreign Relations’s “Independent Task Force on Improving Pandemic Preparedness” Andrew Liveris – 2012 – “Special Adviser” to the Australia/National COVID-19 Coordination Commission[11] Erna Solberg 2011 – Norwegian PM who led the national lockdowns. Directed billions of dollars to international vaccine programs (GAVI etc)[citation needed] Bill Gates – 2010 – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aggressive promotion of vaccines, ID2020. Commented in March 2020 that “Eventually we will need some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested (for COVID-19) recently, or when we have a vaccine, who has received it.”[12] Kathleen Sebelius – 2007, 2008 – On Joe Biden’s White House Coronavirus Task Force[13] Angela Merkel – 2005 – Stated in February 2021 that “I stressed in my intervention that the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated”[14], later that “We have all agreed that we need vaccine certificates.”[15] Melinda Gates – 2004 – Wife of Bill Gates, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Tony Blair – 1993 – Aggressive promotion of “Vaccine passports”.[16] Unproven involvement – Emmanuelle Charpentier – 2016 – Pioneered CRISPR as a tool for genome editing (for which she was co-recipient of a Nobel prize in 2020) Alex Karp – 2019 … (all 7 intermediate meetings) … 2012 – Co-founded Palantir, which has been active internationally[17] with COVID,[18][19] and provided the software for Operation Warp Speed. Peter Thiel – 2019 … (all 11 intermediate meetings) … 2007 – Co-founder and largest shareholder of Palantir as of 2020
Privatised military research, news wire services, colonialism Gates and Wellcome foundations – China and Russia. ‘Q is for the Queen’s Qinetiq’ documentary, about the Welcome Foundation. Eugenics – Qinetiq is a British multinational defence technology company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire. It is the world’s 52nd-largest defence contractor measured by 2011 defence revenues, and the sixth-largest based in the UK. Shinplaster was a common name for paper money of low denomination, less than one dollar, circulating widely in the economies of the 19th century where there was a shortage of circulating coinage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rw_bdHn5GM
‘Fall of the Cabal’ documentary about UN’s depopulation fund. Part 6 THE FALL OF THE CABAL: THE SEQUEL – PART 6 OF 17 [2020] – JANET OSSEBAARD about Henry Kissinger, Population Policy, the UN and its many NGOs, the UN Population Fund, Population Control, forced abortions and sterilizations, and Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger
Privatisation of Indian food system. Indian Farmers’ Warning: If Our Resistance Fails, They Will Starve The World To Death – UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak And Home Secretary Priti Patel Part Of ‘Hindu Nationalist’ International Mafia Conspiracy – An interview with a man who explains the situation with the Indian Farmers. He believes that permanent lockdowns are a political ideology being used as a tool for an ongoing fascist takeover, by people who are trying to take control of the food supply, causing break down of the food supply chain and mass famine. “There is the same attempt being made in Britain to take over the food supply… in Europe, the UK, Asia and the world” ; and food shortages will impact the world harder than any disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeetMOaBAX8
Dr John Lee, Mike Graham’s show on Talk Radio, on coming out of lockdown now. Do lockdowns work or not? The fatal mistakes which led to lockdown Modelling is no substitute for quality data and research In medical science there is a well-known classification of data quality known as ‘the hierarchy of evidence’. This seven-level system gives an idea of how much weight can be placed on any given study or recommendation. Near the top, at Level 2, we find randomised controlled trials (RCTs) where a new approach is tried on a group of patients and compared with (for example) a placebo. The results of such studies are pretty reliable, with little room for bias to creep in. A systematic review of several RCTs is the highest, most reliable form of medical evidence: Level 1. Further down (Levels 5 and 6) comes evidence from much less compelling, descriptive-only studies looking for a pattern, without using controls. This is where we find virtually all evidence pertaining to Covid-19 policy: lockdown, social distancing, face masks, quarantine, R-numbers, second waves, you name it. And to speed things up most Covid research was not peer- reviewed. Right at the bottom of the hierarchy Level 7 is the opinion of authorities or reports of expert committees. This is because, among other things, ‘authorities’ often fail to change their minds in the face of new evidence. Committees, containing diversity of opinion and inevitably being cautious, often issue compromise recommendations that are scientifically non-valid. Ministers talk about ‘following the science’. But the advice of Sage (or any committee of scientists) is the least reliable form of evidence there is. Such is the quality of decision-making in the process generating our lockdown narrative. An early maintained but exaggerated belief in the lethality of the virus reinforced by modelling that was almost data-free, then amplified by further modelling with no proven predictive value. All summed up by recommendations from a committee based on qualitative data that hasn’t even been peer-reviewed.
Climate Change – original Private Eye co-founder Christopher Booker, 10 years ago at the Glastonbury Symposium, on the science of climate change – some believe his views have now been proved wrong. Author, journalist and co-founder of Private Eye magazine Christopher Booker outlines the concerns expressed in his controversial book The Real Global Warming Disaster, exploring claims that the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming is based on a false premise and that government policies aimed at dealing with this issue are ruinously expensive. Recorded at Truth, Mysteries and New Frontiers (Glastonbury Symposium), July 2010
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CONSPIRACY CLASSICS 5 Christopher Booker Global Warming Real Or False Glastonbury Symposium 2010
February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories
Great show Tony and Martin . I lean towards Martin on Brexit . It is a distraction, and I feel it was intended to be a distraction by the Tories from the start , ( to appeal to Nigel Farage loonies) and to distract from how the Tory takeover since 2010 has made life more of misery for the common every day people of the UK with their privatization, and vital goods and services rollbacks , deceptively using an exhausting and never ending scheme they know most won’t be able to get make it through the never ending, mind, body and soul crushing process.. see Ken Loach film ” I, Daniel Blake (2016) ”
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Very few major newspapers for free anymore on the internet . The following comes from one of the few i can find anyway . Not what it was at one time decades ago, especially since it welcomed Wiki Leaks and Julian Assange with open arms, then abandoned and even falsely condemned him and WL, which contributed to Assange desperately(and rightly so) to seek and get asylum in a tiny room in the tiny Ecuador Embassy(and the Ecuador embassy is just a couple small rooms on first floor corner in that large building in London ) for almost a decade and now languishing and dying in Belmarsh prison
“Keir Starmer concedes Labour has lost the trust of working people
Leader says party considering moving HQ out of London to show it represents the whole country after May election defeats .” Heather Stewart and Peter Walker
Fri 7 May 2021 14.05 EDT, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/07/keir-starmer-labour-spent-too-long-talking-ourselves
excerpt: “…The [ Labour ] party had expected to lose in Hartlepool, but the Tories took the seat – for the first time since it was created – by a much larger than expected majority of almost 7,000. That represented a dramatic swing of 16% towards the Conservatives. The shadow communities secretary, Steve Reed, called the result “shattering”.
Ben Houchen later regained the Teesside mayoralty for Johnson’s party with a thumping majority, taking 72.7% of votes – three times as many as Labour. Houchen has promised local investment and new jobs as part of Johnson’s “levelling up” strategy.
The Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood, who recently resigned as a shadow defence minister, said the Hartlepool result reflected the fact Labour had left its traditional voters behind. He said he would no longer be willing to serve on the frontbench.
“A London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors, has effectively captured the party. They mean well, of course, but their politics – obsessed with identity, division and even tech utopianism – have more in common with those of Californian high society than the kind of people who voted in Hartlepool yesterday,” he wrote in an article for the thinktank Policy Exchange….”
February 25, 2021·1 min read
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland will go into a three-week lockdown starting on March 8 and is prepared to declare a state of emergency, the prime minister said on Thursday, to try to stem a rising number of coronavirus cases.
The lockdown will not include a curfew but will involve the closing of restaurants and ordering school students who are 13 or older to switch to remote learning, the government said….
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regarding mention of the Welcome foundation on this weeks show , Correct me if wrong but they are a front organization for Burroughs Welcome Pharmaceutical company . They pushed the overuse of AZT in the late 1980s . Also, the same Dr. Anthony Fauci of today who was head of NIH back then promoted it . The AZT drug of that time was killing Aids patients faster than Aids . The feature film Dallas Buyers Club is about a guy and others who found alternatives to AZT and lived several years longer than patients taking the huge doses recommended . The real lead character was not as brash, flashy and promiscuous as the movie portrays, but the rest of the story of “buyers clubs” getting members alternatives to AZT in the US is pretty much accurate.
AIDS and the AZT Scandal: SPIN’s 1989 Feature, ‘Sins of Omission’
The story of AZT, one of the most toxic, expensive, and controversial drugs in the history of medicine.
Written By Celia Farber October 5 2015, 3:47 PM ET
link: https://www.spin.com/featured/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1989-feature-sins-of-omission/
excerpts:
“…unearthed hard evidence of the cold-bloodedness of the AIDS establishment pushing a drug that was worse than the disease, and killed faster than the natural progression of AIDS left untreated. AZT had been an abandoned cancer drug, discarded because of it’s fatal toxicity, resurrected in the cynical belief that AIDS patients were going to die anyway, so trying it out was sort of like playing with the house’s money. Because the drug didn’t require the usual massively expensive research and trial processes, having gone through that years earlier, it was insanely profitable for its maker, Burroughs Wellcome. It was a tragically perfect storm of windfall profits, something to pacify AIDS activists and the media, and a convenient boom to the patent holders for HIV testing….”
“—August 17, 1989: The government has announced that 1.4 million healthy, HIV antibody-positive Americans could “benefit” from taking AZT, even though they show no symptoms of disease. New studies have “proven” that AZT is effective in stopping the progression of AIDS in asymptomatic and early ARC cases. Dr. Fauci, the head of NIH, proudly announced that a trial has been going on for “two years” had “clearly shown” that early intervention will keep AIDS at bay. Anyone who has antibodies to HIV and less than 500 T-4 cells should start taking AZT at once, he said. That is approximately 650,000 people. 1.4 million Americans are assumed HIV antibody-positive, and eventually all of them may need to take AZT so they don’t get sick, Fauci contended….”