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in February, 1987, Army Col. David Huxsoll said: “Studies at army laboratories have shown that<br />

the AIDS virus would be an extremely poor biological warfare agent.” He later denied saying it.<br />

Whether AIDS is the vehicle of elimination, that the Club of Rome has referred to, or a<br />

precursor, just like Gulf War Syndrome, Ebola, and SARS, is undoubtedly open to speculation,<br />

even in light of all the questions raised. However, you can’t deny how neatly this little piece of<br />

the puzzle fits into the entire picture of preparing the world for a one-world government.<br />

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES<br />

The Toronto Globe and Mail, on April 7, 1980, reported the story of a conference to be<br />

hosted by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, that fall, which would “reshape global structures.”<br />

The Summit, known as the “North-South Dialogue,” which would “make recommendations on<br />

ways of breaking through existing international political impasse in North-South negotiations for<br />

global development,” was sponsored by the Independent Commission on International<br />

Development Issues, and was to include President Jimmy Carter, Newsweek and Washington<br />

Post publisher Kathryn Graham, Robert McNamara, former British Prime Minister Edward<br />

Heath, and West German Chancelor Helmut Schmidt.<br />

On January 14, 1977, Robert McNamara, President of the World Bank, proposed the<br />

establishment of an international commission of politicians and economists who would meet, not<br />

as government representatives, but independently to discuss “basic proposals on which global<br />

agreement is both essential and possible.” Willy Brandt, the former West German Chancellor<br />

was asked to chair the commission.<br />

On September 28, 1977, Brandt announced his intention to launch the Independent<br />

Commission on International Development Issues, and said that it “would not interfere with<br />

ongoing international negotiations, and would make recommendations to help improve the<br />

climate of North-South relations.” Brandt wanted the Commission, consisting of 18 members, to<br />

represent many views, and to be politically and regionally balanced, with a majority coming<br />

from developed countries. Their initial meeting was in December, 1977.<br />

There was two phases to what is more commonly referred to as Brandt’s Commission. The<br />

funding for the first ($750,000) in 1980, producing North-South: A Program for Survival, was<br />

provided by the Dutch Government, as well as Denmark, Finland, India, Japan, Republic of<br />

Korea, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, United Kingdom, the Commission of the European<br />

Communities, OPEC Special Fund, German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Ford<br />

Foundation, Friedrich-Ebert and Friedrich-Naumann Foundations of the Federal Republic of<br />

Germany, and the International Development Research Center of Canada.<br />

Subsequent funding was provided by the governments of Denmark, the Netherlands,<br />

Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the OPEC Special Fund.<br />

The funding for the second phase ($350,000), which produced the 1983 report Common<br />

Crisis: North-South Cooperation for World Recovery, came from the governments of Canada,<br />

the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Kuwait, the Commission of the European<br />

Communities, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.<br />

In short, the Brandt Reports “called for a full-scale restructuring of the global economy,” and<br />

the purpose of the Commission was “to influence public opinion to help change government<br />

attitudes, as well as to make proposals for revitalizing North-South negotiations.”<br />

In the 380-page report called North-South, which called for the “instant” redistribution of

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