Dreamtwister

I remember joking about this a few years ago with some of my friends.

 

It seems there was a...shall we say colourful individual with whom we were aquainted. It seems he believed that "they" were putting microchips in his soft drinks. Of course, we all laughed when he told us this. He really was quite indignant. Needless to say, we don't hear from him very much these days. So much more's the pity, since his paranoid delusions of the 90's have now become the reality of the 00's:

 

 

 

The µ-chip, or mu-chip as it is more ironically known (mu is a Japanese word that means "nothing", which this chip quite clearly is something), measures 0.4mm x 0.4mm. To put that into perspective, it's smaller than a grain of table salt. It is capable of storing a 128 bit Universal Unique ID, or enough unique ID numbers to catelogue 3x10^38 ( That's 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) people. To put it another way, That is enough to catelogue every human being who has ever lived...ever. Or to put that another way, if we began tagging people right now, we would not run out of unique ID's for another 833 undecillion years. That's about 200 trillion trillion times longer than the total estimated age of the universe. for all practical purposes, we could tag every human born from now until the end of time.

 

While it probably won't be finding it's way into your can of 7up any time soon, it could easily be delivered in a variety of methods, including intramuscular injection:

 

I'm sorry we laughed, Gord (not his real name).

Do you hear it? That's the sound of every employer in the United States stampeding to the fire exits. Check out this animation:

 

 

So this is the much-touted "recovery"? I think the unemployment levels in Somalia are lower than this. And do you know what the worst part about this animation is? The most recent data is from September. That's right, the last 2 months aren't even included! And of course, this is just the "official" picture, using the government's cooked statistics. For a real accounting of just how bleak the situation is, we need to calculate the unemployment rate the way it used to be calculated before before Clinton:

 

 

That's right. More than 1 in 5 Americans are now unemployed. And what is the government's solution to this unprecidented crisis? Well if they follow the advice of their most famous thinktank, the RAND corporation, the solution will be what it always is: Bomb someone to distract people from the fact they are completely screwed.

 

I feel safer already.

It appears the raging "flu" epidemic in Ukraine (really pneumonic plague) is spreading. There are now approximately a quarter of a million people sick in neighboring Belarus.

 

 

I wonder where it came from....

I've been avoiding this topic like the plague. There, I said it. I made a pun about the flu, and I feel really really bad about it.

 

Yes, it's true. I've been avoiding discussing the flu, but I can no longer do so. And I already feel dirtier, just by acknowleging it.

 

Where shall I begin?

 

Let's start with some statistics. Wikipedia suggests that up to 500,000 people worldwide die of seasonal flu every year I know it sounds horrific, and it is. But let's put that into perspective. to date there have been 6,508 confirmed deaths worldwide from H1N1.

 

 

Further, if you examine this real-time tracking site, it appears the worst is long over. Of course, the Northern hemisphere's flu season is just warming up, so we may see a double-peak, but only time will tell. For a more accurate picture, we should look at the country with the highest reported incidence: Australia: 35,444 reported cases, 161 deaths. That's a 0.4% mortality rate - not greatly different from seasonal flu.

 

Of far greater concern is the evidence currently being buried that the vaccine itself may be just as deadly as the virus. It seems that Professor Joseph Moshe, formerly of Baxter BioPharma Solutions, had uncovered evidence that Baxter was deliberately manufacturing weaponized bird flu and labeling it as "flu vaccine". Strangely enough, Moshe was quickly spirited out of the States to Israel, never to be heard from again. Interestingly enough, Baxter (along with the other big pharma companies) have been granted blanket legal immunity (See line item XIII) from people who die as a result of taking their vaccine.

 

Further, the vaccines are known to contain MF59, a squalene-based adjuvant that when combined with a live attenuated virus becomes many times more potent and deadly, and thimerosal (mercury) and formaldehyde. It's not cleared for use on pregnant women yet - it's been linked with spontaneous miscarriage and sterility, yet they continue pushing it.

 

Of course, the effects of these toxins are well-studied, and available for public review. Just kidding. They are studied...by the pharma firms themselves. And of course,

big pharma would never bury negative reports about their products, even going so far as to blackmail or outright murder whistle-blowers, would they?

 

And in what is perhaps the most macabre, (not to mention completely ignored) aspect of this story, it looks as though someone has taken advantage of this global panic and unleashed a bio weapon on the citizens of the Ukraine.

 

The last I heard, there were over a million people in Ukraine who are sick with a mysterious "lung disease". It's still being widely reported in the media as "swine flu", but the infection rate is several orders of magnitude higher than what we have come to know as "swine flu". There are other differences as well: Victims are coughing up blood (not a symptom of flu). Some independant-minded medical professionals conducted tests on their own, and concluded that it was not flu at all, but hemorragic pneumonia, more commonly known as pneumonic plague. Nobody has heard from them since. Any news outlets that report it as anything other than "swine flu" are immediately shut down, it's journalists arrested and disappeared.

 

Of course, the government took the opportunity to arrest opposition leaders, claiming they were "flu carriers" or some other nonsense, sending them off to the same "quarentine centres" the journalists and activists disappeared to. There were even claims that "somebody" was "disinfecting" the cities by spraying them with chlorine gas from aircraft and cremating the bodies of the dead.

 

 

OK class, who can tell me what "apotheosis" means?

 

It's a theological tearm meaning "The exaltation and elevation of an individual to godlike status". Anyone who's ever picked up a history book or a modern newspaper will immediately recognize where we've seen it before. The greatest modern example would be "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il of North Korea; all state-controlled media portrays Kim as some kind of a god: A conduit through which all of the citizens' hopes and dreams of the future can be personified. It even goes so far as to remake the education system in that country, with a significant portion of the curriculum devoted to teaching the children how Kim's father, Kim Il-Sung created the world.

 

Of course, there are other examples. Another noteable modern example was Adolph Hitler. While Hitler did not specifically pose as a diety, his handlers and propagandists did go to great lengths to make him appear as "Der Führer", using levels of media saavy unheard of in the 1930's, to portray him in a "Christ-like" manner.

 

Fast forward to today's announcement of the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize:

 

Now, setting aside for a moment the blatantly political and decidedly anti-peace nature of the Nobel Peace Prize for a moment (Henry Kissinger? Seriously?), not to mention Obama's personal track record (I know nobody in the mainstream media has mentioned it lately, but the Iraq war is still going on), we have a serious problem on our hands. This is another blatant apotheosis.

 

Everywhere this man shows up, he is surrounded by throngs of adoring...there's no other word for it...he's surrounded by throngs of worshipers. School children are being taught to sing his praises in school and in some cases, swear allegience to him! His rallies are filled with videography stolen directly from "Triumph of Will", complete with classic from below "god shots" and messianic symbolism. Listen to what Professor Robert Wistrich had to say about the film:

 

"[Triumph of the Will is] the supreme visualisation in cinematic form of the Nazi political religion. Its artistry, reinforced by the grandeur and power of the Nuremberg decor, is designed to sweep us into empathetic identification with Hitler as a kind of human deity. The massive spectacle of regimentation, unity and loyalty to the Führer powerfully conveys the message that the Nazi movement was the living symbol of the reborn German nation."

 

And here's what American film critic Frank Tomasulo (you may not know the name, but he's basically the Babe Ruth of film critics) said about the film:

 

"Religion is a major theme in Triumph. The film opens with a Point Of View coming godlike out of the skies to alight on twin cathedral spires. It contains many scenes of church bells ringing, and individuals in a state of near-religious fervor, as well as a prominent shot of Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller standing in his vestments among high-ranking Nazis. It is probably not a coincidence that the final parade of the film was held in front of the Nuremberg Frauenkirche. In his final speech in the film, Hitler also directly compares the Nazi party to a holy order, and the consecration of new party flags by having Hitler touch them to the 'blood banner' has obvious religious overtones. Hitler himself is portrayed in a messianic manner, from the opening where he descends from the clouds in a plane, to his drive through Nuremberg where even a cat stops what it is doing to watch him, to the many scenes where the camera films from below and looks up at him, as Hitler— standing on his podium — will issue a command to hundreds of thousands of followers. The audience happily complies in unison. Hitler is cast as a veritable German Messiah who will save the nation, if only the citizenry will put its destiny in his hands."

 

Sound familiar? I've been hesitant to draw this comparison in the past because of the blatantly inflammatory nature of such a comparison, but how can I not do so now?

 

And now he's a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. I'm forced to wonder how long it will be before he's nominated for sainthood.

 

Someone recently put forward the idea of retasking Obama's trademark "O" thusly:

 

 

But frankly, there's nothing funny about it.