If you read the web each day it sometimes happens that odd and apparently unrelated stories make a strange connection in your head. Here's one I bumped into this morning. Some of you may recall a story that crossed the news wires last August about a man named Joseph Moshe who was arrested in a police standoff in LA. The mainstream press loved the story at first. A FOX affiliate gave it a full 8 hours of "Breaking News" coverage. NBC reported at that time that: "According to police and prosecutors, Moshe called the Los Angeles Police Department's Command Division on Wednesday and threatened to blow up the White House." Here's how the LA Times covered it that day.
But digging deeper I find numerous stories revealing that Moshe made no threat to the White House. What did he do to incur the wrath of the FBI and SWAT? He was reported to have called in to a local talk radio show claiming that he was a microbiologist, and that a big pharmaceutical company, (Baxter) was going to release a tainted vaccine that was really an engineered bioweapon from one of its facilities in the Ukraine. He called the "Dr. True Ott Show," and a little research on Ott will reveal that he's been stumping against the H1N1 vaccine and the threat of "forced vaccinations" as part of a grand conspiracy connected to the "New World Order." So the inference is that Ott would give Moshe a sympathetic ear. These stories allege that the threat Moshe made was that he was going to "go public" with this information about the bioweapon release in the Ukraine. Moshe was arrested after enduring multiple barrages of tear gas and pepper spray, and a Taser. He was then apparently deported to Israel, and some stories claim he was secretly an agent for the Israeli MOSSAD.
All of this happened last August 17-21. You can google it up, but you will find that most of the mainstream news reports of this incident are now buried deep in the results. Most of what you will find is now carried on sites like "Conspiracyplanet" and "Above Top Secret." OK, so there's a lot of wild speculation on the Internet and plenty of scary conspiracy stories.
But suddenly, all in the last week or so, we get some alarming news about a strange viral infection that begins like the flu and then suddenly gets much worse, causing a massive Cytokine storm that floods the lungs with blood and fluid, much like plague or hemorrhagic fever. And here's the odd thing about this story... Where is this outbreak occurring? The Ukraine, 3 months after the Moshe story broke, and in exactly the place he claimed the bioweapon would be released. This is now the story in Ukraine, where a glance at today's headlines reads like this:
Mystery outbreak sparks WHO concern as disease spreads
Ukraine to make 1 million medical masks
Ukraine closes all schools to fight swine flu
Experts from WHO begin work in Ukraine
Number of people with viral pneumonia rapidly growing in Lviv
Experts: Flu epidemic could effect stock market
1 billion allocated to fight flu epidemic
Virus spreads to Poland
Was Moshe a raving lunatic willing to endure tear gas, pepper spray and a taser to try and reach safety at the Israeli embassy before being apprehended? There's one other possibility...Perhaps he was telling the truth.
But digging deeper I find numerous stories revealing that Moshe made no threat to the White House. What did he do to incur the wrath of the FBI and SWAT? He was reported to have called in to a local talk radio show claiming that he was a microbiologist, and that a big pharmaceutical company, (Baxter) was going to release a tainted vaccine that was really an engineered bioweapon from one of its facilities in the Ukraine. He called the "Dr. True Ott Show," and a little research on Ott will reveal that he's been stumping against the H1N1 vaccine and the threat of "forced vaccinations" as part of a grand conspiracy connected to the "New World Order." So the inference is that Ott would give Moshe a sympathetic ear. These stories allege that the threat Moshe made was that he was going to "go public" with this information about the bioweapon release in the Ukraine. Moshe was arrested after enduring multiple barrages of tear gas and pepper spray, and a Taser. He was then apparently deported to Israel, and some stories claim he was secretly an agent for the Israeli MOSSAD.
All of this happened last August 17-21. You can google it up, but you will find that most of the mainstream news reports of this incident are now buried deep in the results. Most of what you will find is now carried on sites like "Conspiracyplanet" and "Above Top Secret." OK, so there's a lot of wild speculation on the Internet and plenty of scary conspiracy stories.
But suddenly, all in the last week or so, we get some alarming news about a strange viral infection that begins like the flu and then suddenly gets much worse, causing a massive Cytokine storm that floods the lungs with blood and fluid, much like plague or hemorrhagic fever. And here's the odd thing about this story... Where is this outbreak occurring? The Ukraine, 3 months after the Moshe story broke, and in exactly the place he claimed the bioweapon would be released. This is now the story in Ukraine, where a glance at today's headlines reads like this:
Mystery outbreak sparks WHO concern as disease spreads
Ukraine to make 1 million medical masks
Ukraine closes all schools to fight swine flu
Experts from WHO begin work in Ukraine
Number of people with viral pneumonia rapidly growing in Lviv
Experts: Flu epidemic could effect stock market
1 billion allocated to fight flu epidemic
Virus spreads to Poland
Was Moshe a raving lunatic willing to endure tear gas, pepper spray and a taser to try and reach safety at the Israeli embassy before being apprehended? There's one other possibility...Perhaps he was telling the truth.
