Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Rabbit Hole Express, Time shifting Shelf Stoppers and more strange in the Norway sky

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Rabbit Hole Express

Episode 5 - “Time Travelling shelf stoppers?”

Rabbit Hole Express is a monthly discussion about all the strange news and conspiratorial thoughts that float around the media and internet.

This episode we talk in depth about SETI opening it doors to all, a Great article about the Norway spiral, more interesting strangeness in the Norway spiral, who is Jon Hutchinson? and most of all HexDSL ponders the mystery of the Norway spiral

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Listen now: http://www.mevio.com/episode/214546/rabbit-hole-express-norway-spiral-norway-ufo

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the Aurora UFO: http://news.discovery.com/space/aurora-mystery-solved.html

Norway Spiral Article: http://www.enterprisemission.com/Norway-Message3.htm

SETI goes public: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18516-seti-opens-up-its-data-to-citizen-scientists.html

Jon Hutchinson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hutchison




Monday, 8 February 2010

Moscow Triangle an X Com problem?

Remember the Moscow Triangle?

http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/18-12-2009/111237-ufo_moscow-0

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Yes, that’s is but here is a better picture

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Well, last year when i saw the footage of the Moscow Triangle something in my memory was twitching, a deep buried thought that has taken some time to surface.

Remember the X-Com series of video games? started with ‘UFO – Enemy Defence’ ? they where very popular when i was a teenager but the later game ‘X-Com Apocalypse’ is the one that was set in a city and in the introduction video there was a little sequence of a triangle appearing above a city. here is the video

The Part of the video that got stuck in my mind is 54 seconds in and ends at 1:08

anyway im not sure if its just me but there is something eerie about the whole video in relation to the Moscow event. 




China’s doctors breeding a super bug?

Pudong District People's Hospital in Shanghai

I know, its not funny to use sensationalist headlines but that’s what the Telegraph have done with this report

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7168303/China-threatens-world-health-by-unleashing-waves-of-superbugs.html

From reading the article that i have linked above it is easy to get the impression that china is a backward country with bellow standard health care. well…. have you notices how there have been allot of anti-china posts all across mainstream media over the fast few months?

could it be that China’s industrialisation and moves to integrate into the global commerce has upset some people?

Anyway, i have been distracted from the topic at hand. China according to this article has over used antibiotics, recklessly encouraging the growth of MRSA type bugs.

just a thought but lets assume they have not done any of this because after all the Telegraph quotes a Swedish doctor no one has ever heard of as evidence

there are quality health care plans available in China including this company http://www.china-healthcare.us/eng/ who seem to be very legitimate.

the idea of a super bug that will kill us all has been in the psyche of the world for quite some time, with movies like ‘I am Legend’ and ‘Resident evil’ showing us mutating virus’s that destroy the world as we know it and often create an almost alien race of infected, then there was the talks of a world plague that the TV show Heroes pushed forwards a while back with on of their ‘five years in the future’ episodes.

it looks to me that Hollywood and the news media are trying to firmly implant a fear of sickness into everyone and now China is going to be the next ‘movie’ to scare us all…. well, i don’t buy it, the Chinese are probably guilty of a great deal of things as are we all but to pump this kind of hate mongering speculation is just silly.

My point is, lets not bash them for this just yet, after all since the H1N1 circus has left town the media are looking for the next opportunity to print ‘The end is nigh’




Monday, 1 February 2010

Be Safe, Don’t Visit.

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Today I visited the George Eliot Hospital in the city of Nuneaton here in the UK.

Upon trying to get a parking ticket upon arrival i was greeted with a simple yet worrying message as the picture bellow shows.

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you can Click for a larger version or see the closer picture bellow

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My local Hospital, the place that my family would go in the even of an health emergency is in the middle of an outbreak of an RNA virus known as Norovirus, as soon as i returned home i checked the trusty internet for more information (link provided)

To be fair to the George Elliot hospital they do have a message on their home page regarding the issue.

it reads: “The Norovirus sickness and diarrhoea bug is currently prevalent in the community. Please help to minimise the risk of this spreading to our patients by refraining from visiting wards if you are feeling generally unwell, especially if you are suffering from diarrhoea or vomiting.

I also found on the BBC news page a mention of the issue as well (only when i looked really hard that is)

now, my worry is that my local news paper did not report the issue, there was not a warning given to the person that i was taking to the hospital either. so, you really don’t know about it at all unless you are buying a parking ticket.

wikipedia (my source for all things factual, for better or worse) has this to say

“Severe illness is rare: although people are frequently treated at the emergency ward, they are rarely admitted to the hospital. The number of deaths from norovirus in the US is estimated to be around 300 each year, with most of these occurring in the very young, elderly and persons with weakened immune systems. Symptoms may become life-threatening in these groups if dehydration is ignored or not treated”

So, it kills 300 people each year in the US, correct me if i am wrong but if you take away those who had ‘underlying heath problems’ from the H1N1 deaths and i think you may find that the Norovirus is at least as worrying as swine flu, yet there's no talk of it my my local paper and there is no Tamiflu equivalent on offer (thank the maker)

here are some other quotes from the wikipedia article that i thought where worth pointing out

“Hand washing is an effective method to reduce the spread of norovirus pathogens. Sanitizing of surfaces where the norovirus may be present is recommended. Alcohol rubs are not very effective at dealing with Norovirus.” – that's comforting,

“the prevention of nosocomial infections involves routine and terminal cleaning.” – revolutionary advice, clean stuff!

A little more fringe for a moment

One of the other things that i noticed while reading about the Norovirus was that its ‘marketed’ as acute gastroenteritis that develops between 24 and 48 hours after exposure, however it is an RNA virus, and for anyone who is familiar with the writings of Micheal Talbot or even some of the newer David Icke books then you may recall that RNA is the tool that allows our DNA to decode the reality we live in, so isn’t an RNA targeting virus a worrying thing?

 

Tamiflu

Tamiflu, pointless placebo or government provided killer? well, that's the topic on another post entirely but if you do some research you will find people who have already spoken in some depth about it (Alex Jones for one) my point is that the media could have latched onto this tiny little outbreak and screamed pandemic very easily, or is could have gone unnoticed or simply diagnosed by the hospital stall as a H1N1 outbreak instead.

Its interesting to see how things are handled by the media and by the NHS, but more importantly if its not safe to visit the hospital how is it safe to be in the care of the hospital?