- This report smacks of strange societal pathology. Is
it remotely possible there is a new technology being tested which involves
static visual images alone to create/achieve mind control/modification...or
some kind of personality modification in children and young people?
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- Can trading card images alone do that? We know that answer
is yes with respect to tv and film.
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- Are there somehow embedded stealth symbols or visual
matrix patterns in the Pokemon trading card pictures and artwork that visually
access the subconsicous of many children at some primal level that is triggering
Pokemon card buying and possession lust?
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- Most everyone has seen the cleverly-constructed graphics
and images, usually on posters, that reveal a secondary picture if one
'stares' at it just right. Could the Japanese (or some black ops motivational
research group?) have taken that concept a step further?
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- Trading cards have been around for a hundred years..but
neverbefore the subject of bizarre reports of such widespread rage, assault,
and crime. Is what we are seeing here just another symptom and extension
of our decaying, violence-prone society? Maybe. Is it some sort of visually-induced
response syndrome being used to sell more cards? Possible. Or, is it a
test of a new visually 'passive' (as opposed to tv and film) mass mind-influencing
of children? Or, is it all of the above? Was the tv epilepsy event a simple
case of accidental mass photosensitive epilepsy...or was it something else
that we are now also seeing reflected in Pokemon trading card lust? Questions...questions.
- -Jeff
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- The latest craze to hit toyshops in Britain has been
denounced by US police as "America's most dangerous hobby" after
causing a surge in child crime.
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- Children across the US are stabbing, beating and robbing
each other to steal Pokemon trading cards, depicting the tiny monsters
from on a Japanese video game. American police and Customs officials are
being trained to spot counterfeits of the cards which can sell for more
than £200.
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- A police spokesman in Los Angeles, where 540,000 counterfeit
cards were confiscated at two toy wholesalers, said: "This has become
a war because such huge amounts of money are involved. This has got to
be America's most dangerous hobby because kids are literally fighting each
other to get their hands on these cards."
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- Police officer Charlie Sarkioglu of Philadelphia, where
six children have been arrested for separate attacks on classmates to steal
cards, said: "There are Pokemon card sharks out there. This is far
worse than the Cabbage Patch doll craze."
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- Prosecutors in Orange County, California, have filed
charges against a 13-year-old boy who is accused of stealing a classmate's
Pokemon cards and then running him over with his bicycle. He faces five
years in juvenile detention if convicted. The juvenile crime wave has led
schools in many states to ban Pokemon cards and toys, which has confused
some parents who were rewarding their children with the cards in return
for good marks at school.
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- Alan Hardy, a Sheffield-born chef who lives in Marina
del Rey, California, said: "It's difficult to know what to do. My
daughter and her friends are totally caught up in this craze. I don't understand
it at all and neither do any of the other parents I've spoken to but it's
something the kids have become totally obsessed with. I don't know what
will happen in Britain if this catches on over there."
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- Packets of 11 Pokemon cards sell for about £2 but
some cards - especially first editions of such characters as Charizard
and Mew - are selling for as much as £200 in online auctions.
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- Forgers are cashing in on the craze and US Customs officers
have seized counterfeit cards and toys worth more than £15 million
in the past six months. Officials from Nintendo of America, the creator
of the craze, are advising police and Customs officials how to spot the
counterfeit products.
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- Pokemon - short for pocket monsters - was the brainchild
of Satoshi Tajiri, 34, a Japanese games creator, who invented it by combining
his two childhood passions of monster movies and the study of insects.
The first anyone outside Japan heard of the craze was in 1997 when <Link>
about 700 Japanese children suffered seizures triggered by the flashing
of the Pikachu character's lightning in a television episode.
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- The card game involves 155 different creatures, each
with their own special powers. The goal is to win as many of the colourful
cards as possible. Pokemon has spawned a cartoon television show, Nintendo
games, a film which grossed more than £35 million in its first five
days, books, stuffed toys, key chains, rubber balls and clothing. Worldwide
sales are estimated at £3.8 billion.
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- While Pokemon's appeal baffles most adults, Shigeru Miyamoto,
a game developer at Nintendo, has an explanation. In an interview with
People magazine, he said: "Pikachu and the other Pokemon characters
look very cute, but if anything happens they are ready to fight. Maybe
that is why they appeal to Americans."
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- Comment
- James Neff
- 12-20-99
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- There is one essential reason the "Pokemon"
craze has such an inexplicable grip on some kids... parent's who have been
utterly hoodwinked by contemporary pop psychology into believing that saying
NO to their children will leave them forever traumatized; that somehow,
their child MUST have Pokemon in order to be "in" and "accepted"
by other children; who have allowed marketing wizards to forumlate a powerful
"kid culture;" they have given in to the knee-jerk demands of
insatiable "gotta-have-it" consumerism and covetousness bred
and fostered by an amoral media monstrosity. We have a nation of spoiled
kids who might as well be hardwired into the television, Nintendo, Play
Station and GameBoy boxes directly to the skull. The "gotta-have-it"
syndrome tells us there is a void. That void will never be filled by anything
from Japan, from television, the latest "hip" pseudo-music or
some worthless here-today-gone-tomorrow fashion or fad.
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- What these children lack, in no uncertain terms, is God.
Plain and simple... they have no God. Be it an awareness of themselves
in the universe as being an integral part of a cosmic whole within a universal
spiritual truth, with real and personal accountability and responsibility,
or a specific, personal, even religious reality that there is a REASON
for being here, that there are moral absolutes, and a life above and beyond
brute sense gratification. Without this, discipline and self-discipline
are not likely to be cultivated in these kids. Their God is self. Self
that can become so twisted and distorted that battering in the skull of
a playmate to have Pokemon card #234 to complete a collection is "reasonable"
behavior. You've seen the embryonic stage of these kids in McDonald's,
when the cashier tells the parent, "I'm sorry, we're all out of Pochahontas
collectible figurines" and the kid goes into a psychotic rage, or
collapses into a state of uncontrollable tears and depression. There's
a guardian over that child that has no sense of responsibility (and no
backbone), who allows a chunk of plastic to become an idol of great emotional
need. These are the same who let Pocahantas teach their children spirituality
and babysit them. Pop in the tape, hand them the toy and mesmerize them
for several hours a day. Cheaper than drugs or babysitters. More effective
than hypnotism. But in the end a terrible price must be paid.
This generation is in danger of living its full span in an entirely selfish,
obcessive, deluded, hedonistic tail-spin into destruction. And they are
all innocents. Their guardians are ultimately responsible, by not
being guardians, but enablers. These kids are going to carry into
adulthood a burning coal of irrationality and selfishness. They will carry
it into world politics, religion, science, industry... everywhere.
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- Comment
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- Hello again,
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- I am resending this email to you - I wrote it to you
on September 26, 1999 and your response is attached. I was just at your
site (Dec 19th) and saw your recent article about Pokemon monsters: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/pokemonsters.htm
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- You see, I'm not the only one that thinks there is more
to these Pokemon Cards - I just knew about it first!!
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- Have a wonderful holiday season!
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- Linda Aliberti 12-20-99
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- From: Linda Aliberti
- 9-26-99
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- Jeff
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- Hello, I'd like to hear your thoughts about the pokemon
cards by 'Wizard enterprises'. After reading about the Illuminati and
the families behind the scenes on your website, I wondered if there was
perhaps a connection between these Pokemon cards and the Illuminati - trying
to capture our youth.
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- My 6yr old was so 'obsessed' with the cards, and so was
his 10yr old friends and cousins that I decided to see what they were
about -I studied them for a few weeks now. Aside from their demonic derivitave
names, they also 'evolve' into other forms, similar to reincarnation.
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- Your thoughts?
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- Regards,
- Linda Aliberti
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- Jeff wrote:
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- Hello Linda,
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- The pacing, the intensity of characterization, the general
sensory overstimulation produced by the entire Pokeman phenomenon is clearly
an enchanting/addictive issue which deserves careful scrutiny by parents.
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- As far as symbolism in the card images themselves, we
don't know for sure. Anything is possible.
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- Generally speaking, this newest children's craze is,
at the least, another example of deviously slick technology which quickly
overwhelms the average child's meager ability to critically evaluate and
discern. This 'product' as delivered is nothing less than a highly-refined
medium of audio-visual, pyscho-emotional control which is underpinned and
laced with God only knows what kinds of subliminal imagry and messaging.
Developing, sensitive minds don't have a chance.
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- It is my suggestion that somehow, someway you find your
way to reduce the amount of television your child has access to. Disconnecting
the cable is best. Selected videos only are wisest. It may require your
going to war to a degree but your child's individual identity and future
are at risk. Today's peer pressure to conform is ruthless...so much so
that many children, tragically, will willingly surrender their uniqueness
so as not to be 'shut out' of the 'in' crowd. It's hard being a parent.
It's even harder being a child.
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- Hope this is of some little assistance.
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- Linda Aliberti wrote:
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- Thank you for taking time out to respond. The Pokemon
cards originate from Japan, and 'evolve' (reincarnation). The names of
them have some interesting (demonic) derivations. Kids are glued to them
once they get them. Perhaps there is something subliminal on them. In
fact, I could myself get 'hooked' on them - and I'm a grown adult!!! That's
why I was wondering if you heard anything.
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- After reading about the 13 bloodlines on your sightings
site, I purchased the book 'Bloodlines of the Illuminati" and cannot
believe what I'm reading - especially about the Kennedy's, the royalty
of England and the Rothchilds.. The other evening (around 2am) the TV was
on while I was internet surfing, and I happen to catch a very bright woman
selling financial advice on an infomercial. The faded background (if you
could make it out) was a giant green pyramid with the illujminati eye
in it (like on our paper $). After reading this book, I look around and
see how everything is connected to the illuminati - $$$...Last week my
friend loaned me a book called "The Bible Code". Interesting
book - don't know if I believe it or not, but quite interesting.
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- Thanks again for responding. Stuff on your site is quite
interesting and controversial - the way it should be!!. Regards, Linda
Aliberti lindaaliberti@erols.com
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