The Last Lovers on Earth
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"Science is something more (and less) than the dispassionate pursuit of knowledge. How scientific information is shaped is often predetermined by the prevailing ideological climate. For centuries scientists have paid dearly for maintaining iconoclastic views. Their oppressors often have been other scientists working in tandem with the established powers in science." --Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths
"Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo." --Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize Winner
"During the 1970s, I filmed secretly in Czechoslovakia, then a Stalinist dictatorship. I interviewed members of the dissident group, Charter 77. One of them, the novelist Zdener Urbanek, told me, 'We are more fortunate than you in the West, in one respect. We believe nothing of what we read in the newspapers and watch on television, nothing of the official truth. Unlike you, we have learned to read between the lines of the media. Unlike you, we know that that real truth is always subversive.'" --John Pilger (On 14 April 2006, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York brought together John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass for a discussion entitled "Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire")
"For a decade, there has been increasing concern about 'AIDS,' and a virus called "HIV" which is said to cause 'AIDS.' Having named this virus 'HIV'--Human Immunodeficiency Virus--contributes to making people accept that 'HIV is the cause of AIDS.' However, to an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press releases, by misinformation, by low-quality studies, and by some suppression of information, manipulating the media and people at large."--Serge Lange, Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, New Haven and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
"On some positions a coward has asked the question is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right." –- Martin Luther King Jr., November 1967
"Although [Robert] Gallo is known as the father of human retrovirology, it apparently took a suggestion in 1982 from another scientist, Arthur Levine, according to the Chicago Tribune, before he began to consider that AIDS might be caused by a retrovirus. He soon proposed that AIDS was caused by HTLV-1, the leukemia causing virus to which he had affixed his name. It was an absurd, self-serving idea - a 'puerile speculation,' according to Joseph Sonnabend, a prominent AIDS researcher, and an idea even Gallo now calls 'stupid' - not only because the cancer caused by HTLV-1 (too many T cells) is the opposite of AIDS (too few T cells) but also because there was no detectable AIDS in Japan, where the HTLV-1 virus infected at least a million people. Gallo's reaction to this objection was that, well, maybe the Japanese responded differently to the virus. Amazingly, the scientific community bought Gallo's line. Though Sonnabend found no HTLV-1 in AIDS patients, in 1983 he could not get a paper published reporting this result. Gallo, meanwhile, claimed that he had defected HTLV-1 in cells from an AIDS patient. Another AIDS researcher who had been working with homosexual patients, had been trying to do the same thing without success, and he wondered whether the discrepancy between his results and Gallo's was due to a difference in the risk group studied. Was your patient a Haitian? he asked Gallo. A hemophiliac? 'It was a fucking fag,' said Gallo." --Seth Roberts, "LAB RAT: What AIDS Researcher Dr. Robert Gallo Did in Pursuit of the Nobel Prize",Spy [Magazine], July 1990
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The Movie the AIDS Establishment Doesn't Want You To See
Many movies make us see things in a different way but a few give us new eyes. The Last Lovers on Earth is one of the latter. Made on a shoestring and filmed in Boston, this bold, uncompromising film is based on one of the most provocative collections of stories about the gay politics of AIDS ever written. In the tradition of the great underground films, The Last Lovers on Earth uses zany dark humor and satire to speak truth to power. The film presents three hilarious and outrageous stories about an unusual mix of gay characters trapped in one of the worst medical and political catastrophes of our time. This is not a film that only gay people can appreciate. Gay and straight audiences have laughed their way through this brilliant intellectual black comedy and left the theater wondering what is true about "AIDS" and what isn't. In some ways this film is "the Catch-22 of AIDS" and in others it is the "Uncle Tom's Cabin of AIDS." Thoughtful viewers of this film have realized that they have seen a movie that will be talked about a hundred years from now when people try to figure out who recognized what was really going on below the surface of official AIDS policy and rhetoric--and who just followed the Pied Pipers of AIDS and HIV fraud.
This movie uses LOL comedy and satire to make you wonder:
1) Have "AIDS" officials covered up "AIDS" cases where there is no HIV present to mask their own big scientific mistake of calling HIV the cause of "AIDS"?
2) Have gay people been politically foolish to believe what "AIDS" officials have demanded they believe?
3) Have the treatments for AIDS actually harmed and killed people and can a case be made that they are genocidal?
4) Are the real heroes of "AIDS" the independent souls who thought for themselves and didn't believe the official AIDS propaganda?
5) As "AIDS" policies become more coercive every day, is "AIDS" being used as a cover for a medical totalitarian police state that everyone should be concerned about?
If you are thinking "WTF" and are brand new to the whole notion that there is anything to question or be critical about concerning the whole "AIDS" issue, please check out the Background on the Great AIDS Debate. You may also want to decide which side of the HHV-6 versus HIV debate you are on. Also check out the debate about the relationship between AIDS and Chronic Fatigue syndrome. And, if you have the concern, time and energy to dig deep into this issue, don't miss the debate about the racial politics of AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
If you're wondering why you haven't heard about any of this, you can thank the same media that has done such a brilliant job on so many issues in recent years. (Weapons of Mass Destruction, anyone?)
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Early Reactions to the Film
"If the medium of film can be said to have become numbing, in the Huxley sense--a medium of reassurance--Ortleb once again explodes our comfort zone. He did it with his radical newspaper, and now he is doing it with a low budget, strange, utterly different and stirring film, that is more like a series of surreal plays than a movie. It goes to the place that can only be called an ideological terra incognita. His dark vision of the psychic narrative of AIDS is played out here in the classical form of a futuristic nightmare that is by turns exasperating, shocking, poignant, and even gravely funny." --Celia Farber, Author, Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS
"On the cusp between humor and terror, The Last Lovers on Earth brings to fruition the techniques of underground films, Brechtian drama, and the Theater of the Ridiculous. There are three stories (or parables) told in rotation. Each makes an incisive point, and the film as a whole makes one huge point -- a simple message, which few gay men have dared to apprehend. Every element of the film is first-rate."--John Lauritsen, Author, The AIDS War
"Intensely cerebral. Intensely clever. Intensely funny. Intensely sad. Like a message in a bottle the story floats in and out of vision but ever onwards carrying its message. Finally, when it lands on the shore, it's nothing like we think. Never has it been more truthful to say 'Science advances funeral by funeral'". --Valendar F. Turner, The Perth Group
"The movie is a profound and funny look into the abyss that AIDS has become. Through light and dark deadpan humor, it begins to address the myths, fraud, and hype that have become the accepted AIDS paradigms: that gay men and sexual promiscuity are the "cause," that AIDS testing and drugs work, that demanding drugs and vaccines for everyone is going to save them. It challenges AIDS activists, AIDS researchers, and thinking people in general to have a critical look at this house of cards that is the AIDS Establishment." --Jonathan Campbell, Health Consultant
"If the AIDS establishment has a hit list, this film is at the top of the list." --James D'Eramo, Medical Writer and Journalist
"This movie, made on a shoestring, is the nightmare AIDS bureaucrats don't want to have. It reveals their earnest attitude for what it is: a coat of polish over backroom scientific corruption of the lowest order." --Jon Rappoport Author, AIDS INC.
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