A Tale Of Two Conspiracies

(Conspiracy Nation, 12/16/06) -- USA press coverage of two conspiracies illustrates myopia of the brain. The two lobes, left hemisphere and right hemisphere, are ordinarily divided by an iron curtain. It is "okay" to see a conspiracy in the Litvinenko poisoning, but not okay to see one in the eclipse of Senator Tim Johnson.

The Wall Street Journal, on December 13th, provided good background to the Litvinenko affair ("Putin Puzzle Revisited," by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Page A19). Alexander Litvinenko had written a book, linking Russian president Vladimir Putin to a series of 1999 Moscow apartment bombings. Those bombings were blamed on Chechen terrorists, thereby giving Putin a casus belli for a Chechen war. There was a clamp-down on Russian journalists: after all, Russia was at war.

Might Putin and his old KGB pals have been behind the Moscow apartment bombings? No one is sneering or calling Mr. Jenkins a "kook" when he writes:

"The real threat [to Putin] has always been Ryazan. That's the Russian city where, on Sept. 22, 1999, a resident noticed men unloading bags of 'sugar' into the basement of a large apartment block. The sugar was the explosive RDX; the men were Russian federal security agents. Moscow claimed the incident was a training exercise, but the apartment bombings, which had killed 300 of Mr. Putin's subjects, suddenly stopped."

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., does not even find it necessary to cringe and codify, "I am not a conspiracy theorist." He puts it out, plain as day, that the Russian president must have been complicit in the Moscow apartment bombings. There are no smiles and winks about what Jenkins has written. It is "respectable" to entertain the Putin conspiracy concept.

Now we cross to the other lobe, the USA lobe, where conspiracies "don't happen." In its previous report, Conspiracy Nation had noticed immediate Republican blogger damage control following the eerily coincidental decline of Senator Tim Johnson. ("Suspicious Sidelining Of Tim Johnson," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/TimJohnson.html) Before anyone could wonder about possible foul play, rapid deployment teams were ridiculing any such consideration.

Cautiously, two days following the Johnson jolt, alternative information has appeared. According to Tom Heneghan, close associate of the late Sherman H. Skolnick, "Senator Johnson of South Dakota was attacked with Stoner Technology in which low and high frequency signals were used to twist arteries and blood vessels in the Senators body using high frequency signals to create a bleeding of the brain or brain hemorrhage. All this is done folks by attacking the target while they are using their own cell phone or a landline phone." ("Senator Tim Johnson Target Of Assassination Attempt. Call 911," http://www.cloakanddagger.de/CLOAKANDDAGGER.DE_TOM%20HENEGHAN/cloak_BB_dec%2016.htm)

In this connection, a report by Alyssa Ramos in the December 2006 issue of Fate magazine is noteworthy. In "Haunted Cell Phone: Pictures In Paradise," she relates weird actings-up of her cell phone. Her phone went "completely haywire." At first, she thought it might be a computer virus, but was assured by her provider "there was no possible way a virus could have gotten into my phone." Further bizarre malfunctions included erasure of her photos and replacement by strange pictures. Was her phone "haunted" (by NSA)? Ms. Ramos consulted a professional friend, who confessed to being stumped. Others consulted also could only shrug and be mystified.

Conspiracy Nation has earlier reported on the lemming-like proliferation of cell phones and possibly sinister implications. Users are being turned into "Jello Brains." (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/JelloBrains.html) Is that what happened to Tim Johnson? Was the Jello Brain frequency suddenly ratcheted up? Remember, Johnson was on the phone when his attack occurred.

At this point, Conspiracy Nation is not saying Tim Johnson was the victim of "Under World" (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/WGraft.html) machinations. Neither is this publication ruling such machinations out. As David F. Godwin pleads in the December 2006 Fate magazine, let us please keep an open mind. We ought not be either too credulous or too incredulous. The "truth is out there somewhere. But it will never be known to Tweedledee [conspiracy 'believers'] or Tweedledum [conspiracy 'disbelievers'], who are too lost in their own irrationally preconceived notions to find it."

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