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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Italy Post 03

The situation's taken yet another turn.

I followed Mittelwerk into town this morning, hoping this would be the moment of truth... that the world would finally lay eyes on the mysterious Enzo Valenzetti.

But it wasn't to be. Pretty soon, I realized we were heading elsewhere, and I have to admit, I was more than a little confused when we pulled into the parking lot of Sanremo Mercy Memorial Hospital (at least, I think that's the translation).

Mittelwerk went into the hospital - entered the Alvar Hanso Center for Advanced Medical Sciences (yeah, this is one of those HANSO HOSPITALS) along with a couple of his black-suited minions. A couple hours later, he came out. Shook hands with a nurse, let's call her Sophia, and left.

Nurse Sophia wouldn't talk to me. In fact, she tried to usher me out. But I think you know as well as I do. Everyone has their price. Listen to THIS.

Not sure what's worse... the fact Mittelwerk just had all the blood in his body replaced? Or, the fact that I'm not really all that surprised?

Of course, the question on everybody's lips (or the one that should be) is, "WHY WOULD HE DO THAT?"

It's a head-scratcher, I know.

And, while I haven't had too much time to wrap my brain around this one, as I see it, there are at least a few reasons why you might get an exchange transfusion:

1) You have a legitimate medical condition, like jaundice or sickle-cell anemia.

Let's assume this ISN'T the case for Mittelwerk.

2) You're a crazy health-nut who has unlimited funds and access to the world's more experimental life-extension technologies.

Not TOO far-fetched, considering, but still... I think there's more to it, like -

3) You have something inexplicably wrong with your blood, maybe not a disease per se, but... If you remember, ALVAR HANSO seems to have a problem with HIS BLOOD - could whatever it is be "going around" at The Hanso Foundation?

Now, while I kinda like this explanation, the writing on the wall points to this one, as well:

4) Along with an insane number of inoculations, you're preparing your body for some sort of hell-on-earth conditions.

Yeah. So, that's all I've got. If you've got other theories, I'd love to hear them... but...

Whatever the reason or reasons for Mittelwerk's little out-patient hospital visit, if we take a step back and examine all of this, it's pretty clear Mittelwerk is going to this island he referenced in that email (see Monday's post).

Now, why an island requiring six hundred injections and an exchange transfusion would be the desired location for this SPIDER PROTOCOL eludes me. But, I think I just heard the starter pistol.

I don't know if I can stop them.

If Nurse Sophia hasn't informed on me already, it's only a matter of time before she does. I've checked out of the hotel, and I'm duct-taping myself to Mittelwerk's every move.

We can't lose him again. GidgetGirl, if you know any more, NOW is the time to tell.

The rest of you, you know the drill. Post those comments!

156 Comments:

At 1:48 PM, Wolfgrin said...

First

 
At 1:54 PM, TheChad724 said...

second!

 
At 1:56 PM, drummanmatt said...

top five!

 
At 1:58 PM, Annebeth said...

does anyone know where exactly to listen the sound file?

 
At 2:03 PM, Dazzedelf said...

Found it, the clip is at the end of the play now clip on the front page collage clip. You just have to fastforward through all the other stuff.

 
At 2:12 PM, drummanmatt said...

what was that supposed to be? can anyone make out what was being said? The only stuff i could understand were the different written things that came up. "Navigate to the truth", "channel4.com/lost" and of course "reaching out for a better tomorrow"

 
At 2:14 PM, leelee2233 said...

do you think we have to sign up for the podcast?

 
At 2:16 PM, Dazzedelf said...

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/L/lost/assets/blake.mp3

if you watch the video to the end you get blurry Rachel Blake and the link channel4.com/lost

If you go to channel4.com/lost and you go under the list of links on the left there is a hidden link that will take you the mp3 file. I can't listen to mp3's at work so no transcript but that's how you find it.

 
At 2:16 PM, LittleTigerOne said...

well, I saw the blip with fuzzy RB...navigate to the truth - and that was that! So, where is the clip? I can't fast forward, just stops it and I really don;t want to hear beckham talking about butter for the 5th time....

LT

 
At 2:20 PM, leelee2233 said...

well done dazzledeff...

Very interesting information and cool music to boot!!!

 
At 2:20 PM, LittleTigerOne said...

very interesting!

LT

 
At 2:21 PM, Christine said...

hmm new post yippee!

 
At 2:23 PM, Dazzedelf said...

Thank you. It's the first time I ever found a clue by myself. If anyone can put a transcript up I'd really appreciate it. I may have found it first but I'll be listening to it last :(

Sorry for any confusion about my first post, when i saw a snowy rachel I jumped the gun and put the post up while I still had it paused, I then had to do more hunting and pecking to find the mp3 audio file.

 
At 2:25 PM, Annebeth said...

thanks dazzledelf :)

 
At 2:26 PM, Christine said...

he's going to africa i know it.

 
At 2:28 PM, locked on lost said...

Here is the transcript... (there is weird, detective/sleuth music in the background, with rain)

Nurse: Did you bring the money?

Rachel: Yeah, I brought it

Nurse: That’s all of it? Give it to me.

Rachel: Wait a second

Nurse: No money, no information.

Rachel: Look, I’ll give you the money, but I need to know you’re for real first. What was Mittlework doing at the hospital.

Nurse: I don’t know any Mittlework.

Rachel: Do you have any idea what these people are doing?

Nurse: Why should I care?

Rachel: I guess you shouldn’t, thanks. Good bye.

Nurse: Wait, he was getting treatements.

Rachel: What kind of treatements? Why?

Nurse: You don’t want to be looking into these people. I’m sure you have a mother that cares about you.

Rachel: My mother’s dead. She cared very much about me, but she’s gone.

Nurse: Is that why you’re doing this?

Rachel: Yes, it is.

Nurse: We gave him a blood treatement, an exchange transfusion.

Rachel: Is that what it sounds like?

Nurse: We replaced his blood with fresh blood.

Rachel: Why would someone do that?

Nurse: I need my money.

Rache: You said treatements, what else?

Nurse: We gave him injections, vaccinations mainly.
Hep A, B, DTP, measels, different kinds of flus,
typhoid, yellow fever, and they were proprietory formalation (??)

Rachel: I don’t understand, where would you be going that you would need so many vaccinations?

Nurse: You don’t have enough money for me to tell you that.

 
At 2:30 PM, Christine said...

rachel, a co worker of mine just went to africa, and she need to get all of those vaccines before she was allowed to go. Maybe capetown?

 
At 2:32 PM, Christine said...

dj dan just updated his iste. it used to say that theere was a podcast coming on july 5th, now it says the 10th! so what happened to the one for today?

 
At 2:35 PM, MisterFrosty said...

Wow, 24 minutes from post to transcript.

This has got to be world record.

Judges?

Awesome job dazzledelf and lost on locke!!!!!

 
At 2:36 PM, coleyk said...

rachel posted this under a Lost link.. does she now know about lost? the island, and crash?

 
At 2:37 PM, locked on lost said...

Thanks, I couldn't have done it without dazzledelf!!

 
At 2:42 PM, Annebeth said...

Wow, thanks for the transcript!
Maibe a very weird guess: what íf he's going to the island he talked about?

Afrika could me a good guess, expercially because of the organ stuff going on there...

 
At 2:47 PM, coleyk said...

Guys, how did that guy find the island with the 4 8 15 16 23 42? was is cooridinates? or gps, what was it?

 
At 2:51 PM, linklane said...

RB,

Sorry about the loss of your mother.

Was she a target of organ harvesting that is the cause for your quest to bring down The Hanso Foundation or bring down Mittlewerk himself?

 
At 3:05 PM, coleyk said...

Rachel:

look for

Longitude 4.815
latitude 162.342

 
At 3:06 PM, coleyk said...

Rachel:

look for

Longitude 4.815
latitude 162.342

 
At 3:06 PM, AntiHansoGal said...

How about another video?

 
At 3:06 PM, coleyk said...

oops, sorry for the dbl post

 
At 3:06 PM, Christine said...

so guys the new djdan podcast is at sublymonal just type in pyramids then click link

 
At 3:09 PM, Dazzedelf said...

::blush:: Thank you Misterfrosty and Lost_on_locke glad I could actually help out for once.

 
At 3:10 PM, coleyk said...

Chrisine, that didn't do anything for me

 
At 3:10 PM, coleyk said...

however,

http://www.djdan.am/podcast-c.html

seems to work for alot of people

 
At 3:12 PM, locked on lost said...

I can't get the podcast from DJ Dan

 
At 3:14 PM, coleyk said...

Locked on lost, me either, it keeps shutting down my internet when I try to access it. but alot of people have been able, over on the experience someone is trying to download it for us into mp3 and then load it somewhere else, as well as get some the transcript

 
At 3:14 PM, Weezknight said...

Christine -
What was the clue that led to the new DjDan password?

 
At 3:21 PM, pilferk said...

To get to djdan the "right way":

Go to the podcast archive area.

See the sublymonal ad at the top?

Type in some stuff. Whatever you type, you'll get the word "Pyramids".

Click on the pyramid at the bottom of the page.

You got the July 5th podcast.

:)

 
At 3:23 PM, MarcusAllenCooper said...

Dharma Initiative grandma disappearance... Karen deGroot?

 
At 3:24 PM, locked on lost said...

pilferk, thank you for that... unfortunately, I don't have the right plugin for that.

 
At 3:24 PM, MarcusAllenCooper said...

The DJDan passwords types itself... whatever you put into the box continues to type till it's full and the word tells you where to look...

 
At 3:24 PM, pilferk said...

The Karma Imperative? Hmmmmmm....interesting.

Grandma disappeared?
Went to some place in the South Pacific? The "Flame" or The "Fire"?

Interesting.

 
At 3:36 PM, Christine said...

guys i have a theory.... i am in the med field, and exchage transfusion are used for certain things... newborn jaundice, malaria, and sickle cell anemia.... if mittleverk is getting treatments for sickle cell..(only black people can get that) then i believe he has a black persons liver in him, and he is heading to capetown (the town of organ harvesting) and getting a new one... just a thought... what do you think?

 
At 3:46 PM, pilferk said...

Rachel,

1) I think you're looking for an island somwhere in the vacinity of Fiji. I know that's not a big stretch, and it's been mentioned, but....I think it's a safe bet.

2) I think you're dead on with #4. I think this is his way of prepping for the island visit.

3) IF Valenzetti IS alive...I think we might be able to surmise he MAY be on "the island" TM is talking about.

We know that the Dharma Initiative was a project run by Hanso, right? And we know it was made up of a bunch of scientists that have "went missing" in the late 60's or early 70's. We get more info on that in DJ dan's latest podcast. And we know "the site" TM is talking about hasn't been used by THF for some time, right? What if "the site" he's talking about was also "the site" the DI scientists disappeared TO?

And just when did Valenzetti disappear? Sort of coincidental timing, eh?

We could REALLY use a peek at that "Orientation" video/DVD that TM makes reference to in that recording you posted. Maybe GidgetGirl has access to it and can sneak it to someone? You've got helpers/friends ALL over the country (and the world) who would be happy to act as middle men if GG can't get it online.

 
At 3:48 PM, christy said...

I doubt the DJ Dan caller's Grandma was Karen DeGroot. He didn't mention Gerald DeGroot, who would have been his grandfather. I think she was probably just one of the people working on the Dharma Initiative who got sent to the island for research or whatever.

Like, maybe one of these people: http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Image:DeGroots3_2x3.jpg

 
At 3:53 PM, Weezknight said...

Christine-

For someone in the med field you made a very sweeping generalization. Sickle Cell Anemia, while most often found in African-Americans, can still affect people of Caucasian or other backgrounds. Not that I'm discounting your theory, though, because it is still plausible.

 
At 3:56 PM, LizBennet said...

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/L/lost/untold.html

Rachel, please go to the above address. It tells of a plane crash that happened almost 2 years ago. I'm sure a savvy person such as yourself remembers the big hoopla about it on the news. It's pretty much put Oceanic Airlines out of business. It seems to me that they believe that the plane had turned around and headed back towards Fiji. Do you think that maybe there might be an island around there, near the equator? That could be where Mittlewerk is going next. I think your next stop should be Fiji and from there, to the SP island. I just can't figure out which one right now.

 
At 3:56 PM, Christine said...

well, your slightly right, but usually the caucasians who do get it have some african ancestry in them.

 
At 3:57 PM, MarcusAllenCooper said...

The kid has parents that remember grandma disappearing, so she must have worked with the DeGroots... here's their backstory-ish

Karen and Gerald DeGroot were/are two doctoral candidates at the University of Michigan. Thanks to The Hanso Foundation they were able to start the DHARMA Initiative. We first learn about the DeGroots in the Swan Orientation Film in episode 3 of season 2 ("Orientation"). The whereabouts of this couple are unknown today but many theories have surfaced.

 
At 4:16 PM, Guinea Pig said...

Considering the collection of savants being used to run the equation, perhaps the Spider Protocol is something akin to the human equivalent of a RAID5 storage array.

If they have each savant working on a piece of the equation that overlaps with separate pieces being worked on by 2-3 others, then if they were to "lose" one of their subjects, they would actually only lose a small piece of the whole equation because 2-3 other savants would each have some portion of the lost piece. This would allow them to replace a 'faulty' savant relatively quickly, simply and efficiently. the connection therefore between all of the savants would be a 'web' network, all connected to 2-3 other points by their shared pieces of the equation.

Hence, Spider Protocol.

 
At 4:17 PM, Christine said...

ok so if my theory on africa is wrong, rachel, and you believe he is going to an island, then i hope you have an airline pilot as your friend becase my thought is that only privately chartered planes can get there.

 
At 4:19 PM, greenfalcon said...

DJ Dan's podcast isn't playing.. has anyone another link? I followed your advise, but i click that little square on the last pge, and nothing..

Noticed TM limping in the vid when RB ran into him.. And now a complete blood transfusion.. I think he has somekind of radiation poisoning.. Not sure when, but didn't the government test bombs in the pacific somewhere?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_18_nuclear_bomb

Perhaps TM and AH were on an island in the area. As far as all those shots, there was an article about South Africa and a deadly flu or disease.. You should also get shots, if you are gonna go where he is going... Be careful

 
At 4:19 PM, MarcusAllenCooper said...

Pilferk - "flame or fire" - one of the islands stations, but along with a Candle(Marvin) & Wickman(Mark)... maybe this is a bit cult-ish

No, I think with g-parents disappearing and the name sounding "out there" - Kharma Imperative; it sounds like a cult if you didn't have all the info we seet to have...

 
At 4:26 PM, KSAT said...

Anyone have a transcript yet of DJDan's latest and greatest?


RB - Either way, I think TM is planning a trip to the island in question. This island is inhabited with survivors from Oceanic Flight 815 as well as some other scientists. The author of a book based on the Valenzetti Equation, Gary Troup, who supposedly died on this flight, may also be alive and well on this island.

Word of caution though: Other members on this island were seen injecting themselves with a mysterious serum related to the Dharma Initiative - an experiment being conducted by the Hanso Foundation. It is unknown what this serum consists of, but, it is believed to related to some mysterious qualities found on the island. Use caution in your travels.

 
At 4:26 PM, urbAndruid said...

I believe sickle cell is a genetic mutation used to fight off Malaria in Africa.
So, to have sicklecell in your genes you need to have an african heritage.
The harvested liver is a good theory I think.

Whatever it is that "cured" Thompson's cancer, and "saved" Hanso that night in Spain is probably a very intense process.
Remember that Simpson's episode where Homer thought Mr. Burns was an alien, but it turned out he was just seeing Mr. Burns after a process designed to keep Burns alive longer.

Maybe whatever miracle techinique THF is using to cure things is basically like starting your body over?
Each time you underwent it you would need all your vacinations again.

Replacing all the blood and all the organs of the body...and they call it Life Extension...

 
At 4:28 PM, louie1 said...

using the coordinates
4.815
162.342 brings up a location btwn papua new guinea and the marshall islands --- appears to be open ocean but who knows? uncharted island? careful, probably quite small and difficult ro arrive unannounced

 
At 4:42 PM, MarcusAllenCooper said...

Louie1 - Hey, does this look like the location?

http://static.flickr.com/51/167222313_de6b2db17c.jpg?v=0

 
At 4:45 PM, louie1 said...

yep. lowly old mapquest has a feature where you can input lat/long and viola! map

 
At 4:52 PM, free1978 said...

Has anyone else noticed that the dates on the Cape town don't add up.

The initial article is written on Friday, November 9, 2001.
The retraction written Monday, November 12, 2001.

These dates in themselves don't seem out of sorts, however, the November 12 article references an article written on "Tuesday" not Friday....a Rachel forgery?

 
At 4:53 PM, Nightcrawler said...

Rachel we need confirmation find out whether the blood Thomas was injecting was a specific type. Big Job if your up to it but ask GG if she can do some snooping or maybe yourself and find out what blood type was Alvar.

 
At 4:56 PM, vexingmodstwo said...

Hey Free,

Not only that, but when we first saw these clippings, the dates were for May 2006...

Now it's 2001?

 
At 5:00 PM, Zach said...

This is like watching a room filled with people all screaming at the screen. This is rich. I'm loving it! Very entertaining!

Rachel can't hear you. In fact I bet the video and audio snippets we are witnessing were all made a month or two ago when they designed this thing over pizza and cokes, with occasional pick-ups scheduled if changes need to be made on the fly. They were probably all recorded in a manner of days and probably in southern California.

"Rachel" isn't globetrotting, and she's not reading this thread. Suspension of disbelief? Playing in character? This "game" jumped the shark on day one. Fonzie would be so proud. What a delicious train wreck!

 
At 5:02 PM, Christine said...

Rachel check this out....
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/austspac.htm#vaccines

 
At 5:03 PM, Christine said...

oh yeah rachel, see if you can get some of Mittlverks blood that he so casually just got removed from him. Have it tested and let us know what you find!

 
At 5:08 PM, free1978 said...

It is also quite likely that the Karma imperative mentioned in DJ Dans podcast is actually a reference to the Dharma Initiative. I think it is phonetically close enough to be mistaken during a conversation in passing or overhearing a discussion about it.

 
At 5:14 PM, WickedM said...

I'm going for option 2 on this one - I mean the man have a pony tail to rivals an old Cher wig - it screams ex-hippie!

 
At 5:31 PM, mofolss said...

zach what can I say to you...what a life you must lead to spend sooooooo much time to follow all of this AND YET hate it soooo much. Seriously? sado masochism or just a whiney child who has nothing useful to add....at all. Good luck with your search for things not to like.

 
At 5:31 PM, Miss Klektik said...

He's there

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&formtype=latlong&latlongtype=degrees&latdeg=4&latmin=8&latsec=15&longdeg=16&longmin=23&longsec=42

 
At 5:36 PM, MarcusAllenCooper said...

Louie1 - here it is on Google Maps

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=S4.815+E162.342&ie=UTF8&ll=-4.806365,162.333984&spn=43.90766,87.890625&om=1

 
At 5:47 PM, MarcusAllenCooper said...

BTW, it makes SOME sense because The Black Rock went East out of Papua New Guinea instead of West toward Africa before it disappeared and you know where it ended up

REcap; although most LOSTies know this:

So if the plane left Sydney for L.A. then headed back toward Fiji before getting lost the numbers end up at this location

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=S4.815+E162.342&ie=UTF8&ll=-4.806365,162.333984&spn=43.90766,87.890625&om=1

 
At 5:52 PM, LittleTigerOne said...

Here's some clickable maps with some interesting areas:

http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/as.htm

Note that where the map posted above (from one of the clues we received) the islands could be British Indian Ocean Territory, however, I think this area is what we are looking for

http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/au.htm

Look at the clusters of islands at the equator....click in those areas. Jarvis Island might be our island???

LT

 
At 5:53 PM, GraySpot said...

DeGroot wasn't the only woman to probably join the Dharma Initiative... this could've been anyone.

Mittlewerk's blood transfusion is creepy... maybe the Hanso Foundation has no idea what the disease is that's going on wherever TM is going and that's why he's taking every vaccination/medical procedure known to man.

PS: Mittlewerk "cured" PT... that's kinda strange for a guy with no real knowledge of medicine.

 
At 6:14 PM, faker79 said...

I know this sounds nuts but this whole scenario is crazy so I am tossing it out there anyway. What is Mittlewerk = Hanso? Let me explain. The Hanso Foundation obviously has some amazing medical break throughs including curing someones cancer. Alvar is an old man but if THF found a way to turn back the clock so that he was a man say in his forties then Mittlewerk and Hanso could be one and the same. It certainly would explain why he hasn't been seen in a very long time and why Mittlwerk gets to run the show without any sign of the big cheese. Just trying to think outside the box.

 
At 6:18 PM, Songbird61 said...

Some reasons for complete blood transfusion:

Jaundice/alcohol liver disease, Rh disease (Dr. Alexander S. Wiener/Dr. Douglas Arnold -- done on infants), Viral Platelet Disease, high billiruben levels, leukemia (high white blood count), anemia-geophagia syndrome, and (for Marvel readers), of course, to cure one of vampirism.

So is Mittlewerk suffering from alcoholism, leukemia or vampirism?

He does work for a major world corporation ... my money's on vampirism. ;)

Songbird61

 
At 6:20 PM, Hugo Reyes said...

Is it just me or does the "nurses" voice sound metalic, almost COMPUTER GENERATED people, i know this may sound wierd but i watched Family Guy and Stewie did the same thing like on his mac or w/e and it said "Stewie Is Cool". All im saying is It MIGHT be a fraud

 
At 6:38 PM, MacMan said...

Check out Oceandots.com for some great pictures of ocean islands around the world. Including Jarvis Island (as was already mentioned).

My one question is why would Mittlework have sat photos of an island in Lake Superior (of course they had never expected that we would actually find it thus ABC needed to do a rewrite and try to go on with there preplotted story) and another (although unseen by the glasses camera) in the ocean near the equator?

Heres hoping this link helps!

 
At 6:55 PM, Fenris said...

Hey Rachel, I have to commend you on the quality of your covert recordings. Really good stereo imaging and nice and clean. You must have had a few good covert mics on you to record that. Although with hindsight I'm even more impressed with that long range shotgun microphone recording. Perfect stereo on that too and from how far? Wow. You have to let me know what the microphone was because something that can record perfectly clear stereo from that far away is worth getting hold of. Keep up the good work!

*ahem*

Anyway, this does remind me a lot of Hanso's blood issues. I still have a theory that Hanso *is* Mittlewerk. Perhaps his change in appearance is partially due to what he is going through. Some kind of anti-aging thing.

If that's true or not I don't know, but I really do believe that there is no co-incidence to Mittlerks Vegetarian (or was it Vegan) diet. He has to maintain a certain diet and avoid meats because of his treatments. He doesn't seem the kind to care about animal cruelty after all. Also I'm sure this must have something to do with Heavy Water in the blood.

 
At 7:00 PM, potterhead360 said...

The Flame is a name of one of the hatches shows on the blast door map. obviously, the "karma imparative" is actually the dharma initiative

 
At 7:21 PM, Pandora said...

Rachel--

In your last recording with nurse "Sophia", you asked her:

Nurse: We give him injections. Vaccinations, mainly. Hep-A, B, DTP... different types of flu, Typhoid, Yellow Fever...and they were a propriatary formulation.
Rachel: I don't understand. Where would you be going that you needed so many vaccinations?
Nurse: You don't have enough money for me to tell you that.


Those types of vaccines are recommended by the WHO in a couple of third world nations. But I think the ones that are most significant to you are all all in Central Africa.

 
At 7:25 PM, Pandora said...

Here's CDC recommendations for traveling adults:

Additional Vaccines. Yellow fever vaccine is recommended if traveling to certain parts of Africa and South America. Hepatitis B vaccine should be considered for those who will live six months or more in areas of developing countries where Hepatitis B is prevalent (Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the islands of the South and Western Pacific, and the Amazon region of South America), and who will have frequent close contact with the local population. Hepatitis A Vaccine and/or Immune Globulin (IG) is recommended for travelers to all areas except Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Northern and Western Europe and North America (except Mexico). Typhoid vaccine is recommended for travelers spending four weeks or more in areas where food and water precautions are recommended—many parts of the world, especially developing countries. Meningococcal vaccine is recommended for travelers to sub-Saharan Africa, especially if close contact with the locals is anticipated, or if travel occurs during the dry season from December through June. Japanese Encephalitis or Tick-borne Encephalitis vaccines should be considered for long-term travelers to geographic areas of risk. Cholera vaccine is of questionable benefit to travelers of any age.

As you can see, one location in common on those lists is Africa; to narrow down the location further, if you get a chance to talk to her, ask if Meningococcal vaccines were on the docket.

 
At 7:28 PM, ThrobbingHyena said...

Maybe this was already mentioned, but has it occurred to anyone else that Rachel is Mittelwerk's unknown daughter? That TM somehow played a part in her mother's death? The "in my genes" comment, the look of recognition on TM's face when he looked at her (she looks like her mother?) Just a thought...

 
At 7:35 PM, nickb123 said...

Well it looks like Mittlewerk and Hanso both had the same problems. Maybe they were both exposed to some kind of radiation ('the incident' anyone?).

And then the Valenzetti equation - maybe Hanso was trying to be a good guy. I mean the equation predicts the end of human life right? Maybe Hanso got the equation in order to work out the variables, and if so, he could ensure that factors wouldn't contribute to what was needed for the end to happen. If the equation said like 'such and such countries have to have A-bombs multiplied by number of countries without' and all that, Hanso could manipulate it so the apocolypse would never happen (if we take the equation as valid). So maybe Hanso wasn't that evil afterall???? Maybe Mittlewerk's taken on his greater good approach, only to a crazy psycho degree working those savants 24/7 and all the rest.

 
At 7:44 PM, Weezknight said...

nickb123-

I've always bought into the idea that Alvar was truly trying to contribute to the greater good. Unfortunately, Thompson, Mittlewerk, et al. saw the "God-like" power the projects could give people. I think Alvar's disappearance is actually pretty unnerving and that the "new" faces of the Hanso Foundation have turned something "good" into something "evil."

 
At 7:55 PM, ejc11 said...

RB:

Looking for spider protocol info--check here--

http://www.pei-csrc.ul.ie/db/dir/alt_page.php?d=news&item=56

looks like some sort of electromagnetic project.

 
At 8:14 PM, Ms O said...

Checkin in guys... be back...gotta read up.

 
At 8:15 PM, Daz_Darkness said...

hey ejc according to that, those doctors were responsible for mathematically defining something to do with the SPIDER, maybe they're also involved (willingly or not) working out our old mat valenzetti's equation.
By the way Rachael, you are incredibly beautiful and maybe when this is all over we can meet up ;)

 
At 8:36 PM, kubo24 said...

Has anyone gotten anywhere with the RDB site with the 9 words? Did anyone find out the password and login name/? Or do we still have to wait to find those clues?

Kubo

 
At 8:39 PM, Jetamo said...

kubo24 said...
Has anyone gotten anywhere with the RDB site with the 9 words? Did anyone find out the password and login name/? Or do we still have to wait to find those clues?


Kubo, the pass/login name is rblake allveggie

 
At 8:56 PM, nickb123 said...

I agree with whoever says we should see the Orientation DVD. It would sure as hell answer a number of questions and we'd finally understand some motives. Mittlewerk seemed quite happy to flog it about to Peter and the like, maybe GidgetGirl could sneak us a copy. Right now Rach has no leads other than stalking-til-we-get-lucky, so I think the initiative needs to be taken and that DVD needs viewing!

*P.S. If Mittlewerk does mail Thompson the DVD like he says, couldn't there be a classic case of 'lost in the mail'?

 
At 9:02 PM, Tresbien said...

Rachel, it's time for you to come clean about who you really are and what is motivating your actions. You gave us pictures of Hugh McIntyre supposedly cheating on his wife, but we already got that information from Persephone.

You've said you see the equatorial island in your mind's eye, and yet you refuse to tell us what you saw that we didn't see. You ask for our help but don't give us what we need to do so.

Today you gave us microfilm of Capetown Inquisitor pages regarding Hanso operations that conflict in date and information we had from Persephone. What's this all about Rachel? Are you using us to do your dirty work for you? You need to explain yourself and these discrepancies NOW.

 
At 9:06 PM, vexingmodstwo said...

I'm going to have to second that comment from Tresbien, Rachel.

You want us to help? You need to come clean.

We can help you, there's a lot of us.

But we can also take you down.

Time to pony up.

 
At 9:08 PM, MarcusAllenCooper said...

Hey Daz, ejc & guys, et al.

The real Spider Protocol does make sense within this Lost universe as it stands for Scalable Processor-Independent Design for Electromagnetic Resilience which is as it says a "processor"... so we're talking about a computer processing network architecture that would probably make things a lot easier in an are that does not have a true magnetic north or some other SERIOUS magnetic anomalies.

Probably has something to do with this ship that Paik is building for TM & THF

 
At 9:10 PM, Dazzedelf said...

Yeah, good luck getting Rachel to admit anything. I appreciate her exposing the Hanso foundation. But Rachel is all about exposing other peoples dirty laundry and not telling anybody jack about her self. I'm honestly surprised she admitted to be Persephone. And If anyone believes her real name is actually Rachel Blake, I have a bridge to sell you.

I'm all for bringing the Hanso Foundation down, but Rachel has as many secrets as they do. I'm honestly surprised somebody from hanso hasn't put up personal information about Rachel at their own rogue site in order to discredit her.

 
At 9:12 PM, free1978 said...

Agreed not only do the dates on the paper you provided us not jive with those received by Persephone, but the text doesn't match the dates either.

What happened with your mom. It's clear your motivation is personal. I'm not sure we should trust someone with personal motivations, they are quite often way off-base. I'm not saying you are Rachel, but I think an explanation is in order.

Even with the information you have provided, it doesn't give a clear picture of any wrong-doing on the part of the Hanso Foundation. Many of the documents you have provided as evidence are out of context and are not verifiable.

It's time to tell us a story.

 
At 9:13 PM, Shadow said...

dazzedelf, if you think RB actually IS persephone, I have a bridge to sell to YOU.

 
At 9:14 PM, Ms O said...

Rachel, I gotta agree, you need to give us more...

I am a bit concerned though, did anyone notice that on the vid she is mouthing "Help Me!" What doesn't make sense is we see the vid to get to the soundbite. If it was the other way around, I would have thought she was caught.

 
At 9:15 PM, vexingmodstwo said...

And you'll get no stickers, either.

 
At 9:15 PM, Matt the Pale said...

I agree with Tresbien. Rachel, come clean. If you really ARE Persephone, why do you have two different versions of the exact same newspaper?

Tresbien said...
Rachel, it's time for you to come clean about who you really are and what is motivating your actions. You gave us pictures of Hugh McIntyre supposedly cheating on his wife, but we already got that information from Persephone.

You've said you see the equatorial island in your mind's eye, and yet you refuse to tell us what you saw that we didn't see. You ask for our help but don't give us what we need to do so.

Today you gave us microfilm of Capetown Inquisitor pages regarding Hanso operations that conflict in date and information we had from Persephone. What's this all about Rachel? Are you using us to do your dirty work for you? You need to explain yourself and these discrepancies NOW.

 
At 9:21 PM, Mort_Cinder said...

i agree with everyone above, we have been believing you and the information u have given us, without really asking ourselves if we can trust u any more than we can trust THF.

u have some explaining to do missy...

 
At 9:26 PM, rogueapple said...

Mittlewerk = Hanso

 
At 9:35 PM, Ms O said...

Someone is "covering your tracks", Rachel. Noticed your pic is gone from 43 Things, that linked to Moshaw's (right? I was anagraming with an "N" too, not sure why?) Gallery??? And you live in N.Y.C.? Says you moved there...

Spill the beans...

 
At 9:35 PM, b!X said...

Rachel, I'm not so sure your mother is dead. A caller to the latest DJ Dan broadcast told a story of his grandmother disappearing into what clearly was the Dharma Initiative, but someone went so far as to actually hold a funeral for his grandmother and create an official story that she was dead.

Could the same be true for your mother?

 
At 9:36 PM, Fenris said...

I will add my voice to the others asking Rachel to come clean. I have a few questions (trying to be more specific then "who are you")

1) What is the deal with your financial resources? You said you were running out of money, but you can still afford plane tickets and bribes and you are using some expensive equipment for your sleuthing. Where do you funds come from? Your on quite a long vacation right now, but you must have some kind of background going on there to build up the resources you have hit the road with. What was your job, or were your parents well off?

2) What's the circumstances of your Mothers death? Tough question I know, but if it's your motivation you need to share it. Do you know for a fact that she's dead. Who was she? Why does her death drive you to find out about the Hanso Foundation?

3) Why do you suddenly trust Gidget Girl so Much? Do you know, or suspect who she is?

4) How did you get hold of all the information that started your campaign against Hanso? You must have started somewhere.

 
At 9:37 PM, Ms O said...

BTW, if 007surge shows up...they corrected the comment counting errors we discovered on sit on a monkey. But they left the comments dated in May, supposedly before this site was 'necessary', hmmmmm

 
At 9:45 PM, LittleTigerOne said...

Hmmm.....Rachel, do you know who your father is? Was he ever in your life?

LT

 
At 9:45 PM, dante said...

Aside from all of the differences in the dates of today's articles about organ harvesting compared to the articles we saw in the hacked THF.org site, why did the name of the 'pharmaceutical agent' used for organ preservation change from Vialex to Viacor??

What is Rachel trying to cover up?

 
At 9:47 PM, LittleTigerOne said...

Something is afoot here, that is for sure!

LT

 
At 9:51 PM, Weezknight said...

Perhaps we've all danced right around the issue. Maybe Rachel isn't writing her blog anymore. Perhaps GidgetGirl was trusted too much and Rachel has been caught. GG could easily post new and misleading information to help out whatever her cause is. Anyone think of that?

 
At 9:53 PM, MasterCapn said...

Wasn't there a desese going around that came from experimenting with monkey that made people crazy. I seem to remember a note that was sent that said that.

 
At 9:53 PM, Matt the Pale said...

Rachel, do you have any answer for this? If you really ARE Persephone, why don't you have the same version of this newspaper that Persephone gave us? What is going on here? You need to explain these things!

dante said...
Aside from all of the differences in the dates of today's articles about organ harvesting compared to the articles we saw in the hacked THF.org site, why did the name of the 'pharmaceutical agent' used for organ preservation change from Vialex to Viacor??

 
At 10:21 PM, vexingmodstwo said...

Rachel, in case you need it spelled out for you:

EXPLAIN WHY THESE CLIPPINGS YOU GAVE US TODAY ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE ONES PERSEPHONE GAVE US A MONTH AGO.

Let me know if you have trouble with any of that.

 
At 10:43 PM, Insanity Parade said...

I think rachels been caught. all this stuff that doesnt add up (the two versions of the same paper? Vialex and Viacor? the unsually well hidden video plea for help? ) she isnt responding, and i'm sure the reason why is that THF has caught her.

 
At 10:45 PM, Defending Hanso said...

Caught? More likely it's that now that even her precious little Blake Babies (thanks to Blake Baby "b!x" for naming you people) are turning on her, she's wondeirng how to continue her mad vendetta against the Foundation.

 
At 10:48 PM, Matt the Pale said...

Captured versions of Persephone's "Cape Town Inquisitor" and Rachel's "Cape Town Inquisitor" available for comparison here:
http://members.aol.com/mattthepale/p-rb.html#newspaper

 
At 10:52 PM, Ms O said...

Yep, I posted that above, she definitely looks like she was caught and is saying, "Help Me". But why post that BEFORE the audio link?? Continuity buggin me.

 
At 10:56 PM, Zoetrope BRK (2108971) said...

Good point, peeps!
Perhaps the files were edited and she direct linked to them...any edits would cause a change...
And yet the precise opposite is why I've been cursing Photobucket for being stupid. And now I can't rename my photos! Stupid dumb thing...IQ of a slug...[growls at Photobucket]
Moving on...
You missed two reasons for replacing blood,P.
He could be Mormon, although they don't believe in replacing blood, just in not getting blod transfusions...direct opposite...but it could be a religious thing.
He could be atempting to erase any DNA evidence in him because of something he did, but they could still find his real DNA in saliva and tissue samples.
Two reasons with two thousand more questions...why does this always happen?

 
At 11:08 PM, Zoetrope BRK (2108971) said...

Defending hanso, if you have to carry on like that, go and do it somewhere else. On some other hanso defender's blog.Please.
And no, we're not turning on her, we just want some answers is all.

 
At 11:21 PM, Defending Hanso said...

Oh the delicious contradictions. First one Blake Baby complains that our own comments aren't unfettered, and then another Blake Baby complains that we post here where they are.

The precious revolution against Hanso is showing cracks in its facade.

 
At 11:23 PM, LittleTigerOne said...

You know, that little snippet leading to the audio file looked like it was taken from the first video......hmmm.....can someone compare the two? Towards the end of 1st one she asks for our help.

I am starting to think Rachel is not the one posting here!

 
At 11:25 PM, LittleTigerOne said...

defendinghanso - I don't see any one turning on her, just asking for clarifications.

LT

 
At 11:27 PM, vexingmodstwo said...

Only simpletons would equate turning on Rachel as Defending Hanso.

 
At 11:30 PM, Sigma-72 said...

Hey Rachel have you seen Dick Cheever's First Post?

 
At 11:54 PM, picsel said...

In Relation to the new DJDan Podcast


Rachel The Karma Imperitive is meant to be the dharma initiative founded by none other than the hanso foundation.

Also from the latest DJ Dan podcats a place named the Flame was mentioned somewhere in the south pacific. From the TV show LOST which we have been thinking is perhaps linked or based on this truth there is a place called the Flame and a bunch of other stations where the Dharma Initiative workers conduct experiments. This Island also has the Black rock which is probably the Route this new boat is going to and this island would need alot of vacinations. Also one of the people on he island is called Sun Paik who is none other than Mr Paik the person who created the boat for hanso's daughter!

 
At 11:55 PM, Deblet said...

Is it just me, or does anybody see the correlation between the "savants" running the equation and the "breakers" forced to work in the Stephen King Universe?

 
At 11:57 PM, picsel said...

Also here's a whackd out idea.. We know that a disease was invented that broke the human-simian barier.. Is he having his blood changed for this process or to act against it??

 
At 12:04 AM, Addison said...

ya wanna know whats creepy and still is creepin me out?

right before the video, i was explaining to my cousin that 'rachael blake navigating to the truth' ...and blah blah blah...then i saw the tiny clip.

freAky...O_O

 
At 12:24 AM, amandel said...

RB's newspaper clippings have been bothering me since this morning. I can't believe it's a mistake.

If we believe that RB hacked Hanso, maybe she changed the dates and topical photos to shield someone. Someone who was compiling a case against Hanso when RB was still a teen.

RB's deception failed when a third party recognized the originals. And that's why the threat msg says: P if you can READ this etc.

 
At 12:41 AM, Songbird61 said...

Does anyone know if the Dick Cheever video/blog are in-game? Grasping for straws here ...

Songbird61

 
At 12:49 AM, milayasmeen said...

do you know what i find annoying? no one wants to relate the game back to what we already know about the LOST series.
what about hugo meeting the savant that gave him the winning lotto #s?
what about walt being "special" does he factor into the valenzetti equation?
who are those 4 toe worshipping "scientists" on the island?

 
At 1:20 AM, Scotty said...

... ... Im lost Rachel...where are we going? It is like we are at an intersection with no road signs.

 
At 1:38 AM, okeanos said...

Just a thought...

The most important thing right know seems to be what is wrong with Mittelwerks blood. It is also presumed that whatever is wrong with him was wrong with Hanso. Therefore why shoudnt RB ask the doctor that treated Hanso in Madrid?

It could be quite simple: Find which hospital Vasquez works at (it cant be hard for a hacker, and there is a finite amount of hospitals in the Madrid area). Then talk to her posing as Hanso's personal physitian and ask for the results of the blood test. There would be no reason for the good doctor to doubt RB as anyone who knows about the letter must be close to Hanso. Creativity could be added to spice up the urgency of the situation.

 
At 2:02 AM, LittleTigerOne said...

Maybe he has too many nanobots in his blood?

Been reading an interesting article on the subject!

LT

 
At 2:17 AM, Jenni* said...

First time posting...HI!

Anyways, if (IF) the same thing is wrong with Mittlewerk as was/is wrong with Hanso, then could there be a connection to Mittlewerk looking for Black Rock--where there may be Hanso DNA if the one on the island in the show (I know, I know, keep the cross-overs to a minimum, but...)is, in fact, the same one grampa Hanso supposedly crashed. Just a thought!

 
At 3:34 AM, Dedjezter said...

I'm climbing on board the boat that is becomeing more and more filled with people asking for clarification on YOU.

? (I no longer think you are who you say you are. So this is how I will refer to you.)

? you seem to have a very one sided agenda going here that is losing our faith in you. We Aren't joining with THF, but we are waning. You had us for a while but you are just not making sense anymore. Your FACTS as you call them are nothing more than what appear to be clever parlor tricks. If you really are Persephone, you are starting to slack off in your attempts to bring THF down, and these littlw slip ups are becoming more clear than your agenda.

We want answers and we want them now. If nothing else at least explain these discrepencies in the Cape Town inquisitor.
Page 1:
The Newspapers Banner is not present on new copy.
The date's:
May 26th, 2006 - November 9th, 2001.
Pic of lung x-ray is of a DNA test or Blood test.(altough Caption remains the same)
The name of the Drug changes from Vialex to Viacor.
Page 2:
Also no Newspaper name banner
The date again:
May 29th, 2006 is November 12, 2001
Retraction in Black letters on white. is white letters in black box.
Photos:
#1 Dr. Amy Honale of THF (with older woman) is changed to A dr. and a nurse with what appears to be an Asian patient. Caption reads "Makerere Hospital Gambia."
#2 has different picture of the same woman HARVESTING grain or something, the caption remains the same.
#3 Photo of Joop changed to a photo of a wild fir