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September 25, 2002: Viruses, Chemtrails, & Vaccines - Dr. Leonard Horowitz

Sep 25, 2002
2h 4m
Dr. Leonard Horowitz
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Art Bell interviews Dr. Leonard Horowitz, an authority in public health and bioterrorism, following Senator Patrick Leahy's call to investigate possible links between West Nile virus outbreaks and bioterrorism. Dr. Horowitz presents documentation showing that strains of West Nile virus were shipped from the United States to Iraq during the 1980s, along with multiple shipments of anthrax, raising troubling questions about the origins of current outbreaks.

The conversation covers the anthrax mailings investigation, with Dr. Horowitz identifying specific defense contractors and pharmaceutical companies he believes are implicated. He describes his own visit to the FBI one week before the first anthrax mailing was announced and his subsequent treatment as a potential suspect. Breaking news during the broadcast reveals that West Nile virus can cause acute paralysis and may be transmitted through blood transfusions.

Dr. Horowitz challenges the safety of vaccines, arguing that mercury and other toxic ingredients are linked to rising rates of autism and autoimmune disorders. He contends that pharmaceutical industrialists profit from both creating health crises and selling their solutions, a pattern he documented in his book published three months before September 11th.

Key Moments

  1. U.S. shipped West Nile virus to Saddam Hussein: Horowitz claims Senator Leahy and Congress hold CDC documentation showing the U.S. sent at least two strains of West Nile virus to Saddam Hussein in 1985, alongside 19 anthrax shipments and other biologicals.

  2. Bush won't list Saddam's weapons because we gave them to him: Art floats the theory that the Bush administration has withheld specifics about Iraq's arsenal because the U.S. supplied much of it. Horowitz answers, 'I believe that. I mean, that's the fact. It's not even debatable.'

  3. Genocide charge against the Bush family and pharma: Horowitz accuses the Bush administration and family of being invested in genocide, defining the term from Webster's as mass killing for economic, political, or ideological reasons, tied to a pharma-government nexus.

  4. Why recreate eradicated diseases? Smallpox suspicion: Horowitz asks why Rockefeller labs would synthesize a new polio virus after polio was eradicated, then ties it to Bush's sudden mass-smallpox-vaccination push and warns 'they know something we don't.'

  5. Vaccines as a 'witch's brew' and royal scam: Horowitz lists vaccine ingredients - bacteria, viruses, fungus, yeast, chicken embryos, bovine fetal serum, monkey kidney tissues, mercury, formaldehyde - and calls modern medicine 'a witch's brew' and 'a royal scam.'