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Who do you trust?

Jonal entry 1099 | April 30 2009

A Home Page country acquaintance yesterday sent me a new and intriguing conspiracy theory. It intrigues me because I had already been wondering, "Why has 'swine flu pandemic' been the top headline story in the mainstream news media for days running now when only 20 cases of it have been confirmed in this country (I haven't checked the latest figures and doing so is irrelevant to my point, which relates to conditions "then," not "now"), and there have been no confirmed deaths attributed to it. There are thousands of cases of flu every year in the United States and usually there are hundreds of deaths attributed to those outbreaks, yet they don't usually get top headline treatment." What's up with this?

On Tuesday, as though Someone Up There was trying to get a message to me, I met the most unusual person I've encountered in years. He said he was 25 years old, he was a Christian, and he admits to being highly opinionated. Among his opinions was the theory that Obama is just another George W. Bush in black face and the swine flu "pandemic" is a conspiracy of the government to grab power and promote its already up and running movement toward yet another New World Order. Then as fast as he appeared from seemingly nowhere, my messenger was gone, leaving me to ask, "what just happened here?"

Then yesterday, as mentioned, I got a written version of a very similar conspiracy theory. Here are some direct quotations summarizing its most relevant claims from the newsletter that was forwarded to me—

On to the Engineered Pandemic

The predicted, or perhaps I should say, “promised” pandemic may very well be upon us. This is, as sure as God made little green apples, a totally man-made event, with a totally man-made pathogen (disease-causing agent). The WHO, US Government and MMD (media of mass deception) have been ramping up, ramping up, ramping up. But there is no honest virologist in the world who can look you in the eye and say that this virus had any chance whatsoever of having self-assembled genes from Eurasian, North American and other Swine Flu, Avian Flu (already weaponized with the genes of the 1918 Pandemic Virus?) and human viruses, sprung, like Venus from the brow of Zeus on April 14 in Mexico City and then, suddenly it has deadly potential around the globe … without a whole lot of help from its friends.

Deadly potential, by the way, is pretty weird here. There is little doubt that the death toll in Mexico is much higher than previously reported. How high we may never really know.

But there is also little doubt that there is no reason to have declared a “Health Emergency” in the US for a disease which has impacted fewer than 20 people and killed none of them. What pandemic? Who pandemic? Could it be that this pandemic is a totally orchestrated event to make sure that there is an excuse for closing down those few liberties and constitutional rights which still exist after the last devastating 8 years? The “left neocons” continuing the process the “right neocons” started?

I was reading an update from a Chinese site yesterday. It stated that the US, with 20 non fatal cases, had declared a “Health Emergency”, The same site noted that there had been a fatal train wreck in a remote part of China and 21 people were dead. I noted with interest that China did not declare a “Train Emergency”.

Bear in mind that once a global pandemic is declared, just as the US assumes supreme dictatorial powers through Patriot I, II, III, BARDA and other legislation, Executive Orders and Homeland Security Directives, and as the States assume similar powers through the Emergency Medical Powers Acts, passed at the urging of the Homeland Security cabal, so the UN will, according to already prearranged agreement, become the supreme political governing force on the planet.

World government, “elected” by a lowly virus … and an engineered one, at that.

Interestingly enough, of course, it was the Angel of Change, Barak Obama, who, along with then Senator Biden, proposed to the US Congress that a head tax be paid by every man, woman and child in the US to support the UN and that the US military be placed under the authority of the UN, that is, of the New World Order.

I would call that change, all right. And I would say that it may be that a non-pandemic Pandemic just might work to get them what they are looking for.

These theories, even if I do like them, are probably no more credible than the ones that blamed the Bush Administration for bombing our own skyscrapers and the Pentagon with airliner bombs. And the references to "neo-cons" make me suspect that Pat Buchanan is behind it all—(they're the kind of "cons" he's akways attacking just as vociferously as he does the Obamanators).

For my money, I can't trust anyone who would support late-term abortions, especially if they then to go all anti-torture on us, as though sucking out the brains of near-term live and viable babies are not harsh, cruel, and inhuman. Or that Al Qaeda operatives are more deserving of human rights than these innocent babes. Or that water boarding is more heinous than death in the womb by saline injection. (As one pundit said this week, snow boarding is more dangerous than water boarding and actually results in occasional deaths.)

As such theories, scenarios, and prophecies go, I guess you choose who you trust and then "you pays your nickle and you takes your prize."

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