Chemtrail fiction raises concerns about Alberta’s premier
By Lethbridge Herald on October 10, 2024.
Editor:
A couple of years back a friend of mine, who’d moved from Alberta out to the Kootenays, told me a story. It seems he was minding his own business, brewing up a cup of coffee, tending his garden, looking around, admiring the scenery when one of the locals came along and they started talking. The way people do.
This local fellow was a talkative cuss with some pretty decided opinions,and somehow the conversation got around to “chemtrails.” Which was not, even for that time and place, a topic you’d expect to come up all that often. But come up it did and the local gestured up at the sky and the streak of water vapour billowing out of a high flying jet headed for the Vancouver International.
And he said: “I used to really worry about those planes, spewing out their poison, getting into my mind, controlling the way I thought about everything.” “But,” he said. “my shaman showed me how to deal with it.”
He bent his knees and, spreading his hands, palms up, fingers a little bent, over his head, he began to, slowly, laboriously, push his arms up and straighten his legs until he was standing erect, his outspread hands straining towards the sky. “There” he said. “You just do that and you keep thinking good thoughts and all the bad influences just get bounced back into the sky and blown away.”
OK, a silly little story just confirming all Albertans’ prejudices about bush hippies and B.C. and all that.
I heard it and grinned a little and didn’t think about it again until today when the premier of this province came out in public and started talking about- you guessed it, “chemtrails!”
It seems there is a strong faction in the United Conservative constituency associations, the very people gearing up to vote on Danielle Smith’s leadership of their party and, by extension, her continued occupation of the position as this province’s premier, who are spending a lot of time and effort thinking about passing resolutions about the overarching threat of the American government poisoning the minds of all right-thinking Albertans with the noxious vapour spewing out across our pristine, blue skies.
Is it just me or are there other people out there who get just a tad concerned when the premier of this province either shows such a tenuous grip on reality that she buys into the idea of malign forces taking over peoples’ minds by seeding the water vapour put out by jet engines up in the stratosphere, or, a premier so insecure about her grip on power that she thinks nothing of kowtowing to people who are, quite frankly, delusional but who have taken over control of the grassroots of the party she was elected to lead?
So I’m going to intervene. If the delegates to the UCP leadership review will just open the proceedings by all standing, crouching down, raising their hands over their heads and pushing back against the forces of darkness, that should, hopefully, take care of one of the pressing issues besetting this province and they can all get down to dealing with other matters like: “Is Justin Trudeau an alien from the Horsehead Nebula or just a run of the mill Lizard Man from the centre of the Earth? Back, in other words, to normal.
Ken Sears
Lethbridge
13-12
Great comments Ken. To prove how stupid these Reformers are Pierre Poilievre rants and raves about the high cost of living in Canada, and blames it all on Trudeau yet wants to take millions of dollars out the pockets of taxpayers by eliminating the Carbon Tax Rebates that’s how stupid he is. The last cruise ship I was on was in September 2023. The captain pointed out that the 2,000 crew members were from 95 different countries. During the trip I talked to as many as I could about what Covid had done to there countries, and in every case it was the high cost of living that was the main problem and the massive loss of family members before they got the Covid vaccines. In other words Trudeau had nothing to do with it. Once again Poilievre is fearmongering just like Donald Trump. Making an ass of himself and treating his supporters like morons, just like Danielle Smith.
He is the same guy who helped Stephen Harper take Canada from a $12 billion surplus to a $151 billion debt, lied to the people about the Income Trust Investments promising not to tax them then doing just that and tried to destroy our Public healthcare system and you can bet if elected he will do it again, like Smith is doing following her hero Ralph Klein.
while i appreciate your thoughts on the likes of the smiths and kleins of our world, and the suckers that buy into the likes of them, i ever left wondering how you and others that wish for sustainability square jet flights and cruise ships with sustainability. seems in the end it comes down to the same old: one is not going to give up much enough of anything they likes; it is is the other folk that don’t don’t sacrifice enough.
Everyone who has ever helped bring about a change in society was part of society themselves. Derailing any attempt at change by pointing a finger and saying the messenger isn’t perfect is a good way to make sure nothing ever changes.
Many people support political ideologies actively dragging us backwards and sabotaging our, and our planets future. Let’s focus on showing them a better way, not on getting upset at someone who sees the problems and wants solutions, but also went on a cruise once.
as i noted in my reply to fed up – i appreciate his take on alberta politics. to point out – respectfully – that jet flights and cruise ships are indeed a piece of our pressing issues is honest and fair. it is also fair and honest to note that far too few are willing to give up much of anything in the way of wants toward turning around our perilous course. i have put this same query forth to fed up before, and without response. however, yet again, he trumpets the glory of jets and cruise ships. i feel if we do not call out the stuff that is sucking us down, without being rude/aggressive, of course, there is too little basis for reflection and change. as it stands for the most – money enough is justification for wants driven indulgence.
you sound like you are on the mark, but the last waft of vapour overhead seems to have clouded my judgement.
From an article in the Smithsonian Magazine in 2015, it wrote: The bacterium Serratia marcescens lives in soil and water, and is best known for its ability to produce bright red pigment. This flashy trait makes this particular microbe useful in experiments—because it is so bright, it’s easy to see where it is. And in 1950, the U.S. military harnessed that power in a large-scale biowarefare test, writes Rebecca Kreston on her blog “Body Horrors” for Scientific American.
Beginning on September 26, 1950, the crew of a U.S. Navy minesweeper ship spent six days spraying Serratia marcescens into the air about two miles off the northern California coast. The project was called “Operation Sea Spray,” and its aim was to determine the susceptibility of a big city like San Francisco to a bioweapon attack by terrorists.
In the following days, the military took samples at 43 sites to track the bacteria’s spread, and found that it had quickly infested not only the city but surrounding suburbs as well. During the test, residents of these areas would have inhaled millions of bacterial spores. Clearly, their test showed, San Francisco and cities with similar size and topography could face germ warfare threats. “In this regard, the experiment was a success,” writes Kreston.
But there was a catch. At the time, the US military thought that Serratia couldn’t harm humans. The bug was mostly known for the red spots it produced on infested foods and had not been widely linked to clinical conditions. That changed when one week after the test, 11 local residents checked into a Stanford University Hospital complaining of urinary tract infections.
Upon testing their pee, doctors noticed that the pathogen had a red hue. “Infection with Serratia was so rare that the outbreak was extensively investigated by the University to identify the origins of this scarlet letter bug,” writes Kreston. After scientists identified the microbe, the cases collectively became the first recorded outbreak of Serratia marcescens. One patient, a man named Edward Nevin who was recovering from prostate surgery, died, and some have suggested that the release forever changed the area’s microbial ecology, as Bernadette Tansey pointed out for the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004.
The military had performed similar tests in other cities across the country over the next two decades, until Richard Nixon halted all germ warfare research in 1969. The San Francisco experiment didn’t become public knowledge until 1976.
So, do you really think America’s warfare would stop there? Perhaps they just made it much more secretive… Smith’s thoughts may not be that far-fetched afterall…
We’re talking about daily jet vapor trails these loonies are freaking out about, not govt research projects. Bad spin, ‘blade’.
“Smith’s thoughts may not be that far-fetched afterall…”.
That comment was recently overheard at a flat-earth society get together.
These Reformers cater to the weak minded and aren’t smart enough to cater to the majority which is why we see them being kicked out in Alberta. They are nothing like the true conservatives from the Lougheed and Getty governments who treated all Albertans with dignity and respect and didn’t treat our doctors, nurses, teachers, and students like third class citizens like we have seen. While Klein did t Smith has nothing but praise for him and is copying him. She forgets the people kicked Klein out and she likely will be also.
Wondering if the climate crisis cultists realize there is also carbon dioxide emitted from those jets? Should the airlines be cursed for adding to the alleged climate crisis, or praised for recycling water and plant food?
it is curious that so many are so certain about how public-good driven are our wonderful leaders. how is it any of us so far removed from the inner circles are certain enough to discard so much as conspiracy? a couple of wrenches that should have all reconsider their true certainty: edward snowden and julian assange. they are likely just a smidge of what can be shared to upend our utter certainty on anything politics and economics. of course, there is lots of history to support govt espoused lies and cover ups and corruption – recent events, too, for all those that dismiss anything “too long” ago as non factors that could never happen again, because, you know, history does not repeat, right? now, this is not to state chem trails are truths. this is to state that only fools are so certain of that which they have very little privy knowledge. seems the best such folk can do is utter a soundbite to underscore how much they think they know for sure…such as “conspiracy.”