Father D’Agostino visited Incarnation with a mutual friend of Nicholas, David Pincus

A portrait of David Pincus https://www.inquirer.com/philly/living/20090726_Portrait_of_David_N__Pincus__a_global_benefactor.html

excerpts:

Elie Wiesel has traveled all over the world with David N. Pincus, a retired Philadelphia clothing manufacturer. They've traveled to Auschwitz, to Moscow, to Kosovo, and to the White House...But a 1987 trip to Brazil stands out in the Nobel Peace Prize winner's memory. "We were going to meet the president of Brazil," said Wiesel, who was being presented with an award. "And David just disappeared."

Pincus had discovered a colony of destitute children in São Paulo. Given the choice between attending a formal state banquet and a chance to spread joy among the poor, Pincus chose to visit the kids.

Pincus is a largely unsung humanitarian, more comfortable working behind the scenes. He is well-known in Philadelphia art circles for his impressive modern collection and for donating his works to the region's biggest museums. But most of his charity has escaped notice because it was overseas, or anonymous.

..Now, at 82, Pincus has turned his attention to charities closer to home that target disadvantaged children and youths - hospitals, playgrounds, Community College of Philadelphia.

..His walls display works by some of the most celebrated modern artists: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still. He juxtaposes the art with photos of poor children he has met during his journeys. There is a photo of the Pincuses with Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick. There's another of Pincus with golfer Arnold Palmer, whose clothing line he manufactured.

..Rabbi Neil S. Cooper, the head of Temple Beth Hillel Beth-El in Wynnewood, meets Pincus once a week to swap stories and to savor a shot of Jameson.

..I met Pincus 10 years ago when I was The Inquirer's Africa correspondent. He was a board member of the International Rescue Committee, one of America's oldest relief organizations.

...A Pincus encounter with children is a spectacle. At a camp of Sierra Leonean refugees, Pincus wandered off to seek out camp residents. A few children drew close to examine the curious foreigner with the grin and the goodies. Pincus insisted on placing the candies into the children's mouths - feel, touch.

..I next heard from Pincus in 2001, when The Inquirer published my article about a conflict between South African AIDS activists and big pharmaceutical companies. Pincus phoned and wanted to know whom he could help...First Pincus sent her some money. A few months later, he made the first of four visits to South Africa. He was accompanied by an AIDS expert, Stephen W. Nicholas, the director of pediatrics at Harlem Hospital Center, who went along to help Pincus assess the hospice's needs.

..Pincus set up a U.S. charity, Friends of Sparrows, to channel tax-deductible contributions to the hospice. It has sent about $250,000 to South Africa. The hospice has expanded into a village housing 330 clients, mostly children, with a budget of $1 million...

..Pincus also introduced her to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he recently committed $1.3 million over five years to create a global health fellowship that will send two pediatricians overseas to assist AIDS programs. The gift will help the hospital take a lead in international health, said Rodney Finalle, the fellowship director.

..In 1999, Pincus encouraged Nicholas to extend his outreach to the Dominican Republic. When Nicholas organized the International Family AIDS Program on the island, Pincus lined up support from Harold A. Honickman, the beverage mogul, and Sy Syms, the clothing retailer.

..Pincus' father, Nathan, and uncles founded the clothing firm in 1911 after emigrating from what is now Belarus. The firm thrived. PBM became one of the largest manufacturers in an industry that employed 25,000 people in Philadelphia before the jobs went overseas.

..Pincus' connections in the art world multiplied. He became involved in the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania when it opened in 1963. Through the ICA, he met Warhol and acquired a few of his works, some of them promised to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Pincus headed the 20th Century Committee and was a trustee for more than 35 years.

Pincus Family Foundation http://www.bigdatabase.com/Big-DB/USFoundation-profiles/PINCUS%20FAMILY%20FOUNDATION-256874818.HTML

FOUNDATION PROFILE

The foundation was granted charitable status in September, 2005 and is located in Wilmington, Delaware.

DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS:

ANDREW EPSTEIN, TRUSTEE

ERIC EPSTEIN, TRUSTEE

GEORGE HIRSCHHORN, TRUSTEE

LESLIE PINCUS ELLIOTT, TRUSTEE

STEPHEN NICHOLAS, TRUSTEE

Moving company Momentous Relocation of the Hampstead case changed its name from Baxter International after a court case with the Ministry of Defence. Some coincidences.

Baxter International and Momentous Relocation were/are registered in Potters Bar, Cranborne Road EN6 3JN....Just 2 minutes away was the company of pedophile British Airways pilot Simon Wood: Simon Wood Pilot Services: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02624590/officers

Princeton in Africa - Nyumbani Village

Princeton in Africa is an organization supported by Johnson & Johnson

Forgot to add this: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.92.2.163

A startlingly high percentage of older children with HIV have severe behavioral problems and mental illness; some who have reached adolescence display aggressive and inappropriate sexual behaviors. Many of their biological parents are or were mentally ill, drug-addicted, and HIV-infected. Familial predisposition, together with intrauterine drug exposure and life’s emotionally traumatic experiences, may account for the high rates of mental illness in HIV-infected children

Sick because AIDS is a lab made disease and Rockefeller owned the patents. The virus was given to homosexual males in San Francisco in the 70s in a vaccine to “help protect them from disease”.

DR STEPHEN W NICHOLAS

The International Family AIDS Program (IFAP) Really? founded by Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas in 1999, supports summer internships, scholarly projects, clinical elective rotations, and extended research opportunities in the Dominican Republic for students, trainees, and practitioners of medicine, public health, nursing, and dentistry.

https://beta.global.columbia.edu/institutes-programs-initiatives/international-family-aids-program-rotation

In 1999 the first ideals of Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas began that today, 20 years later, the Family Clinic celebrates with pride and satisfaction of having reached so many vulnerable and low-income people in the eastern region of the Dominican Republic.

https://casadecampoliving.com/trajectory-of-the-founder-of-clinica-de-familia-recognized-during-the-dominican-parade-in-the-bronx/

La Romana Family Clinic celebrated the end of this year’s summer camp “Hope and Joy 2019” which they have been organizing for 15 years for vulnerable children and adolescents of limited resources in the eastern region of the country.

The Hope and Joy Summer Camp is a safe and joyful environment, during which children and adolescents of the Pediatric Family Clinic program receive support, love, and respect from a team of volunteers, called “uncles/aunties”.

Children in the images all have their face concealed somehow...RED FLAG

https://casadecampoliving-wp.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/2019/08/Graciassss-1.jpg

PRINCESS DI / ROYAL FAMILY CONNECTION?

His name also comes up on IMDB as himself in Harlem Hospital featured in a documentary from 2006 named My Travels with Diana

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2308228/

The dramatic public life of Diana, Princess of Wales was enacted against a backdrop of exciting foreign destinations.

These are inextricably linked to some of the most significant events in her own journey. Who can forget the lonely Princess at the Taj Mahal, the "War of the Waleses" in South Korea, the glamorous Diana, darling of Manhattan fundraisers, or the Queen of Hearts in an African refugee camp? These are just some of the unforgettable images revisited in Portraits of a Princess--Travels with Diana.

Patrick Jephson, Diana's private secretary for many years, gives his unique perspective of his time spent with the Princess. As the man who organized nearly all of her foreign travel and accompanied her on most of it, his viewpoint provides the book with a unique sense of authority.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178050.Portraits_of_a_Princess

I could not track down the actual documentary but I found it interesting there may be an association between the Royals / Di and our AIDS Doctor...

Look into Sister Mary Owens a senior officer with Nyumbani who had legal action brought against her by Dr. Otsyula. This involves Oxford. I saw articles with the name Nyumbani and Obama but I could not access them. Kenya after all. Yes Clinton would be involved with Dr. Ag since the Dr. somewhat modeled the .org. after Harlem. Here we go again with priests and nuns

doing the opposite of what they should be doing for Our Children. Shades of Mengele imo.

2004: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/may/30/health.aids

Scientists from Oxford University 'stole the blood' of African orphans and brought it back to Britain to carry out 'unlawful' research into Aids.

This sensational claim is made by a leading Kenyan scientist whose lawyers will begin legal action this week against Oxford and one of its top researchers, Dr Sarah Rowland-Jones. He alleges her team stole blood he collected from HIV-infected orphans and used his data to publish their own research.

The row centres on an orphanage on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, which some scientists hope holds the key to a future cure for Aids.

At the Nyumbani children's home, HIV-infected children rescued from the city's slums have survived for more than 10 years without medication. Their natural immunity has intrigued scientists around the world. Researchers believe the orphans' blood offers vital genetic clues that could lead to the holy grail of Aids research: an effective vaccine.

One case of particular interest to the scientists involves twin brothers. While one brother died after his HIV infection turned into Aids, the other is still alive and is now a healthy 21-year-old. Genetic data taken from the brothers is a crucial part of the race for a vaccine.

Dr Moses Otsyula, head of virology at Kenya's Institute of Primate Research, set up a diagnostic laboratory at the orphanage in 1997 to monitor the infected children. Over four years he collected 70 blood samples he believed could provide vital data. More than 70 per cent of children with HIV in Africa die before they are three, but several of the orphans at the Nyumbani were already in their teens.

Otsyula claims that while he was on a trip to Harvard University in 2001 to discuss possible US collaboration with his work, the Oxford researchers stole his blood samples from a freezer, removed crucial data from his computer and illegally brought it back to Oxford without permission. The Oxford team later published two research papers using information taken from these blood samples.

Otsyula told The Observer: 'It was my project, my time, my samples and my ideas. They came and just stole it all. That is completely unethical. I have been trying to reach an amicable solution with Oxford for the last three years but they have ignored my protests. That is why I have instructed my lawyers to sue Oxford University and Dr Rowland-Jones.'

He claims the Oxford team had not received permission from the orphanage board to take further blood samples which he alleges amounts to them using the children as 'guinea pigs'.

Otsyula has won the backing of government officials who have launched an investigation into the research carried out at the orphanage, run by a Jesuit priest, Father Angelo D'Agostino.

'They came to Africa and thought it was the jungle, but we have rules and ethics as well,' said Dr Mohammed Abdullah, chairman of Kenya's National Council for Science and Technology, a government body which has to approve research.

'It appears these scientists saw what they wanted and took it. I have great respect for Oxford but in this case they have acted very wrongly and need to take action.'

Rowland-Jones, who works at Oxford's Institute of Molecular Medicine, has defended her team's actions while admitting they made an 'inadvertent' error. She claimed they had received D'Agostino's permission for the research.

'We were invited to Nairobi by Otsyula to collaborate with the research and were led to believe by him we had full ethical approval to conduct the research,' she said. 'That was a big mistake as it clearly wasn't the case. At all times we acted in good faith but the mechanism for getting ethical approval wasn't entirely clear cut at the time. When we realised we made an error we applied for ethical approval for our work which was given in 2002.'

Rowland-Jones admitted this written approval did not cover the past research, but said she had been given a 'verbal' assurance that it did. She admits her team brought blood back to the UK but claims its members believed they had permission to do so.

Rowland-Jones's research is funded by the British government's Medical Research Council. It said in a statement: 'As qualified doctors and dedicated medical researchers, [the Oxford team] are committed to carrying out high quality research to save lives, to the highest ethical standards. We would not be associated in any way with work that exploits people, particularly vulnerable children living with HIV infection.

'We are entirely committed to the practice of medical research to international ethical standards and to the welfare of the children in Nyum bani orphanage. We also remain committed to carrying out approved research that will benefit these children and many others like them around the world.

'We remain in admiration of the home and Father D'Agostino and his dedicated staff. Nyumbani is a beacon of quality care for HIV-infected children and has been established entirely for compassionate reasons.'

It emerged last week that Cambridge University was also caught up in a row over Aids research at the Nyumbani children's home after Kenya's Sunday Nation newspaper reported that one of its scientists was visiting the orphanage. Dr Eric Miller, of the university's department of clinical veterinary medicine, has confirmed he was at the children's home doing preliminary work on a nutritional project.

'I can categorically state that no unauthorised research has been carried out. Our proposed research has not yet started. I have been working with a number of partners in the planning phase of a research programme investigating the benefit of certain food supplements on HIV progression,' Miller said.

The row over Aids research at the Nyumbani orphanage is the latest controversy over the way HIV-infected children are used in research. Last month The Observer revealed that the drugs giant GlaxoSmithkline used orphans at a New York children's home in experiments.

Hmm.. a tangent..

https://twitter.com/arapaho415/status/1165375059063525376

Epstein arranged the arrival of Southern Air Transport to Columbus, Ohio

https://twitter.com/mopeng/status/1165713208109174784

https://airwaysmag.com/avgeek/best-of-airways-southern-air-transport-an-uncommon-carrier/

Under Moor’s sole proprietorship Southern Air Transport (SAT) was established early in 1947, joining the ranks of the Large Irregulars. Operations began in July with a Douglas DC-3 leased from George Batchelor’s Arrow Airways. The new outfit’s first significant customer was Paramount Aquariums of New York, and SAT’s aircraft was soon regularly trundling south to Belém in Brazil to bring back consignments of exotic fish in 5USg (20l) drums.

..Southern Air Transport, formally incorporated on October 31, 1949, had been looking for its own aircraft. Coincidentally, the US Air Force was selling off large quantities of surplus Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando twin-engine transports through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. SAT snapped up four examples from storage at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, reportedly for a total price of less than $30,000 ($300,000 today).

..Being willing to tackle almost anything, through the 1950s SAT found sufficient work to keep going, mainly in South America. Until late in 1952 it operated US government Commercial Air Movement (CAM) flights transporting military personnel. One of these missions carried scientists to Las Vegas to observe atom bomb tests at the Nevada Proving Grounds. Another contract involved the transfer of overhauled engines from Robins AFB, Georgia, to air bases around the country.

Southern Air Transport also carried immigrants from San Juan to New York, Brahma cattle to South America, racehorses, and exotic tropical animals. On one occasion a crate containing live snakes broke open and it took a couple of days to catch all the reptiles hiding in the darker reaches of the C-46. All manner of general cargo was hauled, not least seven tons (6,350kg) of gold bullion from Medellín, Colombia, to New York.

In 1959, the CAB granted SAT a Supplemental certificate for cargo operations and authority for flights around the Caribbean.

ENTER THE CIA

While the Central Intelligence Agency already had its own air arm, Air America, created in 1950 (as Civil Air Transport Inc) to support US foreign policy objectives in the Indo-China region, there was a desire to create a contingency ‘air force’ with an eye toward future ventures in Latin America. In summer 1960 a search began for a suitable established ‘front’ carrier, especially one in possession of a Supplemental certificate, which Air America lacked. This was now a mandatory requirement to enable bidding for lucrative military airlift contracts to offset running costs, while still remaining available to fulfill CIA operational needs.

Southern Air Transport, by now unprofitable and with assets of around only $100,000 (approximately $775,000 today), proved an attractive candidate and the airline changed hands on August 5 for $307,506.10 ($2.42m), ostensibly to Actus Technology, a front corporation. The transaction was handled through two government nominees, Percival F Brundage, director of the Bureau of the Budget and Perkins McGuire, Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Eisenhower administration. Although under the overall supervision of the CIA, Doc Moor and his number two, Stanley G Williamson, were retained as chairman and president, respectively, to handle the commercial side of the business and, no doubt, to maintain a veneer of ‘respectability’.

.....Meanwhile, in 1977 the CAB gave Southern Air Transport the authority to contract with the Department of Defense. The following year it received domestic all-cargo authority, and in 1980 was approved for worldwide all-cargo charters.

THE IRAN-CONTRA CONNECTION

....Starting in February 1986, SAT transported shipments of anti-tank weapons and Hawk missiles to Israel for onward movement to Iran, while its aircraft had been frequently seen at San Salvador’s Ilopango International Airport, a known transfer point for the CIA’s Central American operations.

A joint-venture was established in January 1993 with the formation of Polar Air Cargo in conjunction with aircraft leasing company Polaris, a subsidiary of General Electric Capital Services, and California-based NedMark Transportation Services. Polar lifted off in May 1993 using a couple of 747s, initially on charter work. Within a few months, several more aircraft allowed the initiation of east and westbound scheduled routes linking New York with Hong Kong.

SAT pulled out of the partnership in March 1994 to develop its own cargo business with 747s, the first appearing in summer 1994. Customers included Atlas Air, China Airlines, Emirates, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lufthansa, and Varig. Although the overall cargo market had grown by more than 50% in the preceding decade, the number of new companies offering tailor-made contract and leasing packages had also increased.

After moving in 1995 from Miami to Columbus, Ohio (although SAT became a Nevada corporation), toward the end of the decade the burden of new equipment costs and increased competition led to financial problems. Proposed acquisitions by Fine Air and Kitty Hawk failed to materialize after a buyer for the L-100 fleet could not be found, and Southern Air Transport ceased operations on September 25, 1998. On October 1, with liabilities of $101 million ($150m), SAT filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Epstein's connection to Columbia - neurobiologist Eric R. Kandel, M.D:

Nov 22, 1995 - The board of trustees of Rockefeller University has elected investor Jeffrey E. Epstein, neurobiologist Eric R. Kandel, M.D., and Nancy M. Kissinger, M.A., as new members.

https://imgur.com/a/BvtatQ8

https://www.edge.org/memberbio/eric_r_kandel

ERIC R. KANDEL, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with A. Carlson and P. Greengard, 2000) is University Professor at Columbia University in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also founding Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.

Zuckerman Institute, Columbia https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/

At Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, we believe that understanding how the brain works — and gives rise to mind and behavior — is the most urgent and exciting challenge of our time. Led by Rui Costa, DVM, PhD, and Nobel laureates Richard Axel, MD and Eric Kandel, MD, we study critical aspects of the mind and brain, gaining insights that promise to benefit people and societies everywhere.

The Kavli Institute for Brain Science http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/leadership/kandel

Eric R. Kandel, M.D., is University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University; and Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and Co-Director of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.

A graduate of Harvard College and N.Y.U. School of Medicine, Dr. Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the NIH and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, and organized Columbia’s neuroscience curriculum.

Related: The BRAIN Initiative started at the instigation of the Kavli Foundation. On Optogenetics and EPSTEIN related

https://www.usaid.gov/documents/1860/children-god-relief-institute

CHILDREN OF GOD RELIEF INSTITUTE

USAID, through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), supports orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS.

http://www.nyumbani.org/representatives-from-us-department-of-state-pepfar-and-usaid-visit-nyumbani/

Interesting. A thumb's down in less than a minute of posting. I think I can guess why.