Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Why Conrad saw everything with despondency – all in black

Letters from Vienna #99

Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Why Conrad saw everything with despondency – all in black

In 1890 a thirty-two-year old Joseph Conrad (see letter #57) arrived in the Congo to work on a steamer belonging to a Belgian trading company. The vessel: “Roi de Belges” Jeffrey Meyers tells us “was commanded by a young Dane, Ludvig Koch, and went up river to Stanley Falls on August 4. The grandly named ship was a decrepit two-story affair, both decks lined with fragile wooden railings and covered by rectangular iron roofs, propped up by wobbly posts. The wood-burning stern wheel steamer carried, in addition to a Belgian mechanic, four passengers… It towed two wood-filled scows and stopped at night so that trees could be chopped down for fuel. The crew of thirty Africans included a number of certified cannibals.”[1]

“When the ship reached Kinshasa on September 24, Conrad had…come down with a serious attack of malarial fever and dysentery, which caused severe vomiting and bloody diarrhea. This illness plagued him during the rest of his time in the Congo and provided the excuse for terminating the contract – like sixty percent of the employees – after spending only six months in Africa.”[2]

That so many quit is hardly surprising; conditions in the Congo were especially rough. “In 1895 (Roger) Casement joined the British Consular Service, and held positions in Mozambique, Angola and Capetown. Five years later Casement was appointed Consul at Boma (in the Congo). In 1903 his investigation of the treatment of the rubber workers in the Upper Congo brought him world-wide fame. Casement’s long, factual, excruciating report documented the atrocities committed upon what he termed “the poor, the naked, the fugitive, the hunted, the tortured, the dying men and women of the Congo.”

“Casement reported that Africans, bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen hands beaten with rifle butts until they fell off. Chained slaves were forced to drink the white men’s defecations, hands and feet were chopped off for their rings, men were lined up behind each other and shot with one cartridge, wounded prisoners were eaten by maggots till they died and were then thrown to starving pye-dogs or devoured by cannibal tribes. One girl carried the bones of her parents clinking in a ragged canvas sack and testified that starving people ate peeling whitewash torn from old buildings and then vomited up green bile filled with leeches. Another boy described to Casement how during a raid on his village he was wounded and “fell down, presumably insensible but came to his senses while his hand was being hacked off at the wrist. I asked him how it was he could possibly lie silent and give no sign. He answered that he felt the cutting but was afraid to move, knowing that he would be killed if he showed any sign of life.”[3]

Conrad wrote in a letter: “My days here are dreary. No use deluding oneself! Decidedly I regret having come here. I even regret it bitterly…”

“Everything here is repellent to me. Men and things, but men above all. And I am repellent to them, also. From the manager in Africa who has taken the trouble to tell one and all I offend him supremely, down to the lowest mechanic, they all have the gift of irritating my nerves –so that I am not as agreeable to them perhaps as I should be. The manager is a common ivory dealer with base instincts who considers himself a merchant although he is only a kind of African shop-keeper. His name is Delcommune. He detests the English, and out here I am naturally considered as such. I cannot hope for either promotion or salary increases while he is here. Besides, he has said that promises made in Europe carry no weight here if they are not in the contract. Those made to me by M. Wauters (and important figure in the Brussels Company) are not. In addition, I cannot look forward to anything because I don’t have a ship to command. The new boat will not be completed until June of next year, perhaps. Meanwhile, my position here is unclear and I am troubled by that. So, there you are. As crowning joy, my health is far from good…”[4]

Eight years later his experiences informed the work: “A Heart of Darkness”, which was published in 1899, as a three-part serial story in “Blackwood’s Magazine”.

“Conrad saw his experience as the turning-point of his intellectual development and once told Edward Garnett: before the Congo, “I was a perfect animal.” Afterwards, his new insights into the nature of evil turned his innate pessimism into a tragic vision: “I see everything with such despondency – all in black.”[5]

The Murder of Patrice Lumumba

In June 1960 the Belgians finally left the Congo yet by January 1961 its first Prime Minister: Patrice Lumumba had already been murdered; western intelligence agencies having played a key role in the crime.

“In the weeks after the Congo’s independence in June 1960, Prime Minister Lumumba departed for Washington soon after being elected to request economic aid but was not greeted by then-President Eisenhower. Lumumba did see Secretary of State Christian Herter and made a public appeal to the American people, expressing friendship. Despite some positive overtures, Lumumba was highly disappointed and did not consider the American response respectful of his position. The feeling was mutual, and the official U.S. position was not inclined to back the new leader, especially in light of strategic considerations.”

“Upon his return to the Congo, Lumumba moved to seek help for his fledgling nation by turning to the Soviet Union, a move that would ultimately seal his fate.”[6]

“At an NSC meeting in August 1960, Eisenhower gave Dulles direct approval to “eliminate” Lumumba. Robert Johnson, the minutes taker at the NSC meeting, later recalled the shock felt in the room: “There was a stunned silence for about 15 seconds and the meeting continued.” Johnson said there was nothing ambiguous about Eisenhower’s lethal order, “I was surprised that I would ever hear a president say anything like this in my presence or the presence of a group of people. I was startled.”

“Over the next several months, the CIA, working with it allies in Belgian intelligence, engineered a military coup led by a cocky, ruthless, twenty-nine-year-old colonel named Joseph Mobutu that forced Lumumba out of office and placed him under house arrest. But that was not enough for the CIA. Lumumba “would remain a grave danger,” Dulles told an NSC meeting on September 21, 1961, “as long as he is not disposed of.” Three days later, Dulles made it clear that he wanted Lumumba permanently removed, cabling the CIA’s Leopoldville station, “We wish give every possible support in eliminating Lumumba from any possibility resuming governmental position.””

“To prevent that from happening, the CIA recruited two cutthroats from the European criminal underworld who they code-named QJ-WIN and WI-ROGUE.”[7]

Eventually these secret agents succeeded in carrying out their mission.

The Deadly “Vaccines”

The destruction of democracy in the Congo and the re-imposition of “colonialism by other means” (the term “post-colonial” is sadly an oxymoron) had disastrous consequences for that part of the world.

In 1970 the WHO and the US Development Board endorsed an African campaign budget of $14m. This “smallpox eradication program” used vaccine made from antisera made largely in the United States and given for free to African countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.[8]

The consequences were appalling: one in six AIDS patients was African while the “disease” followed a specific path previously worn by multi-compound vaccine trials.[9]

On the 11th of May 1987, Pierce Wright, the Science Editor of The Times of London reported: “The Aids epidemic may have been triggered by the mass vaccination campaign which eradicated smallpox. The World Health Organization, which masterminded the 13-year campaign, is studying new scientific evidence suggesting that immunization with the smallpox vaccine Vaccinia awakened the unsuspected, dormant human immuno defence virus infection (HIV).”

“Some experts fear that in obliterating one disease, another disease was transformed from a minor endemic illness of the Third World into the current pandemic. While doctors now accept that Vaccinia can activate other viruses, they are divided about whether it was the main catalyst to the Aids epidemic.”

“But an adviser to the WHO who disclosed the problem, told The Times: “I thought it was just a coincidence until we studied the latest findings about the reactions which can be caused by Vaccinia. Now I believe the smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation to the explosion of Aids.” “In obliterating one disease, another was transformed.”

“Further evidence comes from the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington. While smallpox vaccine is no longer kept for public health purposes, new recruits to the American armed services are immunized as a precaution against possible biological warfare. Routine vaccination of a 19-year-old recruit was the trigger for stimulation of dormant HIV virus into Aids.”

“This discovery of how people with subclinical HIV infection are at risk of rapid development of Aids as a vaccine-induced disease was made by a medical team working with Dr. Robert Redfield at Walter Reed. The recruit who developed Aids after vaccination had been healthy throughout high school. He was given multiple immunizations, followed by his first smallpox vaccination.”

“Two and a half weeks later he developed fever, headaches, neck stiffness and night sweats. Three weeks later he was admitted to Walter Reed suffering from meningitis and rapidly developed further symptoms of Aids and died after responding for a short time to treatment. There was no evidence that the recruit had been involved in any homosexual activity.

In describing their discovery in a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine a fortnight ago, the Walter Reed team gave a warning against a plan to use modified versions of the smallpox vaccine to combat other diseases in developing countries.”

“The smallpox vaccine theory would account for the position of each of the seven Central African states which top the league table of most-affected countries; why Brazil became the most afflicted Latin American country; and how Haiti became the route for the spread of Aids to the US. It also provides an explanation of how the infection was spread more evenly between males and females in Africa than in the West and why there is less sign of infection among five to 11-year-olds in Central Africa.”

“Although no detailed figures are available, WHO information indicated that the Aids league table of Central Africa matches the concentration of vaccinations. The greatest spread of HIV infection coincides with the most intense immunization programmes, with the number of people immunised being as follows: Zaire 36,878,000; Zambia 19,060,000; Tanzania 14,972,000; Uganda 11,616,000; Malawai 8,118,000; Ruanda 3,382,000 and Burundi 3,274,000.”

“Brazil, the only South American country covered in the eradication campaign, has the highest incidence of Aids in that region. About 14,000 Haitians, on United Nations secondment to Central Africa, were covered in the campaign.”

“Dr. Robert Gallo, who first identified the Aids virus in the US, told The Times: “The link between the WHO programme and the epidemic in Africa is an interesting and important hypothesis. I cannot say that it actually happened, but I have been saying for some years that the use of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant infection such as HIV. “No blame can be attached to WHO, but if the hypothesis is correct it is a tragic situation and a warning that we cannot ignore.”[10]

There is considerable debate about whether viruses are themselves harmful or not (see “The Contagion Myth”, Thomas S. Cowan and Sally Fallon Morell) so this piece of writing might well be seen as part of a disinformation campaign. It could well have been an attempt at limiting damage, implying that the spread of AIDS by the vaccines was “inadvertent” rather than deliberate. As Gallo put it: “No blame can be attached to WHO”.

The Myth of the Non-existent HIV Virus

Not only is the “virus hypothesis” doubtful there is also considerable debate about the true nature of AIDS.[11]

In 1988 Jon Rappoport wrote: “I realized that a disease could be invented. The suffering that goes with illness is very real, but the labeling of that suffering is one of the great and perverse powers of the medical cartel.”

“Because if you can name VARIOUS AND DIVERSE suffering that comes from many different causes and put it under one umbrella, one title, you can later claim you have found the one cause of the one disease, a cause that is a germ. And then you can find a drug which you say will kill the germ.”

“That is the pattern.”

“That is the deception when it comes to AIDS and a number of other so-called diseases.

In the case of AIDS, I showed that HIV was never proved to cause anything. I also showed that AIDS was not one thing. AIDS was in truth a variety of states of immune suppression brought about, in different groups and, ultimately, different individuals by a large number of DIFFERENT causes.”

“And therefore, although people were suffering and dying, they were not dying of AIDS, because there is no AIDS. AIDS is a word that is used as a label, a useless label.”[12]

The Biochemist Dr. Kary Mullis, who was 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, told the Sunday Times in November 1993 “If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document.”[13]

In his introduction to Peter Duesberg’s book: “Inventing the AIDS Virus” Mullis wrote: “In 1988 I was working as a consultant at Specialty Labs in Santa Monica, setting up analytic routines for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). I knew a lot about setting up analytic routines for anything with nucleic acids in it because I had invented the Polymerase Chain Reaction. That’s why they had hired me.”

“Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), on the other hand, was something I did not know a lot about. Thus, when I found myself writing a report on our progress and goals for the project, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, I recognized that I did not know the scientific reference to support a statement I had just written: “HIV is the probable cause of AIDS.” So, I turned to the virologist at the next desk, a reliable and competent fellow, and asked him for the reference. He said I didn’t need one. I disagreed. While it’s true that certain scientific discoveries or techniques are so well established that their sources are no longer referenced in the contemporary literature, that didn’t seem to be the case with the HIV/AIDS connection. It was totally remarkable to me that the individual who had discovered the cause of a deadly and as-yet-uncured disease would not be continually referenced in the scientific papers until that disease was cured and forgotten. But as I would soon learn, the name of that individual – who would surely be Nobel material ­– was on the tip of no one’s tongue.”

“Of course, this simple reference had to be out there somewhere. Otherwise, tens of thousands of public servants and esteemed scientists of many callings, trying to solve the tragic deaths of a large number of homosexual and/or intravenous (IV) drug-using men between the ages of twenty-five and forty, would not have allowed their research to settle into one narrow channel of investigation. Everyone wouldn’t fish in the same pond unless it was well established that all the other ponds were empty. There had to be a published paper, or perhaps several of them, which taken together indicated that HIV was the probable cause of AIDS. There just had to be.”

“I did computer searches but came up with nothing. Of course, you can miss something important in computer searches by not putting in just the right key words. To be certain about a scientific issue, it’s best to ask other scientists directly. That’s one thing that scientific conferences in faraway places with nice beaches are for.”

“I was going to a lot of meetings and conferences as part of my job. I got in the habit of approaching anyone who gave a talk about AIDS and asking him or her what reference I should quote for that increasingly problematic statement, “HIV is the probable cause of AIDS.””

“After ten or fifteen meetings over a couple years, I was getting pretty upset when no one could cite the reference. I didn’t like the ugly conclusion that was forming in my mind: The entire campaign against a disease increasingly regarded as a twentieth-century Black Plague was based on a hypothesis whose origins no one could recall. That defied both scientific and common sense.”

“Finally, I had an opportunity to question one of the giants in HIV and AIDS research, Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute, when he gave a talk in San Diego. It would be the last time I would be able to ask my little question without showing anger, and I figured Montagnier would know the answer. So, I asked him.”

“With a look of condescending puzzlement, Montagnier said, “Why don’t you quote the report from the Centers for Disease Control?” I replied, “It doesn’t really address the issue of whether or not HIV is the probable cause of AIDS, does it?” “No,” he admitted, no doubt wondering when I would just go away. He looked for support to the little circle of people around him, but they were all awaiting a more definitive response, like I was. “Why don’t you quote the work on SIV [Simian Immunodeficiency Virus]?” the good doctor offered.

“I read that too, Dr. Montagnier,” I responded. “What happened to those monkeys didn’t remind me of AIDS. Besides, that paper was just published only a couple of months ago. I’m looking for the original paper where somebody showed that HIV caused AIDS.”

This time, Dr. Montagnier’s response was to walk quickly away to greet an acquaintance across the room.”

“Cut to the scene inside my car just a few years ago. I was driving from Mendocino to San Diego. Like everyone else by now, I knew a lot more about AIDS than I wanted to. But I still didn’t know who had determined that it was caused by HIV. Getting sleepy as I came over the San Bernardino Mountains, I switched on the radio and tuned in a guy who was talking about AIDS. His name was Peter Duesberg, and he was a prominent virologist at Berkeley. I’d heard of him but had never read his papers or heard him speak. But I listened, now wide awake, while he explained exactly why I was having so much trouble finding the references that linked HIV to AIDS. There weren’t any. No one had ever proved that HIV causes AIDS. When I got home, I invited Duesberg down to San Diego to present his ideas to a meeting of the American Association for Chemistry. Mostly skeptical at first, the audience stayed for the lecture, and then an hour of questions, and then stayed talking to each other until requested to clear the room. Everyone left with more questions than they had brought.”

“I like and respect Peter Duesberg. I don’t think he knows necessarily what causes AIDS; we have disagreements about that. But we’re both certain about what doesn’t cause AIDS.

We have not been able to discover any good reasons why most of the people on earth believe that AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV. There is simply no scientific evidence demonstrating that this is true.”

“We have also not been able to discover why doctors prescribe a toxic drug called AZT (Zidovudine) to people who have no other complaint than the presence of antibodies to HIV in their blood. In fact, we cannot understand why humans would take that drug for any reason.”

“We cannot understand how all this madness came about, and having both lived in Berkeley, we’ve seen some strange things indeed. We know that to err is human but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell of a mistake.”[14]

The Deadly Disease called Neo-Colonialism

The conclusions to be drawn from this long and rambling letter are startling: the brutality of Neo-Colonialism remains very much alive and kicking in Africa[15], where the weakness of the nation state allows Western countries not only to exploit African natural resources[16] but to exterminate Africans with “vaccines” while the myth of HIV seems to have been invented to cover up this crime.

Sickness is not the single curse of Neo-Colonialism. War has followed inevitably in its wake. Even Wikipedia admits the scale of horror in the Second Congo War: “By 2008, the war and its aftermath had caused 5.4 million deaths, principally through disease and malnutrition, making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II. Another 2 million were displaced from their homes or sought asylum in neighboring countries.”[17]

Might the same paradigm have recently been replicated with an invented, fictional disease (“COVID-19”) and a mysterious new “vaccine” ostensibly to “combat it” but, in reality harmful, yet this time on a global scale (with 5 billion victims)? Most probably.

Had the citizens of Western countries been paying more attention to what was really happening on the African continent (and how they themselves were morally culpable for the crimes against humanity being perpetrated there) then they might not now be facing extermination themselves.

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[1] pp. 103-104 Ibid

[2] pp.104-105 Ibid

[3] p.100 Joseph Conrad, Jeffrey Meyers

[4] pp. 105-106

[5] p.108

[6] pp.282-283 The Skorzeny Papers, Ralph Ganis

[7] pp.379-380 The Devil’s Chessboard, David Talbot

[8] p.32 Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident, or Intentional? Leonard G Horowitz, W John Martin

[9] pp. 309-310 Ibid

[10] https://www.wanttoknow.info/870511vaccineaids

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[12] p.1 AIDS INC., Jon Rappoport

[13] Dr. Kary Mullis (Sunday Times (London) 28 Nov. 1993)

[14] pp. 11-14 “Inventing the AIDS Virus”, Peter Duesberg

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[17]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War#:~:text=By%202008%2C%20the%20war%20and,sought%20asylum%20in%20neighboring%20countries.