Neil Postman, a media and education critic, has been an inspiration to me for many years.  He came up with the concept of ‘teaching as a subversive activity’ in a book of the same name, which was an extremely attractive idea and one which inspired me to remain in the field despite the enormous problems with education.  I don’t agree with many of the things he says in this video, actually.  But, I agree that people need to be extremely cautious with technology, and he suggests that with any new medium we make a “Faustian bargain”, that is, a deal with the devil.  Media giveth and taketh away. In that there is no doubt.  With greater access to information, I lose more and more of my time.  However, I disagree that it is to the Internet we must look to hold responsible for the increase in ‘tribalism’ we see in the world.  For that trend, we must hold the mainstream media to account: the media conglomorates who all push a homogenous propaganda of fear, lust and envy on the sheeple who do nothing else to inform themselves than to hit the remote.  No, the Net is superior on that point.  I save more time, and spend more time reading and interacting with others. TV doesn’t compare.

It is worth considering just ‘what is’ cyberspace.  There’s a lot of stuff coming out now about human consciousnessand how the human mind is actually an electromagnetic field.  If true, then the Internet may not just be a tool for getting your daily dose of news, but a bridge between fields of consciousness.  An incredible “inner technology” may soon be accessible to all information geeks, and perhaps everyone in the future, called “telepathy”.  But, if so, we must take heed Postman’s warning: while it might be an exciting discovery to find that our wildest dreams may be coming true, we have to ask: what’s the problem to which this technology provides a solution? Who is going to use it?  And, what are the repercussions of it?  What kind of a world will it be, if our very thoughts are readable?  I surmise that this kind of technology will only serve humanistic objectives if the people themselves are in control of it.  How people will wrest control from those who currently monopolize the tools of modern society may be the penultimate struggle of our times.  There remains no doubt anymore that the monopolization of media by the corporatist oligarchy must end.  The old journalism is dead.  We need to manufacture our own dissent, rather than have consent manufactured for us. It seems to require self-design, which is appropriate for the birthing of a new global society, one which is truly autonomous and which breaks down the old propaganda that tribalized and demonized the world for us for so long.  An antidote to the psyops, meme warfare attacks and disinfo is the taking up of the tools into our own hands.

I’m gonna be as objective as I can on this and post information I’ve read about this issue, but first off, since one of the first topics and one of the main reasons I started blogging was the SPP, the Security, Peace and Prosperity partnership meetings between the US and Canada (see my original posts for more detail), the following information seems to be extremely relevant to the issue of the SPP.  But first, some brief background on how I learned of all this. As you know, I like to frequent the Global Research site as much as I have time for. I haven’t yet donated, but I intend to. It’s my most-valued source of info. (You can find a treasure trove of information about swine flu on their site, under the Science and Medicine or Biotechnology topics on the sidebar.

Anyway, way back last fall, I came across an article that expressed fear about Bush-era developments in bio-warfare, specifically having to do with that research facility in Fort Detrick and changes to the rules on studying virulent pathogens. And this one on Avian flu. That was alarming in itself, but I didn’t have time to follow up. There were reports and investigations by WHO that swine flu may have originated in a lab.

Now, when this so-called swine flu broke out a few months ago, it all seemed too sudden, just on an instinctual level. F. William Engdahl, whom I have a great deal of respect for, came out with an article suggesting what we all thought: this probably came about from the unsanitary conditions on one of those huge industrial pig farms in Mexico. It seemed logical at first glance, right?  Or did it?

I went to this doctor, Nyman, the guy who developed the “flu-tracker”, google-earth like map that tracked the progress. He was saying something along the lines that, well, the flu is coming out in the spring and developing over the summer, so in many ways it’s comparable to the Spanish flu of 1918. He said that he thought the real challenge would come in the fall and winter during flu season. Anyway, he just seemed so detached and really unhelpful. He seemed more concerned about how his new tracking software functioned than in actual helping people understand and combat what he thought was a potential “pandemic”. That raised some alarm bells to me. That and when I did some research on the guy, I found a lot of people questioning his credentials. Anyway, it was that guy’s tracking software that made some of the other later article I read seem more important. Perhaps, as some bloggers speculated, swine flu was a bio-weapon “beta-test”, to see how these things travel, how quickly, and where. Or perhaps just a hoax perpetrated to make money for vaccine manufacturers. Well, here’s where it gets more interesting. Listen to these ladies: “trust your government” !!!

All the hullabaloo about pandemic, to this day, just smacks of propaganda and fear-mongering, and I still believe it is just that. But, for what purpose, I kept asking myself. It doesn’t seem to be so bad, what a few hundred people worldwide? Malaria kills more people. Dysentery kills more. What gives? Well, I started coming across more information lately, and actually I hope it isn’t true, but I’m afraid it might be.

This article, while on the topic of bird flu, may be related and of interest. But, it was in this journalist’s lawsuit that really sent shivers down my spine.

It may just be that the real threat comes not from the flu, but from the vaccine not only because they include a dangerous and side-effect-unknown “adjuvant” squaline which may be linked to Gulf War Syndrome (see also here and here, where hard research has confirmed that, “results and those of others (Asa et al., 2000a; Matyas et al., 2000) strongly suggest that the production of anti-squalene antibodies is linked to symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome and to the presence of squalene in certain lots of anthrax vaccine in some individuals.”), but also especially if the company that manufactures the vaccines deliberately contaminates them.

I think the moral to this story is, DON’T YOU BE GETTING ANY FLU VACCINES!