Another Midwich Cuckoo? (5#) -

One evening this past week, a guy on the
C2C radio program mentioned Julian Assange . . .

disclosing that Assange had been exposed to a weird mind control cult during his childhood. He said we could read about it in the Wikipedia article about Assange. And so I did. I read the article about Assange and then read the article about the cult.

One of the peculiar characteristics of that cult was that the female leader used to dye the children's hair very blond. Thus, a group portrait of the children is evocative of the Midwich Cuckoos. Did you ever see that movie? It's a British movie from 1960 about a strange group of blond children who have psychic powers of mental telepathy - the ability to read people's minds - and can compel people to act according to their group will.

Is that what the cult was all about? For what purpose was the leader training those children? What were the goals she wanted to achieve? What were her aspirations for them? What was the intellectual baggage of the group? There seems to be very little of that kind of information about them currently available to us. The leader was reported to have had an affinity for hatha yoga, but the practice of hatha yoga does not produce results like that cult. What other intellectual influences contributed to her modus operandi - Madame Blavatsky? Wikipedia does not include the more esoteric aspects of the cult.

But when Julian Assange appears in public affecting platinum hair, which is associated with that Australian cult and the Midwich Cuckoos, that hair makes him look like the ambassador from a possibly sinister flying saucer group. Prof Rosen's "Voice from Nowhere" is now speaking to us from Zeta Reticuli? Caution - there may be a bumpy road ahead!

Steven Spielberg has optioned a biopic of Assange. Well, Spielberg has done some Sci-Fi before. Will Spielberg keep the spacey hair? Hmmm.

Not that Assange's WikiLeaks is a novelty, since we already have a website that's been publishing "leaks" for years. It's called Cryptome. Why would we need another? I don't know.

I have a customary orbit in cyberspace, as most people do. I read some blogs, newspapers, and websites, maybe not every day, maybe I drop in only once a week. As I am surfing my usual rounds, Julian Assange has popped up and intruded into my little world more than once recently. There are lots of theories about him going around.

More intriguing, however, is the chatter on the Internet. The latest chatter is wondering whether there is any connection between Julian Assange's rather strange choice of pals and the men who were threatening the late Stieg Larsson. I don't know the answer to that question. I have never read Larsson's books because they were described as very violent.

John Young of Cryptome has just posted a backgrounder by Robert Manne on Assange. It's good, but very long.

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