(Conspiracy Nation, 7/14/02) -- In the mid-1980s, the Conspiracy Nation
editor had an unusual dream, so unusual that he wrote it down at the time. In
his dream, the church bulletin at his local house of worship carried a story
headlined, "We've Come To The End." The church bulletin, in the strange dream,
announced that a McDonalds fast food franchise had located itself at the rear
of the church, so that the faithful could easily have some fast food after
mass. Hence, since the McDonalds was at the rear of the church, the dream
headline read, "We've Come To The End."
Since having had the strange dream in the mid-1980s, the Conspiracy Nation editor has kept alert for any "real"-world counterpart to his dream. This morning, he noticed with interest an article in the July 13, 2002, Birmingham Post-Herald ("Do You Want Fries With That Sermon?" by James L. Evans). According to the article, Houston's (home of Enron) Brentwood Baptist Church now claims the honor of being the first church to have a McDonalds restaurant inside.
In his mid-1980s dream, the Conspiracy Nation editor had the dream sense that the McDonalds "golden arches" logo was significant; that the "golden arches" was an occult usurpation of the Biblical rainbow: symbol of God's promise to mankind that He would never again destroy the world as He did in Noah's time.
This past week has seen an especially sharp drop in the stock market. Without taking into account this morning's eerie parallel with the mid-1980s dream, Conspiracy Nation had already had strong forebodings that the surreal Dow Jones 10,000 dream would be hit by strong coffee. Dow Jones 10,000, the 1990s Tower Of Babel, it turns out, was a stupendous accounting fraud. The accountants shaped the numbers and lured in real money from investors who trusted the accounting numbers. Now the real money from real investors has vanished into Raptureland, along with the Fortean Times web site (fortunately Conspiracy Nation can now report that David Icke was not raptured, as it had at first seemed.)
The accountants shaped the numbers. The investors believed the numbers and gave real money to the several corporations. The accountants now are the focus of public anger -- but where did the money go? There was real money that chased after the misleading numbers. The accountants by and large did not get that money. The investors obviously no longer have the money. So where did that money go? Who has it? Dow Jones 10,000 was somewhat based on bad accounting, but it was also built from real money lured in by bad numbers. Who actually got the loot via the accountancy sleight-of-hand?
Besides the McChurch omen, other portents of trouble ahead include:
Other aspects of the editor's mid-1980s "We've come to the end" McChurch dream included "the return of the Moors" as well as "and Europe is a stony land."
The mass media newspapers and broadcast facilities do not report on such puzzling portents, except to dismiss or ridicule them. Not so funny though is that millions of investors have been robbed by well-heeled con artists. The press, owned by the very rich, steers outrage toward creative accountants. But who encouraged those accountants to be creative? And most important, who now has all that money?
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