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</p>Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-11734986897196495432024-02-21T01:34:00.000-08:002024-02-21T11:01:04.414-08:00The Craft Work of Kraftwerk [PT II]<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4M6CaAhtmsqm_F_qZlFBJ2HZLJshLH0C0eZeGYoXUvTBY8a7tIJ5pjjtRJOKh3Il2ezTx4hHhekHRkheMxef45mnEuRUpXF7GJdMRoGaEjMJ2A_yj9J0H8NSHrD3RfB_P4nCfCMV_3EdJy5njQawT39eg0_9KstKRM5tJSVXw45pTGAd4zHrHCev/s728/Kraftwerk-Roboter-1642221891-1.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="728" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4M6CaAhtmsqm_F_qZlFBJ2HZLJshLH0C0eZeGYoXUvTBY8a7tIJ5pjjtRJOKh3Il2ezTx4hHhekHRkheMxef45mnEuRUpXF7GJdMRoGaEjMJ2A_yj9J0H8NSHrD3RfB_P4nCfCMV_3EdJy5njQawT39eg0_9KstKRM5tJSVXw45pTGAd4zHrHCev/s400/Kraftwerk-Roboter-1642221891-1.jpeg"/></a></div>
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In part 1 we looked at various quotes from members of the group Kraftwerk as well as friends/associates. We considered whether they are/were not just an "influential music group," but some sort of international cultural engineering vehicle. We observed that founders Ralf Hütter [RH] and Florian Schneider [FS] seemed to be the "gatekeepers" representing a publicly invisible think-tank, which I am calling "The Organization," behind Kraftwerk. Given the seemingly inpenetrable wall of secrecy surrounding The Organization, we can only hope to reach conclusions indirectly, by analyzing the group's music, image, statements to the press over the years, and other circumstantial evidence.
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While some may find this exercise boring, pointless, or even offensive, nobody can deny the eccentric/secretive nature of the group's founders. Secrets naturally invite curiosity, even obsession. We are not robots, who simply follow the protocol or whatever narrative is fed to us. We are inquisitive, and want to know about our environment and where information comes from and who is producing it. We are self aware. We are HUMAN.
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<b>YOU ARE THE ROBOTS</b>
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<i>[The Jackson 5 performs "the Robot" dance with Cher on Soul Train, circa 1973]</i>
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<i>Michael Jackson came on the phone around 1985/6 during the Electric Cafe period. He wanted to have permission to use the original Man Machine multi track….Ralf and Florian refused... - Karl Bartos [KB] </i>
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David Bowie and Michael Jackson are just a couple of major pop icons who were famously "denied" a music collaboration with Kraftwerk. But were these just urban myths sensationalized by the press, designed to make the larger "robotic agenda" seem more organic and less intentionally manufactured? In a sense, these collaborations happened anyway, by way of influence.
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<i>[It is widely known that David Bowie fueled the popularity of Kraftwerk prior to and during his Berlin years 1976-77…He played the Radio-Activity album as a prelude to his own performances in a 1976 tour and even considered hiring Kraftwerk as his support group. - Pertti Grönholm] </i>
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Since Bowie could not obtain Kraftwerk as his back-up band, he went with British synthesizer legend Brian Eno, of Roxy Music fame. Together, they wrote 3 albums, dubbed Bowie's "Berlin trilogy," of which the song "Heroes" would probably be the most recognizable. The album "Heroes" contains a song called "V-2 Schneider" in homage to Florian Schneider, if the Kraftwerk influence was not obvious enough already.
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<i>The Maschinenmensch (literally 'machine-human' in German) is a fictional robot featured in Thea von Harbou's novel Metropolis and Fritz Lang's [1927] film adaption of the novel...Maschinenmensch was one of the first fictional robots ever depicted in cinema, and as a result popularized the concept worldwide. - wiki</i>
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<i>You, the journalists, you will be amazed. One day, the robots will be the ones who will answer your questions, they will have an electronic brain and memories with all the possible questions. To get the answers, you will only have to press a button. - RH
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The Robots were entirely appropriate to Computer World - thematically, at any rate - because, after all, home computers are nothing more than electronic servants, carrying out our orders and commands at the touch of a button, and this is happening in every office, in every household and in every child’s bedroom, day and night. - Wolfgang Flur [WF]
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…What was significant for us [about the first Star Wars film], to my mind, was the 2 robots. C-3PO was clearly recognizable as the male version of the machine woman from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis…Even before Star Wars…The press too referred to us as human machines, robots, androids, or mannequins. These comparisons were by no means intended positively…a critic complained: “Kraftwerk has dehumanized its musicians into robots.”…A German journalist, exhausted from listening to Trans-Europe Express declared: “After 2 sides of Kraftwerk, I feel more like a robot myself.”…Star Wars and particularly C-3PO and R2-D2 changed that negative view. - KB
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The image of the robot is very important to us, it’s very stimulating to people’s imaginations. We always found that many people are robots without knowing it…So, we have opened the curtains and said, “look, everyone can be robotic, controlled.” In Paris, the people go on the Metro, they move, they go to their offices, 8am in the morning - it’s like remote control. It’s strange…but at the same time it’s funny, full of humor….I think that the things speak for themselves. That’s one reason why I don’t like to explain so much what we do. - FS
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I find that the robots are funny - let’s say between funny and…it’s like horror movies, it can be funny and it can be horrific or magical. It depends upon your point of view. - FS</i>
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It's always fascinating to look back and observe certain individuals accurately predicting what will occur in the near future. But in the case of RH and FS, do we give them too much credit concerning such predictions? What I mean to say, is that perhaps they were not merely geniuses who could see into the future. Perhaps they were privy to information via the Organization directly related to what they were doing. I'm talking about an actual PLAN to help dehumanize the culture through a mechanical type of music. To DELIBERATELY make their audience more robotic. Controlled. It is quite easy to "predict the future" when you are in possession of the playbook being implemented by the powers that be! And it is very easy to see the purpose of all this: to gain a greater level of control over the population.
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Consider FS's quotation above noting the robotic nature of everyday people in their daily commute to work. Now think of New York city rush hour traffic. Los Angeles commuters...What we have here is modern urban work culture, which is robotic in nature. Now put your hands together and in your best Mr Burns impression, ask the question: How do we turn everyday leisure into the same controlled robotic dance? How do we turn people's socializing and even their sleep into a controlled robotic operation?
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<i>We humans are completely unimportant, interchangeable. That’s what we want to demonstrate with our dummies. We say what’s interesting about us through our music. We don’t consider ourselves rockstars just because we sell alot of records. We’re scientists. We experiment with our machines every day. We research and then we deliver the results - music. - RH, BRAVO teen magazine</i>
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We are told Michael Jackson invented "the robot," a dance routine which emulates a non-human machine trying to move like a human. It's quite an odd concept when you think about it! Why would you want to deliberately try and move like a machine incapable of the exact fluid motions of humans? From this perspective, MJ would seem like the ultimate "show room dummy" or trained animal. An embodiment of the glorification of self-dehumanization. Now think about what this does to an audience. Mesmerized, they feel compelled to learn and emulate these same movements. To behave more like...robots? You must imagine yourself inside the mind of an extremely evil power mongering individual to comprehend the larger implications here. You want to control people on a MASS scale. This is how you do it!
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Talented as MJ was, are we again giving too much credit to someone for "inventing" something that was perhaps being done under instruction of an invisible organization? It may sound like an absurd suggestion, but consider how easy it is for people to accept that MJ was robbed of his childhood by his father and other shady industry types so that they could capitalize upon his raw talent. It's easy for people to visualize that, but for some reason it's much harder for people to grasp that a larger intellectual agenda may also have been driving MJ's exploitation, and his deliberate influence upon American culture and beyond.
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<b>THE GERMAN INVASION</b>
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<i>One such episode occurred in 1982 with a certain Afrika Bambaataa, who released an album called Planet Rock…put together a hip-hop rap album on which they mixed parts of “Numbers” and “Trans Europe Express” for a single release…They didn’t even ask…this is the nastiest kind of theft! - WF
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Up to the end of the 19th century, it was general practice in Western music to repeat rhythms in regularly accented patterns known as pulse groups…Exactly like in our modern pop music, the schematic repetition of these beats made listeners feel safe. We might describe it these days as “a groove.” We might compare it to the constitutions on which today’s societies are founded, which we tend to forget in daily life when everything is working well. But if they are overruled, or suspended anarchy breaks out. - KB
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During the session, our polyglot Ralf remembered his basic Russian and pointed out to us that the word Robot - robots - originally has a slavic root, meaning work. Then he had the idea of having the robot add a line of Russian to our sound collage: Ya tvoi slugs, ya tvoi rabotnik” - I am your servant, I am your worker.” Ralf and Florian then brought a number of Russian visual artists into play…I think it was the very next day that we ended up poring over a book about the work of El Lissitzky, which Ralf had opened up on our mixing desk.
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“Kraftwerk Members…are surprised at their success in the disco scene!” - Billboard full page ad, Oct 22 1977
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…we decided to produce a few mixes in the Kling Klang Studio to test for danceability…we made regular trips to the Morocco disco in Cologne…we listened to our music under dance-floor conditions with a full house. - KB
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Our ideas really come from our experience…everyday life. We are playing the machines, the machines play us, it is really the exchange and the friendship we have with the musical machines… RH
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...as well as Mora’s Lover’s club, there were a few other night-clubs we would look into…This was where we carried out our “sociocultural studies” and felt close to the music of the day and the audience’s reactions. - KB
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…In America, there was always a large part of the audience which was dancing, the black audience, hispanic, Hispano-American…Electronic music is really a world language, it is the music of a global village. RH</i>
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As we read these quotations, an image starts to appear in the mind. Not of a music group, but a social/cultural engineering team. Scientists, clearly using their extentive education in various areas of expertise and applying it to their musical movements and marketing. But to what end exactly? This never seems to be clearly stated by the group. Maybe that's because it is completely obvious and in your face already! "We are the Robots." The Man-Machine. Die Mensch-Maschine. Do they really need to spell it out any clearer? To do so outside of the music would spoil the mesmerizing spell.
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Ralf Hutter articulates Kraftwerk's success within America's Black/Hispanic dance clubs as a positive thing, if somewhat vaguely. Who would have thought that a soft spoken, conservative, highly educated, classically trained white German musician would be most responsible for creating popular dance music dominated by American Blacks and Latinos? A type of music [hip-hop] that would more or less fuse itself with American black culture, and at times be used as a vehicle upon which to express black pride and specific distinction from white culture, whatever that is?
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I don't think it's a coincidence that Kraftwerk's output slowed down substantially after their 1981 "Computer World" album and Afrika Bambaataa's sampling of their music the following year. The birth of Hip-Hop and all sorts of electronic pop dance music seemed to coincide with the "decline" of Kraftwerk. But I'm not so sure this is the most accurate description, popular as it tends to be. Perhaps what some viewed as a "decline" was actually the accomplishment of a monumantal goal: The perminent establishment of "robot-culture" through music! Once this goal was reached, the group had less purpose - hense their apparent lack of output since the 80s. After the immense success of "Computer World," the goal of the group seemed to be "now, just keep it going. Put out an album every so often, tour, re-issue the old catalog, and just drive home the same messaging. Keep the machine moving forward, like a cyclist training for the Tour De France..."
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Apparently, Afrika Bambaataa settled with Kraftwerk in a legal ruling where the former must pay royalties to the latter for use of their music on the classic "Planet Rock" single. While most news articles on this topic tend to depict Kraftwerk as some assholes from Germany who won't let someone sample their music for free, no one ever considered the idea that Afrika Bambaataa may have had permission all along. There could have been a "secret" agreement that they would use the music, and Kraftwerk would get a cut, in order to introduce "Robot-Pop" to a wider American audience somewhat covertly. Meanwhile, the public would be told it was all done without permission and court hearings would be held to ensure the willful collaboration was not detected. Even the musicians themselves could be hidden from the truth, so that only those who "needed to know" would be aware of it.
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<b>ORIGINS AND PHILOSOPHY</b>
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<i>The Essen Song Days were organized by a team led by the eccentric Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, a music journalist who later founded the krautrock labels Ohr and Kosmische Kuriere before suffering a mental breakdown and retreating from the scene. He was inspired by the Monterey Pop Festival of the previous year but wanted to mix pop and politics more overtly at Essen, invoking the New Left, quoting Herbert Marcuse in the booklet for the festival, and stating that "songs don't make a revolution but songs accompany revolutions." - 70s Krautrock in Germany
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It put a lot of new ideas out to a much wider audience, firstly through attracting some 40,000 people to watch, listen and participate in events held across the city, and shortly afterwards, when the documentary Zwischen Pop and Politics was broadcast on German television.
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The underground scene in Germany in 1968 really arose through the influence of flower power from San Francisco, the musical HAIR, and also somewhat through the politicized ’68 movement throughout Europe. - Konrad Mallison</i>
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<i>One day, I got a surprising opportunity to see the Steve Reich Ensemble…The music put me into a kind of hypnosis…The music’s psychological effect is based on taking familiar-sounding musical material and subjecting it to constant repetition…this sound…leads to a new experience of time. If you engage with it, it develops a musical undertow that puts the listener into a trance like state. KB
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They [Ralf and Florian] not only had a perfect knowledge of rock but also jazz. - Marc Zermati, French label Skydog</i>
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I'm not prepared to get into the early origins of Krautrock in any sort of detail, but it is important to touch upon it briefly and to observe the primitive mechanics that was theoretically behind it.
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As I stated in part I, the birth of Krautrock seemed to evolve out of German exposure to 60s psychedelic rock. The Monterey Pop festival in America was the famous concert where Jimi Hendrix, endeavoring to top The Who, lit his guitar on fire. It is known that a CIA presence was there, and had copious amounts of LSD distributed to attendees. In retrospect, some view the Monterey Pop Festival as a contrived event who's purpose was to test LSD's military application, by dosing large numbers of people and taking note of the responses. Large scale mind control. From this perspective, we might view the "eccentric" Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser and his motives behind The Essen Song Days a bit differently. It seems plain to me that this was just another international deep state operation designed to import the psychedelic mind control experiments to German Youth and to help shape the post war culture there. This seems to have spawned the "artistic" German culture from which Kraftwerk originally arose.
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<i>…there had just been a lot of noise, and their performance had sounded like stukka air raids - they obviously enjoyed imitating the sounds of war. It certainly wasn’t music and I was horrified…As I later learned, this was experimental music… - WF
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Maybe the idea was to try to achieve a concept, it worked better later, of course. But today we don’t consider the first albums as important works… FS</i>
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The first 2 Kraftwerk albums utilized more traditional musical equipment, but experimented with a variety of rhythms, sounds, and beats. It wasn't "standard music" and would be regarded as unlistenable to some, because on a certain level, it really WASN'T music, but an actual experiment in sonic extremes. Various performances were carried out along side art shows in the German underground to an audience which seemed to be searching for a culture of their own in a post-war country that would probably prefer to delete the past 40 years and start from scratch. Or...were audiences being HERDED into a new culture, which was being cultivated for them?
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Time-wise, the leap from Kraftwerk I to Autobahn was about 4 years. Sonically, it was a leap from traditional instruments to entirely electronic based ones. Everything in between was literally an experiment in how audiences would react to various forms of sound stimulation, and in many cases, mixed with visuals [This is more or less what early Pink Floyd was doing in England during their Syd Barrett era at places like the UFO Club. Germany had a similarly short lived club called the Zodiac]. Autobahn was the last of a 3-album record deal with Philips, and was clearly and deliberately crafted into something far more digestible and accessable, if still very experimental compared to most pop music of the day.
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In technical terms, I would describe Autobahn as having far cleaner and distinct SOUND SEPARATION, in the same sense we might refer to COLOR SEPARATION in photo graphics terminology. With electric sounds, one could achieve a far greater level of sound separation, thus allowing for greater sonic control of the frequencies themselves. This took another great leap forward in the digital age, at which time Kraftwerk more or less abandoned the habit of releasing albums and proceeded to spend all of their time converting their catalog into a digital format, in order to continue their sonic experiments almost exclusively via live performances.
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<i>At the time of Autobahn, we adopted the “German” image at Florian’s suggestion...They [the Americans] thought we were singing “fun fun fun on the autobahn” , a homage to “fun fun fun,” the surfing anthem by The Beach Boys. WF
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As Hutter and Schneider saw it, The Beach Boys represented an almost scientific pop perfection. Their music had succeeded in crystalizing certain essential features of American culture and lifestyle. Schneider noted that “When we reached California and Hollywood, we were able to say: yes, it’s exactly like that, like the songs of The Beach Boys.” This was the goal of Kraftwerk as well: to create a Genuine German sound…to re-define and popularize post-war Germany and its cultural past. - Littlejohn, 2009.
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Ralf and Florian discussed the poster for the American [Autobahn] tour. They wanted it to pick up on the look of Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis, I remember - the city of the future, transport, electricity, and the movie’s main theme, the coexistence of man and machine. The Autobahn tour poster…already featured Ralf and Florian’s term “man-machine.” - KB
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[Fritz Lang’s utopian cinematic versions of Machine Land is] “Where the scientists and artists are working hand in hand…We are the children of Werner Von Braun and Fritz Lang. We start from the 20s and just to the 70s and 80s. We’re not concerned with history lessons, we are concerned with today. I think that’s one of the basic faults of society, to look backwards and all this fool stuff…if you are driving a fast car and you look too much in the back mirror you might crash in front. We’d rather watch what we’re doing right now, what we could do today or tomorrow.” - RH, Christmas issue of NME [1977?]
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We just came up with this concept: Let’s do a song like driving on the autobahn. Ralf specifically asked me to write some lyrics. - Emil Schult
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I can’t say whether that 1964 track - part of the American pop canon - was the blueprint for the “Autobahn” lyrics, but wouldn’t it make sense if Emil had associated his “fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n” with “fun fun fun”? Both songs are about driving cars, after all. - KB
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Later I found out the track we’d listened to was “You Doo Right” from the Can album “Monster Movie.” Just recently, so many decades later, I listened to it again and I was surprised by how much it reminds me of “Autobahn.” - KB
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Their music is very smooth, very slack, a kind of long bewitchment… - Herve Picart, France’s “Best” magazine
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It’s beyond me how they’re album broke into the US charts but here it is defying all trends and previous expectations. - Todd Telcos, Melody Maker</i>
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Most Americans, myself included, are probably too young or were not even alive in 1974 when Krautrock's first "hit" arrived on mainstream radio, Autobahn. The first time I heard it, it reminded me of music from primitive 80s home video games, such as those found on Commodore 64 and Atari. That is because these video game systems utilized the same synthesizers Kraftwerk was using in their music, a good 5-10 years earlier.
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Reactions from American audiences during the Autobahn tour were mixed, according to what I have read. In some cases, they were not so well recieved and shows were not always so full. Although there were obviously plenty of Americans who appreciated what Kraftwerk was doing, it was regarded as experimental even to the prog-rock crowd, who's ears were attuned to music which was either rock, blues, jazz, or classical based in sound. Electricly filtered noises and computer generated sound was a much further stretch, and one would be justified in wondering if Autobahn wasn't FORCED onto American radio, in order to condition American audiences to such sounds. A soft sort of "force feeding" of Krautrock.
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Although Ralf and Florian were often dismissive of the influence the Beach Boys [and probably their Krautrock peers, CAN] had upon Autobahn, I think it is quite clear that The Organization systematically took the music of Beach Boys apart, and rebuilt it within a German context, in order to tap into its' "mesmerizing" pop quality. In short, it is the sound of German culture being rebuilt by sonic architects.
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[German News headlines] <br>
German Pop Autobahn Conquers America<br>
The New Conquerors of America
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WF features the above news headlines from papers he kept from his time with Kraftwerk. Notice the language of the headlines above is similar in feel to the phrase "British invasion," in the sense that the music of a foreign country takes the audience of another "by storm." Of course they don't literally mean that Kraftwerk was "conquering America." How could music do that? But at the same time, there is a certain sinister truth to the headlines, if we think in terms of propaganda. This trend continues upon the group's signing with British based label EMI.
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<b>THE FINAL SOLUTION</b>
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<i>…It is nonetheless still the radio that Joseph Goebbels commissioned for mass production. Hitler’s propaganda minister knew that communication between radio and listeners was key, but it wouldn’t happen with political messages alone. People were much easier to reach through emotive songs…By coincidence or intention, quite a few things with Kraftwerk seemed loaded with historical symbolism. - KB
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…”Wenn’s um unsere Zukunft geht” (when it comes to our future) sounds like a 1970s advertising slogan for the nuclear power lobby…the line “In the air for you and me” could refer both to nuclear radioactivity and radio airplay. Years later the ambivalent lyrics became an anti-nuclear credo and the Third Reich Volksempfanger radio on the album cover was replaced by a radioactive pictogram. Back in 1975, however, the album’s main emphasis…was on communication. In my view, the other half of the concept…was intended to be absolutely neutral. How else could we have been photographed for the album promotion at a nuclear power station, decked out in white coats and protective shoe covers? - KB</i>
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It is fascinating how well educated, self aware, and well read some of the members of Kraftwerk are/were. Karl Bartos, for example, is very good at articulating something potentially sinister about The Organization's motives, but puts it in a perspective where it feels like it is comfortably on the other side of the room. But in reality, he seems to be describing what was going on within the brain of The Organization, and how the Craft Work would be applied to the public. Not only is the radio pictured upon the cover of the album "Radio-Activity" a genuine Nazi radio [with the swastika logo removed], but he's telling you what is being depicted by it, from the perspective of Hitler's propaganda minister! The music itself coming from this "radio" [your turntable speakers] would deliver propaganda through emotive songs. Bartos is even willing to consider that this was being done intentionally, which is quite a surprising admission from a member of the "classic" Kraftwerk line-up.
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<i>The most important aspect of mixing pop music is to work out a song’s “storyboard,” the narrative thread and dramatic structure running through the composition… - KB</i>
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Similar to how a movie script will be put to primitive story board images before attempting to film it, Kraftwerk clearly had a combination emotional/frequency "script" drawn out before attempting to record songs like "Radioactivity." In fact, this was something I detected before reading Karl Bartos' book, where he acknowledges this approach to songwriting. That's not to say there wasn't plenty of improvisation and genuine mastery of musical melody going on. But with a song like "Radioactivity," we can very clearly hear the shift from "scary" to "awe" to "catharsis," to "relief," and finally "safety." As if frequencies corresponding to specific human emotions have been charted out in order to provoke specific responses in listeners, to nearly hypnotic affect. But unlike classical music, which can be similarly dramatic, electronic sounds allow for a greater level of sound seperation and, therefore, a greater level of frequency control, and therefore a greater level of LISTENER EMOTIONAL RESPONSE.
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<i>After the moon landing, Wernher Von Braun [NASA] was an American National hero, the shining star of the rocket industry… “One of those rare engineers with charisma” wrote the New York Times…He never had to answer to his Nazi past, distancing himself from the crimes of National Socialism and denying any personal culpability…Depending on how one views it, the story of that dynamic German physicist plays a role in our song [Spacelab]. “In a way we feel related to Warner Von Braun; German scientific research is related to our music. We make acoustic rockets.” Ralf explained to Interview magazine rather bluntly. - KB
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We are the children of Werner Von Braun and Fritz Lang... - RH, Christmas issue of NME [1977?]</i>
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Werner Von Braun was a rocket scientist for the German Nazi party. After WWII, he was brought over to America, probably under the Project Paperclip program, in order to continue his work with the newly formed NASA. His engineering skills would lead to the launching of Apollo 11 and alleged moon landings. This is all very interesting, but Von Braun was a Nazi! For members of Kraftwerk to so fearlessly cite him as an inspiration seems a bit bold, if they did not want to be percieved as having nefarious fascistic political motives. Something they would get accused of upon release of Man Machine.
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<i>Many people later misunderstood the cover shot, finding it too fascist. They were unable to understand that it was pure irony to us…Huge red posters were stuck up all over Paris showing the cover of our new album…and anyone who didn’t know us might actually have found them quite fascist…Everything in the room in which our presentation took place was decorated red, matching the Russian style album cover… - WF
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While we were touring the UK, New Musical Express printed the interview in its 6 September issue, with the new headline: Kraftwerk: The Final Solution to the Music Problem?..The magazine also illustrated the interview with a photo montage, featuring the group shot of Kraftwerk copied into a historical photo of the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg..Was this the British sense of humor we’d heard so much about?
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The German SOUNDS called the album [Man Machine] R2-D2’s favorite record. - KB</i>
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The perception of Man Machine as having a fascist/soviet communist sort of intent is not without merit. The key is, we are supposed to appreciate the irony and humor of it all, which I did upon first seeing the album cover and the accompanying video for "the Robots". But humor is a very interesting thing, which can sometimes deliver information which would otherwise be deemed "taboo." Because the fascistic imagery is delivered with humor and irony, we assume it is not to be taken seriously, and that only dumb people would. But supposing you are the author of the music, and you know full well how "dumb" people will percieve it. Is THAT your actual target audience?
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<b>TOUR DE FRANCE</b>
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After the successful "Computer World" tour, Kraftwerk came to a screeching halt. Whether it was Ralf getting into a bicycle accident, the band becoming overly perfectionistic about the new recordings, or they just got too caught up in converting their catalog into a digital format - something clearly changed productivity-wise. The single "Tour De France" was released in 1983 as a teaser for their new album, which never came out. It wasn't until 1986 that the somewhat underwelming "Electric Cafe" album was released.
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It would be a good 17 years until Kraftwerk released the confusingly titled "Tour De France Soundtracks" album in 2003, which appears to be their last release of original music.
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<i>The bicycle is already a musical instrument on its own. The noise of the bicycle chain and pedal and gear mechanism, for example, the breathing of the cyclist, we have incorporated all of this in the Kraftwerk sound… RH</i>
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There is no doubt that RH became obsessed with bicycle riding. And although he got the rest of the group on board for a time, he was ultimately alone in his obsession. I have my theories regarding this, mainly that it was something he could talk about and refer to in interviews which humanized him to their audience, who were never sure what to make of the group's stand off-ish, cryptic interview answers. On a larger symbolic level, it represented their "Man Machine" concept, in combination with the idea of motion - which I think was all Kraftwerk had towards the end. A vessel in motion, which had already brought "Robot Pop" to the mainstream , and now had a life of it's own.
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<i>I remember I had an appointment with Ralf and Florian…I still remember the image of them, sitting there all dressed in black, with their precise haircuts, their made-to-measure suits. It was like an expressionists’ picture, a very stylized one, the dummies could have been there and it would have been the same. I tell you, the girl I was with was frightened. - Paul Alessanrini</i>Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-82983811543284982232024-02-14T13:59:00.000-08:002024-02-14T13:59:48.091-08:00Pearl Jam High 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6sTctOL_3EvLh2VeQVFSj_5_SZR7xhanGUvY1xmxVDGrW83bl0gZgOVaR91Cb4ajn4axoO6cb0HQj8iv73L1eSiwQ1ow3srJH2uG9x8zkcEHCsplYQNlO7ey3bolsLfvlylKkxO3c8J5xD9VKLHzG8YUkTFUXFhYmnaNCVOazcglYAVQug1qFZRWy/s275/Unknown.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6sTctOL_3EvLh2VeQVFSj_5_SZR7xhanGUvY1xmxVDGrW83bl0gZgOVaR91Cb4ajn4axoO6cb0HQj8iv73L1eSiwQ1ow3srJH2uG9x8zkcEHCsplYQNlO7ey3bolsLfvlylKkxO3c8J5xD9VKLHzG8YUkTFUXFhYmnaNCVOazcglYAVQug1qFZRWy/s400/Unknown.jpeg"/></a></div>
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If we consider all of the death in so many iconic bands over the years, it is understandable that people might wonder if it's just "part of the deal" in the industry. Is it all run by some psychopathic cult which believes in "blood rituals" and "sacrifice?" Is there some kind of Black Magic involved and is that why so many popular bands reference Crowley, Satan, and other Demonic themes? Why do so many bands, even in the underground, use the "all seeing eye" of the Illuminati in their logos and images?
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With all of this in mind, I looked at the major Seattle "grunge" bands of the early 90s and noticed that nobody in Pearl Jam had died. Now I certainly don't wish death upon them or anyone else! But I look at Eddy Veddar and I go, "hmmm he seemed really troubled early on. Troubled as any other singer of the era. And yet, here he is, still singing "Alive." And thank god! But then it hit me. Andrew Wood. He is the reason Pearl Jam exists in a way. Was HE the "sacrifice" for their fame?
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<i>Conspiracy: a <b>SECRET</b> plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. - Oxford</i>
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Before getting into these occult symbols and themes, let's remember WHY this information is important. As the late Bill Cooper used to explain on his radio show "The Hour of the Time," it doesn't matter if YOU believe in any of this stuff. We are studying it because it's what THEY believe. And if we ever want to defeat the great enemy hiding in the shadows, we must understand how they think. When we can shine a light upon those dark corners, their crimes can no longer be done in secret, and their magick can be seen for what it is: a big fraud designed to give them control over us and hide their heinous acts. It is SECRECY which protects them, and that is why we must CONSTANTLY be lied to and decieved.
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First, where does the name "Pearl Jam" come from? The most popular explanation is that Pearl was the name of Veddar's great grandmother, who made amazing jam. But according to wiki, "In a 2006 cover story for Rolling Stone, Vedder admitted that this story was "total bullshit", but added that he did have a great-grandmother named Pearl." So what is the real story? Apparently, it's a big secret...
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If we assume the name "Pearl Jam" is nonsense, perhaps it contains an encoded message, via anagram. An anagram is a word or group of words formed out of another word or group of words. The rarest type of anagram is one that uses ALL of the letters in a particular word or phrase, to form a new one. It is even more rare for an anagram to correspond with the word/phrase it was formed from, such as "Mr Mojo Risin"[Jim Morrison]. With Pearl Jam, I came up with Reap Lam J.
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Who is the LAM to be REAPED? If we are thinking it terms of sacrifice and blasphemy, my first thought was "Lamb of God," which would be [J]esus. Now coming from a warped, blasphemic, allegorical point of view, Andrew Wood could be seen as the "sacrificial Lam" that was made in order to form Pearl Jam. Now this is just a theory, but there is more corroborating it, as I will demonstrate later in the blog.
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I'm going to discuss occult symbolism on the first Pearl Jam album, 10. But before doing that, we must take a look at the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and note a few things. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life comes out of Jewish mysticism. We don't really know how old it is, but it is integral to many Freemason Orders as well as Aleistar Crowley's magickal system and his Thoth Tarot deck.
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1 is at the top and is called Kether or The Crown. This is part of the "supernal triad" of 1, 2, and 3 [forming a pyramid.] Notice the outline of a human body behind the tree. These 3 sephiroth reside at the upper most area of the head, signifying the highest level of spiritual consciousness, and is separated from the lower sephiroth by Daath, which is that "hidden" sephira between Kether and 6 or Tiphareth. 1 is obviously the "most high" and the idea is to strive for that supernal triad, or pyramid. But most of us reside within the lower levels, similar to the trapezoid sitting below the floating pyramid with 1 eye over it.
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Note that the number 10 is located on the bottom. This represents the Earthly realm, and all things physical. If you notice the outline of a body behind this allegorical "Tree" you can see the legs or feet reside in "Malkuth" [Kingdom in Hebrew].
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Lastly, we are looking at the 5th sephira, Geburah. Red for war, blood, courage, etc...5 fingers on the hand, 5 limbs of the body, 5 points of a pentagram. Now let's go back to the Pearl Jam album cover...
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5 band members = Geburah = war, fighting, courage, RED background. All 5 members stand at the bottom of our metaphorical tree in Malkuth, or 10 [the album title]. All 5 "holding up" the eye of providence or "capstone" missing from the larger truncated pyramid [or trapezoid]. The idea that the large "A" represents a truncated pyramid is enforced by the 2 smaller "A's" which are lined up perfectly on the edges of the larger "A". Jeff Ament points upwards, expressing his allegiance to "the one" way at the top, which is the ALL SEEING EYE of the Illuminati. However, the entire band looks off into different directions, pretending publicly that this is NOT what they are doing. Meanwhile, the first song on the album is called "ONCE," which coincidentally has the word ONE in it!
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The 2nd Pearl Jam album "Vs" was originally titled "5 against 1." Do you understand what that means symbolically now? The 5 band members decided to REBEL against the 1, and this is why we saw so many stories about friction within the band and Eddy Veddar's famous "I don't wanna be a rockstar" tantrums - which we also saw echoed in Kurt Cobain's narrative. This all culminated in Pearl Jam's legal war with Ticketmaster, which they eventually lost.
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If we look at the lyrics to "Animal," which is probably Pearl Jam's most aggressive song to that date, we see the line "1, 2, 3, 4, 5 against 1" He's emphesizing the numbers because there is a MESSAGE there. But why did they change the title to Vs? V = Roman numeral 5! As far as the "s", my best guess is that it stands for SATAN. 5 against the 1. The Illuminati. Satan.
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So what's with the album cover? According to wikipedia, it's a GOAT. Wiki cites a Spin magazing article, which does NOT quote Jeff Ament calling this animal a goat, but a SHEEP. A sheep is an adult LAMB. Reap Lam J. The sacrificial lamb is grown up, and it's trying to break out of it's metaphorical cage. The "animal" is the 5 band members. "I'd rather be with an animal" than be with the elites at the top?
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[Pearl Jam's album "Lightening Bolt" features their beloved "All Seeing Eye," that so many oblivious fans will deny they are paying tribute to. Or perhaps they just don't care to make the connections because it will ruin their rock and roll fantasy?]
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I admit there are times where I doubt all of this stuff and wonder if I am just losing my mind here. But then something like this comes along to re-enforce all of it. I'm talking about the 2022 film "Studio 666."
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The film stars all members of Foo Fighters, including David Grohl and Pat Smear who were both in Nirvana when Kurt Cobain died. Pat Smear was also in the Germs back in the early 80s, who's singer also died. So that makes at least 3 bands Pat Smear was in which has/had band members who are now dead.
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Notice in the above image how Dave Grohl's head is at the top of a vaguely pyramid-esque shape. The roles of the camera reel function a little like sephiroth. Are they saying that Grohl is at the top of their allegorical "supernal triad?"
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<i>In October 2019, the band announced that they were recording their tenth studio album based on demos by Grohl...By February 2020, Grohl announced that the new album was complete. In November 2021, it was reported that a film starring the Foo Fighters entitled Studio 666 had been shot in secret...Grohl recorded a whole album of heavy metal songs for the in-movie fictional band Dream Widow. The album was released on March 25, 2022, consisting of eight tracks. Studio 666 was released theatrically on February 25, 2022, by Open Road Films. The film held its world premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre on February 16, 2022...On March 25, 2022, Hawkins [drummer] died in his room at the Casa Medina hotel in Bogotá, Colombia. No cause of death was given. - Wiki</i>
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Ok, so let's break this down: Foo Fighters record their 10th studio album between October 2019 and February 2020. That's 4 months, not very long for a band this big. By November 2021, the band had also completed filming a movie [in secret]. "Studio 666" premiered on February 25th, 2022. Grohl released an ENTIRE ALBUM of music for the fictional band that appears in the film on March 25th 2022 - the SAME DAY Taylor Hawkin's died!
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To summarize, Dave Grohl allegedly recorded 2 albums and a film between October 2019 and probably late 2021 [assuming the film was completed a couple months before the film was released, and that's being generous] That means Grohl did all of that within about 2 years. This is a band that typically release 1 album every 2-4 years. We could be generous and say that the Covid lockdown provided Grohl and company more time to get more accomplished. But look how they spent this time!
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It is also worth noting that Foo Fighters claim they actually recorded their 10th album in the same house the movie was filmed. Wikipedia quotes Grohl stating the house seemed to be haunted, but Grohl later admitted he was lying about that just for effect. At what point does the audience acknowledge the obvious effort to convince them that the story in this film is the story in reality?
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In the above scene, a "possessed" Dave Grohl forces Taylor Hawkins to finish the drum tracks on the band's 10th album. Immediately upon completion, Dave Grohl throws a cymbol at Hawkin's head, killing him. While Taylor's bloody body flopped to the floor, Grohl flips him off! Now before we get into this any further, just think how disrespectful this scene is towards his former band mate and his loved ones in retrospect! While we can excuse him for "not knowing in advance that his band mate would very soon be dead in reality," there is no excuse for the fact that this film is still totally available and collecting money from fans of the band.
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But let's just note something here - and maybe you are just along for the ride to see what "crazy theory" I'm gonna come up with next? Just look at how Hawkins was executed. The top of his head was seperated from the bottom. Remember this?
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Observe again, the human head behind the "supernal triad" on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. A line goes directly through the head, a little higher than where Taylor Hawkin's head was severed in the film. So what does this represent if we assume the industry is run by an elite group that worships the illuminated eye at the top of the pyramid of life? It seems to me that Hawkins was rebelling and this was the cost of that rebellion. The film is sending a message to others that would rebel. It helps to look at this from the "Mafia" angle. You cross the wrong people, you pay with your life. And when they take your life, they will make an example of you to freak others out. That is the main purpose of this film, in my opinion. But that doesn't mean Hawkins wasn't chosen way in advance to be "sacrificed" anyway. It's impossible to know many thing for sure, but Hawkin's death was planned - and it seems they WANT us to know that.
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Near the beginning of the film, the band is getting scolded by their manager for being slow in producing their 10th album. [note that Pearl Jam's first album is called "10"] We know that Foo Fighters typically take 2-4 years to complete an album, so they are not exactly known for their speed of production, although these days that is faster than many other bands at their level. Grohl says he wants to do something special for the album, that he want's to be like Led Zeppelin and get castles and devils and demons and wiizards involved. This is a reference to the fact that Zeppelin recorded in a castle once. The drums for "When the Levee Breaks," which was later sampled by Beastie Boys, was the result of one of these recordings. In fact, Jimmy Page was a known occultist, and even purchased a castle previously owned by Aleister Crowley.
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The band manager then calls up his secretary and there is some sort of diabolical understanding that the band will use a particular house in Encino, CA to record their album. The secretary says something to the effect of "oh good, finally!" as if this was something they were waiting to do for many years. This is echoed towards the end of the film, when the manager re-appears dressed like some sort of Warlock and tells Dave Grohl "we've been waiting 20 years for this!" We know that Foo Fighter's released their 9th album "Concrete and Gold" in 2017. At that point, one can assume work on their 10th album would begin. 2017 was the 20 year mark for Hawkins officially joining the band. Was his "sacrifice" planned that far in advance and are they telling you so blatantly in the film?
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This meeting concludes with Grohl announcing a "Pearl Jam high 5". This is obviously a nod to the first Pearl Jam album and the pose of the band on it. First, notice that Hawkins is the only one not touching the other hands. Pearl Jam has 5 members, Foo Fighters has 6, but only 5 are touching hands to form the "pyramid." Grohl then says "Jeremy has fuckin spoken!"
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If Foo Fighter's 10th album represents the plan for a big ceremonial sacrifice, this scene makes a lot of sense. The "High 5" represents the band's agreement with "the plan" to complete an album who's climax will be the death of their drummer, reducing their number from 6 to 5. It also represents their allegience to "the one" or the all seeing eye of the Illuminati. The one that Pearl Jam seemed to rebel against during their "5 against 1" album. So really, this is re-enforcing just about every theory of mine regarding the first Pearl Jam album's cover and what it means! It also reveals the purpose of the film. To send a message to those in the industry who want to rebel: Show your allegiance to the 1 or we'll make an example out of you.
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Also note that in the song "Jeremy," the chorus goes "Jeremy spoke in class today." Jeremy kills himself in front of the class, that is what is meant by "Jeremy spoke". So when Grohl quotes that lyric, he is saying that someone who spoke up is gonna die. Was Taylor Hawkins that person? The second time the "Pearl Jam high 5" occurs, Hawkins again does not touch any of the other hands, hinting that he is not in agreement with "the plan." Grohl then says something like, "yeah, I'm still alive!" which is a reference to another song on Pearl Jam's first album. According to Vedder, the lyrics to Alive speak about incest - which was probably part of his early experiences with trauma based mind control.
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The "delivery guy" is played by Will Forte, who's name in the film is Darren Sandlebaum. Darren plays a musician trying to get his band's demo to Dave Grohl. He also bears a resemblence to a younger Lemmy Kilmister. If you look at the name Darren Sandlebaum, it contains 5 syllables. Lemmy Kilmister also contains 5 syllables. Now I believe there are many red herrings in this film, and this may be another. But given Darren's gruesome demise, the fact he is a musician, looks like Lemmy, same amount of syllables in the name - I feel like the film is saying something about Lemmy's death. We all know Lemmy was old and in bad shape, but that doesn't mean he wasn't murdered on December 28th, 2015. Are they telling us? There is at least 1 Motorhead song on the soundtrack, and it is "Stone Dead Forever."
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In the film there is an annoying neighbor who ends up informing members of Foo Fighters about the curse of the house they are recording in. When they first meet her, Grohl asks her about the history of the house, and the neighber gets really wierd and says something like, "No Dave, I don't know what you're talking about" as she slowly disappears behind her yard fence. This is one of many Stanley Kubrick references. In this case, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where H.A.L. famously states "No Dave, I can't do that..." There are also parallels to the Shining. A house where people are murdered, then the murdurer's spirit enters the body of current occupants. "One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest" is also name dropped, another film starring Jack Nicholson and written by CIA asset Ken Kesey.
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Another red herring involved Grohl's mentioning that the song will be in the key of L#. There is no key of L#, but if you count out L in the order it appears in the alphabet, you get 12. That would theoretically make L# a half step higher. Numerically, 12 1/2. Half a number shy of 13. This is the film letting us know that they realize who is watching it, and this is for people like me. I see this number and I go "hey look, it's ALMOST 13! That means something!" When in fact, it means nothing. It's nonsense designed to send people like me on a wild goose chase and make us look silly.
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Another example that has a very Spinal Tap feel to it, is when Grohl demands Taylor Hawkins count the song off "5-6-7" instead of "1-2-3." That could be another reference to the "5 against 1" thing, but it's also another red herring. It means nothing, but we're supposed to go looking way into it for meaning. Another example is when Grohl insists Hawkins count off ODD numbers. "1-3-5!
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The album cover for the fictional band "Dream Widow" contains a Unicursal Hexagram. This symbol represents the religion of Thelema, created by Aleistar Crowley. Grohl pulls out an easel in the middle of the film with this symbol on it, so that the band can perform before it. At each point is a symbol representing each band member. I hadn't seen this film when I started taking a closer look at the Pearl Jam 10 album cover, so I found it interesting that Grohl was basically allocating numbers to his band members in a similar manner I did with Pearl Jam.
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Lastly, Kerry King of the band Slayer plays a small role in the film. He is a technician named Krug setting up to record, when he gets electrocuted to death. Coincidentaly, Foo Fighters stage manager Andy Pollard died right around the time the band would likely have been filming the movie. There are several points in the film where someone dies, and it is made into a sort of black comedy, where Grohl pretends to be sad but insists that the recording goes on because "that's what he would have wanted! He was a fan! We'll dedicate the album to him!" There is just no other way to interpret this: the film is mocking those who have died in connection with the band, but in a way that could only be confirmed in HIND-SIGHT. In other words, the film seems to very blatantly forshadow the deaths of Andy Pollard and Taylor Hawkins IN REAL LIFE.
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I don't claim to have all the red herrings sorted from genuine occult messages here, but clearly the film puts a lot of effort to reach a few different types of audience members they know are watching:
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1 - Ignorant masses who will take it for a simple horror movie.<br>
2 - People like myself, searching for confirmation of conspiracy theories.<br>
3 - Members of the music industry, or others "in the know."
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Of all these, I believe number 3 was the prime target audience. This film did not do well at the box office, and I don't think it was intended to. Grohl has said that Eddy Veddar was amused by the film, but I've never seen or read anything where Vedder is quoted directly. For all we know, the OPPOSITE may be true. Perhaps this is a blatant mockery, referring to the original "oath" expressed by members of Pearl Jam on the "10" album cover. The film is a reminder to those who think they can rebel or get out. A reminder of who they must serve. Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-67292211537794296952024-02-10T20:52:00.000-08:002024-02-28T23:16:34.543-08:00The Craft Work of Kraftwerk [PT I]<p>
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Kraftwerk was formed in Dusseldorf, Germany by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970. They were initially part of a musical movement occuring in the German underground that came to be labeled by the press, somewhat mockingly as, "Kraut-rock," which is really just another way of saying "new original music from Germany."
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Although I am no expert in the origins of Krautrock, it seems to me that what the bands had in common, besides occupying the same general geographic location in time, was their experiments with incorporating noise into music. This encouraged the listener to confront and challenge their own basic beliefs regarding what music actually is, and what differentiates it from noise. Are they ultimately one and the same?
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In a sense, this Krautrock movement took off from the sonic fringes of 60s psychedelic rock, such as the Seeds, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, and Iron Butterfly - executed with calculated German precision, taken to new levels so as to become something else entirely. Something new and original.
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Kraftwerk's particular identity as we now know it today involved the abandoning of traditional instruments for completely electric based ones. Using various forms of recording/playback devices, keyboards, synthesizers, and drum machines - they "mimicked" instruments, everyday noises, and even the human voice - combining them into various forms of sound collages - held within strict rhythmic pulses more similar to those found in disco, than in prog-rock of the day. Unlike most of their peers, Kraftwerk turned all of this noise into something accessable, and even dance-able, to an international audience. Something they would themselves label "Techno-Pop."
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In hind-sight, Kraftwerk ended up creating music who's influence can now be fairly compared in scale to that of the Beatles on the world wide level. Hip Hop, New Wave, Techno, Industrial, etc. can trace some of their basic roots to what 1970s Kraftwerk refined in their mysterious Kling Klang studio. Even people who have never heard of them have probably HEARD THEM without even realizing it, via samples used by pop artists as varied as Africa Bambaataa and Coldplay.
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But who are the individuals behind Kraftwerk exactly, and what was their goal in creating such abstract and influential music?
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<b>REGARDING THE NAME</b>
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[Flingern II Power Plant - Düsseldorf, Germany]
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<b>Kraftwerk:</b><i>[German for] "Power station." - Online-Translator.com</i>
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Although the German word "Kraftwerk" stands alone quite well as a name for a group which mixes industrial noises with pulsating beats, taking the word apart yields some interesting definitions as well...
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<i>Craft: an occupation, trade, or activity requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill.
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Work: "exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. productive or operative activity." - Dictionary.com</i>
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<i>...we call ourselves musical workers, kraft-werk. - Ralf Hütter [RH]</i>
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<i>We always thought of ourselves as workers in sound, as studio or musical workers, not musicians or artists. But as musical workers going, going into the studio to work. - RH, Bohn 1981</i>
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Here we have RH confirming the association between the "work" the band does, and the name. "Music" being their "craft." What other definitions can be contained within the name?
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<b>THE ORGANIZATION</b>
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[Ralf Hütter (L) and Florian Schneider (R) formed Kraftwerk in 1970, and appeared to be the main individuals behind the group up until Florian's exit in 2008. Schneider passed away in 2020 and Hütter remains the sole original member, and is presumably the "band leader" to this day of 2024.]
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<i>Hütter is a secretive musician who avoids interviews. - wiki
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The Kraftwerk co-founder [Florian] remained a mystery even after death... -TheGuardian.com
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No other band shuns publicity with such dedication. - BBC, 2009
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The pair usually kept a polite, but discreet distance from the person they were talking to in a very stilted, rather shy, almost etherial way. They were more like culture diplomats or the representatives of a humanitarian organization, than musicians. - Wolfgang Flur [WF]
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Ralf’s monologues gave me the impression he was holding imaginary press conferences…his rhetoric had become more mysterious over time…I believe the nature of narrative manipulation is that you not only pretend to others but at some point, also to yourself… - Karl Bartos [KB]
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It is a well documented fact that the group never answers correspondence. The detective hunt that ensued was more like trying to penetrate the corridors of a secret society or intensely private business corporation than that of a pop group…people were reluctant to talk to us without first having approval from the group. - Pascal Bussey [PB]
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I can’t pretend that I know him [Ralf] really. In fact, very few people really know him, I think. - Patrick Codenys
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I couldn’t have avoided joining Kraftwerk in 1973. Even if they had all been part of a criminal conspiracy, I wouldn’t have been frightened away. - WF</i>
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The above comments from various band members and friends/associates over the years seem to suggest that Ralf and Florian [Ralf in particular] are/were perhaps members of some sort of secret organization. Given that we cannot absolutely verify the nature of this secret entity, or even its' existence, let's just call it "The Organization" for convenience. I will also use this phrase when I am referring to the presumed "think tank" or "intelligence operation" behind the group.
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<b>THE CRAFT WORK</b>
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While the German word KRAFTWERK translates to "power plant," there are other ways to logically infer the meaning behind it. We have already seen how Ralf seperated the name into 2 distinct words, while describing what they do: KRAFT and WERK, or Craft Work in English. Being that I research Freemasonry as a hobby, it is obvious to me that "The Craft" is a phrase used to mean "Freemasonry."
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<i>Craft:...signifies skill or dexterity, in any art. In reference to this skill, therefore, the ordinary acception is a trade or mechanical art, and collectively, the persons practicing it. Hense, "The Craft" in speculative Masonry, signifies the whole body of Freemasons, wherever dispersed. - Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry</i>
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If we consider for a moment whether the founders of Kraftwerk were Freemasons, we find some signifficant circumstantial evidence in support of this theory, starting with the name itself. [the] Craft + Work = Freemasonic Activity!
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In some of my other blogs, I have discussed the symbolism behind the Freemasonic square and compass. We know that Freemasons use symbols often having more than one meaning, depending upon the context. The "G" in Freemasonry can stand for Gnosis, Geometry, God, Genetics, Generative force, etc. I find the latter to be the most applicable generally, as demonstrated in the above image showing the Freemasonic ceremonial apron, which places the G [very intentionally, it would seem] exactly where the phallus is. Much of this GENERATIVE [or phallic] force evergy is discussed at length in Albert Pike's "Morals and Dogma" and is found all throughout Aleister Crowley's writings. [A.C. was said to have had many Freemasonic titles to his name.]
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With all of this in mind, note the small step required to go from "generative force" to "power plant." A power plant IS the "generative force" of a city, and the modern industrial world. The decidedly "phallic" looking construction cone found upon the first 2 Kraftwerk albums fits right in with this concept. The cone's sillouette can also be seen as volcanic, or can be likened to a power plant tower. The cone represents a construction zone or an area where work is being done on industrial infrastructure. Building. Architecture. Masonry.
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[Paul Schneider-Esleben, Father of Florian Schneider [FS], in his office, with a model of Cologne/Bonn airport, 1962.]
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<i>Great Architect of the Universe, Grand Architect of the Universe, Sublime Architect of the Universe, GAOTU, Supreme Architect of the Universe… is a conception of God discussed by many Christian theologians and apologists. As a designation it is used within Freemasonry to represent the deity neutrally (in whatever form, and by whatever name each member may individually believe in). - Freemasonry.network</i>
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Freemasons regard themselves as builders, hense the tools used to represent their various concepts. But unlike contemporary architects, Freemasons incorporate ceremonial, religious, and philosophical concepts into their craft work. Obviously, not every architect is a Freemason, but it just so happens that many city center buildings and structures were designed by Freemasons. Since we are on the topic, it is noteworthy that members of Kraftwerk's "classic line-up" had/have strong connections to architecture.
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<i>Franz, Florian’s grandfather, built beautiful, bold, early 20th century churches and helped train his son Paul to become an architect...Like his forefathers, Florian was an architect, but of sonic cathedrals. -faroutmagazine.co.uk</i>
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<i>At one point I did [study architecture], and constructing music and live performance comes from the same spirit. - RH</i>
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<i>The home had been built during la belle époque, and had been designed by my great grandfather, the same architect who had built the famous Berghof sanatorium featured in Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain, on Davos…I also spent some time engaged in practical training with an architect. - WF</i>
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<i>Berghotel Schatzalp is a historic hotel built in the Art Nouveau style and listed Cultural Property of National Significance in Davos, eastern Switzerland...A former hi-tech tuberculosis sanitorium, it opened as the hotel Berghotel Schatzalp in 1953. The hotel caters for global economic and political leaders during the World Economic Forum Annual Meetings in the third week of January</i>
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At least 3 members of the classic Kraftwerk line-up were trained in architecture, and 2 of them allegedly have a family history in this field going back generations. It is important to note that these relatives of Kraftwerk members were not merely building residential housing! The World Economic Forum [WEF] is thought to be one the most, if not THE most important known gatherings for the Globalist elites [think: Illuminati, New World Order]. The fact that WF is related to an architect who built the structure this annual meeting occurs within is something I can probably fill an entire blog itself with.
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I think we can safely assume that members of the "classic" Kraftwerk line-up were not just ordinary working class German artists. They are clearly connected, by blood, to the very tradition of German infrastructure. And yet, they chose to build "sonic cathedrals" rather than apply their craft in a more practical way. But music is an expression of culture, and politics is downstream from culture. So when a band reaches the level of Kraftwerk, in terms of popularity and influence, the music then becomes part of the global "cultural infrastructure," and therein lies, I believe, the hidden objective within The Organization.
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Freemasons will argue that oaths such as the above are either outdated, or not to be taken literally - but that is not really of concern here. My point is this: Freemasons have a well known tradition of taking oaths of secrecy. So if we consider whether members of Kraftwerk were/are in fact Freemasons, secrecy would come naturally to them.
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Whether the Organization is Freemasonic Illuminist in nature or not, I can't say for sure. But I find it interesting how easy it is to fit Kraftwerk into the "New World Order" agenda, which I will elaborate more upon in part II.
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<i>The myth of the important artist has been overexploited. It doesn’t fit anymore with the standards of modern society. Today, mass production rules…Everyone is a star. - RH, Adrien [French Magazine?], 1978
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“Every man and every woman is a star.” - Aleister Crowley, "the Book of the Law" [Originally published in 1904]</i>
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<i>[BBC interview with Kraftwerk, conducted with a Robot/Dummy version of RH]</i>
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<b>WHAT THEY SAY</b>
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I don't like to go on and on about my own theories and assumptions for too long without allowing the group to speak for themselves. Using their own words as a guide, we can theoretically shed more light upon The Organization and its mysterious objectives:
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<i>The music of Kraftwerk didn’t actually emerge spontaneously through emotional group sessions, like that of normal bands; instead it tended to be created via a procedure one might find in a research laboratory or on a musical research program, as if an academic professor was making up a new musical format for the needy of the world. WF
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With Kraftwerk, we went through a hard time as pioneers, protagonists and propagandists, but in the end our obstinacy paid off and other bands became increasingly enthusiastic about synthesizers, putting their guitars to one side and developing the individual sounds of electro pop… WF
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Their music is the theme tune to the Kennzeichen D programme…there was a lot of talk among musicians about Kraftwerk’s expensive sound system, so I was aware they seemed to have plenty of money. KB [Karl Bartos, recalling his perception of the group previous to joining]
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I couldn’t get my head around why we were constantly investing in extremely high end technology…the more capital went into allegedly optimizing the means of production, the less music came out at the other end. KB
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The essence of Kraftwerk is not so much the musicians. Rather our friends who are from other fields like doctors, computer technologists, psychologists, writers and painters. FS
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Ralf was like the unappointed leader, he was the spokesman….commercially or financially, Ralf and Florian were leading… Emil Schult
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We make everything alone. We have our own music publishing house, we produce ourselves, and two months ago we got our own record company. - RH, 1975</i>
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<i>[Pete Townsend, demonstrating the gear apparently required to play "Baba O'Reily]</i>
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<i>[In his book "I was a Robot," Wolfgang Flür claims to have invented the electronic drum pad specifically for the group - a claim which seems to have caused legal action from his former band mates.]</i>
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When bands like The Who, Pink Floyd, and Emerson Lake, and Palmer began giving the synthesizer a prominent role in their songs, this caused people to wonder, "what is that sound?" Other musicians may have thought, "hey that's cool, how do I get a hold of that equipment?" But it's not like your average garage band could simply walk over to guitar center and pick one up! This equipment was expensive, and were sometimes invented shortly prior to use. Inventions require not only money, but experts from various fields who probably do not work for free.
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Kraftwerk clearly had funding and a think tank behind them very early on, seemingly with the objective of PROMOTING the use of electronic equipment in music and to modernize the musical-cultural propaganda machine for new generations. This seemed to have taken a leap forward with the release of their 1975 album, and debut with EMI, "Radio-Activity." Although RH is quoted above as stating the band "got our own record company," this isn't entirely true if we consider that "their record company" was basically a satellite of the larger EMI. This could be percieved as an attempt by RH to hide the Organization backing them from public view, by claiming to be more autonomous than they actually were. [Quorthon, who I talk about in a previous blog, did the same early on by putting the label name "Black Mark" on Bathory albums, when it was actually released by his father's label, Tyfon Grammofon"].
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<i>It seemed to me as if Ralf was using the cycling conversation as a kind of verbal cloak of invisibility, so that he could talk about something without really saying anything…Now and then when we were alone, we did “talk” about how things were going. It wasn’t usually about music, more about strategy and tactics… KB
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I wake up in the morning, I brush my teeth [laughs], I go to the studio, I work, I go back home, I eat, I sleep. RH
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I wake up in the morning…then I brush my teeth [laughs]. First I read the newspaper, I go to the coffee house for breakfast, I do the daily things which people have to do. FS
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I live my life like a railway, doing exactly the same thing everyday. - RH, according to KB
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We played concerts here and there, at Universities, parties or happenings. We traveled around in a Volkswagen van, living at various friends’ houses in other cities. It was not a big organization like it is today...We were very lucky, at the time there were electronic music concerts, happenings, the Fluxus group, etc…we were engaged in the artistic world, galleries, universities, etc… - RH
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The idea was to make contemporary electronic music…We didn’t really have a strategy, we rushed into making industrial music, abandoning all our other activities from before - our education, our classical background. It was a total rupture for us. Neither then nor now did we think about the future, or about some strategy. Why would we think about the future? - RH
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We have invested in our machines, we have enough money to live, that’s it….We don’t do cola adverts, even if we might have been flattered by such proposals, we never accepted. - FS</i>
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What I get from the above are attempts by Ralf and Florian to understate the contrived nature of their group's origins. [paraphrasing] "Oh we were just lucky that there happened to be an electronic scene going on and we were just kinda there going along with it!" Also, statements like "it was not a big organization like it is today" remind me quite a bit of statements made by Quorthon to the press [again, see my blogs on the band Bathory, where he often tried to downplay Bathory's contrived nature.] These types of statements are a sort of "oh, don't look there it's not very important anyway" type of game. Or "Oh no, we didn't have a strategy at all, it all just emerged in a completely organic way! It's not like we look into the FUTURE to plan stuff or anything!"
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Everyday we hear about huge trillion dollar deficits. Yet our governments always seem to have billions and billions of dollars to spend on wars, nonsense social programs that tend to accomplish the OPPOSITE of what they state up front, and wasteful environmental measures often designed to funnel money into certain people's pockets and drain it from others. Point being, if The Organization behind Kraftwerk is/was connected to some sort of "deep state" black ops entity, there was likely never a funding issue. So when Florian seems to admirably profess his dedication to "art over profit," the truth is, he probably was never lacking for funds in his life. In other words, he never needed Coca Cola's money because he already had plenty!
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<i>The interesting thing is that both of them came from families of upper middle class. Sometimes I get the feeling that they were intellectuals from the high bourgeoisie who wanted to discover another world. - Paul Alessandrini, group friend/journalist
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Both came from wealthy families; Hutter's father was a well-off salesperson and Schneider's father, Paul Schneider-Esleben, was one of the most famous architects in post-war West Germany. - Pertti Gronholm
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The culture of Central Europe was cut off in the 30s, and many of the intellectuals went to the USA or France, or they were eliminated. We are picking it up again where it left off, continuing this culture of the 30s, and we are doing this spiritually….We want the whole world to know we are from Germany, because the German mentality, which is more advanced, will always be part of our behavior. - RH</i>
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When RH speaks of Kraftwerk's objectives, he uses the word "WE" alot. We think he means "the band," the members of Kraftwerk. But I suspect he is referring to the Organization. The think tank he is the public face of, which only masquerades as an "eccentric artist."
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<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-craft-work-of-kraftwerk-pt-ii.html">PART 2</a>
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SOURCES:
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www.nzherald.co.nz<br>
"The Sound of the Machine" by Karl Bartos<br>
"Man, Machine, Music" by Pascal Bussy<br>
"I was a Robot" by Wolfgang Flur<br>
"Kraftwerk - The Decline of the Pop Star" by Pertti Gronholm
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-9679601577137249952023-11-30T00:30:00.000-08:002023-11-30T09:53:18.787-08:00Andrew Wood: Fame and Dysfunkshun<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8tt5PrhcyghxDVaXU2Ip90yjYD47xoPnpZuCnsHspizEkJrZ7ZfRQnf4isPCGakRv1xjdh473lX72gryv102SvRULrSpCXZx9SLJjSXqpjLxLNJh_e2zyZtOP2yGeeZNqD9-xBDWU0mU2LXwJEAys0POBUVsvE3Oi-qvXhkqPX5EqrFlTejmYntv/s1324/bowie-young-americans.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1324" data-original-width="1109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8tt5PrhcyghxDVaXU2Ip90yjYD47xoPnpZuCnsHspizEkJrZ7ZfRQnf4isPCGakRv1xjdh473lX72gryv102SvRULrSpCXZx9SLJjSXqpjLxLNJh_e2zyZtOP2yGeeZNqD9-xBDWU0mU2LXwJEAys0POBUVsvE3Oi-qvXhkqPX5EqrFlTejmYntv/s400/bowie-young-americans.jpg"/></a></div>
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<i>Fame (fame) makes a man take things over<br>
Fame (fame) lets him loose hard to swallow<br>
Fame (fame) puts you there where things are hollow<br>
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Fame not your brain it's just the flame<br>
That puts your change to keep you sane (sane)<br>
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Fame (fame) what you like is in the limo<br>
Fame (fame) what you get is no tomorrow<br>
Fame (fame) what you need you have to borrow<br>
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Fame (nein) it's mine is just his line<br>
To bind our time it drives you to crime (crime)<br>
Fame (fame)<br>
Could it be the best could it be?<br>
Really be really babe<br>
Could it be my babe could it babe?<br>
Could it babe could it babe?<br>
Is it any wonder I reject you first<br>
Fame (fame) fame fame<br>
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool<br>
Fame (fame)<br>
Fame bully for you chilly for me<br>
Got to get a rain check on pain<br>
(Pain)
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What's your name?...<br>
Feeling so gay</i>
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- David Bowie, "Fame"
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I don't recall the name David Bowie coming up during Andrew Wood's interviews, but I have no doubt he was a fan. Bowie was the type of performer Andrew seemed inspired to emulate, especially given his known reverence for Elton John, Marc Bolan, and Freddy Mercury.
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The song "Fame" appears on the 1975 album, "Young Americans" - which John Lennon actually participated in the recording of. It's interesting when we consider the cynical/dark tone of the "Fame" lyrics in light of Lennon's involvement. Lennon was perhaps the first modern pop icon that went out of his way to subvert people's idea of what a "famous person" is and how they aught to be regarded. The commentary within the tune has the feel of Lennon's views (at the time) of the "industry," if not his direct hand/voice.
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<i>Fame (fame) what you get is no tomorrow<br>
Fame (fame) what you need you have to borrow<br></i>
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I suppose Bowie is saying that Fame can be fleeting, although this is ironic coming from a guy who enjoyed pop-star status for generations! But "no tomorrow" can also refer to death. How many pop icons and rock stars were exalted far above their status as "living beings" post-mortem? Jim Morrison, Elvis, Kurt Cobain, and probably Bowie as well - all likely have more fans today than they ever had living. The same could most certainly be said of Andrew Wood. What is this dark connection between fame and death?
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<b>PART 1: THEY DIE YOUNG</b>
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If we look at "the big 4" of early 90s Seattle Grunge Rock, all 4 bands involve singers that are now deceased! I'm talking about Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam. But wait, nobody in Pearl Jam died, so what am I talking about?
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According to Jeff Ament, it was his sending out of demos to various individuals that lead to Mother Love Bone's 1990 major label deal. Andrew Wood died on March 19th of 1990 and their album was released exactly 4 months later on July 19th. Within a year, Ament and Gossard had already formed 2 bands - Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog - both of whom released albums in 1991. While the latter seemed to be largely driven by Wood's friend and former roomate Chris Cornell, Pearl Jam was obviously built upon the momentum created by Mother Love Bone - even utilizing the same management. So in a sense, to put it rather grimmly, his death created Pearl Jam.
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Andrew Wood has the unfortunate distinction of being the first high profile casualty of the 90s Seattle Grunge movement. I say this with appreciation of the fact that Andrew probably didn't identify with the "grunge" tag very much, but took it with a healthy sense of humor like many of his peers did. It's mostly out of convenience that I use the term here, whether it accurately describes the music or not.
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Although I've been a casual Mother Love Bone fan since the early 90s, it wasn't until the past few years that I grew to appreciate their music and their enigmatic singer more fully. Probably like most of you reading this, I always assumed Andrew's tragic death was just another case of a talented young musician who couldn't tame his demons. But during the process of re-discovering his music, my curiosity grew regarding the details surrounding his death. Especially given how many of his peers have dropped dead since, and the murky details that usually went along with them.
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Although I'd like to use official documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests as source materials here, the process to obtain such materials has proven more challenging than in other cases [such as the Dimebag Darrell or Chris Cornell blogs I have done]. I will get into the mundane details regarding that later, but for now let me just say that the 2005 documentary "Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story" is probably the best resource the general public has [a book by Scot Barbour seems to be in the works as I type this]. As far as I know it is the only official documentary on the topic, written or otherwise, which was produced in cooperation with the Wood family and former friends/bandmates.
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<b>PART 2: DYSFUNKSHUN</b>
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<i>"We did alot of drinking. Dave and I. Alot of drinking and fighting and screaming…both physically and emotionally. And that’s what they saw. So that was love…Andy thought love had to hurt…I’m just now learning that it doesn’t have to hurt, it’s not supposed to hurt at all!" - Toni Wood [Mother]</i>
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The first striking thing I noticed about Andrew's mother Toni, is that she seems to have his same animated, somewhat child-like sort of demeanor. She also tends to play to the camera to the point you may start to wonder how much of it is authentic and how much is acting.
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<i>[Toni and Dave Wood]</i>
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<i>“My dad was fucked up [laughs] laying on the ground or something!” - Brian Wood</i>
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In the film, Andrew's brother Brian tells a disturbing story about how the Wood family went out on a boat ride once when the 3 brothers were kids. It ended with them getting all tangled up in other boat's lines and with Dad [Dave] passed out drunk on the floor of the boat. Although Brian laughs and makes humor out of it, it's really not too funny. Laughter is obviously Brian's coping mechanism, as it is for many of us who live through traumatic experiences as children. Better to laugh than cry after all! Brian then gets into brief heartbreaking details of being homeless for a few years later in life.
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According to Toni, young Andrew sort of instinctually became the cheerer-upper in this dysfunctional family. His entertaining persona was probably built there initially. And while it's endearing to picture little Andrew bringing smiles and joy to his "screwed up" family, it's also very sad. It seemed to become his "responsibility" to make everyone in the room feel good, and probably robbed him of a normal nurturing childhood - which his mother clearly laments in the film. It's easy to see how Andrew latched onto drugs so early in life, especially with the accessability on the streets.
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<i>"People seemed to think it meant all sorts of things from penis to female clitorises. Your mother loves your bone and all this incest…"</i>
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I never gave the band name "Mother Love Bone" much thought before researching for this blog, it just seemed like an appropriately humorous/ambiguous stream-of-consciousness sort of title to me. Much like Ultramega Ok or Badmotorfinger or Down on the Upside [Soundgarden titles]. Even the name "Pearl Jam" has that slightly goofy, abstract wink that sorta says "we know what it means and you don't!"
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Clearly Andrew was bothered by some people's choice to associate incest with the name Mother Love Bone ["bone" being likened metaphorically to "penis"]. But would Andrew have been as bothered if there wasn't a plausable logic to this interpretation? I'm not saying he intended to suggest incest with the title, but I AM saying that its' ambiguous nature allows for that possible translation, whether intended or not. I mean, if they stuck with the name "Lords of the Wasteland" would anyone be drawing incest from that? Obviously not. And if they did, it'd be much easier to shrug off without a 2nd thought.
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Andrew's rehab therapist concluded that he often used humor to avoid addressing his insecurities, but that his knowledge of these insecurities was apparent in the lyrics he wrote. Great lyrics are really no different than great poetry. The words are often up to interpretation, and can even contain meanings the author him/herself did not necessarily intend. Could it be that incest was perhaps a "freudian slip" contained in the name Mother Love Bone? Believe me, it's not an interpretation I LIKE to entertain, but Andrew brought it up in the interview and now it's got me wondering.
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<i>"He would wear his mom's panties and he would fuckin tell you about that!" - Friend of Andrew</i>
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I believe Andrew's flamboyant/exhibitionist personality was largely influenced by some sort of abuse he suffered, which I will not elaborate upon because I can only conjecture as to what it was. But with parents getting black out drunk and violent around the kids regularly, one can imagine any number of scenarios in which young Andrew and his brothers suffered all types of abuse and probably irreparable damage.
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<b>PART 3: MR FADED GLORY</b>
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Xana LaFuente was apparently "picked out" by Andrew's friend and drummer from Malfunkshun, Regan Hagar. The story is quite endearing, and has a sort of magical fairy tale quality to it. Andrew gets out of rehab, and he is brought to a thrift store where he is to court an employee there who was picked out for him. They follow her as she leaves the store and at some point Andrew approaches her as if it was destiny. They immediately become a couple and are both living with Chris Cornell shortly thereafter.
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There are a couple of things that I find a little strange about the above. First off, no other women are mentioned anywhere in Andrew's life outside of his mother. I would think he had lots of them around and maybe he did, but only 1 made the history books? Also, the manner in which Andrew met Xana was essentially "arranged." Obviously they were both into it, but odd nonetheless. Why did a guy as popular, magnetic, and exotically attractive as Andrew need to be charitably "hooked up" by a friend?
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Xana [Xena?] was "a head taller than him" and apparently beat him up regularly. They are both said to have sported bruises in public, presumably from their "rough love." This makes me think of Toni's comment that "Andy thought love had to hurt." Did he simply replace that same "love" [abuse] with his potential love interest(s)?
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All parties interviewed seem to agree that nobody was aware of the severity of Andrew's drug problem, except Xana - whom Andrew painfully confided in [according to her]. The picture we get is of a bawling, self loathing Andrew begging Xana to help him kick his habit, and others ignoring her plea to pay attention and take note. Everyone else was most concerned about keeping the Mother Love Bone ship moving and following through on this major label rock star path set before them. And I think the guilt carried by his former band mates is palpable in their vacant stares. I'm not judging them, just putting this down for the big picture view here.
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According to Xana, she came home late one night and found Andrew unconscious in their apartment, apparently having overdosed.
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<i>"He was fine, he was breathing heavy. He was just in a heavy unconscious sleep…What’s weird is that by the time the paramedics came, they like did all of this stuff to him and then all of a sudden it was like well we’re gonna have to pronounce him dead. And I signed the papers where they pronounced him dead...And [later] I went to Harborview [hospital] and he was alive again…" - Xana</i>
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I've heard of people who were revived after being "dead" for a few minutes. In fact, I think Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue has such a story in his book. But it doesn't sound like Xana observed him "dying" even temporarily, it sounds like he was in a heavily doped up slumber. Seems like we are missing something here.
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Let's look at the timeline of events as presented in the film...
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<i>Friday 3.16.90:<br>
10:10pm: Xana calls 911<br>
10:34pm: Patient REVIVED and placed on respirator</i>
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To "revive" means to "restore to life or consciousness." Where are these documents Xana signed pronouncing Andrew "dead" less than half an hour before this?
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<i>Sat 3.17.90 <br>
12:40am: patient admitted to trauma intensive care<br>
8:00am: Patient improving, CT scan shows brain swelling<br>
8:00pm: Patient’s breathing improves, condition hopeful. </i>
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It doesn't sound like Andrew is conscious at this point, but hard to tell conclusively from these notes.
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<i>Sunday 3.18.90 <br>
8:00am Blood pressure stabilized, pupils reactive. <br>
2:00pm Removed from paralysis medications, patient restless. </i>
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I'm not sure why paralysis medication was needed, but it would be good to have more information on everything administered to him and how much, for the obvious reason that these could have potentially contributed to his death - and the hospital would of course want to cover their own asses if that was the case. I'm not sure how to translate "patient restless" if he was unconscious still. I assume he was moving around a lot or twitching?
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<i>More than 10 hours of nurses notes missing from hospital records.</i>
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Now what is this all about? This was the detail that caused me to realize I would need to obtain some official documents. But hospital records are generally reserved ONLY for immediately family or those authorized by them. However, sometimes these become part of the investigative report - which is generally public record at some point. But was an investigation even conducted here? I don't think so.
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<i>Monday 3.19.90 <br>
11:20am: Patient unresponsive, no reflex, no signs of brain function<br>
3:15pm: Removed from life support. </i>
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I don't doubt that a legitamate overdose death may have occured here, but there is just not enough information to rule out the possibility that other factors may have been at play, especially during those 10 hours of "missing hospital records!"
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<b>PART 4: MUNDANE DETAILS</b>
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And now we come to the mundane details regarding my search for documents. In episode 8 of my "Off the Cuff" video series [found <a href="https://rumble.com/v3uqsxc-off-the-cuff-ep8-foia-how-to.html">HERE</a>] I briefly documented my attempt to get information through the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] request system. I got nothing from the King County Sheriff's department, but I was provided with a link to https://digitalarchives.wa.gov, which is where I found the above death certificate - so there is no reason to think it is not official.
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Seattle Sheriff's Dept also suggested I contact the Seattle Police Department, which I did and found that I had already done so in 2021! Here is the message I got from them:
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<i>Our Records Management System Analyst was able to locate the incident described in your request, 1990-106895. However, this case file is past retention, and was not retained, and is therefore no longer available. As a courtesy, we have provided the Records Management System summary of the incident. It is available for you to download.
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Our Analyst was also able to determine from the summary that it appears SPD sent Mr. Wood to detox. We suggest that you file a request with the Medical Examiner's Office for more information/details.
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The requested record 02-549050 meets the statutory definition of public records, and as such, they are required to be maintained and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of 40.14 RCW. The record was destroyed prior to receipt of your request pursuant to the Secretary of State approved Record Retention Schedule, RCW 40.14.060.
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Explanation: Agencies may destroy records in compliance with appropriate records retention requirements. See, BIAW v. McCarthy, 152 Wn. App. 720, 218 P. 3d 196 (2009); see also, Daines v. Spokane Co., 111 Wn. App. 342, 44 P.3d 909 (2002) (holding that there is no private right of action under RCW 40.14). </i>
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As you can see, the records I was seeking were either destroyed or are otherwise not available to the general public. That is the reason I initally back-burnered this blog because I was hoping to eventually obtain information elsewhere. But what you see on this page is all I could dig up so far. From what I can tell, a proper police investigation was never conducted because, I assume, it was never questioned whether Andrew Wood died as a result of overdosing himself.
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Andrew had a substance abuse problem, without doubt! And he may very well have overdosed in a tragic moment of self-sabotage. But perhaps if a proper investigation was conducted, we'd have a different view of this event. Was Xana and Andrew's apartment ever examined for signs of foul play? Did anyone bother to confirm whether Xana was actually working that night and whether she really did drive some people 20 miles out of her way, causing her to arrive home too late? Has anyone tried to find out what occured during those 10 hours of missing hospital notes? Has anyone checked to see who all visited Andrew there and how long he may have been left unattended? Were all procedures carried out properly and ethically by the hospital? I don't claim that there aren't good answers to all of these questions consistent with the current narrative, and maybe some of you know something I don't. But until I get those answers I don't see how one can be sure there was no foul play involved here because I see plenty of opportunities for it and a potential motive, which I will get into at the end of this.
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While the Death Certificate indicates "Acute Opiate Intoxication" as the secondary cause of death, the primary cause of death was "Hypoxic Encephalothopy." I don't know anything about the latter, except that it seems to occur in infants at birth sometimes. Has anyone looked into the frequency of a heroin overdose leading to such a condition? Has it occured to anyone to explore whether "Hypoxic Encephalothopy" could have been caused by improper use of a respirator or other measures taken while Wood was in the hospital?
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Let's not forget that he was presumed dead by paramedics, according to Xana, before being revived at the hospital. And let's also not forget that his condition appeared to only improve up until just after that 10 hour "black out" in the hospital's records. There is good reason to investigate this death further, and I don't believe it was ever done at all as I stated earlier. Not all investigations yield information we expect, but the purpose of them is to arrive at the truth of what occured, not to confirm or deny details me or you PREFER. But not performing an investigation at all when certain key details are murky certainly isn't going to tell the whole story, and may even allow flasehoods to be accepted as truth.
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If we view MLB from the perspective of someone like Michael Goldstone, who signed the band and who now works for Q-Prime, Andrew's drug issues would be regarded as a potential liability for the newly annointed group. These industry types do not invest money into a band just out of good will or to "support the arts." They expect a return, and when we consider how quickly and efficiently Andrew left this world and how Pearl Jam seemed to rocket to fame in their place, I just wonder if a certain "business decision" may have played a part in Andrew's death. A decision the band members themselves may or may not necesarilly have been aware of.
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SOURCES: <br>
Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story<br>
Seattle Police Records Department<br>
Seattle Sheriff Records Department<br>
digitalarchives.wa.gov<br>
Wikipedia
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<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2019/02/chris-cornell-suicide-without-motive-pt.html">THE DEATH OF CHRIS CORNELL PT 3</a>
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<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2021/12/hippies-grunge-mindcrimes-pt-i.html">Acid, Music, Mindcrime</a>Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-42338003414140209082023-09-07T08:51:00.003-07:002023-09-08T19:38:58.779-07:00The Real SGT Pepper: PT 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWK_LptKYnvqLR3CwfZkkd_hGgaxaOnbPtrSo3XgYjLOFBRiMqcwaFbaoTR9qdBFTs64e8vqHiZIClOR34QfcUzGi7TUPGOvQW7a4DeiS93lu8_svJxyA6m7KabymDKSAdLN0ZdvJaA-7ZOa7aPWJrXFAVhlbHFAvK7Eli8Gm6ooI147txGMjBsj9v/s589/EUhX3oWXkAECSSm.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="589" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWK_LptKYnvqLR3CwfZkkd_hGgaxaOnbPtrSo3XgYjLOFBRiMqcwaFbaoTR9qdBFTs64e8vqHiZIClOR34QfcUzGi7TUPGOvQW7a4DeiS93lu8_svJxyA6m7KabymDKSAdLN0ZdvJaA-7ZOa7aPWJrXFAVhlbHFAvK7Eli8Gm6ooI147txGMjBsj9v/s400/EUhX3oWXkAECSSm.jpg"/></a></div>
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<i>Everything exposed in this book to prove my identity is true and historically verifiable. I have added some fictionalization to establish that this book is a work of fiction if I ever have to prove in court that it is a novel…Since novels are fiction, this book does not break the nondisclosure agreement or vows of silence. ..A trial involving this material would last years longer than Paul tells me I have left…I want the world to know me before I am gone. I want you to know who I am. The world does not know me except for my role as Paul...All of our official stories are just that. Do not trust them. The real truths are presented in fiction, such as in this so-called novel…Look to this fiction for fact, and to my fact for fiction. - The Memiores of Billy Shears</i>
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In <a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-real-sgt-pepper-pt-1.html">PART 1</a> we took a close look at occult symbolism and themes within the album art/photography for The Beatle's 1967 album "SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" [SPLHCB]. The majority of the information presented here was lifted from the book "The Memiores of Billy Shears," [TMOBS] which was first published on 09.09.09 [Sept 9, 2009]. My particular copy is the revised 2023 version. Within this "novel," William Shepherd [aka Billy Shears aka SGT Pepper] claims he REPLACED Paul McCartney in 1966, and has been playing that "role" ever since. For more on this, read <a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-real-sgt-pepper-pt-1.html">PART 1</a>
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<b>WARNING: As I stated in part 1, TMOBS is a work of black magic. So what good is there in exploring its' contents? The purpose here is to extract what it can reveal to us about the inner workings of a very effective, and very old social engineering machine. In the process, we are continually fed suggestions on various "spiritual" exercises and concepts. I would advise the reader to vigilantly recognize and reject the latter. For a better perspective on this particular aspect of the book, visit www.sageofquay.com for a layman's examination of Crowley's Thelema and how it connects with the book's New Age themes.</b>
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One of the most compelling aspects of TMOBS is the sheer abundance of "Paul is Dead" clues it points out, littered all over the place and bleeding right into the work of other artists contemporary with the Beatles, such as the Rolling Stones, the Who, and Donavan. Although we will continue to focus upon SPLHCB here, digressions are unavoidable given the multi-layered far reaching concepts presented one after the other. It is important to step back often and try to see the "big picture" here in order to appreciate the "smaller" details and how everything fits together into a giant mosaic. Again, what we are ultimately trying to expose here is the mental mechanics by which people are manipulated and controlled - so that they might recognize their own enslavement and one day know true freedom.
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[Hand drawing supposedly done by John Lennon, depicting the "Beast" representing the Beatles.]
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[Exerpts from TMOBS will be roughly quoted where italics is used.]
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<i>You can learn how to play the game, it’s easy [from "All you need is love"]. The game we play alludes to the [SPLHCB album] cover where “LOVE” represents the knight, Queen, Bishop, and Rook. It’s easy unless you need a king, he’s dead...Letters above Lennon’s “beast” drawing says “love,” corresponding with our hands on Pepper’s back cover. Envision my “o” filling in the gap of the word “love.” Those letters correspond with the pieces we represent on the chessboard. Queen moves all around, represented by Paul’s “o”. John’s V is bishop, also pointing into his pants. Ringo is the rook (e) hat is flat like a castle. George’s hat suggests horse riding/knight. And as a knight wearing a little box says to Alice [in Wonderland], “you’re admiring my little box.” Now George wears one. And at their right, disposable wax pawns. No king among them [the "new" Beatles] = the king is dead. Checkmate, and that is why John wrote it below his picture...As in chess, I could learn to be the queen filling in for the checkmated king. </i>
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[The Rolling Stones released "Their Satanic Magesties Request" about 7 months after the Beatles released SPLHCB, seemingly in response to it.]
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<i>We, the good guys, showed our Crowley affiliation with his picture on Pepper’s, but did not explain his Illuminati connection. The Stones had the opposite image to sell. They were more blatantly satanic. </i>
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As mentioned in part 1, the Beatles were originally presented as mostly "clean cut" and "nice," while the Rolling Stones were a sort of "bad boy" counterpart to them. The "wax" depiction of the "old" Beatles shown on the cover of SPLHCB represents that era, which died with Paul. The "new" Beatles are presented on SGT Pepper with Billy as their leader. So the idea is that the Beatles have now taken on the more "evil" persona previously held by the Stones, who are now "the good guys" [as written upon the Shirley Temple doll's shirt, who wears Ruby red slippers]. But the funny thing is, the Stones did not tone down at all after this! So perhaps the more accurate interpretation here is that of a "leap-frog" in conceptual direction - where the Beatles would "one-up" the Stones, daring them to go still further. This, in turn, brings the fans with them deeper into the conceptual "abyss."
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In part 1 we learned of a "game" where one draws a straight line from the face of a person on the cover of SPLHCB, through Paul/Billy's heart, to see where it leads. In the case of Crowley, it seems to lead right to Shirley Temple, and all of the concepts representing Paul's bloody death in a car crash - which we also covered in part 1. A connection is being made between Crowley's influence and this incident. I don't want to extrapolate much more than that here, but this seems to hint what forces were at work.
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<i>I am what people would commonly explain as being “possessed” by Paul...When I did SPLHCB it was obviously not Paul’s style. I am revealing a lot about my private self in hopes that before I cross over back to Linda, I can pull myself back together to be not 2 Pauls but one William...It [my Beatles career] had a downside for me. It isolated me from friends and relations. I became the lonely Sgt Pepper wanting to get back home., a nowhere man fool on the hill, one of the lost and miserably lonely people that we described in our songs...These tears from hurting lonely hearts were shed by Paul’s family, friends, Jane Asher, bandmates, me, and others. In my life as William, I was not as successful. Still, it was my life. You may be rather surprised to discover how much that matters. I WAS...The earlier roles I played [such as Vivian Stanshall] did not take over [as the Paul role did]. </i>
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[Family tree I found on a Rumble video, showing a possible link from Aleister Crowley to William "Billy Shears" Shepherd]
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<b>SONG LYRICS</b>
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"It was twenty years ago today, SGT Pepper taught the band to play" - SGT Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
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<i>That is PART of why I wrote “It was twenty years ago today, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play.” Until I made that song about MY band, the album had no focused concept. When I sing “the teachers that taught me weren’t cool” I was singing about old school days but also more specifically recent Beatle-craft schooling…</i>
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Aleister Crowley died on December 1st, 1947. The Beatle's SPLHCB album was released in 1967, twenty years later. Given that Aleister Crowley is pictured on the album cover, this is probably something worth considering. Are they saying that Crowley influenced them? Billy backs this up in TMOBS by heavily hinting that he is not just steeped deeply into Crowley's occult religion [Thelema], but may even be related to him somehow. According to Mike Williams [sageofquay.com] Thelema IS the religion of the New World Order. Crowley's presence is on the album - if not directly operating THROUGH William "Billy Shears" Shepherd. Perhaps this "Beatle-craft schooling" [The Craft = Freemasonry] is a subtle reference to the teachings of Thelema, within the Beatles.
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<i>“Let me introduce to you, the one and only Billy Shears”…That’s to tell you that Billy is Sgt Pepper and the Beatles is now his band. On the cover we contrast the old drag fab 4 with the new. Bill or Billy are my nicknames. William, Will, Billy, or Bill…. </i>
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[A Google search will typically designate Ringo as being the Billy Shears character introduced in the song "SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," simply because he sings the 2nd track - which is presumably sung from the perspective of Billy.]
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WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
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<i>Everyone sang better than Ringo. He was the junior member. It made sense for Ringo to play the role of the insecure newcomer who is a bit apprehensive about singing out of tune…Had they [the audience] known to listen for changes in Paul, they would have understood the song’s meaning too soon. That is why Ringo sang as if he were I...They tie it in [on the track "I'm the Greatest"] by Ringo singing “Yes, my name is Billy Shears. You know it has been for many years.” Making my debut as Billy Shears, through Ringo, I asked for, and got by with, help from my friends. </i>
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<i>“With a little Help” answers the question from Don [Donavan], “Over Dusty Years I ask you, what it’s been like being you?” I imagined the world asking that. Using Ringo’s voice I answer (because it is less polished) I answer Donavan as if in interview. Ringo gives answers as I would. “What do I do when my love is away?” I missed her terribly. I need her help to do this work, but that doesn’t fit the song. “Are you sad because you’re on your own?” No (that is a lie, I was in denial).</i>
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It's worth noting here that a film called "SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" came out in 1978, which starred Peter Frampton as Billy Shears and Billy Preston as Sargeant Pepper.
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<i>I pinched a line from him [William Shakespeare] for “With a little help from my Friends.” As if the press asks how it feels to be the new Paul, the song flows like an interview. Same with “Baby you’re a Rich Man.” The first of these uses “lend me your ears”…those words come from the play Julius Caesar...I allude to this speech to establish the SGT Pepper scene. - Mark Antony standing over Ceasar’s corpse to share words for burial, a funeral oration. Shocked Romans gather for Caesar as each of the Pepper’s mass gathers for Paul...inserting Paul’s name where Shakespeare penned Caesar…” I come to bury Paul, not praise him...So let it be with Paul.” Antony’s negative speech triggers a resistance…if I were to speak negatively of Paul, saying that he was some Satan worshipper, most readers would angrily resist it. Going too far causes others to push back. That was what Antony intended for Caesar. </i>
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<i>BBC banned “With a little Help.” With that same concern [pro drug references], BBC banned "Fixing a Hole," "Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds," and "A Day in the Life." As premeditated, the cooperating media helped the world contemplate government trying to block the Beatles from encouraging drug use. Fans sided with the band, objecting to those who would block it. Many people tried drugs because of that celebrity [Beatles] endorsement. Publicity from the ban boosted album sales. Millions of people suddenly opposed those who opposed drugs. It turned fans against their governments. William recycled “I get High” from “ I wanna hold your hand.” (Which had a light overdub “I can’t Hide”)</i>
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LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS
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<i>Paul first promoted LSD in Life Magazine, June 1967 - a month after “unveiling” SPLHCB…The album, especially with "Lucy in the Sky," was the new door to a psychedelic parallel universe. </i>
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[Lucy O'Donnell - supposedly the girl Julian Lennon drew as a child, inspiring his father to write "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."]
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[The alleged picture drawing Julian Lennon drew inspiring his father to write "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."]
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<i>After reading [Lewis] Carrol, John has “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.” She’s “the girl with the sun in her eyes.” Don [Donavan] thought of needing special eyes to see me…that girl paralleled Paul. We cannot discern enough with our programmed vision. We need help, or altered eyes, to see the truth...</i>
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<i>Julian [Lennon] drew his nursery school classmate Lucy O’donnell "in the sky with diamonds"…We built the song around Alice [in Wonderland] as if high on LSD….Lucifer the light bearer. Pretend you are Adam and Eve in the garden paradise partaking of the forbidden fruit. [The song] Connects this with Bavarian Illuminati, Gnosis. The main message is that psychedelics facilitate higher consciousness…we were conveying through images of Lewis Carroll. Many Paul codes could only be broken by reading Carroll…[makes reference to John's "Beatle Beast" drawing we looked at earlier] think of John singing L.S.D. to remember he is “diamonds.”</i>
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Note how the above asks the reader to pretend you are Adam and Eve "partaking of the forbidden fruit." He's making it very clear that the point here was to encourage sin and blasphemy, without stating it outright. He then sort of brands it with the phrase "psychedelics facilitate higher consciousness." Now ask yourself why Sir Paul McCartney, if he is indeed behind TMOBS, would inject so much blatant blasphemy into his big "disclosure novel" and depict the Beatles themselves as a sort of LEADER in blasphemic propaganda? Would Sir Paul McCartney even ALLOW someone to blasphemy like this in a novel, claiming to do so in HIS name? 666 pages of Paul McCartney lore, hundreds of thousands of copies sold worldwide, and no legal action from Sir Paul McCartney in over 13+ years of publication?
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GETTING BETTER
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<i>Donavan, one of Paul’s friends who expected the replacement [of Paul], was eager to meet [the new] Paul...Called him “D.O.P.” (Duplicate of Paul) which Billy did not like. Sounded like “Dope”. I corrected him with “D.I.P.” (Duplicate In Paul). He said “DIP. So, you’re the big dip? That’s wild!” DIP evolved into “Dead In Paul.” Don comforted me with his “Epistle to Dippy.” December 1966…[while] we were working on Sgt Pepper’s, Donavan recorded “Epistle to Dippy..” He sang that I am “Getting a little bit better no doubt.” I replied yes, “I admit it’s getting better. A little better all the time.” It (his song) was about me and Paul. I sing “it’s getting better” then John sings “It can’t get no worse.” Besides agreeing with Don in the lines “I have to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time.” I sing backwards: After all, Paul is dead. He lost his hairs, head.” Ringo used it later : “You were in a car crash, and you lost your hair.” (From “Don’t pass me by”) If you play Donavan’s “Dippy Epistle” and then “Sgt Peppers” then back to Dippy again, you would likely notice we pinched ideas and content, but also in tone.</i>
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<i>Much Be-etter! Be-etter! Be-e-e-etter! (Lewis Carrol) “It’s getting better all the time (better better better)…”Then you can start to make it better better better better (Hey Jude)</i>
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These references to Paul "losing his hair," from the perspective of TMOBS, have to do with the idea that Paul's head was badly damaged during the alleged "car accident" which took his life. TMOBS is filled with puns, some of which are shockingly graphic, making light of the gory mess created when Paul's head was traumatized upon his death. I'm not exactly sure what to make of this gruesome sarcasm. Is it mocking the reader for believing any of it? Does it simply demonstrate Billy's warped/desensitized sense of humor, having endured so much trauma himself?
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FIXING A HOLE
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<i>My left handed writing is not natural enough to look right. But even “if I’m wrong [left], I’m right where I belong” (“Fixing a Hole”) I’m saying, “even if I’m the wrong guy, this is where I belong.”...Crowley said “say two things at once"...The lyrics ensure we hear the “correct” thing, without acknowledging the “wrong” thing…”On “Fixing a Hole” hear “Beatle” instead of “People.” I subtly reference the wax Beatles…made by Madame Tussaud’s [wax museum] “See the Beatles standing there” I mean the dead wax effigies. “See the people standing there” refers to the crowd we made behind us. John describes some members of the crowd standing in a row in “I am the Walrus”. </i>
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SHE'S LEAVING HOME
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<i>After waiting almost an hour to talk to the man about repairing Paul’s car, I was anxious to have the car rebuilt but was late for our meeting with John. “She’s leaving home” ends almost about that hour “Friday morning at 9 o’clock she’s far away…the point is to understand that she is truly gone…Paul was slain “that morning at 5 o’clock as the day begins”…figuratively, the sacrificial lamb lost its fleece at dawn, less than an hour before sunrise. George points to the time on the back of Sgt Peppers later when he sings "caressers fleeced you in the morning light/casualties at dawn" [from the song "When We Was Fab"]</i>
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Note that Billy states above that "Paul was slain..." and goes on to compare him to a figurative "sacraficial lamb." Was his death REALLY an "accident," or is more being hinted at here? Recall an earlier quote where Billy said that simply announcing to the world that Paul was a "Satan worshipper" would have provoked resistance from the public.
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<i>Reading the back [album] cover…notice “love” spelled with our hands, but you cannot see my letter “o” because I am turned around...[someone] Left a hole in the Beatles love that I must fix, along with the hole in Paul’s head. Some fans knew it was not Paul’s back - Billy’s back. Paul came back as Billy.</i>
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WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU
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<i>George posits that in exchange for the world, my soul was sold as one of those “who gain the world and lose their soul.” He knowingly asks if I am “one of them.”</i>
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<i>George wrote it. It was his advice and warning to me. Many others had tried to turn me into Paul, George told us it had to come from within me, and not in every outward aspect. He said I'm one of the people who hides behind a wall of illusion. “Try to realize it’s all within yourself. No one else can make you change.” …(George said) I should care more about love than about playing and posing as Paul. John understood, and reminded me from time to time. That idea formed the foundation of “All you need is Love.” We were talking about the space between us all…making us subject and object rather than being fully perceived as one. I symbolize the empty space on the back of Sgt Pepper when we spelled LOVE with our fingers, except that Paul was dead and concealed - my fingers were not showing. I…secretly made an "O" with my hands, while I was standing in for Paul. Only those who saw the false Paul (Faul) could see the meaning...he sang “I’m looking through you. You’re not the same.” To see the “O” you had to look through me. On another level, George was saying that all life energy goes on. That intelligence is inside and outside of us. Life energy flows on within us and without us, meaning inside and out, here, there, and everywhere. These words from George in this song were his very best and are fairly close to what he said when we were talking about it before he wrote the song...</i>
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["Big brother is watching you..." - George Harrison, from the Dick Cavett show 1971]
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WHEN I'M 64
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<i>George, Ringo and I met for the first time…I was at the piano…we got things going with “When I’m 64,” a song Paul had written and enjoyed. It was the first song recorded that ended up on that album. [the] First song for which I sang lead…Jim Mccartney [Paul's father] was not 64 until 7 July 1966, 66 days before Paul died. Entering EMI alone on 8 December, I became nervous, concerned my voice was obviously lower than Paul’s. I told him [George Martin] that I would sound more like Paul if we sped up the track. The master take had been in C Major but we sped it up to Db major [C#]…My new Paul Polish made it more Paulish. </i>
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I can remember listening to this song as a child and noticing that the pitch had a peculiar quality. Now, all these years later, I decided to slow the vinyl record down to the key Billy claims it was actually recorded in. Low and behold, it sounds much more "normal" and I have no doubt this raising of the pitch was done intentionally as Billy claims. This reminds me of a blog I did about Black Sabbath some time ago, where I noted that the entire "Paranoid" album is not in E Standard tuning, but a slightly raised one - which I concluded was the result of the entire album being slightly sped up.
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SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (REPRISE)
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<i>“SGT Pepper’s Lonely” during "reprise" covers fake back masked message: “It was a fake mustache” which ties our cutout disguises to our facades.</i>
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These "back masked" messages are explained by Billy to be backwards messages, which can only be heard by playing the music in reverse. This "fake mustache" one is easy to find on youtube, or you can reverse it yourself. Digital music is fairly easy to reverse these days through various applications, but I just used my physical vinyl LP. And yeah, it's there.
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<i>We would play our vocal tracks backwards and listen for any sounds that resembled utterances that we wanted. Our hidden messages were always about Paul. Multi layered tracks going forward provided another way to conceal our Paul messages. In that closing line after “hearts” I shout “Paul is dead!” After “club” I shout “Really dead!” You hear it subconsciously. After a little bit more I shout “we’re the band, the greatest band of all time” then on the final chord “Sgt Pepper’s Band!” So faint, may not hear to at all. </i>
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<i>On the Sgt Pepper’s cutout the largest letters say SGT PEPPER’S BAND. These are to tell you Paul died and John gave me the band to keep it going.</i>
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LOVELY RITA/A DAY IN THE LIFE
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[Tara Browne (4 March 1945 – 18 December 1966) was a London-based Irish socialite and heir to the Guinness fortune. His December 1966 death in a car crash was an inspiration for the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life"...Browne induced his friend Paul McCartney's first LSD trip in 1966, at Browne's home in Belgravia - wiki]
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<i>I liked the “Rita Meter Maid” sound. John added “ahhh Paul” at :21-:23 to clarify the song’s subject and “you’d better believe it” at the end…she [Rita] was a young hitchhiker who, in this book, is Donna. The fiction is that Paul could not keep his eyes off of her. “He didn’t notice that the lights had changed.” The “Death Cab” [for Cutie] lyrics are similar to those by John’s [song]. “The traffic lights changed from green to red…they both wound up dead.” Comparing lyrics: “Someone’s gonna make you pay your fair share” to “got the bill and Rita paid it.” The Beatles got the BILL [me], costing the lives of Paul and Rita [star crazed Donna] They both paid the fare for that fateful ride into the new Beatles phase. Borrowing details from Tara Browne’s death, John said Paul ran a red light - to instill the idea that Paul died in a crash without giving details. </i>
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If you recall from part 1, we noted that part of the "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theory involves Paul dying in a car accident while riding with a passanger named Donna. But is that entire story a cover for something much more sinister which the book reveals in code here and other places? "to INSTILL the idea that Paul died in a crash" certainly leaves doubt as to whether he actually did. Was he killed in some other manner and then made to have an "accident?"
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<i>It’s [The Beatle “Beast's”] power and fame came because of the great miracle that deceived the whole world. For after the head of the man was wounded unto death (for “he blew his mind out in a car), the beast made it well again, according to the eyes of the world. </i>
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<i>In “A Day in the Life” following the “say two things at once” idea from Aleister Crowley, we blended the word “Paul” with “Lord.” “Nobody was really sure if he was from the house of Paul.” I shall be known as “Lord Paul.” (99 in simple Gematria) George calls Paul “Lord Krishna.” ..In Ringo’s song “Don’t Pass me By” he says he is sorry he doubted Paul’s death dreams [premonitions of his own death] “I’m sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair, you were in a car crash, and you lost your hair.” Similar to “he blew his mind out in a car” and “here comes old flat top.” John doubted which is why he had to laugh at the photograph. John became horrifically hysterical…"A Day in the Life" has sounds of backwards car crashes. </i>
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<i>….I sought for each of us to include our heroes [on the cover of SPLHCB], or legends who were significant to our dead-Paul theme. Crowley was not the biblical beast but was someone whose influence supported the agenda. Hitler, though tied to the same agenda, was alive. John invited him to our simulated funeral…if Hitler had died, he would have met Paul on the other side…John tried to assert an alpha role by refusing to take Hitler off the cover. George Martin urged him to bend on this one. Although he did not care who supported Hitler, he did care about profit. EMI vetoed Hitler’s depiction…Descretion prevailed over disclosing EMI’s Nazi affiliation…Martin had to hire mostly ex-Nazis from Germany to play for our recording sessions. Many ex-Nazis [or Nazis still] were on EMI’s payroll. He [John] was glad he was overruled on that one, but still resented his lack of influence on the cover. Album cover is credited to Peter Blake, however I was the one who told him exactly what I wanted. </i>
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There is a lot to unpack in the above quote, but I will leave it up to the reader to explore further. What I will comment upon is the fact that British Record Label giant EMI has come up on my radar often lately. Particularly when I did the blog on the band Queensryche and noticed a curiously strong British/3rd Reich influence there, at least in the beginning. EMI will be featured more prominently in some of my future blogs.
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THE ROLLING STONES CONNECTION
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["Flowers" was released on June 26, 1967 - exactly one month after SPLHCB, which came out May 26, 1967.]
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<i>Their [Stones] “Between the Buttons” album was started the month before Paul died. They then reworked the lyrics to make Paul songs. Having those songs on the Stones album made us even more bold to include Paul clues on SPLHCB, which was released about 5 months later. They played “Paint it Black” on Ed Sullivan on 9.11.66 [in grieving] They were skeptical of me taking Paul’s part. That changed with SPLHCB. They all confessed…I was a better Paul than expected and getting better all the time. It blew them away. It blew the whole world away. Our seminal record was far beyond anything any band had made before...We wrote about Paul but I called the shots. He [Brian Jones] convinced the Stones that they needed a muse from heaven or hell that could do for them what Paul was doing for the Beatles through Billy. The Stones were working on “Flowers.” Our cover had Beatles and Paul in flowers, theirs had the band as if they were flowers. Brian told me those flowers were their gift to Paul. It contained goodbye songs to him. Released the same month as our funeral album, SPLHCB. </i>
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<i>When Brian Jones died…Writer Fred LaBour…reported on clues we provided but also embellished them….named me William Campbell…He seemed to know that Billy Shears was merely my stage name (I meant it to sound like “Billy’s here”) Arbitrarily after (Glen Campbell), LaBour set Campbell as my last name. Coincidentally, I have Campbell relatives.</i>
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<i>“Won’t get Fooled Again” lyric…Recognizing Sgt Pepper’s role in changing the world…new drug-friendly moral code, Pete explains that part of the worldwide agenda. “And the morals that they worship will be gone.” The world’s values, toppled by Sgt Pepper’s, were liberating to our generation. “We were liberated from the fall [Paul’s Death] that’s all / but the world looks just the same/ and history ain’t changed cause the banners they all flown in the last war”…”Meet the new boss, same as the old PAUL” [slight overdub] me ending the band in 1970 made it time for PETE to tell the story in 1971. I, looking like Paul, became the new Beatle boss…but you will also hear the final S, making the word unintentionally sound like “Pauls.” </i>
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"And the parting on the left...Is now parting on the right"
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<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2021/12/hippies-grunge-mindcrimes-pt-i.html">Acid, Music, Mindcrime</a>Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-55673578394405702662023-08-26T23:43:00.016-07:002023-09-07T08:52:44.686-07:00The Real SGT Pepper: PT 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9CaqWX0edQgATGdtTvz5Lz5GJadnDC1NuVXmN1cxujWFVLMsaSiNvwbIZJC7s6veHLSlyJU53HK2QKdYPk8KOE71XfCNIsFPdWxCGaZBy5cBNf2eQBtuFxS330mKV_K63PbHsm5JXOTFCadHlks0vwejql4LcTTRfiZBJzHlnow3J4WngRhXcnUWM/s2000/881178_1500628975.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9CaqWX0edQgATGdtTvz5Lz5GJadnDC1NuVXmN1cxujWFVLMsaSiNvwbIZJC7s6veHLSlyJU53HK2QKdYPk8KOE71XfCNIsFPdWxCGaZBy5cBNf2eQBtuFxS330mKV_K63PbHsm5JXOTFCadHlks0vwejql4LcTTRfiZBJzHlnow3J4WngRhXcnUWM/s600/881178_1500628975.jpg"/></a></div>
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On May 26, 1967 the Beatles released what some critics have called one of the most influential Rock albums of all time, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" [SPLHCB]. In order to appreciate this influence, one must bear in mind that Rock and Roll was one of the more mainstream forms of music at the time. A significant aspect of this influence upon the Rock n Roll genre [and Pop Culture in general] concerns the layers of occult symbolism and themes embedded within the album's art work, lyrics and the music itself. While this type of thing may have been done here and there previously, SPLHCB set a new standard in this area and raised the bar quite a bit higher. And for 50+ years, fans have ranged from vaguely curious to obsessive, trying to decode it all. But it wasn't until fairly recently that someone purportedly involved with the group has come forward to acknowledge and comment upon all of this out in the open. That person is William Shepherd, aka "Billy Shears" aka "Sgt. Pepper."
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Although "The Memoirs of Billy Shears" was first published in 2009, very few people I have spoken with have even heard of it. Which is interesting when you consider how long it has already been out and the fact that Gregory Paul Martin, son of the "5th Beatle" Sir George Martin, wrote the forward AND recorded the audio version. Now in it's 4th printing, the 2023 version has even more footnotes packed into its 666 pages.
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The sheer vastness and depth of information contained within the book should speak for itself to any inquisitive Beatles fan - but I will add to the above comment about Gregory Martin, that this book was first published on 09.09.09. Besides the obvious occult numerology contained within that date, it also happens to be the same date that the entire Beatles remastered catalog was re-issued, according to Billy and Wikipedia. You don't have to buy into ANY "Paul is Dead" conspiracies to notice the basic genius in releasing a book like this simultaneously with the re-issuing of the band's catalog. Obviously, it's going to help sell WAY more of the albums. So on the most cynical level, it could be viewed as a brilliant and highly entertaining form of advertising. But more importantly, the shared date of 09.09.09 indicates to me that the money behind the Beatles re-issue campaign is also behind the Billy Shears books - of which there are several supplementals, as well as high end websites. If this was all "not ok" with BeatleCorp, I would think they would have put a stop to the "Memoirs of Billy Shears" [TMOBS] campaign, which is clearly profiting off of the Beatles, years ago.
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The idea that the Beatles Corporation would be behind the publishing of such a book raises a lot of very important questions - which TMOBS provides quite a bit of response to. It is not my intention to address all of the information contained within this dense book, but to instead focus mostly upon the album SPLHCB. For a much wider view, see the work of Mike Williams, at www.sageofquay.com.
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<b>***CAUTION***</b>
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TMOBS is certainly unique. Although it seems to self identify as a "novel," I would also classify it as a work of powerful BLACK MAGIC. Some might view a blog like this as a form of advertisement - an observation I cannot honestly discount completely. But I also don't think the insight this book provides into the inner-workings of social engineering by way of entertainment is something that can be totally ignored without consequence. An autopsy is unpleasant, but with the right approach and protective equipment, can provide vital insight into things. If one views the reading of "Memoirs" as a sort of gruesome, but necessary autopsy, perhaps one can both appreciate the caution required while also respecting the vital information yielded in the process.
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[Notice Paul's likeness depicted on the left, "Revolving" OUT of the picture on the cover of the Beatle's 1966 album "Revolver." Was this an early clue anticipating Paul's "exit?"]
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<b>WHO IS BILLY SHEARS, WHO IS SGT PEPPER, AND IS PAUL DEAD?</b>
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For those new to all of this, there has been a persistent rumor going clear back to 1966 that "Paul is Dead." That is, Paul McCartney, bass player and lead singer of the Beatles. Well, how can Paul be DEAD if he continues to release music and perform as of the day I typed this out?
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According to TMOBS, Paul McCartney, along with a passenger named Donna, died in either a car accident or some sort of Satanic ritualistic manner [both?] on September 11, 1966. At some point, he was either decapitated or his head was brutally smashed in some way. This was something he apparently foresaw and had repeated nightmares about [and sang, in code, about in songs such as "Eleanor Rigby," which appeared on his last album "Revolver."] Those close to him knew about it, as did the other Beatles and those around them, and others high up within the industry. A man was chosen in advance to replace him, someone with similar looks and the talent to do it convincingly. That man's name is William "Billy Shears" Shepard, a.k.a. Sgt Pepper.
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It is not required for you to immediately believe the above to appreciate the information contained in this blog. But it is necessary to be basically familiar with this "myth" in order to understand what is being referred to and communicated within the various songs, statements, and quotations referred to below. And while I do quote the book extensively here [where <i>italics</i> are used], I won't always stick strictly to the quotes in order to communicate the basic point. This is not an easy thing to communicate, and even the book itself doesn't lay it all out in a totally linear manner. I am just one of many people attempting to interpret certain aspects of it in a manner that is perhaps a little easier to digest in one sitting. You can always go to the book yourself to verify, get it in the proper context, and form your own opinions.
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<i>The album included costume cutouts. Sargeant's stripes, SGT Pepper drum skin badge, fake mustache. My mustache covered a plastic surgery scar. The others wore fake mustaches to see us all as equally altered.</i>
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<i>The focal point is the drum. We…hid a date on the drum skin. Hold a mirror up to the words “lonely hearts” to indicate the date. Holding a mirror half way down those words makes it possible for the world to see how I live as Paul. (Looking through the bent back tulips) I ONE IX HE <> DIE pointing to me…with a diamond. IX = 9, I ONE = 11…Paul McCartney’s expiration date, 11 September 1966, 11-9-66 or 11-9. We left years off in casual writing then, I wanted to add the year to the drum skin but could not make it look right...Mal Evans, Peter Blake, and I worked together with the year as part of the drum clue…I ONE IX 1966…in the mirror it looked like LONELY IBEE I said, “Lonely Hearts!” We wrote it out in capital letters and could see that it resembled I ONE IX <> HE DIE. That is how I came up with the full title and decided to have me on the cover standing above the pointer. I said Joe Ephgrave (Epitaph Grave) designed the drum skin. It is a clue...Americans saw 11/9 as Nov 9, 1966. The night John met Yoko, which some saw as the death of the Beatles for those who blamed her. It was not Yoko, it was me…the absence of Paul…Drum “X” also equals “Xd out Paul.” </i>
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If you are like me, you probably spent a lot of time staring at the album cover and artwork for SPLHCB while listening to it. As a child, I didn't know who many of the people depicted on the cover were, but there was a distinct mixture of both creepiness and nostalgia I got from it. Whether it was the dead looking wax Beatle mannequins, the haunting faces of old people I did not recognize, or just the general vibrant life gone past it depicts. And yet, it must have appeared strikingly new and fresh to those who are old enough to have purchased it when it first came out.
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<i>The Sgt Pepper cover depicts a funeral gathering with several symbolically significant characters attending to bid farewell, or welcome, to Paul McCartney. My original plan was to have all who died already on the cover...who would welcome Paul into their spirit world…to greet Paul. Then we decided to add our list of heroes. </i>
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<i>Six weeks before Paul died, [Bob] Dylan had an accident on a motorcycle. Newspapers called it a near death experience. John insisted on including the hero who almost died.
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The reason Stuart Sutcliffe [original Beatles bass player] was in the crowd and not Pete [Best, original Beatles drummer] is because Stu had already died.
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Marilyn Monroe was there because she had already been murdered by then, apparently by government operatives. It was not a suicide as they claimed.
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John loyally wanted Hitler there to greet Paul. “How do you know where Paul is?” John asked, meaning he could be in hell. </i>
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<i>Draw a line from TE Lawrence [of Arabia] through my heart to the far side, you may see a hookah. Connects to Arabia. Our first choice was Ghandi from India, but we didn’t want to offend Indian fans. Same with Jesus. Look for more lines through the heart and where they lead.</i>
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["Wax" Beatles, meant to represent the "old" Beatles with original Paul, which are now "out of date"]
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<i>John’s comment in the London Evening Standard, March 1966, that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” prompted a cardboard Jesus idea. They decided it was unwise, in light of people burning their records and such...This album overtly launched the drug revolution...The intention [with religious figures] was to make drugs/religion incompatible, so fans would have to choose one. Choosing drugs would distance them from Christianity/religion.
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Gloomy wax figures made them [the Beatles] look dark, down, and out of date - especially in contrast to the bright and lively present “pallbearer” group. [the "new" Beatles with Billy] The idea for the wax Beatles was from Tweedledum's lines to Alice [from "Alice in Wonderland"] “If you think we’re wax-works, you aught to pay, you know. Wax-works weren’t made to be looked at for nothing.” Notice [wax] Paul’s head, it is small like his frame. My head is more elongated, more oval...</i>
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<i>All wax eyes look down at the gravesite below, except John. What John looks at can be discovered by placing your square across the cover for a straight line that intersects all others crossing through my chest. Continuing that line through me, you’ll be looking at the breasts of Diana Dors, UK sex symbol. </i>
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<i>Carl Jung’s shadow from his glasses looks like a 3rd eye. A ray from his 3rd eye through Paul’s heart points to the 3rd eye on a statue from John’s house.</i>
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<i>Palm above the head = sign of death. Paul-M. Off to the side is Paul-M substitute. (Wax substitute)</i>
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<i>Centered on the bottom - see statue of Shiva, the destroyer. 2 hands pointed down to Paul’s grave. One pointing to the wax Paul, and one to me, to whom Paul’s head is figuratively affixed. Beheading that mystical boy, who bestows that new head on another. Confers the rule of that head that I wear like a crown, to the replacement Shiva destroys, enhancing me, transforms me into a mystery idol. </i>
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<i>I am the wild card with the likeness go the ace of spades, being the substitute for Paul. Hold a ruler from Oscar wild’s head to my heart and see where it goes. It goes to the card that has gone wild on Shirley’s lap. Look through the wild card to see the wild card. Extending that line takes you to the driving glove. </i>
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<i>Car rolling off of Shirley Temple represents the “fatal car crash” that caused the head injury, represented by the split headed doll [#1 in the image above]. Turned off tv = news black-out…Ruby slippers on the Shirley Temple doll. The red emphasizes the blood dripping down Shirley’s clothes and her bloody driving glove. Wizard of Oz allusion. </i>
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<i>On our album cover, it singles out Paul and most unpredictably The Rolling Stones...Shirley Temple’s shirts says “welcome The Rolling Stones good guys.” Now “the good guys” were calling “the bad guys” good. </i>
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This alludes to the fact that the Beatles were originally presented as sort of "clean cut" and somewhat conservative - summed up by the "Wax Beatles" on the cover. "Good guys," if you will. Whereas the Rolling Stones were manufactured to play their opposite. The "bad guys." Billy seems to indicate that this "script" was flipped with the release of SPLHCB. Also note - "Ruby Tuesday" is the same "Stupid Bloody Tuesday" John refers to in "I am the Walrus." That is, it was on a Tuesday that he was informed of Paul's death. [Ruby = red = blood]. According to Billy, both songs refer to the same thing.
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["W. C. Fields was originally chosen for the title role of the Wizard (after Ed Wynn turned it down, considering the part "too small"), but the studio ran out of patience after protracted haggling over Fields' fee." - wiki]
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<i>Dorothy enters another dimension, aided by a wizard. Paul goes to another dimension and helps us back here at home. Wizard uses false appearances to make people think he is great and powerful, when he is just another guy from Kansas. We used false appearances to seduce our audiences. If you follow the [ruby] slippers through my heart, which is the way of discerning reality on the album, the line goes through WC fields. He was the original wizard choice for the 1939 version [of "the Wizard of Oz" film].</i>
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<i>We have Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) looking at my butt, a joke about my role as Queen of Hearts, standing in for Paul, in the heart of that album cover...It all passes right through me, representing the departed Paul. All is centered in his heart. I am there as the Queen standing in for the king. Think of both Pauls as one. That is Paulism. I am not Paul since he is dead, but his spirit continues through me.</i>
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"Paulism" is a phrase used in TMOBS several times, and I assume it's simply a way to refer to this alternate reality - which Billy seems to be stating is the ACTUAL reality we have not been aware of or have not totally acknowledged. But I don't pretend to have that particular concept completely understood. The book presents some very abstract information, and is intentionally ENCODED on many levels.
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<i>A straight line from Burroughs crosses my heart and goes to my fingers. He wrote “Dead Fingers Talk.” Continuing that Burroughs line goes to yellow hyacinth flowers that spell "Paul?" To have you ask if he is bur-roughed in the ground below flowers made to look like his bass. </i>
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<i>Paul’s rugby trophy looks like an “I” after the “L” forming: “Beat Lies”. Below “lies” is the word “Paul.” Spelled in yellow hyacinth: “Paul Lies” dead, and we lie to cover it up. Paul’s name is in the flowers, shaped into a 4-string bass. One of the strings is missing to symbolize the loss of “the late Paul”...We wrote PAUL in a hyacinth arrangment as Paul’s bass guitar. Paul’s band ended with him. All could read BEATLES in those flowers since it too had died. </i>
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<i>The street that Donna appeared to be headed for was Leso. There is an “O” at the end. BEATLESo…intentional and obvious misalignment of the first word. Be AT Leso…Leso is a street in Mesocco, Switzerland. About 666 miles south-east of London. Leso is Italian for “Injured.” </i>
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I looked Leso street up online, and it does appear to exist in Mesocco, Switzerland. Exactly how far it is from London, I did not attempt to calculate.
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We don't find out much about Donna, the lady who supposedly died in the car with Paul on 9.11.66. She is made out to be a fan in some scenarios, and someone simply needing a ride in others. Although TMOBS makes it clear that Paul's head was badly bashed, or altogether removed - the exact manner in which he died seems to be buried within somewhat of a riddle.
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Shirley Temple's bloody "driving glove" referenced earlier is a clue I am not sure what to make of - but seems to connect her more specifically to the alleged car crash.
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<i>[That's] Billy’s back, not Paul’s on the back of the album...On Sgt Pepper I stand with my back to the audience because I am the conductor...We were the first [band] to provide lyrics on the cover.</i>
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<i>When I said [publicly] “OPD” is “Ontario Police Dept” that was as honest as I could be without revealing the true meaning. Investigators discovered there is no such dept, it encouraged the conspiracy buffs while it could point to something which was correct generally. From “A” police dept. We conspicuously displayed the patch to the side. The police explanation also worked because of the “Sargeant” title. We intentionally bent the OPP patch to make the final P look like a D. A mechanic from the garage of the Ontario Provincial Police gave the patch to John after a Toronto concert, 17 August…My uniform has an “OPD” patch. [officially pronounced dead] Omitting P and D from Shepard leaves Shear. 20 years before SPLHCB was released, another Billy Shears is said to have passed away [the year Crowley died] but promised to return in 20 years. IF he died, he must have risen. Although I am the Billy Shears from SPLHCB, it doesn’t mean I am the only one in the music world. [Crowley dies at 72. 7 + 2 = 9)</i>
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Billy makes it obvious that he is knee deep into the occult and numerology, allocating the number "9" to himself often. He also speaks quite a bit about Aleister Crowley and hints that there is some sort of relation between "the Master Therion" and himself. When I said I believe TMOBS to be a work of Black Magic, I was serious.
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<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2021/12/hippies-grunge-mindcrimes-pt-i.html">Acid, Music, Mindcrime</a>Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-21493474274540479852023-05-27T00:04:00.004-07:002023-05-31T15:23:24.569-07:00The Death of Royce J Robertson [PT 4]<p>
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<i>Nothing in this blog is intended to suggest that police were not justified in shooting Royce J Robertson on 02.15.21 when he pulled a BB gun on them. They probably had no idea he was carrying a non-lethal hand gun, and therefore felt lethal measures were necesarry, as anyone in their position would. The questions I have are NOT necessarily regarding what happened at that terrible moment, but what LEAD UP to it, and the aftermath. If we aren't interested in examining what factors may have caused this incident or how the public's perception may have been manipulated, we are not serious about wanting to prevent these types of events from happening again in the future or arriving at the whole truth.</i>
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On the morning of Monday February 15th 2021, Royce Robertson [RR] drove approximately 50 miles from his home in Joshua Tree to Indian Wells, CA. We're not sure where he was going or why. Around 7:20AM he supposedly gets into some sort of dispute with an individual. That individual claimed RR stopped his car in front of him, got out, and threatened him with a gun. According to the individual, RR told him at one point that it was just a BB gun, and attempted to show him the air canister clip. RR then took off, and the individual called 911 as he proceeded to FOLLOW RR. The individual does not tell 911 dispatch that RR may have been in possession of a non-deadly BB-gun. The individual states that 911 dispatch told him not to follow RR, yet he proceeded to anyway, seemingly without fear. A cop car then pulls RR over a few miles away into a Country Club parking lot. The 911 caller is directly behind the cop, and stays just outside the parking lot gate as another cop pulls inside. After sitting in his parked car briefly, RR then gets out and pulls the BB gun on the cops, at which point they quickly shoot him to death.
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We know the name of the individual who called 911 on RR because it was released with the official investigative report. Although I believe his name was intended to be redacted completely, there are at least 3 spots in the report where it is not. At this point, we will refer to that individual as JMB, using his initials.
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In previous blogs I stressed the fact that almost everything we know about what occured that morning before the cops were called relies upon the testimony of JMB, whom we knew little to nothing about up to now. But someone forwarded me a recent video which seems to feature JMB speaking incoherently. We're going to take a close look at this video as well as newly released video from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
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If you haven't read the first 3 parts of this series, I obviously recommend doing so in order to get the full picture [or watch the video version on my Rumble page - handle: joegilmor]. For those who have read part 1-3, there is new information here provided for your consideration.
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<b>PART I: MIND CONTROL?</b>
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The above screenshot is taken from a youtube video someone forwarded to me recently. As you can see, it was uploaded on February 14th, 2023. That is just one day shy of being the exact 2 year anniversary of Royce J Robertson's death. I don't think that is a coincidence. This is the first obviouse connection being made between the video and the incident between RR and JMB on 02.15.21.
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The caption directly under the video shows JMB's full name, which I have underlined in yellow. Below that in the description, Sheriff Chad Bianco's name is also underlined in yellow. Sheriff Bianco is pictured at the top of this page, in an article published back in 2021 in direct relation to the RR incident. That is the 2nd connection the video has made between itself and the incident on 02.15.21.
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JMB's 911 call from 02.15.21 was partially published in a video uploaded to youtube by Riverside County Sheriff's Department on April 1, 2021. If you listen to that call and compare it to JMB's youtube video referenced above, both voices can reasonably be assumed to be coming from the same person.
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<i>"...no licence plate...black SL-63 convertable Mercedes, gentleman just stuck a gun in my face at Chase bank...it's an AMG racing model..." - 911 call</i>
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The above mentioned 911 call was published on at least 2 different youtube pages. One of these has more comments than the other. Some of the comments noted the 911 caller's peculiar knowledge of the rare Mercedes RR was driving, as if he was in the auto industry or was perhaps a mechanic or just a car buff. This is interesting considering the recent video of JMB seems to have been filmed at a car dealership. And not just any car dealership, a high end one. RR's car was a rare high end Mercedes with dealer purchase plates on it.
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Although JMB speaks in a mostly incoherent fashion, he mentions cars several times. Here is the entire transcript of the short 1:22 video:
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<i>"I love you guys. We're gonna give away the cars, I'm with a real viking. I'm not reading this book. I'm not reading this book [holds up book with hand written notes in it] I only read the bible. He's got the book, he's [points finger] he is my chosen Scotch-Irish by rites of passage and blood rites. [puts hands in prayer position] R Michael and Ross...Oscar's gonna get some but he's gonna do my wishes. He's gonna be in charge of how the money gets disbursed to the Scottish Jamesons and the quails - he's 50%...Norwegian - don't worry who he is but he's a manager...and we're buying all these cars [holds up papers] and we're gonna give em to you guys. And they have my mom...and the one-eight mafia, their guy Mr Myagi and the foghorn was a lie and I keep being killed and MK-Utra'd. But I don't care I don't want anything I want every take everything I surrender [puts out hands in surrender] But we need the bad [mumbles/stutters] look at the latest military press it says racist and has Kennedy. I'm a Jr Park Ranger. K, gotta go [whisper in the background repeats, "k gotta go"] Hey, meet us here, we gotta take time who knows when but we're gonna buy all the cars. You guys all get a car. Mom, I love you. We're gonna save you, I got your note...on your home shopping and your secret address and your passport is safe with Mr Myagi and the one-eight and it's in Hawaii and we're gonna get you there through the Gambinos in Vegas. [background voice mumbling] no I didn't mean to do that [background voice mumbling]"</i>
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If you look at the youtube channel this strange clip was uploaded onto, you will find that it doesn't appear to have anything in common with the others, besides location. So what is the purpose of this? It seems to tell us in the first few words of the video's title: "Save J.M.B. from MK Ultra". Sounds like a cry for help. God knows, this person certainly needs it!
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Now this phrase MK Ultra is very specific. It's not some vague reference to a person who has lost their mind. Historically, it involves some form of covert government sponsored operation in which witting or unwitting subjects are drugged, tortured, or experimented upon in order to gain control of their thinking and behavior. They are then made to do things they would not normally do in their rational thinking mind, such as commit a depraved sexual act or commit a crime like murder. But it can include anything a victim's depraved handler(s) choose really. In this way, crimes can be committed by individuals and then simply blamed on their "insanity," without any connection ever being made by the public to the evil handlers that actually ordered the crimes. MSM and social media are then programmed to discredit and shame anyone suggesting mind control as a possible factor, giving the false impression that such technology/methods do not exist. [This probably explains most of the seemingly pointless mass shootings and violent attacks we've been seeing in recent years]
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Maybe you know where I am going with all of this, but let me just clarify something right now: I don't know that RR was a MK Ultra style mind control victim, nor do I claim to have proof of that possibility. But it would be naive not to at least CONSIDER it - especially now that we have the person who called the cops on him bringing it up in connection to the event!
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The above images are alleged text messages RR sent the morning he died. What strikes me about them now is that there are similarities to what JMB says in his more recent, seemingly incoherent video. Let me show you what I mean by comparing quotes side by side...
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JMB: I love you guys.<br>
RR: I LOVE ALL OF YOU.
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JMB: I only read the bible.<br>
RR: The "Second Coming" that Christ referred to was the Heart Singing Again...Enjoy the Nuest Truest Testament.
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JMB: I'm a USA red white blue boy.<br>
RR: We need a blue heart emoji to make Red White and Blue hearts in Triplets
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Although RR's text messages sound relatively sane when compared to JMBs video, they still sound pretty manic, to put it lightly. But the thing to remember about the human brain is that it cannot formulate words it has not heard before. In other words, if these guys had never heard of the bible or Christ, they would never make references to either - regardless of how manic or insane they might become. Their illness would not simply INVENT Christ or a thing called the Bible. The words of both individuals are the result of INPUT they have recieved. The fact that they are touching upon some of the same themes/subjects, nearly VERBATUM in some instances, suggests that they both were exposed to the same INPUT shortly before creating their respective rants. This is further suggested through the seemingly deliberate connections JMB makes in the recent video to the events of 02.15.21.
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<b>PART II: WHERE'S THE ATM FOOTAGE?</b>
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<i>[Video still taken from the Chase Bank ATM camera, purporting to capture the interaction between RR and JMB]</i>
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As I stated in the previous blog, Chase Bank ATM footage was not included in the official investigative report. I thought this was strange considering plenty of mostly useless footage WAS included, although 21 of the video files were actually empty/unuseable [more on that later]. The Chase Bank ATM footage is very important, because it is the only potential proof showing that JMB and RR actually had an interaction where/when JMB claimed. It would also prove whether or not RR performed a banking transaction just before the initial confrontation JMB claims occured. So I attempted another FOIA request for this footage. Here was the response I got:
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<i>"The Riverside Country Sheriff's Department has reviewed its files and determined that no records exist."</i>
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Now I don't know if this is a play on words here, because the representative did not say the video footage doesn't exist, they said "no records exist." I leave it to you to decode what that is supposed to mean. But let's review what Riverside Country Investigators said in the original report:
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<i>"On 03/03/21, approximately 1000 hours, I received the Chase Bank requested surveillance footage..." - Reporting Officer Sanchez</i>
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<i>"On 3-17-21, Investigator Latterly picked the above disc up from the evidence room at Thermal Station and gave the disc to me. I watched the Chase Bank video surveillance…The camera angle showing the drive through ATM is the only camera that captured anything. At 51:41 minutes into the video you see the suspect and victim come to a stop off in the distance. The suspect is seen walking back to the victim vehicle and then shortly after back to his vehicle…the top is down on the suspect vehicle. The video is very grainy especially for things off in the distance. The main focus of this video is to capture the drive-up exterior ATM." - Rep Officer Moody</i>
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I mentioned the above information and the video stills to the individual at the records department. Here is what they responded back to me with:
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<i>"We have included all of the records which were retained by the Riverside County Force investigations Detail regarding the incident. Perhaps the author [of] the report where the still images were included merely took images and included [them] in their report. I would like to stress that, pursuant to SB 1421, ALL investigative material in our possession was disclosed to you."</i>
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I don't think there is any question that the Chase Bank ATM footage existed at the time the investigative report was put together. It's referred to directly in the report by 2 different officers, and video stills are included. There's only 2 reasons I can guess as to why the footage was not included in the official report. Laziness/negligence or it exposes something they would prefer remain hidden. This business regarding the bank is also related to another matter I inquired about - the location of RRs wallet at time of death.
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Let me re-iterate why I am so focused upon this Chase Bank thing...the only lead we have regarding RRs reason for being in La Quinta that morning of 02.15.21 is a Desert Sun Article which stated RR's sister "received a text from him that morning advising he was heading to her home in Rancho Mirage after running an errand at the bank." RR's family stated that the Coffee shop had "accounts" down in that area, and JMB stated that when he first encountered RR it was as he entered the "last parking lot thing which is generally people coming out of Chase bank drive through." In the Riverside County Sheriff Department's video presentation, RR is depicticted as coming straight from the direction of the Chase bank ATM exit lane. An individual who claimed to be friends with RR also informed me that RR did have an account with Chase Bank.
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Given the abundance of information indicating that RR may have performed a final banking transaction just prior to his altercation with JMB, this investigation could not be considered complete without confirming whether that occurred and what the details regarding the transaction were. And in order to perform a banking transaction, RR would have needed his wallet/ATM card. The wallet/card was not listed among items found at the death scene, and the vin # of his car was used to identify him. When I asked about the wallet, this is what I was told:
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<i>"The Wallet was collected by the coroner's office and released to his next of kin, this is typical protocol."</i>
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"Coroner: A coroner is a government or judicial official who is empowered to conduct or order an inquest into the manner or cause of death, and to investigate or confirm the identity of an unknown person who has been found dead within the coroner's jurisdiction." - wiki
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Above is the list of items collected from RR's home when investigators went there to speak with the roomate and take pictures. There are no additional pages of items collected. As you can see, no wallet is listed among the 3 items. I included the list of items collected at the death scene in blog #3. No wallet was listed there either.
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Investigators must carefully document anything they collect for purposes of their investigation, so if a wallet was found/collected it was not documented anywhere in this report. If no wallet was collected, how did it get to the coroner's office?
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When I pressed further, this was the final response:
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<i>"The Riverside County Sheriff's Department has responded to these items in the previous response."</i>
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<b>PART III: NEW FOOTAGE</b>
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In part 3 I mentioned that there were 21 video files sent to me by the Riverside County Sheriff Record's Department which were not playable. These were all videos taken at the entrance to the Desert Horizons Country Club, where the deadly encounter occurred. But there's really only 1 video here that shows anything significant. The other 20 are basically composed of one long video of cops standing around cut up into small parts. Only reason I can guess they did this was so that the one video they really didn't want to include here would be buried in the middle of 20 others so it wouldn't stand out as much?
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The above still was taken from a new video I got which finally gives us some visual detail on what occured before anyone pulled in. Unfortunately, the sound was either removed or was never there to begin with.
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RR drove up right at about 07:24:48 and from the moment his break lights come on to the moment he drives off is exactly 1 minute, which I actually timed with a stop-watch.
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While the car is stopped, one quickly notices that the rear brake lights are flickering in a peculiar manner. I timed the blinking mode versus solid. The flickering mode lasts about 10 seconds and then the lights become solid again for 5 seconds. The lights start solid and go into flickering mode a total of 4 times exactly. Solid mode = 5 seconds x 4 = 20 seconds. Flickering mode = 10 seconds x 4 = 40 seconds. 40 + 20 = 60 seconds or 1 minute. Was this planned or did it just work out that way?
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It is not "park mode" which caused RR's brake lights to flicker, as the lights flicker again when he starts moving and taps the break. I will show this in the video version.
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Now I know that there are ways to customize brake lights to blink or flicker, but for starters this is most certainly illegal in California. But assuming RR had this modification done to his car anyway, the pulse is distinctly similar to the way police lights flicker. We are told the only real trouble RR ever got into was a speeding ticket or 2. Why would he install flickering lights that would probably annoy anyone behind him and grab the attention of all COPS within eyesight?
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This indicates to me that RR was TRYING to be seen by cops - which directly contradicts what we were told by the gate guard and JMB [see part 3]. My question is, were these installed so RR could enjoy the rush of taunting cops to pull him over again, or were they installed in preparation for this specific incident - to make him more visible as he was speeding towards the Country Club? If you recall, RR stopped on the way to the Country Club in order to put his convertable top up, according to JMB. This was just before the cops supposedly spotted him. Was this done to make his convertable LESS identifiable, or was this done so he could signal his position with his flickering break lights?
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Just as RR comes to a stop your eyes will likely hone in on his driver's side view mirror, since that is the only place we see any real movement. Supposedly, RR was telling the guard that cops are behind him and he is afraid they are going to think his gun is real and shoot him. Allegedly he shows the guard the gun while he is speaking. None of this is captured to any degree because RR's hands and face never go outside the vehicle, and there appears to be some sort of smart filter covering the driver side mirror.
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We can see here very clearly that a semi transparent filter was used to obscure the rear license plate. That seems reasonable, but why would they filter the side view mirror when we already saw RRs face in the body cam footage? It's not like we don't know who it is in there. Or do we?
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At 7:24:45 we can see that as RR pulls up, the gate is in its DOWN postion. I was curious when/how this gate actually opened, and we're about to find out.
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Within EXACTLY 10 seconds of RR pulling up, the guard opens the gate - which you can just see in the video where the green line is. I guess that's what you do when a crazy guy rolls up to your country club gate and waves a gun around and tells you it's not real, but the cop behind him is gonna shoot because he doesn't know it's fake?
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40 seconds after the guard opens the gate, RR drives in and the cop follows directly behind. JMB then pulls up immediately behind the cop and stops at the gate, not at all afraid of being shot at by the guy who just threatened him a few miles away apparently. Cop doesn't seem at all concerned that the 911 caller is just casually trailing behind him all this time, clear into the Country Club entrance.
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JMB's side view mirror has also been obscured by a filter as you can see - no reflection in the mirror while the car door has a detailed reflection of surroundings.
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<b>CONCLUSIONS:</b>
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JMB's video was quite a disturbing discovery, especially given the very specific references to Mk Ultra mind control. Mostly because it supports my most extreme theories about this whole thing, which I purposefully held back a little bit in the previous blog. I think the best thing I can do with this information right now is to humbly ask my readers who have read this far to say a prayer for JMB and other victims of mind control. Do not lose faith in people, recognize that they are mostly the victims of a society run by a few evil individuals.
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I still think there is more to the story with regard to the Chase Bank parking lot. From the changing story, to the lack of witnesses, to the withheld ATM footage, to the missing wallet - something smells funny there, but I feel I've hit a dead end at this point and I simply don't have the resources to find out more.
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Although there's really only less than 2 minutes of new footage to work with here, RR's flashing brake lights are a curious new detail we didn't have before. I'm not sure what to make of the fact that the lights seem almost designed to catch the attention of cops, other than that's exactly what RR wanted to do. Whether that was for the thrill of it or to signal others of his location in some sort of "suicide by cop" operation I cannot be sure.
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The timing of things here does continue to be a curiosity, especially RR's exact 60 second stop at the Resort's guard station, seemingly synchronized with his flashing lights, as if purposefully timed that way. From the original incident occuring on President's Day exactly in the middle of the month of February 2021, to the release of the body cam footage exactly 45 days later on April Fool's day, 2021. Now we have the JMB video released just 1 day shy of the 2nd anniversary of RR's death...it's all a little too coincidental to ignore. But that's about all I can say on the topic for now.
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You might also be interested in the blog I did regarding <a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-darrell-abbott-murder-exploring.html">THE DIMEBAG DARRELL MURDER</a>
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-70063626831609595902023-03-26T15:38:00.010-07:002023-04-01T15:38:04.609-07:00Chris Cornell's Bodyguard: 2020 Interview<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIcMUSAOTTN2_yuFkYpJdjhbsJL1EzT-A8vIkb5wBjls7yFP_IheLPp5rQAHL5Hh6uWGD9pacyCnkuptuciycA3JpzDVpb2Y3uvk8dfmzZHj4m6XXKQ_vkJ4s2cZkJV7JpT8FMMIxaN9vh9C83dsyJagK4bNbVv4tu0OV6XIadeoHspsb_ozQCAA/s280/W.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIcMUSAOTTN2_yuFkYpJdjhbsJL1EzT-A8vIkb5wBjls7yFP_IheLPp5rQAHL5Hh6uWGD9pacyCnkuptuciycA3JpzDVpb2Y3uvk8dfmzZHj4m6XXKQ_vkJ4s2cZkJV7JpT8FMMIxaN9vh9C83dsyJagK4bNbVv4tu0OV6XIadeoHspsb_ozQCAA/s400/W.jpg"/></a></div>
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Martin Kirsten was allegedly the last person to see Chris Cornell alive, and he is also the person who discovered the body. We were told he gave Cornell prescription drugs, which were blamed for his "suicidal behavior" in many news reports. Clearly, Kirsten should have been suspect number 1 in a possible homicide! But not even 24 hours had past before this incident was deemed "suicide" by the press and investigators. No autopsy had yet been performed, no forensics data had been processed or reviewed, and it doesn't seem like Kirsten was ever considered as a possible suspect at all! How do you rule a suspect out so quickly and so early in an investigation?
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Regarding details, Vice and virtually all other mainstream media lied swiftly and thoroughly to the public, as I demonstrate in my blog "Chris Cornell: A Look at the Evidence" - using the official investigative report itself to back my claims. How ironic that the very man hired to protect Cornell's body seems to be part of the coverup in his murder!
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At the time my written blogs were originally published, we didn't seem to have any interviews with Martin Kirsten, other than what is in the police investigative report itself - which is heavily paraphrased and only available to the public in text form. But I recently discovered a high production interview from 2020, conducted by Caleb Anderson of Spirit Farm podcast.
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I've never heard of Caleb Anderson or his Spirit Farm podcast until discovering this 2020 interview. Martin Kirsten indicates that Anderson is a form of Pastor and conducted his wedding just a month or so before Cornell's death. I didn't spend much time looking him up because that's not the purpose here. My goal is to break down the script behind this episode, which was clearly manufactured in direct response to those hundreds of thousands of Chris Cornell fans convinced of Kirsten's involvement in his murder.
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The title of this episode is "Travels and Trials of a Bodyguard." I assume the "travels" part of that is a reference to the fact Kirsten was not born in the United States, but lives here today. Or perhaps it's a reference to the fact his job takes him all over the world? I've read that Kirsten was also called an "Aussie" at one time - which is a nickname for someone from Australia. Australia comes up nowhere in this interview.
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The use of the word "trials" here is interesting, considering many people believe this man to be a criminal who has never seen proper "trials." The title takes the word "trials" in reference to the subject, and turns it into a "positive." We're supposed to think Kirsten is this warrior that braved through adversity to become the "credible" man presented in this interview. But what makes him credible exactly? Dating his client [a no-no in the industry] Heidi Klum while she was still married to Seal? Evading scrutiny in the questionable death of his former client?
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Caleb Anderson seems to have developed a rapport with his audience - as a friendly, family oriented, slightly feminine personality. Even if you know nothing about him, he's a smiling face without a history, if nothing else. So in that sense, his public reputation is cleaner than Kirsten's. It seems his job is to say good things about Kirsten and convince his audience what a stand-up guy he is. The entire exchange feels completely contrived in order to humanize the public perception of Kirsten, and convince us that "oh no, that nice man would NEVER participate in a murder!"
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<i>"First of all, you're like one of the most interesting humans in the world and one of my favorite people..." - Anderson</i>
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Anderson compliments Kirsten profusely, calling him one of "the most interesting humans in the world." If you type out that quote into Google, you will instantly see familiar images of actor Jonathan Goldsmith, "the most interesting man in the world," as endearingly depicted in Dos Equis commercials not so long ago - and endless "I don't always..." memes. This dialogue seems designed to "ring that same bell" and subtly addresses the fact that Kirsten is a "mysterious foreigner people don't know much about." It aims to turn that into a POSITIVE, without revealing a single thing about him - so he gets to remain "mysterious," but we're supposed to think that makes him INTERESTING, not "bad."
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Martin Kirsten has the charisma of a lizard, so the topic of Cornell is probably the only one people really care to hear him talk about. Although they try very hard to downplay that by muddling it up with other topics nobody really cares about, it is clear that leaving it till the end was done under the assumption that it is the "big climax" viewers are waiting for. Placing it at the end encourages people to sit through all of the stuff before it, which is of course designed to COUNTER your pre-conceived ideas about Kirsten - so that by the time you arrive at the "nothingburger" served up, your mind will already be made up and you won't care about details. This was very well thought out in advance, I don't believe there is anything "organic" about this interview, but you can go watch it and judge for yourself.
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Topics, as listed on the youtube link's notes:
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- His passion for rhino conservation<br>
- Coming to America and starting with nothing.<br>
- Crossing the line with his former client, Heidi Klum.<br>
- Losing his friend and client, Chris Cornell to suicide while he was on the job.
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<i>[Caleb Anderson's overly dramatic perfomance as he pretends to be "oh so concerned" about the poor rhinos in South Africa that "our hero, Kirsten" is fighting to preserve...]</i>
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The first 7 minutes of this interview is Martin Kirsten talking about his involvement in stopping poachers in Africa from killing endangered rhinos for their horns.
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<i>"We've worked with a couple of orphanages and in parks in South Africa that - having a security company has afforded me the advantage to buy equipment for the guys because they don't have much...The rangers. In the park." - Kirsten</i>
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Now pay attention very closely here, because this is extremely cunning! We know that Chris Cornell gave money to help out endangered and exploited children, and that he may even have been involved with a film exposing child trafficking ["the Silent Children," which never came out.]
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["Eleonas refugee camp in Athens, Greece, where the Cornells and their daughter visited with families that had fled Syria and Afghanistan."]
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It is believed that it was something to do with Cornell's effort to PROTECT CHILDREN that got him murdered. He stated very clearly, as quoted in previous blogs, that he used his "celebrity status" to help children in need. This interview is building a similar benevolent characteristic around Martin Kirsten. He states his security company has put him in touch with "orphanges" in South Africa. Why is he working with orphanages in South Africa and what has that got to do with protecting Rhinos there? He doesn't elaborate. Probably because the only reason he used that word "orphanages," was to project that same "protector of children" reputation Cornell was known for. See what they are doing here?
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Without any further detail regarding his work with orphanages, Kirsten instantly segues into how he is helping equip local rangers with gear and resources to combat the poaching problem.
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<i>"When a rhino is <b>killed</b> and <b>murdered</b> for it's horn, that becomes a <b>crime scene</b>." - Kirsten</i>
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Kirsten starts going into detail about how Rangers are limited in their capacity to save rhinos that are poached in the night, and provides some gruesome detail as to how poachers obtain the horns, and even gets into forensics. He is now talking about MURDER, KILLING and a CRIME SCENE. Do you think it is a coincidence that Kirsten is talking about MURDER, KILLING, and a CRIME SCENE in the very same interview in which he brings up Cornell? Yet he abstracts the association by bringing it up in reference to endangered rhinos in another country, so that we subconsciously feel satisfied that Kirsten actually "went there," without really doing so in the manner people want him to!
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Kirsten mentions an organization he is invloved with called Rhino Sheriffs, which appears to have a website. But there is not much information, or a way to donate there. Is this a real organization? Kirsten says they don't take donations because "there's so much shady things going on online and social media...clicking links...You donate through paypal or gofundme..." It seems strange that with all of the different ways to transfer money these days, that Kirsten would decline all the potential donations to his cause simply because he doesn't trust any of them or thinks people don't trust them enough to try. This explanation really doesn't make sense to me. Maybe "Rhino Sheriffs," which seems to be based in Long Beach, CA, is just a front organization for his image? Even if they are legitimate, charity elevates the image of the person donating. This would be particularly useful to someone with a reputation like Kirsten's!
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Since Kirsten brought up "shady things" with regard to donating to charities, consider the fact that such organizations are sometimes associated with international money laundering operations, or other nefarious questionable activities - such as the Clinton's questionable work in Haiti. Kirsten's strange reference to "shady" online money transfer methods again references activities he may be involved with overseas, but turns it into a positive - by placing him on the side of "good guy trying to make a difference."
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<i>credible: able to be believed; convincing. - Oxford dictionary</i>
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<i>"You KEEP that accent! It gives you so much credibility! I feel like people with accents just walk into a room and automatically have more credibility." - Anderson to Martin Kirsten</i>
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I'd love to see this assumption played out in a courtroom. "My client is innocent, can't you hear his thick foreign accent?"
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Jean Claud Van Damm aka "The Muscles from Brussels" starred in many action films in the late 80s/early 90s - during the height of Arnold Schwartzeneggar's fame. Van Damm had a heavy accent in these films, and once told an interviewer that Schwartzeneggar advised him "keep the accent!"
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<i>"Keep the accent! Keep the accent, don't let it go..." - Anderson</i>
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First of all, South Africans are generally very easy to understand - at least to my American ears. Nothing on the scale of a thick Austrian, French, or Scottish accent. They are EXAGERRATING this point for a purpose. Again, Anderson's dialogue seems to tap into a pop culture cliche, this time regarding the "endearing foreign action hero whos poor acting and mispronounced English we love." Spirit Farm is basically suggesting that Martin Kirsten is like a "Schwartzeneggar" or a "Van Damm." Big and scary looking, perhaps even SUSPICIOUS or innapropriate in his behavior - but ultimately a loveable action hero born in another country. And all Kirsten had to do was sit there and take this "compliment" without revealing a thing about himself.
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<i>"I wanted to be like Arnold! He started in Venice beach!" - Kirsten, on his dream of moving to America many years ago</i>
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This is, again, part of a campaign to "endear" and "humanize" Kirsten in the eyes of the public - obviously in reaction to the KNOWN negative perception of him, which is never acknowledged by the media because that would then lead into questions regarding his potential involvement in Cornell's death.
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<i>"My dad committed suicide when I was 6...I was the oldest of 2 boys...we came, really blue collar suburb of Johannesburg. Mayfair..."</i>
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In the next part of the interview, Kirsten begins revealing information about his past that I have never heard before. While it is obviously tragic if his father truly did commit suicide when he was a child, I have no way of knowing whether he is telling the truth or not. But whatever the case, it seems an odd coincidence that Kirsten would decide to reveal such close, first hand experience with SUICIDE in the same interview he chooses to speak publicly about his former client. A former client that was said to have commited SUICIDE, which is NOT supported by the official investigative report. And while Cornell did have a father growing up, he said in interviews that he didn't really even know him. So in a sense, Kirsten's story echos Cornell's "fatherless" upbringing.
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<i>"Before becoming a successful musician, he [Cornell] worked as a busboy, as a dishwasher, as a fish monger at a seafood wholesaler and was a sous-chef at Ray's Boathouse in Seattle." - wiki</i>
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Kirsten goes on to speak about the difficulties his mother had raising him and his brothers in a blue collar suburb. Blue collar = working class. In other words, he is not from a privelaged background, he was an everyday working man. This echos Cornell's story, in which he famously worked as a cook and at a seafood store. Those of us who know Cornell's story are aware of his "working class" background and humble beginnings. Is Kirsten's story here simply fiction designed to ingratiate him to those very people that see him as the secret murderer of his former client?
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He goes on talking about how he got into trouble as a youth, much like Cornell - who was very open about his profuse use of drugs at a very young age. At 17, Kirsten says he was forced into the military by his mother due to his "bad behavior." Some examples he provides are: getting a tattoo, getting an earring, playing the class clown - my, what disruptor he was! Then he goes on to state that all white males in South Africa were required to either attend college or enter the military. Are they exagerrating/fabricating this whole thing with his "bad behavior" just to depict him in a way they think Cornell fans can relate to?
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<i>"Looking back, I think kids that grow up without a dad...it's so vital. To have structure. Discipline. Learning teamwork. And that's what the military provided. The hard way."</i>
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It is tragic that Kirsten lost his father, if true. But again, this emphesis on how not having a father affects a child is parallel to Cornell's story of not really knowing his father. Coincidence?
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Anderson moves on to the topic of Heidi Klum, who was first a client of Martin Kirtsen. She had previously been with singer Seal, and I believe was still married to him when she started dating Kirsten. Pretty much nothing is revealed here regarding this relationship, other than the fact that Kirsten states "rule #1" in the workplace is "don't date your clients." I suspect his relationshop with Heidi Klum was simply a publicity stunt of some sort, but who knows?
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<i>"With a religion like that [Catholocism], it's not designed for anyone to question. Being young people who have a natural curiosity and half a brain, you're going to start finding inconsistencies, which there are tons of in organized religion" - Chris Cornell</i>
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<i>"I was raised Catholic in Sourth Africa...and, it didn't help when all those priests were exposed and all the news came out with all the dozens of them or hundreds of them with little boys and I said to my mother, "see? that's why I'm out." - Kirsten</i>
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Although Chris Cornell's mother Karen is supposedly Jewish, he referred to his father as "Roman Catholic," and associated his father's identity as a Roman Catholic with his alcoholic/non-present form of parenting. Kirsten also claims to come from a Catholic background, and adds that part of what turned him off to the religion, was the pedophile priests. As stated earlier, Cornell's interest in protecting children is what many believe made him a target of those not wanting to be exposed. Now here we have the man many believe was involved with Cornell's murder, speaking about pedophilia - albeit within a vague and passive context.
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<i>"I found transcendental meditation. And it helped me alot. I'd done a Tony Robbins seminar and I'd done a couple self-help workshops." </i>
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Kirsten goes a little bit into his "spiritual practices" and gets into a bit of self-help/New Age territory, which seems to be a theme behind this "Spirit Farm" podcast. But interestingly, Chris Cornell's mother wrote books about this sort of thing, such as "Transformation and Transcendence." Is someone just taking aspects of Cornell's life and simply writing them into Martin Kirsten's story? Convenient that we really know nothing about his past. He can just make it up right here and we'd not be the wiser!
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I think some of what Kirsten says here may very well be true. But to have so many similarities to Cornell's life says to me there is a scriptwriter at work here, who's job is to associate as many "Cornellisms" as possible with Kirsten's character, in order to endear him to the very people who see him as a monster. And if he isn't a "monster," why all this effort to counter such views in one of the few segments this man decides to speak publicly on?
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<i>[Chris Cornell appeared in the 90s film "Singles," which attempts to capture the Seattle "Grunge" phenomenon at its peak. One of the main characters is a "coffee bar waitress," which riffs off of Seattle coffee shop culture. Seattle is incidentally the birth-place of Starbucks.]</i>
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<i>"We met for coffee and that was our first date. We lasted 9 hours...We were at a coffee shop and they eventually closed..."</i>
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Kirsten describes his magical first date with what I believe is his current wife. He claims they spent 9 hours at a coffee shop, which makes me think of the film "Singles" and the grunge/Seattle coffee shop culture. Again, is this real or is someone just making this shit up for Kirsten to incorporate into "his story?" To ingratiate him to old "grungers?"
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<i>"I can't get into too many specifics, but it was a client that committed suicide on tour...My best friend in High school commited suicide, my father committed suicide, and now him..."</i>
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Kirsten does not get into ANY specifics, actually. In fact, the entire "Chris Cornell" segment of this interview is really just a "feel sorry for Martin Kirsten" session. I mean, maybe his father and best friend in high school really did both commit suicide. And that is very sad. But it's got nothing to do with the fact that the official investigative report doesn't just contradict itself and the mainstream narrative, it actually leans stronger towards MURDER and FOUL PLAY! So if Martin Kirsten is really the big fan of Law Enforcement he claims to be in this interview, why does he seem so very oblivious to what is in the official investigative report, and the media's ubiquitous lies surrounding it all?
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<i>"But one of the things that I love about you Martin, is that...you let yourself hurt to the core. You...you care deeply. And you love people well...I wouldn't think that's normal for people at your level of protectors."</i>
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"Pastor" Caleb Anderson is talking to you, the fans of Cornell who know full well Martin Kirsten was somehow involved in Cornell's death. He is telling you, IMPLORING you to believe that Kirsten is not a monster. No, he cares deeply. He loves people well. And that's not normal for people of his stature! Ever get the feeling someone takes you for an idiot?
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<i>"I've got a good friend at the FBI that's been insanely generous inviting me to trainings and speakings there where they share statistics of active shooter events and how the world is changing. It's not the world we grew up in." </i>
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According to Kirsten, he is friends with an FBI agent, and actually participates in their training drills. This suggests something I would not have brought up otherwise: Is Kirsten an undercover Fed, or a contractor for them? It would certainly make sense in this age of a weaponized U.S. Department of Justice, who conduct unconstitutional raids upon their political opponents as if they have the authority! It's frightening to consider, but the F.B.I. would have the ability to murder someone like Cornell and totally control all of the law enforcement and media surrounding the event.
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Kirsten begins talking about "active shooter events." This is interesting considering the horrible Mandalay Bay Concert shooting occured the same year Cornell died. Mandalay Bay also happens to be owned by MGM. MGM Grand Detroit was the Hotel Cornell died in.
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I don't claim to know much more than I did a few years ago about Cornell's death, but it becomes more and more obvious that it was an operartion that could only have been organised at a high level of power and influence. I believe this interview is one of many influence campaigns, designed to direct attention away from something. They can deprive the public of the truth all they want. They can feed us lies all they want. But when we begin to recognize patterns in their mind control techniques, their magical spell of influence rapidly dissipates. And for most of us, this may be the only path to justice, accountability, and prevention.
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I would encourage everyone reading this to take a moment and say a prayer for justice and truth in the Chris Cornell Death. Even if just one of these types of events is exposed for what it is on a mass scale, the domino effect will likely lead to many more exposures and shine a light on the darkest pockets of our society. The more we shine the light of truth, the less places they will have to hide and accomplish their evil deeds.
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<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2019/02/chris-cornell-suicide-without-motive-pt.html">Click here for my blog on the death of Chris Cornell.</a>
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-78987962420992266892023-03-11T01:23:00.009-08:002023-03-27T01:21:12.099-07:00Maverick: What it's REALLY about.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnfk4rEFlQ26n78UhGDKUMeYj5nxx7PB0lfhXnLK2QVSenjQanadkRkyZUyLq1BOjSUAtxZbrwSmXL7gedUcsnoOQNoyL74K3C3aZLMo4slekt5Tj3aEh-WUInTTDlT4rsQhyHQxEtBr7GlfjhUxGTvPptFi6CB9KKrwlasN4gL1hR5KvXlhHOEw/s2076/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-06%20at%203.51.36%20PM.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="2076" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnfk4rEFlQ26n78UhGDKUMeYj5nxx7PB0lfhXnLK2QVSenjQanadkRkyZUyLq1BOjSUAtxZbrwSmXL7gedUcsnoOQNoyL74K3C3aZLMo4slekt5Tj3aEh-WUInTTDlT4rsQhyHQxEtBr7GlfjhUxGTvPptFi6CB9KKrwlasN4gL1hR5KvXlhHOEw/s400/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-06%20at%203.51.36%20PM.png"/></a></div>
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In a previous blog, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbJIS3qufQI">Spielberg: Questionable Themes and Symbolism,</a>we looked at the 1994 independent film "Sleep with Me." In the film, Quentin Tarantino has a cameo - in which his character appears at a party, speaking to another guy about the film "Top Gun." He explains, hilariously, how the film is really about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. "It's all about subversion," he says.
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Now someone on Youtube either got inspired by the Tarantino cameo I just described, or came to the same conclusions on their own - and created a video called "Top Gay." As the title indicates, it is a collection of scenes from the film which demonstrate the homoerotic/homosexual overtones throughout the film. It's pretty hilarious, but once you are done laughing, the inevitable question presents itself: why in the hell would someone put this stuff in an "action" film and how did we NOT notice this the first time around? Perhaps Tarentino's character is revealing the real purpose of these types of blockbuster films when he says, "it's all about subversion!"
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<i>innuendo: "(the making of) a remark or remarks that suggest something sexual or something unpleasant but do not refer to it directly" - dictionary.cambridge.org</i>
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<i>overtones: "If something has overtones of a particular thing or quality, it suggests that thing or quality but does not openly express it" - collinsdictionary.com</i>
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<b>NOTE: This blog contains a LOT of suggestive sexual language which may be disturbing to some people. I would ask you to bear in mind that I DID NOT WRITE the stuff in the film, I'm just pointing it out! If you find it offensive, just remember that someone, or a group of individuals, sat down and made the decision to put all of this in. If nothing else, I hope you walk away asking yourself: WHY?</b>
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Given all of the obvious innuendo and sexual overtones contained within the original 80s "Top Gun" film, I figured the long awaited sequel "Maverick" would have them as well. To simply say that it does, is not adequite. It's profoundly filthy, in the most sexual way possible.
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The "hidden" theme BEHIND Maverick is really quite simple, and seems to build upon a sort of pun introduced in the original film, "Top Gun." It's all about what happens BELOW the Hard Deck. But we must understand that this phrase "Hard Deck" is a euphemism for something else. That is the key that picks this lock.
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<i>"The term originated with fighter pilots. “Hard deck” was slang for an altitude (10,000 feet or so) that represented ground level during flight training exercises. If you went below the hard deck, you had hypothetically crashed and were out of the exercise."</i>
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One scene from the "Top Gay" compilation takes place in the locker room where all the pilots just got done with an intense flying exercise. One of the pilots points out that Maverick and Goose flew below the Hard Deck, and therefore were disqualified from winning. Maverick responds, "Hard deck my ass, we nailed that son of a bitch!" The sound bite is looped several times, and then in slow motion. It quickly becomes obvious that Maverick could just as easily have been saying "hard DICK my ass, we nailed that son of a bitch!" When you NAIL someone, that can have multiple meanings - one of which is specifically SEXUAL. As-in: "I nailed that girl the other night." There's also the fact that Iceman responds to Maverick by saying "you guys really are Cowboys!" Cowboy is slang for "queer" in certain contexts - which the film "Brokeback Mountain" famously builds off of.
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Promotional posters for these types of films usually provoke the same hidden themes contained within the film itself. The one above is certainly no exception! You just have to look at things in an extremely literal, primitive way.
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The place where a pilot sits in an airplane/jet is called the COCKPIT. And as you can see above, the cockpit is WIDE open! The Top Gun logo is stylized inside a shape which resembles an arrow, pointing downwards - but the very "tip" is sliced off. If the tip were there, this symbolic arrow would come to a point right between the bottom 2 "legs" of a 5 pointed star. What's between 2 legs?
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Notice that the words TOP GUN are just BELOW the name Tom Cruise. In the 1970s, the band Kiss had an album called "Love Gun." A gun can function as a phallic symbol, depending on context. When you "cock" your pistol, it means you pulled the hammer back and cocked it to the rear. Now you're "ready for action!" The phallus/gun is BELOW Tom Cruise in the logo, and the star can represent what is just BELOW Tom Cruise's "gun." I'm not gonna say what that is just yet, but I don't think the star is perfectly level with Tom Cruise's crotch by accident...
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When we first see Maverick, he has obviously aged - but is still completely locked into his identity as a daring fighter pilot. There he is, having his coffee in the morning and reading a paper inside a hanger right next to an old jet airplane. No house, No wife, no kids, no retirement.
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After a good morning repair session on his vintage jet airplane, Maverick goes to wash his hands. Above the sink we see pictures of his deceased wing-man "Goose." Goose and Maverick. Goose and his wife. Goose and his kid. Goose's kid by himself! Does Maverick not have any ex-girlfriends or wives at this point? Children of his own? Nope, it's a "Goose shrine" here.
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As we view Maverick washing his hands from behind, it also looks like he's masterbating to this wall of pictures!
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Before Maverick leaves the hanger, we see a picture of Goose in his locker, "flipping the bird." Now think about this...what is a Goose? It's a bird. What does "flipping the bird" mean? It means F-YOU, obviously. The middle finger is supposed to represent a penis. So the F-YOU has a sexual connotation. Hold this thought for now, it will come up again later.
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In the next scene, Maverick finds out that the program he has been assigned to has been cancelled - but he attempts to go through with it anyways in the minutes before it can be stopped by his superior, who is en route to halt things personally. So he's BREAKING THE RULES here, by attempting to see if he can reach Mach 10 [7,672 mph] before someone stops him from trying.
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This is part of Maverick's "dangerous" character we came to know in the original "Top Gun." [a characterization made by Icemen, in the infamous "locker room scene" we just described earlier] This same characterization is interpreted by Tarentino as "right on the fucking edge" in his 90s film cameo. The edge of HOMOSEXUALITY, according to his interpretation! While the film seems to build off of that, it takes things much further, as we are already beginning to see.
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Just before he takes off, Maverick says "ok sweetheart, one last ride," [as if he's having sex with an old girlfriend for the last time?] Then he grabs the control stick, which is just between his legs. If you pay attention to the camera angles, the music, the facial expressions - this entire scene, like most of the film, is a metaphor for a sexual act.
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As Maverick's superior shows up in the control room, he tries to order him to land. Maverick responds as if he cannot make out what is being said, when someone else in the room offers, "This is where we’ve had trouble with comm, sir. It’s the earth’s curvature. Yeah, it’s called earth bulge…"
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We call our planet "Mother Earth," giving it femanine characteristics. Woman have CURVES. A "bulge" can be a curve, a pregnant belly, or even a bulge in one's crotch.
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As Maverick is reaching Mach 10, his plane starts to buckle under the pressure [kind of like a struggle to reach sexual climax]. These repeated camera angles switching from Maverick's highly engaged sweating face to the control stick [joy stick?] between his legs as he struggles with both hands to control, further enforces the innuendo. While all of this is happening, the music sets an atmosphere of an almost romantic/euphoric event, as Maverick quietly says to himself "talk to me Goose." Remember, last time we saw Goose, he was flipping the "dick finger" bird!
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As if in awe, we see the faces of the men in the control room. But they also appear to be sexually aroused! This seems to reach a climax as Ed Harris, who plays Maverick's superior then says, "You got some balls, stick jockey! I’ll give you that!" As if his low grumbling tone wasn't suggestive enough, ask yourself what you get when you add BALLS to a STICK? [hint: Male genitalia!] What does a jockey do? He RIDES. Then Harris adds, "I'll give you that!" All of this innuendo cannot be accidental. It's just too easy to spot and too ubiquitous!
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As Maverick "thrusts" past Mach 10, his jet [phallus] finally "blows up" [orgasms?] and leaves a translucent semen colored streak in the sky, in the shape of an arrow/phallus!
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After a crash landing, Maverick is summoned to the briefing room where he is both repremended for his reckless actions AND assigned to a new mission. What does this mean symbolically? He pushed the limits of the plane's "body" in order to achieve the "climax" he desired. Then they send him to a classroom to TEACH what he just did to a younger generation of pilots! [think about today's controversies regarding sexual content being placed in children's School curriculums and text books]
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Note the body language above. Maverick stands with his waist out, hands together in front as if he is taking a pee! The long table in front of him - an extention of his phallus, while the guy at the other ends sits, as-if recieving it!
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Here he is told he has a "special mission" at Top Gun. The purpose of this mission is the crudest aspect of the entire film, but we'll get into that later...
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<i>"The target...is an unsanctioned Uranium enrichment plant"</i>
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One of the oddest things about this film, is that neither the enemy or their specific geographical location is named. I mentioned this to someone else who saw the film, and they told me "yeah they did, it was Russia." Well, I re-watched the film and I did not hear Russia or any other specific location named. I believe that's because we're not really talking about a UR-ANIUM enrichment plant here - and this mission isn't really taking place on land! [I'll explain later, if you haven't already guessed what I'm hinting at]
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Maverick later enters a bar where the young pilots he'll be instructing frequent. The bartender is apparently an old girlfriend or "friend with benefits" from the past. He tells her "you look good." [keep that in the back of your mind, it comes up again later] He goes on to tell her that he's back at Top Gun, but that he won't actually be flying. She says to him, "Trust me. As improbable as it seems right now, somehow you’ll be back in your fighter plane with your TAIL ON FIRE." Hmmm...
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As the top fighter pilots are entering the room, the macho energy builds up, and we see a couple of them throwing darts nailing the BULLSEYE multiple times just above a "Sailer Jerry" sign. "Sailer," like "Cowboy," is sometimes used as a euphemism for "Queer." These 2 guys are throwing darts [phallic objects] into a small round target. This is not just sexually suggestive, but it is also forshadowing the entire purpose of their upcoming mission - which is essentially to "nail the bullseye" and then PULL OUT.
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We are introduced to each pilot here, within a scene laden with innuendo.
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Bob, the "nerdy" pilot, is first seen sitting at the pool table [stick and ball game, btw] with his legs spread, furiously waving his hands over his crotch! What is the purpose of this character?
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Maverick's deceased wingman "Goose" was played by actor Anthony Edwards. Edward's most well known film outside of "Top Gun," was probably "Revenge of the Nerds." In that film he played one of the main "Nerds," and I think this Bob character simulating masterbation is supposed to conjure up Goose - by way of Anthony Edward's previous role in another popular 80s film. Bob wears glasses, has the same color hair and appears to part it on the same side. Bob is played by actor Lewis Pullman. Lewis is the name of the other main Nerd in the film "Revenge of ther Nerds," who is best friends with Anthony Edward's character. Put it all together and decide what you think it means...
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Maverick pauses as if he's spotted an old love obsession when Rooster walks in. Rooster is his deceased wingman's son. Another name for Rooster is COCK. Maverick's attention is mostly focused upon COCK this entire film. Figure that one out.
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Phoenix, a female character, breaks up the "homoerotic" theme of the original film, and confirms the more "pan-sexual" approach here. One of her first moves is "virtually" jerking Rooster's phallus [cue stick.] She hits him right near the groin to emphesize the innuendo.
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[David Bowie]
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[Marc Bolan of T-Rex]
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While this bar scene is playing out, David Bowie's "Let's Dance" is playing off in the background. Bowie got famous in the 1970s mostly for helping usher in the Glam Rock movement - which had a lot to do with his apparent sexual androgyny.
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Right after "Let's Dance," the song "Bang a Gong" by T-Rex comes on. The man behind T-Rex was the late Marc Bolan, known to be bi-sexual. He was also one of David Bowie's biggest influences initially, and is generally considered the father of "glam rock." The film "Velvet Goldmind" explicitely highlights the gay aspect integral to that musical movement.
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The signifficance of this music is just a subtle counterpoint to what might have traditionally been a macho "pissing contest" in this scene. Rather, it's a sort of pan sexual free-for-all celebrating the generative force in general. This is something I point out a lot in my blog about the film "Tommy." Incedentally, the Who also appears on this soundtrack...
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As Rooster approaches the pool table, he walks up to Hangman and says: "Hangman, you look...good." Now remember, this is what Maverick said to the bartender when he saw her earlier. So a connection is being made between Maverick's "romantic interest" in the film and the dialogue between Rooster and Hangman. That's not an awkward accident of the scriptwriters!
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Hangman then says, "I am good Rooster. I’m very good. In fact, I am too good to be true."
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Old songs used to say things like, "please be true to me, baby." That means, be MONOGOMOUS. Don't sleep around, be MY girl! So I think what Hangman is saying there is that he's just too good of a lover to be with one person. Meaning, he'll sleep with anyone he wants, including Rooster!
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Hangman then accuses Rooster of "waiting for just the right moment...that never comes." Then with a shit-eating grin, says "I love this song." The song playing at that moment is "Slow Ride," by Foghat. The reference there, again, is a sexual one. This whole scene is just a SLOW RIDE.
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After Maverick gets kicked out over some game where he's supposed to buy everyone drinks - he hears Rooster singing and playing "Great Balls of Fire." This is the same song Maverick and Goose sang at the bar in the original Top Gun. He flashes back to Goose's wife telling him "God, he loved flying with you Maverick."
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The bartender notices Maverick breaking down outside the bar, as he stares inside at Rooster. For a second, it actually looks like Maverick is masterbating while staring in the bar at Rooster!
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So here's what's being suggested: Maverick misses his gay lover Goose, and is now turning that desire directly onto his son, Rooster/Cock - as he sings GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. No, this is not the plot, but it's being heavily SUGGESTED through innuendo and overtones.
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Later, the pilots are being briefed on the mission they are about to be trained for. Just before Maverick comes out, they are told "Success, now more than ever, depends on the man or woman in the box." Meaning the COCKPIT. But a "box" is also a euphemism for a vigina. To highlight this euphemism, Hang Man turns around and stares at Phoenix, a woman, right at the moment this dialogue occurs. Percieving the pun at her expense, she subtly flips him the bird. Where did we see this last? In Maverick's locker! Goose was flipping him the bird in a picture. So again, we have these symbolic sexual gestures being cue'd from scene to scene, connecting seemingly unconnected moments of sexual euphemism. Also - look at the guy behind Phoenix. What is that shape he is making with his hand?
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During a simulation of their mission, Maverick starts to explain how they will take their target out. Notice that the "target" in the simulation looks similar to the target on a DART BOARD. Remember the bar scene earlier? They were playing darts and hitting the bull's eye, while Bowie's "Let's Dance" played off in the distance. These connections from scene to scene are not accidental, and it is all highly psychological. The makers of these films know exactly what they are doing and people have no clue!
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Maverick knows the mission is nearly impossible, as he advises: "But what the enemy doesn’t know is your limits. I intend to find them. Test them. Push beyond." This is, again, a continuation of the "Maverick is on the edge" concept. The edge SEXUALLY, that is. And he's gonna push THEIR sexual limits now. And that's what the film wants to do to you. Push YOUR sexual limits conceptually, in a covert manner.
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<b>WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT</b>
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<i>"Hard deck my ass!" - Maverick</i>
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In this last section, Maverick himself lays out the plan of attack and literally explains, with graphics and hand gestures, what this film is actually about. Again, apologies if this gets a bit graphic, but I didn't write this stuff, I'm just pointing out what the film is covertly waving right in front of your face!
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First, they have to fly BELOW the Hard Deck in order to avoid enemy radar. This is not allowed in training exercises, so Maverick has them change the rules ["right on the fucking edge," as always]. Now if the "hard deck" is a euphamism for "hard dick," then we are talking about the region below the hard dick, which would be....the asshole - if one is facing a hard dick, as if to give oral sex. Or to look at it another way - "hard deck my ass" means exactly what he says it does. The HARD DECK = HIS ASS! Meaning, the entire mission takes place in his ass!
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The image above shows the "colon-like" path that the phallic planes must tightly navigate, until coming to the great RIM of the UR-ANIUM plant.
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Actual dialogue from the film: [Instructor] hangman, he’s up. The canyon’s gettin tighter!..Your goin too fast man! [Hangman] Well, no harm in being ahead of schedule! [Maverick, later] What happened? [Hangman] Well I flew as fast as I could. Kinda like my ass depended on it.
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Once they "penetrate" the interior, they must UNLOAD their missles into the target point all the way at the bottom, exposing a hole into the interior. Maverick calls this "miracle #1!" Then the 2nd team sends their missles directly into the hole, blowing it all up in a great orgasmic climax! He calls this "miracle #2."
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As Maverick is explaining how they must expose the hole at the bottom of the giant rectum they need to penetrate, he actually simulates penetration with his finger! But it goes by so fast, you almost don't notice it.
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Here we get a side angle of the small hole/canal the pilots must precisely shoot their load into, in order to enter the box below and blow it all up. Now if you remember the "box" euphemism earlier, this "hole" takes on basically every sexual aspect referenced in the film at once. Symbolically.
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And just in case you missed the sexual orifice reference the last time around, Maverick demonstrates with two fingers precisely where the "penetration point" must occur.
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<i>"To survive this mission, you’ll pull beyond that [maximum g-force]. Even if it means bending your air frame…You’ll be pulling so hard you’ll weigh close to 2000lbs…fighting with everything you have just to keep from blacking out…"</i>
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This is all about "pulling out" after orgasm, and trying not to pass out.
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The rest of the film is a bunch of happy BS intended to insult your intelligence, after subliminally RAPING your mind.
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In the 1978 Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve, there is a scene where Loise Lane dies. Superman is distraught that with all of his powers, he still arrived too late and could not save her. So he decides to fly around the Earth so fast that he actually reverses it's rotation temporarily, causing time itself to reverse. He then flies back down to meet Loise before her accident, altering her course and saving her life. He does this against the decree of his father who told him he wasn't to interfere with Earth's history.
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Although this is a very compelling scene, it's not at all realistic. But it does cause one to contemplate profound concepts as to what time is and is not.
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If I ask you what time it is, you might tell me it's noon. Noon means "midday." AKA "the middle of the day." But what determines the dividing line between the first half of the day and the second? The sun. When the sun is at its halfway point in the sky, that is literally the middle of daylight. So 12:00pm or NOON is really just another way of describing the sun's halfway point between its journey from horizon to horizon. Therefore, our time-number-system is based upon the movements and positioning of the sun.
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But this gets a bit more complex when we assume we are somewhere such as the North pole, where the sun is NEVER 90 degrees overhead or -90 below. A "day" can be far longer than a night, and vice-versa in places like this. The very path the sun travels is constantly shifting latitude/longitude, according to the ecliptic - making it difficult to pinpoint the observable "middle of the day" in some locations. So the only true "rise" and "set" we can all universally point to with regard to the sun is revealed by observing the ecliptic.
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The wavy line cutting roughly through the center of the image above is called the ecliptic. It represents the sun's position at a given point throughout it's 365 observable rotations around our planet. The highest point is called the Tropic of Cancer [Summer] and the lowest point is the Tropic of Capricorn [Winter]. So as long as our time-number system exists within these 365 rotations, we can almost arbitrarily apply it any way we want, according to where we live.
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There is a very practical reason for the ancients to have been interested in this information, because being able to predict the sun's movements was/is directly related to crop yield and survival in general. Understanding the sun's cycles let farmers know when the best time was to plant and when to expect harvest. Allocating animals and personalities to 12 phases [each 30 degrees] of the sun's position in the ecliptic seems like an engaging way to join one's conscious mind and very being to the changing of the seasons. Kind of like the way myths and tales are passed down, but which contain useful - perhaps even vital knowledge for future generations.
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"TIME TRAVEL"
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Now because time is merely a numerical system of measuring the sun's pattern/position in relation to our planet - the idea that one could "travel through time" doesn't seem to have any logical basis. How can one physically "travel through" a number system? A person can no more travel through time than they could travel through Pi or Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's an abstract concept that has been popularized by film and science fiction novels, mostly for entertainment purposes. But there are theories and stories out there of course.
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In the TV Series "Outlander," the main character travels to different times in history by touching magic stones, somewhat similar to those found at Stonehenge. I suppose if one had the powers of GOD, the world could be instantly re-created in every exact way to a previous moment in history. But nothing short of god-like powers could accomplish this. One would have to perfectly replicate the entirety of reality down to the cellular level. Let me illustrate what I mean in a simpler way...
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Imagine a room which represents the entire world we live in. In this room, a glass of water is being filled slowly, starting at 6am on a given date. Let this glass being filled represent every thing and every activity occuring on earth during that period. Once the cup is full, it represents everything and every activity happening on planet earth at midnight on that particular day and year. It is a living "snapshot" of that moment.
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Since we have reduced reality down to such a simple level, we can now IMAGINE ourselves pouring the water out and setting the glass down exactly in the same spot - and now the entirety of the earth and all of its activities appear exactly as they did at 6am. We just "traveled back in time." In other words, if I had god-like powers, and I could revert everything you see back to the exact state it was 100 years ago, what would be the difference between your conception of "time travel" and your experience at that moment? None.
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<i>"Time is the promise, delivered with stunning consistency" - Queensryche "The Whisper"</i>
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The problem with the "Superman model," is that it treats time as if it is a "force" which can be reversed. But the movement of the sun and planets are not subject to our mathematical formulas, it's the other way around. The formulas are merely our (often flawed) ways of describing what THEY do. So Time itself isn't really a tangeable thing which exists, it merely describes the movement of THINGS, which exist. Therefore, time travel is not a real concept. What it seems to be referring to in actuality, is the ability to exist within a previous or future arrangement of the entire universe - which is obviously impossible even for Superman. Unless he could perhaps fly faster than speed of light?
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<i>"His [Einstein's] idea was that, theoretically, the closer we come to traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), the more time would appear to slow down for us from the perspective of someone who, in relation to us, was not moving. He called the slowing of time due to motion time dilation."</i>
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In the film "Maverick," Tom Cruise's character attempts to go Mach 10, nearly annihalating his plane in the process. According to Google, that's about 7,672.69 mph. The idea that one might be able to travel 186,000 miles per second becomes pretty absurd when we just consider the sheer physical impossibility of it. So we've basically hit the same brick wall. Yeah, maybe there is a speed which is faster than pecieved time, but achieving that level of acceleration would require god-like powers. <p>
Perhaps we should just accept the advice of Superman's father Jor-El and not attempt to interfere with our own history. Maybe we just aren't the "super-men" we like to imagine ourselves as being. Maybe "time travel" falls into similar territory as DNA manipulation, or mankind's quest to give birth to A.I. There can be a fine line between innovation which benefits humanity and simple hubris. We'd be wise to percieve the difference.
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-47627953029327388702023-01-16T14:14:00.010-08:002023-01-19T01:53:51.459-08:00Operation: Death Con 3 [PT II: Censored]<h1>Dave Chappelle</h1>
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[the above headings are to help the search algorithms connect people to this page]
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In part one I wrote about Dave Chappelle's recent monologue on Saturday Night Live, and how it was basically the deep state talking through him, and using him to manipulate his audience's views covertly. In part 2, I was planning on getting into a recent Alex Jones episode that touches on, and expands upon many of these same points - but since part one has gotten VERY FEW hits - this has caused me to wonder whether it is being censored by Google's algorithms. So rather than waste my time on a second half which may get heavily censored as well, I decided to paste part 1 here again, but with certain words/phrases abbreviated to see if I can trick the Google algorithms and allow for "normal" traffic. If this one gets way more hits, that obviously points to an algorithm designed to censor or "shadow ban" certain words/phrases.
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<i>The above image contains a KEY of words and phrases I believe Google is probably flagging heavily and trying to censor, or at least monitor. I have removed all of the words/phrases you see in the image above, and replaced them with the abbreviations you see representing them. This should be obvious while you read the blog, but hopefully it is not too irritating on the eyes. If so, simply read part 1 instead, as it is the exact same blog without abbreviations [find link to part 1 by clicking on January 2023 within the column on the right of this page]. I have also removed the source links from this page as a precaution, so again, refer to part 1 for those links as well... </i>
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Regarding a recent opening monologue Dave Chappelle did on Saturday Night Live, Dailymail.com published a story on November 14th that <i>"Dave Chappelle kept NBC and the producers of Saturday Night Live guessing up until the last moment when he reportedly performed a new version of his monologue for the live broadcast...The 49-year-old comedian performed a 'fake' version of his monologue for the dress rehearsal earlier on Saturday evening, before doing a different monologue that didn't get anyone's approval for the show that appeared on television, sources told Page Six on Monday."</i>
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We really have no way of confirming whether this Dailymail.com article is pulling our leg or not, but a closer look at Chappelle's monologue reveales why it matters. If he said things "without approval" from his scriptwriters/financiers - he'd be culpable for it. But if he did indeed stick to the script, this points the finger at those putting the words in his mouth. And who are "THEY" anyway?
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Chappelle starts out reading from a crumpled piece of paper pulled from his pocket, which seems intended to make it appear as though it was some last minute thing he decided to throw in spontaneously. He states in part that "I denounce anti-semetism in all it's forms." Why did he open his monologue this way, even jokingly? The implication seems to be that he is afraid of being branded an "anti-semite," and that he fears the consequences of such a branding.
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The statement ends with: "and THAT, XXXXX [KW], is how you buy yourself some time..." Time from what? An imminent retaliation from those who believe he is an anti-semite?
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<i>"Early in my career I learned that there are 2 words in the English language that you should never say together in sequence. And those words are XXX and XXXX [TJs]. Never heard someone do good after they said that."</i>
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If we take the "comedy" out of Chappelle's statement, what's he really saying? Let me translate: "If you are in the entertainment industry, don't talk bad about XXX XXXX [TJs], or else..." This indicates to me pretty clearly that Chappelle is straight up enforcing the stereotype that a powerful group of XXXX [TJs] run the entertainment industry and that you better not talk bad about them if you wanna have a career in that field. Isn't that pretty much the same thing XXXXX [KW] has been saying, albeit less deceptively and with less humor attached? And yet, the politically correct SNL crowd is applauding and laughing along, as if there is nothing at all anti-semetic about Chappelle's routine! Why is it ok for Chappelle to say these things in a comedy routine, but it's "anti-semitic" for XX [KW] to say it in other contexts?
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<i>"DEFCON is a defense alert state (numbered 1–5) used by the United States Armed Forces." - wiki </i>
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<i>"[I] Can’t even remember how it started. Vaguely I remember it started with a Tweet. Strange Tweet…I’m a little sleepy. I’mma get me some rest but when I wake up, I’m gonna go def-con 3 on XXX XXXX [TJs]!…I was a little worried, “what is he going to do to XXX XXXX [TJs]?”</i>
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What does Chappelle mean when he says he can't remember how "it" started? What is "it?" What are we talking about here exactly? Almost sounds like XX [KW] and Chappelle are acting out some fake morality battle for the public. If this was some kinda deep state sponsored propaganda campaign, we might call it "Operation: Death Con 3."
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To start with, there is no such thing as "Death Con 3." But clearly, XX [KW] was intending to at least partially reference the military Defcon system.
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So if XX [KW] is preparing his "Defense readiness condition" against XXX XXXX [TJs], doesn't that assume a DEFENSIVE, rather than OFFENSIVE position? Was he anticipating an ATTACK from "XXX XXXX [TJs]?" To further confuse the matter, he didn't say DEFCON 3, he said DEATH CON 3. We know what "DEATH" is. But a "CON" has to do with deception. If you sell someone a car that you claim runs perfectly, which you know needs a new transmission - that is a CON. Is XX [KW] indicating by way of word-play that there is some sort of deception going on?
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XX [KW] addressed this "Death Con 3" Tweet recently on a Drink Champs podcast, where he comes off much more toned down, reasonable, and candid than he often does in other contexts. This shows how adept XX [KW] is at "switching gears" with his personality. Or maybe there's something deeper and more sinister going on in his head?
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<i>"what I meant to say was “no one’s afraid of XXX XXXXXX [TJs] media mob, which it is"</i>
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First of all, XX [KW] quotes his infamous Tweet as saying "Def Con 3," which it didn't - it said DEATH con 3. He tries to play it off like it was a spelling error and that he doesn't always articulate himself as well as he'd like online. Even tells a story about his father giving him advice on how to better articulate himself publicly. I don't buy it, but I highly suggest everyone go watch the entire podcast I am referencing here [link at the bottom] He says a whole lot of interesting things I don't have space to get into here...
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XXXXX XXXX [KW] recently started going by "Y£," which is the 2nd half of his original first name. The part he removed is K-A-N. How is that pronounced when you say it? CON.
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If you've ever watched the series "Outlander," the Scottish people portrayed in it say "Y£" when they mean "YOU." KAN...Y£ = CON...YOU? Removal of the 3 letters K-A-N = the death of Kan or DEATH CON 3?
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The fact XXXXX [KW] cut his name in half tells you he gives his name and each of the letters LOTS of thought. Perhaps even more thought than most would assume...
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<i>"I believe 'Y£' is the most commonly used word in the Bible, and in the Bible it means 'you,' " West said during an interview with Big Boy in June 2018." - USA Today</i>
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XX's [KW's] infamous Tweet also stated that he "can't be anti-semetic because Black people are actually XXX [TJs]." To state that a XXX [TJ] cannot be anti-semetic makes no sense logically. And the idea that a Black person cannot be anti-semetic because they are all XXXX [TJs] makes even less sense!
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Here's another interesting quote from XX's [KW's] Drink Champs appearance:
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<i>"Hey, you know, my people rise up, they [TJs] did something good, let’s copy what they're doin. Let’s rise up the way they rise up...we have to make our own empire. We have to get free just like XXX XXXX [TJs] did." </i>
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He also states at several points that he is jealous of XXX XXXX [TJs] and what they got, according to him. This all starts to get into a militant sort of Black Power/Black Panther [political party] mentality, which the mainstream has been aggressively promoting for a few years now. But you've gotta question the motives of the mainstream when they act like they wanna EMPOWER a specific group or race of people, while demonizing others who don't fit into that classification. That's not about equality, that's about control and "culling the herd."
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<i>"You guys have toyed with me and tried to blackball anyone whoever opposes your agenda"</i>
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<i>[Image of a Freemasonic ballot box, taken from freemasonry.network]</i>
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"You guys" seems to be a continuation of XX's [KY's] suggestion that a group of powerful XXXX [TJs] are behind the entertainment industry, and are actually after XX [KW] himself.
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The term "blackball" has a Freemasonic connotation. To "blackball" a candidate means to reject his membership. This is done by casting a black cube, which is an important symbol in ancient XXXXXX [TJs] mysticism as well. Is XX [KW] trying to say that he was "rejected" from membership of some elite Freemasonic organization? Sorta falls in line with the "I'm a famous guy rebelling against the elite" narrative. Again, I don't buy it, I think XX [KW] is a stone cold mind control slave for the elite, but I digress...
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Back to David's SNL monologue:
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<i>"I grew up around XXXXXX [TJs] people. I have a lot of XXXXXX [TJs] friends, so I’m not freaked out by your culture…I know a little bit about it just from hangin around, be like “yo, let’s go out after school tomorrow!” They be like “we can’t go out it’s Sha Na Na tomorrow!” I be like, what? What is Sha Na Na?" </i>
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The joke seems to be that the phrase "Sha Na Na" sounds kinda like a XXXXXX [TJs] holiday like Rosh Hashana. But if you watch the video, DAVID Chappelle puts emphesis on the question "what is Sha Na Na?" Sha Na Na was a 50s Rock and Roll revival band who appeared at Woodstock, and later had a TV show which aired from 1977-1981. It's a reference only older people are probably going to get, so I assume it was aimed to grab their specific attention. This kinda sets up the next bit...
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<i>[Hasidic XXXX [TJs]]</i>
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<i>[Run DMC]</i>
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<i>[Weird Al Yankovic, from his video for the song "Amish Paradise," a spoof on Coolio's rap hit "Gangster's Paradise"]</i>
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<i>"Why do some of your people dress like RUN DMC?"</i>
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The correlation Chappelle makes between RUN DMC's "look" and Hasidic XXXXXX [TJs] garb gets a good laugh from the crowd, but is there something much more deeply psychological going on here than it would at first seem?
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<i>"A year ago, I’d seen him on a podcast called “drink champs.” Great show…XXXXX [KW] said “only millionaires wear chains”…he said "I'm a billionare!"...He went on Drink Champs again…he said “I can say anti-semitic things…and Adidas can’t drop me!” Adidas dropped that nigga immediately. Ironically, Adidas was founded by Nazis."</i>
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<i>[Slaves in a "Chain Gang"]</i>
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<i>[RUN DMC, wearing their signature gold CHAINS...]</i>
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<i>[RUN DMC, wearing their signature Adidas shoes, and jumpsuits. One of their most popular songs was "My Adidas."]</i>
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XXXX [TJs], anti-semitism, rappers, chains, adidas, Nazis, money, power, influence - what's the big picture Chappelle is painting here? I think there's something far more psychological happening with the language of his monologue than most people would suspect - and I think it is completely deliberate. The easiest way to break it all down and summarize, is to look at the symbolism here.
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In the Thoth tarot deck, we see Adam and Eve [or Adam and Lilith?] after the fall, in the card called "The Devil." They appear to be chained up, so why do they look content? Happy even! The chains are loose, they can take them off anytime. But they PREFER the chains apparently. They PREFER to be satan's slaves? Perhaps they've been deceived into believing the chains are GOOD for them. That they are GOLD. Perhaps these rappers and rockstars and actors that we idolize and adore are all just slaves in a fancier package. Like high end prostitutes, trading in their souls to achieve fame and fortune. Is ANY reward worth trading in your soul for?
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[Adolf Dassler, German founder of Adidas in the 1920s]
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While the founding of Adidas in Germany seems to pre-date the Nazi party, Chappelle's comment that Adidas was "founded by Nazis" seems to ring somewhat true. In fact, the founder's name was Adolf!
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<i>"Both Dassler brothers joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in May 1933 and also became members of the National Socialist Motor Corps. Furthermore, Adolf took the rank of Sportwart in the Hitler Youth from 1935 until the end of the war. During the war, the company was running the last sport shoe factory in the country and predominantly supplied the Wehrmacht with shoes." - Wiki </i>
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Now obviously RUN DMC was either sponsored by, or were being paid by Adidas to represent them. This not only made Adidas alot of money, but cleared the company's reputation of being "racist" by having Black American rappers and their fans representing them. This may sound like uncomfortable stuff to contemplate, but if you owned a business as large as Adidas, you'd be thinking about this stuff too. Because at the end of the day, it's not about "empowering minorities," it's about MONEY, popularity, and perhaps a bit of social engineering. So yeah, I am not surprised they dropped XX [KW] for his "anti-semitic" comments. It probably had more to do with concerns about how they might be percieved by the PC public, than with XX's [KW's] "anti-semitism." Even if they did lose money by dropping him, it's the safe bet in the long run because getting branded an "anti-semitic sympathizer" could sink Adidas in a heartbeat. Cutting XX [KW] off was probably a "better safe than sorry" sort of gamble.
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Back to Chappelle's monologue...
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<i>"He had broken the show business rules. You know, the rules of perception if they’re black then it’s a gang. If they’re Italian it’s the mob but if they’re XXXXXX [TJs] it’s a coincidence and you should never speak about it." </i>
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Again, it's kind of odd how obvious Chappelle is here in terms of acknowledging a powerful XXXXXX [TJs] presence at the center of the entertainment business. The very same type of observation that got XX [KW] branded "anti-semite." Maybe "XXX XXXX" ["TJs"] are writing Chappelle's script here because they WANT people to fear them? Maybe this is why Dailymail.com wants us to believe Chappelle went off script? Because if this is "all Chappelle talking," nobody can be accused of putting words in his mouth...
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<i>"I’ve been to Hollywood…It’s ALOT of XXXX [TJs]. Like ALOT. But that don’t mean anything. There’s a lot of black people in Ferguson, Missouri doesn’t mean they run the place…you could maybe adopt the dillusion that XXX XXXX [TJs] run show business, it’s not a crazy thing to think. But it’s a crazy thing to say out loud in a climate like this."</i>
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Allow me to translate David's "joke" here: Powerful XXXX [TJs] run Hollywood, but don't talk about it, if you know what's good for you. Especially you Black people!
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<i>[Herschel Walker, speaking at one of Trump's "Save America" rallies]</i>
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<i>"Now that mid-terms are over and it’s crazy climate…the most ominous sign of mid-terms I believe would be Herschel Walker who I, I don’t wanna speak badly of because he’s black but I have to admit…he’s observably stupid. Even when he’s not talking his mouth be open a little bit…"</i>
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Chappelle says he doesn't wanna speak badly of Herschel Walker because he's black, which is a strange statement as it insinuates that he thinks Blacks should get special treatment over other races - which doesn't contribute to the idea of EQUALITY, it encourages ignorance and INEQUALITY among races. Yet, the PC SNL audience is just applauding and laughing away, as Chappelle disingenuously postures himself as "morally superior" to XXXXX XXXX [KW].
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<i>"Watching the news now they’re saying it’s the end of the Trump era…He’s what I call an honest liar…I’ve never seen a white male billionaire screaming at the top of his lungs, the whole system is rigged!…he said “I know the system is rigged because I use it” Then he pulled out an Illuminati membership card and chop a line of cocaine with it and did a line right there at the podium."</i>
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Chappelle's cheap and seemingly pointless bashing of Herschel Walker, a friend of Donald Trump, was obviously a segue into bashing the latter. Walker was merely a convenient "stepping stone" to get there, and bash one of the few prominent Patriotic Republican Blacks out there while he's at it... Allow me to translate again what Chappelle is saying here: "Trump is part of the deep state but at least he's honest about it and tells it like it is." Some people seemed to think this was a sort of rare compliment coming from someone on the mainstream left. But how is insinuating that Trump is just another member of the White House Illuminati cult a compliment? Methinks David is projecting here...
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When it comes to making fun of the Government, Joe Biden is a REAL EASY TARGET. You'd think comedians would be clowning him left and right. Why aren't they? From his stumbling and bumbling words and feet to his deplorable performance as a President, sniffing and kissing and groping children and young women like a dirty old man - the guy is a walking mockery of our country! Yet Chappelle only has Trump jokes when it comes to politics.
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<i>"As soon as he [Trump] won they started sayin all that “he’s colluding with Russia he’s colluding with Russia!” It was very embarrassing as a democrat, but as time went on…we all came to learn…he was probably colluding with Russia."</i>
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When Chappelle states that Trump was "probably" colluding with Russia, he got lots of laughs and applause from the crowd. That's funny, because to this day there is no proof of that. Chappelle is going off of "accusations" and endless streams of misleading headlines which never yield actual evidence of "Trump/Russia collussion!" In fact Elon Musk recently published information on Twitter revealing that the FBI secretly contacted them ahead of the XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX [HBL] story, warning that it was "Russian disinformation" and was to be sensored ahead of the 2020 election. It has since been revealed that the XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX [HBL] is 100% authentic. So this is a clear case of the "Russia Collusion" narrative being used to cover up the truth. Specifically, regarding the President's bagman/crackhead son!
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<i>"Why he got all them documents at his house?…you know what I never stole from work? Work." </i>
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First of all, it's never been established that Trump "stole" any documents, so Chappelle is starting right in with a lie. Trump was president and is a prolific business man, having LOTS and LOTS of documents doesn't mean he stole em. And besides, the Presidential Records Act [PRA] gives presidents special privelages with regard to classified documents. So even IF Trump had classified documents at his house, that does not AUTOMATICALLY mean he stole them or that he had no right to be in possession of them! If he had documents MARKED "classified," that doesn't mean they have not been DECLASSIFIED since they were labeled.
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Bill Clinton had tons of classified information in his sock drawer years after leaving office. A judge BLOCKED Judicial Watch from forcing him to release the classified materials because she ruled Clinton had the right to classify, declassify, withold, or release the material at his own discretion. But in Trump's case, they simply RAIDED his home and took what they wanted - then accused HIM of breaking the law! Now if they can do that to a former president, imagine what they can do to YOU if they decide YOU are on their "shit list?" Oh, you'll start researching the laws like Sherlock Holmes then!
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<i>"President Joe Biden is being reminded of how he criticized Donald Trump as being "irresponsible" for having top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago after the White House revealed classified materials from Biden's time as vice president were discovered at a think tank office." - Newsweek</i>
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Interestingly, a story broke just after I first published this blog that Joe Biden basically did exactly what Chappelle is criticizing Trump for doing - but as Vice President! Vice presidents DO NOT have the same authority to keep, classify, or declassify documents. Did the FBI hassle him? Nope. In fact, they are debating whether to even investigate him at all! All the media is doing right now is making excuses for Biden and isn't it interesting that this was "discovered" before the midterms in November but only revealed now? Kinda like how the XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX [HBL] was called "Russian disinformation" before the 2020 election, and was revealed to be authentic AFTER Biden was elected. Hmmm? Chappelle's routines are CLEARLY being informed by the deep state, who are using people like him to manipulate the public perception and keep them in the dark.
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This is why sources like Dailymail.com need to make it seem like Chappele went all "rogue" in this routine...Look at how he segues from "Russia collussion" right into "the documents at Mar-A-Lago." Here's the truth about the docs and the "Russia Collusion" that the mainstream media is trying to hide from you and that Chappelle is obviously employed to distract his fans from:
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<i>"The whole point of this raid [on Mar-A-Lago by the FBI] was because president Trump declassified the "Crossfire Hurricane" Russian collusion documents through a presidential memo on January 19th 2021 [link at bottom]. The Biden justice department dragged their feet and never PUBLICLY released these documents. Trump had them, [and] they were worried that Trump was going to release them...they know that these documents are very damaging for Obama, Biden, Hillary, the FBI, the intel community...because they SHOW that they "cooked up" the Russia collusion scandal, the Russia collusion HOAX to politically hurt Trump in 2016 and it continued to hurt him when he was the president. And so they had to go get back these documents. That was the purpose of this raid, they went to a biased Judge Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, they got an illegal general warrant, and they went and got 11,000 documents." - Mike Davis, Article III project</i>
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Chappelle continues on politics:
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<i>"War in Ukraine brought it all into focus. Lucky for everybody in the western world the Ukrainians are way better fighters than we thought they’d be. God bless em they’re doin good. They killed 10,000 Russians the first week of the war…How is Russia losing to Ukraine?" </i>
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And here we are right back on the Biden propaganda train...Have you seen gas prices lately? Rent prices/real estate? Have you seen the disgusting homeless tent communities in our major cities around the country? Have you looked at the murder statistics in Chicago lately? What about nationally? The unprecidented rise in Fentanyl overdoses? Crime in major cities? Healthy young atheletes "dropping dead" for no reason? The absolute chaos, human trafficking, and rampant cartel activity at our southern border? Yet, the Biden administration sends what, $100 Billion to Ukraine so they can defend THEIR BORDERS against one of the great world Nuclear powers? A fight they cannot win, and that pits US against Russia, flirting with a Russia vs USA nuclear conflict [WWIII] in the process! But hey, let's talk about those documents at Mar-A-Lago...
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<i>"Now that the mid-terms are over…the whites they’re like, new born babies, just woke up. Everything white people mad about, we been on that. “Man, I can’t feed my family!” Black people like, “man we been on that!” “Man, we can’t trust the government!” “We BEEN on that!” “Man, we should dismantle the FBI!” “Word to MLK we been on that!” </i>
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Chappelle started this routine by talking about how you don't mention XXX XXXX ]TJs] without bad things happening. But stereotyping WHITES left and right? That's just fine and hilarious and joke-worthy because FUCK THE WHITES! I mean, is he trying to say that whites have never been poor before? And as for "trusting the government" - Chappelle doesn't seem to have a problem with Joe Biden's government, so where's he "been on that?" MLK? Yeah, obviously a hit job from the inside, but what about JFK? And RFK??? Does he think whites ain't "been on that?" 911: no whites "been on that?"
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The FBI raided Trump's home under questionable circumstances and so far have not shown us hard proof of the crime to this day. And Chappelle is basically trying to convince his audience that that's ok because, "we been on that?" Funny, I thought Trump was a "card carrying" member of the Illuminati? Doesn't sound like it by the way the DOJ is treating him and his family. Sounds more like a WITCH HUNT.
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And to the "Trump haters" out there...look, if Chappelle lies about the guy, it's not "pro Trump" to call it out. It's PRO TRUTH. Obviously the truth might make Trump look bad in other scenarios, so it works both ways. The truth doesn't care if it makes people look "good" or "bad." But if we're just going to apply it when it suits us, and reject it for the sake of a cheap laugh on SNL - we are living in a self made world of lies ourselves...
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As if Operation: Death Con 3 couldn't get any wackier, XX [KW] decides to spend like 3 hours on the Alex Jones show, just days after walking off of the set of Timcast after just 10 minutes or so. He comes out wearing a Balenciaga gimp mask, saying things like "I love the Nazis, and I love XXX XXXX [TJs]." This was really what triggered me to do this particular blog, and I was gonna do part II covering that. But since part I got so few hits, I'm going to wait and see if this was due to lack of interest from my readers or the censors.
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-17730740348275001132023-01-08T00:01:00.043-08:002023-01-20T23:15:33.903-08:00Operation: Death Con 3 [PT I]
<h1>Dave Chappelle</h1>
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<h2>SNL</h2>
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<h3>Drink Champs</h3>
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[the above headings are to help the search algorithms connect people to this page]
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Regarding a recent opening monologue Dave Chappelle did on Saturday Night Live, Dailymail.com published a story on November 14th that <i>"Dave Chappelle kept NBC and the producers of Saturday Night Live guessing up until the last moment when he reportedly performed a new version of his monologue for the live broadcast...The 49-year-old comedian performed a 'fake' version of his monologue for the dress rehearsal earlier on Saturday evening, before doing a different monologue that didn't get anyone's approval for the show that appeared on television, sources told Page Six on Monday."</i>
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We really have no way of confirming whether this Dailymail.com article is pulling our leg or not, but a closer look at Chappelle's monologue reveales why it matters. If he said things "without approval" from his scriptwriters/financiers - he'd be culpable for it. But if he did indeed stick to the script, this points the finger at those putting the words in his mouth. And who are "THEY" anyway?
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Chappelle starts out reading from a crumpled piece of paper pulled from his pocket, which seems intended to make it appear as though it was some last minute thing he decided to throw in spontaneously. He states in part that "I denounce anti-semetism in all it's forms." Why did he open his monologue this way, even jokingly? The implication seems to be that he is afraid of being branded an "anti-semite," and that he fears the consequences of such a branding.
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The statement ends with: "and THAT, Kanye, is how you buy yourself some time..." Time from what? An imminent retaliation from those who believe he is an anti-semite?
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<i>"Early in my career I learned that there are 2 words in the English language that you should never say together in sequence. And those words are THE and JEWS. Never heard someone do good after they said that."</i>
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If we take the "comedy" out of Chappelle's statement, what's he really saying? Let me translate: "If you are in the entertainment industry, don't talk bad about the Jews, or else..." This indicates to me pretty clearly that Chappelle is straight up enforcing the stereotype that a powerful group of Jews run the entertainment industry and that you better not talk bad about them if you wanna have a career in that field. Isn't that pretty much the same thing Kanye has been saying, albeit less deceptively and with less humor attached? And yet, the politically correct SNL crowd is applauding and laughing along, as if there is nothing at all anti-semetic about Chappelle's routine! Why is it ok for Chappelle to say these things in a comedy routine, but it's "anti-semitic" for YE to say it in other contexts?
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<i>"DEFCON is a defense alert state (numbered 1–5) used by the United States Armed Forces." - wiki </i>
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<i>"[I] Can’t even remember how it started. Vaguely I remember it started with a Tweet. Strange Tweet…I’m a little sleepy. I’mma get me some rest but when I wake up, I’m gonna go def-con 3 on the Jews!…I was a little worried, “what is he going to do to the jews?”</i>
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What does Chappelle mean when he says he can't remember how "it" started? What is "it?" What are we talking about here exactly? Almost sounds like YE and Chappelle are acting out some fake morality battle for the public. If this was some kinda deep state sponsored propaganda campaign, we might call it "Operation: Death Con 3."
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To start with, there is no such thing as "Death Con 3." But clearly, Ye was intending to at least partially reference the military Defcon system.
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So if Ye is preparing his "Defense readiness condition" against the Jews, doesn't that assume a DEFENSIVE, rather than OFFENSIVE position? Was he anticipating an ATTACK from "the Jews?" To further confuse the matter, he didn't say DEFCON 3, he said DEATH CON 3. We know what "DEATH" is. But a "CON" has to do with deception. If you sell someone a car that you claim runs perfectly, which you know needs a new transmission - that is a CON. Is YE indicating by way of word-play that there is some sort of deception going on?
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Ye addressed this "Death Con 3" Tweet recently on a Drink Champs podcast, where he comes off much more toned down, reasonable, and candid than he often does in other contexts. This shows how adept Ye is at "switching gears" with his personality. Or maybe there's something deeper and more sinister going on in his head?
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<i>"what I meant to say was “no one’s afraid of the Jewish media mob, which it is"</i>
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First of all, Ye quotes his infamous Tweet as saying "Def Con 3," which it didn't - it said DEATH con 3. He tries to play it off like it was a spelling error and that he doesn't always articulate himself as well as he'd like online. Even tells a story about his father giving him advice on how to better articulate himself publicly. I don't buy it, but I highly suggest everyone go watch the entire podcast I am referencing here [link at the bottom] He says a whole lot of interesting things I don't have space to get into here...
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Kanye West recently started going by "YE," which is the 2nd half of his original first name. The part he removed is K-A-N. How is that pronounced when you say it? CON.
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If you've ever watched the series "Outlander," the Scottish people portrayed in it say "YE" when they mean "YOU." KAN-YE = CON YOU? Removal of the 3 letters K-A-N = the death of Kan or DEATH CON 3?
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The fact Kanye cut his name in half tells you he gives his name and each of the letters LOTS of thought. Perhaps even more thought than most would assume...
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<i>"I believe 'ye' is the most commonly used word in the Bible, and in the Bible it means 'you,' " West said during an interview with Big Boy in June 2018." - USA Today</i>
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Ye's infamous Tweet also stated that he "can't be anti-semetic because Black people are actually Jew." To state that a Jew cannot be anti-semetic makes no sense logically. And the idea that a Black person cannot be anti-semetic because they are all Jews makes even less sense!
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Here's another interesting quote from Ye's Drink Champs appearance:
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<i>"Hey, you know, my people rise up, they [Jews] did something good, let’s copy what their doin. Let’s rise up the way they rise up...we have to make our own empire. We have to get free just like the Jews did." </i>
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He also states at several points that he is jealous of the Jews and what they got, according to him. This all starts to get into a militant sort of Black Power/Black Panther [political party] mentality, which the mainstream has been aggressively promoting for a few years now. But you've gotta question the motives of the mainstream when they act like they wanna EMPOWER a specific group or race of people, while demonizing others who don't fit into that classification. That's not about equality, that's about control and "culling the herd."
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<i>"You guys have toyed with me and tried to blackball anyone whoever opposes your agenda"</i>
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<i>[Image of a Freemasonic ballot box, taken from freemasonry.network]</i>
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"You guys" seems to be a continuation of Ye's suggestion that a group of powerful Jews are behind the entertainment industry, and are actually after Ye himself.
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The term "blackball" has a Freemasonic connotation. To "blackball" a candidate means to reject his membership. This is done by casting a black cube, which is an important symbol in ancient Jewish mysticism as well. Is Ye trying to say that he was "rejected" from membership of some elite Freemasonic organization? Sorta falls in line with the "I'm a famous guy rebelling against the elite" narrative. Again, I don't buy it, I think Ye is a stone cold mind control slave for the elite, but I digress...
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Back to David's SNL monologue:
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<i>"I grew up around Jewish people. I have a lot of Jewish friends, so I’m not freaked out by your culture…I know a little bit about it just from hangin around, be like “yo, let’s go out after school tomorrow!” They be like “we can’t go out it’s Sha Na Na tomorrow!” I be like, what? What is Sha Na Na?" </i>
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The joke seems to be that the phrase "Sha Na Na" sounds kinda like a Jewish holiday like Rosh Hashana. But if you watch the video, DAVID Chappelle puts emphesis on the question "what is Sha Na Na?" Sha Na Na was a 50s Rock and Roll revival band who appeared at Woodstock, and later had a TV show which aired from 1977-1981. It's a reference only older people are probably going to get, so I assume it was aimed to grab their specific attention. This kinda sets up the next bit...
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<i>[Hasidic Jews]</i>
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<i>[Run DMC]</i>
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<i>[Weird Al Yankovic, from his video for the song "Amish Paradise," a spoof on Coolio's rap hit "Gangster's Paradise"]</i>
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<i>"Why do some of your people dress like RUN DMC?"</i>
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The correlation Chappelle makes between RUN DMC's "look" and Hasidic Jewish garb gets a good laugh from the crowd, but is there something much more deeply psychological going on here than it would at first seem?
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<i>"A year ago, I’d seen him on a podcast called “drink champs.” Great show…Kanye said “only millionaires wear chains”…he said "I'm a billionare!"...He went on Drink Champs again…he said “I can say anti-semitic things…and Adidas can’t drop me!” Adidas dropped that nigga immediately. Ironically, Adidas was founded by Nazis."</i>
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<i>[Slaves in a "Chain Gang"]</i>
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<i>[RUN DMC, wearing their signature gold CHAINS...]</i>
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<i>[RUN DMC, wearing their signature Adidas shoes, and jumpsuits. One of their most popular songs was "My Adidas."]</i>
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Jews, anti-semitism, rappers, chains, adidas, Nazis, money, power, influence - what's the big picture Chappelle is painting here? I think there's something far more psychological happening with the language of his monologue than most people would suspect - and I think it is completely deliberate. The easiest way to break it all down and summarize, is to look at the symbolism here.
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In the Thoth tarot deck, we see Adam and Eve [or Adam and Lilith?] after the fall, in the card called "The Devil." They appear to be chained up, so why do they look content? Happy even! The chains are loose, they can take them off anytime. But they PREFER the chains apparently. They PREFER to be satan's slaves? Perhaps they've been deceived into believing the chains are GOOD for them. That they are GOLD. Perhaps these rappers and rockstars and actors that we idolize and adore are all just slaves in a fancier package. Like high end prostitutes, trading in their souls to achieve fame and fortune. Is ANY reward worth trading in your soul for?
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[Adolf Dassler, German founder of Adidas in the 1920s]
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While the founding of Adidas in Germany seems to pre-date the Nazi party, Chappelle's comment that Adidas was "founded by Nazis" seems to ring somewhat true. In fact, the founder's name was Adolf!
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<i>"Both Dassler brothers joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in May 1933 and also became members of the National Socialist Motor Corps. Furthermore, Adolf took the rank of Sportwart in the Hitler Youth from 1935 until the end of the war. During the war, the company was running the last sport shoe factory in the country and predominantly supplied the Wehrmacht with shoes." - Wiki </i>
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Now obviously RUN DMC was either sponsored by, or were being paid by Adidas to represent them. This not only made Adidas alot of money, but cleared the company's reputation of being "racist" by having Black American rappers and their fans representing them. This may sound like uncomfortable stuff to contemplate, but if you owned a business as large as Adidas, you'd be thinking about this stuff too. Because at the end of the day, it's not about "empowering minorities," it's about MONEY, popularity, and perhaps a bit of social engineering. So yeah, I am not surprised they dropped Ye for his "anti-semitic" comments. It probably had more to do with concerns about how they might be percieved by the PC public, than with Ye's "anti-semitism." Even if they did lose money by dropping him, it's the safe bet in the long run because getting branded an "anti-semitic sympathizer" could sink Adidas in a heartbeat. Cutting Ye off was probably a "better safe than sorry" sort of gamble.
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Back to Chappelle's monologue...
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<i>"He had broken the show business rules. You know, the rules of perception if they’re black then it’s a gang. If they’re Italian it’s the mob but if they’re Jewish it’s a coincidence and you should never speak about it." </i>
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Again, it's kind of odd how obvious Chappelle is here in terms of acknowledging a powerful Jewish presence at the center of the entertainment business. The very same type of observation that got Ye branded "anti-semite." Maybe "the Jews" are writing Chappelle's script here because they WANT people to fear them? Maybe this is why Dailymail.com wants us to believe Chappelle went off script? Because if this is "all Chappelle talking," nobody can be accused of putting words in his mouth...
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<i>"I’ve been to Hollywood…It’s ALOT of Jews. Like ALOT. But that don’t mean anything. There’s a lot of black people in Ferguson, Missouri doesn’t mean they run the place…you could maybe adopt the dillusion that the Jews run show business, it’s not a crazy thing to think. But it’s a crazy thing to say out loud in a climate like this."</i>
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Allow me to translate David's "joke" here: Powerful Jews run Hollywood, but don't talk about it, if you know what's good for you. Especially you Black people!
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<i>[Herschel Walker, speaking at one of Trump's "Save America" rallies]</i>
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<i>"Now that mid-terms are over and it’s crazy climate…the most ominous sign of mid-terms I believe would be Herschel Walker who I, I don’t wanna speak badly of because he’s black but I have to admit…he’s observably stupid. Even when he’s not talking his mouth be open a little bit…"</i>
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Chappelle says he doesn't wanna speak badly of Herschel Walker because he's black, which is a strange statement as it insinuates that he thinks Blacks should get special treatment over other races - which doesn't contribute to the idea of EQUALITY, it encourages ignorance and INEQUALITY among races. Yet, the PC SNL audience is just applauding and laughing away, as Chappelle disingenuously postures himself as "morally superior" to Kanye West.
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<i>"Watching the news now they’re saying it’s the end of the Trump era…He’s what I call an honest liar…I’ve never seen a white male billionaire screaming at the top of his lungs, the whole system is rigged!…he said “I know the system is rigged because I use it” Then he pulled out an Illuminati membership card and chop a line of cocaine with it and did a line right there at the podium."</i>
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Chappelle's cheap and seemingly pointless bashing of Herschel Walker, a friend of Donald Trump, was obviously a segue into bashing the latter. Walker was merely a convenient "stepping stone" to get there, and bash one of the few prominent Patriotic Republican Blacks out there while he's at it... Allow me to translate again what Chappelle is saying here: "Trump is part of the deep state but at least he's honest about it and tells it like it is." Some people seemed to think this was a sort of rare compliment coming from someone on the mainstream left. But how is insinuating that Trump is just another member of the White House Illuminati cult a compliment? Methinks David is projecting here...
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When it comes to making fun of the Government, Joe Biden is a REAL EASY TARGET. You'd think comedians would be clowning him left and right. Why aren't they? From his stumbling and bumbling words and feet to his deplorable performance as a President, sniffing and kissing and groping children and young women like a dirty old man - the guy is a walking mockery of our country! Yet Chappelle only has Trump jokes when it comes to politics.
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<i>"As soon as he [Trump] won they started sayin all that “he’s colluding with Russia he’s colluding with Russia!” It was very embarrassing as a democrat, but as time went on…we all came to learn…he was probably colluding with Russia."</i>
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When Chappelle states that Trump was "probably" colluding with Russia, he got lots of laughs and applause from the crowd. That's funny, because to this day there is no proof of that. Chappelle is going off of "accusations" and endless streams of misleading headlines which never yield actual evidence of "Trump/Russia collussion!" In fact Elon Musk recently published information on Twitter revealing that the FBI secretly contacted them ahead of the Hunter Biden Laptop story, warning that it was "Russian disinformation" and was to be sensored ahead of the 2020 election. It has since been revealed that the Hunter Biden laptop is 100% authentic. So this is a clear case of the "Russia Collusion" narrative being used to cover up the truth. Specifically, regarding the President's bagman/crackhead son!
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<i>"Why he got all them documents at his house?…you know what I never stole from work? Work." </i>
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First of all, it's never been established that Trump "stole" any documents, so Chappelle is starting right in with a lie. Trump was president and is a prolific business man, having LOTS and LOTS of documents doesn't mean he stole em. And besides, the Presidential Records Act [PRA] gives presidents special privelages with regard to classified documents. So even IF Trump had classified documents at his house, that does not AUTOMATICALLY mean he stole them or that he had no right to be in possession of them! If he had documents MARKED "classified," that doesn't mean they have not been DECLASSIFIED since they were labeled.
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Bill Clinton had tons of classified information in his sock drawer years after leaving office. A judge BLOCKED Judicial Watch from forcing him to release the classified materials because she ruled Clinton had the right to classify, declassify, withold, or release the material at his own discretion. But in Trump's case, they simply RAIDED his home and took what they wanted - then accused HIM of breaking the law! Now if they can do that to a former president, imagine what they can do to YOU if they decide YOU are on their "shit list?" Oh, you'll start researching the laws like Sherlock Holmes then!
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<i>"President Joe Biden is being reminded of how he criticized Donald Trump as being "irresponsible" for having top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago after the White House revealed classified materials from Biden's time as vice president were discovered at a think tank office." - Newsweek</i>
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Interestingly, a story broke just after I first published this blog that Joe Biden basically did exactly what Chappelle is criticizing Trump for doing - but as Vice President! Vice presidents DO NOT have the same authority to keep, classify, or declassify documents. Did the FBI hassle him? Nope. In fact, they are debating whether to even investigate him at all! All the media is doing right now is making excuses for Biden and isn't it interesting that this was "discovered" before the midterms in November but only revealed now? Kinda like how the Hunter Biden laptop was called "Russian disinformation" before the 2020 election, and was revealed to be authentic AFTER Biden was elected. Hmmm? Chappelle's routines are CLEARLY being informed by the deep state, who are using people like him to manipulate the public perception and keep them in the dark.
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This is why sources like Dailymail.com need to make it seem like Chappele went all "rogue" in this routine...Look at how he segues from "Russia collussion" right into "the documents at Mar-A-Lago." Here's the truth about the docs and the "Russia Collusion" that the mainstream media is trying to hide from you and that Chappelle is obviously employed to distract his fans from:
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<i>"The whole point of this raid [on Mar-A-Lago by the FBI] was because president Trump declassified the "Crossfire Hurricane" Russian collusion documents through a presidential memo on January 19th 2021 [link at bottom]. The Biden justice department dragged their feet and never PUBLICLY released these documents. Trump had them, [and] they were worried that Trump was going to release them...they know that these documents are very damaging for Obama, Biden, Hillary, the FBI, the intel community...because they SHOW that they "cooked up" the Russia collusion scandal, the Russia collusion HOAX to politically hurt Trump in 2016 and it continued to hurt him when he was the president. And so they had to go get back these documents. That was the purpose of this raid, they went to a biased Judge Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, they got an illegal general warrant, and they went and got 11,000 documents." - Mike Davis, Article III project</i>
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Chappelle continues on politics:
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<i>"War in Ukraine brought it all into focus. Lucky for everybody in the western world the Ukrainians are way better fighters than we thought they’d be. God bless em they’re doin good. They killed 10,000 Russians the first week of the war…How is Russia losing to Ukraine?" </i>
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And here we are right back on the Biden propaganda train...Have you seen gas prices lately? Rent prices/real estate? Have you seen the disgusting homeless tent communities in our major cities around the country? Have you looked at the murder statistics in Chicago lately? What about nationally? The unprecidented rise in Fentanyl overdoses? Crime in major cities? Healthy young atheletes "dropping dead" for no reason? The absolute chaos, human trafficking, and rampant cartel activity at our southern border? Yet, the Biden administration sends what, $100 Billion to Ukraine so they can defend THEIR BORDERS against one of the great world Nuclear powers? A fight they cannot win, and that pits US against Russia, flirting with a Russia vs USA nuclear conflict [WWIII] in the process! But hey, let's talk about those documents at Mar-A-Lago...
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<i>"Now that the mid-terms are over…the whites they’re like, new born babies, just woke up. Everything white people mad about, we been on that. “Man, I can’t feed my family!” Black people like, “man we been on that!” “Man, we can’t trust the government!” “We BEEN on that!” “Man, we should dismantle the FBI!” “Word to MLK we been on that!” </i>
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Chappelle started this routine by talking about how you don't mention THE JEWS without bad things happening. But stereotyping WHITES left and right? That's just fine and hilarious and joke-worthy because FUCK THE WHITES! I mean, is he trying to say that whites have never been poor before? And as for "trusting the government" - Chappelle doesn't seem to have a problem with Joe Biden's government, so where's he "been on that?" MLK? Yeah, obviously a hit job from the inside, but what about JFK? And RFK??? Does he think whites ain't "been on that?" 911: no whites "been on that?"
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The FBI raided Trump's home under questionable circumstances and so far have not shown us hard proof of the crime to this day. And Chappelle is basically trying to convince his audience that that's ok because, "we been on that?" Funny, I thought Trump was a "card carrying" member of the Illuminati? Doesn't sound like it by the way the DOJ is treating him and his family. Sounds more like a WITCH HUNT.
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And to the "Trump haters" out there...look, if Chappelle lies about the guy, it's not "pro Trump" to call it out. It's PRO TRUTH. Obviously the truth might make Trump look bad in other scenarios, so it works both ways. The truth doesn't care if it makes people look "good" or "bad." But if we're just going to apply it when it suits us, and reject it for the sake of a cheap laugh on SNL - we are living in a self made world of lies ourselves...
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As if Operation: Death Con 3 couldn't get any wackier, Ye decides to spend like 3 hours on the Alex Jones show, just days after walking off of the set of Timcast after just 10 minutes or so. He comes out wearing a Balenciaga gimp mask, saying things like "I love the Nazis, and I love the Jews." This was really what triggered me to research this topic, and I'm gonna have to save the rest for part 2.
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Sources:
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<a href="https://rumble.com/v1ufghs--dave-chappelle-opening-monologue-on-saturday-night-live-nov-122022-youtube.html">Chappelle's SNL monologue</a>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EriGaoz4D5E">Ye on Drink Champs</a>
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<a href="https://rumble.com/v1l3f57-mike-davis-the-presidential-records-act-declassified-trumps-documents-stole.html">Mike Davis Interview</a>
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<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11427811/Dave-Chappelle-performed-FAKE-SNL-monologue-rehearsal-unveiling-new-version-air.html">Daily Mail Article</a>
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<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/justice-dept-memo-exposes-shameless-deceit-of-muellers-russiagate-probe/">No Trump Collusion - NY Post</a>
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<a href="https://rumble.com/v1yhfvc-ye-west-live-in-studio-with-alex-jones-uncensored-unchained-raw-friday-full.html">Ye on ALex Jones</a>
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<a href="https://rumble.com/v1yc08u-kanye-west-praises-nazis-and-hitler-in-alex-jones-interview-while-wearing-b.html">Timcast commentary on Ye walking off the set</a>
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<a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-declassification-certain-materials-related-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/">1.19.21 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL</a>
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<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-classified-documents-remarks-haunt-him-1772585">Joe Biden's Classified Documents Remarks Come Back to Haunt Him</a>
Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-19129346824500623562022-12-14T11:00:00.010-08:002024-01-27T01:12:57.677-08:00Mark Lanegan, Cobain, and other mysteries... [pt 2]<p>
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July 20th, 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of man allegedly landing on the moon. I say "allegedly" because I am one of many people who question whether the "moon landing" actually occured the way the public was told and shown. But the point here isn't to argue whether the 1969 moon landing actually happened the way we were told. The point is, there are people with doubts out there. So when signifficant anniversaries like this pop up, the media will often double down on popular narratives which the mainstream is biased towards. This includes new documentaries and tributes which celebrate and RE-ENFORCE the popular narrative. But almost more important is to produce a fresh dose of DEBUNKING material to invalidate theories, evidence, and individuals that are not preferred by the mainstream. It is IMPORTANT to the establishment that you BELIEVE certain things, and not others. And usually the bigger the lie, the more effort is put into re-renforcing it.
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[Screenshot taken from hachettebooks.com, who published Lanegan's book]
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Although nobody seems to know the exact date Kurt Cobain died [the wiki entry is supposedly based upon the medical examiner's alleged estimate], we know that it was early April of 1994.
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Kurt's friend Mark Lanegan recently wrote a memoir "Sing Backwards and Weep," which was released by Hachette books on April 27th of 2021. April of 2021 marked the 27th anniversary month since Kurt Cobain passed away. He was 27 years old when he died. Are these dates just a coincidence or was the release of the book timed to specifically acknowledge the 27th anniversary of Kurt's passing?
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In part 1, I included an exclusive interview with Tom Grant, the investigator Courtney Love hired to "find Kurt" when he "went missing" just days before his body was found. I believe Tom Grant to be the most credible source of information regarding Kurt Cobain's death out there. Given that fact, much of what is discussed here is based upon the reliability of Grant's research. I encourage anyone reading this who hasn't, to look into his work over the years at cobaincase.com and decide for yourself if you take his assessments to be credible. Interestingly, one of Tom Grant's biggest critics is Courtney Love's father, Hank Harrison. A man known to be a pathological liar.
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One of the first questions I asked Grant had to do with Lanegan's statement in his book that he accompanied Grant and Dylan Carlson to Cobain's house to look for him. While Grant stated he hadn't read the book, I gave him a direct quote which claims “we went from room to room calling his name.” Grant's response was:
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<i>[laughing out loud] "No! He was never in that house that was ONLY Dylan and I inside that house."</i>
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One can make excuses for Lanegan, but the level of detail given in the book recounting his supposed presence at the Cobain house in this context is far too specific to be an accident or some sort of mistake in recollecting events. Let's review the quotes from Lanegan's book to illustrate what I mean:
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<i>“The next day someone in the Nirvana camp asked if I would go with Dylan to some Capital Hill dope houses to see if Kurt was hanging out at any of them…Tom Grant picked us up...we went from place to place, buying drugs and looking for Kurt to no avail…<b>Grant drove us to Kurt’s house near lake Washington. We went from room to room calling his name…I went outside to smoke a cigarette and stood at the bottom of a flight of stairs that led to a small room above his garage...I thought about going up and taking a look. Just then Dylan and Grant walked out, ready to leave</b>…A day or 2 later, Rosemary called me…Kurt’s body had been found…A medical examiner judged his death to have taken place the same day we were at the house looking for him.“</i>
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The parts in BOLD lettering above are completely fabricated, according to Tom Grant. Yes, he picked up Lanegan for a few short hours to buy some dope just to see if they could locate Kurt or information about his whereabouts. But Lanegan DID NOT accompany Grant and Dylan to the house. So what you see above appears to be false information planted directly in the middle of what may very well be true information. To me, this shows an intent to mislead people. Why would Lanegan want to mislead people on this topic?
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<i>[Screen-shot from Grant's docu-drama "Soaked in Bleach"]</i>
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In Tom Grant's film "Soaked in Bleach," his visit to Cobain's house in the middle of a rainy night with Dylan Carlson is one of the first scenes dramatized by actors. Clearly, it is only the 2 of them in the scene, no sign of Mark Lanegan or anyone else anywhere. Grant and Dylan went to the house twice before Kurt's body was found. Both times were at NIGHT and both times it was raining.
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Before they try and enter the house, Grant has Dylan go up to the door first, pretending to be alone so that if Kurt answers, he won't be alarmed by Tom Grant's presence - which would remain secret if possible. Dylan takes around 5 minutes or more before reporting back to Grant that nobody is home. At cobaincase.com, Grant remarks that he wondered why Dylan was gone so long, only to come back and say nobody was home. Grant told me that he suspects the reason Dylan was gone so long, is that he checked the greenhouse [room above the garage] and found Kurt's body. Kurt was Dylan's heroin source. And as Lanegan demonstrates in very PAINFUL detail in his book - a junkie's main goal every hour of the day is to make sure they got their junk. And so, Dylan probably panicked and remained silent about finding Kurt's body since Courtney Love was now his main hope for a steady supply of dope, and that abruptly became his main concern.
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<i>"Dylan didn't tell me about the room above the garage, and since it was dark and raining, I hadn't noticed it." - Tom Grant, cobaincase.com</i>
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Now think about what you just read, in reference to Lanegan's statement in his book. Here is the completely fabricated part of the story Lanegan told again:
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<i>"I went outside to smoke a cigarette and stood at the bottom of a flight of stairs that led to a small room above his garage...I thought about going up and taking a look. Just then Dylan and Grant walked out, ready to leave."</i>
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Lanegan's brief fabrication here provides an absurd scenario in which both Dylan and Grant overlook the greenhouse in broad daylight, WHILE he stands directly in front of it smoking a cigarette contemplating going in himself. The only purpose of this story as far as I can tell, is to specifically confuse the narrative surrounding the greenhouse - and why Dylan never told Tom Grant to check it. Lanegan even avoids using the word "greenhouse," instead choosing the words "small room above his garage."
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Lanegan admits in his book that he lied to the press about whether he'd heard from Kurt or not just before the body was found.
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<i>"I'd lied to a Rolling Stone reporter, saying I'd not heard from him for weeks previous to his death..."</i>
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So was he really lying when he told Rolling Stone that he hadn't heard from Kurt, or was he telling the truth back then and is changing his story now?
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He goes on to state how guilty he felt, that he was some sort of "enabler" of Kurt's drug habit. Even suggesting that his, at the time recently released album "Whiskey for the Holy Ghost," may have encouraged Kurt to feel more suicidal [Lanegan states that Courtney told him Kurt was listening to the album constantly before he died]. While that all may be true, it all happens to enforce the Kurt suicide narrative as well. Does Lanegan's book support the suicide narrative 100% of the time because that's just how things happened? Or was there a specific WILL to lean Lanegan's story in that direction?
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<i>"Mark Lanegan, I can tell you for a fact told me that Kurt was NOT suicidal just like Dylan did." - Tom Grant</i>
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It's interesting to consider the idea that Lanegan told Tom Grant he did not think that Kurt was suicidal, but then years later writes a book which does nothing but SUPPORT the idea that Kurt was suicidal - albeit somewhat subtly, and with seemingly great care to make it all sound very plausible and honest.
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<i>"The crackpot theories that insinuated Courtney and Dylan had conspired to murder Kurt were complete horseshit." - Mark Lanegan</i>
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Lanegan doesn't specify where these "crackpot theories" are coming from, but Tom Grant is obviously the loudest, most credible voice out there contributing to the idea that Kurt was murdered. But Grant NEVER claimed or insinuated that Dylan Carlson was involved with Kurt's murder. He has insinuated that Dylan likely discovered Kurt's body days before it was "official" without saying anything - but that's not the same as accusing him of being directly involved. In his book, Lanegan seems to be conflating the "Courtney had Kurt murdered" theory with some alleged "Courtney and Dylan conspired to murder Kurt" theory - in order to render any considerations along these lines absurd.
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In Lanegan's book he credits Courtney Love for paying the cost to put him in the M.A.P. rehab facility, which he seems to think saved his life. That may be 100% true. But given Courtney's manipulative reputation, I asked Tom Grant if he thought there may have been an alterior motive for her doing that. Here is his response:
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<i>"There’s always an alterior motive for everything that Courtney does. I never even heard that she did that. It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s true because I think Courtney needs a team of people around her…that will help support her in the fact that Kurt was suicidal...Courtney may have started telling him, “I want you to say this I want you to say that, I want you to plant this story in the press, say this in your book” whatever…"</i>
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According to Tom Grant, Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff "wanted to get away from Courtney. I know that for a fact because I know her family pretty well." She ended up dead within a couple months of Kurt dying. It was officially ruled an overdose. Lanegan tells a short tale about planning a date with Pfaff just before she ended up dead. A tragic tale with seemingly no purpose. Unless that purpose was merely to innoculate any conspiracy theories regarding her death? Again, anything to do with Courtney in his book always leans TOWARDS her innocence of any possible wrong-doing. If Lanegan didn't think Pfaff's death was fishy, why should we?
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Whether Lanegan deliberately intended to mislead people regarding Kurt Cobain's death in his book, I cannot say for certain. But the intent behind certain specific lies in it seems self-evident to me. Or maybe it was not necessarily HIS intent, but the financiers he was beholden to?
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<i>[L: Josh Homme R: Jesse Hughes - founders of the band The Eagles of Death Metal]</i>
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<b>LANEGAN - HATCHETTE - LEGARDERE - LE BATACLAN - JOSH HOMME </b>
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Back in 2017 I published a blog on <a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2017/04/terror-wars-bataclan-shooting.html">the 2015 Le Bataclan massacre.</a>These terrorist attacks in Paris have been attributed to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). About 90 rock fans were slaughtered at the famous Le Bataclan, the most ever killed at a rock concert to my knowledge. The band playing on stage when the attacks began was The Eagles of Death Metal, who were founded by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme. Josh Homme was a friend and former bandmate of Mark Lanegan.
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According to a New York times interview, Homme had planned to be onstage at that show but changed his plans. “I wasn’t there by a stroke of fate,” he said. In that article, there is no particular explanation as to what this "stroke of fate" was. Now to be fair, Homme didn't always perform with EODM - but one would think he'd want to very clearly explain why he wasn't present for this particular show, just to assure the more "conspiracy minded" people that he didn't have some kind of "heads up" as to what would occur there. People like his own band mate, Jesse Hughes.
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<i>"Hughes said he felt something was amiss when he first arrived at the venue and noted the security guard for the backstage area didn't look at him. "I immediately went to the promoter and said, 'Who's that guy? I want to put another dude on,'" Hughes claimed. "And he goes, 'Well some of the other guards aren’t here yet,' and eventually I found out that six or so wouldn't show up at all...It seems rather obvious that they had a reason not to show up." - Rolling Stone</i>
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Joel and Pascal Laloux owned Bataclan since 1976. They sold it on Sept 11th 2015, 2 months before the terrorist attacks...Lagardère Sports and Entertainment bought 70% of the Bataclan company from its owners...The Largest shareholder to the Lagardere group is the Qatar, a known financier of the Muslim brotherhood, and has long been suspected of funding ISIS/ISIL...This was exposed towards the end of 2016 [wikileakes] and reads in part that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were “providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL.”
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<i>"Because of our position in the music industry, we have direct ties to what has happened in France: Eagles of Death Metal are one of our own artists; Bataclan is owned by one of our shareholders, Lagardère group; one of our own family members, who is also an artist manager, has worked with victim Nick Alexander on tour" By Bandsintown - Nov 16, 2015</i>
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I've gathered this information here, mostly just to keep public record of it out in the open - for possible further use in connecting dots in the future. For now, I am not claiming that these financial connections [by way of Lagardère] between the publisher of Mark Lanegan's book, Le Bataclan, and The Eagles of Death Metal means anything in particular - other than the fact that those funding terrorist organizations appear to also be funding our American media to a large degree. But while we are discussing connections, let's take a closer look at what Lanegan said about Josh Homme in his book.
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Mark Lanegan met Josh Homme when he briefly joined the Screaming Trees on guitar. Homme would later invite Lanegan to tour with his band, Queens of the Stoneage.
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In his book, Lanegan describes how the two of them connected - which seems a bit odd considering he was a full blown heroin junky while Homme was straight. Nevertheless, Homme decides to join Lanegan in one of his late night searches for heroin in the worst neighborhood they can find in whatever town they happened to be touring that particular night. But Lanegan fails to "score" because the drug dealers they meet are convinced Homme is an undercover cop during 2 different encounters. I found that detail very interesting because in my blog on the Bataclan massacre I observed, perhaps incorrectly, that the EODM seemed to be some sort of corporate sponsored propaganda vehicle. I also hinted at my suspicion that Homme himself might be some sort of agent provocateur. I am not claiming that Lanegan's book is any sort of vindication of my suspicions, but that it seems to directly address any suspicions his fans may have along those lines - and ever so subtly debunks them. We're supposed to think, "Lanegan trusted Homme enough to take him on a score! People thought he was an undercover - but Lanegan didn't, so you shouldn't either because you love and trust Lanegan, RIGHT?"
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[Tuesday Cross (Marina Cardenas) and Jesse Hughes (singer in EODM)]
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<i>[Lanegan, while being interviewed at his home residence in 2019]</i>
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<i>[Tuesday Cross has a crucifix tattoo'd on both middle fingers, and has an upside-down cross motif tatoo'd directly at the top/center of her chest. Mark Lanegan had a similar tattoo on the back of his hand.] </i>
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<i>"The front cover's a picture of the doorknocker on my studio...we got it from some place and the guy said "I have to tell you that this thing supposedly is cursed..." So we bought it immediately [laughter] Cursed? Fuck yeah!..if anything's cursed, we're definately in the market for it..." - Mark Lanegan, 2019 interview</i>
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-14916509614427624452022-12-03T00:06:00.005-08:002024-01-27T01:12:13.916-08:00Mark Lanegan, Cobain, and other mysteries... [pt 1]<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZrOlqYGpdN-2i2vZfSOe0fQoekGSNSlDulqb0RXu_K82tLYvQatDdWc--TilDYPVJ4AnOtAZyay-P0__2RAdSBfO16uQGsBb2YYOLfAiZOmXvC7lpw5ZO138uASW4EXEDXnyUzvS3tEEl_YUaiu8FP9Ucc0jXJmxbMryk3pQA_vYr4X2Gw_raQ/s1600/2021-07-reading-list-mark-lanegan-sing-backwards-and-weep-1600.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZrOlqYGpdN-2i2vZfSOe0fQoekGSNSlDulqb0RXu_K82tLYvQatDdWc--TilDYPVJ4AnOtAZyay-P0__2RAdSBfO16uQGsBb2YYOLfAiZOmXvC7lpw5ZO138uASW4EXEDXnyUzvS3tEEl_YUaiu8FP9Ucc0jXJmxbMryk3pQA_vYr4X2Gw_raQ/s400/2021-07-reading-list-mark-lanegan-sing-backwards-and-weep-1600.jpg"/></a></div>
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I recently got the book "Sing Backwards and Weep" by the late Mark Lanegan, which is one of the better musician's biographies I have read. Lanegan was perhaps best known as the singer for the Screaming Trees and also Queens of the Stoneage [for a time]. As with just about any media I consume these days, whether it is a book, a film, a series, music, or an advertisement - I assume that it is all filled with lies, half truths, propaganda, or has some sort of social/political angle. While approaching Lanegan's book from this perspective, I discovered some information concerning Kurt Cobain that I thought was worth looking into further.
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If you've ever seen the film "Kurt and Courtney," the film "Soaked in Bleach," or if you've read any books on the subject of Kurt's death - you are no doubt familiar with Tom Grant, the private investigator hired by Courtney Love to "find Kurt" when he "went missing" around April fool's day, 1994. As the story goes, Kurt was urged/forced into a Southern California based rehab facility for reasons I will not elaborate upon here. He arrived on March 30 and apparently snuck out the very next evening, April 1st. He caught a late plane to Seattle and one of the first people he called when he arrived home was Mark Lanegan. At least, that's according to his book.
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<i>“One day in early April of ’94…my phone rang…I let the answering machine pick it up and waited to see if whoever called would leave a message. “Hey man, it’s Kurt. I’m back in town. What are you doing?” Though I loved Kurt, I knew I wasn’t calling him back today…He called twice more over the next couple hours…I never picked up…Late in the afternoon, I got a call from the entertainment lawyer I shared with Kurt, Rosemary Carroll…”Mark, if you know where Kurt is, you need to tell me now…He checked himself out of rehab yesterday, flew back to Seattle today, and now nobody can get in touch with him.”…he’d left rehab and come home the same day he called me….”</i>
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Lanegan's book is heartbreaking in it's detail, as he recounts dark "adventures" in the life of a rock-star junkie and his "friends" - among them Layne Staley, Dylan Carlson, and Kurt Cobain. But there was one particular story that just seemed a bit too difficult to believe or ignore.
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<i>“The next day someone in the Nirvana camp asked if I would go with Dylan to some Capital Hill dope houses to see if Kurt was hanging out at any of them…Tom Grant picked us up...we went from place to place, buying drugs and looking for Kurt to no avail…Grant drove us to Kurt’s house near lake Washington. We went from room to room calling his name…I went outside to smoke a cigarette and stood at the bottom of a flight of stairs that led to a small room above his garage...I thought about going up and taking a look. Just then Dylan and Grant walked out, ready to leave…A day or 2 later, Rosemary called me…Kurt’s body had been found…A medical examiner judged his death to have taken place the same day we were at the house looking for him.“</i>
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Although I have never taken a deep dive into the Cobain death story, I recalled very clearly the part about Dylan Carlson and Tom Grant searching for Kurt in his Lake Washington home in the black of night, rain pouring miserably outside. It stood out distinctly that it was only the 2 of them, and yet Mark Lanegan has placed himself in that room when he retells the story in his book. I had to get to the bottom of this, so I contacted Tom Grant through his website cobaincase.com. Here are some exerpts from the interview I conducted with him recently, which he has given me permission to quote.
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Tom Grant Interview DECEMBER, 2022
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JG: I read this book by Mark Lanegan, you recall Mark Lanegan?
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<b>TG: Yeah. Mmhmm.</b>
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JG: Have you read his memoir that he put out?
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<b>TG: I haven’t read it but people have emailed me about things that he said..like he said that he was with us at the main house in Washington and that he stood by the greenhouse smoking a cigarette while we were searching the house [laughs]…First of all he was not there at the house. The only time we were with Mark Lanegan was…we picked him up and he drove around with us because he knew some of the spots too that Kurt would hang out at and…we only had him in the car for, I don’t know 2 or 3 hours at the very most DURING THE DAYTIME. We never, I never went to the house during the daytime…The main house, Lake Washington house during the daytime until we heard on the radio that a body was found at the Lake Washington house…When we showed up to the house that Friday Morning, that was the first time I went to the house during the DAYTIME. The other 2 times that Dylan and I had been there were in the middle of the night…both times were late at night in the dark with heavy rain. Both nights, was raining very heavy. ..there’s no way Mark Lanegan could have been standing out by the greenhouse smoking a cigarette it was raining too hard [chuckles] I don’t know he coulda just made it up for some reason…but I think more than likely…when we look back on things that happened decades ago it’s not uncommon for things to creep in, maybe a dream or something that he had about that incident…somehow he worked that dream into reality? Got it confused with what really happened or something. </b>
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JG: He said “we went from room to room calling his name”
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<b>TG: [laughing out loud] No! He was never in that house that was ONLY Dylan and I inside that house. </b>
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<b>Just based on what you’ve told me that he said, the fact that he said he “searched the house with us”[laughs] that alone…if somebody’s gonna say something like that whether they are doing it deliberately or because their memory is off, that just tells me right there you…don’t take anything else he says as accurate or true…Courtney tells the truth once in a while. But she’s a pathological liar. So anything she says you have to assume it may or it may not be true. Just like anything that Mark Lanegan is writing now. Based on what you said that he said that I know for a FACT not to be true…then you have to read everything he says as, “well maybe that’s true maybe that’s not true.” </b>
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JG: And then he said a day or 2 later Rosemary Carroll called him and said Kurt’s body was found and that a medical examiner judged his death to have taken place the same day we were at the house looking for him.
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<b>TG: [laughing[ Yeah, he’s got the time-line way off even.</b>
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JG: What about the medical examiner comment?
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<b>TG: They claim he died on Tuesday and the time we went in the house and were searching rooms was Thursday night. Well, Wednesday night and Thursday night.</b>
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JG: You said he died on Sunday, right?
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<b>TG: I believe he did, yeah…that’s total speculation on my part, I don’t have any evidence that I could present in a court of law…it’s based on my experience in my conversations with Courtney, some of the things that she said some of the things that she did. Like having the story planted Saturday night that she had overdosed and was in the hospital. That was a total lie, and she didn’t try to pretend to me that it was true. She told me that she had a friend plant that in the press…and as I pieced everything together…that, and then what happened on Thursday night when she thought we were gonna discover the body…it seemed to me like she was trying to set this up…she wanted this to look like it was a suicide pact between her and Kurt, but of course she was gonna survive and he died. But it would make her look all heroic and romantic throughout the whole thing. </b>
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<i>[Tom Grant's website cobaincase.com has lots of valuable information available for free regarding the Cobain case - you can also buy the "Cobain Case Study Manual" directly from the site]</i>
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JG: So Mark talking about, referencing what the medical examiner judged…I assume you’ve seen the medical examiner’s report? I don’t remember if that’s in your Case Study Manual…
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<b>TG: Yeah, I know everything that’s in the medical examiner’s report. Yeah, we know on the death certificate he claimed that it was determined to be a suicide on Saturday Morning. Less than 24 hours after the body was found…long before any test results were back regarding the heroin or morphine levels found in his blood system…It was the police that made the comment, I believe in one of their reports they believe he died some time on Tuesday, give or take 24 hours. Tuesday the 5th…</b>
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<i>[Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" was "dedicated to the suicide of Kurt Cobain," according to film critic Roger Ebert. It seems to depict the false story Courtney Love fed to police regarding a supposed final sighting of Cobain the day he died, where he allegedly looked reflective/forlorn by a lake close to the home where his body was found...]</i>
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<b>Part of that also came from the fact that reports were coming out in the newspapers and magazines and on television and stuff that the neighbor had seen Kurt down at the lake by himself kind of pondering like he was sad and uh…I asked Courtney, “what neighbor found him down there? I’d like to talk to the person that saw him down at the lake.” And she said “oh I don’t know, the police told me about that Tom you’d have to ask them. So I asked the police about it and they told me Courtney told them about it! [laughing] As hard as I tried I could find no-one that actually saw him there down by the lake…I believe he was killed in the greenhouse by the way, in case you hear that come up. They also say there was no blood at the scene - that came from Richard Lee who’s a total nutcase…He likes to claim that he was the first one who said Kurt Cobain was murdered…it’s just that he had a little public access television show up in Seattle so he was able to use that to say it publicly…it took me 8 months of intense investigation to come to a final conclusion. </b>
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JG: Have you read Hank Harrison’s book “Love Kills?”
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<b>TG: Oh yeah, Hank and I have a long history together. He began emailing me almost immediately and calling me at my office. And then one day he showed up at my office. I talked to him almost as much as I talked to Courtney. </b>
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JG: Why does he bash you? Why does he try to paint you as some sort of far right racist bigot?
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<b>TG: His first phone call to me he said, “you and I aughta get together and write a book.” And I said “Hank…you’re her father. Whether she was guilty of this or not, it’s not your job to write a book accusing your own daughter of murder! Your job is to be her father! My job is a private investigator - I don’t hate her, I don’t dislike her - I think she’s mentally ill. It’s my job to see this through and to help the public determine, and the legal system determine whether Kurt was murdered or if it was suicide. And if it was murder, to find out who it was! And I believe your daughter was involved in it. I would never associate myself with you…and write a book along those lines!” And I even told him on that very first phone call, I said “Hank - you have no credibility with me. The fact that you wanna write a book with me about this, accusing your daughter of murder - you have no credibility with me!”</b>
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JG: So you think that’s why he started bashing you publicly?
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<b>TG: Oh yeah. I mean, he didn’t bash me right away. It was probably a year or so of him trying to get me to go along with…he called me one time in the middle of the night about, I dunno 2:00 in the morning or something and…woke me up and said “Tom! Tom! She sent her goons to attack me!” And he’s all like, he’s out of breath and you can hear these dogs barking in the background and everything…Hank is such a liar, he’s a pathological liar…In the film Kurt and Courtney, he says he’s a sociopath just like his daughter….when you know that someone says that they are a sociopath, why would you listen to anything they say? No matter what, no matter who they are? He had no more ability to obtain information than you or I or anyone nosing around in Seattle trying to gather information….</b>
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JG: I’d like your response to a quote from Lanegan’s book. He seems to suggest this was in early 1994: “Late one night, I got a phone call from Kurt. He was obviously so fucked up I couldn’t understand 3 quarters of what he was saying and it scared me…The only thing I really understood was he wanted me to come over and come over right away…[John] Hicks and I hopped in a cab and took the 15 minute ride to Kurt’s lakefront estate…Lying flat on the floor, facedown, was Kurt. He looked like he might be dead…after an hour or so of us yelling, banging, knocking, and screaming his name, Kurt slowly began to come to life…The next morning, he said all he could remember was that he’d done a shot of heroin, nothing out of the ordinary. “
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<b>TG: I haven’t heard that before and I have no way of knowing whether it’s true or not…I do believe Kurt has accidentally overdosed before. Not in Italy, not the Rome incident - I believe that was where Courtney popped a bunch of Rohypnol into a Champaign bottle and OD’d him and he ended up in the hospital. I think that was an attempt on his life. And I have tape recorded conversations with Courtney where she actually says…”Kurt said it was not a suicide attempt but it obviously was.“ So right there, we have, as if Kurt was alive - we have Kurt saying the Rome incident was not a suicide attempt. Now Courtney didn’t know that she was being recorded…and that slipped out. </b>
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JG: How does Courtney get away with all of this? Is she really that smart, cunning, and/or powerful?
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<b>TG: First off, she didn’t have to be smart to get away with this. She didn’t have to be smart to plan it and get away with it, it didn’t take a lot of intelligence. She is a fairly intelligent person - you know she’s very well read. ..most people that read a lot end up pretty intelligent. It’s like her father. Hank is pretty intelligent but he’s a sociopath. Courtney is intelligent but she’s a psychopath and a sociopath…the fact that she had all the connections that she had, the fact that she was a celebrity and…made only because she was married to Kurt Cobain and he was such a big celebrity…And she did have an album coming out. So she was set up….she was surrounded with a circle of people who had a lot of money who were invested in her future career.</b>
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<i>[Hole's "Live Through This" was released the same month Kurt died. Coincidence? The title and cover almost seem to scream "I got rid of my husband, now I get all his fame and fortune!"] </i>
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JG: But wouldn’t those invested in her career be concerned with their own reputations being tainted by implications that Courtney might have been involved with something like this?
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<b>TG: I’m not saying those people knew that she was gonna have Kurt killed. </b>
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JG: But even after the fact, wouldn’t they wanna distance themselves from her?
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<b>TG: No, they’d wanna support her because if they were to say “yeah, I think she had something to do with this, like Rosemary [Carroll] did off the record, if they were to do that - then they lose all the money they would have made, that they did make, off of the albums she put out.
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JG: And did you know that Rosemary Carroll also represented Mark Lanegan?
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<b>TG: I didn’t know that, that doesn’t surprise me. ..so he’s claiming that she represented him, and I have no knowledge one way or the other about that.</b>
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JG: On page 172 of Lanegan’s book he says: “The next day someone in the Nirvana camp asked if I would go with Dylan to some Capital Hill dope houses to see if Kurt was hanging out at any of them…” Who is this individual from the “Nirvana camp” he is referring to?
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<b>TG: Well that would be me. Because that’s what we did with Mark Lanegan. You see that’s where, you can tell again he’s gotten things confused in his mind over the years or…he’s just making stuff up which…when you said the part “someone from the Nirvana camp?” That tells me he doesn’t remember who I was, other than I was working for Courtney. Because that can ONLY be a reference to me. Because I’m the one who took him and Dylan to the drug dealer’s house to buy some heroin to see if Kurt was there. I actually even gave them the money to buy the heroin...</b>
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JG: On page 173, Lanegan tells a story about his interaction with Hole bass player Kristen Pfaff. This seems to have occurred April 10th of 1994: “Later, at the private wake at Kurt and Courtney’s house…I turned to leave. Just as I was going out …Hole bass player Kristen Pfaff was coming in…Her gaze had been an unmistakable come-on…A couple weeks later…”It’s Kristen, from Hole…I totally want to date you…we’re in Minneapolis, but I’ll be back the 2nd week of June.” A couple weeks later...Courtney called and left a bullet to the heart message: Kristen had OD’d and died in a bathtub the first night she was back in Seattle.”
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<b>TG: One thing we know is that she wanted to get away from Courtney. I know that for a fact because I know her family pretty well. </b>
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JG: I wanted to ask you about the recently declassified FBI files. 10 pages of letters?
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<b>TG: That was a big nothing. Absolute nothing. All that was is people sending letters to the FBI saying “I want Kurt Cobain’s case re-opened!” They did that at the same time that they released paperwork for a whole bunch of other cases. There was nothing in there that indicated that they did any independent investigation. Whatsoever…If it’s somebody in the public eye especially, or it could be just a family that keeps hounding the FBI saying “the police didn’t do a good job. I know my husband didn’t commit suicide. I want this investigated these are corrupt police officers.”… I don’t think they ever cared. I don’t think the FBI has ever had any interest in…here’s what it would take for the FBI to get involved. It would take say, a 60 Minutes interview. ..the thing is, what most people don’t realize - I mean they love to hear about every crazy thing that Courtney Love is doing in her life. That will get more hits on a YouTube video for example, than if I were to put, you know read off "the list" in a YouTube video with a few graphics here and there.</b>
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<i>["The List" page Tom is referring to can be accessed for free on cobaincase.com]</i>
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<b>That’s too tedious, and unfortunately the law is that way. The law is tedious. And the general public doesn’t realize what it takes to get a case filed in court. Or to get the FBI interested in a case. And it’s actually the mainstream media that really has to hone in on something like this, for example, if they honed in on all those issues that I laid out on “the list” - which I don’t expect them ever to do. They may, who knows? </b>
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<b>ABC was gonna get me involved in an 8 hour mini-series. Can you imagine 1 hour a week on the Cobain case? I turned them down. I would have been paid a lot of money to do that. I turned them down because of the way that they were going to film it, and the fact that they weren’t going to let me on the set while filming it. I didn’t wanna take a chance I didn’t wanna give them all this information - yeah, I might make a quick buck or 2, but in the end they could actually ruin every bit of work that I have ever done by making their own stupid conclusions playing it safe. Playing it smooth so that they're not sued by Courtney’s attorneys and all that stuff. ..These people, they go to their attorneys and they say “should we do this or shouldn’t we?” The attorneys don’t care one way or another they’re getting paid so much per hour. All they care about is protecting their client and they’ll look it over and say “why take a chance? She could sue you and it could tie you up in court for years”…So long as the Seattle police department refuses to admit they made a mistake, nobody can do anything about it.</b>
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JG: Do you think that ABC was motivated to invalidate your research when they approached you about doing the series?
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<b>TG: No, I don’t think they set out to do that…it wasn’t just going to be about the murder theory or the suicide theory. It was going to be about Kurt Cobain’s life and death. </b>
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JG: But if they approached the story honestly and without bias, wouldn’t it just come out as obvious that Cobain was murdered? I mean, the evidence is so compelling.
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<b>TG: The thing is, I’ve already had experiences where I was ambushed by network television and by radio stations and everybody else, magazines and all that. Where I’ve sat and I’ve given a really good interview. Even the film Kurt and Courtney - the way Nick Broomfield twisted that around. I was really surprised most people who saw Kurt and Courtney that contacted me, that it convinced them that Kurt was murdered. And I’m thinking “I don’t know how!”[laughs] he did such a lousy job on it, I don’t know why anybody would believe that after that film. It’s funny how the mind of the general public works.</b>
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<b>I’ve said from the beginning that she will never sue anybody - she could’ve had me arrested for recording those phone conversations. But she knows that if she ever filed a lawsuit, then we’d be able to depose her and we’d be able to get the truth out of her about a lot of stuff. And her attorneys would never let that happen because they know her as well as she knows herself.</b>
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JG: Then why would ABC be afraid of legal action?
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<b>TG: Because that’s just MY word. I’ve said that to everybody. When I’m talking to their producers - they may believe me 100%, but they’re not attorneys for ABC…So they send it up to their legal division, they have a big meeting, the attorney would say “well you could do it this way or you could do it that way - just don’t say you believe he was murdered” because everybody knows if you say it, then the finger points right back to Courtney. Automatically. </b>
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JG: So it’s a fear of retribution from Courtney that that can’t happen?
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<b>TG: Exactly…There’s no way you’re gonna be able to go and tell people that Kurt Cobain was murdered without following up with, well who do you think did it? Or who had a motive for it?</b>
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JG: Who do YOU think pulled the trigger?
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<b>TG: Well…that’s speculation…I’ve mentioned several persons of interest. I think it was either…I think Cali [Michael DeWitt] was involved, in one way or another. He was probably in the room. I think Rene Navarrette is a person of interest. I think Carey Kerwin [?] is a person of interest. I don’t think Dylan had anything to do with it. </b>
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JG: Even though he didn’t wanna check the greenhouse?
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<b>TG: I think Dylan might have checked the greenhouse when I sent him up there alone and it took him so long to come back. And I think he might’ve seen Kurt’s body in there and was in so much shock he didn’t know what to do. He knew that Kurt was his source of heroin. Because a heroin addict that’s ALL they think about is their next fix…and so immediately Dylan is thinking “uh oh! Now my only source is gonna be Courtney. So I better do whatever Courtney tells me to do”
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JG: Lanegan credits Courtney Love for saving his life and paying for his rehab into the M.A.P. facility. Based on what you know about Courtney and Lanegan - do you think her motives for doing that were truly benevolent, or do you think there may have been an alterior motive there?
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<b>TG: There’s always an alterior motive for everything that Courtney does. I never even heard that she did that. It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s true because I think Courtney needs a team of people around her…that will help support her in the fact that Kurt was suicidal, although Mark Lanegan, I can tell you for a fact told me that Kurt was not suicidal just like Dylan did. What he’s saying now may be totally different, or what he said in that book because I know he died…Courtney may have started telling him, “I want you to say this I want you to say that, I want you to plant this story in the press, say this in your book” whatever…</b>
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JG: On page 38 of Lanegan’s book he tells this story about a call he got from Nirvana’s bass player early in their career. Here’s the quote: “Are you still looking for a bass player? I can’t stand playing with Kurt anymore. I’m sick of everything always having to be his way.” Do you think Lanegan may have had any reason to make a story like that up?
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<b>TG: I don’t know. Stuff like that happens. That could have been 1 bad day that Krist Noveselic had. First of all, it could be a total lie, coulda been something that Lanegan totally made up…Nirvana WAS breaking up [in 1994], that’s a fact. I have, I never displayed this to the public or anything, but a copy of a letter from Nirvana’s Gold Mountain Records, discussing the fact that they’re breaking up. So we know for a fact that Nirvana was in the process of breaking up. I believe that Courtney had more to do with that than anybody else because…she just started driving a wedge between Kurt and any of the other performers. As far as Dave and Krist - Courtney hated them. She couldn’t stand them…these are things she told me.
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<b>END INTERVIEW</b>
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There are a few other related items of interest in Lanegan's book I wanted to address, but have decided to save it for another blog, rather than getting into a long winded digression here.
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-84055723252062746122022-10-11T12:59:00.031-07:002023-05-22T01:49:40.278-07:00The Death of Royce Robertson [PT 3]This is part 3 of a series of blogs I am doing concerning the death of Royce Javan Robertson. Obviously, I encourage anyone interested in the topic to read the other 2 blogs before reading this one [links at bottom], as we will be building off of information contained in those. While the previous 2 exhausted media sources available at the time, this one will draw from the recently released Riverside County Sheriff's Department investigative report.
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<b>NOTE: ROYCE JAVAN ROBERTSON WILL BE REFERRED TO AS RR AT TIMES, FOR SIMPLICITY.
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Many names are redacted in the investigative report documents, so if you see the word "redacted" in brackets like this: [redacted], that generally means I don't know who they are referring to, so I just type it out exactly as it is in the report. However, if I do know who the person is, or have a guess - I will replace the word "redacted" with the name of that person, or a name with a question mark - indicating that I am taking a guess at who the person is.</b>
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[Screenshot taken from Riverside County Sheriff Department's Public Record's Request pages]
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For those who have been following my blogs on this topic, you can see above that files were just released 9.7.22, and this is what I was waiting for in order to provide an update here. It includes interviews, still images, and some video footage. Unfortunately, some of the video files do not work, which we will discuss later.
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<b>WHAT WAS RR DOING 50 MILES FROM HOME ON A MONDAY/HOLIDAY AT 7 IN THE MORNING?</b>
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This incident occured on 02.15.21, which was a Monday - between 7:20-7:35am. It was the day after Valentine's Day and it was President's Day/Washington's Birthday observed.
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<b><i>"[RR's roomate] informed Deputy Holt that Robertson is his roommate and business partner…[RR's roomate] last saw Robertson the night before about midnight and he had not seen or spoke to him since…About 0500 hours, [RR's roomate] heard Robertson leave the residence in his Mercedes Benz and he had not returned home. [RR's roomate] attempted to call Robertson throughout the morning several times, but Robertson never called [RR's roomate] back." </i></b>
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<b><i>"Last night he remembers smoking some weed with Royce. He described him as being argumentative and a little worse last night than he has seen him before. During the interview, [redacted] showed us some text messages he received from Royce at 0224 hours on the morning of 2.15.21. [RR's roomate] also told us last night Royce was walking around in the yard waving a BB gun around…said the BB gun looks real and could really scare people. This was the BB gun he was carrying when he was stopped [killed]." - Statement from Deputy Holt, regarding interview with RR's roommate</i></b>
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<b><i>"He sent me a text at, like, 5AM, but it was all making plans for the art gallery like next week — which I found a — a little weird, because we had made plans to put the sign up today…So he kind of stood me up in a way...[regarding the text message] And most of it’s straightforward until you get down to the bottom…oh, well I thought it said 5:00. Yeah, it was 2:00 — 2:24…I have no idea [why he was in Indian Wells] I honestly thought he went up to [redacted] to hang out with that girl…We watched the Wrecking Lord and I went to bed…And the last time I laid eyes on him…was right around 1:00." - RR's roommate/business partner </i></b>
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According to the investigative report, RR's roomate was the last person known to have seen him before the initial encounter with the 911 caller at about 7:25 the next morning in La Quinta. The roomate clearly has no idea what RR was doing there, but is responding in detail to questions from the investigator regarding RR's behavior lately. We'll get more into that later, but for now the only clue we have is a text message RR allegedly sent to his roomate around 2AM [which the roomate initially mistakes for being sent at 5AM].
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<b>[Note: If you are on a Smartphone, you must click/tap on images before attempting to enlarge them, in order to view them at the correct resolution]</b>
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[Daniel Moody is the investigator the roomate presumably forwarded RR's text messages to]
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The above is one of several screenshots allegedly depicting text messages RR had sent to [RR's roomate]. This is the only one that seems to make reference to "the gallery" - but it does not seem to speak of any "plans next week." Therefore, none of the texts in this report appear to be the one referred to by RR's roomate in the quote above. Nor do any of these texts shed light on why RR was in La Quinta that morning. All they really do is demonstrate a sort of manic euphoria in the mind of their author.
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<b><i>"The family had no explanation as to why Royce was in the City of La Quinta." - Investigator Dusek</i></b>
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<b><i>"I mean the coffee company has accounts down there, but I don’t think that he’s actively…he’s kind of like the spokesperson for the company at this point, he doesn’t really...I texted…her this - we were texting this morning. She didn’t say anything about Royce being there...What could he have been doing in LaQuinta? I have no idea. Absolutely none." - RR's parents</i></b>
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<b><i>"On 2.15.21 about 0330 hours and 0547 hours, Royce sent [his sister] poetry via text message. Royce was a night person and it was not uncommon for him to text early in the morning. [His sister] had no idea why Royce was in Coachella Valley. He might have been coming to see her, but he did not call, and she was not expecting him." - Statement by Investigator Sean Dusek</i></b>
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<b><i>"...she received a text message that morning from her brother advising he was heading to her home in Rancho Mirage after running an errand at the bank." - Palm Springs Desert Sun</i></b>
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As you can see, RR's sister allegedly told investigators she got a text message of poetry from him that morning, but added that she "had no idea why Royce was in Coachella Valley." She stated he MIGHT have been coming to see her, but was not expecting him. Somehow, the Palm Springs Desert Sun turned that into: RR "was heading to her home in Rancho Mirage after running an errand at the bank." The quote from RR's parents seems to allude to his sister also, and they reiterate that "she didn't say anything about Royce being there" that morning. So why would she then tell the Desert Sun that she was expecting him and that he had an errand to run at the bank beforeheand? Did the Desert Sun make this up for some reason, or was this disinformation intentionally fed to them in order to confuse the facts early on in the investigation? And what about this "errand at the bank," where did that come from?
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Since nobody seems to know what RR was doing in La Quinta that morning, let's consider the questionable Desert Sun assertion for a moment, since it is the only lead we have to go on...
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<b>NOTE: The individual who RR initially threatened the day he was killed will be referred to as the 911 Caller.</b>
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<b><i>"As he passed the Ulta store he saw a black Mercedes S160 AMG convertible 2 door with dealer plates driving southbound towards him from the area of Chase bank…." - Investigator D. Butvidas</b>
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<b>"And there’s only 1 last parking lot thing which is generally people coming out of Chase bank drive through" - 911 caller</i></b>
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The image above is a screenshot taken directly from the Riverside Sheriff Department's video. The red car represents RR, the blue car is the 911 caller's. [Yellow and green markings are my notations] RR clearly appears to be coming from the Chase bank ATM drive through. The 911 caller states that the direction RR is coming from is "generally people coming out of Chase bank drive through." The Desert Sun printed, albeit questionably, that RR told his sister via text that he was going to the bank before coming to her house.
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An alleged friend of RR's, who we will call "JT," reached out to me online and confirmed that RR did have a Chase bank account - further supporting the notion that he may have used the Chase ATM that morning.
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There are Chase bank locations closer to RR's home than this one. And even if he WAS going to his sister's house in Rancho Mirage, he'd be back tracking if he went to LA Quinta first from his home in Joshua Tree. But if RR did use the Chase bank ATM, there should be surveillance video proving it one way or the other - not to mention a paper trail, which does not appear to have been explored by investigators.
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<b><i>"On 03/03/21, approximately 1000 hours, I received the Chase Bank requested surveillance footage…the only usable footage where the suspect and victim vehicle may have been captured was the footage from the exterior ATM camera partially facing Simon Dr st area…I did not see any of the vehicles matching the description provided. I was informed by a Chase Bank representative that they had sent me all available camera footage at the bank within the time frame I requested." - Reporting Officer Sanchez</i></b>
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<b><i>"I watched the Chase Bank video surveillance…The camera angle showing the drive through ATM is the only camera that captured anything. At 51:41 minutes into the video you see the suspect and victim come to a stop off in the distance. The suspect is seen walking back to the victim vehicle and then shortly after back to his vehicle….the top is down on the suspect vehicle. The video is very grainy especially for things off in the distance. The main focus of this video is to capture the drive-up exterior ATM." - Rep. Officer Moody 3.17.21</i></b>
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Investigators contacted several businesses in that parking area and obtained all surveillance footage where available. The Chase bank footage was reviewed by an Officer Sanchez on 3.3.21, who stated "I did not see any of the vehicles matching the description provided." Obviously, he also did not observe RR conducting an ATM transaction either - or he would have said so, right?
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2 weeks after Officer Sanchez said he didn't see anything on the Chase bank footage, Officer Moody reviews what seems to be the SAME video, and states he sees the suspect [RR] walking from his vehicle back to the 911 caller's.
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How did Officer Sanchez miss what Officer Moody saw, and why was the Chase video the only one which seems to have been reviewed by 2 different officers? Did the Sheriff's Department just decide that they needed to come up with "something" in order to help verify the 911 caller's claims since there were no eye witnesses other than him?
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The yellow arrow above shows the direction the camera point of view is facing, where Officer Moody allegedly saw RR walk back to the 911 caller's car. The red marker shows where RR stood next to the 911 caller's car when he allegedly threatened him with the BB gun. As you can see, there is really no way the Chase bank ATM camera could have captured RR's encounter with the 911 caller once he was actually standing next to his car. It's too far away and it's out of view from the camera. This is why Officer Moody only states that "The suspect is seen walking back to the victim vehicle," but he doesn't describe what the suspect actually does when he gets there - because he'd be lying! Therefore, even if we accept Officer Moody's report as factual, it doesn't prove RR actually did or said any of what the 911 caller stated. All it does is put RR at the scene during the time of the encounter. But how do we know the 911 caller didn't threaten RR and/or provoke the encounter?
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Keep in mind, if RR used the ATM machine just moments prior to this incident with the 911 caller, that particular footage has been completely ignored or redacted by both officers who allegedly viewed the surveillance footage. Is this evidence that someone needs to hide RR's final banking transaction? Why would investigators need to cover this up?
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The above image still shows a black convertable matching RR's vehicle description, after having LEFT the parking lot.
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According to the 911 caller, his vehicle was a beige Hyundai SUV. The vehicle in the above image is supposed to be his. Looks more gray to me than beige. His vehicle is described as gray in other areas of this report as well. One officer even mentioned a second vehicle matching the 911 caller's description at the scene. I'm not suggesting that means anything in particular, I just thought it was worth noting.
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I'm guessing the above still image was taken from the video Officer Moody claims RR can be seen in, walking back to the 911 caller's car. But the vehicle is so far away and blurry, I don't see how any signifficant detail can be made out. The car appears to be white for starters - which doesn't match the description of either vehicle! Also, according to the Sheriff Department's presentation, the 911 caller's car appeared to be parked out of range from the Chase ATM camera view during his interaction with RR. Officer Moody even remarks on the low quality of the video and how the camera is specifically designed to capture ATM transactions at very close range.
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These cars also would have been blocking traffic from leaving the parking lot during the altercation. Nobody witnessed it or was honking to get out? Nothing in this report suggests as much.
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<b><i>"the original encounter was near the intersection of Simon and 111 [edit] in La Quinta. [edit]The victim of that exchange ended up pulling into a parking lot to get away from that other driver, but he followed him into the parking lot and then that was where the exchange happened…" - Sheriff Bianco</i></b>
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<b><i>"The man said he had pulled into a parking lot off Highway 111 in La Quinta to get away from a driver in a black Mercedes-Benz with temporary Arizona plates. The Mercedes driver followed him, then got out of the car displaying a handgun and asked if he wanted to die, the caller said." - Mercurynews.com</i></b>
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You may recall that both Sheriff Bianco and various news media initially reported that RR and the 911 caller had some sort of encounter PREVIOUS to the incident in the Chase bank lot - and that the 911 caller was trying to get away from RR at that point. That entire aspect of the story was completely dropped on April 1st, 2021 when the body cam video was released. There is also nothing about an earlier encounter previous to the Chase bank incident in the investigative report or in the public statement the Sheriff's Department posted the day of the incident. In fact, the 911 caller clearly stated to investigators the DAY OF the incident, that he had left Lowe's and had his 1st and ONLY encounter with RR upon entering the Chase parking lot area. So why was the public fed information initially which was known to be untrue, only to have that information vanish without explanation?
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<b><i>"[The 911 caller] told me that he was on the phone with his electrician [redacted] while this encounter occurred..." - Incident Report</i></b>
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<b><i>"he spat on me, and he attacked my car. I had a witness. I was on the phone with my electrician." - 911 caller </i></b>
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<b><i>"I’m on speakerphone with my electrician. So he’s a witness to this whole thing. He can corroborate everything I say" - 911 caller interview</i></b>
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<b><i>"[The Electrician] appeared confused as to what he heard and what [the 911 caller?] told him...[the Electrician] told me he thought a “drunk was trying to harass him. It was comical more than anything else.” " - Interview summary with 911 caller's Electrician friend</i></b>
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The 911 caller claimed he was on speakerphone with his Electrician when the incident occured by Chase bank. A call transcript in the report shows that he told dispatch that he had a "witness," referring to the same individual. What is this person's definition of "witness?" Because there were no EYE WITNESSES to this incident that we know of! Hearing sounds over the phone does not make one a "witness" in the sense of the word we would typically assume.
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When interviewed, the Electrician "witness" seemed confused, which doesn't make his account seem very reliable - but he does acknowledge hearing a "drunk" trying to "harass" the 911 caller. He also claimed he HEARD RR state that his gun was a BB. While this supports the 911 caller's statements, the fact remains the Electrician wasn't there and didn't actually see anything. Does that make him a "witness?" Sounds like a stretch to me...
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Nobody seems to have witnessed RR pulling a gun on the 911 caller in broad daylight while blocking a parking lot exit except the 911 caller himself, and no publicly available camera footage captured it. A couple of RR's fingerprints were found on the 911 caller's window, but that doesn't automatically mean everything he claimed happened actually did, when and where he said it did.
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<b>THE BB GUN CONUNDRUM</b>
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<b><i>"After a briefing, I conducted a walkthrough of the scene at 1130 hours…I noted item GC119…The black pistol was loaded with a compressed air canister that ejected out of the magazine that RESEMBLED an actual firearm…I rendered the weapon safe by removing the magazine and locking the slide to the rear. The gun was then photographed and collected by Forensic Tech Mercado." - Investigator G Castaneda #3519</i></b>
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As documented by Investigator G Castaneda at the crime scene shortly after RR was shot to death, the evidence in this report clearly indicates that police investigators knew the DAY OF the incident, that RR did not "brandish" a deadly firearm at anyone, but was in possession of a NON LETHAL BB Gun/Air pistol. And yet, news media and police investigators did not reveal that fact until "April Fool's Day" 2021 - a good 2 months after the incident occured. They told the public that RR brandished a "firearm" or a "gun." They knew exactly how the public would translate that, which one could argue was lying to the public in order to cover their own asses, in a sense. The body cam footage was key in exonerating the officers who killed RR, so they needed to at least make sure that was available at the same time news of the BB gun was, for minimal impact to their reputation. At least, that's how it appears to me.
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<b><i>"[The 911 caller] called 911, reported the incident, but did not state the weapon was possibly a BB gun" - Coroner's Report</i></b>
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<b><i>”[911 caller] told me that during this encounter the suspect [RR] told him the gun was “just a fuckin BB gun.” [911 caller] said the suspect removed the magazine to show him but he could not tell whether it was real or not, said he has poor vision up close and was trying to look down" - Officer Report</i></b>
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<b><i>"[The Electrician] said he heard the suspect pull out what he said was a BB gun." - Officer Report</i></b>
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Why didn't the 911 caller tell dispatch that RR may have been carrying a non-lethal BB gun? Had he done so, officers may have responded differently, and the same result may not have occured. And if the 911 caller KNEW the gun was only a BB, and gave 911 dispatch knowingly false information, doesn't that make him partially responsible for RR's death?
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The non lethal "air pistol" RR carried that day can be purchased on Amazon for just $191.99. The 911 caller said it looked all "tactiled out," and other parts of the report seem to exaggerate it's "seriousness" of appearance and emphesize the "laser sight" hookup, as if it's some high tech custom modification. The laser hookup is on the gun pictured above, does that look super duper high tech to you? Sure, it could easily be mistaken for a deadly firearm. Especially if nobody told you that it's owner claimed it was a BB! But I don't see what is so remarkably "serious" about it.
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The above image was taken directly from the official investigative report publicly released by Riverside County Sheriff's Department. The name you see underlined in green seems to be the 911 caller. I am not going to type his name out here, because I think it was supposed to be completely redacted in this report - and it is for the majority of it. But this interview way at the end of the 615 page PDF document must have evaded the scrutiny of whoever was crossing names out. So it is now public information, whether they intended it or not.
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Interestingly, there is a public divorce record from 2009 online at unicourt.com which shows a man going by this name vs a Christina Perri. Is this the same singer/songwriter Christina Perri, before she was famous?
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Notice how bad the format is here and how difficult the transcript is to read. This is a small sample of what must be tediously sifted through, transcribed, and disseminated in order to get to the raw facts. When you start doing this type of work, it becomes very easy to see how facts and evidence can be easily obscured, twisted, hidden, or ommitted under the guise of "oh, oops - sorry our systems are a bit antiquated!" I'm not suggesting that this means every single antiquated report incorporates "foul play" into it. On the contrary - sometimes this can inadvertantly reveal information not intended for release, so it can go both ways. Point being - it is important that SOMEONE who is impartial go through and double check to make sure crucial facts are not witheld or obscured by the media, in order to deliver a false narrative to the public - as we saw in my blog concerning the death of Chris Cornell.
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<b>WHY DIDN'T RR HAVE ANY ID ON HIM?</b>
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<b><i>"I attempted to gain information regarding the identity of the subject by means of the vehicle registration...I asked A.D.O.T. to check the VIN to determine if they had any information on file…I was given the name of Royce Robertson" - Investigating officer</i></b>
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RR's wallet does not appear to have been recovered from the scene. He had just about everything else though - including several knives, pepper spray, handcuffs, stun gun, iphone, and iwatch. If he needed to go to the bank, he wouldn't have gotten anything done without an ATM card - which of course would have had his name on it. But as demonstrated by the above quote - investigators needed to discover RR's identity by running his vehicle's VIN#. That means he had NO identification on him. No driver's licence, debt card, or anything else. What happened to his wallet? It's not mentioned anywhere in this report. Did it just vanish into thin air, or are investigators trying to keep attention away from this possible final banking transaction of his?
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RR's alleged friend JT also agrees that it would be strange for RR to have not been carrying his wallet.
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Following are some quotes from an interview with RR's parents, who were NOT informed beforehand that RR had brandished a BB gun on the cops. They, like the rest of the public at that time, were allowed to assume something that was NOT factual: that RR pulled a deadly handgun on the cops.
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<b><i>"and he’s been into — an avid knife collector lately…No. He doesn’t practice so much. It’s more, like — he just likes them. Puts them up. He had hung a few up…he was stabbing, like, the size into the walls like…clownish about it. It wasn’t like…yelling and screaming. He was…acting the fool more or less" - RR's roomate</i></b>
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<b><i>"He also owned 2 BB guns. He and [his father?] used to shoot BB guns at the garage door, wood, and cans, but Royce did not shoot people. [His sister] knew Royce to collect knives and swords." - Officer Report</i></b>
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<b><i>"his big thing was helping the community…I just…don’t understand what he was doing carrying a gun. That’s not him…Yeah, had these fancy engraved knives. That’s part of his, like, appearance thing that he got into. But he never said anything about guns. He’s never even been in a physical fight in his life" - RR's Parents</i></b>
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RR was in the process of starting his own clothing company, so appearance was something he was concerned with. Those who knew him were aware he owned "ceremonial" and "ornamental" knives, and wore them as part of his attire. According to his parents, he was aware of what length of knife was legal to carry - and followed the laws. [he had no criminal record, outside the odd speeding ticket] It is also true that it's somewhat common for people out in that area to openly carry knives at their side in a leather holster of some kind, strange as that may sound to some - it is not considered a big deal. JT also confirmed that this would not have been so out of the ordinary for RR to carry the knives - though I admit it seems excessive to me.
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Peerless Handcuffs, pepper spray, and a mini stun gun (tazer), were also listed as items found on RR's body at the time of death. None of these items were discussed in any of the interviews with those who knew him, and did not seem to be items he would normally carry. They ARE items a cop would likely be carrying though. For these reasons, I suspect they may have been planted on his body, in order to support the "crazy man commits suicide by cop" narrative. But there is of course the possibility that he simply WAS that man during the last 24 hours or so of his life.
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<b>WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE 911 CALLER AND HIS TESTIMONY</b>
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As I said earlier, the 911 caller's name was probably not intended to be released publicly, but pictured above are 2 spots where it was not redacted. Therefore, it is in the public domain now. I am not encouraging anyone to track him down and hassle him by providing this information, my only objective here is to relay facts and provide opinions and interpretations.
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<b><i>"I’m like, uh used to have a production company in LA…shut that down, moved out here rehabbing a house. I’m re-entering real estate, but I do more like, uh day trading...they [RR's eyes] were just bugged out like he was tracked out on something…Cotton mouth…Strings of cotton all deep like tons of em like he’s…Not foaming at the mouth but within his mouth. And it was spitting onto me…I felt like he was - like he’d been out at night...He was on something man. He was on some drugs. I want to make that clear. "</i></b>
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<b><i>"And then he goes it’s just a fucking BB gun and he disengages the clip…I need bifocals…and so I don’t know if it’s really a BB gun, but it was all tactiled out and it looked like a real gun..."</i> </b>
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<b><i>"I just remember saying like wow this is a serious gun. And when he took the magazine out even if I had looked - I had the vision thing where it would’ve just been a blur you know…What does a BB magazine look like versus a regular? But uh he even kept saying it’s only a BB gun" - 911 caller</i></b>
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<b><i>"It was very tactical looking. It was all tricked out. Maybe there was extra ammo clip on it. Maybe there was like a sco - a laser or something on it." - 911 caller</i></b>
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The above images are from the Crossman website - and feature the same model BB gun that RR allegedly shoved into the face of the 911 caller. As you can see, it appears to be identical to the one recovered at the death scene. There's nothing "tricked out" about it, the one RR had looked exactly like the one you can buy on Amazon for under $200, and the laser scope is not some "beefed up" attachement - it comes with it. I have good eyesight, and can't say for sure that I would have been able to identify that laser scope on the gun. The 911 caller's eyesight was good enough to spot it and his knowledge of weapons was such that he correctly identified it even as he believed his life was being threatened.
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Note that the air cartridge can clearly be seen sitting inside the clip from BOTH SIDES of the magazine - and the little metal BBs may also have been visible sitting inside the top of the magazine, as they are in the image above. If the magazine clip was exposed that close to the 911 caller, the air cartridge was quite visible and could easily be distinguished from the straight black housing typically "hiding" the bullet rounds in a deadly handgun.
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The 911 caller states TWICE that RR disengaged the clip, in order to prove that it was only a BB gun, and not a "real" one with bullets. He first says he has poor vision and needs bifocals, therefore he couldn't tell if the clip was a BB or otherwise. He identified the little black laser scope, but couldn't identify an air cartridge that is about the same size, or larger, than the laser scope?
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Later in the interview, the 911 caller again states that RR "took the magazine out," but this time he says he didn't look at it and he wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a BB magazine and one containing bullets anyhow. How does he know RR took it out if he didn't look? Perhaps he heard enough to confirm as much in his mind, but it just seems like the wording here is dancing around the truth a bit.
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<b><i>"The main thing was just these rings, you know. That’s what was in my face. He had like big, bedazzled emeralds. No, like here and here. Here and here. [pointing at spots on hand to demonstrate ring locations]" - 911 caller</i></b>
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Here is another example of the 911 caller's ability to see small objects - in this case the rings on RR's hand. If he could make out the "bedazzled emeralds" on RR's hand, he could make out a much larger air cartridge sitting exposed in a magazine RR is SHOWING HIM as he also TELLS HIM what it is...so yes, I am sure he said he didn't look at it, because if he admits he did, there is no way he can claim it was anything but a BB gun - and then he has no excuse as to why he did not relay that info to 911 dispatch! In fact, would someone even call 911 on a person threatening someone with a BB gun? Maybe, maybe not. But let's not forget - the cops showed up because this person called them.
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It seems to me that there is an effort here to avoid acknowledging the 911 caller's awareness that RR at least STATED that he carried a non lethal BB gun, and the fact he omitted that detail when calling 911 dispatch. This has VERY serious implications that I believe the Sheriff's Department has deliberately tried to downplay. And they had very obvious motives for doing so. Their reputation is on the line, and they need to make sure they appear justified in killing a man with a BB gun, beyond reasonable doubt.
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<b><i>"So, then he gets in his car and goes. And he’s driving his car like a race car. ..And I decide I’m gonna get his plate...And don’t follow him, They’re telling me not to follow him." - 911 caller</i></b>
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<b><i>"I’m not following him. But I’m on the 111, and he is approaching the resort - the Esmeralda Resort. I’m hoping that you guys don’t let this guy get away. I’m going to do my citizen’s right to keep observing him in support of your being able to pull him over. I did not deserve to have a gun stuck in my face to start my day…He punched my window, banged on my car." - 911 call transcript </i></b>
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<b><i>"...He’s pulling over on the side of the road and putting on his emergency lights now…He’s exactly at the stop sign of turning into the resort. He just went through that red light, Club Drive…Now he’s driving normally…He’s at Indian Wells lane now at the stoplight…he’s put up his top to try to hide the fact it was convertible…I’m in a Hyundai Santa Fe. Beige — So there’s no cops in Indian Wells right now? Or palm Desert? He just past El Dorado. There — they’re in front of me. Go ahead go ahead. That’s him…They have him, if they would pull him over. They’re in the SUV — your cop. They have him directly in front of him...The cop needs to turn right. I’m not going to go in there. I’m just going to pull over...Desert Horizons Country Club. There he is. That’s the guy with the gun..." - 911 call transcript</i></b>
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There are many strange things about the actual 911 call, which can be partially heard on the youtube video mentioned earlier. According to the call transcript, the caller says "I'm not following him," as he proceeds to do JUST THAT, and basically gives a play-by-play till RR gets to the country club! He's not afraid of being shot? The 911 caller's ACTIONS say "I'm not afraid of getting killed because the gun is just a BB."
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He states in an interview with the officer that "they're telling me not to follow him." And yet the agent in the 911 transcript not only DOESN'T advise him not to follow RR [which seems crazy when you think about it], the dispatch agent is constantly checking in asking things like "What's he doing now? Where's the vehicle now?" That doesn't sound like a dispatch agent concerned that a man weilding a deadly pistol could start shooting the guy they have on the phone following him at any second! So the dispatch agent's demeanor, as it appears in the 911 call transcript, also tends to lean towards "I'm not concerned with anyone getting shot because the suspect's gun isn't a lethal weapon."
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Perhaps the 911 transcript in this report has been chopped up and edited, before release. The transcript is evidence, and chopping it up and/or leaving things out can constitute an intentional misrepresentation of events to the public. But what the hell can an everyday citizen do about it?
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I counted 4 times that the 911 caller says the word "gun" in the transcript - and not once does he mention the fact that RR told him and attempted to SHOW HIM, it was only a BB. That's fishy, no way around it. You mention GUN and people assume DEADLY. You don't mention BB, nobody will suspect it is.
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When the 911 caller was interviewed by officers, they did not bother to ask him why he neglected to mention this to 911 dispatch. They didn't seem to care or think it mattered. Probably because if word got out that cops shot and killed a man brandishing a BB gun, that would make for damaging headlines that could make the department look really bad, even if it does appear to have been justified in the body cam footage released a couple months later.
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<b>DESERT HORIZONS</b>
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<b><i>"He told me prior to the shooting, the black Mercedes entered the main gate and the driver contacted him. The driver requested [the guard] open the gate so he could turn around because the police were following him. The subject showed [the guard] a gun, told him it was a BB gun, then mentioned he was fearful the police would shoot him." - Deputy Brown </i></b>
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<b><i>"[The guard] said a man pulled up to the gate and asked if he could open the gate so he could complete a u-turn. [The guard] said this occurred a lot because most people do no realize the left light is a no u-turn light." - Country Club Gate Guard Interview</i></b>
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<b><i>"The man [RR] advised [the guard] to tell the cop behind him to stop following him. The man picked up a handgun…and held it in his hands. He did not point the gun at [the guard]. The man stated the gun was just a BB gun and he was afraid that the cops were going to think it was a real weapon and “shoot him.”…nothing with his demeanor and/or body language seemed out of the ordinary…He told the man to just put down the gun, pull over, and put his hands up and tell the police it was not a real weapon. [The guard] opened the gate and the man drove through.</i></b>
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According to the guard at the country club, RR was NOT looking to die "suicide by cop" style. He was FLEEING them, in fear of his life! The guard also didn't think anything "with his demeanor and/or body language seemed out of the ordinary," which directly contradicts the 911 caller's description of RR just minutes previous. RR seems to know already, according to the guard's testimony, that the cops will shoot him because they will think his BB gun is a deadly weapon. But this doesn't make any sense because if he doesn't want them to shoot him, all he has to do is NOT point the gun at them! So either RR believes he is not in control of his own actions here, or something isn't right about the guard's story.
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A look at the surveillance footage showing the guard's interaction with RR might help clear things up here, but the files which may contain that footage do not load. I don't think that's an accident.
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In a previous blog I noted that there was a car which appears at the gate in the police body cam footage, which I suspected might be the 911 caller. This report confirms that I was correct.
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Above is a video entitled Surveillance_Entry_Guest_Lane__Redacted, which shows the Gray/Beige Hyundai presumably belonging to the 911 caller, at the gate where RR just moments ago allegedly begged to be let in in order to flee the cops. There are several videos included in this report which show different angles of this entry-way. They are clearly labeled camera 3, camera 4, and camera 6. But none of these show RR driving up to the guard station. And where is the footage from cameras 1, 2, and 5?
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There are 21 video files in this report that are not viewable. Most of them are labeled "21_Highway_111_Entry_Guest_Lane_LP__6__Highway_111" or something similar. Obviously these videos contain more footage of the "entry guest lane" where RR entered, and would likely show his interaction with the guard, possibly even with sound! This is a Country Club, people with money LIVE and play here! There are plenty of videos in this report that work just fine, so why should these files in particular be any different? Yet, these are the only files in the entire report that will not load properly. I tried changing the file type, I tried opening them with different apps, and I tried both a Mac and a PC. If they didn't want them released, they could have just not included them here. But by including files that won't load, they can say "we released all the footage! Not our fault if you can't get em to load!"
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<b><i>"…the fact of the matter is it was a 417 and the guy brandished a weapon. They put that over the air…but I saw the black vehicle pointing at me, as I’m going in. So I kind of shit myself a little bit because poor positions…And I realize it now, that I’m sitting here looking straight at a 417 suspect vehicle that, you know, I know for one armed with a handgun…This guy’s literally has the ability to point right at me as I’m coming in" - Deputy Garrett Judge</i></b>
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<b><i>"I stayed where I was at…for a minute. I was next in line to the security guy. And then I pulled up to the security guy and say hey, this guy has a gun…you should shelter…And I backed my car up and around and off to the side. So, I’m facing directly at the guy he’s looking right at me. With his eyes. [The suspect?] Yeah. He knows I’m there and then I called 911 and stuff. So, then I’m thinking wait a minute. What if that gun’s real? He could shoot right at me." -911 caller </i></b>
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In a previous blog, I noted the absurdity of the [then unconfirmed] 911 caller pulling up to just outside the gate with his car in park, like a sitting duck. The quotes above re-enforce, and illustrate my point. While his words express uncertainty whether the gun is real or not, his repeated actions are consistent with someone not so concerned for his life. Does he know something the cops don't? Woulda been helpful if he told them!
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Deputy Garrett drives in, clearly under the assumption that RR has a deadly handgun. No question about it, he doesn't think for a moment that RR might actually have a non deadly BB gun, which he did. He notes the fact that since RR is facing the entry gate, he could pretty much just open fire on anyone entering. But since RR only had a BB gun, Deputy Garrett's fears were based upon false assumptions relayed to him by dispatch, which ultimately lead back to the 911 caller apparently holding that info back.
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<b><i>"Dep. Doyle watched the suspect [RR] grab an unknown item from the passenger seat, show it to the security guard, and put the item back on the passenger seat. Dep. Doyle initially thought the item might be a gun, but the security guard did not appear to be alarmed and opened the access gate…"</i></b>
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<b><i>"And the RP [911 caller], I remember seeing them [him?] parked outside the gate. They tried to follow me in, but then they backed up so possibly the RP…It was a holiday so traffic was kind of light…" - Deputy Doyle</i></b>
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Recall earlier when the 911 caller initially told investigators that RR showed the security guard the gun and told him it was just a BB. How did he see this from so far away, since he was supposedly BEHIND the police car that was BEHIND RR? Not to mention he supposedly has poor eyesight! He corrects himself later and says the guard TOLD him this, and so it was just "hearsay." That's the second time he made a statement about seeing something, but then later in the same interview, changed/updated his story.
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"Hearsay" is a legal term. He also stated he wanted to "press charges" twice during the 911 call. Maybe it's this person's lucid, calm demeanor on the 911 call - maybe it's his choice of wording - but this just doesn't sound like a "victim" to me, but someone oddly on the offense, or perhaps more in control of the situation than he lets on.
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<b>WHAT PUSHED RR OVER THE EDGE?</b>
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Although I believe there is evidence that this may have been some sort of entrapment operation, I am not denying for a second that RR could have had some serious mental issues. He clearly had tremendous financial stresses that could have pushed anyone over the edge mentally. But 2 things can be true at the same time, they don't necesarilly cancel each other out. Maybe he did have a mental breakdown, and maybe someone was there taking advantage? Simultaneously, the Sheriff's department had to make sure they appeared absolutely justified in killing a man who brandished a BB gun on them.
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The following quotes are from an interview with, I believe, RR's parents. The names are redacted, so I can't tell when it is the father or mother answering, so no distinction will be made here:
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<b><i>"Well, financially, with the C0V1D, yes. The, uh, his business at the coffee company, [Joshua Tree Coffee] uh, probably was down quite a bit, because the cafes were shut and…yeah, financial problems…and he said at one point, it [C0V1D] affected 80% of his business at the coffee company..."</i></b>
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That is a HUGE financial loss! And RR, being the kind of guy that took pride in "contributing to the community," probably felt terrible for all his employees that he likely couldn't employ during that time. So it's not just the financial loss, but the self-imposed emotional stress which likely accompanied that.
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<b><i>"And he was gonna do clothing, uh, but…He got machinery…equipment is at Juniper…Unbelievable machinery from the south that - dyes. I mean, you’d have to see it to believe it…he put thousands and thousands of dollars in this equipment, to make the material, the hemp, uh…he was getting thread from China…tens of thousands. We’re talking, like, 200,000…but he bought the building…It’s on Juniper. He owned that building up until last week…and he’s technically renting it…to pay taxes and other things...We have a crop of rats up here. All the equipment at…wires got chewed up by rats…They were chewing through all the wiring on the…weaving machine and…thousands of dollars on their car, their washing machine, anything electrical…catastrophic this year…"</i></b>
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I'm not sure how recent this was, but as Joshua Tree Coffee is recovering from the rediculous L0ckd0wns, his entire clothing business is ended before it even begins, as rats chew through and destroy all of the equipment he intended to create clothes from sctratch with. Was this sabotage? Either that or some serious bad energy brought in the vermin...
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<b><i>"and he took a loan out on his house, which was free and clear…A loan against his home…it’s probably not healthy, but he doesn’t talk about his finances."</i> </b>
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<b><i>"He [roomate] was a customer and a artist, and he works with glass…and he [RR] said, do you know of enough artists that could bring their art in, because Royce was under contract. He was under a lease, there…And if he didn’t get someone in there, he had to pay the…whatever it was on 2 spaces…He has, I think, 5 or 6 artists, and they take turns coming in…he was only gonna ask, what, 20% of their artwork for profit…"</i></b>
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Another example of RR trying to help his community and support the arts. He also rented that same space originally to feature the art of his former girlfriend.
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<b><i>"He has [Joshua Tree Coffee] and next to it he has the colloidal silver, which helps with viruses, like C0V1D...his big thing was helping the community he has all this equipment that - he has a lab at Juniper…For healing…that he was making to help people. People who didn’t have money, he would give it to em. If they only had $5, he would take that…"</i></b>
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This was where I met RR when I visited the area, and he gave me a free bottle. He went into great detail about the laser process to create the silver nano-particles for his true colloidal silver. If the equipment he described to me was among that "destroyed by rats" in his warehouse, that was a VERY expensive loss. Again, was this sabotage? Let's be honest, alternative treatment methods to C0V1D weren't exactly "accepted" during 2020-2021. And he seemed to be trying to develope one, in a form.
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<b><i>"it’s like a $200,000 car, and he’s got debt at this point…He owes…He owes on that car…I think he bought it in Arizona…"</i></b>
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This is the vehicle RR was last driving. According to the report, his only criminal record had to do with speeding tickets.
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<b>THE FINAL ACT</b>
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<b><i>[The security guard] said a man pulled up to the gate and asked if he could open the gate so he could complete a u-turn. [The security guard] said this occurred a lot because most people do not realize the left light is a no u-turn light…the man advised [the security guard] to tell the cop behind him to stop following him. The man picked up a handgun…and held it in his hands. He did not point the gun at [the security guard]. The man stated the gun was just a BB gun and he was afraid that the cops were going to think it was a real weapon and “shoot him.”…nothing with his demeanor and/or body language seemed out of the ordinary…He [guard] told the man [RR] to just put down the gun, pull over, and put his hands up and tell the police it was not a real weapon. [The security guard] opened the gate and the man drove through. The deputy then drove through the gate after the man…[The security guard] did not speak with the deputy…said he was in and out of the security guard gate office (talking on the radio) and did not have visual of the incident the entire time…during the incident, another man drove up in a green SUV to the gate and had a conversation with him…the man stated he was the person who had initially called the police because that man pointed a gun at him; he then backed up his car and parked in front of the country club." - Security guard Interview summary</i></b>
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I've noticed in these types of reports, there will typically be an officer's interpretation of an interview, and then there is the raw interview itself. In this case, we only have the officer's interpretation, which bugs me a bit because the surveillance footage capturing this interaction seems to have been withheld. Now we see that the raw interview with the guard and his responses transcribed verbatum is also being withheld.
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Even though we don't have video, the guard's overall demeanor can be partially inferred by several of his actions, and from comments made by Deputy Doyle.
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He states that RR initially asked him to open the gate so he could "complete a U-Turn." He then goes on to say this is fairly common because people don't realize the left turn light at that intersection does now allow U-Turns. Sure, that might be common when the person isn't also showing you a gun and telling you the cops are FOLLOWING, and trying to kill him for having a BB gun!
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The guard apparently goes on to explain that RR "picked up a handgun…and held it in his hands. He did not point the gun at [the guard]"...is it just me or is that the most polite and non-threatening way to describe a man pulling a gun on someone? If a complete stranger pulls out a gun and shows it to me, I don't care if it's pointed at me or not, I'm going to feel threatened! It only takes a split second at that point to turn it and shoot!
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The guard then indicates that "…nothing with his demeanor and/or body language seemed out of the ordinary." Compare that description with the one the 911 caller gave regarding his interaction with RR just minutes before. Did RR just come back to his senses while he was speeding down the 111, splitting lanes while flooring it, and nervously putting on his convertable top in the middle of the street? If grabbing a gun and showing it to the guard doesn't qualify as "body language" that seemed "out of the ordinary," I think Desert Horizons needs to get a new guard!
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Isn't it the guard's specific job to make sure people like this DON'T enter into an area where people LIVE? And why couldn't RR just do exactly what the guard suggested right then and there? The cop was right behind him already! It seems the guard wanted to "usher" everyone into the area inside...
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When the 911 caller pulls up, the guard says his SUV was green. It's also called beige and gray in various parts of this report. It looks gray to me in the Chase ATM video. The best video of the car is in the guard gate surveillance, but the one we see is black and white only.
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<b><i>"The driver of the suspect vehicle abruptly made a right turn onto Desert Horizons Drive and stopped at the manned security gate..Dep Doyle watched the suspect grab an unknown item from the passenger seat, show it to the security guard, and put the item back on the passenger seat. Dep Doyle initially thought the item might be a gun, but the security guard did not appear to be alarmed and opened the access gate."</i></b>
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<i><b>"The guard shack. Or the guard…And the RP [Reporting Party], I remember seeing them parked outside the gate. They tried to follow me in, but then they backed up so possibly the RP…It was a holiday so traffic was kind of light…" - Deputy Doyle</b></i>
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Deputy Doyle beleived RR was in possession of a deadly handgun, so when he saw RR reach for something that he admits he thought might be a gun, why didn't he react in some manner? He says he couldn't tell what it was, but shouldn't he have assumed the worst in case it WAS a real gun and RR tried to blow away the guard? Doyle's ACTIONS here say, "it's not a deadly gun."
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Dep Doyle says "the security guard did not appear to be alarmed and opened the access gate." He's judging the possibility of whether the suspect brandished a gun, who he knows just got done doing that minutes ago to someone else, by the guard's demeanor. He's helping to NORMALIZE, and make less absurd, the guard's decision to let an armed man into the parking lot, without any apparent concern for the lives of people living in there!
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Let's remember that RR told the 911 caller that his gun was only a BB. 911 caller DOESN'T tell 911 dispatch, and so they don't tell the cops responding to the scene. Now RR has just told the guard at the gate. Guard doesn't attempt to inform Dep Doyle, and Doyle makes no effort to communicate with the guard as he blows by him and immediately enters the Country Club gate, without quickly asking what the interaction with RR was all about.
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Dep Doyle remarks that traffic was "kinda light," which make sense because it was a holiday and early in the morning. But was this also said in order to explain why no cars attempted to enter while the shooting scene occured?
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<b><i>"[911 caller] told the security guard they should take some sort of cover as he was afraid there was going to be potential gunfire because the suspect had a gun. [911 caller] said he took cover by some bricks near the guard shack" - Officer's Interview Narrative</i></b>
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<b><i>"The cop needs to turn right. I’m not going to go in there. I’m just going to pull over. [and where are you pulling over?] Desert Horizons Country Club. There he is. That’s the guy with the gun. [Ok, just go ahead and stay right there, and they’ll make contact with you.] - 911 call transcript </i></b>
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<b><i>"I got out and told the security guy, dude there might be gunfire get - let’s shelter. Let’s get behind some bricks you know. So I was hiding behind some bricks, but watching..."</i></b>
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<b><i>"And he convinces the security guy - He pulls in. The cop follows him. He turns around so that he can come out of the - if you have your lanyard lane. And he [Royce] could be running away basically. I stayed where I was at…for a minute. I was next in line to the security guy. And then I pulled up to the security guy and say hey, this guy has a gun…you should shelter…And I backed my car up and around and off to the side. So, I’m facing directly at the guy he’s looking right at me. With his eyes...He [RR] knows I’m there and then I called 911 and stuff. So, then I’m thinking wait a minute. What if that gun’s real? He could shoot right at me. And I should be sheltering with the old man. So, I got my coffee and ran over into the thing [guard shack]" - 911 caller.</i></b>
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The 911 caller says to dispatch "I’m not going to go in there," and then proceeds to drive right up to the guard gate! Deputy Doyle also remarked that the 911 caller tried to follow him in. What was his plan? To just park there off to the side and drink his coffee, in full view of the armed guy who just threatened to kill him? That's not too far from the truth of what happened here!
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When describing the moment he realized RR was looking straight at him, the 911 caller states "He knows I’m there and then I called 911 and stuff." But apparently he was also on the phone with his Electrician at the same time, because the electrician said he heard the shots that killed RR! Here's the quote from the report:
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<b><i>[The Electrician] then said he heard approximately 4 shots and [911 caller] said, “they got him, he’s down.”</i> </b>
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Let's recap the 911 caller's phone activity, as detailed in this report...911 caller is on the phone with his Electrician when RR first threatens him. He hangs up with the electrician to call 911 as he follows RR to the country club. He hangs up with 911 when he gets to the country club. He pulls up to the gate and sees RR staring at him. He calls 911 again. A minute or less goes by and he is on the phone with the electrician again, who can hear RR get shot through the phone. Try and picture all that in your mind.
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<b><i>"but I saw the black vehicle pointing at me, as I’m going in. So I kind of shit myself a little bit because poor positions…And I realize it now, that I’m sitting here looking straight at a 417 suspect vehicle that, you know, I know for one armed with a handgun…This guy’s literally has the ability to point right at me as I’m coming in...I think I went through the—guest one, which is the right or the…I believe it was already open…because those gate cards sometimes even if you go in there through the routine stuff, they always want to stop and hey, what’s going on. And so I think in my head this motherfucker better have the gate open…It was a bitching car. I could see it. I’m like wow. Cause I almost thought okay does this guy live in here? Is that why he was let in by the guard gate?Did he have a key fob that just allowed him to pass through unimpeded? Because a lot of times they’re very pushy in there, and it’s like they disregard cops. It’s a weird thing with Indian Wells…" - Deputy Garrett Judge</i></b>
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Deputy Judge arrived on the scene just after Dep Doyle and the 911 caller, and found himself in the exact same situation the 911 caller did - face to face with RR sitting in his car facing the gate. He makes it clear, he believes RR has a deadly handgun - because the 911 caller didn't bother to tell dispatch that it might be just a BB.
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I mentioned in a previous blog how the security guard gate was in the "open" position just before the 2nd Deputy arrived. Since Dep Doyle drove straight in without speaking to the guard, that tells me it was left open after RR entered. But as soon as Dep Judge arrives, it immediately closes. Why did the guard decide to close the gate at that particular moment? Was this to keep anyone from driving in and potentially interrupting the scene? How did he know more cops weren't on the way that would have to blast through the gate he just closed? How did he know NOT to close it after Dep Doyle went in? Neither cop said a word to him upon entering!
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<b><i>"So I got my coffee and ran over into the thing [guard shack] - and kept trying to tell the guy [guard] to quit going out there, but he was trying to deal with traffic...And they asked me to leave so the paramedics could get in." - 911 caller</i></b>
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Deputy Doyle said traffic was light that morning, but nonetheless, the 911 caller says the gate guard was dealing with traffic. What traffic? We're talking probably less than 5 minutes here, from when RR showed up, till the cops shot him dead. The only "traffic" I can see the guard needing to direct, would be AWAY from the Country Club entrance.
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After RR was shot, the 911 caller said he was asked to leave so paramedics could get in. Meaning, his car was blocking traffic coming into the country club. Picture this for a second...he's blocking traffic from coming in, and the guard is "dealing with traffic." It seems these guys are working together to prevent cars from coming in. They seem to have created a blockade, yet there is no dialogue acknowledging that they are doing this. Aren't they in fear of their lives? How do they know RR won't come barrelling through the gates, shooting at them in an attempt to escape, cops screaching after him?
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<b><i>"Dep Doyle…stopped his patrol vehicle…behind the suspect vehicle. The suspect backed up to within feet of the front of his patrol vehicle and stopped…The suspect yelled for Dep Doyle to kill him, shoot him and “In my existence.” …Dep Doyle believed the suspect was going to shoot and kill him or Dep Judge…"</b></i>
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<b><i>"Initially I’d say about 5 feet, but then he began to back [up], so I thought he was gonna crash into my vehicle, but then he stopped, so it was a lot closer, probably 2 feet…Um, kill him, in, in my existence, shoot him…."</i></b>
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RR appears to have positioned himself initially to leave the Resort, but instead parks facing the gate he came in through - clear of traffic so anyone entering will not be impeded, which is rather convenient for the Deputies who are about to arrive, isn't it?
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RR watches Deputy Doyle arrive, then backs up for no apparent reason, to within feet of the Deputy's car. Only reasons I can think he may have done this was to either position himself to flee if needed, or to position himself in a specific way for the surveillance cameras.
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<b><i>"I can see the two of them communicating, I could see mouths moving but I couldn’t hear shit. I didn’t hear anything. It was - it was the weirdest sensation. The second I got out of my car was like my focus was a scarecrow looking dude and those two guys but I didn’t hear them. I could see Doyle’s mouth moving. I could see this guy gesturing, and I could see almost like a frustration with this guy in his mannerism...And then I see the movement, I just see a gun pointed at Doyle…So at that point, I drew my gun and fired several rounds…I didn’t hear my shots, I didn’t hear Doyle’s shots, but I was so focused on the firearm...He just — he had intent. He — he has something in his head, and he was going to fulfill it. He was going to go through with it…I knew that there was some sort of firearm experience that this guy had…it was like the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz…but yet it was still, you know, kind of puppetry but just — just he had the build of a scarecrow" - Deputy Judge</i></b>
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Dep Judge's choice of the words "scarecrow" and "puppetry," in reference to RR's movements, indicates to me that he was picking up on RR's dissociated state of mind via his odd movements. A puppet is controlled by someone else. Whether that influence was RR's own demons or something else is impossible to determine with the information we have here.
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Deputy Judge must have been in shock when he arrived, because he said he couldn't hear anything, not even the shots. So he wouldn't have heard if RR said "shoot me" or anything else.
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<b><i>"[The Guard] said he was in and out of the security guard gate office (talking on the radio) and did not have visual of the incident the entire time"</i></b>
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The 911 caller said the guard was busy dealing with traffic. The above quote says he was in and out and talking to radio. He apparently closed the gate when the 2nd cop arrived, after opening it and leaving it open for all 3 participants in this final scene. Doesn't sound like he was "taking cover," sounds like a guy calmly involved in directing things.
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<b><i>[The 911 caller] said he took cover by some bricks near the guard shack. [911 caller] did see the suspect waving the gun in the air. [911 caller] said he believed the suspect was telling the deputies that the gun was a BB gun. I asked why he thought that and he said it was because he was pointing at the gun with his left hand but he couldn’t hear what was being said. I asked if he had it pointed at the deputies…He said the suspect “must have done something because they all responded at once.</i></b>
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In a previous video I pointed out that RR did not say "end MY existence" in the video. And neither is Deputy Doyle quoted as hearing those exact words. I hear "END EXISTENCE," which demonstrates his state of dissociation, as I pointed out before. This is not an insignifficant detail, because it indicates that the person who edited the footage subtitles was trying to bias the narrative towards a "suicide by cop" perception. "End existence" = Destroy Everything. "End MY existence" = Destroy ME. The latter is much more specific and less open to interpretation. Why would the video need to be edited towards a bias if it was so conclusive on its own? Of course, they can always say "oh...oops!"
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The 911 caller saw RR point at the gun, but we didn't see that in the body cam video. How did he see something we can't see in the video? Is there other footage that was cut out of it? 3 of the 4 individuals at the scene did not hear anything RR said. Dep Doyle's recollection was extremely brief in this report. Are we relying too much on this video? What if it was selectively edited in order to favor the suicide narrative?
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Ever been in a film/music production studio? I'm sure the 911 caller has, since he did state he once had a production company in LA. Recorded sounds/video can easily be cut, pasted, altered, or deleted without most people being able to tell the difference. Doesn't mean that happened here, but it's certainly possible and we've seen the motive for doing so.
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The full body cam video shows what occured in the minutes after RR was shot and killed. As deputies attempted to administer CPR, BLEEPS and visual blurring is placed to obscure sounds and visuals as RR lay bleeding. I can understand, to a degree, not wanting to release clear footage of RR's bloody final moments. But was this also done to obscure the planting of evidence upon his body? There is a long bleep while Deputies are struggling with RR, who was still alive for a few moments after he fell. Did they "bleep out" his final words for some reason?
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<b>IN CONCLUSION</b>
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My most conservative opinion regarding what happened here is that RR was indeed under much stress, and might even have inadvertantly succumbed to negative influences which drove him to this tragic place and time. The toxicology report showed he had THC in his system. Rumor has it, he was open to the use of mushrooms and possibly even stronger hallucinogenics in the recent months before he died. It is conceavable that all of these factors lead to his tragic shift into a desperate state of dissociation, where he did and said things not consistent with the person most knew as RR.
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To take another position on what happened here, I would start by noting some pretty strong evidence that the Riverside Country Sheriff's Department was covering things up. Possibly even altering the evidence, in order to control public perception around an incident that could make them look very bad, during a heated period where "defund the police" was trending. So I'm not necesarily disputing the idea that Deputies were justified in shooting RR here, but it must be acknowledged that they did have a very strong motive to make sure public perception leaned that way, regardless of how conclusive the body cam footage may have been.
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To take a more extreme position: were there individuals looking to sabotage RR for various reasons? Did his work on "silver nanoparticles," his international correspondences, and thousands of dollars worth of investments land him on a "blacklist" of sorts? Were people sent out there to sort of "ruin him" and bring him to his knees? Was this "suicide by cop" incident some sort of sophisticated entrapment operation, where a mentally unstable RR was to end up dead one way or the other, and that members of law enforcement and other bad actors may have been consciously involved with at varying degrees?
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Burning questions:
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What happened to RR's wallet and what banking transaction did he potentially conduct just before the initial "brandishing" incident? Who would have wanted that covered up and why?
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Why did the 911 caller tell dispatch that a man threatened him with a gun, without informing them RR told and attempted to show him it was just a BB?
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Did a freak invasion of rats really ruin all of RR's equipment at his warehouse on Juniper street, or was sabotage involved?
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-15650384386352986242022-07-16T23:33:00.021-07:002023-01-07T10:43:37.131-08:00The Queen's Reich<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AilwLaGmTepRh7alxSiiRrTwXeKZgjBCAP6jp1ZNfc3tM3crFaPEZYuflAnhELl-iRrRx2f3l_RVpRu7VKM2xbvNo_22dVmRtGzbij_tJkuPaLNNxEGpGZNTVqAs7bQDZHac1QfIvbEazRPU4PTSQsIpjmq-FqNJXOu6pGBqTcRhVeAbyuLY7A/s1874/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-11%20at%201.04.31%20AM.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="1874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AilwLaGmTepRh7alxSiiRrTwXeKZgjBCAP6jp1ZNfc3tM3crFaPEZYuflAnhELl-iRrRx2f3l_RVpRu7VKM2xbvNo_22dVmRtGzbij_tJkuPaLNNxEGpGZNTVqAs7bQDZHac1QfIvbEazRPU4PTSQsIpjmq-FqNJXOu6pGBqTcRhVeAbyuLY7A/s400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-11%20at%201.04.31%20AM.png"/></a></div>
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Seattle's Queensryche started out in the early 80s, playing what was considered somewhat original sounding, cutting edge, aggressive heavy metal. But they rapidly morphed into something more progressive and ecclectic. This peaked with their classic concept album "Operation: Mindcrime," revered for it's unique combination of cinematic drama and hard edged, melodic heavy metal.
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Although "Operation: Mindcrime" was only modestly successful compared to larger acts of the day, Queensryche's follow-up "Empire" would see them shoot up to the top of pop charts. Interestingly, the band then chose to play "Operation: Mindcrime" in it's entirety to their newfound audience, as if they hadn't already toured for it!
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<i>"They come up and they say “you know Revolution Calling…is that happening in America right now?..are you planning a subversive revolution against the government? Do you want us to be assassins for you?” …and we just say aye! We’re just writing about cars and women and stuff! I mean we got nothing against right wing conservative fascists that run the United States!..the story of Mindcrime is a fictional story. It’s not an extreme version of reality." - Chris DeGarmo</i>
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[Left: Chris DeGarmo Right: Geoff Tate]
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Though Geoff Tate seemed the unwitting spokesperson for Queensryche initially, it is easy to see why Chris DeGarmo seemed to quickly fall into that role. He was good looking, articulate, quick, funny, intelligent, confident, yet surprisingly disarming in his demeanor. Because of this, one tends to just knod along in agreement with him, giving him the benefit of the doubt when he is vague or ambiguis. We LIKE him. We TRUST him.
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But if we examine DeGarmo's quote above, he really doesn't do a very good job at debunking the decidedly serious fan perspective he presents. Beneath his initial sarcasm is the obvious truth that they do write music about REAL topics, and it does reflect their feelings about "right wing conservative fascists" running the country. To me, this seems to support the idea that the album is a "call to arms" of sorts, but let's step back for a moment...
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<b>WHAT IS A "QUEENSRYCHE?"</b>
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Queensryche is not a real word, it was presumably invented by the band. Not sure what to call themselves, they decided to take the title of Chris DeGarmo's song "Queen of the Reich" and abbreviate it into QUEENSRYCHE.
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Queen: "the wife or widow of a king...a female monarch."
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Reich: "realm : empire : kingdom"
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Empire: "a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority."
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- Merriam Webster
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<i>"The monarchy of Canada is Canada's form of government embodied by the Canadian sovereign and head of state. It is at the core of Canada's constitutional federal structure and Westminster-style parliamentary democracy. The monarchy is the foundation of the executive (Queen-in-Council), legislative (Queen-in-Parliament), and judicial (Queen-on-the-Bench) branches of both federal and provincial jurisdictions. The Queen of Canada has been Elizabeth II since 6 February 1952." - wiki</i>
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I thought Queen Elizabeth II was the QUEEN OF ENGLAND? Well, yes she is. But when we look at the word REICH, it seems that Queen Elizabeth's "realm" or "Empire" actually extends to Canada, which is just North of Seattle, Washington. So when we speak of a "QUEEN'S REICH," we are referring to the territories under her juristiction in some form, which may extend beyond the borders of the native country in which that Queen physically resides. So if we say we are "building empires," I suppose that means we are expanding the Queen's Reich beyond it's current borders...
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There are no Queens in the United States, as we live in a constitutional republic. So why were these young American rockers promoting "the Queen's Empire" through music, in a territory where that influence was actually forced out during the American Revolution? Maybe they just thought it sounded like a cool, unique name for a heavy metal band.
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Freddy Mercury wore a British royal crown replica many times on stage during his band QUEEN's performances. Queen was originally signed to British label EMI, the same label that signed Queensryche in 1983 for their 7-album deal.
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Think about this within the context of say, "Game of Thrones." If you are the Queen of an Empire and your people are fawning and worshipping at the feet of some foreign rock and roller from ANOTHER COUNTRY - one which defeated YOUR armies and forcefully claimed its' independence from your Kingdom - well you better do something about that! Because you want your subjects screaming for YOUR OWN home grown rockers, representing YOUR OWN Empire and YOUR OWN interests! In fact, you want THE WORLD screaming for YOUR OWN home grown rock and roll representatives, don't you? Think: The British Invasion...
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<i>"The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States and significant to the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Zombies, the Kinks, Small Faces, the Dave Clark Five, Herman's Hermits, the Hollies, the Animals, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers, the Yardbirds, the Who, and Them, as well as solo singers like Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Tom Jones, and Donovan, were at the forefront of the "invasion"" - Wiki</i>
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The original Queensryche EP has yellow lettering with a purple outline. Yellow is close to GOLD, an element signifying royalty. Purple is a royal color as well. [think of PRINCE and his PURPLE REIGN]
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<i>"Crown Royal [Whiskey] was introduced in 1939 by Samuel Bronfman, president of Seagram, as a tribute to the 1939 royal tour of Canada by King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, the first of a reigning monarch to Canada." - wiki</i>
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Note the yellow/gold and Royal Color purple. A 750ml bottle of Crown Royal typically comes packaged in a Royal Purple sack with yellow/gold string/embroidery.
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The iconic "QR" shield on the back of Queensryche's e.p. has swords and a crown...a real expression of heraldry - in the tradition of European Royalty. Are these just some young rockers who watched "Excalibur" one too many times, or is there some type of larger influence here?
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Just under the logo is the peregrine falcon motif, which would later morph into the Tri-Ryche symbol. The peregrine falcon is the fastest bird, as well as the fastest animal on the planet. Bird wing motifs are very common in heraldic emblems.
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In the video for "Queen of the Reich," a futuristic Queen is attempting to enslave the world using a computer and some sort of crystal technology. At the end of the video, Geoff Tate tears off the face mask from the then captured Queen's eyes, and a blinding light flashes before them. The words: "To be continued." appear across the screen. I'm sure many fans noticed that there was never a sequel to this story. Or was there?
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Queensryche's debut full-length "The Warning" features a being with lights shooting out of it's eyes on the cover of what looks like a Tarot card. Is this some sort of cheap knod to where the "Queen of the Ryche" video left off? Note what looks like the planet earth in the background, where a giant storm seems to have formed. Note also the peregrine/tri-ryche symbol on the corners of the card...
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For the Warning, EMI flew Queensryche to London to record with producer James Guthrie. Although Guthrie didn't seem to have much experience recording heavy metal, he had already produced "The Wall" by Pink Floyd - making him one of the "big time" rock producers of the day. I suppose EMI was just LOADED with money, because flying the band over to London to work with a producer who could charge top dollar in what would probably be top of the line facilities - well one can only assume EMI was expecting a return on this investment.
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<i>DeGarmo: ...We came over to London to record with James because we thought he would be valuable to work with, and he wanted to use London studios. We'd allowed two months to complete the record, but things kept on developing with the result that we over-ran by a month, and that was working 12-14 hours at a stretch with very few days off. It was really exhausting, and when it came to mixing the results I think we were all so drained that we failed to really capture what we'd done. We needed to be fresh for the mix, and we weren't...the label really cares, and wanted very much to get it right, so that's why I'm down here now in LA. It's really working out well and everyone's very pleased with what we've got. We're getting really excited about the album again!" - Kerrang #77</i>
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<i>"It's great that the label is prepared to give a new band the time - and the opportunity - to get the record exactly right," Geoff added later. "They could easily have insisted on releasing just what we had, but the support we've had from them has been excellent. We're very fortunate that they trust us and believe in us." - Kerrang! #77</i>
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This Kerrang article came out obviously before the Warning album had been released. Clearly there were problems with the initial mix in London, which seems odd considering the high end producer and facilities involved. Kerrang's job here seems to be to provide a bit of damage control, and help reassure Queensryche fans that a proper product is on the way. But the information in the article is contradicted pretty directly in other places...
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<i>"The album's original track sequence and sound mix that the band had approved, was changed by mix engineer Val Garay under orders from EMI-America, against the wishes of the band...The band first learned of this in August 1984, while on tour in Japan." - Blabbermouth, Anybodylistening.net</i>
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Ok, so according to Kerrang!, DeGarmo was in LA re-mixing the album WITH native Californian Val Garay [then of Kim Carnes fame] and the band was real "pleased" with it all. Yet, other reports claimed EMI made the decision to remix the album AGAINST the wishes of the band! Here's what Geoff Tate said years later about this, according to Blabbermouth...
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<i>"The only time I ever experienced [a record label restricting creative freedom] was during the recording of Queensrÿche's first album, The Warning. We went $300,000 over budget and the label took the record out of our hands and gave it to someone else to mix. ... The guy that mixed the album had no clue what Queensrÿche was. He never listened to hard rock music and didn't take input from anyone in the band. He just mixed it according to how he thought it should sound. No-one in the band could listen to that record. We all hated it."</i>
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Think about the money this all cost! Flying the band to London, paying for lodging/food. Paying the producer, studio, engineers. Going $300,000 OVER budget! [which was a lot more money in 1984 than it is today] Then refusing to accept the original mix, and spending additional money to pay another person to remix it, who's claim to fame was working with Kim Carnes! Kim Carnes was known for the hit "Betty Davis Eyes." [NOT Metal or even hard rock!] Regardless of how much money EMI had floating around, I can't see them dumping so much cash into the band without expecting a return on the level of Pink Floyd or Kim Carnes. What they ended up with was basically an abstract cult metal classic that only a handful of people in the world would truly appreciate. This might explain the band's drastic shift in sound and image for the next album, which they so admirably explain away with the term "no limits."
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It seems the ultimate goals of the band and the label were not very clear or necesarilly in alignment. Yet Kerrang! was out there making sure the opposite perception was given. The band even seemed to play into the "misinformation" to a degree at times. Perhaps as we continue to look at the big picture here, it will all start to make more sense. [no promises though!]
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Notice what appears to be a stylized crown on the back of these tarot cards - a similar crown motif is found embedded in Queen's early logo for their debut album...
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[Queensryche concert program, presumably handed out to fans during the 1985 Warning tour. We can see that the fully formed Tri-Ryche symbol was already being used, exactly as it would appear on the cover of their following album, "Rage for Order"]
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<i>"The spelling "Queensreich" was modified to prevent association of the band with Nazism; "ryche" is a Middle English cognate to "Reich" which, like the German word, can mean "realm", "kingdom" or "empire". The name "Queensrÿche" is written with a metal umlaut over the letter 'y'." - wiki</i>
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This business of Queensryche changing the spelling of the word "reich" to avoid association with Nazism is very strange when we consider their unambiguisely named "Tri-Ryche" symbol, as well as the Tri-Ryche corporation the band would form.
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<i>"Queensrÿche's logo, the so-called Tri-Ryche (written without an umlaut on the 'y'), also stems from the band's early years...The Tri-Ryche is prominently featured on most of Queensrÿche's album covers."</i>
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The word "Tri" is latin for 3. So Tri-Ryche really means 3 Ryche or Third Reich! If they didn't want to be associated with Nazism, it seems rather strange they were not concerned that this "Tri-Ryche" name might raise a few eyebrows. I guess they were right not to worry, because it never even occured to me till I started researching this blog!
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Geoff Tate was born in Stuttgart, which was then part of West Germany, to American parents. I'm not saying Tate is a Nazi, I just thought I'd throw that in there with all of this German stuff...perhaps he had a pre-occupation with German topics due to being born there?
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Apparently the Tri-Ryche symbol gets credited to both Wes "Grizz" Griswold [R.I.P.] and Scott Rockenfield's brother Todd - both of whom I couldn't really find much of anything about.
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At some point Queensryche formed a corporation called "Tri-Ryche," after the symbol of the same name. All 5 members would have equal shares, as I understand it from the Tate vs Wilton/Jackson/Rockenfield court documents. When DeGarmo quit, that left 4 core members. A big beef in the court documents had to do with Tate allegedly forfeiting his share when he behaved in a manner leading to his being voted out of the corporation by the 3 other members. Interestingly, this reduced the corporation down to a true "Tri-Ryche" [or 3 member "empire"] Again, I have to wonder if anyone involved with this court case pondered this "3rd Reich" association...
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<i>"Oxford University Press; Abridged edition (May 29, 1986)" - Amazon</i>
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<i>"Rage for Order is the second studio album by the American progressive metal band Queensrÿche, released on June 27, 1986." - wiki</i>
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I don't want to spend too much time getting into "Rage for Order," but it is interesting to note that the British publisher Oxford Press put out a book called "A Rage for Order" EXACTLY 30 days before the album "Rage for Order" was released on the British EMI label [through subsidiary EMI America].
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If you look closely at the Tri-Ryche symbol on the album cover, the base of it looks as though it could be centered at Great Britain. What could this mean?
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Similarities to the Batman symbol aside, my guess is that the Tri-Ryche insignia is at least partially inspired by the fleur-de-lis, found on the British crown.
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<i>"The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a lily (in French, fleur and lis mean 'flower' and 'lily' respectively) that is used as a decorative design or symbol...The fleur-de-lis has been used in the heraldry of numerous European nations, but is particularly associated with France, notably during its monarchical period."</i>
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Queensryche's major commercially successful album "Empire" prominently embedded the name of their record label EMI within the title "Empire." Is this EMI asserting it's ownership and responsibilty for the finished product? Who really runs Queensryche? Are the band members just the "frontmen" for a larger social control operation?
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<b>EMI AND KERRANG!</b>
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<i>Q: You have actually toured with Kiss…played with Maiden, Dio…but before that you were really on the local circuit, weren’t you?
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Geoff tate: Actually no. We’d never played live before. I think the first show we played was 4000 people or something…</i>
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How did an obscure underground Heavy Metal band from what was, at the time, an obscure part of the country for heavy rock music, manage to bypass the "club circuit" completely, land huge gigs, and then obtain a major record deal so fast? Don't get me wrong, I am GLAD they did, as I am a fan! But it does seem odd.
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Most bands that were "making it" at the time were from LA. Ratt, Quiet Riot, Dokken, Motley Crue, Van Halen...These bands were singing about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Fun. Partying. Even the devil. Queensryche was singing about abstract science fiction fantasy and mystical ladies in black. They didn't scream "radio hit coming soon!" Build a local following? Meh! Why waste time on that when you can jump straight to arenas?
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<i>"The group recorded the four songs...For an entire year, they brought their demo to various labels and were rejected by all of them...Kim Harris [manager] sent the demo tape and a band photo to a friend who wrote for Kerrang! magazine, resulting in a glowing review...After the EP garnered international praise, receiving much airplay and selling an unusual number of copies for a small independent release, Tate agreed to leave Myth and become Queensrÿche's permanent lead singer." - wiki</i>
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England's Kerrang! is one of the most influencial heavy metal magazines in the world. Although the band's raw talent surely didn't hurt, it seems it was the British magazine's praise of Queensryche's humble ep that was probably most responsible for their initial boost in popularity, leading to larger gigs and a major record deal with a notably British major record label, EMI. They then recorded their first full length, The Warning, in London, England. You know that old cliche about the band you never heard of being "big in Japan?" Well it seems Queensryche was "big in England" initially. At least in the minds of a few influential entities within Queen Elizabeth's Empire.
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[note 2 bands with the word QUEEN in the name, listed on the front cover of Kerrang! #77!]
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The album "Operation: Mindcrime" begins in a hospital, where a woman with an American accent is paging Doctors over a loudspeaker. We then hear a Nurse with a British accent entering a room, where the TV is broadcasting a news story by a man with an American accent, reporting on a man being held in a hospital - who is obviously Nikki. So we are in America, but a British Nurse is checking in on Nikki to give him a shot. She calls him a "bastard" under her breath, so she is obviously not looking to "fix him up" in a good way! Why is the nurse British? I don't know, but so is Dr X, who is played by British actor Anthony Valentine. [more on this later] Geoff Tate also seems to use a slight British accent on spoken sections of the album.
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<i>"Selling skin, selling god, the numbers look the same on their credit cards..."</i>
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In the song "Spreading the Disease," Tate rhymes GOD with CARDS. That doesn't work if you have a Northwest American accent! Americans typically pronounce the R in CARDS. Even if you go to the East Coast or deep into the ghetto - you might get a long "A" out of cAAAds. But you don't really get to CODS unless you are British. The numbers look the same on their credit CODS...
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<i>"We all met, strangely and mysteriously in a fish and chips restaurant….and we were all there one night." - Geoff Tate, 1984</i>
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I came across a book called "The Intern," published originally in 1965. The author? Dr X. Apparently, this was a pen name [pseudonym] for a guy named Alan Nourse, who is a fairly well known science fiction writer. In fact, he wrote a book called "The Bladerunner" in 1974. Although the story is not related to the film of the same name, the name itself was directly lifted.
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<i>"In 1960, Alan E. Nourse, who was an intern at Virginia Mason, wrote The Intern; it was published by Harper & Row in 1965, under the pseudonym "Doctor X"" - wiki</i>
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So what is the signifficance of this book, "the Intern" by Dr X? It is basically comprised of non-fiction, diary entries written by Alan Nourse while he was an intern at a hospital in.........Seattle! I read the book, and I couldn't find any relavant information to this topic, other than the connections already mentioned. Perhaps Geoff Tate or someone else came across it during the writing of O.M.?
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<i>"I worked in a hospital. I was…all the supplies that come in, I was sort of in charge of a store room. Stocking all of these things…keeping track of them, unloading deliveries…" - Chris DeGarmo</i>
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Perhaps DeGarmo's early experiences working in a hospital influenced the subject matter on O.M.? Here is what Geoff Tate said about how the idea for DR X came about...
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<i>"I guess it started out to be based on a group of people we met when we were in Montreal who were sort of involved with overthrowing their government…and ousting all the English speaking people and bringing in sort of a French controlled new government…quite an interesting night drinking with these people and hearing their viewpoints…that was sort of the inspiration for DR X…"</i>
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The character of Dr X is played by Anthony Valentine, a British actor. If the idea of the character was influenced by some French Canadians who hate speaking English, why was the character presented as one who's native tongue is English? And given that the story presumably takes place in America, what would a British guy be doing trying to radicalize and recruit despondent American youth for a revolution and to overthrow the American government?
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<i> "...a metal band best known for a concept album (“Operation: Mindcrime”) about a “Manchurian Candidate"-style brainwashed assassin." - LA Times, 1991</i>
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<i>"The story is centered around the title of the album, which is called Operation mind crime. And what that is is the codename for this plan that one of the characters has. Dr x is trying to carry out this revolutionary plan…it’s based in contemporary America, is where the story’s based, and he…sort of manipulated these 2 other characters to carry out his violent form of creating change and um, operation mind crime is the name of his plan so he brainwa - - sort of capitalizes on the character’s weaknesses like they happen to have drug problems and religious - they [are] very dependent on religion, so he manipulates both of these angles to make them carry out his plan…we also just tried to write the best songs that we could and surround this story with very emotional, atmospheric music…" - Chris DeGarmo, 1988</i>
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<i>"They've split from their management company and have been taken on by the heavyweights of management, Peter Mensch and Cliff Burnstein - the two of them being responsible for the likes of Def Leppard, Metallica, Tesla, Dokken..." - Metal Hammer</i>
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When Queensryche began their tour with Metallica on September 11th 1988, I don't think I was the only person confused by the pairing. Metallica was still considered pretty extreme, with regard to their sound and brutality. A Thrash/Speed Metal Band. There was no happy "Enter Sandman" type songs yet! Whereas Queensryche was closer to progressive, hard rock, and/or glam at that point. Metallica's 1988 album "And Justice for All" was, arguably, their most dark and brutal - both lyrically and sonically.
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<i>"Justice is lost, justice is raped, justice is gone...pulling your strings, justice is done. Seeking no truth, winning is all, find it so grim so true so real..." - And Justice for All</i>
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<i>"I used to trust the media to tell me the truth, tell us the truth. But now I see the payoffs everywhere I look. Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?" - Revolution Calling</i>
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Although very different sonically, the 2 bands seemed to compliment each other quite well in their social commentary. Both seemed to view America in specific, as a very dark, corrupt place. Us younger fans of darker, heavier music tended to agree I suppose. Especially those of us who perhaps did not have the best upbringings or did not fit in so well with society. We were probably the most likely "target audience" of this music, if there was such a thing!
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But the question is, were the bands reflecting our views or were our views reflecting theirs? Were their views REALLY theirs at all, or those of their financiers? Were we all just responding naturally to the dark realities of the world, or were the dark forces manifesting themselves at our concerts - striving to drive us towards darker and darker extremities, and to our ultimate demise? Could some potential world power have it's eye on destroying America and the constitutional freedom we enjoy through entertainment by creating a culture of cynicism so consumed with reactionary emotion, that we became less rational and discerning of our world? A MOB of loose cannons, reacting to the latest controversy of the day. A mass of RAGE in need of ORDER.
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Are these mass shooters the "Nikkis" of today? Are these radical groups intimidating people and causing destruction in the streets the "Dr X cults" of today? Are these satanic, overly sexualized, racially militant, illuminati symbol decorated "artists" of today the new Mindcrime Operations? There's a revolution calling, alright. But maybe the change we need is one back to some sense of normalcy, rather than total misguided upheaval...
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<i>Geoff Tate: If you really look into what’s on TV nowadays there’s a lot of really…sort of bizarre images, I guess you could say, that come across…and it’s hard not to think that someone’s not thinking of mind control or some sort of…programming
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Chris DeGarmo: So we try to avoid all of those techniques when recording our albums! [laughs] No subliminal messages on our records!</i>
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<b>SOURCES:</b>
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Wikipedia<br>
AnybodyListening.net<br>
LA Times "Queensryche's "Empire" Strikes Back" 5.91<br>
http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~bigoleg/queensryche/om/features/metal_hammer.html<br>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O7DwpOleEU<br>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49VnGJ6WuTI <br>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1TsL9JglR4<br>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymnIGK-w61Y<br>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGYCl-crYEI <br>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH1_aDwnbPQ<br>Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-29616321097578929982022-06-23T01:46:00.005-07:002023-01-07T10:43:20.943-08:00Mr Letter on MK ULTRA<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBni8Pr6ap5Ohi_dzvMgXC7UqD_xKoxwJ9eP1GhyTJfd4nVtVPTruAKgi16Zaucb697eTvObaEaM4jyLgz2axo89LZ6fXeLxEVV7bd9aNcDbvDlVudauoeR8Kpj8gSXLsf1frheFaeiJg_GzE6nlQDHbwY4zRsgZK1QigAKhYgUxMkNdJAK92wcA/s360/Q.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBni8Pr6ap5Ohi_dzvMgXC7UqD_xKoxwJ9eP1GhyTJfd4nVtVPTruAKgi16Zaucb697eTvObaEaM4jyLgz2axo89LZ6fXeLxEVV7bd9aNcDbvDlVudauoeR8Kpj8gSXLsf1frheFaeiJg_GzE6nlQDHbwY4zRsgZK1QigAKhYgUxMkNdJAK92wcA/s400/Q.jpg"/></a></div>
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In my blog <a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-letter-that-shall-not-be-named.html">"The Letter that Shall not be Named,"</a> I explain that there is a message board containing posts by an unknown individual going by the name represented by the above letter. Due to the fact that Google has algorithms in place to censor/block information online containing references to this individual/entity, I will refer to this individual/entity as "Mr Letter" here. Refer to my previous blog mentioned above for further clarification on this...
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Above is a screenshot taken from Truth Social, a new social media platform similar to Twitter [where some believe Mr Letter is now posting]. Although TS is new, I've been following the author of the post in the above screenshot for a couple years now, first on Twitter - where I believe he was banned some time ago. I am explaining all of this to give credit where it is due, regarding who inspired me to explore Mr Letter's posts on the whole MK Ultra topic.
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I have mentioned MK Ultra many times in my blogs, but have never dedicated one to that specific topic. After exploring Mr Letter's links, I felt somewhat compelled to show what I found and figured some of my readers would find this useful for research purposes.
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One of the scariest things about all of this is that despite the hundreds of thousands of documents available, most of the "records of all these activities were destroyed in January 1973, at the instruction of then CIA Director Richard Helms." That means the crimes referenced in the known documents may only represent the tip of the iceberg, and can only hint at the monstrously advanced scale these types of clandestine operations are likely functioning at today.
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There are many places online to view Mr Letter's posts, I just happen to use the mirror site shown above. You can also refer to the previous image, which lists the address to another good mirror site. All legitimate mirror sites should contain the exact same posts with the exact same corresponding post numbers - with very few exceptions. Using the search box, typing the term "mkultra" should easily turn up the same 4 results you see in the above image.
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<b>NOTE: Some of the links on Mr Letter's posts may not load properly by clicking them. Try copying and pasting instead, typing it out yourself, or check that there is no space between the "https://" and the rest of the address. Links may also lead to pages which have since been deleted. In that case, try doing a search query using all or part of the address itself. Or search using keywords from the original link, within the domain listed in the original address.</b>
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Starting in chronological order, Mr Letter's post #772 from 2.15.18, at 15:02:33 time stamp gives us a link to an official government site featuring the transcript of a 1977 senate hearing, which reads at the top: "PROJECT MKULTRA, THE CIA'S PROGRAM OF RESEARCH IN BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION."
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<i>[Images/info taken from https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/95mkultra.pdf]</i>
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I'm not going to spend much time getting into the gory details of what is in the transcript, because you can read it yourself. It's only 171 pages, half of which is appendixes/notes. Just reading half of this will make you more of an expert on Mk Ultra than most people - and it is actually pretty entertaining if you view it as some sort of "true crime" drama...I do want to highlight a few alarming details I think need emphesis though, which can potentially provide vital insight into what is happening TODAY.
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<i>Senator Daniel K Inouye: "It should be made clear from the outset that in general, we are focusing on events that happened over 12 or as long as 25 years ago. It should be emphasized that the programs that are of greatest concern have stopped..."
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy: "These are issues, are questions that happened in the fifties and sixties, and go back some 15, 20 years ago..."
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Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence: "Let me emphasize that the MKULTRA events are 12 to 25 years in the past. I assure you that the CIA is in no way engaged in either witting or unwitting testing of drugs today..."</i>
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Above are just a few examples illustrating the level of DAMAGE CONTROL going on here. Emphesis is being made regarding the TIME that has passed - which really wasn't that signifficant in 1975-77, and is clearly being used as a tool to DISTANCE the then current CIA from their absolutely horrible and inexcusable covert actions against the American people and others in the recent past.
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These methods of obfuscation still go on today. The powers that be, the mainstream media, politicans, etc will lie to the public [or deny knowledge of certain things] in order to cover up crimes, get someone elected, pass a certain measure, or win a political argument. Then later down the line, they will make excuses for why they were wrong, blame people who are already dead, throw people under the bus [or just flat out kill em], understate the crimes, or just wait until enough time has passed that people don't care as much. It's quite maddening when you observe this happening in real time - and it happens often unfortunately. [The Hunter Biden Lap†0p, for example - which the New York Times finally verified as authentic, after vehemently denying it's authenticity in the months before and after the 2020 presidential election].
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Given that absolutely no effort concerning accountability is being made in this hearing, statements such as "the CIA is in no way engaged in either witting or unwitting testing of drugs today" come off as shallow and insulting to the intelligence of anyone with a brain who is paying attention. We're just supposed to take their word for it now, after these shocking secret activities of theirs have been exposed? If nobody is being held to account, what is the motivation for them to stop?
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[Richard M Helms. Served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. He ordered the destruction of all MK Ultra documents in 1973. In 1977 he received a two-year suspended sentence and a $2,000 fine. This seems to be all of the punishment he recieved]
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<i>[Dr Sidney Gottlieb, 1977. "Gottlieb administered LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs to unwitting subjects and financed psychiatric research and development of "techniques that would crush the human psyche to the point that it would admit anything".He was named as the person who gave Army bacteriologist Frank Olson LSD at an MK-ULTRA retreat, leading to Olson's mental spiral and death a week later...On October 7, 1975, Gottlieb testified before the Church Committee under the alias "Joseph Schneider." He did not reveal much in his testimony, besides saying he had destroyed nearly all records of what he did during his time at the agency. Gottlieb was never convicted of any crimes." ]</i>
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<i>Senator KENNEDY: "And no one- no single individual--could be found who remembered the details, not the Director of the CIA, who ordered the documents destroyed, not the official responsible for the program, nor any of his associates."
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"...These institutes, these individuals, have a right to know who they
are and how and when they were used. As of today, the Agency itself
refuses to declassify the names of those institutions and individuals, quite appropriately, I might say, with regard to the individuals under the Privacy Act..."
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"Many researchers, distinguished researchers, some of our most outstanding members of our scientific community, involved in this network, now really do not know whether they were involved or not."
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Admiral Turner: "We should certainly assume that the researchers and institutions which cooperated with CIA on a witting basis acted in good faith and in the belief that they were aiding their government in a legitimate and proper purpose..."
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"I believe that we all have a moral obligation to these researchers and institutions to protect them from any unjustified embarrassment or damage to their reputations which revelation of their identities might bring..."
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Again, these hearings were not about accountability, they were about protecting the name/reputation of all perpetrators and institutions involved in this horrible "research" upon whom were probably thousands of unwitting civilians. I am sure there were plenty of "unwitting participants" here, but they are conflating the civilian victims with the institutions where these horrific activities were carried out and the persons who carried out the deeds! As if the perpetrators of the crimes were victims JUST AS MUCH AS THE CIVILIANS WHO WERE DRUGGED AND TORTURED without their consent! This is all being done to PROTECT the perpetrators and the reputations of the colleges/institutions where these crimes were carried out. And they more or less state it here, without shame! And we are just supposed to nod along in "solidarity" to all of this BS...
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Let's not take for granted that the only reason these hearings occured at all was to placate the American public's overwealming distrust of the CIA over these horrific MK Ultra projects - which were too extensive to keep a secret any longer. Specifically, the death of Frank Olson put a spotlight on the ugly secret activities going on, forcing the CIA to comment publicly - resulting in little-to no accountability! Make no mistake, if they could have hid this all from the public forever, they would have.
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<i>[The arrow points to a car which popped out of nowhere, just as then-President Trump's motorcade (inside the yellow circle) was passing.]</i>
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Post 772 also contains a link to a youtube video, in which a car appears to pop out of nowhere in an apparent attempt to collide into then president Trump's motorcade. The vehicle fails miserably as it plops out and gets stuck near a "pond" on the shoulder, where they are quickly met with security officers in the convoy.
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An article published by ky3.com on Aug 31st, 2017 reads in part:
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<i>"Samantha Morris, 17, and Nikia Hicks, 18 were in that car on their way to work when their brakes suddenly went out. "I was pumping my brakes hard, they were smoking and i couldn't stop at all" said Morris. That's when she swerved to avoid hitting a gaurd at the entrance of her work and ended up feet from a pond. "i just thought we'd hit a fence," said Morris. "I thought there was a fence. We were crazy close to that pond. we could have drowned.""</i>
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Before and after the link to this video, Mr Letter seems to be making references to technology unknown to the public, that can either control an individual, a vehicle they are driving, or both - by way of frequencies and/or cell phones - possibly even from outside of the country! Mr letter also hints that the statements made by the driver to the press is a "fairytale."
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Whenever I speak about Mk Ultra, I try to stress to my readers how important it is for them to consider the real possibility that these types of activities never stopped, and that we can only imagine the level of technology being implemented in secret against civilians today. I believe Mr Letter is more or less telling us that this incident is an example of what these types of programs are now capable of, and how the media just explains it away with the express intent of KEEPING YOU IN THE DARK about the truth of it. We only win here by probing further and refusing to accept their narratives at face value!
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Mr Letter's post #773 provides a link to a Wikipedia entry on Dr Ewen Cameron, who conducted some of the most well documented experiments on unwitting victims, as part of the Mk Ultra project. CIA activity in Canada seemed to occur with the cooperation of Canadian government, who still cooperate "heavily" to this day.
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[Donald Ewen Cameron (1901-1967) conducted horrific experiments upon unwitting patients, under the umbrella of Project MK Ultra.]
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<i>"He [Cameron] "was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKULTRA experiments there. In addition to LSD, Cameron also experimented with various paralytic drugs as well as electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. His "driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffered permanently from his actions. His treatments resulted in victims' incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents."...When lawsuits commenced in 1986, the Canadian government denied having any knowledge that Cameron was being sponsored by the CIA."</i>
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<i>"In 1945, Cameron, Nolan D. C. Lewis and Dr Paul L. Schroeder, colonel and psychiatrist, University College of Illinois, were invited to the Nuremberg trials for a psychiatric evaluation of Rudolf Hess. Their diagnosis was amnesia and hysteria per a short commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Hess later confessed that he had faked the amnesia." </i>
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It is interesting to note Cameron's brief role in the Nuremburg trials, before his participation in Project Mk Ultra - where he would be carrying out similar activities to that of the twisted Nazi experiments.
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Mr letter mentions a "Lincoln Park." According to wiki, "CFB Lincoln Park PMQ is a residential neighbourhood in the southwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located on former Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Calgary..." I'm not sure the relavance of that particular location, but in this context I assume Mr Letter is hinting that some type of Mk Ultra activity occured there.
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It is interesting to consider the American band LINKIN PARK within this context - who's singer Chester Bennington died on his friend Chris Cornell's birthday, the very same year Cornell died, and allegedly the same way [suicide by hanging]. I have spoken about possible connections between Mk Ultra and suspicious deaths within the music scene. This is a very dark area in need of more exposure.
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Mr Letter post 773 also contains 5 links at the bottom. The first link will not load properly, but I believe it was intended to route us to the video located on the same domain, at https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2568182246. This is a disturbing documentary where we finally get to hear from one of the victims of these terrible experiments. It is not that graphic, but is well done and informative. One walks away with just a small taste of the haunting anguish survivors carried with them for the rest of their lives.
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["Bob Logi," unwitting victim of Dr Ewan Cameron's mind control experiments. Although he was only 18 at the time, he clearly suffered from perminent damage for the rest of his life. What about the people we know nothing of, who's stories were never made public?]
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The 2nd link directs to a 2017 article speaking about how "A recent Department of Justice gag order in an out-of-court settlement was designed to avoid responsibility and avert compensation to more victims and their families." The article contains several links to the Fifth Estate productions mentioned earlier. The article is very informative, and should be highly disturbing to anyone who cares about basic human rights.
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The 3rd link is to a New York times article from 1992 which states, "the Canadian Government says the 80 or so patients who underwent the so-called "psychic driving" treatment in Montreal, intended to wipe the brain clear of all trauma, can receive almost $80,000 each...The patients at the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill were put into a drugged sleep for weeks or months, subjected to electroshock therapy until they were "de-patterned," knowing neither who or where they were, and forced to listen repeatedly to recorded messages broadcast from speakers on the wall or under their pillows."
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Link 4 directs to the above article, which states in part:
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<i>"In the 1980s, the CIA and State Department launched a public counterattack on the Canadian government for questioning the propriety of CIA activities...In press briefings, interviews and Court pleadings, the CIA hammered away at one theme - Canada funded Cameron too...This steady counterattack left the Canadian government completely cowed, apparently a fairly easy thing for the U.S. to accomplish." </i>
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The 5th link goes to a 2012 article, detailing a bit more of the history behind MkUltra Subproject 68.
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The post ends, in part, with the ominous question: "Have any recent [shooters] received therapy in the past?" This indicates to me that individuals can, and have been "programmed" via these types of secret mind control programs - to go out and shoot people. Mr Letter is encouraging us to do some research on these shooters to find out where they may have recieved "treatment." If we truly want to prevent these types of horrific events from happening again, we need to explore this line of inquiry - because the mainstream media never will. That is, unless they can twist facts to fit whatever narrative they are pushing at a given point in time. And the narrative usually necessitates steps to further erode our 2nd amendment rights.
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Post 777 starts out by telling us that Mk Ultra simply started going by different names, and is indeed still active. Mr letter points us towards "Big Pharma," and challenges us to find out why this is an essential aspect of these programs. Google and Apple phones are referenced, encouraging us to further research their capabilities. When taken in reference to the previous post which spoke about the ability to basically control your car from another country, I think Mr Letter is trying to guide us in a direction which will reveal the nefarious technology being used in this context.
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When Mr Letter says "THEY are watching," he probably means the very individuals behind this technology. "ARCHIVE EVERYTHING OFFLINE" is straightforward enough. Particularly regarding the Blackberry stuff. But this makes me think of icloud, or Google Drive. Storage space offered to users in order to "save space" on your phone/computer. This is all very important, BIG PICTURE stuff to think about...
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The final post we will look at is #2663, posted 1/7/2019.
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At the top is a link to a very interesting article published on thesun.co.uk in December of 2018. It reads in part:
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<i>"The new documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal how the CIA experimented on both humans and animals using drugs, hypnosis and electronic devices as part of the top secret - and illegal - mind control project MKUltra."
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"Shockingly the swathes of information still missing or redacted in the records could mean the CIA is STILL carrying out the experiments to this day, according to experts."
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"One document details how the CIA planned to drug “criminals awaiting trial held in a prison hospital ward” in a bid to develop “improved techniques in drug interrogation”. "</i>
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Remember, these are very OLD documents being referenced above. Imagine what THEY are capable of today!
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<i>"The records were obtained by researcher John Greenewald Jr, who published them last week on his website The Black Vault." </i>
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If you really want to dig deep on this topic, you NEED to explore the "black vault" website referenced above. Although many documents there have been heavily redacted - persistent researchers can greatly educate themselves and others by taking the time to review them and by sharing their findings.
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The 2nd link in the post goes to a very important article published by ncats.nih.gov in 2012 entitled: "Converting Brain Signals into Action."
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<i>"Currently, the research team is working in parallel on two devices with unique features. One of these, the micro-electrocorticography (ECoG) electrode grid, is placed beneath the skull and on the surface of the brain's movement-controlling motor cortex. A computer system interprets the electrical impulses in the brain captured by the micro-ECoG technology and then converts the signals into movement controls in virtual environments."</i>
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This technology is being presented as a solution to physical disabilities/injuries. But just think of the implications in terms of warfare! What Mr Letter is urgently suggesting we look into, are the institutions and individuals funding this research - and the implications within the context of continued MkUltra-type programs. You see, if they can get funding for such technology under the benevolent guise of "restoring movement to the injured/handicapped," they don't even need to hide what they are doing! Then once the technology is available, it can simply be used covertly to control people and get them to do things. Commit crimes, perhaps even involuntarily!
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This gets into the rise of transhumanism, and the mainstream media's obsession with promoting the "ideal body/identity." An ideal which relies on technology to augment our bodies and get us to prefer an unnatural appearance to our natural one. It can be something as small as a lip injection, or something as extreme as a sex change operation. These things are being aggressively marketed to younger and younger generations, not to "help them more easily grow and express themselves," but to establish an early reliance upon an unnatural technology, which allows OTHERS to more easily control them.
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You might also be interested in my blog<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-letter-that-shall-not-be-named.html">The Letter that Shall Not be Named.</a>
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-68165303896640556612022-02-28T00:36:00.012-08:002023-01-07T10:43:06.791-08:00Spielberg: Questionable themes and Symbolism
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There's a funny scene in the 1994 film "Sleep with Me," in which Quentin Tarantino appears briefly. He's at a party talking to another guy about how the 1980s film "Top Gun" is all about a [seemingly] heterosexual man struggling with homosexuality. At first, it all sounds very absurd and hilarious. But when you go back and re-watch Top Gun, it turns out to be shockingly plausible - you might even wonder how you ever missed it to begin with!
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Someone was so amused by this observation, they put together a compilation of scenes from the film [titled "Top Gay" on youtube] which undisputably demonstrates how "homoerotic" the film really is.
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Now just before Tarantino's character launches into his "Top Gay" monologue, he's finishing a thought on the previous topic being discussed - which also seems to be film related. He's basically "schooling" the other guy on what makes a film great, exclaiming with cocaine infused confidence, "No! What is REALLY being said?...because the whole idea is subversion! You want subversion on a massive level!"
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<i>subversion: especially : a systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a government or political system by persons working secretly from within - merriam-webster</i>
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The very next thing he says is, "you know what one of the greatest fucking scripts ever written in the history of Hollywood is? Top Gun."
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So if Top Gun is so great, Tarantino's character must believe that it is subversive in some profound way - since that seems to be his barometer of greatness in a movie. Following that line of thought, it must be that the film shoves masculine, testosterone fueled, hyper-heterosexuality into our faces to the point of irony - subverting the very stereotype nearly into it's opposite. A subtle, homoerotic fantasy that would probably never be detected by the naive young audience the film was aimed at.
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I don't know about you, but I think there is a profound truth being revealed here, within a fictional context, regarding the motives behind Hollywood entertainment.
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In Steven Spielberg's 1977 science fiction film "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind," the big climax involves the E.T.'s mothership landing at the end. First "alien" that comes out of it is of a tall/slender variety. It crouches down into a spider-like position [image "A" above] in order to exit, emphesizing his height in proportion to the exit hatch - which a group of humans had just walked out of in full upright position. The being then stands at full stature with arms out [image "B"], as if saying to the crowd "behold my tall, naked, alien physique!"
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You'd think these "advanced beings" woulda built their entry/exit hatch to accomidate the height of this important looking Alien. But if we assume that SYMBOLISM is more important to the writers of these films than continuity and plot, the "sloppy" aspects of many blockbuster films we see often reveal covert messages, deliberately designed to be missed by your conscious mind. While your conscious mind is focused on the plot making sense, your subconscious mind takes in all the symbolism indescriminately.
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After the tall, naked alien disappears, a large group of short naked aliens come streaming out of the ship like children. In fact, these appear to be nothing more than human children with LONG fingers and BULGING heads.
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The contrast between the taller/slender/adult alien which appeared moments ago and this shorter "child-like" variety hints at the idea of "full grown adult" vs "child," in the sense that adults are tall and children are short. When we remember that they are all naked, suddenly this scene takes on an entirely different character. Just who or what are these "Aliens" supposed to represent in a metaphorical sense? Do they represent something much more literral than we might expect?
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The film puts effort into showing the facial expressions in the crowd of people present. Lots of shock and awe. But nobody looks more excited than Richard Dreyfuss' character, Roy.
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The nåked chi1dren - er uh, I mean "short naked Aliens" abruptly crowd around Roy and beckon him towards their ship. Roy enthusiastically goes along with them - like a groupie who just got invited backstage at a concert and can't believe his luck! He gets on the ship with them, leaving his family and friends behind. The film ends with this ship taking off into outer space. Is this a metaphor for a man abandoning his family and normal society in order to persue his sick, unlawful, ped0phi1iåc desires?
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We tend to assume any deeper "symbolic meanings" found within blockbuster films are generally benevolent in intent. After all, if these films had such hidden filth contained within them, surely they wouldn't win oscars and get all of this critical acclaim, right?
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One of the more iconic posters from Spielberg's 1982 film "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" features an image obviously inspired by Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam," one of the most classic paintings in European history and the Christian world.
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God is in heaven, which is up in the sky. That is why he appears to be flying down to touch Adam's finger in the painting. E.T. is a space alien, also from the sky. So does this mean he represents God in the promotional poster? Elliot Taylor [E.T.?] is a human. Adam is a human. So Elliot must represent Adam here - who's depicted as more or less full grown in Michelangelo's painting, somewhat sensual in his pose, ding dong hanging out in full view. Elliot is supposed to be 10 years old in the film. That's kind of a wierd message, isn't it? Are we not supposed to try and interpret such heavy handed symbolism, or are we just supposed to see it and not talk about it?
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E.T.'s finger is long and fat at the end. The fat end glows/pulses as he touches/heals Elliot's bleeding finger in one scene, where E.T.'s presence is being kept secret in the boy's house. E.T. says "ouch" when he heals. This scene directly correlates symbolically with the 2 fingers touching in the promotional poster, and ultimately Michelangelo's masterpiece. When you factor in the blood, the physical contact, the pulsing phallic [finger] symbology, the biblical reference, and the word "ouch," well you've got all the ingredients of a violent, sexual act of the most diabolically blasphemous nature! We just overlook it all because aspects are presented out of order and within the context of a heart warming plot and a comforting soundtrack. "It's all about subversion!"
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In Speilberg's "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," a man [Indy] befriends an orphaned street child whom he calls "Short Round." What is a short round, a cut of meat? Perhaps a certain body part that has not yet developed fully? They go on a quest for a sacred relic, which leads them directly into the lair of a demonic mind control death cult. This cult keeps children as slaves.
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<i>"Maybe he likes older woman?" - Short Round, in reference to Maharaja's decidedly young appearance...</i>
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Apparantly this Maharaja character [played by Raj Singh] is supposed to be a 13 year old boy. Yet, he looks and sounds like a young girl in most of the scenes. Short Round comically suggests that he perhaps likes older women. This subtle comment specifically conjures the image of the young boy with an adult female. Also known as ped0phi1ia.
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[<i>Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh in 1875, aged 37</i>]
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If you look at old illustrations and actual pictures, the Maharajas are typically depicted as decidedly macho, often with facial hair. But when they inherit their roles at such a young age, they might look more boyish in certain depictions, even feminine.
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[<i>A young Duleep Singh</i>]
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As we can see, the child Maharajas look far more feminine, by today's western standards. The writers of "Temple of Doom" decided to include a boy Maharaja in this film for whatever reason, but also used an uncredited FEMALE for his voice-over. Was this done to exagerrate the feminine aspects of his character?
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The film's use of child actors is often endearing, but at other times genuinely disturbing. Considering what we've been looking at so far, this all may be far more disturbing than we ever dared consider. Maybe we should consider it. Maybe we need to acknowledge the poison we've been fed over the years by the entertainment industry?
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In "the Goonies," a bunch of kids go on a secret quest underground to find the treasure of "One Eyed Willie." The word "Willie" is slang for penis. The writers of this film made sure the innuendo was enforced by calling him ONE-EYED Willie. A penis has "one-eye." Get it?
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Ke Huy Quan [Short Round] returns in this film, along with Corey Feldman, who recently blew the whistle on child m01estati0n in Hollywood - mainly via his self produced film "(My) Truth: The ®ape 0f tw0 C0reys." Although I want to believe Corey's intent was genuine with regard to that film, the fact he doesn't call out his "friend" Michael Jackson in it makes me suspicious. In fact, he seems to go out of his way to defend MJ. [Go watch "Leaving Neverland."] Feldman's also still breathing, which tells me he might be a "false whistleblower," put out there to deliberately mislead people and provide a "release valve" to those wanting justice for unpunished crimes against children year after year. But that's the problem with actors. How do you know when they AREN'T acting?
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In "Back to the Future" Michael J Fox goes back in time, hangs out with his dad, and bumps into his mother - who has a mad crush on him. Now obviously, his mother doesn't know that "Marty" is her future child, and it's all very comedic. But at it's root, it's really just a clever way to titillate the audience with a little mother/son 1nçest fantasy.
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In "Back to the Future 3" there is a very strange scene where Marty and "Doc" are parting ways, and in the background one of the 2 children literally beckons the viewer toward his crotch with a very clear hand gesture. The same boy then immediately POINTS at his crotch! I've showed this to several people, and almost everyone misses it the first few times. But once you see it, you've got to wonder why it's in there at all. Details like that are no accident! But for some reason you are considered a "conspiracy theorist nut" if you dare trust your own eyes and brain in pointing these things out...
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<i>“Every time I had a movie that made a lot of money, or somebody else had a movie that made a lot of money, Stanley would call and say ‘Gee, did you see the grosses of that--wow!’ He would ask you questions about why I thought a nerve might have been hit in America. I would say, ‘Darn if I know.’ And I don’t,” says the director, although he later admits he superstitiously avoids trying to know. “That’s the witchcraft of movies. You have to not ask those questions.” - Steven Spielberg, LA Times</i>
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The last Speilberg film we'll look at is A.I. [Artificial Intelligence.] This actually started off as a Stanley Kubrick film - something he wanted to do as far back as 1970, but felt the technology to depict robot characters was too primitive to be done convincingly at the time. If one spends a little time researching this, it's clear that A.I. almost seemed destined to be the climax of Kubrick's entire career - a lifelong passion even! So how the hell did Spielberg end up with it? The simple answer seems to be: Kubrick died.
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<i>"Spielberg had flown from New York, and was sitting at Kubrick’s kitchen table at St. Albans, when Kubrick announced, “Why don’t you direct ‘A.I.,’ and I’ll produce it for you?”’ recalls Spielberg. “He said, ‘The card will read great. It’ll say, “A Stanley Kubrick production of a Steven Spielberg film.” Don’t you think people will come to see that?”’ - LA Times 5.6.2001</i>
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Honestly, I hate the idea that Kubrick may have legitimately offered the director's chair of his lifelong film passion to someone like Spielberg. Although there are plenty of people backing the claim, I've yet to find an interview where Stanley confirms this himself. Being that he was not fond of the press and rarely did interviews, not so surprising. Still, it would be nice to have total confirmation of this presumed "fact" straight from the horse's mouth - especially considering what we have covered so far in this blog.
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Setting aside my hesitance to believe Kubrick would put one of his potential masterpieces in the hands of Spielberg, it is fairly easy to believe the stories about how he was impressed with the special effects Spielberg achieved in Jurassic Park. After all, if an inability to achieve convincing special effects is what held back A.I. for so many years, it's quite logical that Kubrick would be in touch with those achieving the most cutting edge effects in film. And if it was Kubrick's intention to make sure A.I. reached a huge audience, well Spielberg obviously had a "knack" for that too.
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H.A.L. was probably the first A.I. character ever included in a major motion picture, and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 Sci-Fi classic "2001: a Space Odyssey" is where it first appeared. If you take the letters H-A-L and look at the letters in the alphabet directly following them, you get I-B-M. IBM [International Business Machines] computers were used by the Nazis and developed some of the most widely used PCs in the 80s and 90s. I even read that IBM was involved with the production of the film! Not sure what they are up to these days, but Kubrick was obviously making a statement, perhaps issuing a warning, about the dangers of A.I. and computers at the time. Apparently Arthur C Clark disagreed with this theory, despite acknowledging the near mathematical impossibility that the HAL/IBM thing was a mere "coincidence."
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Notice how phallic the above image is.
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This is the story of a boy robot programmed to love his mother, who apparently never fully returns his affections. The boy is depicted in the above film logo, clearly made to resemble an outline of a phallus, forming the .I. in "A.I." An association is then made between the word "intelligence" and "phallus." The "A" has an outline of the boy/phallus image inserted inside of it, which could symbolically be represented as the female sex organ recieving a phallus. This is augmented in the promotional poster shown earlier by a large female head in the background, mouth open, to form a tunnel which cars drive through. This mixes mother/son relations with sexual symbolism in ways that are questionable, at the very least! What is the purpose of all of this sexual symbolism and why does it go completely unexamined by film critics and viewers?
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<i>The statement from Warner Bros. was released during pre-production for 'Eyes Wide Shut' and states:
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"...Kubrick's previously announced sci-fi film, 'A.I.', believed to be one of the most technically challenging and innovative special effects films yet attempted, is in the final stages of set design and special effects development, and will follow Eyes Wide Shut". - http://www.visual-memory.co.uk</i>
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<i>"Jan Harlan Kubrick brother in law said to Steve Rose of the Guardian "He and Spielberg spoke all the time," he continues. "I have six or seven years' worth of correspondence between them over AI, which I recently passed over to Spielberg along with over 1,000 drawings." Harlan told Paul Joyce, "He said on more than one case - "I think the ideal director for this may be Steven Spielberg. If I do it, it may be too stark. I may emphasise too much the philosophical side."
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"Harlan maintains that Kubrick would certainly have returned to AI after Eyes Wide Shut. "He had no intention of dying, I assure you. But at one point, Stanley actually said to Spielberg: 'You would be the best guy to direct this film, I'll be the producer.' I can't tell you whether he would have directed it himself or given it to Spielberg. That was still very much a possibility." - http://www.visual-memory.co.uk</i>
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Again, everything we find regarding key details to do with Kubrick's development of A.I. comes from everyone BUT Kubrick himself! So I think it is important to take all of this with a grain of salt. Jan Harlan Kubrick at least has the distinction of being related to Stanley, so when he makes statements confirming that Stanley was at least INTERESTED in Spielberg directing A.I., I'd say that carries some weight. However, that last sentence in the last quote above reads "I can't tell you whether he would have directed it himself or given it to Spielberg." Given that, I don't see any reason to assume Stanley ever officially designated Spielberg as the film's director. But notice how that basic assumption was repeatedly re-enforced in the media coverage surrounding A.I. - as if it was cut and dry.
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<i>"After shooting had been completed, Kubrick entered a prolonged post-production process and on March 1, 1999, Kubrick showed a cut to Cruise, Kidman and the Warner Bros. executives. The director died six days later" - wiki entry for Kubrick's final film "Eyes Wide Shut."</i>
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Much mystery surrounds the death of Stanley Kubrick, and many believe he was murdered for what he attempted to reveal in the film "Eyes Wide Shut," [perhaps even what he planned to release in the film "A.I."] Among other things, E.W.S. deals with the upper elite in society and their secret sex cults - which is an aspect of the film the media interestingly avoids almost unilaterally, choosing to interpret the film as being about relationships and the psychological issues that can arise - which is a level that is legitimately there. But the occult/ritualistic secret society element plays a huge role in the plot as well. Why gloss over it? This was Kubrick's last film, you'd think critics would be putting a microscope over every aspect of it!
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Perhaps Kubrick was "blowing the whistle" in a way with his film. Could this be related to the alleged heavy re-editing of it by Warner Bros previous to it's release and just after the sudden, unexpected death of Kubrick? These are just interesting details contributing to the idea that Kubrick simply went too far with the film, and those in power of Hollywood needed to reign things in. If they couldn't prevent it from being released, at least they could edit out the most incriminating aspects. Many people have cited this as the reason the film was not as good as it should have been. And yet, it remains too powerful to be ignored or forgotten.
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Kubrick allegedly died on March 7th, 1999. Looking at a 1999 calandar, we find some interesting numbers...January had 30 days, February had 28 days. Total = 58. March 1-7th = 7 days. Ad 58 to 7 and you get 65. There are 365 days in a year, so if we subtract the 65 days that's 300. There were 365 days in the year 2000, so add that to 300 and you get 665. January 1st, 2001 is 1 day after the last day in 2000. Add that 1 day to 665 and you get 666. Stanley Kubrick died exactly 666 days before the year 2001. "2001: The Space Odyssey" was the name of one of his most famous films, and one which some believe was the precurser to his filming of the FAKE moon landing in 1969. [see Jay Weidner's "Kubrick's Odyssey" series]
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Is this 666 number a message from the very elite satanic cult Kubrick was attempting to expose through film? Was this a sort of "pre crime" judgement, ala Speilberg's "Minority Report," [which came out the following year after A.I.] punishing Kubrick for what he had planned for his last film?
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Stanley Kubrick was clearly a very smart and perceptive man. Given his lifelong love for films, and the study of them - he had to have noticed the symbolism in Spielberg's stuff that I have pointed out here. So why on earth would he even consider Spielberg for A.I.? Perhaps it wasn't just his "knack" for creating blockbuster successes that Kubrick was after, but his diabolical talent in creating films sexua1izing children in ways that go largely undetected. Perhaps Kubrick was going to use Spielberg as an unwitting participant in some sort of self incriminating "whistle blowing" production. How diabolically brilliant, and yet, madly ambitious!
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<p>Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-30810983426288509892022-01-24T20:05:00.016-08:002023-01-07T10:42:46.299-08:00Acid, Music, Mindcrime [PT III]<p>
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<b>REGARDING HANK</b>
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<i>"He reminded me of a professor giving a lecture to young beatnik types… From their enthralled gazes, I assumed he must have been saying something compelling. He wore an Irish Cable Knit sweater, its wool the same brown as his hair. I thought he looked like a scarab beetle: heavy-bodied and oval shaped, with glittering eyes…Drawing closer, I heard him talking about his job as a psychologist and his years studying esoteric literature. He claimed he had “occult wisdom,” knowledge that could save the world."
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"Hank had the uncanny ability to take a tidbit of information he’d picked up somewhere and turn it into a full-blown discourse, sounding so expert that it was difficult to separate fact from fantasy...His favorite topic was William Blake’s idea that our social conditioning blocks true perception. …”brainwashing,” he called it."
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""This isn’t a drug - it’s a sacramental medicine.” He described the psychedelic drug as if he were both it’s creator and priest."</i>
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[Above: Linda Carroll]
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<i>"Yet, I began to see glimpses of other sides of him. I caught him lying: bragging about knowing somebody he didn’t know or about having a job I knew he never had. He rarely carried cash, and he let other people buy him coffee, meals, or tickets to events. “Money is coming,” was his mantra, and usually the money came from me. He stole, too, from the homes of friends, at parties and get togethers…Despite the connections and talents he boasted about, Hank could not maintain most of his friendships or find a job. Worse, his history of bad debts began to catch up with him."
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"Hank wasn’t at the hospital when Courtney was born; he said he was “doing business,” his mysterious phrase for activities I knew not to ask him about."
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"One day a check arrived in the mail from the New American Mental Health Center. “I applied for a grant. I’m going to open a center for people on bad LSD trips. “ Later that day, I imagined an LSD center in our house, people hallucinating around my baby daughter."
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"It was his eyes that scared me the most - hot embers of pure rage."</i>
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The above quotes were taken from Linda Carroll's book "Her Mother's Daughter," in which she speaks about her experiences in the San Francisco 60s Haight/Ashbury scene - meeting Hank Harrison, and giving birth to Courtney Love. Although I did not quote the section where she describes how Courtney was "conceived," I will say that Linda verifies in fairly painful detail, how she was in fact raped by Hank, just as she was planning on breaking it off with him. Her wording is very delicate regarding this, but specific.
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Linda's description of Harrison during their somewhat brief time together paints a picture of a man who is perhaps well meaning, but with sociopathic tendencies. At best. At worst, he comes off as a sadistic narcissist, con man, possible member of a secret society and/or a participant in clandestine operations.
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<i>"When I was young I was a juvenile delinquent. I stole cars, I ran away a lot. I went into my dad’s pockets and stole money. My dad went to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. [laughs] My uncle invented the talking baby doll!"
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"…he [my dad] was doing infiltration training, and he blew his shoulder up on purpose so he wouldn't have to go to Europe to kill Germans…"
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"I studied with a guy named Saul Alinsky…Alynsky taught me a lot and he taught Obama alot too, so we’re in the same framework organizing."
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"I’ve always thought of myself as a rich beatnick, a minor member of a royal San Francisco caste."</i>
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<i>"I had to tell all of Courtney’s friends, “don’t go near Tom Grant man, he’s a cop! If you’re a hippie, or a old beatnik or a black guy…and you wanna get prejudice…it’s cops!”...Grant spent a lot of time trying to screw me up man. Career wise. Grant was really upset about my criminal record. Grant is a real conservative guy. I won’t use the “N” word but…Racist? Somewhat, I guess..." </i>
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Harrison downplays his criminal past in recent interviews - repeatedly expressing annoyance at what he perceives to be Detective Tom Grant's exagerrations of his early criminal record. [Grant was hired initially by Courtney Love to "find" Kurt Cobain, but he quickly began to realize that Courtney may have been involved herself in his disappearance/death.] At times, Hank goes out of his way to characterize Grant as some sort of far right stereotypical racist white supremacist type - which comes across more like an attempt to "character assassinate" an opponent than it does an honest assessment of his personality. Does Tom Grant know things about Hank that make him uncomfortable? If I didn't know better, I'd say Hank feels a little threatened by Grant - who comes off as far less full of shit than Hank does in interviews.
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Harrison's reference to Saul Alinsky's influence is not to be taken lightly. Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals" is considered highly influential among those on the far left. Take a look at what a few reviewers on Amazon have said about this book...
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<i>"Taking a knee" is a great example of what this book is all about. "Hope and Change" really means "divide and conquer". Now I understand why race relations have never improved."
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"It's always nice to have the enemies play Book. If you don't believe it, just read this, the far left radicals have been using these tactics on us for 40 years."
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"I think that Saul Alinsky is disingenuous when he represents the views of communities that he was never a part of."
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"a scary view into a warped mind. a must read too."
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"Read the book and burned it. If you want to know what is really going on in this country..read the book. "</i>
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These were not "cherry picked" reviews, all were copied from the first 10 or so results on the Amazon page book listing. Alinsky was someone clearly dedicated to radicalizing people in order to cause changes in society and politics, but obviously not everyone agrees that his intensions were benevolent or constructive. What does Hank do, or what has he done that he feels emualtes the work of Alinsky exactly?
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<i>"Some people got shot at Altamont (see "Gimme Shelter") so I moved back to California to see if I could apply some of Alynsky's principals to the Rock and Roll world."</i>
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<b>THE BRAINWASHING OF COURTNEY LOVE</b>
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<i>"I saw that I could not reverse whatever brainwashing she suffered, so I just made my piece with it." </i>
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<i>"...when she was little she was wonderful. Very very intelligent I gave her an IQ test, she has a 150 IQ...her IQs higher than I, because her mom’s is higher than I. I have a thing called photographic memory…well, I passed that on the Courtney. She can remember stuff that she told the cops, or that she told A,B,or C, 10 years ago. Verbatim! And I told her about it when she was a kid."
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<i>"I have no doubt she was put through some kind of “new age” brainwashing…Frank didn’t understand her deeper levels…she had a high IQ and a photographic memory and Frank was grading on a class curve." </i>
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<i>"It was only years later that I learned they were brainwashing her."</i>
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<i>"I always knew Jack Risi…was manipulating events from behind the scenes. He liked doing that. He was after all Sicillian., but whatever they were doing they didn’t want me to know about it…At the time I had no idea they had already been using the baby for a hedge fund worth millions."</i>
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"....they brainwashed her immediately after they got her!…She was told that I was dead…but the real motive behind it was they thought I had some claim to the money…it turns out…the lawyers that were running the adoption…it wasn’t really an adoption it was a “take away” - they were Catholics too."
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<i>"I tried to probe her memory, to see if she recalled any fragments of the days when she and I were allowed to be happy." </i>
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"I did grab Courtney more than once and it didn’t work! I’m a failure at that. Courtney’s a pure sociopath. It runs in our family by the way, I’m not saying I’m not either. ..you know, I didn’t do anything evil...My kid got screwed up, and she grew up to be kind of a witch! I’m not putting her down but…witches are necessary too I guess?"
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"During the time she was estranged from me, her mother had completely programmed her. She told her I gave her LSD. She told her I was dead.”…
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<i>"He was alleged in court -- I don't know if it actually happened -- to have given me acid," she said, "and gone around boasting about it, like some biological experiment.”
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<i>"Jack Risi knew a judge named Raymond J O’Conner who helped me land a job at juvenile hall. But it was a dreary gig, especially the orphanage. I won a grant from NIMH and started planning the LSD Rescue project…"</i>
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"I was in graduate school in psychology at Sf State and working as a night counselor at juvenile hall when Linda and I filed for what was supposed to be an amicable divorce….as part of the psych program, I was working with concepts of crisis intervention and was rescuing people from bad acid trips as well as hanging out with a bunch of starving rock musicians who turned out to be the Grateful Dead….In weeks I became the first psychedelic ambulance driver."</i>
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<i>"When she was a toddler I let her run around San Francisco State University free as a bird. (With me watching of course)."</i>
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According to Hank, Linda's adopted sexually abusive alcoholic father Jack got him a job at juvenile hall, via some judge he knew. Linda mentions nothing about this in her book. He mentions that an orphanage is involved as well - which is all very strange considering Courtney ends up in juvy years later, and in and out of orphanage type establishments where she encounters all sorts of creepy "molester" types.
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Hank gets very defensive regarding suggestions that he "dosed" Courtney as a child. And yet, he speaks about society and everyone in it as though it is one big laboratory experiment. To quote Linda Carroll, "He spoke to me like one speaks to a patient in a mental hospital." In his own words, he seems to have had direct connections with those producing LSD in the 60s, those distributing it, controlling the public perception of the drug and it's culture [via CBS documentary "Etched in Acid"] and then personally laying hands on those "overdosing" from it! [which he innocuously called "LSD Rescue"]
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One story he tells as an "example" of what a loving, normal father he was - is how he brought Courtney to SF State to run around "free as a bird," where he was getting his graduate degree in psychology. So, was this WHILE he was taking classes, or did he show her off to students and faculty in his free time, while maybe giving her a tour of his psychology lab in between? Maybe little hippy kids were running all around College campuses in the 60s, I don't know. Just sounds kind of "off" to me.
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Again, Hank continues this narrative of his, where the Risis leave money to Courtney, and Linda tries to "erase" her memory of Hank to prevent him from getting a piece. Although Linda corroborates Courtney's inheritance to a degree, there's nothing in her book about keeping money from Hank and such - although she wouldn't incriminate herself would she? I tend to think this story is Hank's "damage control" coverup for Courtney's mental abuse. Basically, he's blaming Linda and taking no responsibility for it. Total projection.
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<i>Projection: Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the bully might be projecting his own struggle with self-esteem onto the other person. - www.psychologytoday.com</i>
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<i>"Hank had Courtney one night a week and every other weekend. One day she came home with psychedelic magic marker drawings covering her arms and legs. And I was horror struck by her nightmares after the visits with him. She woke up screaming “no, daddy no!” It was virtually impossible to soothe her afterward. The more I tried, the more she would stiffen, arching her back and resisting as though my touch were painful."
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"Courtney grew from a toddler into a little girl, and became adamant about not wanting to see Hank. She came home from their visits looking pale and exhausted. ..I went back to my lawyer. “Is he still writing all over her?” He asked. “Yes, and her nightmares are even worse now.”</i>
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The above quotes from Linda Carroll's book suggest that Courtney was being abused while visiting her father as a child. Here is Hank's response, taken from his book "Love Kills"...
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<i>"She felt I would harm my child because I brought her home in an agitated condition. This was true, we played hard,
but also Courtney never freaked out when I came to pick her up, only when I brought her back. What does that tell you?"</i>
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Well, it sounds to me like Hank flat out admits that he abused his daughter in the above quote, and that he seems to be unaware of how incriminating his statement is. Is this part of his self diagnosed "sociopathic" condition, or perhaps a bit of cognative dissonance?
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<i>Cognitive dissonance is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other. The clashing cognitions may include ideas, beliefs, or the knowledge that one has behaved in a certain way. - www.psychologytoday.com</i>
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While Linda's writing style comes off as restrained - she knows how to make a point without ambiguity. Hank is a bit more blunt in his accusations...
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[Hank, in a recent youtube interview]
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<i>"I saw Linda swing the baby on the A-Train platform almost as if she wanted to toss the kid onto the tracks…She hated Courtney, the spawn of the only pagan she ever married."
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[Youtube user scarycoyote] "I had read in your book that Linda had subjected Courtney to some Stanford Experiments?" [Harrison] "I don’t know if they were Standford per se. But there was some kinda Oregon State bunch too don’t forget, you know? Oregon box. You know, Reich? They had this thing about RE parenting. Reichian psychology. They put her…they were doing Tarot reading, fire walking, hatha yoga, raja yoga…running on no food, that kinda stuff…it was Portland...it was back in the day you know…they were just as bad as the Haight Ashbury. I mean wasn’t nothin different about it, 'cept it was Oregon…I don’t know what they were exposing her to but it was…oh yeah, they gave her pills…toolinahl. Tuinal. Which is the blue and the red pill. Sleeping pill. It’s a hypnotic. Truth serum type of thing. Seconal, tuinal...And they were getting her to try and ERASE me from her mind. And I found out that the reason they were doing that…they thought I was after their money! And at the time I didn’t even know they had the money!"</i>
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Ok, let's break this all down here...
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Harrison first dodges the question regarding Courtney's alleged subjection to "Stanford Experiments." According to dailyentertainmentnews.com, Hank "has attended postgraduate classes in anthropology and various seminars at Stanford." Ken Kesey also had connections to Stanford.
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<i>"While a writing student at Stanford University, Ken Kesey undertook paid psychological experiments with mescaline and LSD. He also began working the night shift as an attendant at a psychiatric hospital. These experiences came together in his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which explored insidious ways society represses nonconformity." - https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu</i>
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<i>"Bill’s folks are attorneys, sure – of course, Bill was working when I first met him at Stanford research center." Hank Harrison, according to deadsources.blogspot.com</i>
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Does any of this prove Courtney was subjected to "Stanford experiments?" No, but considering what was happening there in the 60s and Hank's dodging of the question, there is probably something to it. And it wasn't enough for Hank to dodge the question, he then goes into GREAT DETAIL regarding Linda Carroll's brainwashing of Courtney in Oregon, which you may recall is where the family moved after Hank was out of the picture initially. Is he projecting in order to deflect attention away from his own role in Courtney's shattered personality? Is he telling the truth? Is he mixing truth with fiction?
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<i>He would press his thumb or the palm of his hand hard (and painfully) on their [his patients] jaws, necks, chests, backs, or thighs, aiming to dissolve their muscular, and thereby characterological, rigidity. He wrote that the purpose of the massage was to retrieve the repressed memory of the childhood situation that had caused the repression. If the session worked, he would see waves of pleasure move through their bodies, which he called the "orgasm reflex". According to Sharaf, the twin goals of Reichian therapy were the attainment of this orgasm reflex during sessions and orgastic potency during intercourse. Reich briefly considered calling it "orgasmotherapy", but thought better of it. - wiki</i>
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This "Reichian" psychology Hank mentions is a reference to Wilhelm Reich, and his "orgone accumilator" therapy. This is a fascinating topic to research, but as far as mainstream society is concerned - Reich was a nut and even a sexual deviant to some. The fact Hank claims Courtney was subjected to this is pretty wacky in and of itself. But he goes way beyond that!
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Re-parenting, Tarot cards, fire walking, yoga, and all types of mind altering drugs, and lots of brainwashing of course. Now how does Harrison know that Courtney was subjected to all of this if Linda and her new husband fled out from under him, as he has characterized them of doing? While it's often difficult to sort fact from fiction, that is a LOT of detail, and very specific!
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And why was Linda doing all this? To ERASE Harrison from Courtney's memory, so he couldn't get in on the money being passed on to her from Linda's adopted sexually abusive father, Jack Risi. At least, this is the case according to Harrison.
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None of this is in Linda's book of course [except the part about Jack Risi sexually abusing her]. Although she does speak about Courtney's temper, sociopathic tendencies, hallucinations, and various therapies over the years. But nothing like what Hank describes! It is interesting to note though, that Courtney's half sister does recall the children being put through strange psychological treatments in Oregon, on the MTV/VH1 documentary. Again, nothing like what Hank speaks of - but this part of the story is conspicuously absent from Linda's book.
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[Linda in Oregon 1971, with 2nd husband Frank Rodriguez. The tall girl is Courtney, the other 2 are her half sisters]
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<i>"...so Del Nan [Courtney's God mother?] shuttled her back to Oregon where she was placed in foster care supervised by Linda’s weird shrink friend Richard Pharr, the guy who, according to Courtney, broke up Linda’s 2nd marriage. She told me Dr Pharr molested her. But I doubt this because she once told me Frank Rodriguez molested her…by all accounts, this DR Pharr character, if that’s his real name, tried to brainwash my kid. He gave her tuinol, Seconal and other hypnotic downers. Moreover, he used marginal techniques on her...I believe exposure to so much pseudoscience broke her spirit and created , in her, a destructive and even homicidal personality."</i>
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Again, lots to unpack there! But let's start with this thing about Frank Rodriguez molesting Courtney. If you read PT 2, you may recall I suggested that Linda's 2nd husband Frank MAY have molested Courtney, and that it may even have been a consentual thing. I based this upon a couple assumptions, but I had not read Hank's book "Love Kills" yet at that point. Turns out that according to Hank himself, Courtney TOLD HIM that Frank molested her. So I guess this was not some wild leap of my imagination? Also, note the picture above, and Courtney's body language, Frank's hand on her chest.
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I don't recall this Dr Pharr being mentioned in Linda's book, but obviously Hank paints a pretty scummy image of the guy. Courtney does state in one interview, that she was sent to a "new" therapist who had pornography on his bathroom walls, and that he was a "pervert." Was she speaking about Dr Pharr? Just what in the hell happened to Courtney as a child???
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Stangely, Hank states at least 2 more times in his book that Frank did NOT molest Courtney. Hank paints a cruel picture of Linda running off to Oregon with Frank and stripping away his legal rights as Courtney's father, handing legal guardianship over to Frank. And yet, Hank seems to have nothing but good things to say about Frank so many years later, and goes out of his way to make sure his name is cleared of any "molestation" rumors. Hank also seems to be in contact with Frank regularly over the years while Courtney is tossed around from here to there. It's strange how Hank paints himself as this poor misunderstood father being left in the dark by cruel Linda for years and years. Yet, he seems to know where Courtney is, who's abusing her, who isn't, what drugs she's being given - as if he's secretly monitoring her even when he isn't physically present!
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All of this brainwashing and mental/physical abuse seems to create what Harrison decides is Courtney's shattered "homicidal personality." Do you see what he's doing here? He's building a narrative in which his daughter slowly turns into the monster who murdered her husband. This is why he must convince people that he didn't "dose" Courtney, or abuse her in any way. Because if that were the case, he begins to become implicated by his own narrative. So he must allocate all abuse of her onto other people and attribute her erratic tendencies to genetics.
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<i>"After we were reunited, when she was 14, Courtney often went to bed screaming into her pillows. At first I thought it was something I did or said, but when I confronted her she told me her mother put her through some kind of
Whacky Jannoff regime. Around that same time,(1979) I started to realize that Courtney wanted to be a rockstar at any cost. She was trying to rebuild a shattered personality." </i>
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If you switch that last sentence to "I was trying to rebuild a shattered personality," this whole story falls into place much more neatly. Occam's razor?
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[The repurposed "chicken coup" Courtney was kept in during part of her family's time in New Zealand]
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<b>THE ROCK AND ROLL MOB</b>
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If you recall Joe Pesci's character in the film "Goodfellas," he plays the stereotypical "little guy" with a big mouth and who seems to get away with anything and everything. At some point you might ask, "how does this little, ugly, chubby guy push people around and get away with it?" It's simple. He's a "made man." Which means, the mob will back him pretty much in any situation - even if he's not necesarily carrying out their will specifically. So he can kill someone, rob a jewelry store, collect protection money from locals, almost anything he wants! The only exception is that he may NOT cross another "made man" - which is what he does in the film that ends up getting him "whacked." I believe this is what explains how Courtney Love gets away with what she does through the years. She's a "made man" in the Rock and Roll mob, and she knows who NOT to cross. Or she is perhaps mentally programmed to the point where she is incapable of "crossing" the wrong people...
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["Courtney Love with her best friend Robin Barbur in San Francisco, ca. April 1981. The photographs were taken by Jon Sievert when Love’s dad hired him to take photos of the girls." She'd be about 16 in the above picture]
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<i>"She was about 11 when she first entered the system and 16 when Ms Rubio helped me bust her out. From that point on, she knew she was going to wreak havoc on the world. I knew this because she told me, several times." </i>
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<i>"In late 1979 I sprung Courtney out of Juvenile Hall in Salem, and she came to live with me on the houseboat in Kappas Marina in Sausalito. By Christmas she was running around San Francisco on her own…By Christmas 1979 she was commuting back and fourth from Sausalito…to her stepfather’s house in Portland, using friends and Green Tortoise druggie bus as her main x-urban transport. She also made a slight side trip to Japan where she danced in clubs, lost her passport and had to be rescued, but by that time I was on my way to Ireland…In the winter of 1979 Courtney arranged a deal with her mom and got a whole bunch of money paid out twice a year. After that I hardly saw her. Courtney and Frank stood me up for Christmas and New Years 1979 and it hurt." </i>
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<i>"..but her first gig to Japan, the gig that resulted in several abortions, again by her own admission, took place in 1979." </i>
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<i>"In Portland, and on the road, Courtney’s early traumas turned her into one of the worst kind of hookers…a “fag hag” or a “fruit fly.”</i>
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In 1979 Courtney was 15? 16? Clearly underage. So what was this "first gig" to Japan all about? Clearly, she was sent there to be a whore, resulting in "several abortions." Now think about the creepy, suggestive pictures we've seen of her and Robin around this time - which Hank commissioned! Why would a girl her age, with the recent inheritance, willfully fly down to Japan to get trafficked? And Hank just casually talks about this stuff, as if he's explaining the plot of a film he saw recently!
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[Courtney walking the strip in China?]
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[Courtney in England?]
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[Punk/New Wave Groupie mode]
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<i>"Attracted, she said, by the prospect of attending Trinity College in Dublin, the 17- year-old traveled to Ireland in 1981 to visit her father again…He said they lived together there for seven months and got along fine. His daughter said the visit lasted barely longer than a couple of days…"He beat me up so badly I had to call the cops," she said."</i>
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<i>"Courtney arrived in Ireland around her birthday in 1981. Robin’s arrival was a good thing. She was quiet, beautiful, and serene….I kept all of the ticket Stubbs. I have the exact day Courtney arrived, the exact day Robin arrived and the exact
Day they left for liverpool...I had no idea they were bi-sexual."</i>
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<i>"...Courtney took off to Letterkenney with Steve O'Leary of the Belfast CIA observers group, a nice guy she met at my Winter Solstice Party." </i>
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<i>"In February 1981 Courtney sailed for Liverpool with a small group of weavers traveling home to Scotland for an early spring break. She wound up taking LSD with Steve and his brother at Okenden Venture, a CIA cut out acting as a refugee center
In Surrey, near London. I think she also slept with Malcolm, the defrocked Anglican priest who ran the place… "</i>
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Hank's wacky stories about Courtney are seemingly endless. Yet, they are copiously detailed, as if he's got a huge file where all is documented. He names names, places, and events - many of which can be verified through research. You've just gotta wonder how much of this is truth and how much is embellishment. I mean, look up Okenden Venture, for example. A CIA cutout acting as a refugee center? That doesn't sound made up to me, that sounds like an insider "spilling the beans." And this LSD thing, which seems endlessly showered upon Hank and his daughter at all times!
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<i>"A young Courtney Love arrived in Liverpool in 1982…was just 17 when she travelled to Merseyside with her friend Robin…She had been invited by The Teardrop Explodes front man Julian Cope to stay in a house Devonshire Road in Toxteth, which was in some ways an epicentre for Liverpool's thriving 1980s music scene, after hooking up with the band at a gig in London and jumping on their tour bus home…Courtney would later describe the few months she spent living in Liverpool as the place where she learned "to be a rock and roll star”.."Courtney has been quite open that there was a lot of LSD in the world that she inhabited and a lot of it she brought into the city…"Bill Drummond said he was first aware of her in 1982 as this loud American girl with LSD.”…Dave said: "How long she was here is something that wasn't straightforward to pin down, she said she was here for two years, but it seems it was more like five months…”</i>
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I went over some of this in part 1, so I won't retread too much here regarding Courtney's time in England. But again, clearly there is a will coming from somewhere to INSERT her into the center of the music scene for purposes which are unclear - but are always assumed to be soley the will of Courtney herself, stemming from this early "obsession" she allegedly had with being famous. I don't doubt she had this obsession. I also don't doubt this obsession was PROGRAMMED into her brain by Hank, Linda, and/or whatever insane MK Ultra style mind scrambling operation was hovering over it all like the eye of Mordor...
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<i>"MK Ultra is pretty “future thinking” but I don’t think they got that much, that big a crystal ball." - Hank, when put to the question of MK Ultra involvement in Courtney's "brainwashing."</i>
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<i>"Courtney didn’t have any place to live, she was broke. So she moved in with us…with Kat Bjellin [Babes in toyland]…Steve Jobs used to hang out - at my house. Dan Cobkey, who invented one of the keyboards for the original Macintosh. Every once in a while we’d run into that guy that looks like a Neanderthal [Wozniak] I hung out with all those people."</i>
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<i>"She met Kat [Kathy Bjelland], up in Oregon and she brought her down with her.
You know, Babes in Toyland? Babes in Toyland used to rehearse in our basement..."</i>
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<i>"She used to live with us in 83. In Menlo Park. And the reason she moved to Menlo Park, Silicon Valley was because all of her hooker friends were balling rich money engineers…we had a nice house I worked for Honeywell, I worked for uh Lockheed, I worked for Applied Materials, I worked for Apple, I became señor editor of a magazine called Dr Dobbs Computer Journals."</i>
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So according to Hank, Courtney's base for her groupie/hooker activities was his house! All her friends were "balling" the type of individuals he brags were visiting. People like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak [the inventor of the first Desktop computer - which sold for $666 if you recall from my "Serpent Symbolism" blog. He was also a Freemason.] Was Hank running some type of prostitution ring from out of his house and pimping out his own daughter? I mean, what else do we make of his statements? If that's not what he was doing, he was at least knee deep in whatever was going on!
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<i>"In 1985 she led a continuous stream of junk addicted Riots Grrrls around and just set them up at my house, like it was a crash pad."</i>
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Well, wasn't that kind of you to put up with such mayhem, Hank! Enable much???
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<i>"She wanted to go to the Mabuhay Gardens all the time and she wanted to go up to a place called the Vats. You know get stoned on a thing called China White which turned out to be Fentrynil. We had to bring her down off of a couple bad acid trips. She would stay with us, we gave her a room upstairs in our attic. And she would bring her friends by and all of her friends were like already very famous…like L7…and they were busy digging up money on the side I won’t say how. They got into my wallet…they scammed me a little bit…but I was chauffeuring around, you know dad would drive them up to these obscure nightclubs in the city. Then they would not come home, and so I would go home…and the next day or 2, they’d show up at the house. And steal all my books and stuff like that."</i>
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<i>..."She was always a groupie always on scene, and she always got me to drive her…whichever one of the clubs she was at…."</i>
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<i>"The green tortoise became a sex drugs and rock and roll vending booth for Courtney and her pals…they would get on the bus with pills and pop off the other end with pockets full of cash."</i>
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<i>"From 1982 to 1986 she stayed with us in various states of penury and consciousness…. During one of her visits in 1983, she told me she was on her way to LA to start a rock and roll band. That year she attended concerts at Mabuhay Gardens, hung out with the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag and usually had me chauffeur her around…by 1985 she was gone again." </i>
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Hmmm, Black Flag huh?
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It seems pretty cut and dry here. Courtney is on some sort of mission to infiltrate the Punk/underground rock scene. Whether it's through drugs or sex. By his own account, Hank sets up her home base with her "hooker" friends, acts as her chauffeur, contributes financially [and probably collected as well]...Is this what he meant by applying "Alynsky's principals to the Rock and Roll world?" What was the purpose of all of this? Look where Courtney is today and perhaps you can fill in the rest...
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SOURCES:
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Love Kills: The Assassination of Kurt Cobain<br>
Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I never Knew and of my Daughter, Courtney Love<br>
MTV/VH1<br>
https://deadsources.blogspot.com<br>
Youtube Channel: Kyle and Jackie O<br>
Sf Gate<br>
Youtube Channel: scarycoyote<br>
Youtube Channel: The Ochelli Effect<br>
Amazon.com<br>
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/
Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-42619252429395611542021-12-21T22:34:00.009-08:002023-01-07T10:42:02.226-08:00Acid, Music, Mindcrime [PT II]<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglD2McEgIiXfPLZj_eJfc2AOyFTAWFc6ghTfNKeHrNqM9gjoSeX5Osqd7uFg1NkzRUAMclxxxWrlsjlBLYU6wxqFK876PQgrffPEbsQ5Z28IB79YD57UPRVrffa9Up5Tadnj3O_Gnd5c3My_z-wVGoFt_BHj5qBL-Ob9us6kgm1ky-8Hy4ZtQLvQ=s573" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="573" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglD2McEgIiXfPLZj_eJfc2AOyFTAWFc6ghTfNKeHrNqM9gjoSeX5Osqd7uFg1NkzRUAMclxxxWrlsjlBLYU6wxqFK876PQgrffPEbsQ5Z28IB79YD57UPRVrffa9Up5Tadnj3O_Gnd5c3My_z-wVGoFt_BHj5qBL-Ob9us6kgm1ky-8Hy4ZtQLvQ=s400"/></a></div>
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[Courtney Love as an infant, with father Hank Harrison, and mother Linda Carroll]
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Are Rock Stars "born" or are they "made?" The latter assumes a creator - who would likely wield the same power to DESTROY what they made if they saw fit. Suppose such a creator lacked empathy, was perhaps even psychopathic, with a voracious sense of greed - why not market the destruction of one's creation and capitalize even further upon that "rock star" than when they were alive?
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These are very dark concepts to contemplate, but sometimes we must think like the enemy in order to discover their tactics and make sense of this mess we see in the world. One of the mainstream media's most important jobs, is to prevent us from doing so. They do it by witholding information, distorting information, or flooding the airwaves with so much that it becomes an indistinguishable cloud of white noise that we'd rather would just go away completely.
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["The crookedest street in the world," San Francisco's Lombard Street]
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<b>The following is made up of quotes from various articles and interviews which are all publicly available. All quotes from said articles and interviews will be in italics. When an individual is quoted directly, their name will be in [Brackets] "and their quote will look like this." All sources are listed at the bottom of the page. </b>
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<i>Her parents...were part of the city’s burgeoning psychedelic scene...Her father, Hank Harrison, had been a college friend and roommate of Phil Lesh in the early ‘60s, had briefly managed the Warlocks “for one week” in 1965, and stayed in contact with the Dead up to the ‘70s, gathering material for his books on them. [Courtney] "He managed the Grateful Dead for 5 seconds and he was an amateur acid maker" [Rozz Rezabeck] "Hank Harrison, he went out as their tour manager ostensibly, actually he was their LSD dealer."</i>
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<i>[Harrison] "when she was little she was wonderful. Very very intelligent I gave her an IQ test, she has a 150 IQ"</i>
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[Harrison appeared in the 1967 CBS documentary "Etched in Acid," coming off more like a CIA Agent than a former "acid head" that ran with the Grateful Dead.]
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<i>A lifelong diarist, [Linda] Carroll always felt she had a story to tell. Her children grew up listening to stories of her time in Catholic school in 1950s San Francisco and her acid trips with Jerry Garcia in Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s...Young Linda was so echt-hippie that Jerry Garcia personally introduced her to LSD on a risky wrong-way ride up San Francisco’s snaky Lombard Street: “I’m going up—it’s how the crow would fly,” said Jerry. Linda liked LSD but wasn’t an alkaloid Icarus. Her addiction was to self-seeking...…Courtney’s also said, “My mother had ties to a lot of the women around the San Francisco hippie scene, like Ken Kesey’s wife and the Magic Bus people.” [Harrison] "Linda had a sort of cadre of chicks from San Francisco. From Catholic school, girls’ Catholic school."</i>
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So far, LSD and the Grateful Dead seem like a common level upon which Linda and Hank would meet. Tripping with Jerry Garcia no less! Courtney Love's quote about the "magic bus people" is not a statement to be taken lightly in this regard, as Ken Kesey conducted the infamous "acid test" parties, at which attendees were dosed with copious amounts of LSD. In fact, members of the Warlocks/Grateful Dead are believed to have attended the first of these parties, possibly even playing some music. The CIA is known to have been involved at some level as well - if they weren't the primary organizers themselves. And the "Magic Bus" was an operation in which "hippies" went around the country dosing people with acid, promoting its use. This is all very much at the heart of what people have come to acknowledge as the transition from the "beatnick movement" to the "hippy movement."
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<i>Harrison met Love's mother in early 1963 at a party for Dizzy Gillespie, according to Harrison, who both raised and denied allegations by his ex-wife that their daughter was conceived through date rape...She was conceived, Carroll wrote, when an intense and interesting guy she met at a party named Hank Harrison threatened to commit suicide if the 18-year-old Carroll refused to have sex with him. They married soon after in Reno...she was pregnant when they were married in November 1963 in Reno. Their daughter was born the following July, and the marriage lasted less than two years...Linda’s own bad, brief teenage marriage left her with trouble child Courtney.</i>
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The above contains 2 versions of how Courtney was "conceived." The first version is from an article penned by Joel Selvin. The latter is allegedly from a book Carroll wrote herself. [It's worth noting here that Carroll defends the reputation of her sexually abusive father in one of the promotional articles concerning said book.] Whatever the case, doesn't sound like Linda Carroll had a very romantic journey into motherhood.
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<i>Courtney Michelle Harrison was born on 7.9.1964 in San Francisco, CA. [Courtney] "I was born into a big custody trial. And I was called “child x” in the San Francisco paper. It was a big deal because my grandparents had a lot of money."</i>
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This is a reference to Courtney's maternal grandparents [Linda's adopted parents], who allegedly owned a very successful company that made eye glasses. This is something we will get more into later.
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<i>"He [Hank] gave me acid, I don’t remember, I’m pretty sure…my father’s just out and out nuts"...[Rozz Rezabek] "He’s always been heavily involved in dealing LSD… [Hank] left Courtney with like some groupie at the commune who gave her LSD in her Corn Flakes like every morning, which made Courtney extremely enlightened and self actualized, but it also did a lot of damage"...</i>
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<i>Phil Lesh was her godfather…“We were doing tons of acid, changing sex partners, and tripping out,” Hank said; and in a child custody dispute, her mother would testify that Hank gave Courtney LSD as an infant...[Hank] "There was lots of interactions where I took her over to see friends of mine who were very very famous people in the band at their homes. So she spent a lot of time with all the different band members in their houses and talking to their wives…Mountain Girl and Garcia and Tom Constantan and Phil Lesh and so fourth - knew her…Garcia was a babysitter for her for a while, when we were still married…I never thought anything would happen bad. Was a bunch of people like that, yeah she was exposed to the Dead culture. And also the “Hippie Culture” I was bringing people down off of bad acid trips. I had to often go out and leave her with my girlfriend who was - her name was Jerry Danter. And I never had any worries about that."</i>
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While Hank denies ever dosing his daughter with LSD, his elaborate stories where she's being shuffled around between the various icons of Acid culture while he's out "rescuing" acid heads in the street certainly doesn't hurt the case against him in that regard!
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<i>In Love’s first year, Harrison became increasingly violent and emotionally unstable, according to the book, and the couple divorced around Love’s first birthday…She depicts Love, as a toddler, watching, unmoved, as her puppy tumbles down a flight of stairs.</i>
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The book referenced above is Linda's. I have not read it, but it sounds like her depiction of a young Courtney is that of a mentally disturbed child lacking in empathy for the lives of others. According to Harrison, Courtney is a sociopath, an attribute he takes credit for passing down to her.
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<i>"Sociopathy refers to a pattern of antisocial behaviors and attitudes, including manipulation, deceit, aggression, and a lack of empathy for others." - psychology today</i>
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<i>At the age of 5 Courtney appeared on the back of the Grateful Dead album “aoxomoxoa,” known for the hidden phrase in the title, We ate the acid...</i>
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The above was taken from an MTV documentary. The fact that she is on the back of "aoxomoxoa" is disputed, but Courtney seems happy to play along with it regardless.
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<i>[Harrison] "By the way, I took a polygraph…I did not give her LSD I did not expose her to LSD or any other kind of psychedelic. Period. And I can prove it...
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Is a polygraph "proof?" Sure, it may count for something in a courtroom. But how does one "prove" they didn't dose their daughter? I don't know if that's even possible! Doesn't make him guilty of the crime, but this concerted effort to establish the idea that he is in possession of such "proof" rings more of guilt than innocence to me.
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[Courtney and her adopted father, Frank Rodriguez]
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<i>According to divorce papers filed in San Francisco Superior Court, Carroll claimed her ex- husband had threatened to abduct the infant Courtney and take her to another country. Hank denied the allegations, but Linda won the case. By that time, she’d married Frank Rodriguez, who legally adopted Courtney. The court granted only limited visits to Harrison, restricting them to Carroll's residence and insisting on the presence of a third party…[Courtney] "He was alleged in court -- I don't know if it actually happened -- to have given me acid," she said...</i>
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Is this the story of a mother trying to protect her daughter from an unstable, abusive man? Where was she, when young Courtney was being shuffled around to various band members and getting LSD in her corn flakes? It's one thing to have a divorce, gain custody, and move to another state. But to actually have her new husband LEGALLY adopt Courtney sounds like an attempt to shut Harrison out of her daughter's life in the most complete way possible.
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<i>She got married again, he [Harrison] said, "and suddenly there was a change. They adopted her out from under me. They moved to Oregon and wouldn't tell me where she was.”</i>
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<i>[Hank] "I used to manage the Grateful Dead, and this girl who’s an old Dead Head came up and said “hey are you Courtney’s Dad? I’m her banker!” I said “does she have a lot of money” she said “Oh yeah! I can’t talk about it.” All she said was “a lot.”</i>
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Hank tells a pretty consistent story about this business of Courtney inheriting money from Linda's adopted parents, the Risis - and insinuates that this is the reason she became so aggressive in her efforts to get Courtney away from him and to strip away Hank's legal rights as her father. More on this later.
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<i>She lived with her parents in San Francisco until their divorce in 1969; then her mother took her to an Oregon commune in 1970. She had a loose hippie upbringing: one biographer describes her childhood house as full of musicians, groupies and freaks; and Courtney later shuddered, “There were all these hairy, wangly-ass hippies in our house…running around naked.” </i>
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[Courtney and her new family up at the Oregon Commune?]
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<i>Linda and her new baby fled north to Oregon with an ambitious trash man, known to her friends as “the garbage Adonis.”...The new family moved to Oregon where [the] family had 2 daughters, and later adopted a son. Linda studying psychotherapy put the family on the couch. [Jamiee King - half sister] We were in therapy constantly. Mom would give us big red batons, and we would have to hit each other to get the anger out. We had teepees in the backyard and people came from England to have conventions of believing in fairies, it was a different time. [Courtney] "We had this family meeting which was called “what’s bugging me about you is...” It was crazy."</i>
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<i>[Jamiee King - half sister] My sister’s never really forgiven my mom for the way that she was raised. My dad was probably the best at understanding her and accepting her.</i>
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<i>A photo from the book shows Courtney beaming in front of her lovely, hand-built cabin on the site of the former chicken coop. So … there’s more to the story: No, she wasn’t locked up in a chicken coop, but she did live solo in her own cabin behind the house, for the protection of the other kids—and Linda.</i>
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So the family moves up to Oregon onto a hippy commune, where the kids are subjected to all sorts of, what sound like, psychological experiments. Now, Courtney was born in 1964, so she would have been around 5 in 1969. I wonder how old she was when they decided to move her into the re-purposed chicken coupe behind the house?
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<i>Soon Courtney’s behavior was so out of control that her mother sent her to a new therapist. [Courtney] "The man that I went to therapy with was a pervert. And he had pornography in his bathroom, he was gross. He wrote down that I was slightly schizoid at the age of 9, you can’t be slightly schizoid at the age of 9., besides which, I’m not. And that stayed in my file and haunted me"</i>
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Was Courtney the little mentally disturbed monster MTV portrayed her to be in their "documentary," or was she simply acting out the way any severely abused child would? Children who are normal don't need experimental therapy! Normal children FORCED into experimental therapy become ABNORMAL! What really happened here at this commune up in Oregon?
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[Frank Rodriguez, Courtney's adopted step-father]
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[Courtney] "he [Frank] was great to me, he was the one adult figure in my life who was nice to me." Despite their best efforts, Linda and Frank couldn’t make the family work. They divorced when Courtney was 7.</i>
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<i>In 1972 Linda remarried and moved the family to New Zealand, bringing along everyone but the increasingly difficult Courtney. The 8 year old was left behind in the care of a family friend. It was a move that would cement the rift between mother and daughter forever. </i>
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Wait, didn't Frank and Linda have 2 daughters after moving to Oregon AND an adopted son? If Frank was such a kind hearted man and father, why would he let his children go like that, all the way to some strange location in New Zealand, with his ex wife? And who was this "family friend" Courtney was left with?
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<i>Eventually, Courtney moved back in with her stepfather, Frank. [Frank] "Linda appealed to me, and asked if I would take Courtney and I said yes I love Courtney." Courtney adjusted to her new life well, immersing herself in art and acting classes. For the first time, she began to dabble in music. </i>
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<i>[Courtney quoting her own lyrics] "We're gonna go down to shady lake, where we're gonna make sweet sweet love." At least it had a hook, and I was in 5th grade!...I can't remember a time not wanting to be famous...</i>
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While stating the above, Courtney grins ubiquitously as she recalls a song she wrote and mailed to Neil Sedaka [pop producer/musician], all about "making sweet love." She was probably around 10 years old at the time.
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[Courtney] "All I could see is that I would be famous and then everything would be fair."
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What does Courtney mean by "fair?" Was her entire childhood part of some sort of "deal" where she had to suffer, in exchange for the fame - as a sort of "reward?"
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<i>At the age of 12 she applied to the new Mickey Mouse Club, only to be rejected. [Courtney] "I wish my mother had been a stage mother. I wouldn't have had to forge my parent's signature when I tried out for the New Mouskateers as Coco Rodriguez, and read Silvia Platt...I was so raised in a cave I read a poem about incest trying out for the new mouseketeers." </i>
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<i>"I found out later that Courtney Love had made it to the call-backs and was going to be cast as a Mouseketeer," [Lisa] Whelchel told us. "But she found out some little kid from Texas flew in and got her part."</i>
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<i>Love tells it a slightly different way. "I tried out for the Mickey Mouse Club when I was 11," she said in The Independent. "But I read a Sylvia Plath poem… so that wasn’t really flying with Disney."</i>
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Here we have Courtney, in her own words, talking about how she brought up incest while trying out for the Mickey Mouse club. Are we supposed to find it ENDEARING that Courtney, at age 11 or 12, thought incest was acceptable enough to bring up while trying out for the Mousketeers? This occured, presumably, during the time she was staying with Frank Rodriguez. The one "adult figure" in her life that was nice to her. She also makes what is supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to being "raised in a cave." This is an interesting statement considering she was kept in a re-purposed chicken coupe behind the family house as a child.
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I think what people may percieve as "a punk rock attitude" or a "self-made woman" in Courtney, is actually a mis-reading of her inability to relate to "normal" society, due to the damage she suffered as a child. Perhaps she "acts out," not because she is some kind of "fearless warrior of counterculture and individuality," but moreso because she is the opposite. An imprisoned lifetime slave to the sick machine that created her. And MTV wants us to applaud this, as if these are endearing traits, worthy of praise and admiration.
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"Incest: sexual intercourse between closely related persons...the crime of sexual intercourse, cohabitation, or marriage between persons within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity wherein marriage is legally forbidden." - dictionary.com
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[Courtney and Frank Rodriguez's 2nd wife?]
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<i>After 7 months in Oregon Courtney had to face an even tougher rejection. Living with Frank just wasn't working out.</i>
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<i>[Frank Rodriguez] "It came to a point where my wife and Courtney were at odds, and I was presented with a choice. Her or me, and the conflict was just intense and I couldn’t handle it. Who wants her? She couldn’t make it with me. She didn’t make it with her mother. She was abandoned. She was lost."</i>
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When Courtney went to live with Frank for the 2nd time, it appears that he had already re-married, and so they all lived together. Why was Frank's wife "at odds" with Courtney? We assume this was due to her psychotic behavior, or some other stepdaughter/stepmother strife. But the reason is never actually given in the segment. Frank then states his wife presented him with an ultimatum, "her or me." Now think about this for a moment...if a man is cheating on his wife and the wife finds out...if he is LUCKY, the wife will tell him "her or me." Were Frank and Courtney involved in an inappropriate relationship, which may have actually been concentual? Was this the real reason his wife wanted him to choose? Maybe, maybe not.
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<i>[Harrison] "Some of Linda’s husbands later on had some problems, especially when they went to Australia without telling me. I have really no idea what happened to them down there"</i>
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Australia? I thought Courtney's mother fled to New Zealand?
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<i>It’s been a messy life, funded by the Risis’ bequest—not millions, but enough cash so that Linda could answer a 1973 ad in The Whole Earth Catalogue and schlep her proliferating brood to a total-loss sheep farm in New Zealand. Her four other kids adapted to the chaos; Courtney went berserk, yo-yoing between Oregon, New Zealand, reform school and Portland punk clubs until Linda emancipated her at 16 and signed over a slice of the inheritance…</i>
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It sounds like Courtney did more than yo-yo into New Zealand, as the above post card seems to suggest she was enrolled in school there, and preparing to take part in a theatre play of Oliver Twist - though it's hard to read her messy writing. [I guess she'd be around 9 years old at that point?] The return address seems to be a Hostel. Why was her mailing address a hostel if she was staying with mom on a sheep farm? And what was Harrison alluding to, when he said some of Linda's later husbands in Australia really had some problems? Did he mean New Zealand, during the time Courtney wrote this letter?
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Imagine. Courtney is this child, being juggled all over the place - even internationally in some cases - staying with who knows who, being subjected to who knows what, staying who knows where. Yet Harrison, who we assume was nowhere to be found, seems to provide some of the only details as to what was happening to his daughter during this time. And all the while, money from the Risis seems to be flowing into it all in some form or another. The only thing that explains this to me, is that Courtney was in the middle of some sort of mind control/trafficking campaign - and everyone involved is doing their own version of damage control here - which is why nothing ever quite makes sense or feels conclusive.
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<i>[Harrison]...So I got a buddy of mine, he had a private plane, fly me up to Salem and I went and saw her…</i>
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In this revealing recent interview, Harrison speaks about re-connecting with Courtney while she was in "juvy" [jail for minors]. The interviewer asks Harrison about a part of his recent book where he allegedly states Courtney was subjected to "Stanford Experiments."
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<i>[Harrison] "I don’t know if they were Standford per se. But there was some kinda Oregon State bunch too don’t forget, you know? Oregon box. You know, Reich? They had this thing about RE parenting. Reichian psychology. They put her…they were doing Tarot reading, fire walking, hatha yoga, raja yoga…running on no food, that kinda stuff…it was Portland...it was back in the day you know…they were just as bad as the Haight Ashbury. I mean wasn’t nothin different about it, 'cept it was Oregon…. I don’t know what they were exposing her to but it was…oh yeah, they gave her pills…toolinahl. Tuinal. Which is the blue and the red pill. Sleeping pill. It’s a hypnotic. Truth serum type of thing. Secenol, tuinal. ..</i>
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Notice that Harrison did not outright deny the "Stanford Experiments" question, but quickly pivoted to Oregon, and what was going on there. If you pay attention, Harrison is really good at changing the topic when he doesn't want to talk about a specific detail. The interviewer then asks how old Courtney was at the time.
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<i>[Harrison] "…before she went into juvy, 14. Between 12 and 14. And they were getting her to try and ERASE me from her mind. And I found out that the reason they were doing that….they thought I was after their money! And at the time I didn’t even know they had the money!"</i>
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How does Harrison know about all of these experiments and drugs and brainwashing, and memory erasing, and other crazy treatments his daughter was subjected to during those years he was supposedly absent in her life? Perhaps she told him, perhaps he is making it all up, perhaps he was directly involved! But given the shocking detail, we have to wonder just WHY Harrison offers all of this up. There must be either some truth to it, or a will to distort the truth - which insinuates that the real story might have actually been far worse and shocking than he is letting on! But who the hell knows...
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[Courtney with former boyfriend, Rozz Rezabeck]
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Now, recall the quote earlier from Rozz Rezabeck, about Hank leaving "Courtney with like some groupie at the commune who gave her LSD in her Corn Flakes like every morning"
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Rozz was supposedly a former boyfriend of Courtney. So the information he gives regarding her and Hank Harrison, I assume, is mostly from her or the horse's mouth. But whatever the case, observe that above he states it was Harrison who took Courtney to a commune. Well, I thought Linda was the one took her up there in Oregon, specifically under the nose of Hank? Did they both leave her in a commune at different points in time? Is Rozz mixing things up here?
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<i>After 7 months in Oregon, Courtney had to face an even tougher rejection. Living with Frank just wasn’t working out. This latest betrayal pushed Courtney over the edge into a world of anger and ever increasing alienation. Now a young teenager, Courtney began living a nomadic life. Bouncing from foster home to foster home, but trusting no-one. </i>
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[Courtney] "You’d walk in the door and know that guy would molest you, just know it. Like within an hour and be out."
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I don't think young Courtney developed this advanced "molester detector" ability without having been molested previously. In fact, Roz Rezabeck tells a pretty shocking story in one interview involving an underaged Courtney and Ted Nugent. Who knows what fact and fiction is, but where there is this much smoke, there's probably some fire.
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<i>Then at 13 after getting caught shoplifting, Courtney was sent to juvenile hall and from there, reform school...After years in juvy and foster homes, Courtney had become an alienated wild child, who’s new monthly stipend never went far enough. </i>
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[Are these pictures Courtney drew while at a Hillcrest Reform School?]
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<i>The Hole: "The meaning of <b>the hole</b> is a prison cell where a prisoner who is being punished is kept alone : solitary confinement." - merriam-webster.com</i>
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<i>[Harrison] "...and it turned out the letter head was from juvenile hall. Frank didn’t say she was in juvy!…because she was “beyond parental control."...When I first got her out of juvenile hall she didn’t have any money at all...She had no clothes, mom had just abandoned her into Juvy. And I said “Courtney what are you doing in this situation you're a millionaire” She said “no mom says the money’s gone.”</i>
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<i>[Harrison] "She was told that I was dead…but the real motive behind it was they thought I had some claim to the money…it turns out…the lawyers that were running the adoption…it wasn’t really an adoption it was a “take away” - they were Catholics too, they were telling Linda and Chat Risi and Ruella Risi that…Fararri and Risi is a large optician on Montgomery street in San Francisco….and the lawyers told them if they didn’t do something about me in the end…when the child was of age I could make a claim against the money because the child was in their name, cause they were using the child as a tax dodge….I told her about it [her money], that was a mistake, I shouldn’t have done that.</i>
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I have tried to find information on this "Fararri and Risi" Optician company without success. Certainly this aspect of Hank's story could all be valid, or at least partially. Or mostly lies! But the important point, I think, is the idea that Courtney's life was being financed to a degree - and there was an air of secrecy and questionable legality to it all.
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On one hand, Harrison speaks of MILLIONS. On the other, Courtney speaks of a measley $500 per month allowance - even though she does allude to her grandparents being wealthy in other places. While $500 per month wasn't a TON of money back in the early 80s - it was plenty enough to pay rent in a nice middle class neighborhood, probably with a couple hundred to spare. For someone of Courtney's age at the time [a teen], that might as well have equated to being "rich." But she goes out of her way to downplay the amount of money she was recieving at the time, as if it was nothing, or not nearly enough!
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<i>[Harrison] "...in that era, to have 2 1/2 to 3 million dollars in trust for a 5 year old child or a 3 year old child would be a lot of money."</i>
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<i>[Harrison] "At that time, she was ALMOST ruined. I mean she was in juvy. They kinda turned her into a whore and all kinds of street kids…she was beat up by a bunch of punks in Oregon a couple of times..."</i>
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Who is THEY and how did they "kinda" turn Courtney into a whore? She is about 14 years old here when she was in reform school. Who was pimping her out and to whom? And how did Harrison, who'd allegedly been estranged from her for years, seem to know every little thing that happened to his daughter when he wasn't around? Why was she getting beaten by punks in Oregon? Hank paints a grim picture of the young teen Courtney - who only seems to get used and abused in all of the worst types of ways. The question I have is, was she just a lost soul who'd been abandoned in the streets - or was she a mind controlled slave who's ultimate purpose was yet to be determined by her handlers?
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-64302583771293290202021-12-06T00:07:00.017-08:002023-01-07T10:41:42.159-08:00Acid, Music, Mindcrime [PT I]<b>SECTION I - HANK HARRISON</b>
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<i>"DR Allen Cohen and Hank Harrison have tried it, nearly 150 times between them, each has turned away from it...Hank Harrison directs the unique LSD Rescue Mission in San Francisco..."
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"Now that we look back at some of our statistics, we've seen people spend many months in mental institutions because of it…Many of the kids who are now consuming LSD and marijuana, and very similar drugs are doing so because they tend to be seeking a new mystique, the hip mystique, and they’ve heard about this hip mystique through television, radio, newspapers, and they’re being drawn towards the Haight Ashbury and Greenwich Village, and college campuses all around the world to try LSD and various hallucinogenics…mainly because of group pressure but also because they feel that something is going to happen to them, some of the misery they feel is going to be alleviated. This is not true, LSD is not a panacea. Nor is it penicillin." - Hank Harrison, "Etched in Acid" 1967</i>
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<i>"I think our task is to separate the profundity of the instinct [to take psychadelics] and the ignorance in trying to actualize that instinct by the use of artificial chemicals. In all honesty I could never advise someone I loved or cared for of felt well of to take LSD even once. Except…in a medically controlled therapeutic situation for specific psychological reasons." - Allen Cohen "Etched in Acid" 1967</i>
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CBS covered the San Francisco "Haight Ashbury hippy scene" of the late 60s as it was occuring, in segments such as "Etched in Acid." In it, Harrison and Allen Cohen appear to be warning of the dangers LSD presents to people, mainly youths of the then current hippy movement. Harrison speaks like a man who's job is, specifically, to analyze the effects of LSD upon people. In fact, some have said he gave LSD to his own daughter!
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<i>"He [Hank] gave me acid, I don’t remember, I’m pretty sure…my father’s just out and out nuts...He managed the Grateful Dead for 5 seconds and he was an amateur acid maker..." Courtney Love - VH1</i>
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"At the age of 5 Courtney appeared on the back of the Grateful Dead album “aoxomoxoa,” known for the hidden phrase in the title, We ate the acid."
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<i>"she’s on the back of one of the Grateful Dead album covers…Hank Harrison, he went out as their tour manager ostensibly, actually he was their LSD dealer. He’s always been heavily involved in dealing LSD…and left Courtney with like some groupie at the commune who gave her LSD in her Corn Flakes like every morning, which made Courtney extremely enlightened and self actualized, but it also did a lot of damage" - Rozz Rezabek, [former boyfriend] Rockstop 2018</i>
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<i>"Hank Harrison, had been a college friend and roommate of Phil Lesh in the early ‘60s, had briefly managed the Warlocks [pre-Grateful Dead] “for one week” in 1965, and stayed in contact with the Dead up to the ‘70s..."
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<b>“We were doing tons of acid, changing sex partners, and tripping out,”</b> Hank said; and in a child custody dispute, her mother would testify that Hank gave Courtney LSD as an infant…"
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"Of course, it’s not known just how involved Hank was in the Dead scene in 1969, as detailed information is scanty and his books are rather obscure. It’s possible he just had occasional contact at that point. Courtney later wrote that Hank was not as close to the Dead as he claimed: “He had published 2 unauthorized books…writing from the perspective of an insider, when in fact he barely dealt with the band.” On the other hand, Courtney’s also said, “My mother had ties to a lot of the women around the San Francisco hippie scene, like Ken Kesey’s wife and the Magic Bus people.” - deadessays.blogspot.com
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"Hank Harrison was a self-described beatnik who lived in Palo Alto with a musician roommate named Phil Lesh. For a couple of weeks at least, he was the manager of Lesh's band, the Warlocks, which soon became the Grateful Dead…His books are not highly regarded in Dead circles." -SFgate
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"He lies," said former Dead manager Rock Scully. "He describes events he never attended. He said he went to Egypt. He didn't go to Egypt. He's full of beans." - wiki</i>
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<i>"None of that happened! I never gave Courtney LSD! And I took a lie detector test…legitimate, CIA guy…that said I did not give her ANY drugs!" Harrison, youtube interview 2020, user "scarycoyote"</i>
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<b>LSD RESCUE MISSION</b>
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Harrison's specific connection to the Grateful Dead [or the Warlocks, an earlier version] seems lost in a sea of acid laced recollections. But what's probably more interesting, is this "LSD Rescue Mission" project he was allegedly involved with. I wasn't able to find anything out about this organization outside Harrison's own interviews, and the brief references from CBS. I think it is important to explore this connection between Harrison, the Dead, the CIA, and LSD.
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<i>"I was bringing people down off of bad acid trips…if you see someone that’s in real dire crisis, your obligation is to intervene….lay hands on and grab and snatch, put em in a truck or a hotel or hospital or someplace - fix em! No fuckin around! You’re trying to help em, YOU'RE the boss. Not them! You gotta get em under control right away, and I knew how to do that! And I been trained to do that with - There was a guy in San Francisco named Joe Fort with Fort Help. And there’s several other groups like that…and I studied with groups like that" - youtube interview 2020, user "scarycoyote"</i>
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The question I have is, was Harrison trained to "help" these people, or was he assigned the task of "rounding them up," after they'd been heavily dosed, in order to gather data - or even further experiment upon them? Persistent rumors that he'd even experimented upon his own daughter, certainly feeds this idea. And while "proof" of just about ANYTHING here is difficult to establish within such a cloud of acid soaked haze, Harrison's own quotes taken at face value, can easily be interpreted as the confessions of a CIA/MK Ultra operative.
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During the same interview I've been quoting from Youtube user "scarycoyote," the interviewer actually puts the question of MK Ultra involvement to Harrison. Here's his response:
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<i>"there was a lot of “dosing” going on. Never open your orchid in a hailstorm. Whoever was doing the dosing - if - if there was intervention - pardon me - if there was “dosing” going on, and it was with the Grateful Dead, then the CIA involvement was with Owsley Stanley, he’s dead now, the guy that developed all the acid. If there was a CIA connection it was Tim Leary for sure…there’s a guy named Sasha Shulgin. Alexander Shulgin. He was a chemist, he’s the one that taught - Augustus Owsley Stanley III…Owsley the Bear. Owsley Stanley. The Bear. He was the acid king. He was the guy that whipped up the acid…at Berkely, at the 3rd or 4th floor of the chem lab. On Campus, man! That’s the only place they could make LSD from scratch. Where they had the actual equipment...there’s a whole bunch of information about that - now I don’t wanna snitch on anybody but, I didn’t like the idea of them dumping acid on everybody everywhere. I didn’t like it. I thought it should be -LSD should have been used always as an adjuvant of psychiatric or psychology or meditational science - and they’re using it NOW for that! They’re using psilosiben as the go-to process for shell-shocking army - ptsd…</i>
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Note Harrison's "freudian slip" above. He said "if there was intervention - pardon me - if there was “dosing” going on"...Recall an earlier quote where he went on about "intervention" and how you gotta "grab and snatch, put em in a truck or a hotel or hospital or someplace" because "your trying to help em!" That's INTERVENTION. He slipped above, and mixed that word up with DOSING. So you see, he made a connection between the DOSING and the INTERVENTION. Were these simply 2 parts of the same deliberate process Harrison was an active participant in?
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If you look these names up he mentioned above, it all checks out. One can spend years researching just that last quote of his. But what I want to emphesize here is Harrison's obvious awareness that LSD was being DUMPED on "everybody everywhere." He says he "didn't like it." Ok, fair enough. Maybe he didn't. But on one hand he sees acid being dumped on people. He seems to know the people involved, how, and where it's being made. [Well duh, he's one of them!] On the other hand, he's got this "LSD rescue" foundation. And on the 3rd hand, he's eating tons of the stuff! [before he had his big 75th trip awakening, that it's actually not real good after all, of course] The big conclusion is that he thinks it aughta be used as "an adjuvant of psychiatric or psychology or meditational science." In other words, it aughta be used in a laboratory sort of environment, under close supervision, for some sort of "beneficial" purpose. Well, this can easily describe the precise manner in which it WAS being used! That is, if the meaning of "beneficial" is twisted slightly and the "laboratory" means any f'n environment where people are taking it, like a party or a rock concert!
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<b>SECTION II - Linda Carroll</b>
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<i>"Linda Carroll is an American author, marriage counselor, and family therapist...Carroll is best known professionally as a couples therapist, and as an author of three books, the latest being Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love, in 2014."
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"She has worked as a couple's therapist for more than 30 years. In addition to being a licensed psychotherapist, she is certified in Imago Therapy, the couple's therapy developed by Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt. She is also a master teacher in the Pairs Psychoeducation Process, a nationally recognized relationship education program for couples. Carroll studied Voice Dialogue with Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, Holotropic Breathwork with Dr. Stanislav Grof, the Four-Fold with Angeles Arrien, the Diamond Heart Work of A.H. Almaas, and trained with The Couples Institute of Drs. Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson. She is also certified in the Hot Monogamy program, which helps couples create or re-create a passionate connection between them."
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"She teaches workshops and delivers keynote addresses throughout the United States and is a frequent speaker at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico." - wiki</i>
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I don't mean to take cheap shots here, but in addition to the above, Carroll's been married 5 times [state.com]. She also once testified in court that her first husband gave LSD to their daughter, a claim that was the basis of her winning custody after/during the first divorce. This daughter of hers is thought by many to have been at least partially responsible for the murder of her own husband in the 90s - a theory also shared by Carroll's own first husband! Does this sound like a woman who should be giving advice to couples?
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<i>"Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame". - wiki</i>
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<i>"[Linda] Carroll was born on April 7, 1944 in San Francisco, California to writer Paula Fox, who was 20 years old at the time of her birth. Carroll was conceived of a short-lived relationship between Fox and an UNNAMED MAN. Fox lived under the roof of acting coach Stella Adler at the time, as did then unknown actor Marlon Brando. There have been persistent rumors that Brando was in fact Carroll's father, although neither Brando nor Fox ever commented on the matter. Fox gave Carroll up for adoption at birth. She was adopted by optician Emil "Jack" and Louella Risi, a Catholic family of part Italian descent, and raised in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Later in life, she took the surname Carroll following the death of her friend, Judy Carroll." -wiki</i>
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<i>"Veteran actor Marlon Brando has been revealed as the unexpected grandfather of wild rocker Courtney Love in a new book. The singer's mother, psychologist Linda Carroll, claims she has taken DNA tests to confirm she is the Godfather star's daughter. Love, former wife of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, says, "I am incredibly shocked by this news. I have heard Mr. Brando has more than 30 children so I can't imagine how many cousins I have." The link is Linda's mother, novelist Paula Fox. She met Brando in the 1940's through famed drama teacher Stella Adler, and the two enjoyed a brief liaison. However, it is not known whether 79-year-old recluse Brando knows that Linda - who was given up for adoption - was the result of this. Brando has 11 acknowledged children, although is thought to have many more. Carroll's book in which she makes the revelation, is as yet unreleased." - Imdb </i>
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If you've been following all of the above, recall the part about Linda Carroll being adopted by a man named Emil "Jack" and Louella Risi, a Catholic family of part Italian descent. Well Jack wasn't just "some nobody" either! But before getting into that, here's what Carroll said about him recently...
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<i>"My father, Jack, although he molested me as a young child, was also a man admired for his kindness, wit, and generosity. He remains one of the most generous people I have ever known…"I resist this culture which tries to make people 'bad' and 'good,' when we are all woven of so many complexities and they all exist within us at once. As my birth mother, Paula, once remarked, 'Good things don't take away the bad, but bad things don't deny the good, either." -
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/carroll-linda-1944</i>
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Did you catch all that? Linda Carroll is defending her adopted child molestor father's abuse against her. Publicly! This, a copiously educated couples' counselor!
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Now with such impressive leaniage, the likes of which include Paula Fox and Marlon Brando, surely this Emil "Jack" Risi must be some sort of big shot too? [besides just being a child molestor and all round generous guy]. Linda Carroll wasn't gonna let just ANYONE adopt her!
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"I was born into a big custody trial. And I was called “child x” in the San Francisco paper. It was a big deal because my grandparents had a lot of money...My trust fund gave me $500 a month. Who can live on that at all? I would just tell them lies. Just lie. " [in order to get larger payments] - Courtney Love, VH1" </i>
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<i>"She would get money every month, and just blow it in a huge way. Just go out and just buy like, really expensive perfumes and candles and flowers….and drugs." - Roddy Bottum
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"She would start shit everywhere…She would come to your house and she would demolish your stuff, but she had no problem paying for it." - Robin Bradbury</i>
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<i>["Courtney Love with her best friend Robin Barbur in San Francisco, ca. April 1981. The photographs were taken by Jon Sievert when Love’s dad hired him to take photos of the girls."]</i>
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<i>“When you hang out your shingle as a music photographer, you never know who will walk in your door,” Sievert said. “An acquaintance asked me to photograph his 16-year-old daughter Courtney and her girlfriend in my small dining-room studio. He didn’t offer to pay, but I was intrigued by his description of the girls.”
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“Courtney and Robin spent an hour or so flirting and posturing for my camera in a thoroughly enjoyable session,” he added. “I liked both for their sense of humor and deadly insightful young/old wisdom. Courtney and her father left town shortly thereafter, before I showed them the slides and proof sheets. It was 12 years before I discovered them in my files and put two and two together.” - Jon Sievert, vintag.es</i>
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So, Hank Harrison "hired" a guy to photograph his 16 year old daughter in 1981, but didn't pay for it, and apparently left before looking at the slides and the proof sheets? Sounds to me like he never even saw the pictures, or picked them up - because the photographer himself says he forgot about them for 12 years after that! So what was the purpose of these "flirty," obviously sexually infused photos where Courtney and her friend Robin Barbur are all dolled up and acting trashy and loose? The photographer even references his delight in their "flirting and posturing for my camera." What happened here that WASN'T captured on camera?
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<i>"…a young Courtney Love arrived in Liverpool in 1982…was just 17 when she travelled to Merseyside with her friend Robin [Barbur?]…She had been invited by The Teardrop Explodes front man Julian Cope to stay in a house Devonshire Road in Toxteth, which was in some ways an epicentre for Liverpool's thriving 1980s music scene, after hooking up with the band at a gig in London and jumping on their tour bus home…Courtney would later describe the few months she spent living in Liverpool as the place where she learned "to be a rock and roll star”….Just how long she stayed in the city and what exactly happened when Courtney came to Liverpool is the subject of a new book by writer and DJ David Haslam, called Searching for Love." - www.liverpoolecho.co.uk</i>
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Is Liverpool where Courtney "learned to be a rock and roll star," or is it where she was TAUGHT to be a "rock and roll star?" Expected? FORCED to be a rock and roll star? She's only 17 here, what is she doing in a foreign country being tossed around band tour busses? Why does Britney Spears suddenly come to mind? Funny enough, Courtney says in the same VH1 doc referenced earlier, that she once applied for membership to the Mickey Mouse club! [where Spears started her career]
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So Courtney has this photo session where she and her friend are acting all trashy and loose - looking like some kind of underground punk goth groupie chicks that would be the wet dream of your average punk/goth/new wave musician of the day. They both end up in England the following year playing those exact roles, hanging with the exact type of dudes mentioned. Is this really the story of a couple rebellious chicks, or is this a TRAFFICKING situation, where Harrison was grooming his own daughter and her friend, for some kind of position in the rock music scene? Be it - prolific groupies, or some other role? You see how this whole "girl rock" thing can potentially represent the polar opposite of what many percieve it to be? What about the Runaways? What's the real story there?
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Regarding Courtney's "allowance," although $500 a month could buy alot more in the early 80s than it could today, doesn't sound like an absurd amount. But it certainly could pay rent for a nice 1 bedroom in a middle class American neighborhood [and probably in England as well]. Not many people have income to pay their own rent before hitting 18, and then well into adulthood! Here's what Harrison said about this money situation...
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"I used to manage the Grateful Dead, and this girl who’s an old Dead Head came up and said “hey are you Courtney’s Dad? I’m her banker!” I said “does she have a lot of money?” She said, “Oh yeah! [but] I can’t talk about it.” All she said was “a lot.” So I took Courtney on a plane, trotted her down to Wells Fargo on Market and Post [San Francisco], she went into the Wells Fargo Office…[comes out of Wells Fargo] She says, “I’m really Rich. Why didn’t mom give me the money?” Well cause you're fucked up I guess? She was 15 1/2 - 16. It wasn’t a ton, it was 3 tons [3 million]. My wife, Courtney’s mother, was adopted. Her father was an Italian guy who was a lense grinder. In the second world war, Jack Risi got a contract from the US Government to do all the eyeglasses for all the sailers and the soldiers...he made a zillion dollars…and then after the war was over they all got invested and then joined the Bohemian Club and they all got invested in various endeavors. And the next thing you know Jack has a chain of eyeglasses stores. High class, and it’s called Ferrari and Risi. And Milton Ferarri was the salesman in front and Jack was the lense grinder in back. But they were making a huge amount of money…then when dad died, Linda got to inherit the money, [but] they didn’t wanna pay taxes on it so they gave it to Courtney, put it in Courtney’s name. Courtney was about 1 when Jack died. - alternative air</i>
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from youtube user scarycoyote:
Hank Harrison Interview 2.1.20
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<i>"...after all the court cases and the divorce…forcing me to give up custody, because they had the money in her name - a couple of million dollars…that had been transferred to Courtney’s name to avoid income taxes. They were afraid that I was gonna go after the money, [but] I didn’t even know it was in her name till later!"</i>
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<i> "...the lawyers that were running the adoption…it wasn’t really an adoption it was a “take away” - they were Catholics too, they were telling Linda and Chat Risi and Ruella Risi that…Fararri and Risi is a large optician on Montgomery street in San Francisco….and the lawyers told them if they didn’t do something about me in the end…when the child was of age I could make a claim against the money because the child was in their name, cause they were using the child as a tax dodge...That money STILL isn’t gone. That money went on forever, dude. Right now, if you went down there you’d see, there’s a couple a million dollars floating around there. They’re WEALTHY people."</i>
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<i>"Carroll was the only child of Emil (Jack) Risi, a prosperous optician who used to operate out of well-appointed offices in a medical building at 444 Post Street...When her maternal grandfather died in 1970, Love became the beneficiary of a modest trust fund, long since depleted."</i>
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According to Amazon.com, Harrison released the above book in January of 2017. Unambiguisely titled: Love Kills: The Assassination of Kurt Cobain. This is obviously a reference to his own daughter [Courtney LOVE] - and her involvment in the "assassination" of her late husband, Kurt Cobain. Although I have not read the book, one only needs to refer to Harrison's many public interviews over the years to determine that he seems to know an awful lot about the circumstances surrounding Cobain's death - despite his apparent/chronic estrangement from his daughter over the years.
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Well isn't this an interesting coincidence? Linda Carroll released her latest book last year [2020] and it's called LOVE SKILLS. Take the "S" off of that 2nd word, and you have the title of Hank Harrisson's last book about their daughter's involvement in Cobain's assassination! Probably just a coincidence...
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"And all of a sudden, somebody else steps up. And that person stepping up would be Raymond Pettibon. Presenting the logo and the name." - Keith Morris, MOCAtv
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The logo for 80s American Hardcore Punk pioneers Black Flag is one of the most iconic ever created in the Punk Rock world. Appropriately, it's creator Raymond Pettibon "has subsequently become widely recognized in the fine art world for using American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, and religion to politics, sport, and sexuality."
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But neat looking as it is, what's it got to do with the name of the band and Punk Rock? What are these black lines supposed to represent?
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<i>"It is a flag, but it's 4 bars...it does suggest...waving, you know, in the wind. Or like pistons going or you know?" - Raymond Pettibon, MOCAtv</i>
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<i>Penelope Spheeris: What does Black Flag mean, the words Black Flag?
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Greg Ginn: Uh, it means Anarchy.
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- Decline of the Western Civilization</i>
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<i>Anarchist: 1: a person who believes that government and laws are not necessary...2:a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power...3:a person who believes in, advocates, or promotes anarchism or anarchy especially : one who uses violent means to overthrow the established order - Merriam Webster</i>
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"Anarchists have used the black flag as a symbol at least since the early 1880’s." - Anarchism.net
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Since Raymond Pettibon came up with the name and the logo, does this mean he was an anarchist, and that he thought the band should be used as a vehicle to promote it? This is a very reasonable question to ask, given the unambiguous meaning behind the name. There's also those infamous 80s riots, violence, and headbutting with police at their shows, which are the stuff of American Punk Rock legend these days.
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<b><i>anarchist: a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power...</i></b>
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<i>Eric Blair: "Yeah, well it just seemed like the whole Black Flag package was always like, you know, extreme music. Extreme art. An extreme message. I mean, do you think that's wrong?"
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Greg Ginn: "I don't know, I don't think of it in that kind of way...as being extreme? I think of it more..not..I don't think of it in extreme as trying to...outrage people or something, I just think of it as songs that...you know...are about things and...um, so I don't think of it in that way, I think we're...we WERE trying to go for extremes as going for as high energy as possible. And uh extremes in energy and what we...you know, put into the performance. And in that way I think the effort was always try to make it as extreme as possible that way, but not to...outrage people or just illicit reaction just for the sake of reaction...We got alot of that, but not intentionally." - Blairing Out</i>
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<b>Anarchist: one who uses violent means to overthrow the established order - Merriam Webster</b>
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Henry Rollins was known for getting violent with Black Flag fans at shows, while almost naked, flexing his muscles all night, as he screamed angrily into the microphone. There are thousands of pictures and many videos proving this in graphic, sweaty detail - and in fact, is almost a point of pride in many of Henry Rollin's Black Flag "war stories" to this day. So in that sense, the band very much fed off of, and gave back plenty of "reaction for the sake of reaction." But Greg Ginn just doesn't seem to wanna acknowledge or "think of it in that kind of way" I guess?
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Anyway, I think we have established that the name of the band stands for anarchy. Greg Ginn admitted it in the film "Decline of the Western Civilization," and we have confirmation from anarchism.net that the black flag has symbolized anarchy from at least the early 1880s. This isn't an "indictment," we're just acknowledging the obvious here!
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There's no question that the BF logo looks entirely appropriate tattooed upon the arm of your typical 80s Hardcore Punk, right alongside the Misfits' skull face icon. But I find it a little odd how it is popularly referred to as "the 4 bars," even by the artist himself. Whether Raymond Pettibond intended for the symbol to have multiple meanings or not, I suppose, doesn't matter, since it serves it's purpose as a logo profoundly well. But Pettibon himself suggested other things it might represent, so let's follow his lead down that line of thinking...
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The 4 bars are actually elongated rectangles, composed of what appear to be perfectly straight lines - seperated into 2 pairs which sit on their own respective planes. Pettibon suggests they could also represent pistons. I see pillars supporting a structure...especially when we compare it to the photo of 4 pillars above, the exactness intrinsic to the image becomes more obvious. This is not some rough drawing hastily silk screened onto a canvass, or spray painted onto a wall, without concern for whether the edges are clearly defined or not. No, there is something subtly SLEEK about it. The lines are "ruler straight." Everything appears to be perfectly level, both horizontally and vertically. The arrangement of the bars suggests structure and dimension.
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Suddenly, I saw a black cube pop out at me. Why is it black? Well the "bars" are black AND the word BLACK is in the band name for starters! Why is it a cube? A flag is typically rectangular, meaning - it is wider than it is tall. But a flag waving in the wind, as allegedly depicted, reduces the width to something more resembling a square. Depth is also suggested. Square + depth [3D] = cube. We can confirm this by connecting coordinate points along the edges with straight lines. The cube is there, but the question is - was it put there intentionally? And how come nobody ever points this out? After all, it's probably one of the most popular tattoo images in the USA! Nobody ever got stoned and went, "whoa, check this out dude!" ???
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Incidentally, the earlier quote from Keith Morris was taken from an interview conducted by MOCA [The Museum of Contemprary Art], who's logo has a cube in it. If you watch the video, the entire introduction begins with a close-up on this cube. I know, "Oooooo, creepy!"
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<i>"The black cube is a giant's strength to protect Freemasonry. Used thoughtlessly, carelessly, without Masonic reason, it crushes not only him at whom it is aimed but also him who casts it." - themasonictrowel.com</i>
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The black cube is loaded with occult symbolic signifficance. Given that, as well as the anarchist/political angle, I began to wonder even more if the band was some sort of vehicle for a secret agenda. That might sound like an outrageous consideration to your typical Black Flag fan - but you cannot truly discount an avenue of inquiry, however absurd it may initially sound, unless you've actually attempted to explore it. Of course, there can sometimes be a fine line between "investigating an avenue of inquiry" and a "witch hunt." Certain things can be determined through basic common sense and logic. The key here is to remain objective, unbiased, and open to any possibilities - while eliminating the impossible whenever we can. As long as one can proceed in this manner, the truth will eventually expose itself, for better or worse.
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Many whistleblowers and scholars of the occult tell us that malevolent secret societies love to place their members exactly where you would least expect to find them - for the obvious reason that you can cause the most damage and corruption from the INSIDE. Ideally, this is accomplished without anyone even being aware of the infiltration from within. In fact, former "Vampire," Satanist, and Illuminist William Schnoebelen has stated in his lectures that one task he needed to accomplish before ascending the "next level" in the Satanic Church, was to become a Mormon!
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Now I'm not saying this means your typical punk rock "street artist" is secretly working for the Illuminati, but it is extremely easy to assume that such large minded secret societies wouldn't give 2 shits about a bunch of "nobodies" in the small early 80s punk scene, raging in stinky, dark, beer soaked Los Angeles rock clubs - which makes it an ideal place to start your nefarious "grass roots" movement covertly!
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Consider the impact of Punk Rock upon youth and society over the years - the violence, the riots, the politics, the fashion, and eventually - the MONEY - what you have is another beast that anyone seeking to maintain strict control over society would want to be holding the reigns of. Why let so much pent up rage and rebellion go to waste? Hey I got an idea, let's CREATE that very scene which drives society in the direction WE want it to go, while hiding behind carefully chosen individuals who will do our dirty work publicly!
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<i>"I got an idea of something we can do with a gun<br>
Sink, load, and fire till the empire reaps what they've sown<br>
Shoot, shoot, shoot till their minds are open<br>
Shoot, shoot till their eyes are closed<br>
Push, push, push till we get some motion<br>
Push, push till the bombs explode<br>
Yeah, yeah"
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Soundgarden, "Gun"</i>
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<i>[Black Flag in the 80s. Greg Ginn is 2nd from the right. He has always been the band leader, and primary owner of record label SST - who released BF albums as well as many others by countless bands - Soundgarden, Saint Vitus, Sonic Youth and Minutemen being just a few.] </i>
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<i>Raymond Pettibon was born Raymond Ginn. He is the younger brother of Greg Ginn, and designer of the Black Flag logo. Here he stands, apparently in front of his works, one of which depicts Che Guevarra.]</i>
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<i>"Che Guevara was a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution who went on to become a guerrilla leader in South America. Executed by the Bolivian army in 1967, he has since been regarded as a martyred hero by generations of leftists worldwide. Guevara’s image remains a prevalent icon of leftist radicalism and anti-imperialism." - History.com</i>
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<i>"A portrait of Joseph Stalin cleverly read, “I should be president of the United States.” Another, this time of Che Guevara, was headlined, "At least I still got my own good looks.” Like Picabia, Pettibon often lifted images directly out of the mainstream. His drawing of Guevara was no different than the iconic image of Guevara. Yet, by a simple juxtaposition of words with images, Pettibon morphed the image into a provocative caricature." - Brandon Freels.com</i>
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I'm not going to attempt an in-depth interpretation of Pettibon's art mentioned in the above paragraph, but references to prominent historical communist revolutionary figures within it seems consistent with the anti-capitalist, anarchist messages embedded within the Black Flag name/logo he designed so many years ago - in the sense that anarchy is a logical step towards the path of revolution, historically speaking.
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Does any of this prove Black Flag was a vehicle for some specific political agenda? No, but like Robert Plant once said, "oooooooo it makes me wonder..." Maybe there's a long winded Henry Rollins rant somewhere clearing all of this up...
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I honestly wasn't looking for cubes while researching various youtube videos on Pettibon's work, they just seem to appear out of nowhere! What am I supposed to do, pretend I didn't see it and act like it's just a coincidence? Admittedly, I only used the first 2 youtube videos that popped up in my search for source material on Pettibon here, and they both flash cubes at me - one cleary a BLACK cube. Is this like a "high art scene" thing or what?
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While reading interviews with various punk rock musicians, I came across rumors that Mike Watt, of the Minutemen, is a Freemason. Doesn't make it true, just got me wondering a bit...Anyway, the Minutemen were on Greg Ginn's SST label until their singer D Boone died tragically in 1985.
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<i>"Minutemen were civilian colonists who independently formed militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies, comprising the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They were known for being ready at a minute's notice, hence the name. Minutemen provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that enabled the colonies to respond immediately to war threats." - Wiki</i>
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I never listened much to the Minutemen, and I don't know if Mike Watt is a Freemason, but I did stumble upon the above post from Twitter, which appears to contain a very interesting exchange between himself and Raymond Pettibon.
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Perhaps I am missing the context here or maybe there's some sort of inside joke going on that I don't know about - but Watt appears to say that the one thing stitching all of his art together is "...The Illuminati. N MAKAVELLI."
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Watt uses a strange writing style that incorporates what seems to be an intentional use of improper grammer. But the statement seems clear enough. Is he serious?
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At first, I thought he misspelled "Machiavelli," an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance. Machiavelli is most famously known for his written work, "The Prince."
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<i>"He claimed that his experience and reading of history showed him that politics have always been played with deception, treachery and crime. He also notably said that a ruler who is establishing a kingdom or a republic, and is criticized for his deeds, including violence, should be excused when the intention and the result is beneficial. Machiavelli's Prince has had a mixed reaction. Some considered it a straightforward description of the evil means used by bad rulers; others read in it evil recommendations to tyrants to help them maintain their power.Even into recent times, some scholars, such as Leo Strauss, have stated that the opinion that Machiavelli was a "teacher of evil" should be taken seriously." - wiki</i>
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Being that the philosophy expressed by Machiavelli in "The Prince" resonates strongly within the later "Illuminist" philosophy for control of societies [aka The World Revolutionary Movement, a term that has also been associated with Che Guevara] - it's fair to say there is a pretty strong correspondence between Watt's apparent uttering of these 2 words within the same Tweet. However, he did say MAKAVELLI, not MACHIAVELLI.
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<i>"Tupac Amaru Shakur...born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), better known by his stage name 2Pac and, later, by his alias Makaveli...These are the last songs Shakur recorded before he was shot on September 7, 1996."</i>
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The Tupac story is obviously a whole other can of worms we can't get into right now. But Makaveli was the alias he used on his final album, curiously titled "the Don Killuminati...The 7 Day Theory."
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Raymond Pettibon then responds to Watt's statement..."The Knights o Templar. Watt's shaken many hands, buyt the Freemason ones are those tht truly matter."
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Pettibon also seems to be using some form of intentionally improper grammer, similar to Watt's. Are these fake accounts operated by the same source? Pettibon appears to non-ambuguisly suggests that Mike Watt is a Freemason, an Illuminist, or both. The Knight's Templar is a degree in Scottish Rite Freemasonry - and is probably used in any number of rituals in any number of Fraternal Orders around the world. This thing about shaking hands though...Freemasons literally have "secret handshakes" which identifies their grade or level to the "fellow traveler"[fellow Freemason]. If you watch lots of footage of politicians shaking hands, you will eventually notice a strange looking handshake once in a while. These are Freemasonic handshakes.
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"Counting all the hands I shook, now I know why you been shaking..." - Soundgarden "Slaves and Bulldozers"
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I think the take away, at least for me, is that names, words, and symbols are being invoked here, seemingly by the artists, specifically referencing malevolent secret societies in connection with the art they are creating. One can take a wild guess at what all of this may hint heavily at, but what does any of it prove? If nothing else, it certainly opens up a very legitimate avenue of inquiry to explore. Perhaps the "eccentricity" and "mystique" we often build around some of our celebrity idols has more to do with secrets they cannot reveal about their motives, than it does with their percieved "genius."
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In the book "Spray Paint the Walls" by Stevie Chick, there are 8 Black Flag band pictures. Out of all 8 pictures, Greg Ginn is the ONLY person who does what might appear to be the "Hidden Hand" pose. And he does it in 2 out of 8 of the photos. Again, does this prove anything? No, but....
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The Hidden Hand was a short lived project formed by Scott "Wino" Weinrich. Wino is best known for his role as the 2nd, and longest running singer for the band Saint Vitus. Saint Vitus released all of their official 80s recordings through Greg Ginn's SST records.
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-67600846170695580022021-08-26T23:02:00.013-07:002023-01-07T10:40:20.686-08:00Trouble in the Underground<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwe_k3rui3anIdAGiIEsdYOeSgai0CwlUrZV72opNvDBO6DMiNZg7wIrglrBU5_An2b1PkKCCw7sMxsqWw1UMN3Kkqy-gmSLIc7lSv4V3S1RlxFblrBlM0J-EPH6xxgKAdEcaaVwF6cg/s1190/robinson.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="1129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwe_k3rui3anIdAGiIEsdYOeSgai0CwlUrZV72opNvDBO6DMiNZg7wIrglrBU5_An2b1PkKCCw7sMxsqWw1UMN3Kkqy-gmSLIc7lSv4V3S1RlxFblrBlM0J-EPH6xxgKAdEcaaVwF6cg/s400/robinson.png"/></a></div>
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When multiple famous people die unexpectedly and rapidly within a relatively short period of time, it is natural to want to seek out deeper answers and get a better sense of closure on the matter. Especially when all we get are vague, politically sensationalized details from the press. But for some reason, there is a growing sentiment in cyber-culture, almost violent in its knee jerk response, that immediately shouts: "STOP THAT! DON'T ASK QUESTIONS!" Nothing says "they died in vain" better than indifference to the details and allowing others to suffer the same unexamined fate, simply because we were afraid of offending people who probably don't care as much as we do anyway.
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<b>NOTE: Some words in this blog will use alternate characters or numbers to represent letters, in order to avoid pesky Google algorithms seeking to censor information they don't like.</b>
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Eric Wagner was the original singer for legendary underground Doom Metal pioneers, Trouble. After many years and albums, he did leave the band, but continued to be active musically. One of his main projects when he died was The Skull, a band which is named after the 2nd Trouble album, and features multiple original members of that group.
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On 8.6.21, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, who's band The Obsessed was touring with The Skull, posted the following to his Instagram page:
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<i>"TEXAS!!!! I love TEXAS and am very happy to be back in the land of the free. State pride , FAIR AND SANE LAWS , and REAL PATRIOTISM are just two of the many reasons why this state rules . Big ugly will try to undermine this state with weather m0dification, v0ting fraud and diluting the core with socialist une1ected swine, BUT THEY WILL NEVER SUCCEED. Cmon Arlington Texas !!!" </i>
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About 5 days later, The Skull posted the following statement to their Facebook page:
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<i>"Hey All... Due to the ongoing and growing C0V1D situation sweeping the nation again, particularly in the South where we are currently, we, THE SKULL, have opted to put the brakes on our current tour with THE OBSESSED, who will continue on without us. We will reschedule as much as we can and tour again properly when things calm down. Thank you for understanding and please be safe out there."</i>
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According to brooklynvegan dot com, the above statement by the Skull has since been deleted from the band's page. We can only guess why, but it is interesting to note a specific contrast between Wino's statement on 8.6, compared to the Skull's comments on 8.11. I'm referring to Wino's extreme entheusiasm to be touring the south, vs The Skull's extreme hesitency, resulting in them dropping from the tour altogether.
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One confusing aspect of the Skull's statement, is that despite their obvious concerns over the "growing C0V1D situation sweeping the nation," they did not initially cancel their 8.19.21 Psycho Las Vegas date, which was scheduled to occur just over a week after breaking off from their tour with the Obsessed. If they were truly spooked for their health, why would they fly [drive?] all the way over to Las Vegas to play a show for hundreds, maybe 1000+ people, where risk could potentially be higher than smaller shows they felt were too risky to play? I'm guessing there were other factors that went into their decision to cancel the last few dates with the Obsessed.
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Note how the Skull often seems to begin their posts with "Hey All." We'll see more examples of this.
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6 days later, a Blabbermouth article headline reads:
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<b>"Former TROUBLE Singer ERIC WAGNER Hospitalized With COV1D Pneumonia"</b>
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<i>"Eric Wagner, the original singer of doom metal legends TROUBLE, has been hospitalized with COV1D pneumonia.
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The news of Wagner's battle with the disease caused by the novel c0r0navirus was shared on the Facebook page of his current band THE SKULL.
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THE SKULL wrote: "We will not be able to play Psycho Vegas this Thursday. While 3 out of 4 of us who tested positive for C0V1D are recovering nicely... Eric Wagner's bout with C0V1D has gotten worse and he was admitted to the hospital yesterday with C0V1D pneumonia. Positive thoughts and words will be helpful." - blabbermouth 8.17.21</i>
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I'm trying to figure out if the Skull's statement "3 out of 4 of us" is a reference specifically to band members, or if it includes members of their crew as well. I've seen other articles that seem to conflate these little details, more than clarify. Not sure what to make of that, but thought it was worth mentioning.
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Note that the Skull again started their message with "Hey All," which can be seen in the screen shot image above. Blabbermouth has left that out of their quote in the above article. This will be signifficent later.
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<b>"Doom Metal Legend Wino cites C0V1D related conspiracy theory while cancelling his appearance at Psycho Las Vegas" - blabbermouth 8.20.21</b>
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In other written/video blogs, I have brought up the point about how mainstream media [MSM] has weaponized this phrase "conspiracy theory." I've noted that Wikipedia has an interesting entry on this phrase, stating some believe it is used "...in order to discredit conspiratorial believers...by making them a target of ridicule." That is exactly right, and that is what Blabbermouth is doing here.
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Whether or not one agrees with Wino's statements, the article, with it's assuming headline, is clearly sending a message to readers that HE IS WRONG, and that HE IS A NUTCASE and that nobody should take him seriously. This is how Blabbermouth treats a "Doom Metal Legend?" By using their influence to cancel him out for having his own opinion that they disagree with? Let's take a look at what Wino said that triggered Blabbermouth to respond this way...
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<b><i>"Two evenings ago, I received an email from Psycho Las Vegas, wherein they informed me, and other artists, that this event would require that all people, attendees and artists, wear a mask at ALL times indoors. The exception only being while singing on stage, all non-singing musicians, band members, etc. are required to be masked during the performance. This includes drummers. Also, as soon as the performance is over, artists will be required to re-don masks in backstage, front of house, vip lounges, and common areas."</i></b>
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Wino clearly disagrees with these mask mandates, as this is one of the reasons he cancelled his appearance. Is that why Blabbermouth is calling him a conspiracy theorist?
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<i>"People should not be walking around with masks...there's no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people "feel" a little bit better and it might even block a droplet. But it's not providing the perfect protection that people THINK that it is. And often, there are unintended consequences, people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face." Dr Anthony Fauci, 60 minutes</i>
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Dr Fauci is considered the "leading infectious disease expert" in the United States. We are told he is the HIGHEST paid governmental employee in the country. Not only did he state, live on 60 minutes, that these masks we are all wearing don't work the way we think they do, he even goes the extra step to state that there are UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES for doing so! So if Blabbermouth thinks Wino is a conspiracy theorist for having a problem with a mask requirement - they must think Dr Fauci is an even BIGGER conspiracy theorist for claiming we are all wearing them for no reason!
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<b><i>"I have dug very deep when researching C0V1D-I9 not just on youtube, but in scientific publications, journals, lectures, etc. I BELIEVE THE V1RUS EXISTS, and has been weaponized as has been proven in congressional hearings where the evidence is overwhelming. Our govt (NIH) has been complicit in the financing, and shared scientific lab work creating a SARS based super c0r0naV1Rus, designed specifically for lethality and easy dissemination amongst the human population."</i></b>
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Wino capitalizes the words "I BELIEVE THE V1RUS EXISTS." What's controversial about that statement? He then states he believes it has been weaponized and that it's been proven in congressional hearings. This can actually be confirmed by anyone who cares to research it.
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In a C-SPAN video, still available as I type this, Senator Rand Paul grills Dr Fauci on his involvement with GA1N of FUNCT10N research [the process of making virµses MORE transmissable and deadly] at the lab in Wµhan. Now people may not LIKE Rand Paul, people may not LIKE what he is asking Dr Fauci, and Dr Fauci certainly doesn't like what he is being asked! - but Rand Paul is in fact a Dr himself, and if you look up everything he specifically cites in this exchange, you will find, AT THE VERY LEAST, there is an extremely compelling argument that Dr Anthony Fauci helped manufacture the V1RUS which has killed countless people and has nearly shut our country down. If people choose to be lazy, and not look this stuff up simply because they are afraid their opinion might shift to something their friends don't like, well they aren't really in a position to decide whether Wino's views are "conspiracy theory" or not, are they?
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Does Blabbermouth think that Senator Dr Rand Paul is a conspiracy theorist? There is a saying that goes, "there are no conspiracies, but there are also no coincidences..."
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<b><i>"Bi0-weapons are nothing new, but in my personal opinion pure evil. Early on in the so called PANDEM1C it was stated by the CDC that PCR tests were inaccurate in determining if one had the virus, because they are designed for individuals who already were symptomatic. The CDC quickly backtracked as it was a desirable test to cause FALSE POSITIVES. Also, the Innova rapid tests have been recalled by the FDA for also giving inaccurate results. Mainstream media did not report this, and these tests are still in use. A paper mask was also first said by the WHO and so called experts to be useless against the virus, then of course the official word was again changed."</i></b>
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, who brag about having existed for 100 years on their website, "The PCR test has been the gold standard test for diagnosing C0V1D-I9 since authorized for use in February 2020. It’s accurate and reliable."
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If PCR tests are "the gold standard," why has the CDC [Center for Disease Control] website announced they are phasing it out as of December 31, 2021?
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<i>"Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method widely used to rapidly make millions to billions of copies (complete copies or partial copies) of a specific DNA sample, allowing scientists to take a very small sample of DNA and amplify it (or a part of it) to a large enough amount to study in detail." - Wiki</i>
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<i>[Mullis died of pneumonia on August 7, 2019 at age 74]</i>
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Biochemist Kary Mullis [above] is the inventor of the PCR test. In 1983, he was awarded a Nobel Prize for it. Here is what he said about it in a lecture, which can still be found online:
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<i>"It [PCR test] allows you to take a very minuscule amount of anything, and make it measurable…it’s just a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something. That’s what it is, it doesn’t tell you that your sick it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with really was gonna hurt you or anything like that." </i>
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Does Blabbermouth think that Kary Mullis, inventor of the PCR test, winner of a nobel prize, is a conspiracy theorist for his views on this topic?
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Although it's not real easy to find, the NY Times published an article on 8.29.20 entitled "Your C0r0naV1RUS Test is Positive, maybe it shouldn't be," specifically addressing the unrealiability of the PCR tests:
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<i>"In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virµs, a review by The Times found.
Up to 90 percent of “positive cases” barely contained a trace of virµs. Viro1ogists contacted by the NYT were “stunned.”</i>
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Does Blabbermouth think the NY Times publishes conspiracy theories on this topic?
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<b><i>"My personal beliefs are: We are under the authoritarian cloak of a small cadre of unelected so called 'elite' who are beyond rich and consequently consider themselves above the common man. This virµs I believe was created as a depopulation tool, and the fear associated with it as a means to subjugate and enslave you and I, the common people.</i></b>
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<i>Hypothesis: a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. - Oxford Languages</i>
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Obviously, Wino has done his homework on this topic. Given the solid points he has made in order to arrive at the above hypotheses, Blabbermouth's characterization of him as some sort of wacko "conspiracy theorist" isn't just innocent sensationalism/exagerration. It encourages destructive ignorance among their readers.
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<b><i>"I cannot, in good conscious, perform my music in an environment that is designed to take away individuality, civil liberties and free will. I will not be performing this night at Psycho Las Vegas, not out of fear, but principle. If we, the people, continue to blindly accept this tyranny we are destined for enslavement...These are my personal views, but I urge everyone to dig deep. My apologies to my friends and fans, but it's time to wake up."</i></b>
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Whether you agree with Wino or not, he's obviously a well intended man trying to use his influence in a positive way to help others. He's standing up for what he feels to be right, in the face of what is likely a huge amount of opposition. Even putting his musical career on the line! If the people at Blabbermouth think that is a big joke, it only reflects negatively on them as an "underground" media organization.
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It is interesting to note that both The Skull and Wino cancelled their appearances at the Psycho Las Vegas festival, but for somewhat opposite reasons.
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<i>"I think that Facebook was really not a good thing, like it started out MAYBE…I watched that movie, where it was like for “college people,” I’m not so sure anymore. Facebook is a CIA’s wet dream! They know where you are, who you are, what you look like, what your kids look like, what your eating for supper, where I went on vacation…I mean come on." - Eric Wagner, Heavy Metal Horror Podcast </i>
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On 8.23.21, Blabbermouth announced that Eric Wagner had died of "C0V1D pneumonia."...
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<i>"The news of Wagner's passing was confirmed late last night by his son Luke Wagner. Luke wrote on social media: "Hey all this is Luke Wagner his oldest son. Eric Wagner has passed away."</i>
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Last I checked, Luke Wagner is not a member of the Skull. So why is he starting his message the same way the band does when they post messages? Is the same author of all the Skull's posts also the same person in charge of Luke Wagner's account?
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And who says "hey all" to begin their statement letting the world know your father, beloved by thousands of fans worldwide, just died? Try and hear this in a human voice: "Hey all, my dad died suddenly from C0V1D last night." I mean, what do you say? "Bummer bro, let's fire up a joint?" Maybe the emotion is just getting lost on the screen, but just seems like a very cold, odd way to announce such tragic news, from his son no-less.
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<i>"Unvaççinated people, like Wagner reportedly was, are more likely to be hospitalized or die from C0V1D-I9 than people who are fully vaççinated."</i>
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The article then states that Wagner was "reportedly" µnvaccina†ed. That means they really don't know if he was vaccina†ed or not! And they aren't naming the source of the information they stated as if it was "established fact." But that doesn't stop them from building upon their unconfirmed assumptions...
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<i>"Infectious disease experts have said that large-scale outbreaks among UNVAççiNA†ED people are being fueled by the highly contagious de1†a varian†."</i>
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Blabbermouth is now jumping from their unconfirmed assumption that Eric Wagner was not vaççinated, to not so subtly insinuating that his [unconfirmed] decision was responsible for his death, and that others should get vaççinated or suffer a similar fate. In short, they are using Eric Wagner's death to advertise C0V1D vaççines. But what if it turns out Wagner WAS vaççinated? Will Blabbermouth publish another article walking all of this back? Of course not! Because they have a political agenda!
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To be fair, I did find a video on youtube where Wagner was interviewed by some Brazilian fans, and they asked him how he feels about the idea of mandatory vaççinations:
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<i>"I hope they don’t do that because I really don’t wanna take it… I don’t want it. I remember my parents, every time they went to get a flu shot they were always sick, they got sick you know?…and even here you know, Pharmaceuticals are so expensive and…there’s a lady standing there wanting to give me a free flu shot! Why is it free? That’s what scares me right there. Here ya go, let’s test this out on you! No thanks, I’ll rather have the flu." </i>
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Given the above, it is reasonable to assume Wagner was not vaççinated. But until we have confirmation, isn't it a bit obnoxious to just run away with that assumed "fact" and use it to promote the vaççine and fear mongering the day Wagner's death is announced? Unfortunately, it reminds me of when TMZ announced Chris Cornell's suicide before the autopsy was even performed! And if you've read my blogs on that topic, you know that the official evidence there does NOT support suicide, but murder.
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Another band that apparently cancelled their scheduled appearance at Psycho Las Vegas was legendary Bay Area Thrash band Vio-Lence, due to Sean Killian [singer] contracting C0V1D. In fact, it appears that Killian was admitted into the hospital the same day as Eric Wagner! Blabbermouth then ran this headline on 8.23.21, the SAME DAY Wagner's death was announced:
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<b>'Anti-Vaççination' VIO-LENCE Singer SEAN KILLIAN Blasts Ex-D.R.I. Bassist HARALD OIMOEN Over 'No Sympathy' Comment </b>
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<i>"VIO-LENCE singer Sean Killian has blasted Harald Oimoen as a "coward" after the former D.R.I. bassist said that he had "no sympathy" for adults who refuse vaççination against C0V1D-I9 and then become sick."</i>
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I'm not going to get into this article in detail, but we can see that Blabbermouth is again encouraging a negative "anti-vaççine" stereotype, and using this little war between Killian and Oimoen to do it - obviously taking sides with the latter in this case. This was published the SAME DAY as the Wagner article, where they subtly criticized him for being "reportedly" unvaççinated. [The articles calling Wino a "conspiracy theorist" are obviously part of Blabbermouth's theme of "cancelling anti-vaççine people."]
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The article then goes on the state "Unvaççinated people are more likely to be hospitalized or die from C0V1D-I9 than people who are fully vaççinated." Blabbermouth then provides no specific source or studies to back the claim up. This is because Blabbermouth has been instructed to promote the vaççine, regardless of what the facts or the science says about their safety and necessity. We see this in the way they slant articles to suit their narrative, and leave out information that might contradict their assumptions. There is a distinct lack of objectivity when they are covering this topic.
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Apparently Oimoen faced much backlash for how he came down on Killian, enough that he felt compelled to issue an apology publicly:
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<i>"I don't know WTF I was thinking .... Life is way too short & fragile to even waste time on bullshit like this !! It was mean spirited & uncalled for ! There is enough schism in the world right now & I shouldn't be making it worse !"</i>
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-39720665721666088432021-08-08T18:25:00.014-07:002023-01-07T10:40:04.501-08:00The Letter that shall not be named...<p>
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The Bible is the top selling, most widely circulated book in the world last I checked. Does this mean that 100% of those readers are practicing, fanatical Christians? I've read the Christian Bible, the Satanic Bible, the Tao Te Ching, books on Freemasonry...and yet I do not identify specifically with any religion and I am not a Freemason. It would be silly to assume that everyone who reads a book on any of these topics must be a "fanatic."
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This seems like common sense to me, yet when it comes to the topic of this blog, the mainstream news media is absolutely obsessed with projecting a negative one-dimentional stereotype around 100% of the people who dare explore it on any level other than totally dismissive! Many then form negative opinions based not upon their own objective research, but instead from 2nd hand media sources who are vehemently biased. The purpose of this blog is not necesarily to "convert" anyone, but to explore and better understand the reasoning and machinations behind their fearce censorship on this particular topic. What are they trying to hide from the people and why?
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To the point of parody, MSM [mainstream media] incessently associates this image of the 1.6.21 Capital Riot "Shaman" with the topic we are about to get into. In reality, "the Shaman" is most likley an FBI informant or some other type of actor who's specific objective is to encourage an artificially manufactured stereotype, to support certain partisan political interests [see articles by Revolver News concerning 1.6.21 and also the FBI's role in the "foiled" plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer.]
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Given the increase of censorship on this topic online, I will speak in code at times to avoid using certain algorithm triggering words/phrases, to prevent the possibility of having this page taken down. If certain words look strange or are substituted with symbols such as ****, this is why.
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<b>PART I: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?</b>
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The screenshot above was taken from a mirror site of a message board we will look at in a moment. The author of the post goes by a name which is represented by a single letter of the alphabet [hint: it's after P and before R]. We find this letter near the top left of the page, within the content, and at the bottom [which functions as a signature typically on his posts]. For simplicity, let's just call this unknown poster "Mr Letter" from now on.
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Now I don't know if Mr Letter is a man, a woman, or a group of people. Nobody does actually. And yet MSM is publishing articles daily, referring to this as some sort of distinct "cult" with distinct "ideals" and distinct marching orders - when the fact is, it's just too abstract and open ended to prove such assumptions. So they must make things up and carry out false flag events to backup their narrative. Essentially, they CREATE a conspiracy theory, associate it with something they want "cancelled," then accuse their target of promoting conspiracy theories! It's genius really.
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The phrase highlighted in GREEN above is what you get when you combine the letter to the left of #1 with the phrase to the left of #2. In this post #4881 Mr Letter is pointing out how MSM uses the phrase highlighted in GREEN to misrepresent both Mr Letter and his commentators/followers - by basically claiming they are "one and the same," which they are not. That's like claiming all the people who comment on Twitter posts reflect the views of the authors of those threads or Jack Dorsey himself! If that were true and I wanted to misrepresent/make someone look bad, I could simply post a bunch of hateful/racist garbage on one of their threads and they'd be implicated by what I wrote. Does that make any sense?
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By building up this sort of FIREWALL of negativity and false information around Mr Letter's posts, MSM has created a kind of virtual "electric fence," which discourages many from getting close enough to have an objective view and to then form their own unbiased opinions. As opposed to the ones formed from the white noise shoved in their faces daily by MSM.
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It seems to me when they say, "don't look at that! It's racist! It's conspiracy theory! blah blah blah!" that usually means it reveals a little too much about how THEY are trying to control YOU. This is why they must get you chasing the noise THEY are making, rather than allowing you to refer directly to the source, when forming conclusions. You must get triggered or "zapped" into a defensive reaction by their virtual electric fence BEFORE you can get too close to information deemed "dangerous" to you by them. How thoughtful!
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So what is the signifficence of this particular letter of the alphabet, and why has Mr Letter, who has gotten MSM in ultra defensive mode, chosen it? One possibility: according to military.wikia.org, this letter designates
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<i> "a United States Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance equivalent to a United States Department of Defense Top Secret (TS) clearance and Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information (CNWDI).[1] DOE clearances apply for access specifically relating to atomic or nuclear related materials ("Restricted Data" under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954)..."</i>
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Is Mr Letter trying to tell us that he/she is some sort of insider deep within the layers of the Military Industrial Complex? Is this even an individual, or is this a group of individuals? What is the goal, and why did they communicate to the public in this manner starting on 10.28.2017? [as of the day I type this, Mr Letter has not posted since December of 2020] The best way to get answers is to LOOK AT THE POSTS, and decide for yourself!
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Above is the board where Mr Letter has posted in the past [he has not posted anything since December of 2020 as of the day I type this], and is the source of the information we looked at earlier from a mirror site. This is where anonymous users can [or could at some point in the past] sign up for an account and then add commentary anonymously. I don't have an account and I don't know how active the board still is, but when it was functioning normally, commentators could literally be anyone. This means people who don't like Mr Letter are/were also free to sign up anonymously, and say absolutely anything they want on the boards [whose moderators lean heavily towards the right to free speech, regardless of political leanings]. The mainstream media would then cherry-pick comments, maybe even from their own infiltrators/trolls, and claim these comments represent an entire movement/cult of nutcases, in order to build a misleading case against their political opponents, and even get them branded as "terrorists." You see how that works?
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They might even manufacture an event, such as the Capital Riot of 1/6/21, then refer back to cherry picked comments of anonymous users in hind-site, and sort of blame it all on Mr Letter and his "cult" of followers. Again, this blog isn't about "converting people" or promoting Mr Letter - it's about SEEING THROUGH THE MSM BIAS, and trying to reach a level of objectivity. This very process has been deliberately, and methodically mischaracterized as being politically "partisan," in order to justify fascistic behavior on the part of big-tech/MSM - who falsely represent themselves as being in alignment with the "will of the people" - when in fact they wish to dictate the "will of the people" unchallenged. This is something that should be of deep concern to ANYONE who cares about freedom of the individual. It has nothing to do with who you voted for, it's about the freedom to think and express ourselves freely! This is information warfare, and our 1st Amendment rights seems to be the target here.
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Post #1771 - Occassionally, Mr Letter will quote one of the anonymous individual posters of the board referenced earlier, in order to validate their observations. That is what we are looking at above, and it is in plain enough English. Mr Letter is about getting the truth to the people, teaching them how to dig for it, allowing them to accept or not accept it, encouraging them to go out and VERIFY information for themselves - nothing to do with discrimination, hate, violence, subversion, or control. There is no specific racial "target audience" here, and there is nothing in any of Mr Letter's posts suggesting otherwise.
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This phrase "no outside comms" is popular among decoders of Mr Letter, and seems to indicate that he will NEVER post [communicate to the public] anywhere but these boards. This is an important point, because MSM is always referring to Mr Letter in the context of all sorts of situations [sometimes involving "The Shaman" clown mentioned earlier], deliberately giving the false impression that there is some mob/cult of far right extremists inspired by Mr Letter to go commit acts of extremism, following his orders. This is complete MSM BS which, unfortunately the FB1 has been guilty of pedaling as well - suggesting they are colluding together on a massive scale [more on this later in the blog].
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<b>PART II: WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE</b>
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Taking a close look at the first 10 results of a Google query typically reveals a huge bias in one direction, which can only be the result of a carefully programmed algorithm. The word search term we are using here, is the one highlighted in green in the image near the beginning of this blog.
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Result 1: First result shows us exactly how MSM and big tech want the general public to view Mr Letter and those who read his posts. They want to reduce them to a bunch of nutcase CLOWNS, who are not to be taken seriously but are potentially dangerous and unhinged. This is because they do not want attention on the CONTENT of Mr Letter's posts. This "Shaman" guy is their perfect propaganda clown, and the fact there are 2 pictures of him within the first result tells you something about how important this silly image is to them. First result = the one Google says embodies your query the best.
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Result 2 asks the question, "what is *****," then proceeds to tell you exactly what they believe it is! Are they "asking" or "telling" here? It goes on to state that Mr Letter is all about a conspiracy theory involving "a shadowy cabal of Democratic ped0phi1e5." Out of 4,953 posts, the word "ped0phi1e" only appears 4 times. Doesn't sound like Mr Letter is real obsessed with this "conspiracy theory" to me, as less than 1% of his posts mention ped0phi1e5 directly. Going by the number of times the word appears "in print," a good argument could probably be made that NY Times is actually more obsessed with this topic than Mr Letter!
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<i>[Wikipedia references a Yahoo news article in their entry discussing the idea that Mr Letter inspires acts of domestic terrorism. This assumption is based upon an FB1 document included in the same article [from which the clip above was taken], which can fairly be described as a conspiracy theory in itself!]</i>
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Result 3 is the Wiki entry. They call Mr Letter a "discredited conspiracy theory." Again, that's like calling the NY Times a "crappy weather report." Yeah, they report on the weather, but there's plenty of other things they report on! It doesn't even make sense really...it goes on to state that Mr Letter and his followers think a bunch of Satanic cannabilistic ped0fi1e5 run the country. While that may very well be the case, what are they basing this upon? Because out of 4,953 posts, the word "ped0phi1e" only appears 4 times, and the word "cannibal" only appears...wait for it...ONCE! And it is in reference to a real website that is STILL up last I checked, for what appears to be a restraunt serving human meat! Is it a joke? I don't know, go look it up and decide for yourself. Just don't talk about it or you'll be branded a nutcase far right extremist! Now ask yourself, who does this witchunt mentality really protect?
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The most serious accusations directed towards Mr Letter's "cult" is that they are anti-semetic and domestic terrorists. Let's address the former assumption first:
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A search query on Mr Letter's board for the word "Jew" brings up 8 results out of 4953 posts. Out of those 8 results, 4 contain words that simply have the word "Jew" in it [mainly the word "jewelry"]. So that leaves 4 posts out of 4953 that actualy reference Jews directly by name. Let's take a quick look at these 4 entries to see if they display any obvious promotion of anti-semetism...
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Post #940 references the Nazi SA [Brownshirts], and compares their "violent intimidation" tactics to those of Antifa's, more recently. Let's face it, you'd have to be totally blind not to have witnessed all of the mayhem and destruction caused by Antifa in the past year and a half [examples: Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) and Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)] There is nothing "anti-semetic" about the Mr Letter post in question here!
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<i>[Domestic Terrorism, as defined at fbi.g0v.]</i>
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As far as Mr Letter equating Antifa with Hitler's Brownshirts - hijacking 6 city blocks for nearly a month is not an act of "anti-fascism" or an act of constitutional protest aimed at "racial equality." This was one of many massive acts of intimidation and chaos resulting in destruction and violence for political aims which seem to be more about total anarchy and insurrection than anything else in practice! Mr Letter's comparison seems a lot more accurate and sober than MSM's typical characterization of them as a "myth" or "peaceful protesters." BTW - www dot antifa dot com re-directs to the White House website as of the day I type this. Before Biden was elected, the same Antifa website address re-directed to Joe Biden's campaign page. Am I losing my mind here, or does that suggest there is a connection between Antifa and the Biden Administration???
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Post #2386 links articles that are attempting to connect a wave of far right anti-semetic extremists with †rµmp, as if he is inspiring it all deliberately. The post itself has nothing to do with encouraging anti-semetism, it's merely illustrating how MSM seems obsessed with projecting racism onto their political enemies.
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Post #1945 links an article where Bill Maher [who has since become increasingly critical of the left] and CIA director John Brennan are talking about how †rµmp is a "traitor." Again, nothing in the post promoting anti-semetism.
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Post #526 features a link to the Wiki entry for Marc Mezvinsky, who is married to Chelsea Clinton. Marc's father [who's name does not seem to appear in the wiki entry] is Edward Medvinsky. Although his name does not appear on his son's wiki page, he does have a wiki entry himself, where his son is desceetly listed in the "personal details" column. On that wiki page, it states that "In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 felony charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud." [hmm, I wonder why his name doesn't appear on his son's wiki page?] Again, nothing anti-semetic, just pointing out that Chelsea is married to the son of a convicted criminal, who happens to be Jewish!
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This presumption held by MSM and the FBI that Mr Letter is inspiring "anti-semetism," seems to be based soley upon the actions of a few violent unhinged individuals who allegedly made references to Mr Letter at some point during interrogation. Following that logic, I am sure just about any domestic political/racial group could be just as easily targeted as "extremist." What makes this so alarming, is that plenty of domestic terrorist activities are being carried out in full view of the public, but unless MSM can characterize these activities as being carried out by "white supremacists," they refuse to call it anything but "peaceful protest," if they aren't ignoring it completely!
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Now that we've pretty much "debunked" the idea that Mr Letter is encouraging anti-semetic extremism, what about this idea that he is inspiring domestic acts of terrorism?
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We already talked about this Shaman guy, and noted that he was in the first result that came up when we did the Google search query. We know, according to recent articles published by Revolver News [which is run by a Jewish man, I might ad] that FB1 informants [and "unindicted conspirators"] were present at the Capital "insurrection" of 1.6.21 [where NOBODY has been charged with insurrection, as of the day I type this], and that the only murder that occured there was carried out by a capital officer against an unarmed woman. We also know that a domestic terrorist by the name of John Sullivan [aka Jaydan X - one time BLM member] was paid to pretend he was a †rµmp supporter and film Ashli Babbit getting murdered! Yet somehow, this fake Shaman guy and the "cult" he supposedly represents is supposed to embody the biggest threat that day.
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Getting back to our search query...Result 4 has the BBC speaking about Mr Letter and his cult of followers as if they are some spooky bunch of conspiracy theorists who need to be censored by big tech for the safety of the world! Last I checked, Joe Biden wants to send someone to my house and demand I let them inject my arm with an experimental "jab" that is not yet FDA approved, or I will lose my freedoms as an American. But you know, the wacky "conspiracy theorists" are the REAL threat here!
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Result 5 is from Wall Street Journal, who somehow "independently" arrives at the same deceptive conclusions as BBC and other news outlets. Funny how these news organizations are all basically saying in unison, "oh no, no satanic P∑do$ here! Only crazy people would even suggest it!" What does that sort of reaction indicate to you? Think about this next time someone like Senator Tony Navarrete is arrested on multiple charges of sexual conduct with a minor...
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Result 6 comes from NBC news, and features an article by Mike Rothschild - an author/journalist who has made a career out of misrepresenting Mr Letter, and even wrote a book which I imagine is soley dedicated to enforcing all of the disinformation we've been covering. Interesting last name, would not be surprised if he was related to the powerful Rothschild family...
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Result 7 is more from the 1.6.20 clown/Shaman BS...
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Result number 8 tells the story of a guy who was obsessed with "P¡zzªga†e" and showed up to a restraunt with the intent of shooting some P∑do$, only to discover he was wrong about the whole thing. Apparently, the guy mentioned Mr Letter at some point to the FB1, when questioned. This is one of the stories that the FB1 cites as part of THEIR conspiracy theory, that Mr Letter and his cult of followers are violent extremists and are a danger to society.
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Result 9 is more stereotype enforcing propaganda, totally one-sided, does not bother to dive into the extensive content of the actual posts of Mr Letter at all - instead opting to talk about how crazy his "followers" are.
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Result 10 is more redundant anti-Mr Letter propaganda, targeted towards people too lazy to look into Mr Letter's posts and decide for themselves.
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<b>PART III: JOE BIDEN'S CONSPIRACY THEORY</b>
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<i>"Are there people in the Republican party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?" - Joe Biden, to a reporter 7.23.21</i>
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The question was "are there people in the Democratic party who want to defund the police?" Joe Biden answers this with another question: "Are there people in the Republican party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?"
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In his obviously comprimised state of mind, Biden offers up information which was not asked for by the reporter - opening up a disturbing window into his thoughts. It's kind of like when the mom walks in the door and the child says "I didn't eat any cookies from the jar!" Guilty people who are nervous often incriminate themselves through "freudian slips." But let's entertain Biden's question for a minute, and ask Mr Letter what he thinks. After all, he is supposed to be the source of all of this malarkey right?
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The words "suck" and "sucking" do not bring up any results on Mr Letter's board, but the word "blood" brings up 27 results, out of 4953 posts. Out of these 27 posts, most are innocuous biblical references or are contained within the context of bloodlines, as-in family connections. Others are clearly unrelated to our topic. 5 entries make reference to the creepy phrase "The Bl00dy W0nderland." So far, I am not seeing any obvious confirmation of this "conspiracy theory" Joe Biden seems to think Republicans are all accusing Democrats of, but let's look a little closer at this phrase and the posts it is embedded into.
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A Google search query using the phrase "The Bl00dy W0nderland" [spelled out using the correct characters of course] brings up a page of results on this strange "Chronicles of Blood" book series, which utilizes an "Alice in Wonderland" theme [apparently this is a genre in the world of fiction] The author goes by Crea Reitan [which sounds like a play on the word "Cretin" - meaning: "a stupid person."] The last in this series is called "Bl00dy W0nderland," which came out in October of 2020, well after Mr Letter's post making reference to the phrase. But notice 2 things here: The reference to Alice in Wonderland, and the fact that the cartoon depiction of author Crea Reitan resembles a cartoon rendering of a younger Hillary Clinton. This will become signifficant in the next sections.
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Mr Letter's post #86 has a direct link to an Amazon page featuring a book strangely titled "Hillary Clinton in Wonderland." I have not read it, but from the [mostly bad] reviews it seems to be a retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story, replacing the character of "Alice" with "Hillary Clinton." Some quotes attributed to her are also included at the end of the book. I don't know what to make of this, but everything from the title, to the author [Hillary Clinton Fan Club?], to the reviews, to the price, to the content - something just seems very off about it all. My guess is, it's some sort of code intended for a very specific audience. Blood sucking Democrats perhaps? Some sort of mind control programming?
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While the entire first page of Google results for search query "Bl00dy W0nderland" brings up results for the Chronicles of Blood series, a query on Duckduckgo brings up very different results [image above]. The first 2 results include an article from Journal-neo.org, which calls Saudi Arabia The Bl00dy W0nderland, referencing the demented and brutal routine executions/beheadings which occured there in 2016 and the years leading up. The article is critical of the Saudi's brutal interpretations of Sharia Law and how they seem to mold it fit their political aims where convenient.
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So what does this all mean? Well, if we refer back to Mr Letter's posts on "Bl00dy W0nderland" above, he mentions Hillary Clinton, Saudi Arabia, and references Alice in Wonderland all in the same entry. What's the connection? It seems this is the question Mr Letter wants us to ask, and go research. What will we find at the bottom of this rabbit hole? Probably something very unsettling, maybe worse. But at this point, we don't have anything speaking directly about, or even seeming to obviously refer to Democrats who suck the blood out of children. Maybe Joe Biden already looked into this and that's what HE found? It seems in this situation, HE is the nutcase spreading morbid conspiracy theories...
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<i>[Photo, taken by Lewis Carroll]</i>
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<i>[Portrait by Lewis Carroll]</i>
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Before closing this out, I did want to briefly go a little more into this whole "Alice in Wonderland" thing, because who knows? It might end up being applicable to Biden's conspiracy theory.
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If he's sniffing around for clues, he might want to look into Lewis Carroll, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Carroll's real name was Charles Dodgson. According to Wikipedia, "Some late twentieth-century biographers have suggested that Dodgson's interest in children had an erotic element, including Morton N. Cohen in his Lewis Carroll: A Biography (1995)
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<i>"We cannot know to what extent sexual urges lay behind Charles's preference for drawing and photographing children in the nude. He contended the preference was entirely aesthetic. But given his emotional attachment to children as well as his aesthetic appreciation of their forms, his assertion that his interest was strictly artistic is naïve. He probably felt more than he dared acknowledge, even to himself."</i>
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Yes, that's right. The creator of Alice in Wonderland took nude photographs of children for many years, according to Wikipedia. "just over half of his surviving work depicts young girls, though about 60% of his original photographic portfolio is now missing...At least four complete volumes and around seven pages of text are missing from Dodgson's 13 diaries. The loss of the volumes remains unexplained; the pages have been removed by an unknown hand...A popular explanation for one missing page (27 June 1863) is that it might have been torn out to conceal a proposal of marriage on that day by Dodgson to the 11-year-old Alice Liddell. " Alice Liddell is the little girl in the black and white photo above.
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You might also be interested in my blog<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2022/06/mr-letter-on-mk-ultra.html">"Mr Letter on MK Ultra."</a>
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Joe Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667929388430105704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172192832250046079.post-45724200868984013232021-06-10T23:27:00.017-07:002023-05-22T01:49:15.687-07:00The Death of Royce J Robertson [P2]<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KgN5NVjzgDJtha2LWH5nKODG-_4emm2S1pV5kmzdvDkQBRoy_4rm_yNPtvKznW9X3QF4qaE_xUA9CnoFhmcDV2xFEbjz4b0dAWA_vH_jsqYNa81eay4-6u5gFXGmPhXzI2qsRcusNw/s1678/Screen+Shot+2021-04-21+at+10.04.00+PM.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="600" data-original-height="1225" data-original-width="1678" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KgN5NVjzgDJtha2LWH5nKODG-_4emm2S1pV5kmzdvDkQBRoy_4rm_yNPtvKznW9X3QF4qaE_xUA9CnoFhmcDV2xFEbjz4b0dAWA_vH_jsqYNa81eay4-6u5gFXGmPhXzI2qsRcusNw/s600/Screen+Shot+2021-04-21+at+10.04.00+PM.png"/></a></div>
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<i> "We all loved him because he didn’t do anything but love others," said Jennifer Goodson, a friend of Robertson's.
Later on, people walked across the street where a podium and chairs were set up. Several people shared some of their fondest memories of Robertson, while others simply talked about the person he was. Many spoke on the love Robertson had for the community.
"Royce was pure love," said Goodson. -https://kesq.com/</i>
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Why did <h1>Royce Robertson</h1> "pillar of the Joshua Tree Community," prolific entrepreneur, tireless contributor to local culture, and overall beloved/respected human being - decide to throw it all away in a moment of suicidal insanity?
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NOTE: The person Royce Robertson allegedly interacted with/threatened before fleeing to the Country Club where he was shot by officers, may be referred to as "the 911 caller" or "the victim" or "the other driver" at various points in this blog. I just wanted to make this clear in order to head off any confusion where these terms are used interchangeably. The same person is being referenced when these terms are used.
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<b>RIVERSIDE COUNTY VIDEO PRESENTATION RELEASED 4.1.21</b>
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My first blog on this topic drew upon publicly available information from various localized media sources, including a detailed video statement from Sheriff Bianco. Riverside County Sheriff's department has since released a video presentation, also narrated by Sheriff Bianco. It includes exerpts from a 911 caller as well as police body cam footage. We will now compare this newer information with the material covered in my first blog on this topic, which I obviously encourage everyone to read.
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<i>"...she received a text message that morning from her brother advising he was heading to her home in Rancho Mirage after running an errand at a bank." - Palm Springs Desert Sun</i>
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The above quote is all we know regarding where Mr Robertson was going at 7AM in the morning about 50 miles from home, driving what appeared to be a recently purchased high end Mercedes with Arizona dealer plates [which we were last told could not be traced to a specific dealer]. We don't know what errand he needed to run at the bank [which would not have been open yet], we don't know why he was going to his sister's house, and we don't know where he was coming from. According to the Sheriff's department, he did end up at a bank - but the only errand he seemed to be running was threatening a random stranger in the parking lot!
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I attempted to obtain official documents directly from the Riverside County Sheriff records department in order to get clarification on some of these details, but apparently this is all still under investigation as I type. So it seems they will not be releasing any additional information until this process is concluded. Still, I think it is useful to take a "snap shot" of where things are in real time, as this approach can reveal changes in narratives [or solidify them] as more details are slowly rolled out. I was however given names of 2 officers allegedly involved in the shooting, and they are Deputy Michael Doyle and Deputy Garret Judge.
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<i>[Image taken from the video, depicting how Mr Robertson's car allegedly blocked the "victim's" car, just before threatening him with a gun - which we now know was an "air pistol" or "BB Gun."]</i>
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The police body-cam footage seems to have been released to the public on April 1st, 2021 [interesting date] via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkU1WOze6fs. It was edited and included in a 5+ minute feature produced by the Riverside County Sheriff's department. If you watch the video, keep in mind that the narrator did not personally witness any of this [outside the body cam footage] as far as we know. Also keep in mind - everything that happened before police responded to the 911 call is entirely based upon the account of 1 unknown person we know absolutely nothing about. If there were any witnesses to the alleged threats Mr Robertson made to the unknown 911 caller, they have not been revealed.
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<i> “On Monday February 15th, 2021 at 7:25 am, the Riverside County Sheriff’s dept received a call regarding an assault with a deadly weapon in the area of Simon drive and hwy 111 in the City of La Quinta. Dispatch received information that an adult male driving a black Mercedes had pointed a handgun and made threatening statements toward the driver of another vehicle,…Investigators later learned that the suspect identified as Royce Javan Robertson stopped his car on the roadway in front of the victim’s car. Robertson exited his car while holding a gun and walked over to the victim who was still seated in his car. Robertson pointed his gun at the victim and yelled “do you want to die today?” After a short confrontation, Robertson got back into his car and drove away." - from the Riverside County Sheriff's Dept video presentation</i>
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In the first blog, we noted that Sheriff Bianco provided 2 slightly different versions of this story to the public. The above narrative corresponds more or less with his "version #1." But let's review a direct quote from "version #2" [my remarks in brackets]:
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<i>"the ORIGINAL [first] encounter was near the intersection of Simon and 111 [edit] in La Quinta. [edit]The victim of that exchange ended up pulling into a parking lot to get away from that other driver, but he [Robertson] FOLLOWED HIM INTO A PARKING LOT and then that was where the [2nd] exchange happened…[edit] I don’t wanna call it a road rage but there was something, there were words exchanged between the 2 drivers, yes. [edit] The first exchange [outside the parking lot] he went back to the victim’s vehicle, had the handgun in his hand, beat on the window with the handgun, yelled at him, asked him if he wanted to die" </i>
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Now notice that the newly released video presentation does not acknowledge the initial encounter between the 2 men which caused the "victim" to flee into a parking lot. If there was already a "victim" at that point, it means Mr Robertson already threatened or harmed the other driver in some way. If the victim had to flee into a parking lot to get away from him, it means the incident in the parking lot was the 2nd of 2 exchanges between the 2 men. Version #2 also says that "there were words exchanged between the 2 drivers." If that is true, why don't we know what the "victim" said to Mr Robertson during their 2 encounters? This information could give more insight into the circumstances surrounding the initial incident between the 2 drivers - which has not been clearly explained yet.
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I think it is important to note that all of the details the public are getting from the media and the Sheriff's department with regard to this incident seem to be primarily concerned with demonstrating that officers were justified in shooting Mr Robertson. While it's understandable that the Sheriff department's primary concern would be demonstrating to the public that the use of deadly force was justified, it's the media's job to probe further, and help the public understand and process the circumstances leading up to the event. But it seems there are no journalists of integrity interested in doing this. I find that sad.
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If we aren't going to put any effort into trying to understand what DROVE Mr Robertson to this absurdly out of character action, we can't begin to know where to start in preventing this type of thing from happening again. By all accounts, he was not just "normal," he was full of love for other people. So what this incident has taught us so far is that it is perfectly normal for ANY person to just blow up at any time and start pointing their gun at random people for no reason! Do we WANT to understand why people do these things? Or do we just want to throw our hands up and accept this as "the new normal?"
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<b>DO YOU WANNA DIE TODAY?</b>
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This is what Mr Robertson allegedly said to the unknown 911 caller, who Sheriff Bianco quotes repeatedly - as if he witnessed it. And yet according to all accounts, NOBODY heard Mr Robertson say this except the unknown 911 caller. So when you see this quote in the news headlines, just remember that as far as we know, only 1 person heard Mr Robertson say this. A person we know nothing about and who's identity has not been revealed to the public. That's called "an anonymous source" with absolutely no credentials. Doesn't mean the person is lying, but how many other stories have we shrugged off because they came from an anonymous source with no known credentials? The fact that police investigators believed and repeated what the 911 caller claimed, does not constitute proof of any kind. If we are going to claim we are "fact based" and "evidence based" in our assumptions, we must apply it in all circumstances, not just where we "feel like" applying it! It is often the smaller details such as this that we take for granted and that today's "journalists" rarely seem at all concerned with, unless it occassionally supports their specific political agenda.
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<i>Gentleman - 1. a chivalrous, courteous, or honorable man. "he behaved like a perfect gentleman"
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2. a polite or formal way of referring to a man.
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-Oxford Dictionary</i>
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<i>"Gentleman just stuck a gun in my face" - unidentified 911 caller</i>
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If you watch and listen to the video presentation, you might notice some strange things about the alleged 911 call. The caller sounds oddly calm and unshaken. A man just shoved what he believed to be a deadly handgun in his face [which we now know was a BB gun]. He calls Mr Robertson a "gentleman" in his decidely calm 911 conversation with the operator. Does this person understand the meaning of the word?
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<i>"it’s a black Mercedes SL-60…there’s a dealer purchase plate on the back. It’s an AMG racing model." - 911 caller</i>
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I'm no expert on cars, but apparently this is a pretty expensive, rare vehicle. But the 911 caller seemed pretty familiar with it, almost as if he was some kind of Mercedes buff. For a guy who would understandably be in a state of trauma, he seemed particularly lucid. It sure would be nice to have an in depth interview with this individual. This was one of the the last people to interact with Mr Robertson before his deadly encounter, I'd say an in depth testimony is warranted. He can give an interview without his identity being revealed, if that is the issue. Who is being protected by not having him interviewed? Without pressure from the media and the public for answers, we may never get one.
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<i>"After a short confrontation, Robertson got back into his car and drove away. While deputies were responding to the location, dispatch relayed information that Robertson was traveling westbound on hwy 111. Responding deputies located Robertson’s vehicle near the intersection of Desert Horizons and hwy 111. A deputy attempted a traffic stop but Robertson would not pull over. Robertson drove past the entrance of the Desert Horizons Country Club and stopped his car just inside the gate." - from the Riverside County Sheriff Dept video presentation</i>
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The Sheriff has left out some very important details in this updated version. Compare with version #1 he gave:
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<i>"the suspect then got back in his vehicle and drove away…the victim of that call - uh called 911 and followed the driver of a black Mercedes. He called 911, deputies responded, they intercepted the driver of that vehicle just behind me here as they were pulling into …right here at the intersection and he pulled into the country club. He approached the gate, the gate was locked. He told the attendant that he needed to get through because the cops were chasing him, they opened the gate. He drove in, made an immediate U-turn, the deputies were behind him, stopped..."</i>
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According to version #1, the 911 caller FOLLOWED Mr Robertson as he fled the scene towards the Country Club. This detail is now left out in the video presentation. In version #1 Mr Robertson came to a locked gate when trying to enter the Country Club, and was let in after telling the attendent that the cops were chasing him. That entire exchange is now left out in the video presentation, where he basically just blows right past the gate without incident.
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<i>[Yellow text is mine]</i>
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The police pulled up behind Mr Robertson and attempted a "traffic stop." I think we all know what that means, and looking at the image above taken from the video presentation, it is safe to say the police were tailing closely behind the suspect - probably by mere SECONDS. Given that, Mr Robertson would not have had time to stop at the gate and convince the attendent to let him in because cops are following him. The attendent would probably have had to just INSTANTLY let him in while the cops were probably already within eye-shot. Try and picture how that all went down.
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In the first blog we noted the confusing/contradictory details contained within Sheriff Bianco's initial statements regarding this incident, where he provides a blurry double vision picture of what happened and where. He also refers to Mr Robertson in PLURAL form when explaining how he entered the Country Club lot. By omitting the initial interaction outside the Chase Bank parking lot, ommitting the fact that the 911 caller FOLLOWED Mr Robertson to the Country Club, and ommitting the interaction with the parking attendant [who would know if Mr Robertson arrived alone or not, among other things] - omitting these facts just makes the story flow much smoother and cleaner. The downside is that we may not be getting the whole truth here, but rather a version favoring the preferred narrative of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
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In the first blog, I noted that the Country Club's hours are listed as opening at 8AM, but I called them and discovered that golfers can show up as early as 7AM if they like. Mr Robertson and the cops showed up at almost exactly 7:30. So it is conceavable that he could have driven right in as stated in the video presentation. But questions remain regarding why Sheriff Bianco was initially so detailed in recounting Mr Robertson's interaction with the parking attendant, only to completely omit this interaction from the updated narrative.
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As you can see above, there is one side of the street leading in and one leading out of the country club. They are seperated by a barrier which extends 20 or so feet beyond the entrance gate as one enters. Although the lanes leading in/out of the club look very narrow in this overhead view, they are actually very wide pathways, allowing 2 cars at a time to enter through 2 seperate toll booth style lanes. This is clearer to see in the street view image.
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The above screenshot is the very first frame in the body cam footage section, showing a time stamp of 07:30:11. So Mr Robertson and the first cop arrive almost EXACTLY at 7:30.
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<b>[Click/tap on images to enlarge at the proper resolution. A new window may open. Click back to return to the blog.]</b>
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At 7:30:34 we get our first glimpse at the gate, through which both Mr Robertson and the cop likely drove through. The yellow arrow is pointing at the gate, which is in the UP position. This is where Sheriff Bianco stated in version #1 that Mr Robertson met a "locked" gate and a parking attendant. Where is this parking attendant and why is the gate still in the open position?
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The green arrow is pointing at an area a car will soon appear. Keep this in mind for later.
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The black arrow is pointing at Mr Robertson's Mercedes, which is facing the gates he just came through - as described in Sheriff Bianco's version #1, where he stated the suspect immediately made a U Turn after entering the parking lot. Why did he do this? And why isn't he trying to leave, since the gate is open? He was just fleeing the cops a moment ago, he could have just stopped his car and had his "suicide by cop" moment right there on the street. What did it matter if he died on the street or in the parking lot?
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Why isn't the cop shouting for the parking attendant to close the gate, so the suspect cannot easily flee? It is easy to overlook some of the basic oddities here when we are fixated on the inevitable shootout, but it is the job of a detective to pause and notice things like this, lest he overlooks what might prove to be vital details.
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At 7:31:16 we can now see a car has pulled up and is parked just on the other side of the gate. This is probably not a police officer. It does not appear to be a police car and Sheriff Bianco has stated that there were only 2 officers involved in the shooting. One is already inside the lot and the other is about to show up. We can also hear the officer on the scene asking about back-up, which had not yet arrived. So who is this person? In version #1, the 911 caller follows Mr Robertson as he flees the scene. Is this the 911 caller in the car? I don't know about you, but if someone stuck a gun in my face and asked me if I wanted to die a few moments ago, I would not want to be anywhere near that person, much less within direct eyesite! Perhaps this was just some random individual who drove up to play some golf, but saw the cop and did not know what to do? Or was this person there to block anyone else from coming in?
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Think about this: the cop believes a man who is ARMED AND DANGEROUS is sitting in the Mercedes. He's not going to yell at/warn the individual off in the distance to stay back from the active crime scene? What if Mr Robertson thought this was the 911 caller and just bolted at him shooting?
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Nearly a minute has passed since the cop arrived, what is Mr Robertson waiting for? Is he sitting in there trying to work up the courage to pull his "suicide by cop" move?
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At 7:31:30, almost exactly a minute and a half after the first officer arrived, a second officer appears at the gate, which is still OPEN as you can see [where the orange arrow points]. The parked car is also still sitting there, within the yellow circle, lights/motor still appear to be on. What is this person waiting for, a shootout?
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Almost exactly at the moment the 2nd cop pulls into the gateway, we hear the first officer shout for Mr Robertson to stay in his vehicle. From this angle, you can't really see if Mr Robertson is actually exiting his vehicle, and you can't see him open the door. He just sort of appears a second or 2 after the cop starts shouting. From this angle, it almost looks like his door was already open the whole time, but difficult to tell for sure. Interesting timing though. Was Mr Robertson waiting for this 2nd cop to arrive before ending his life, or did the 2nd cop's appearance simply "trigger" him? Did the yelling by the first cop "trigger" him? What TRIGGERED Royce Robertson to do all of this?
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Notice that IMMEDIATELY after the 2nd cop arrives, the gate closes! It sat there open from at least the time that the first cop arrived, all the way up to the moment the 2nd cop drove in. Who is controlling that gate? The gate did not magically know that it needed to open for Mr Robertson, then a cop car, then a second cop car, before closing! It would certainly be helpful to ask this attendant why he closed that gate at that particular moment. This person is also about to witness the shooting, along with the individual [or individuals] sitting in the car just outside the gate, as if anticipating something. Is it just me, or does this all have a "planned" feeling to it?
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Also notice the subtitles, quoting Mr Robertson as shouting "end my existence." That is NOT what he says, if you listen closely. He says "END EXISTENCE" multiple times. No matter how many times I listen back, I do not hear him say "end MY existence." Why is this significant? Because "end MY existence" means "I want to die." One reason that they may have intentionally added that word "my" in the subtitle is because it supports the "suicide by cop" theory. If push ever came to shove, they can always just say "oh, oops!." But no, he said "END EXISTENCE," which is much more disturbing in a way, because it suggests that Mr Robertson is in a state of dissassociation. End existence as a whole? Where is this man's mind at?
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<i>Dissociation is a break in how your mind handles information. You may feel disconnected from your thoughts, feelings, memories, and surroundings. It can affect your sense of identity and your perception of time. The symptoms often go away on their own. It may take hours, days, or weeks. - Webmd.com</i>
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<i>"He is not this person with a gun that was trying to shoot a cop." - Demetria Robertson, Desert Sun</i>
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I am not suggesting that Royce Robertson is not the man in the video, I am suggesting that he appears to be in an extreme altered state of mind. A state of mind that is not consistent with the pillar of the Joshua Tree community so many knew and loved. What caused this?
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While investigators are focused upon ensuring that the Riverside County Sheriff's Department is found to be justified in shooting to death a man who pulled a BB Gun on them - OUR focus should be on what caused Mr Robertson to enter into this altered state of mind. Did he have some sort of latent mental illness? Did something catastrophic happen in his life that caused him to snap? Did he have enemies?
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What is causing many people to snap in our Country? Why have mass shootings and violence been on the rise for years now? [and often carried out by individuals with questionable motives or none at all!] Typically, the news media and politicians will turn this into a political opportunity to promote the idea that guns are the problem. Even in this case, I read some comments under this video where people were suggesting that BB Guns should be banned! This may seem like a "small town" issue, but it's part of a larger MENTAL epidemic in America that we need to address and get to the bottom of.
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Click<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-justifiable-homicide-pt-iii.html">HERE</a>to read Part 3.
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Click <a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2021/02/an-untimely-loss-in-joshua-tree.html">HERE</a> to read Part 1.
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<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2019/02/chris-cornell-suicide-without-motive-pt.html">The Chris Cornell Death</a><br />
<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2016/11/occult-influences-within-star-wars.html">Star Wars and the Occult</a><br />
<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2017/05/america-land-of-plumed-serpent.html">America: Land of the Plumed Serpent</a><br />
<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2020/03/whos-watching-watchers-of-watchmen.html">THE WATCHMEN SERIES</a><br />
<a href="https://batshitcave.blogspot.com/2017/04/terror-wars-bataclan-shooting.html">Mass shooting at an Eagles of Death Metal concert</a>
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