It’s just about Thanksgiving, which of course means Christmas is breathing down our necks. Last year I was caught unaware on several occasions when friends stopped by to drop off Christmas cards and such. Every time I was in my pajamas and worst of all with nothing to offer my guests. But this year, there is no way anyone is going to catch me off guard. First off, I’ll avoid the urge to slip into my pajamas when I get home like some off-brand Howard Hughes. And as far as having something to offer, I’ve made a big batch of my rosemary nuts and stocked the fridge with beer. You too can avoid the embarrassment of being ill-prepared when guests arrive by whipping up a batch for yourself. It’ll keep for a few weeks in a nice airtight container. At least I think they’ll last a few weeks, they never last that long around here.

Roasted Rosemary Nuts

8 cups mixed raw nuts

1 stick unsalted butter

2/3 cup packed light brown sugar

1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary (if using dried rosemary, use about 1/2 tablespoon)

salt to taste

Preheat oven to 350 F

Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper, spread nuts in an even layer on each sheet. Roast nuts for 10-15 minutes- be sure to keep an eye on them, nothing worse than burned nuts! In the meantime melt the stick of butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in the brown sugar and rosemary. Make sure to stir the mixture regularly and take it off the heat if it starts to bubble too much. You want the sugar to caramelize, not burn.

When the nuts are ready, stir them into the sugar mixture. Spread the nuts onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper and sprinkle with salt. Let the nuts cool to room temperature and give them the occasional toss. When the nuts are completely cooled, they’re ready to serve or to store.

Where I Got Swine Flu From Jager...

Hey all. If it wasn’t brought to your attention, I have been on a blogging hiatus because I’m studying for my LSAT on December 6th. I guess God was smiting me because I contracted Swine Flu. My friends say it’s because I’m a pig. I say it’s because I had sex with your mother. BOOSH! Some say this is karma. Me? Well, I totally agree. Even though dystonia-girl was just looking for attention and is a big fat faker[edit:Not a faker, her symptoms were mostly mental] who turned out to have a speedy recovery. Well lah-dee-dah, your highness. Do cheerleaders just get everything? Grrr.

Well, as we all know swine flu is very serious and I’ve put a lot of thought into it. So here is my last will and testament:

I never was a rich man, basically because I have a slew of terrible habits. What little money I do have though, will go to who ever tracks down Maddox (the self proclaimed famous blogger) and kick him right in his self-serving balls. This guy is funny, sure, but his act is kind of tired and his book sucked. Know what else? He didn’t respond to my email. And I’m not just some kid whining he didn’t meet Maddox. Nope. He called out Swine Flu on his blog, and I was going to sneeze in his face and spit in his ginger ale as he requested.

To Berstreet: I’ve shaved my head and bagged the hair. Now you have costume material for years to come. You’re welcome.

To Tom Coughlin: I leave you my 16 inch retractable knight-stick. After knowing you did not go home and beat your son-in-law or your own blood who married him, I’m sending this for every Giants fan. Either you start laying down the law or I’ll fucking haunt the Meadowlands. Don’t mess with me. I’ll have NOTHING better to do. Hell, you can even use this to hit your wife. I don’t care. Just get mean again. Or I’ll have Deacon from King of Queens check your prostate with the GD thing.

To My Parents: Since I’ve prearranged my passing, I’ve deleted all the pornography from my lap top so you can strip it dry of all my writing and give it to a publisher. I’m sure they’ll either make advances on sociopath studies or at least a decent dick-joke sitcom.

To my Dog Rudy (pictured below):

Don't Laugh. He has a disorder.

Rudy, you’ve been a loyal companion for the 3 short years you’ve been alive with me. I know I’m checking out early and that’s usually the dog’s job but for your remaining years, I leave you…my femur. I decided I’m not going to be an organ donor because of the sole fact that I hate those purple bumper stickers with the pun about “Heaven knows we need them here!,” but I decided I can go to heaven missing a leg so a cute puppy can play for years with the strongest bone in the human body. Well, the 2nd strongest bone in MY body but I need the other one for Marilyn Monroe.

*high fives my attorney named Chaz*

To Brian Westbrook: You ruined my chance at playoffs in fantasy football this year for my money league and I think that’s why my body started shutting down. The fact I had Reggie Bush for 4 weeks and he didn’t crack 7 points and then he pops off for 21 while your career could be over just infuriated me. Just like when I dropped Rashard Mendenhall after the week he was benched and I did it thinking no one could grab him before the game. Well, my opponent did and he had 36 points against me. Ugh. Enough about my fantasy miscues, I feel like Ruxin with Gates from The League. Well, Brian. I leave you my frontal lobe. I’m sure you forgot math by now with all your concussions. Actually, scratch the organ donor idea. You can take all of my body parts when you need them if you just promise to drink some fucking milk once in a while and stop being made out of crackers and loose-leaf paper.

To Gally: I had to put a lot of thought into this one. I left you my toilet paper. Basically because you’re an asshole. ZING!

To LeBron James: I left you my tooth paste for you, because it’s very obvious you put your stupid foot in your stupid millionaire mouth when you said you’d be great at football. It was the next game that you sat out an entire half for banging your wrist on the rim while dunking. Now, I’m just a fan and an amateur blogger but I’m about your age so I can talk down to you…DON’T YOU THINK FOOTBALL IS A LITTLE ROUGHER THAN BASKETBALL? Douche.

To Ashton Kutcher: You get nothing. I’m just letting you know me and Patrick Swayze are going to run a fucking TRAIN on Demi Moore. That bitch must suck the blood of the innocent because she gets hotter as time goes on. Real talk.

To Levi Johnston: I’m leaving you my old bike helmet. Why? Because I’m going to be dropping a lot of pianos on your head. You suck something fierce my friend. You aren’t even funny or attractive yet you get Playgirl spreads? You’re the new K-Fed. Congrats. Taco Bell is awaiting your arrival. Scumbag.

To Business Socks from Style Points: I’m going to leave you my autographed Mickey Mantle rookie card that he signed for me as a kid. I’m also going to send you an autographed picture of myself. You might not know it, but you were the first sports blogger to pay attention to me

To Big Troph: I’m going to leave my sense of humor. God knows you guys need one over there.

To Gimp, I’m going to leave you my set of balls because you haven’t done anything man-worthy in a long time. I’m also leaving your name on Megan’s Law.com for all those 9 year olds doing mediocre things posts.

To Tila Tequila, I left you a muzzle and a dildo. If you don’t put on the muzzle just go fuck yourself. Man, last time I used that joke I had to give my dinosaur a bath. Man, could I be on any more fire?!?

It isn’t commonly known to a lot of people that I have OCD. Like Howard Hughes, I saved all my urine. I also didn’t do many drugs. So I am leaving all my pee bottles to the following: Tim Lincecum, Shawne Merriman, Michael Phelps, Dwayne Bowe, Sean Sherk, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Lattimer from The Program, my uncle Ray, former President Bush and fetish porn directors.

And lastly, my girlfriend. I’ve decided that you’re coming with me. Can’t have you cheating on me when I’m in hell heaven. So I’ve left you cyanide in the tea the lawyer just offered you. You’ll be dead before you can cry. See you soon honey!

Respirando e transpirando cinema noir.

Max Reinhardt was the most tremendous and important person to have ever influenced my career and my work. - Bob Ryan provando que Reinhardt não fora apenas um dos pais do teatro moderno e do cinema alemão, mas dele também.
Sem Reinhardt não existiria Lang, Murnau, Lubitsch e outros desocupados, por consequência não existiria todo expressionismo alemão e cinema noir norte-americano. Sem Reinhardt não haveria o curso de teatro que fundou nos EUA, Ryan não teria encontrado um rumo para sua vida neste mesmo curso e todos perderíamos um ator estupendo imortalizando uma quantidade incalculável de grandes cenas do cinema, boa parte delas fazendo parte daquele mesmo cinema noir supracitado.
Mas Ryan era diferente de outros ícones noir, gente como Bogart, Ladd, Lancaster e Mitchum possuíam um tipo de aura heróica e dignidade que prevalecia mesmo nos mais profundos esgotos, Ryan não, ele ia mesmo fundo na podridão humana, se mesclamava na escória, rastejava nos dejetos e é aí que entra a influência de Reinhardt, ao abster-se da vaidade do astro de cinema para dar vazão à necessidade do ator, numa quase-versão sexy de Peter Lorre. Robert Ryan é pulp cinema em suor, sangue, penumbra, músculos, pistolas, cigarros e câncer no pulmão.

RR tem tanto filme excelente no currículo que dá impinge pensar em fazer um top de sua filmografia.

1- Meu Ódio Será Tua Herança (The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

2- Cinzas que Queimam (On Dangerous Ground, Nicholas Ray/Ida Lupino, 1952)

3- Punhos de Campeão (The Set-Up, Robert Wise, 1949)

4- A Quadrilha Maldita (Day of the Outlaw, André De Toth, 1959)

5- Casa de Bambu (House of Bamboo, Samuel Fuller, 1955)

6- Homens em Fúria (Odds Against Tomorrow, Robert Wise, 1959)

7 -O Preço de um Homem (The Naked Spur, Anthony Mann, 1953)

8- Rancor (Crossfire, Edward Dmytryk, 1947)

9- O Menino dos Cabelos Verdes (The Boy With Green Hair, Joseph Losey, 1948)

10- O Homem que Surgiu de Repente (La Course du Lièvre à Travers les Champs, René Clement, 1972)

11- Ato de Violência (Act of Violence, Fred Zinnemann, 1948)

12- Os Que Sabem Morrer (Men in War, Anthony Mann, 1957)

Nem só de sombras viveu um dos maiores motherfuckers do cinema, mais do que noir, Robert Ryan exalava testosterona. Desde os anos 40 Mr Ryan poderia entrar em qualquer antologia de cinema-de-macho, o homem trabalhou com Peckinpah, Fuller, Aldrich, Walsh, Boetticher, Winner, Frankenheimer, Anthony Mann, John Flynn e Sturges – ele também trabalhou com o resto da galera sem talento do outro lado como Lang, Tourneur, Losey, Ray, Ophuls, Lupino, Renoir, mas isso não tem a mínima importância. O que quero mesmo dizer é que o senhor Ryan tem todo direito de estar naquele seleto hall onde estão inclusos Clint Eastwood e Charles Bronson, com a diferença que Bob Ryan já era motherfucker antes que esse povo tivesse sonhado em ser tal coisa.
Apesar de RR ter sido separado de seu siamês Sterling Hayden logo após o nascimento, dessa galera macho-pra-dedéu o único ator páreo para ele no cinema americano era Lee Marvin – foram dois dos mais intensos, versáteis e talentosos atores evindeciados no pós-guerra – vai ver por isso fizeram quatro filmes juntos e Bloody Sam queria Marvin ao lado dele no Wild Bunch, em vez disso Marvin foi cantar com o Eastwood naquele outro filme… A verdade é que o duo Marvin-Ryan formam uma espécie de objeto transitório de anti-heróis com testosterona acima da média entre a geração Cagney-Bogart para o ciclo Eastwood-Bronson.

Eu sei que meus bíceps são irresistíveis, mas tenha respeito, Bronson!

Top “resto”:

13- Coração Prisioneiro (Caught, Max Ophüls/Robert Aldrich, 1949)
14- Só a Muher Peca (Clash by Night, Fritz Lang, 1952)
15- Os Doze Condenados (The Dirty Dozen, Robert Aldrich, 1967)
16- A Mulher Desejada (The Woman on the Beach, Jean Renoir, 1947)
17- O Mais Longo dos Dias (The Longest Day, Ken Annakin/Andrew Marton/Bernhard Wicki, 1962)
18- A Quadrilha (The Outfit, John Flynn, 1973)
19- Expresso Para Berlim (Berlin Express, Jacques Tourneur, 1948)
20- Billy Budd – O Vingador dos Mares (Peter Ustinov, 1962)
21- Rastros do Inferno (Inferno, Roy Ward Baker, 1953)
22- Conspiração do Silêncio (Bad Day at Black Rock, John Sturges, 1955)
23- The Iceman Cometh (John Frankenheimer, 1973)
24- Rei dos Reis (King of Kings, Nicholas Ray, 1961)
25- Uma Batalha no Inferno (Battle of the Bulge, Ken Annakin, 1965)
26- Os Profissionais (The Professionals, Richard Brooks, 1966)
27- Nas Garras da Ambição (The Tall Men, Raoul Walsh, 1955)
28- O Pequeno Rincão de Deus (God’s Little Acre, Anthony Mann, 1958)
29- A Batalha de Anzio (Lo Sbarco di Anzio, Duilio Coletti/Edward Dmytryk, 1968)
30- À Borda da Morte (The Proud Ones, Robert D. Webb, 1956)
31- Os Bravos Não se Rendem (Custer of the West, Robert Siodmak, 1967)
32- A Hora da Pistola (Hour of the Gun, John Sturges, 1967)
33- A Estrada Dos Homens Sem Lei (The Racket, John Cromwell/Nicholas Ray/Mel Ferrer, 1951)
34- Alma Sem Pudor (Born to Be Bad, Nicholas Ray, 1950)35- Mulheres de Ninguém (Tender Comrade, Edward Dmytryk, 1943)
36- Império do Pavor (Horizons West, Budd Boetticher, 1952)
37- O Assassinato de um Presidente (Executive Action, David Miller, 1973)
38- De Volta da Eternidade (Back from Eternity, John Farrow, 1956)
39- Escravo de Si Mesmo (Beware, My Lovely, Harry Horner, 1952)
40- Lonelyhearts (Vincent J. Donehue, 1958)
41- Tudo Por Ti (The Sky’s the Limit, Edward H. Griffith, 1943)
42- A Guerra Secreta (The Dirty Game, Christian-Jaque/Klingler/Lizzani/Terence Young, 1965)
43- O Homem da Lei (Lawman, Michael Winner, 1971)
44- Cidade Abaixo do Mar (City Beneath of Sea, Budd Boetticher, 1953)
45- Selvas Indomáveis (Escape to Burma, Allan Dwan, 1955)
46- O Melhor dos Homens Maus (The Best of the Badmen, William D. Russell, 1951)
47- Cada Vida… Seu Destino (The Secret Fury, Mel Ferrer, 1950)
48- Caçada ao Pistoleiro Escondido (Un Minuto per Pregare un Instante per Morire, Giraldi, 1968)
49- Horizonte de Glórias (Flying Leathernecks, Nicholas Ray, 1951)
50- A Volta dos Homens Maus (Return of the Bad Men, Ray Enright, 1948)
51- Capitão Nemo e a Cidade Submarina (Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, J. Hill, 1969)
52- Bombardeio (Bombardier, Richard Wallace/Lambert Hillyer, 1943)
53- Sem Deus e Sem Lei/O Passo do Ódio (Trail Street, Ray Enright, 1947)
54- Os Homens da sua Vida (Her Twelve Men, Robert Z. Leonard, 1954)
55- Marine Raiders (Harold D. Schuster, 1944)
56- Nuvens de Tempestade (The Woman on Pier 13/I Married a Communist, R. Stevenson, 1949)

Nota 1: Ninguém chuta a bunda de Deke Thornton, mas se não fosse pelo final, On Dangerous Ground seria talvez o primeiro dessa lista. O filme de  Ray sofreu exatamente a mesma coisa que The Magnificent Ambersons na década anterior, onde o final original foi refeito porque o estúdio assim quis e apesar do final imposto não ser uma tragédia, a situação original desejada por Ray era amplamente superior. Robert Ryan foi queridinho dos filmes B durante o reinado de terror de Howard Hughes na RKO, um bom motivo para que ele e Nicholas Ray se tornassem tão unidos no período, trabalhando juntos em quatro filmes seguidos (mais tarde tiveram um quinto filho temporão) – enquanto Hughes entrava de cabeça no macartismo, Ryan e Ray batiam o pé como notórios liberais, o que gerou todo aquele entrevero com John Wayne durante as filmagens de Flying Leathernecks, um filme cujo conteúdo belicista e de direita nada tinha a ver com suas visões.

Nota 2: Só as participações com no mínimo uma fala entraram no top, filme com participação ínfima deixei de fora, como é o caso de sua estréia em O Castelo Sinistro (The Ghost Breakers, George Marshall, 1940) onde fez figuração carregando uma maca (é, eu reconheço alguém com dois segundos em cena e praticamente de costas)Nota 2: O maior choque que tive seguindo a carreira de Ryan foi quando assisti O Pequeno Rincão de Deus (God’s Little Acre, Anthony Mann, 1958) foi alí que me dei conta que estava diante de um dos maiores atores do mundo. Quando vi a cena em que sua personagem resolve raptar um albino não sabia se gritava, gargalhava ou chorava de emoção por estar diante de um gênio em sua arte. Mann havia começado essa tranformação de Ryan em Zé Buscapé já em O Preço de um Homem (The Naked Spur, 1953), onde em meio a uma atmosfera leoniana Ryan praticamente cria o pai do Tuco de Três Homens em Conflito.

Nota 3: O top é por qualidade geral dos filmes, mas se fosse eleger as 12 melhores atuações de RR, seriam estas: Odds Against Tomorrow, Billy Budd, Caught, God’s Little Acre, Custer of the West, Clash by Night, The Iceman Cometh, The Set-Up, Born to Be Bad, The Naked Spur, Inferno e On Dangerous Ground.

Nota 4: Presumo que o “Patch Pack” tinha uma queda pelo senhor Ryan – Walsh, Ray, De Toth e Lang trabalharam com ele, o único maldito de tapa-olho com quem não trabalhou foi o John Ford.

Nota 5: É fato – Ryan tem os melhores bíceps e tenho dito. É por isso que recomendo com veemência filmes em que aparece sem camisa ou de camiseta, também por isso Ed Dmytryk disse certa vez: Bob hit like a mule.

Nota 6: A minha “fase Jeff Bridges” do último semestre me levou, por consequência, a ver alguns filmes onde Robert Ryan esteve presente. JB tem RR como ator favorito e impusionou-me a ver o porquê foi tão importante como muso inspirador, além do fato de dois dos últimos filmes com Ryan terem sido também dois dos primeiros filmes com a presença de Bridges. Só depois de ter trabalhado ao lado de Ryan, Lee Marvin e Fredric March em The Iceman Cometh (John Frankenheimer, 1973) é que JB resolveu ser ator de verdade, coisa que até então ele só levara na brincadeira, tamanho o peso que tais homens tinham em cena, algo fácil de se perceber já que Ryan e Marvin jogam ping-pong com JB naquele filme, onde o então guri fica na função de bolinha. Também pudera, The Iceman Cometh é o último momento de Ryan no cinema, o câncer em estado bastante avançado acabou tornando seu personagem ainda mais melancólico do que dramaticamente já era e presumo que nenhum outro ator de qualquer montagem da peça de Eugene O’Neill tenha sido mais efetivo durante o final do terceiro ato.

Nota 7: Robert Ryan foi o único ator que vi eclipsando James Mason. Vi Mason de igual para igual com Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers e John Gielgud, mas a única presença que esteve um degrau acima de Mason numa cena foi o Robert Ryan em Caught – *Medo. Em compensação o Nemo de Ryan não chega aos pés do de Mason.

Você é fodão, mas eu sou mais alto. mimimi

Hughes called Ryan in and said “It’s okay if you play me, I don’t want them to put some other actor in there” – Robert Parrish, então editor de Caught (Max Ophüls, 1949) sobre o fato de Howard Hughes achar que apenas Robert Ryan seria digno de interpretá-lo - como se já não fosse suficientemente estranho o patrão deixar que um personagem pouco lisongeiro fosse inspirado nele.

Nota final: Hoje comemora-se cem anos do nascimento de RR, oras.

*Da série: Este post foi programado, eu não estou aqui!

Yesterday, I went in to buy Malinda Lo’s Ash. It’s a relatively new book, or at least I thought so. After all, Lo is still doing book tours. You’d think her hardback might still be on the shelves.

Now usually it’s not my habit to purchase a new book unless it’s something I’m really excited about, and I was very, very excited about a lesbian take on Cinderella. Enough, I’m embarrassed to say, to break my previous vow on this blog to read only the stack of unread books glaring from the living room shelves.

I went into Barnes and Noble in Irvine. Probably Orange County’s most depressing chain book store; Irvine’s B&N is a the kind of dim halogen mall hole where fathers read “Rapture Ready” aloud to their children, and the latest idiocy a la “Why do Men have Nipples?” is prominently displayed.

But I was determined. I looked in sci-fi, in fiction, in YA. Nothing, until hope draining, I slogged up to the counter and asked the clerk, who said, “We do have one copy, I think.”

We returned to the YA section,but the book was still not there. “Hmm,” he said, “Let me check in the back. It might be being shipped back to the publisher.

Huh?

I was just in time, it seemed. After a few minutes, he appeared from the back room, that last copy in hand, rescued from the shredder.

“But, why were you shipping it back?” I asked.

“Got to make room for new books,” he said.

Maybe my eyes aren’t very good, but this book looked new and shiny. It had a dust free jacket and a September 2009 publication date on the inside.

And there was only one left.

I could go into all sorts of Orange County conspiracy theories, that a lesbian-themed fairy tale for teens might be targeted in a bookstore with umpteen mega churches within a ten block radius. But as Ursula Le Guin remarked in a Jan, 2008 issue of Harper’s, it’s probably more that “the stupidity of the contemporary, corporation-owned publishing company is fathomless.”

If a title that was supposed to sell a lot doesn’t “perform” within a few weeks, it gets its covers torn off—it is trashed. The corporate mentality recognizes no success that is not immediate. This week’s blockbuster must eclipse last week’s, as if there weren’t room for more than one book at a time. Hence the crass stupidity of most publishers (and, again, chain booksellers) in handling backlists.

This is far worse than any conspiracy I could dream up. If you’re a lonely adolescent living in Orange County, surrounded by squealing, dimwit fans of Twilight and questioning your sexuality, good luck. Your own vampire romances are being shipped back to the publisher by virtue not of homophobia, but lack of instantaneous profits.

But don’t worry, homophobia will always be there to limit even more of your reading options. I’m talking to you Scholastic, now that you’re in the business of blatantly censoring LGBT children’s books.

Now on to November Noir.

“I met him a corral. He had the jump but I guess hate made me fast.”

This movie killed me. Marlene Dietrich riding piggy back on a cowboy in a saloon, that crazy ballad about the legend of “Chuck-a-Luck.” Do you mean dog food or a defunct sporting goods store?

Actually the song narrates a great Johnny Guitar style piece of Western Noir, referring to a game of chance. Fritz Lang, in fact, wanted to call it “Chuck-a-Luck” but was stopped by Howard Hughes who argued that European audiences wouldn’t understand. Lang retorted that neither would they get the name “Rancho Notorious.”

This movie is insane! See it!

Jane Russell, 1943, The Outlaw, Howard Hughes

It’s hard to know what to believe with all the conflicting information out there since the Swine flu reared it’s ugly little snout back in April.  All I know is, we’ve just started the flu season, and the propaganda campaign makes me feel like we’ve got an Ebola virus on our hands.   I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer not to hemorrhage blood from my eyeballs.  Now it would be kind of fucked up of me to imagine a world free of the shitbags who come down with the Swine flu, so I’m instead going to tackle the virus itself.

We’d have one less thing to blame on the Mexicans.
• The CDC would’ve had plenty of time to focus on their Scrabble games on Facebook.  Priorities people!
We’d have one less death to wish upon Heidi and Spencer.
A whole new generation of Howard Hughes would never have been created, carrying around a Costco size bottle of Purell everywhere they go.
We could still laugh at the Japanese for wearing those facial masks everywhere.  Jokes on us I guess.
The Avian flu wouldn’t feel so neglected.
The Jews wouldn’t have the satisfaction of telling all the goyum, “We told you those pigs were bad news…”
• Parents wouldn’t be considering sending their children to school in  hazmat suits.
Employees would have one less valid excuse to not come to work.
The Republicans would have one less thing to blame Obama for.

We’ve got enough shit to worry about in this world with terrorism, cancer, and Glenn Beck.  Now we have to be afraid that we’re going to die because some asshole didn’t wash his hands after dropping a deuce?  And if that weren’t bad enough, now they’re saying there’s a shortage of the H1N1 vaccine.  Are you trying to start a fucking panic?  I mean I don’t think it’s a coincidence that pandemic sounds a lot like panic-demic.

At this point, I welcome a case of the normal, run of the mill flu, how sick is that?  It would be lovely to be living in a world where I didn’t have to fear the Swine flu causing me to be hospitalized.  Unfortunately, with seven fucking months of flu season to go, I’ve decided to reevaluate my strategy and am building my own plastic bubble to live in.  See you in May.

But one has to have dreams right?

On November 2, 1947, the largest flying boat ever constructed lifted off on its maiden flight near Long Beach, California.  Officially called the H-4 Hercules, it was built by billionaire aircraft designer (and noted eccentric) Howard Hughes, and it was immense.  The contract for three prototypes, which was awarded to Hughes in 1942 with the help of famous shipbuilder Henry Kaiser, came during wartime, when aircraft metals were scarce and mostly spoken for.  The size of the plane dictated that more abundant materials be used, so it was made almost entirely of birch wood.

The time required to design and build the prototype (partially due to Hughes’ fanatical attention to detail) meant that it was finished too late to serve in the Second World War, but it was still a very impressive aircraft.  It’s 320-foot wingspan was (and still is and probably will be in the future) the largest ever.  It’s also one of the tallest, with it’s rear stabilizer reaching nearly 80 feet skyward.

It was powered by eight 3000-horsepower Pratt and Whitney engines, the same engines powering the brand-new Convair B-36 Peacemaker.  Those engines (with a bit of jet assistance) would keep B-36’s aloft for more than a decade.

But for the H-4, just 30 seconds over the water would suffice, because that’s all the longer the flight lasted…and Howard Hughes’ labor of love would never fly again.  The public, in an attempt to ridicule this “one-flight-wonder”, called the plane the “Spruce Goose”.  Hughes loathed the name, and not just because the public got the type of wood wrong.  But it was the name that stuck.

Recommended Activity:  Visit the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum – The Spr…the H-4 Hercules is there, along with a bunch of other cool stuff.

Since the last mention in these Blawgernacle Round-ups, Jeff Breinholt of Mormon Matters has written several excellent posts. As usual, they are recommended reading.  My favorite was his post on cases that challenged the impartiality of Mormon judges or jurors.  I was extremely surprised to learn that more Mormon judges had been challenged than even Catholic judges, and that challenges to Mormon jurors are similarly common in comparison with other religions.  Jeff’s post about the Civil Rights movement at BYU garnered quite a rather extensive comment thread.  Less controversial but still quite interesting was this post about the litigators for the Church, both past and present. Jeff’s most recent post takes a look back at the infamous “Mormon will” of Howard Hughes, a holographic will that purportedly left a portion of his estate to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Adam Greenwood of Junior Ganymede writes about some of the motivations for abortion law advocates.

Finally, some of you may have heard of the passing of BYU Law professor Michael Goldsmith after a long struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease).  I actually heard the news tonight during Game 5 of the World Series between the Yankees and the Phillies.  Goldsmith was a life-long baseball fan and spurred Major League Baseball to do more to help combat the disease named after one of its most famous players.  The New York Times has a good article on Goldsmith, but I found a more personal set of memories from BYU Law alumna and blogger Gurrbonzo, complete with memorable quotes from Professor Goldsmith’s classes.

On November 2:

1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France was born.

1868  New Zealand officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally

1898  Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.

1899  The Boers began their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

1913  Burt Lancaster, American actor, was born.

1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaimed British support for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities”.

1930 Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1936 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was established.

1936  Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.

1936 The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world’s first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service.

1938 – Queen Sofia of Spain was born.

1942 At El Alamein in Egypt, the 2nd New Zealand Division opened the way for British armour, allowing the Allies to force a breakthrough and send the Axis forces into retreat.

1942  Shere Hite, American author, was born.

1947 Designer Howard Hughes made the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

1960 Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case.

1961 – K.D.(Kathryn Dawn) Lang, Canadian musician, was born.

1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

The movie that started the love fest between Scorsese and Leo.

The film centers on Hughes’ life from the late 1920s to 1947, during which time he gained success as a film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Scorsese, one of the best of all directors, has made an enormously entertaining movie about one of the most fascinating American lives but also the saddest. The production here is incredibly ambitious, Scorsese creates early Hollywood movies, stars, and the real-life airplanes. Its also very interesting to see the different types of film stock and colors he uses to reflect various periods in which the movie takes place in. This is a traditional rise and fall story that could’ve gone too many wrong ways but simply stays in the right direction.

The best thing of this movie has to be the great performances from Blanchett and DiCaprio. When playing these real-life figures sometimes actors try to go overboard with trying to act too much like the person their portraying, but these two don’t. Leo does a strongly effective job at playing Howard Hughes and creates this sympathetic character that we feel the need to like, because of all his time put into his film making and planes. Blanchett does the best job because it looks like she is just having a lot of fun, and totally captures the energy that many knew Katherine Hepburn had. The full energy of the film comes from these two performances and what makes the film fully effective and real.

Though the film was boasted with some great direction I thought that the special effects were pretty brassy and could’ve been better, especially when it came to some of the flight scenes. The film itself is 169 minutes and for about 120 I was really entertained but then there were just some really dry spots that didn’t keep me glued to the screen like many others from Scorsese.

The film may not be Scorsese’s best work but it unquestionably a very creative piece of moviemaking.

8/10=Matinee!!!

يوم الأربعاء ليلا .. مررت بذلك الممر المليء الأفلام في محل التأجير .. نفس الأسماء لم تتغير .. لا يتغير فيها شيئا ماعدا كميات الغبار عليها
شاهدت غلاف الفيلم واللي شفت غلافه مرارا وتكرارا على نفس الرف
لا أعلم ماهو سبب التجاهل .. مع انه وعلى الغلاف صورة لـ واحد من الممثلين المفضلين (جدا) عندي

انه الفتى الإيطالي الوسيم .. ليوناردو ديكابريو
أخذت الغلاف في يدي .. هل أستأجره وأشاهده اليوم ؟ .. أم أعيده يكمل تجميعه للغبار حتى ميعاد آخر ؟
بعد تفكير (( لا أعلم لم كل هذا التردد !!؟ )) أخذته معي الى البيت .. وكان هو إختياري لفيلم سهرة الأربعاء

قمت بتجهيز طقوسي الخاصة للمشاهدة عند الـ 12 فجرا
بداية وللأسف لاحظت انه الصورة مو وايدسكرين .. أعرف انها أشياء بسيطة لكن لما تتكلم عن صورة بروعة آفيتور من “كاميرا سكورسيزي” وقتها تتمنى انك تعيش التجربة الكاملة زي ما المخرج يبغاك تشوفها .. وأي شي صغير ممكن يخرب جو الفيلم عليك

وبما إني أخذت الفيلم “على البركة” وما أعرف منه الا الغلاف وماعندي أي خلفيه مسبقة عنه .. فكان ظهور إسم سكورسيزي لوحده على الشاشه كافي إنه يصدمني .. فما بالك بظهور كيت بلانشيت ؟
برأيي انه كل عناصر الفيلم الناجح موجوده بالسطر اللي فوق .. بالإضافة لوجود ديكابريو في دور البطولة

عنصر آخر في الفيلم صدمني .. انا لما أخذت الفيلم من على الرف توقعته فيلم حرب “آخر” .. ديكابريو يروح يحارب وفي آخر الفيلم يرجع لـ العاشقة اللي تنتظره
وأعتقد انه لـ هذا السبب انتظرت كل هذه السنين عشان أعطي الفيلم فرصه

Howard Hughes الفيلم يحكي القصة الحقيقية لـ
… ولا أنا كنت أعرف عنه شي أبدا !
إنصدمت جدا بهالشخصية .. ماتوقعت انه في شخص مو قادر يشوف طموحه أبدا .. لأنه أبعد من انه يقدر يشوفه
وطول حياته وهو يحاول يشوف هالحدود .. وظل إلى آخر لحظة وهو يعمل ويصنع ويدير .. ومات بدون حتى مايشوف حدود ذلك الطموح

ومهما بلغ نجاح أي شخص .. مستحيل يخلو من المشاكل والعقبات .. والكثير من السقطات
وأنا أقصد بالـ “السقطات” هو : السقوط “الفعلي” من السماء إلى الأرض

بالنسبة لي الفيلم عبارة عن التشكيله المتاكملة لعناصر الفيلم اللي أعشقها
إخراج سكورسيزي
إقتباس من شخصية ذات تأثير في التاريخ .. ومناقشة الكثير من محاورها
أعشق جدا جو الأفلام الأربعينية .. والفيلم أخذني في رحلة تاريخيه من العشرينات الى الأربعينات ومابعدها
وجود كيت بلانشيت بدور لا ينسى استحقت التمثال الذهبي عليه
وبطولة ديكابريو
واللي قدم دور لن ينساه  كل عشاق “فتى سكورسيزي المدلل”

بالتأكيد راح أحرص على إقتناء نسخة أخرى من الفيلم تكون بـ كواليتي أفضل .. الإضافه الى خلوها من التقطيعات المزعجة واللي تركت علامات إستفهام كثيرة
والفيلم يستحق وبكل جدارة عشرهـ” تي” الكاملة

10-10

دعوة لـ مشاهدة التريلر

إضافه : أعتذر عن قلة التحديثات .. مشاهدتي قليلة والإخبار شحيحه .. ووقتي ضيق جدا
أحاول جهدي بتقليل فترة الإنقطاعات

]]> http://domenk.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/history-series-vietnam/ Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:15:33 +0000 DomenK http://domenk.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/history-series-vietnam/

Good day or evening to all of you. It has been two weeks since my last blog post and the reason for the two week span was because I was absent as I was on a school trip in Bavaria, Germany, home of the Illuminati. Of course no Illuminati order was mentioned by the tourist guide, which was what I had expected beforehand. We visited the concentration camp of Dachau, upon which I felt my very soul trembling from imagining life in this and all other POW camps during the Second World War. I wasn’t as much shook by what I have seen than I was angry and emotional about it. Countless lives have been lost during the war in these camps, and we can all thank the satanic and racist occults of Bankers and other super-wealthy people. To that effect, I had the school photographer take many pictures of the camp inside, many of which I will post here. I took special interest in their propaganda material – mostly posters – that the Nazis have used. Joseph Goebbels was truly fascinating in his position as the Propaganda Minister. How much was his doing I do not know, but nevertheless all of it is incredible. It might seem odd that I am so excited about it, but I was able to see how they made the public believe everything they said, just as the general public does nowadays and have since the invention and the spreading of the television. Only that in Nazi Germany they used the national papers, radio casts, posters and so on. Still, they made tens of millions of Germans believe everything Hitler and Co. has said. Indeed, a very good act or performance can turn the opinion of the people into the other direction. It is our naïve nature, and our constant need to be lead and not need to worry about being leaders ourselves is what brings us to the downfall. We are a large flock of sheep controlled by the sociopathic and obsessed Elite.

World War II ended with a total of over eighty million civilian and military lives lost. A devastating number and a prelude to the start of Eugenics, which was widely, used during the war by Nazi Germany in various concentration camps. Their agenda was to try and find a way to enhance ones abilities in the way evolution does, however in a much faster way. I am guessing it would be used in military purposes in order to win the war. Dr. Josef Mengele was the leading scientist in this area. He was stationed in Auschwitz, where he decided who will live and who will die, gone through numerous horrifying tests and medical procedures including shock treatments, various amputations of limbs and other brutal surgeries. One of his goals was to create a prefect Nordic German. Mengele went into hiding after the war, and was allegedly reported to be seen in Brazil and other South American countries. In my honest opinion I strongly believe that he was recruited by the United States, as they took many Nazi scientists immediately after the war as prelude to the Cold-War era.

Because the people back then let the Elite get away with World War I and World War II, they were able to enter into another long and devastating era of military campaigns. The Cold War was nothing more than a cat and mouse play between the United States and the Soviet Union. Both countries spent enormous amounts of money on the war, and that is the main reason for it. I will repeat it again, as I did in the previous editions: when a country goes to war it needs huge amounts of funding, and it gets it from the Central Banks, at interest. This is how the ‘economic bubble’, inflation and great debt are created. It is estimated that the U.S spent a total of 8 trillion dollars during the Cold-War, which spanned out from 1945 to 1991. The Soviet Union allegedly used even more, and thus the fall of the nation.

The Vietnam War was therefore nothing else than a heating during the Cold-War and another series of secret agendas. The number casualties were quite high: A total of 1,700,000 military deaths, and another 4,000,000 civilian deaths! That is quite a heavy burden America! “The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. Military advisors arrived at the beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s and combat units were deployed in 1965. Involvement peaked in 1968 at the time of the Tet Offensive”. This is the official explanation of why The United States stepped in. This is, once more, a big fat lie and a pretext to why they really went to war.

As with the two World Wars, the reasons are quite similar. One is the all-so-popular monetary reason, where the country loans a huge amount of money from their Central Bank and thus creating debt. You have to understand that there is nothing more lucrative for a Central Bank than war as it is most profiting from them. Now by this debt, created during these wars, you have to understand that it is something planned for the long-run. The long run is where we are in right now. They [The Elite] have been pushing the downfall of the United States for a long time, and they have succeeded quite according to their plans, and the real effects of it shall be seen in the nearest future.

The second reason is a reason of resources. In this case drugs, not oil reserves. Huge amounts of Heroin have been transferred from the Golden Triangle to the United States during the 16 years of the Vietnam War. The Golden Triangle is an area connecting three countries: Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The route was: Golden Triangle to Taiwan to San Francisco. Heroin from the Golden Triangle was sometimes smuggled into San Francisco in the bodies of American GIs who died in battle in Vietnam. One body can hold up to 40 pounds of heroin, crammed in where the guts would be. There is a very important person to be mentioned here – crème de la crème of the Illuminati order. He was known as a Greek shipping magnate: none other than Aristotle Onassis. Was he one of the heads of the Illuminati, or was he just a middle-guy for them? Probably the first one, because the Onassis family has been a part of the thirteen head families of the Illuminati Bloodline. He was a major puppeteer, whose goals were to become very, very rich and of course the combine goals of the Order. He made an enormous fortune selling Heroin that he’s attained during the Vietnam War. His source of wealth wasn’t only drugs of course. He was, indeed, a shipping tycoon and was a sure billionaire.

Aristotle Onassis is covered with a big mystery. It ties together with the Texan Millionaire Howard Hughes who, in the 50s, made his ways towards personal gains: buying up senators, governors and lastly V.P Richard Nixon, with a loan given to his brother Donald. He was the last one Hughes was able to bribe as Onassis carried out a carefully planned event: He had Hughes kidnapped from his bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, using Hughes’ own disloyal men. A few days later, Mayor Cannon of Nevada arranged a fake “marriage” to Jean Peters, to explain Hughes’ battered and brain damaged in the scuffle, is taken to the Emerald Isle Hotel in the Bahamas, where the entire top floor has been rented for thirty days and was later dragged off to a cell on Onassis’s island, Scorpios. Onassis has there on out have a much larger power base in the U.S. – the Hughes Empire, as well as control over V.P. Nixon and other Hughes purchased politicians. Onassis had a double to replace Howard Hughes here onward for those few ‘public’ appearances that he’s [The double] made in the years after Hughes was taken hostage.

Last but not least I shall explain how the United States got involved in the Vietnam War. President Dwight D. Eisenhower saw communism as the greatest post-WWII threat, as they were afraid that communism would spread over South-East Asia and unite all of its countries. They called it the “Domino Theory”. Of course that is just a mumbo jumbo. Sure, communism was seen by the Western World as evil, but I shall disagree. I am more in favor of it than I am in favor for Capitalism. Just look what Capitalism brought us. Nothing, but pain and suffering as everyone wants a bigger share for themselves, the miss usage of poverty-stricken countries and everything centered over making profit, rather than actually making products and services that would benefit us. As everything Communism had its flaws, and they were big. However, it had good qualities: The people were united, everyone had a job, and there were no wealthy tycoons with the exception of maybe a few of its leaders.

In World War I, the U.S used the ship Lusitania as a means to get involved into the war. In World War II they provoked Japan to attack Pearl Harbor. They went in Vietnam as a pretext to eliminate and stop the spreading of communism. The official declaration came after an alleged incident involving two U.S destroyers being attacked by North-Vietnamese PT boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. This was known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident. There is one problem though, the attack on these destroyers never happened, it was a complete lie. In order for the war to last longer, the Elite – mostly David Rockefeller – funded both sides of the war. As an addition to this, a Vietnam’s Rules of Engagement has been published in 1958 with detailed instructions of what American troops were and weren’t allowed to do in the war. One of them stated “Critical strategic targets to be engaged via high approval only”. Besides all of this, the North-Vietnamese forces were informed of these limitations, and were able to form their military strategy accordingly. This is why the Vietnam War went on for so long. It was never meant to be won, just sustained.

In retrospect, the Vietnam War is quite similar to every other war the United States fought during the 20^th century. There are always hidden agendas, and there was no war that has been fought for world peace or anything of the likes. Will we stay puppets to our masters or will we wake up to the tyranny we live in? That is the big question.

This is all for today. A new History Series edition will be posted next week. Visit my site again, spread the word and be a part of the resistance.

D.K.

(Bloodlines: Oakland’s Black Manchurian Candidates)     

RONNIE FLENAUGH: The Confrontation with Huey P. Newton

In late 1970, Ronnie Flenaugh, The brother of Jedi Knight Assassin, Sebron Flenaugh, Jr., blew into Merritt Junior College, Grove Street Campus, like a storm. In a packed assembly, Flenaugh boldly taunted Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the college auditorium. The California Appellate Court had just overturned Huey’s conviction for murder on August 5, 1970. He had been released on August 13. After his release, Huey went on a college speaking tour.

Among Huey’s crew and bodyguards were “Big” Robert Heard, Robert Bay and Jimmy Carr. Carr was the cousin of FBI informer Louis Tackwood. Heard was at least 6’ 6” and over three hundred pounds. He was known as an enforcer. Carr was a well respected higher up in the Black Guerilla Family, and associate to George Jackson in prison. Both Heard and Carr would meet violent deaths within years of Huey’s release from prison.  

Ronnie’s taunting resulted into a physical alternation with Huey.[1] Elaine Brown, former Chairman of the BPP, recalled the incident between Ronnie and Huey. 

“During Huey’s speechmaking stint, in a college auditorium a Black Muslim in the audience kept interrupting Huey’s already-difficult exercise with taunts. He said something to the effect that the party was not providing a proper image for the black man and needed to embrace Allah. Huey had ignored the man for the entire speech; but two seconds after he had finished, he jumped off the stage and walked through the audience to confront the man directly. “Is Allah your god?” he asked the Muslim, inches away from his face. The audience was stunned into immobility. “That right, Brother!” “Well, Man is my god- and I hope your god will save your ass from the wrath of my god.” Within a breath, Huey was all over the Muslim, pummeling him up and down the auditorium aisle.” [2]

Who was Ronnie? Where did he come from? He wasn’t a seasoned Black Muslim, Nationalist or prison or college activist. Ronnie appeared be under the control of William (Billy) E. Mapp, the so-called leader of a Black Muslim splinter group, “Al Constran”. This was according to Alameda County Mafia District Attorney D. Lowell Jensen. The word on the street was that Ronnie had just been released from prison.

He just seemed to be so out of place for Ronnie or anyone else to confront Huey P. Newton and his crew on his home turf. Ronnie was born on February 12, 1947 in San Francisco, or Richmond, California. He had grown up in Oakland, Richmond and Berkeley. Ronnie’s last occupation was student at Merritt Junior College. The cover story provided by authorities that appeared in local newspapers was that Ronnie was from Chicago. The Chicago reference was to Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam, and the “New Mecca.” That detail of the story was deliberate misinformation. Ronnie had been a local all his life. 

Ronnie’s behavior on campus just prior to the incident with Huey was awfully strange and bizarre. I was on campus that day and saw Ronnie just minutes before the incident. Ronnie was in group of about four to five members of Al Constran. They were an awfully strange and bizarre sight. They all dressed in long black capes and wore black turbans. A member of the group, Paul Cook, wore nothing but a vest of chains under his cape. Among the group, I recognized Billy Mapp. My older sisters knew him personally, and one of them seemed to have cherished a graduation picture of him that I had often seen at home. 

Leading the group as they passed through the campus courtyard to the auditorium was Ronnie. I was absolutely stunned by his peculiar appearance and behavior. Ronnie was extremely muscular and well built. He appeared to slowly sway and bend from side to side as if he was about to fall, but continued to regain his balance and walk forward. Ronnie’s eyes were empty and emotionless with a fixed and blank stare as if he was in a trance. It looked as if Billy had him on a string like a large sleep walking pit-bull. 

Years later, I ran into one of the brothers that I was with that afternoon on campus that I hadn’t talked to for years. Out of the blue, he asked me if I remembered Ronnie. Of course, I did. He had been just as startled by what he saw as I had been. I never forgot what I saw that afternoon. He told me that he had known Paul Cook a member of Al Constan around campus and that he was always secretive about his activities. He told me that I needed to find out what happened to Ronnie. I really didn’t think about it at the time, but how did his brother that I hadn’t spoke to for years know that I had been involved in research around the murder of Paul Cook. 

I called him back on several occasions to fill him in about the details of my research, and try in a round-a-bout manner fish out of him exactly how he knew about my research. After numerous messages, he never returned my calls. I suspect that some entity that he worked with had briefed him on my research. Out of this group of brothers that I knew on campus at that time, some very odd and peculiar faith overcame them, but he was untouched and prospered. He was a Korean War veteran that had an odd psychological wound that rendered him uncontrollably savagely violent when triggered. Somebody or something had taken good care of him over the years.     

RONNIE FLENAUGH: Pre selected, Kidnapped, Drugged & Driven Insane

The answer to the enigma of Ronnie Flenaugh lies in PROJECT PAPERCLIP, the CIA’s MK-ULTRA, GEMSTONE PROGRAM, military intelligence experimental mind control programs, the FBI’s GHETTO INFORMANT, and COINTELPRO (counterintelligence) programs.

Ronnie was one of an army of individuals released from prisons and mental institutions programmed by the government to seek, attack, discredit, and destroy Black Nationalist and their movements in the Bay Area, and create a climate of fear and hatred of Black Nationalist. Who and what entity conscripted and programmed Ronnie against his will?

In late 1967, Ronnie had been officially declared to be insane. Dr. Sandritter, M.D. Superintendent and Medical Director of Agnews State Hospital admitted Ronnie to the mental hospital in San Jose. Why Angews in San Jose? 

Prior to his commitment a Agnews, Ronnie had been found to be insane by two doctors on September 7, 1967, Malcolm A. Sowers, M.D. 1197 A street, Room 7, Hayward, CA, and Isidore Weiss, M.D. 4855 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA. 

Dr. Sowers reported during an interview with Flenaugh at Alameda County Santa Rita Jail, “during the early part of our interview he talked somewhat coherently and showed a fair good command of language. He stated that he had the feeling that they were trying to drive him insane. When asked who he meant, he said that he had had a “funny feeling” in the Berkeley jail as though someone had been poisoning him. He said that his body had aches and pains and his imagination ran wild.”

Both Dr. Sowers and Weiss observed that Ronnie’s body was ripped with muscles without a “once of fat.” Ronnie had spent a great deal of time weight training. Dr. Sowers asked if he had taken speed (Methedrine), he answered yes.  Methedrine was relatively new drug known on the street as “hot shot”, because it was shot directly in the veins. 

In 1967, Methedrine (STP) was a new drug on the street. During that year, Augustus Ousley Stanley III was passing out Methedrine pills free to hippies in Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. STP was known to the military intelligence as BZ. BZ was a chemical warfare agent developed by the U.S. military. [3] Stanley was known as the LSD king. Stanley distributed a form of LSD called “Orange Sunshine”. Charles Manson and his group used and distributed “Orange Sunshine”. This form of LSD was different. It was associated with causes of episodes of violence. Orange Sunshine was also generally associated with Robert Stark in Los Angeles. Stark had worked for the CIA. [4]

Also in 1967, Mendocino State Hospital was conducting experimental “attack therapy” sessions with Methedrine abusers. The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Screening Unit at San Francisco General Hospital, and the Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic channeled meth abusers to the experimental program at Mendocino. Mendocino State Hospital was under the control of the Peoples Temple and Jim Jones. [5]  Former OSS agent and CIA MK-ULTRA contractor, Dr. Gregory Bateson, had set up the Haight-Ashbury Medical Free Clinic.

Also in 1967, Leo Hollister of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto was experimenting with STP and another chemical to enhance it under a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.[6]  The veteran’s hospital was an UK-ULTRA site also ran by Dr. Bateson.   

Dr. Sowers asked if he had taken acid (LSD), Ronnie smiled secretively but did not answer. Dr. Sowers asked if he was on a trip right now, he clammed up. Dr. Sowers observed that it appeared that he was getting some kind of hallucinogenic drug while in Santa Rita. Ronnie was on a trip. Dr. Sowers went no to say that speed causes rather prolonged paranoid states, which could very well persist for sometime after he was placed in prison, but Methedrine was not a hallucinogenic per se. LSD was a hallucinogenic. LSD came from a CIA laboratory, and BZ was developed out of a military intelligence quest for a non-personal chemical warfare agent.

Ronnie said that he had been picked up by the Berkeley Police Department riding in a black & white Porsche. He had been arrested for auto theft. Dr. Sowers found that Ronnie was definitely psychotic at present and therefore unable to know the difference between right and wrong, at present unable to participate in his defense. His diagnosis was schizophrenic reaction paranoid type cause unknown.

Dr. Weiss provided the court with a second opinion of whether or not Ronnie was insane. Dr. Weiss recorded, “he says he is going to try to stop the people from exploring the universe. They are going to do this by psychological warfare. The whole population will blow up if they have their way. They keep messing with me…I told them I wanted to get on a space ship. They are coming to pick me up.”

Including Ronnie’s statement regarding a psychological warfare project, he said, “I wouldn’t die, I wouldn’t join their religious group. Also, I wouldn’t commit treason, that’s why I’m in jail.” Ronnie told the doctor that people have been putting drugs in his veins and into his food. Ronnie wouldn’t voluntarily join some group that was inducting him into some type of mission. Ronnie resisted his recruiters and programmers.

Dr. Weiss observed a laceration on his left wrist. They considered that evidence of an attempted suicide. Both doctors reported to Judge Redmond C. Staats that they found Ronnie to be insane.

On August 30, 1967, Judge Staats declared Ronnie insane. Judge Staats was interesting. Judge Staats was a “good old boy” linked to the Republican Party, and the powerful political cabals of Southern Pacific. Judge Staats committed former mayor John Houlihan to the California Men’s Medical Facility at Vacaville after he was railroaded out of the mayor’s office. Houlihan got in the way of the Knowland-Kaiser-Bethtel Cabal’s plans for the multi-million dollar Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District project. Houlihan as Mayor of the City of Oakland publicly opposed the building of BART, and vowed to stop it. 

Ronnie was certain that someone drugged him in the Berkeley City Jail. Ronnie was 20 years old at the time of his commitment. Ronnie’s reference to “psychological warfare” at the time was rather unusual. According to doctors, it was generally understood that Ronnie had been in and out of jail. He told the psychiatrists that he dropped out of school at the 10^th grade, but he had done some work at a junior college.

Where did Ronnie obtain information in reference to “psychological warfare” and a conspiracy by a group to use psychological warfare against the people of the United States? Ronnie also made reference to the fact that he didn’t want to commit treason.

The scope of treasonous activity is broad. Sedition, subversive activities and treason involves crimes against the sovereignty of the nation and states; stemming from the advocacy of the overthrow of the constitutional government; and threats to the internal security of the United States. Treason is the only crime defined in the United States Constitution. The Constitution declares that treason against the United States shall consist only of levying war against them, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Treason is generally defined as a breach of allegiance to a government committed by a person who owes allegiance to it, and is the greatness crime known to law. [7]

Why would Ronnie with a 10th grade education be referring to “psychological warfare” and “treason” unless he had been exposed to and subjected to a covert military-intelligence CIA experimental mind control program? 

One of the more interesting statements made by Ronnie to doctors were “I wouldn’t die. I wouldn’t join their religious group.” One religious group that was involved in prison-military-CIA mind control programs that had setup roots in the Mendocino County in 1965 was the Peoples Temple.[8]

RONNIE FLENAUGH: Agnews State Mental Hospital & The Programmers

What Ronnie didn’t know was what was waiting for him at Agnews State Hospital. Agnews was in Santa Clara County along the way to the notorious Mk-ULTRA institution, Stanford University. The current occupant of the now closed Agnews Hospital is Palo Alto’s Sun Microsystems, Inc.

In 1968, it was on the record and official; Richard Price and Dr. Julian Silverman of Esalen Institute of Big Sur, CA moved into Agnews State Hospital to conduct an experimental program. Charles Manson spent the day at Esalen exactly 3 days prior to the Sharon Tate Murders in Los Angeles.  The cover story was that Manson was playing his guitar for Esalen’s clients. However, I believe during that time Manson was programmed with neuro-linquistist triggers and keys to release sleeper cells that carried out the murders, particularly sleeper Charles “Tex” Watson under the influence of mind control, mescaline, psilocybin, THC, STP, and Orange sunshine. 

In 1962, Esalen was founded by Stanford grads Pat Murphy and Richard Price. Esalen was started in close collaboration with Dr. Gregory Bateson, and Dr. Aldous Huxley. Price majored in psychology at Stanford, and had been connected with U.S. Air Force intelligence.

Both Price and Dr. Silverman were close associates of Dr. Gregory Bateson. Dr. Bateson and Dr. Louis Joylon West were apostils of Aldous Huxley. Huxley was the godfather of LSD, and Esalen Institute. Esalen’s first brochure was based on a series of 1961 lectures of Aldous Huxley. Huxley also encouraged Dr. West to combine LSD with his “spook” hypnosis experiments. In 1981, Dr. Bateson died at Big Sur, home to Esalen.

Dr. Silverman joined Esalen directly out of NIMH in 1965 right after the CIA initiated the highly classified Project Pandora. Project Pandora involved Russia’s covert experimental use of extremely low electromagnetic frequencies (ELF) to bombard the U.S. Embassy in Russia. 

The NIMH was a conduit for CIA funding of covert mind control experiments, and was involved in funding research directly involved in Project Pandora. Dr. Silverman had been a research psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health, a notorious MK-ULTRA institution. While at NIMH, Silverman authored over 50 papers on subjects ranging from perceptual style to schizophrenia and shamanism.      

 The congressional National Mental Health Act created the NIMH in 1946. It was borne of the combined efforts of Robert H. Felix (head of the military’s Division of Mental Hygiene during World War II), General Lewis Hershey (director of the Selective Service System), and chief psychiatrists of the Army and the Navy. Dr. Felix was a 33^rd mason that was directly responsible for inhuman torture, drugging and brainwashing of Black men at the drug addiction facility in Lexington, Kentucky. 

Richard Price of Esalen was particularly associated with Dr. Gregory Bateson, and Stanford Research Institute’s (SRI) highly classified military-CIA remote viewing project as a remote reviewer.

SRI’s remote viewers Pat Price and Ingo Swan were brought in on the Patty Hearst kidnapping case by the Berkeley Police Department. It was Price that identified Colston Westbrook’s friend, Willie (the wolf) Wolfe as a conspirator in the kidnapping. Price was a former Air Force intelligence officer. Price had also been a former police chief of either Santa Monica or Beverly Hills. He came up dead in 1973 in Las Vegas casino hotel allegedly by food poisoning. Price’s death may have something to do with the assassination of Bobby Baker, Watergate, and the White House Gemstone Project. Baker was a Beverly Hills drug dealer, and an insider of the Howard Hughes affair.

Richard Price died in 1984 following a freak and suspicious accident while rock climbing at Big Sur. During that time, Esalen Institute was heavily involved in exchanging information and visits with Russian parapsychology, and Tesla technology scientist.

Who was Berkeley’s mayor during the Hearst kidnapping? Warren Widener, another former Air Force intelligence officer. Dr. West was also positively associated with the U.S. Air Force. He was a former U.S. Air Force Major. Colston Westbrook was another former U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer. Both Westbrook and Dr. West worked on Korean-Russian-Chinese brainwashing and deception research projects after the Korean War. Master Hypnotist, Dr. William Bryan Jennings, and cult expert Dr. Margaret Singer of Cal, also worked with the Air Force intelligence on the Korean-Russian brainwashing research projects.

Dr. West was the CIA consultant to Dr. James A. Hamilton and his covert mind control projects at Vacaville Prison, particularly, the Black Cultural Association (BCA). The BCA was a CIA mind control research program. BCA was run under banner of UC Berkeley for cover. Colston Westbrook was UC Berkeley’s outside community coordinator for the BCA-CIA project at Vacaville. 

Dr. West had also been in charge of medical oversight of SRI’s highly classified remote viewing program, PROJECT SCANGATE. Dr. West was also working at SRI conducting “his own experimental studies of the phenomenology (study of the events or occurrences) of dissociate states, or multiple personalities. [9]  Dr. West’s association with the small knot of men such as Dr. Bateson, Dr. Hamilton, Westbrook, Price, Esalen and SRI was too close to be coincidental.

RONNIE FLENAUGH: Dr. Valerie Hunt & Mind Machines

There was another much stronger Agnew Hospital project connection to Dr. West, and CIA, Dr. Valerie V. Hunt of UCLA. She worked with Price and Dr. Silverman on the Agnews Hospital Project. Dr. Hunt was Dr. West’s associate at UCLA. She was also a NASA scientist. Dr. Hunt’s work was directly related to the objectives of the Pandora Project. 

Dr. Hunt was a 51-year old world renowned neurophysiologist. She graduated from Rockefeller’s Columbia University in New York with a PhD. in psychology. She was also a professor of Kinesiology (the study of the biological and mechanical aspects of muscular movement in man). She was also a scientist in basic and applied research in behavior biology. [10]

Dr. Hunt’s expertise is in human electromagnetic or bioelectric fields. Most of Dr. Hunt’s research in electromagnetic fields remains hidden. Dr. Hunt’s background information and associations are rather sketchy for a person of her stature in the scientific community. Dr. Hunt’s web site stated that she authored at least 25 public scientific articles. In 1977, she and Dr. Edward E. Massey co-authored a couple of unclassified articles regarding Rolfing.

Dr. Hunt is also currently an advisor to ELF (Extremely Low Frequencies) Laboratories. ELF labs tout heavily the research of Nicholas Tesla, Dr. Robert O. Becker, and Eldon Byrd. Byrd ran the Marine Corps Non-lethal Electromagnetic Weapons project from 1980 to 1983, and conducted most of his research at the Armed Forces Radiatiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland looking at electrical activity in the brain and how to influence it.

Byrd conducted experiments on animals and humans-including himself-to see if brain waves would “lock on” with waves hitting the brain from the outside. His experiments used VLF (very low frequency) electromagnetic radiation. He found he would induce the brain to release behavior-regulating chemicals. “We could put animals into a stupor,” hitting them with these frequencies, he said. These fields were extremely week. They were undetectable,” Byrd added. “The effects were nonlethal and reversible. You could disable a person temporarily,” Byrd hypothesized. “It [would be] like a stun gun.”

U.S. News reported that: Byrd never tested any of his hardware in the field, and his program, scheduled for four years, apparently was closed down after two years, he says. “The work was really outstanding,” he grumbles. “We would have had a weapon in one year.” Byrd says he was told his work would be unclassified, “unless it works.” Because it worked, he suspects that the program “went black.” Other scientists tell similar tale of research on electromagnetic radiation turning top secret once successful results were achieved.” [11]

Dr. Robert O. Becker experimented in the early 1960’s with ELF by putting the signal on top of a DC current to carry the ELF signal. In other words, ELF rode like the passenger on a bus, maintaining its own integrity but being carried to its specific destination. Dr. Becker tested this concept by using ELF, 1-10 Hertz (cycles or pulses per second) signal on humans resulting in an increased loss of consciousness among test subjects. The weak ELF alone had no effect, and DC current had a significantly reduced effect without the combination. Above 10 Hertz with DC current, the effect increasingly declined until it was no better than with DC current alone. What was demonstrated was that ELF, those frequencies, which most effect human brain functions, could be manipulated externally with profound results. [12] 

Ronnie’s brother, Sebron, appeared at the San Diego Naval Medical Center, part of the National Naval Medical Center, after a four or five year disappearance in Alaska. Coincidence?  Dr. William Teller (Father of the Atomic Bomb) of Stanford was also very interested in the human electromagnetic field, and Alaska. 

Dr. Hunt’s research was the first of its kind to show that low frequency electromagnetic (ELF) radiation had an effect on hormonal levels and other physiological systems of the body. She was the first person to electronically record energy fields using adapted electromyography (the production and interpretation of tracing which represents the electric currents produced by contraction of muscles, as those involved in eye movements) to record small amounts of very high frequency energy from the “charkas” (body energy centers identified in Eastern philosophies). [13]

Dr. Hunt had done extensive work measuring the strengthening effects of ELF waves upon the auric field, the energy field surrounding the body. Dr. Hunt did most of her research while a professor at UCLA. 

As a result of Dr. Hunt’s human electromagnetic research studies, researchers began to use ELF radiation in a variety of successful ways. Some introduced low sound frequencies directly into the body with their voices, the client’s voice, or by machine.

Some of the secret experiments that were carried out at the Men’s Medical Facility at Vacaville during this time period involved mind control-ELF radiation.[14]

The Price-Silverman-Hunt experiments at Angews State Mental Hospital involved much more than “Rolfing” somatic discipline. Was the research related to Dr. David Ewen Cameron’s infamous mind control technique involving depatterning, and “psychic driving”?

Dr. Cameron used tape-recorded messages to imbed suggestions to a laboratory induced comatose or drugged patient. Dr. Felix’s sponsored experiments in Lexington involved driving messages to comatose Black addicts. Some of Dr. Felix’s patients had been drugged on LSD for 77 days straight and driven with messages to “kill”. I suspect that Dr. Hunt was imbedding suggestions into drugged patients by an electromagnet or sound wave machinery and devices (Psychotronics).

During a presentation to the U.S. Psychotronics Association Annual Symposium at Bergamo Center in Ohio in 1988, Dr. Hunt presented what was described as “epochal work” showing chaos and hidden order in recorded ELF electromagnetic radiation from human bodies. Dr. Hunt split received EM signals emitting from the human body into two identical channels, a time-delayed one channel by a very slight amount, then mixed the non-delayed and delayed signals and bombarded the body with the ELF electromagnetic sound waves. The bottom line was Dr. Hunt induced “chaos” human confusion, disorientation with ELF electromagnetic waves.[15]

Dr. Hunt also reportedly constructed an experimental room emitting human ELF electromagnetic sound waves that she had recorded. She changed the recorded ELF polarization and created “chaos”. The human subject inside the room lost orientation; he or she would not touch a finger to nose or maintain balance to walk.

Psychotronics are basically described as “mind machines.” Dr. Ross Abey was another of Drs. West and Hunt associates at UCLA. Dr. Abey was also doing research work with Psychotronics. On June 3, 1983, it was reported that Dr. Abey was investigating a Soviet Psychotronic device called LIDA. LIDA was designed to bombard human brains with radio waves in the 40-MHZ region. Dr. Abey was also investigating the work of A.S. Davydov of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, who discovered how the blood-brain barrier can be penetrated by low-frequency radio waves so that brain cells are affected. [16]

Dr. Abey tested LIDA on a cat, and in two or three minutes the cat was sitting quietly, almost as though transfixed, and uninterested in its surroundings. The animal remained uninterested in its surroundings for some 20 to 30 minutes after the machine was turned off. [17]

Dr. Abey’s laboratory is located in Linda Loma, CA. From 1984 to 1986, Sebron Flenaugh was located in Pt. Linda Loma doing some janitorial work with a firm, he called, Maintenance Teck Service.

The Soviet Union had a great deal of interest in Psychotronics. However, keep in mind that Dr. Hunt was a pioneer and leader in the field. During the 70’s, the Soviet KGB developed a Psychotronic Influences System (PIS) that was used to turn people into programmable “human weapons.” Soldiers fighting in the Afghan conflict were trained using the system which employed a combination of high frequency radio waves and hypnosis. Commands were activated by code words or ciphers. The purpose of PIS was to render regular soldiers and members of Special Forces incapable of feeling sympathy. [18]

The CIA and Defense Department officials were deeply involved in the field of bioelectronics (machines involved in the generation of electrical currents of living tissues and organs), and biocybernetics (life-the science of communication in living and mechanical systems, especially with regard to the utilization of feedback). [19] 

The CIA had, through the intermediary of the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency and Dr. Jack Verona, The Raven, been involved in funding research into the fundamental working of the human brain at UCLA. [20]

During the 50’s, the agency experimented in a microwave “amnesia bean” that would destroy memory neurons at a California research institute connected to the UC system. [21]

During the 1960’s, the CIA and the military were directly involved in refining research experiments involving low frequency sound waves carrying voice information, and UCLA was involved in some aspects of that research. [22]

The CIA and military were covertly or openly financing research and experiments involving human ELF electromagnetic sound waves, Psychotronics. The CIA and military was actively involved in behavior modification research and experiments at UCLA.   They were very much interested in Dr. Hunt’s research and experiments involving human ELF electromagnetic sound waves. Is it too speculative to conclude that the CIA and the military were indirectly involved in the Price-Silverman-Hunt experiments at Angews State Mental Hospital 

The National Institute of Mental Health funded their experiment. NIMH was a MK-ULTRA institution. The NIMH was a conduit for CIA funding of the Pandora Project, and covert mind control experiments.

Was Ronnie an early experiment subject of one of Dr. Hunt’s secret and revolutionary Psychotronics?  Look at the results. Ronnie and maybe hundreds of other innocent Black military enlistees, ex-convicts and mental patients were turned into zombie killers? Ronnie went go on to join an “assassin” Manchurian Candidate contrived fraction of Black Muslims, “Al Constran”. Al Constran was an agent provocateur, counter intelligent front that sought to discredit and neutralize the Black Nationalist Movement, the objectives of the CIA’s CHAOS Program, and the FBI’s CoIntel Program.  Al Constran was a division of “The Death Angels”.

In 1971, Jim Jones was working with Vitali V. Rozynoko on a behavior modification project at Mendocino State Mental Hospital under a NIMH grant.[23] Ronnie in the first instance refused to join a religious group whose objective was to control the population by a campaign of psychological warfare.  That religious group had to have been the Peoples Temple.

In 1967, Jones and the Peoples Temple were carrying on experimental programs at Mendocino State Hospital with Methedrine (STP) with heroin addicts from Oakland and San Francisco. [24] The experiments were headed by a social worker, Wayne Wilson. Wilson also carried on experiments with LSD.

In an article entitled “People Control Blueprint” by Carol Denton published in May 1972 issue, Vol.3, No. 12 of the National Educator exposed “A Top Secret” paper from the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. The paper provided a plan for total control of the people of the United States through behavior modification techniques of B.F. Skinner. The paper was prepared on December 31, 1971. [25]

A conference was held at the Center January 17 through 19, 1972, at which a discussion on “The Social and Philosophical Implications of Behavior Modification” was held. The discussion paper was prepared by Vitali Rozynko, Kenneth Swift, Joseph Swift, and Larney J. Boggs. They were the senior staff members of the Operant Behavior Modification Project located at Mendocino State Hospital. [26]

On page 5, they wrote, “we are presently concerned with social change and discontent.” They believed that an Orwellian world was more likely under presently developing society than under the kind of rigorous controls of a society envisioned by Skinner. On page 6, they discussed law and order, stating that the population is now more apt to support government repression than previously, in response to their own fears. [27] 

They added that “with the rising population, depletion of natural resources, and increase of pollution, repressive measures may have to be used to guarantee survival of our specie. These measures may take the form of forced sterilization, greatly restricted uses of energy and limits on population movement and living location.” They asserted that operant conditioning (sensitivity training) and other behavior techniques can be used to control the population through positive reinforcement.”[28]

After Ronnie refused to join the Peoples Temple and be programmed as one of their soldiers, he was forced into Al Constran a faction of the infamous “Zebra” killers and became AL RASHID. Al Constran was a virtual reality contrived Black Muslim group of believers. For all practical purposes, Al Constran and AL RASHID were created by U.S. military intelligence controllers, and the Alameda County Mafia.

BILLY MAPP: Pre selected, Kidnapped, Drugged & Driven Insane

According to D. Lowell Jensen, Alameda County Mafia D.A., Al Constran was led by William (Billy) Edward Mapp. Mapp was born on January 6, 1943 in New York. He was first arrested and committed to California Youth Authority (CYA) at the age of 13 and spent his youth in and outside of CYA on parole until 1961. At 17, he was convicted of attempted robbery and returned to CYA. In 1965, he was convicted of conspiracy and placed on probation. 

Mapp had his roots in West Oakland. He had attended McClymonds High School. Mapp was intelligent, handsome, and rather short, thin Black man. He appeared to have had Ronnie on a string like a pit bull. Mapp had accompanied Ronnie to Merritt to induce an altercation with Huey and the Black Panther Party. Mapp also had no known prior activist history. 

In May of 1969, Rev. William E. Mapp, Minister of the Life Universal Church of San Jose or Fresno, was raising money for a Black business (ABC Distribution) on 98^th and Edes in Oakland. He was giving out a box of pepper for a donation to raise funds. He was standing in front of, or adjacent to Ziegler’s Bar B-Q. Mapp had lived on welfare for the past 5 years. He was living at 926 7^th Street in Oakland with his wife and three kids. 

For whatever reasons, OPD officers Thomas Otto, and J. Dowd arrested Mapp for solicitation without a license. Solicitation without a license was no more than an infraction under the Oakland municipal code.  Mapp was placed in a police unit and taken to an isolated parking lot of a local hotel where he was beaten. 

Mapp was charged with two felony counts of assault and battery on the police officers. On May 20, 1969, “Good Olde Boy” Judge Staats enters the case. Judge Staats denied Mapp’s release, and sets bail at $6000. Judge Leonard Dieden then revokes his bail and orders him into custody when Mapp arrived late for court due to the injuries he sustained while being beaten by the OPD. Dieden was described to a low life political hack that sent so people to San Quentin that part to the prison was named “Dieden’s Row. [29] Mapp was held at Alameda County Santa Rita Jail pending trial. Judge Dieden set bail at $20,000. Mapp would languish being driven insane for almost 6 months pending a jury trial in November 1969. 

While in jail, Mapp made a motion to the court to recues Judge Dieden from the case for prejudice. In that motion written in longhand, he said that he was, “Most of all ordained by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords to preach his words through out the land and I want freedom, Justice and Equality.” He ended, “Allah uh Arbar”.

Was Mapp being primed and selection for forcible induction into “Al Constran” in Santa Rita Jail? Was it random that Mapp was arrested, beaten and jailed by OPD for such a minor infraction? Someone in a governmental agency that Mapp had prior extended with knew that he was susceptible to hypnotism and programmable. Just as in the case of Ronnie Flenuagh, Mapp was pre selected, drugged and programmed against his will into the contrived fictional group Al Constran, and the “Death Angels” by Squad 19, and the Alameda County Mafia.

On November 5, 1969, William E. Mapp was acquitted of two charges of assault and battery on police officers, but the damage had already been done. He had been beaten, humiliated, and isolated beyond his mental and physical capacity. He had been driven insane. Mapp was right for induction and programming to kill as “Ali Allm Alalah“.  (To be continued)

[2] Brown, Elaine, A Taste of Power, Pantheon Books, NY, NY (1992) pg. 287

[3] SFC, 6/27/67, page 1, 12

[4] Research of Mae Brussell

[5] SFC, The Meth Freaks of Mendocino, Dec. 6, 1967, pg. 14

[6] Science, 11/3/67, 2.5 Dimethoxy-4-methyl-amphetamine (STP): A New Hallucinogenic Drug, page 669

[7] Volume 70 Am Jur 2d, Sedition, Subversive Activities, and Treason § 80

[8] Miers, Michael, Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? Mellon Press,  NY, NY, 1981

[9] Constantine, Alex, CIA Mind Control Operations at Stanford Research Institute

[10] http.www.tesla.com.advisors.html#hunt

[11] Smith, Jerry E., HAARP, The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, 1998, pg. 125

[12]  Begich, Nick Dr., Manning, Jeane, Angels Don’t Play This HAARP, Earthpulse Press, P.O. Box 201393, Anchorage, Alaska, 1995, citing Letter from David Yarrow to Gar Smith, Earth Island Journal, August 18, 1995, pg. 136

[13] Dynamic Years, Nov.-Dec. 1980, pages 43-44

[14] Weiner, Bernard, The Clockwork Cure, The Nation, April 3, 1972, page 433

[15] Explore!, Volume 9, Number 4&5, 1999, http://www.cheniere.org/explore%20articles/mind%20control3/p09.htm

[16] Possony, Stedan T., “Psy-War Soviet Device Experiment, “Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily 12(4), June 7, 1983, p.1-2

[17] Huntsville Times, May 19, 1983, “Soviet devise uses radio waves as tranquilizer”

[18] Resonance, No. 30, Mar. 1996, p. 29 “KGB Used PIS to Program Soldiers”

[19] Bates, William, The UC-CIA Connection: Dishonorable Schoolboys, New West, March 13, 1978

[20] Id.

[21] Id.

[22] Id.

[23] June 1970, NIMH grant for Mendocino State Mental Hospital

[24] SF Chronicle, The Meth Freaks of Mendocino, Dec. 6, 1967

[25] http://www.rense.com/general34/reward.htm

[26] Id.

[27] Id.

[28] Id.  

[29]http://books.google.com/books?id=pwQl_1ojLugC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=%22leonard+dieden%22&source=bl&ots=PjAGHsoJK&sig=Kvmubk62ONJMrV7Me5lp2Yycgq0&hl=en&ei=ZyfZSojeHZHGsQP697mxCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBwQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=%22leonard%20dieden%22&f=false

Sebron Flenaugh, Jr. & Master Yoda 900 years old, is widely considered to be the greatest Jedi of all time and trained many Jedi.

FLENAUGH: TRAINED JEDI KNIGHT PROGRAMMED TO KILL

In the evening on June 25, 1988, Sebron, Jr. went on a shooting spree at Micropure warehouse in Concord, CA. He killed 2 (two) people, and wounded 5 (five) others. [1]

There wasn’t a reason, or a motive for his deadly assault. Sebron couldn’t remember events leading to, and during the shootings. Sebron, Jr. supposedly emptied his .357 magnum into the victims like shooting clay pigeons. There was no evidence that he reloaded his weapon. Sebron, Jr. was pretty calm and precise with six shots, killing two, and wounded 5 (five). Was there an extra bullet? We may never know because the weapon was destroyed soon after his so-called trial.     

Micropure was one of many businesses in an industrial park that Sebron, Jr. was employed to patrol. The name of the industrial park was “Mason” Industrial Park.  

One victim, Robert Webster, was shot first. He described his shooter as “expressionless”. He said that when Sebron, Jr. saw his blood flowing there was a “half smile”, “he kind of smirked out of the corner of his eye, kind of like, and ‘I got him.’ Other than that, Sebron exhibited no expression or emotion. “After he shot me, instantly, his attention went to the next person that he was going to shoot. It seemed he shot me because I was the closest.”[2]  

Another victim, Angela Tewell, described Sebron, Jr. calmly strike a “military stance” before shooting her. She described Sebron, Jr. as “like target practice” and maintaining a “combat stance”. He had both legs spread parallel with both arms extended raised, knees bend, hands holding the weapon with deliberate aim. She described him as “kinda mad”. [3]        

Another employee of Micropure said that while “Pete” as they called him was driving into the warehouse area, she said “Hi”. She said that “he looked up at me and smiled.” Sebron, Jr. said nothing and showed no emotion. [4]       

Sebron Flenaugh, Sr., a retired merchant marine, moved to El Paso, TX after divorcing Sebron’s mom Elizabeth in 1960. Sebron, Jr. was born in February 3, 1943 in San Francisco. Ronnie Flenuagh was born in 1947. Elizabeth was left to raise the children alone in the Bay Area.   

Some family members said Sebron, Jr. shooting spree might have been triggered by the death of his mother Elizabeth in March 1988. Henry Flenaugh of Oakland, Sebron’s Sr. brother, said that family members had told him after her funeral Sebron Jr. was “cracking up”.         

However, his supervisor, David Riddle, Jr. at Wells Security Systems of Danville said that Sebron, Jr. was somewhat relieved and relaxed in that his mother’s suffering was over.

At the time, Riddle was on probation for a felony charge involving a minor. Riddle was also the only person that he may have trouble with at the job.  Riddle told police that as he understood it Elizabeth had passed some 6 months before the shooting.    

6’ 2”, 310-pound Sebron Jr, known as “Pete”, was quiet and had no known criminal record or background. Sebron, Jr. had been an employee of Wells Security Systems of Danville for about 18 months. Flenaugh worked at Mason Industrial Park as a security guard. For whatever reasons on the evening of June 24, he put on his guard uniform and armed himself with his .357 magnum, and drove directly to Micropure. He entered Micropure though the warehouse and dock and began shooting people. Sebron, Jr.’s post at Mason Industrial Park was an unarmed patrol.     

The owner of Wells, Doug Wells, described Sebron as “big mild mannered, soft spoken, teddy bear kind of person.”[5] In fact, everyone the investigators and police spoke to had the same opinion that Sebron, Jr. was mild mannered and somewhat very satisfied with his job. There was even evidence that a Micropure official had asked “Pete” to join the company, but he refused the offer. Sebron, Jr. was satisfied with his job at Wells.        

When arrested, Sebron, Jr. had been living with his half-sister, Bernadine and her daughter, Virlyn at 2444 89^th Avenue in Oakland where he was apprehended by the Oakland Police Department (OPD) without incident. Family had described his demeanor that day as normal, but Sebron said that before work he didn’t feel well and showered just before leaving.  

Sebron, Jr. had also lived with his mother at 1001 76^th Avenue in Oakland until she passed. Police also listed Sebron’s address at 3435 Henrietta Street in Oakland.           

A Wells Security System spokesman said that Flenaugh had an extensive military service record, which had never been detailed. Sebron, Sr. said that his son had served in the Air Force for four years from 1961 to 1965, and worked for the Navy in San Diego as a civilian housekeeper for 12 years from 1975 to 1984. He moved to the Bay Area sometime at the beginning of 1987 to be with his ill mother. What did Sebron do in the Bay Area from 1965 to 1974? In 1971, Sebron was living at 2435 9^th Street in Berkeley when his brother Ronnie was murdered.

One of the first Death Angel “slashing” attack occurred in 1970 just three blocks away at 2410 6^th Street. Was it Ronnie and Seabron that carried out the “slashing”?     

Wells hired him as an unarmed security guard on May 20, 1987. Sebron, Jr. told Wells at the time that he had no weapons training. On his application, Sebron, Jr. said that had attended Lawton School where he appeared to well like by instructors. Sebron, Jr. listed a Lawton instructor as one of his references. Sebron recorded “Kesims” as an instructor.        

Sebron, Jr.’s defense of the homicides and assaults was not guilty by reason of insanity. However, Flenaugh’s case raised some very difficult legal questions. Just as in the Case of Ewell Lee Danielly. An unconscious person cannot form a criminal intention. Amnesia provides a complete defense to a charge of homicide, particularly murder.

Flenaugh was examined by a number of psychologist and psychiatrists. Psychologist Nancy Van Couvering, Phd. diagnosed Flenaugh as “paranoid psychosis, probably schizophrenia, and affective disorder”. She said that he was suffering from “current psychotic systomatology, “he could not recall the events for which he was apprehended.” In other words, loosely, Flenaugh was suffering under a “delusional” mental disorder whether it was insanity, lunacy, or madness.

The fundamental symptoms of schizophrenia include (1) disturbances in associations, (2) disturbances of affect, (3) ambivalence of the affect, intellect, and/or will, (4) autism, (5) attention defects, (6) disturbances of the will, (7) changes in the person,’ (8) schizophrenic dementia, and (9) disturbances of activity and behavior. “Affective disorder” may refer to ‘affective disorder determined’, which was an expression used by Adolf Meyer as equivalent with manic-depressive psychosis. Manic-depressive psychosis may or may not lead to schizophrenia.   

Psychologist John E. Kincaid noted that Flenaugh was suffering from “amnesia” of a “psychotic process” blocking memory of events proximate and during the incident. Amnesia refers to the inability to recall past experiences. Psychotic generally means that Flenaugh was suffering under the process of a severe mental disorder, which blocked his memory of events proximate and during the incident.        

Dr. O. Glover had found Flenaugh incompetent to stand trial, but he was overruled. Van Couvering and Kincaid found Sebron, Jr. able to understand what would be going on at trial.     

Dr. Samuel Benson, psychiatrist provided a good description of “Dissociate State”, a person is on “auto pilot” where only his subconscious impulses are working. Flenaugh though he was only “target-shooting”.

Dr. Douglas Anderson, a psychiatrist, met with Flenaugh twelve times. Dr. Anderson believed that, during the shootings, Flenaugh was in a psychotic dissociated or “trance-like” state which is relative alteration of consciousness. He explained that in such a state, which is analogous to an alcoholic blackout or sleepwalking, the conscious part of the mind that involves judgment became suspended and that behavior in connection to the unconscious, a person only has a vague recollection of what he did.

Dr. Paul S. D. Berg, a psychologist, was called by the prosecution. Berg said that Flenaugh suffered from a life-long personality disorder. Dr. Berg testified that Flenaugh had exhibited the characteristics of a mass murderer. He had serious paranoid and narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial traits. There was a long smoldering build-up of forces and pressures, which were trigged by some event (the final straw), which set off previously repressed violent impulses.  (See People v. Flenaugh (A053478) Unpublished Opinion, Filed July 24, 1992, First Appellate District)

Flenaugh’s sister and niece said that when he returned home early from work at the eve of the shootings, they knew something was wrong. He had a bag containing hard alcohol, a can of beer, and cigarettes. He told them to be strong. He told them that he shot off his gun at work and he didn’t know if he had hit something. He told them that he didn’t want anyone to hurt or bother his family.          

Virlyn best described his demeanor after the shooting. She said, “He was nervous…sweating a little. He was just sitting there, not saying anything, not really looking at anyone. He was looking at T.V. but he would turn away and just look kind of into space.

One of the arresting officers, Sergeant Thiem noticed that during the arrest Flenaught was perspiring rather heavily. There were beads of perspiration on his forehead and uniform under the armpits were noticably wet.  It was rather cold in the house.

Psychologists described Sebron exhibiting the same type of strange behavior. He would talk, and then drift off into space, sometimes talking incoherently with tangential speech and laughter.

Flenaugh’s behavior after the senseless and motiveless assaults and killings was similar to other classic programmed victims and assassins like Sirhan Sirhan, and Marcus Wayne Chenault who also suffered from opportune “amnesia” failing to recall events proximate and during a specific and sudden episode of the use of deadly force on political figures.

Flenaugh’s deadly spree was politically opportune. It occurred during the 1988 presidential primary race of former CIA director, George Herbert Walker Bush. The Concord killings had political ramifications that at least indirectly furthered and aided the Republican Party’s “Law and Order” platform and agenda.     

After the assassination of Senator and Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968, Sirhan said, “I don’t remember much about the shooting, sir, did I do it? Well, yes, I am told I did it. I remember being at the Ambassador (Hotel). I am drinking Tom Collinses. I got dizzy. I went back to my car so I could go home. But I am too drunk to drive. I thought I’d better find some coffee. The next thing I remember I was being choked and a guy was twisting my knee. [6]

About two weeks after the arrest, Flenaugh didn’t realize that he was in jail for murder, he said, “it’s a long time to be held for a ticket (traffic warrant).”

Senator Kennedy was the leading Democratic Party candidate in the 1968 presidential race against republican candidate, Richard Milhouse Nixon. Senator Kennedy had just minutes before his assassination won the California Democratic Primary Election for president of the United States.   

On April 30, 1974, Marcus Wayne Chenault assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King’s mother and a deacon in Atlanta at the family’s church. When asked if he killed anyone, Chenault could not remember, he said, “I assume I did, I assume I shot someone.”   The Chenault incident was political. Chenault had been a member of an assassination team called, “The Troop”. The purpose of the group was to kill Black ministers and Black political leaders who members of the group felt had deceived and falsely led black people.  =

After the incident, Flenaugh said that “(he) didn’t know if he had hit something.” Sebron had amnesia proximate, and during the shootings. Both Sirhan and Chenault suffered the same mental breakdown as to events proximate, and during the shooting incidents. Sirhan’s programmer was generally assumed to have been Air Force consultant/MK Ultra William Bryant Jennings III. It is unknown who programmed Chenault, but Air Force psychiatrists showed up in his case to bury him, and kill any insanity defense.       

Sirhan, a programmed victim, used alcohol proximate to the events leading to the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Sirhan did not drink alcohol. Alcohol may have the effect of further blurring the victim’s memory and the ability to recall persons, places and things proximate and during an event. Alcohol did not help in Sebron’s case. It may have had the same effect as intended in Sirhan’s case. 

Flenaugh has all the earmark of a programmed “Manchurian Candidate” assassin. A programmed assassin has been for decades the intelligence communities’ perfect “pastie”. However, Flenaugh’s case had one big problem.  There was no motive.  He was sane at one moment living a rather normal life then insane suddenly as if triggered.    

In the Sirhan case, the prosecution developed a motive around the Palestinian issue. Sirhan was Palestinian. They surmised that Sirhan shot Kennedy because he supported the United States giving jets to the Israelis to use against the Palestinian people.

In the Chenault case, the prosecution developed a motive around the objectives of the Troop to assassinate Black ministers and Black political leaders for misleading the public.

In Flenaugh’s case, there was no motive. There was absolutely no reasonable, or even an unreasonable motive for him to gun down 7 (seven) innocent people.

Nevertheless the court trial judge, Michael J. Phelan, disregarded the findings of all of the doctors that found that Flenaugh was insane at the time of the shootings, Dr. Anderson, Dr. Benson, Dr. Van Couvering, and Dr. Kincaid. Phelan, a former California Attorney General, and future appellate appointee followed Paul S. D. Berg and found Flenaugh guilty of first degree murder.  

Berg background and appearance in the case for the prosecution was very interesting. It quashed his amnesia defense and sealed Flenaugh’s fate for a definite disposal for first degree murder. In the case, Berg said that he had been working in California for 27 years, licensed for 25 to 26 years, since about 1964.  He received an A.B. degree psychology from City College of New York in 1957.

He received his Masters degree from Michigan State University in 1959. He received his Doctorate from Michigan State University in 1963. He received an U.S. Public Health Service fellowship in graduate school around 1959-60. He interned at Battle Creek Veterans Hospital involving regressed schizophrenia, and then worked at Veterans Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan. 

In 1961, he was Asst. Chief Psychologist at state prison of Southern Michigan for two years, “the Largest Walled Prison in America.” After he received his PhD in about 1963-4, he was brought to California by Dr. Robert Hanna Felix or Stanley F. Yolles of the Addiction Research Center (ARC) in Lexington, Kentucky and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to work on a special project for the prediction of violence. According to Berg, there allegedly had been an outbreak of violence, parolees with highway patrolmen, and he developed a test that was attempting to predict felonious violence and was brought to California to work on that 

At ARC, a MK-Ultra scandal revealed that the CIA had funded one Dr. Harris Isbell at the facility to carry out barbarous CIA psychedelic and hallucinogenic drug experiments on mostly poor, powerless and hapless black drug addicts. Dr. Isbell was the director of the ARC from the 1940s until 1963. Harris’ boss was Masonic psychiatrist Dr. Felix, who founded the NIMH; and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology comprised many of the most important MK-Ultra collaborators. Felix was director from 1949 to 1964 followed by Yolles. 

Berg was assigned to San Quentin (the MONSTER FACTORY) where he spent half his time working up a research proposal for the NIMH (CIA-MK ULTRA INSTITUTION) to fund the violence study, and other half he spent with the inmate population, including death row.

Then in 1964, he went into private practice. For sometime, he headed the graduate department at Lone Mountain College. Dr. Berg’s interest just happened to involve Dr. Jay Reed Malloy, and the topic of “Spree Killers.”

There was mention in the case that Berg worked with Dr. Donald Lunde of Stanford on “Murder and Madness, the Trilogy of the Santa Cruz Episodes. Dr. Lunde had all the earmarks of a CIA spook doctor involved in the final criteria, the disposal of the Manchurian Candidate after operations.

Dr. Lunde was appointed by judges or retained by lawyers, in some of the most infamous CIA-MK ULTRA-MIND CONTROL cases of the Twentieth Century, including the SLA/Patricia Hearst bank robbery trial along with Dr. Louis Jolyon West (CIA Mind Control Maestro); the case of Herbert Mullin, killer of 13 people in the Santa Cruz area; the out of this world Twinkle defense of Dan White, killer of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk; Jim Jones, Peoples Temple and the Jonestown (the CIA Medical/Concentration Camp Experiment) mass murder/suicides; Howard Hughes (CIA Asset), after the industrialist’s death in 1976; and the case of John Linley Frazier, who was convicted of killing ophthalmologist Victor Ohta and his family and secretary. The Late Great Mae Brussell theorized that Dr. Ohta’s death was related to a mysterious pair of prescription glasses left by professional assassins found and suppressed at the horrific murder scene of the Manson/Sharon Tate Murder Scene. (See, http://www.maebrussell.com/Bibliography%20Sheets/627s1.html)

In 1958, Dr. Lunde graduated from Stanford University, the Handmaiden of the Medical-Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. After three years in the Navy, he returned to Stanford Medical School. After getting his medical degree in 1966, he took a master’s degree in psychology, and then did three years of residency before being hired by the Stanford faculty joining Dr. James A. Hamilton, the CIA Station Chief at California Medical Facility at Vacaville and a host of other Stanford CIA consultants and assets.

In 1994 two state assembly members “courting-tough-on-crime votes revamped section 707 of the penal code, making it easier to try Black and Brown adolescences, including toddlers under six years old, accused of serious offenses in the adult system. Paul S. D. Berg, as a forensic pathologist, testified in at least three or four dozen of these 707 hearings for the prosecution.

SEBRON FLENAUGH JR., “May the Force Be With You”

Following his arrest by the Oakland Police Department (OPD), Officer Gary Premavera testified in People v. Flenaugh (Case No. 890224) that from out of nowhere Flenaugh bellowed, “May the Force Be With You”,  then there was a long pause, and heavy breating and signs. The officers were rather stunned and dumbfounded by Flenaugh’s appeal to “The Force.” Flenaugh was without doubt deranged, but his reference to “The Force” was obliviously to George Lucas’ Star War Trilogy, and “The Force”. Jedi Knights were endowed with “the Force “. Jedi Knights were the heroes and guardians of the universe. Jedi Knights represented all that was justice, and righteous.

The Jedi is a mythical warrior/monkish caste developed by George Lucas in the motion picture Star War Trilogy. Lucas’s futuristic space age Jedi Warrior Caste was based on the mythical fables of the Anglo-Saxon King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the “Sons of the Sun” of antiquity, and the Cult of the SS. Lucas’s Jedi Knights are endowed with metaphysical powers of the   “The Force”.

Metaphysical powers have dubious definitions. Dr. Betrain Russell defined metaphysical as man assimilated to machines, back to cybernetics and MK-ULTRA Gregory Bateson. Russell was a former director of CIA MK-ULTRA collaborator, the National Institute of Mental Health. Russell was one of the early collaborators with Dr. Bateson that created the field of cybernetics.

The definition for Force is rather uniform. Force is power exerted against will or consent. Force implies constraint of will. Force is a constraining power compulsion, strength directed to an end. The Force that Lucas envisioned in his Star War Trilogy remains vague. He refers to “The Force” as trusting your natural instincts, and intuition. Lucas’ Jedi Knights harnessing “The Force” developed supernatural powers that included supernatural reflexes, mind control, telekinesis, remote viewing, and divination.

After death, Jedi Knights become guardian angels, and the protagonists of “The Force.” In 1993, writer Nina Burleigh asked 80 year-old Dr. Sidney Gottieb about the 1953 infamous death of fellow CIA agent Frank Olson in New York, he replied, that he was “on the side of the angels now” and that he had no intention in “talking about the past.” Dr. Gottieb died without revealing anything about the lives that he was responsible for taking and wasting. [7]

Dr. Sidney Gottieb was the notorious director of the CIA’s Division of Technical Services during the CIA’s Artichoke and MK-ULTRA programs. Master hypnotist Dr. Lawrence Kubie, and California Men’s Medical Facility at Vacaville’s station chief, Dr. James Alexander Hamilton, were members and collaborators with Gottieb’s Technical Services.  Technical Services was made up of PhD’s that were responsible for the deaths of world leaders, dissidents, and thousandths of people around the world.  

In it interesting that Dr. Gottieb at death considered himself being among “Angels” guarding the secrets of the CIA just like a Fallen Jedi Knight.

In Lucas’ early scripts, “The Force” emanated from a caste of individuals, and then to a stone that mind controlled others. Lucas’ caste of individuals was born with this special connection to “The Force”. They were the only individuals trained as Jedi Knights.

On that faithful day, Flenaugh was endowed and empowered with “The Force” of a Jedi Knight. Flenaugh acted under compulsion and power of “The Force”, a “Force” that compelled him to follow its command. The command was at that moment to destroy individuals representing the evil force. So at that moment, Flenaugh opened fire with his gun on imagery soldiers and drones of the evil force. Who made him into a “sleeper” Jedi Knight endowed with “The Force”, and then triggered him to kill and maim?

FORCE OF THE VIRL & THE MAKING OF THE JEDI

The SS were Hitler’s elite and pure Anglo Saxons caste born with “The Force of the Virl.” [8]They were the only individuals trained as the SS, the heroes and saviors of the European white race. In Lucas’ 1977 Star Wars film, the Jedi Knights were exclusively “all white.”  Darth Vader, the protagonist’s protector of the evil force, the opposite of the Jedi Knight was dressed in Reichsfurhrer Heinrich Himmler “all black” SS uniform and helmet.  

In May 1974, Lucas introduced the Jedi Bendu in a movie script, who were the chief architects of the Invincible Imperial Force and personal bodyguards of the Emperor/Sovereign, and pitted them against the evil Knights of the Sith, a sinister warrior sect. [9]

The SS was Adolf Hitler’s bodyguards pitted against the Jews, allegedly sinister and evil sub human specie. Lucas’ Star War’s Invincible Imperial Force and Darth Vader may have been in fact based on Himmler’s SS and Force of the Virl. [10]

REAGAN & THE “STAR WARS” STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITATIVE PROJECT

In 1983, Lucas released the last of this Star Wars Trilogy, “The Return of the Jedi”, opening in movie theaters throughout the United States. On March 8, 1983, then President of the United States, the extremely Fascist Ronald Reagan, former Governor of California, revealed to the public the administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative Project, commonly referred to as the “Star Wars” defense initiative. Basically, the United States was committing resources to develop a Tesla technology space-age defense program to defend the United States from enemy aerial, rocket and missile attack.  

Two weeks later, President Reagan referred to Russia as the “Evil Empire.” Naturally, the concept of Lucas’s Jedi Knights combating the “Evil Empire” with the power of “The Force” was adopted as policy by the highest political powers of the United States. Flenaugh specifically told authorities after his arrest that the forces against him were the “CCCP”, the Russians.        

The Strategic Defense Initiative basically came out of Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Fred W. Redding, Jr. of SRI is generally credited with developing the concept. Stanford University’s Dr. Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, was one of the most powerful protagonists of Reagan’s Star Wars program. Dr. Teller promoted a Star Wars weapons system to be based on the North Slope of Alaska. [11] Sebron Flenaugh’s family lost track of him in Alaska for approximately four (4) years. Also, his brother, Ronnie Flenaugh, had just come from someplace in Alaska right before his 1971 assassination.      

In 1993, it was publicly revealed as part of the secret Strategic Defense “Star Wars” Initiative that U.S. Army Colonel, John B. Alexander, had developed the “Jedi Project.”  The Jedi Project aims was to seek and “construct teachable models of behavior/physical excellence using unconventional means.

According to Col. Alexander, the Jedi Project was to be a follow-up to Neuro-Linquistic Programming skills. By using the influence of Major General Albert Stubblebine, he managed to fund the Jedi Project. The original idea was to show how “human will power and human concentration affect performance more than any other single factor using NLP skills”. NLP was the brainchild of three people, Fritz Erikson, a Gestalt therapist, Virginia Satir, a family therapist, and Erick Erickson, a hypnotist of the Mental Health Research Institute of SRI at Stanford. [12]

Prior to 1988, Col. Alexander and General Stubblebine help organize the First Earth Battalion which in fact sought to create a battalion of mind controlled “Jedi Warriors”. [13]

FLENAUGH & U.S. Naval Medical Center:  Human experimenation & assassin’s Den 

On Sebron, Jr.’s application for employment with Wells, he stated that he went to Oakland Tech from 1958 to 1961. Death Angel William E. Mapp was a student of McClymonds High School, but was frequently at Tech. 

Flenaugh said that he attended some type of university with the mind control complicit U.S. Air Force from 1961 to 1965. He failed to set out any major or area of training provided by the Air Force.  It was rather strange that all of Sebron, Jr.’s Air Force background and training would just qualify him for a civilian “housekeeper” job at the naval Hospital in San Diego.  

Sebron, Jr. had 4 years Air Force experience and training in some field, which he never specified or explained on the application.  He also had Air Force Reserve experience and training in some field, which again he never specified or explained.         

After the shootings, nobody seemed to know just what Sebron, Jr. did in the U.S. Air Force for 13 years. It was a big mystery. Sebron had attained the rank of E-6, technical sergeant. He was a good soldier in something.           

Sebron’s last place of employment before the shootings was at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego. Flenaugh worked there from 1975 to 1984. The hospital was a documented MK-ULTRA institution.

 “In Santee, California, a 15-year-old student killed two classmates at his high school and wounded another 13 people before his arrest. The father of the shooter at Santee High School worked in experimental activities at the Army’s Fort Detrick for thirteen years, and was currently working at the Naval “Medical” Center in San Diego; a location where a number of victims of U.S. Government mind-control experiments have testified they’ve been experimented on and subjected to various mind-control procedures. Fort Detrick has been, at least the 1960’s, a primary testing ground for conditioning the minds of selected subjects with very carefully designed regimes and programs; much of which, for example, consisted of constantly, repeatedly immersing subjects into virtual-realty type computer/video “games” and “exercises” of utterly brutal and utterly graphic raw violence, murder and mayhem. This non-stop immersion of subjects into these kinds of activities causes a root-level meltdown in their psychological/ethical/spiritual intergrity and causes a great majority of them to become greatly desensitized to perpetrating deadly violence, particularly when reinforced in other ways by their controllers.” [14]

The U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego was also a virtual reality assassin-training site for the U.S. Navy. According to U.S. Navy psychologist, Lt. Commander Dr. Thomas Narut of the U.S Regional Medical Center in Naples, Italy, the U.S. Navy was an excellent place for a researcher to find “captive personnel” whom they could use as guinea pigs in experiments. The Navy provided all the funding necessary.

Dr. Narut, in a question and answer session with reporters from many nations, revealed how the Navy was secretly programming large number of assassins. He said that he had worked with for the Navy training men that were being prepared for commando-type operations as well as covert operations in the U.S. embassies worldwide. He described the men who went through his program as “hit men and assassins” who could kill on command. 

According to Narut, the assassins were conditioned through “audio-visual desensitization”. The process involved the showing of films of people being injured or killed in a variety of ways, starting with very mild depictions, and leading up to the more extreme forms of mayhem. Eventually, the subjects would be able to detach their feelings even when viewing the most horrible films. The conditioning was most successful when applied to “passive-aggressive” types, and most of these ended up being able to kill without any regrets.

The prime indicator of violent tendencies was the Minnesota Mutiphasic Personality Inventory. Dr. Narut knew of two Navy programming centers, the Neuropsychiatric Laboratory in San Diego and the U.S. Regional Medical Center in Italy, where he worked. Narut divulged the information at an Oslo NATO conference of 120 psychologists from the eleven nation alliance. [15] The Neuropsychiatric Laboratory in San Diego was at the U.S. Naval Medical Center.

The hospital was also associated with another Bay Area assassin, Nelson Sims. In August 1996, Diallo Earl Uhuru AKA Nelson Sims shot Lacy Hawkins in Union City, CA.  Hawkins was the founder and head minister of a controversial cult-like fundamentalist church, General Assembly Church. General Assembly has mostly Black congregations in Berkeley, Vallejo, and Union City. [16]   In June of that year, the church made news when 24 current and former Berkeley city employees filed a suit against the city, claiming that their bosses accused them of belonging to a cult. Earl Uhuru was a civilian employee at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego. Uhuru also was linked to the killing of his ex-girlfriend, 28-year old Navy Lieutenant Cheri Michele Washington. Washington also worked at the medical center as a registered nurse. [17]           

In 1975, when Sebron began his work at the Navy Hospital, the CIA also went to work in San Diego on a program to map the brain. In 1975, the CIA funded a secret program at $100,000 per year at the San Diego Children’s Hospital and Health Center’s Speech, Hearing and Neuromemory Center that involved “visual evoked responses” recorded electronically from brain waves and analyzed by computers. 

Experiments on human volunteers, most of them members of the hospital staff, administrators and friends had been conducted for two years. Dr. Albert Lawrence headed the experiments. Subjects responded to pictures of faces flashed on screens. Some are familiar, some are unfamiliar. Familiar faces evoke a different brain wave pattern than unfamiliar faces, and the computer can tell the difference even if the subject said nothing. Very interesting!          

According to the director of the project, accuracy of identification by computer had reached as high as eighty percent. He also mentioned that the results of the experiments would be combined with clinical trails at the children’s hospital. The CIA asked the hospital not to discuss the project. However, the hospital’s medical director and hospital officials later decided it disliked the idea of secrecy and told the CIA they wanted to be able to talk freely about work. The CIA experiment was exposed in a San Diego Union article by Lew Scarr entitled “CIA Funds Project At Hospital Here, September 27, 1977. [18]

Nevertheless the hospital officials’ dislike of the CIA’s idea of secrecy, secrecy is CIA’s policy. The CIA hardly if ever brief citizens without top-secret clearances and the “need to know” on the existence or objectives of clandestine experiments. These “visual evoked responses” experiments appear to be expansion of earlier “subliminal” research as exposed by notorious Tavistock controller and writer, Aldous Huxley: “Then there is the extremely interesting work in this field which is being done at the University of Ohio [Ohio State University] by Dwight Sherman and Samuel Renshaw. Sherman is professor of art and has devised methods of art teaching which are described in his Drawing through Seeing. In his school a very ingenious and, I believe, extraordinarily effective technique has been developed for getting the superficial self out of the way and leaving the seeing of the object to be drawn and the execution of the drawing to the more infallible Not-Self. Part of this technique was borrowed from Dr. Renshaw, of the same university’s psychology department, who trained very large number of soldiers during the war to recognized airplanes, and distinguish friendly from hostile models, by projecting slides of the various types upon a magic lantern screen for times ranging from a hundredth of a second down to tow thousandth. At first all protested that it was impossible for them to distinguish one type from another; and this was, of course, quite true for the superficial self. But the Not-Self had seen quite clearly, and when they learn to get out of the way and ‘let George do it’, they all acquired the art of seeing anything in a hundredth of a second, while some could do the trick at a much faster rate. Incidentally, many myopes came out of the training without myopia. This work has been applied in the kindergarten training of children in Chicago, I believe; but I have never seen any full description of this, only a passing reference…But the work is obviously of major importance and you should get hold of as many of his original papers as possible and examine them in light of our basic ideas.”[19]

Renshaw’s early experiments with “subliminal” training were keys to the development of Narut’s virtual reality assassins conditioned through “audio-visual desensitization”. The CIA’s “visual evoked responses” experiments with electronically recorded brain waves analyzed by computers would certain provide intelligence agencies with a mind control fool proof system. Myope refers to a person who has the defect of vision called myopia; a nearsighted person.

There should be little doubt that Seabron was made into a virtually reality prototype NLP (Force) based experimental Jedi Warrior that was programmed to shoot imagery enemy combatants supplanted in his subconscious mind anchored with post-hypnotic keys, and triggers.

FLENAUGH & PSI-REMOTE VIEWING AND MIND CONTROL 

There is more suggestive evidence of Sebron’s possible connection to covert military intelligence mind control programs. On his employment application with Wells Security, Sebron listed some educational experience, which may be linked to covert military intelligence objectives, “LAWTON SCHL. PSI-”. What did Sebron Jr. mean by PSI? 

PSI refers to parapsychology and the paranormal. Psi has been of particular interest and usage by certain group of individuals and agencies associated with highly classified military intelligence mind control programs since the 1930’s. Psi experiments by U.S. military and intelligence agencies were conducted under operations: BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MKDELTA, OFTEN, BELFRY, CAMELOT, DANCER, HAARP, HIGH TONE, MKDRACO, PANDROA, REACH, WATCHTOWER, XENO, and MONARCH.  

During the late 60’s and early 70’s, there was quite a bit of classified intelligence research and experimentation involving paranormal remote viewing and mind control. One of the leaders in this field was the S factor again, Stanford University and Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

In 1974, PROJECT OFTEN replaced MKULTRA and was exclusive PSI in nature. The Department of Defense was also operating OPERATION ADVANCED RESEARCH, which was a blend of PSI and mind control. [20] One of the components was the use of twins in parapsychological research, one ‘in country’ and another within a safe or neutral zone. [21]           

Around 1976, SRI’s remote viewing military program was introduced to high military officials as ELF and mind control. ELF refers to extremely low frequency sound waves. Dr. Sam Koslov, scientific assistant to the secretary of the Navy, received a briefing on various work projects, including those at SRI. Among the headings on the screen describing SRI’s work included “ELF AND MIND CONTROL”.            

Extremely low frequency and electromagnetic radiation has an effect on the central nervous system and has been studied by the military under various projects such as Pandora, Sanguine, and others.          

In 1972, Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ led SRI’s remote viewing program, PROJECT SCANGATE. Science Unlimited Research Foundation in San Antonio, TX originally funded the program.  Others involved in the project were Ingo Swann, Cleve Backster, Uri Geller, Andrija Puharich, Pat Price, and Ray Hyman.           

Hal Puthoff worked with the National Security Agency (NSA), and had been a Naval Intelligence officer. Swann had top-secret clearance. Backster was a heavy CIA Interrogation Specialist connected parapsychologist. Backster worked with naval intelligence in San Diego. Backster was famous for writing the book, “The Secret Life of Plants.” In that book, Backster proved that plants emitted ELF sound waves, and were in fact influenced by them. Backster may have been SRI’s remote viewing contact with military and particularly naval intelligence. Backster’s research was similar to the work of Dr. Valerie Hunt of UCLA involving human ELF fields.

Dr. Hunt and Pat Price was at Agnews State Mental Hospital when Sebron’s brother Ronnie was programmed to be a Death Angel-Zebra Assassin. Russell Targ would also become involved in acquiring “Alternative House” in Oakland. Alternative House at 32^nd off Telegraph Avenue was the site of Maalik Al Maalik’s 1972 killing of Ronnie’s co-religionist Paul Cook.           

Sound wave (ELF) mind control techniques were also subject of experimentation on inmates at CMF at Vacaville with CIA Station Chief Dr. James A. Hamilton and SRI. Dr. Hamilton was at Letterman Hospital with one of the suspected earliest Black Manchurian Candidates, Ewell Lee Danielly. 

Some of the e remote-viewing experiments involved using longitude and latitude, which identified military bases, and satellite listening, posts. The coordinates were picked by a National Security Agency monitor and transmitted to a CIA agent at SRI.       

In 1977, the Naval Electronics Systems Command contacted SRI for “an investigation of the ability of certain individuals to perceive remote faint electromagnetic stimuli at a noncognitive (non perceptual or intellectual) level of awareness.”[22] In other words, the remote control of individuals through subliminal messages, keys, and triggers.        

According to Andrija Puharich, a secret Navy project researching psychic power was begun in 1948 called PROJECT PENQUIN. The project was headed by Rexford Daniels; another participant was Army Colonel Jack Cooney, the head of the medical branch of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. The well known psychic Peter Hurkos was among those tested during the course of the Navy program. [23]     

Possibly as a byproduct of this research, in 1952 Puharich presented a research paper to the Pentagon titled “On the Possible Usefulness of Extrasensory Perception in Psychological Warfare” and, well in advance of the more-touted Soviet research on such matters. Puharich lectured the Army, Air Force and Navy on the possibility of using extrasensory power for mind war.[24]     

Puthoff says that the remote viewing project also focused on studying the possible threat of psi in the enemy hands than on actual operations. However, Ingo Swann and Pat Price, founder of the Esalen Institute, did view many military targets as part of their experiments, including viewing domestic targets such as the Patty Hearst kidnapping case.       

Under contract to the Army, SRI chemists also studied psychoactive components like LSD for their potential as chemical-warfare agents. [25]        

Puthoff and Targ researched mind-machine interfaces in context with the remote viewing project. [26]  Many of SRI’s remote viewing researchers were involved with Scientology and conducted most of the early psi experiments. [27]      

Puthoff had been at OT (Operating Thetan) Level III at the time of the remote-viewing experiments. He wrote the preface to Scientology: a Religion. He was also married in a Scientology church. [28]       

Ingo Swann was at OT (Operating Thetan) Level VII, the highest level. He presented a paper entitled: “Scientological Techniques: A Modern Paradigm for the Exploration of Consciousness and Psychic Integration”. [29]         

Swann allegedly told John Wilhelm that there were a total of fourteen “clears” (top-secret clearance) working at SRI. [30]  Out of SRI’s research and experimentation stemming from PROJECT SCANGATE, Col. Alexander and Stubblebine’s First Earth Battalion was formed. The First Earth Battalion was an advanced version of Jedi assassins created at the U. S. Navy’s neuropsychiatry laboratory in San Diego. 

Another company involved in PSI was PSI-Tech of Los Angeles. Major Ed Dames founded PSI Tech in 1989. Vice President of the company was Jonina Dourif with John L. Turner as a monitor. Board members included again our Col. John B. Alexander and General Albert Stubblebine. Employees included former microwave scientist and specialist at Kirkland Air Force Base, Ron Blackburn. 

PSI had received several government contracts. For example, during the Gulf War crisis the Department of Defense asked it to use remote viewing to locate Saddam’s Scud missiles sites. In 1992, the FBI sought PSI-Tech’s assistance to locate a kidnapped Exxon executive. [31]

In late 1991, during the Gulf War, PSI-Tech provided intelligence on Saddam Hussein to the National Security Council, and located Iraq’s hidden biological warfare stockpiles for the United Nations.”My (Ed Dames) company’s most interesting current assignment is to locate and identify the UNABOMBER. We are working hand-in-hand with law enforcement agencies to hunt the UNABOMBER down.” [32]

“According to Ed Dames, during a Pentagon evaluation in 1988 three paper shredders burned out while destroying documents.” [33] Was the shredding of documents related to the Sebron Flenaugh, Jr., the Jedi Assassin and the Concord shootings? 1988 was an election year. The United States Presidential Republican candidate was George W. Bush, former director of the CIA

FLENAUGH & THE RAVEN: DR. JACK VERONA   

One of the most surprising of Flenaugh’s defense trial witnesses found in his court file in Martinez, California was Jack Varona.

Flenaugh’s public defender simply misspelled Varona. It can be no other than DR. Jack Verona, THE RAVEN. [34] Jack Verona appears in J. Schnabel’s Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America Psychic Spies. [35] According to Schnabel, “As one of the Pentagon’s top scientists, Verona was privy to some of the strangest, most secret research projects ever conceived. Grill Flame was just one. Another was code-named Sleeping Beauty: it was a Defense Department study of remote microwave mind-influencing techniques…”[36]

Project Sleeping Beauty remains a CIA classified program. Schnabel listed the notorious CIA-MK ULTRA contractor Dr. Louis Joylon West as an Interview Source and said that Dr. West was a, “Member of medical oversight board for Science Applications International Corp. remote-viewing research in the early 1990’s.

In 1981, Operation Grill-Flame was one of the first Remote Viewing programs, from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).  General Albert Stubblebine Commanding General of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command was put in charge. [37]Grill-Flame was renamed Operation Center Lane. The program had originally been run by DR. Jack Verona, a nuclear physicist and head of the DIA’s Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate, who simultaneously ran a DIA mind-control program called “Sleeping Beauty” that dealt with the offensive use of microwave weapons. 

It is not unusual for some of the high ranking powerful master minds hiding behind the mask such as Dr. Jack Verona to appear in the final criteria, the disposal of the Manchurian Candidate after operations. They become necessary to severely compromise any trial, or defense that would expose covert operations of the government. Even though amnesia is a complete defense, Flenaugh’s trial was compromised. He was found guilty of first degree murder and confined to solitary confinement in state prison for life with restricted visitation, drug therapy that keep him in a zombie trance for the rest of his life, and little or no access to inmate populations

In the final analysis, Sebron Flenaugh, Jr. had been a good soldier. His Yoda had been Reagan’s richly endowed STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITATIVE PROJECT.  It is not too far out of the box to believe that Flenaugh had volunteered to help his country in an experimental secret governmental program. My father had done the same to his detriment to support the war effort and defense of the country.

But what Flenaugh and my father had no way of knowing was that the very enemy that this country openly identified and accepted as universal enemies of world peace such as the Nazis and the SS (The World’s Greatest Racial Mass Murder Cult) were secretly brought into the country to make prey of them and their children; and their children’s children.  

FLENAUGH & THE REICHSTAG FIRE

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. -Adolf Hitler-

Flenaugh was unwittingly setup in a hideous trick bag.  Flenaugh fate was not unlike Marinus Van der Lubbe “The Nazi’s Patsy” convicted and executed for the infamous 1933 Reichstag Fire in Berlin that propelled Adolf Hitler and the Nazis into absolute power.

After the fire, Van de Lubbe was found by the Gestapo cowering behind the Reichstag building, the house of the first parliament of the German Empire. Van de Lubbe had been a mental patient who lived as a vagabond and entertained grand delusions. On the forty-second day of his trial, he talked about “inner voices” that commanded him and demanded that he be put to death. [38] Van de Lubbe’s trial was compromised. He was convicted by a German court and executed. He was guillotined in a Leipzig prison yard on January 10, 1934. [39]

According to Nazi propaganda, the Reichstag fire was intended as a signal for a feared national communist uprising that had long been planned. The Nazis had deliberately set the fire and setup Van de Lubbe as a patsy to scare the people into turning Germany into a Nazi dictatorship and strong-arm fascist state to fight off a sham communist menace.

Again, Flenaugh’s deadly spree was politically opportune. It occurred during the June 1988 presidential primary race of former CIA director, George Herbert Walker Bush. The senseless slaughter and maiming of innocent white people by a deranged out of control Blackman had sensational political ramifications that at least indirectly furthered and aided the Republican Party’s “Law and Order” platform and agenda, and propel Bush as a strong-arm fascist president into the Whitehouse.    

75 years after the Reichstag fire, Van de Lubbe was finally pardoned and exonerated of the crime by a 1998 law. [40]Will it take that long to free Flenaugh and uncover the “small knot of people” behind the mask that setup Flenaugh as a “patsy” and sham Jedi Knight to further their agenda to turn the world over to a Nazi-like aristocratic oligarchic fascist state envisioned by Frances Parker Yockey in the Imperium? [41]

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[2] The multiple victims and survivors in the shootings filed suit against Sebron, Wells Security, and the landowner for negligence, Alameda County Courthouse, Webster, et. al, vs. Flenaugh, et al. (1988) Case No. 641939, Deposition of Robert Webster

[3] Supra, note 1, Deposition of Angela Tewell

[4] Supra, note 1, Deposition of Jane Richards

[5] Supra, note 1, Deposition of Doug Wells

[6] Kaiser, Robert Blair, R.F.K. Must Die! New York: Grove Press, 1970

[7] Albarelli, H.P. Jr., Part Two: The Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson, Crime Magazine, May 19, 2003; http://crimemagazine.com/olson2.htm

[8] http://www.echoesofenoch.com/Musium13%20vril_society.htm

[9] Edwards, Ted, The Unauthorized Star Wars Compendium, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, London, 1999

[10] http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_stormtrooper

[11]  Begich, Nick Dr., Manning, Jeane, Angels Don’t Play This HAARP, Earthpulse Press, P.O. Box 201393, Anchorage, Alaska, 1995, citing Letter from David Yarrow to Gar Smith, Earth Island Journal, August 18, 1995, pg. 153

[12] Id.

[13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Alexander

[14] http://www.geminiwalker-ink.net/HellSchoolShootings.html

[15] http://www.xontek.com/Advanced Technology/Mind_Control/Mind%20Control-The_Cur…

[16] http://www.rickross.com/reference/lacey_hawkins/lacey_hawkins4.html

[17] SF Chronicle, Union City Minister shot-Ex congregant Held, 8/24/96

[18] Keith, Jim, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, IllumiNet Press, Liburn, GA, 1999, pg. 216

[19] Smith, Grover, Letters of Aldous Huxley, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York and Evanston, pages 615-616, (the notes were part of a letter written in 1952 to Alan Watts)

[20] Wilhelm, “Psychic Spying.” The Washington Post, August 2, 1977, B1

[21] Ebon, M. Psychic Warfare: Threat or Illusion? NY. McGraw Hill, 1983

[22] McRae, Ronald, Mind Wars, St. Martin’s Press, 1984, pg. 5, http://mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/places.html

[23] Keith, Milner, pg. 208, Terry. Rattling Out Puharich. Excerpt from unpublished book, 1996

[24] Keith, pg. 208; Constantine, Alex. Virtual Government. CIA Mind Control Operation in America. Vencie, CA: Feral House, 1997; Wihelm, John, “Psychic Spying? Washington Post, August 7, 1977; McRae, Ron. Mind Wars, St. Martin Press, 1984

[25] Supra, note 5, page 94

[26] R. Targ, P.Cole and H.E. Puthoff, “Techniques to Enhance Man/Machine Communication,” Stanford Research Institute Final Report on NASA Project NAS7-100 (August 1972)

[27] http://mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/places.html

[28] Supra, note 5, page 108

[29] Proceedings of the First International Congress on Psychotropic Research (Virginia: U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, 9/6/74, Document No. JPRS L/5022-1) at the First International Congress on Psychotropic Research in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

[30] Wilhelm, John, The Search for Superman, as reviewed in chapter 30 of Gardner, Martin, Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Prometheus Books, 1981, page 320-1; Wilhelm, John, “Psychic Spying?” Washington Post 8/7/77, B1)

[31] http://mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/places.html

[32] Supra, note 12

[33] Keith, Jim, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, IllumiNet Press, Liburn, GA, pg. 213

[34] http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/places.html

[35] Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America Psychic Spies. New York: Dell, 1997

[36] Schnabel, id, at pg. 220

[37] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine

[38] Keith, Jim, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, IllumiNet Press, Lilburn, GA, 1999, pg. 15

[39] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_van_der_Lubbe

[40] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/12/secondworldwar.germany

[41] http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-598-interview-with-kevin-coogan-about-francis-parker-yockey/

We are fascinated with privacy. Gossip magazines, stories about dual identities and secret affairs, and TV shows like Lie to Me and Big Brother disclose this fascination of ours pretty obviously. There is something alluring about the possibility of a secret identity, a secret relationship, secret passions, a secret past. At the same time there is something comforting, warm and even liberating about a secret place, a secret hobby, a secret dream, a secret song, a secret ability –  a secret thought-life which is not open for others to critique, question, probe or trample all over.

But is this a good thing? I realise this is a pretty broad question to throw up – is privacy in all instances and at all times an excellent or a harmful thing? – but it’s an important question. What reactions do you immediately have to it?

A friend has recently introduced me to the prose of Joan Didion. She is a brilliant writer, penning some real insights about human nature and American life. Writing in the 1960s, she has this to say about America’s fascination with millionaire Howard Hughes:

Why have we made a folk hero of a man who is the antithesis of all our official heroes, a haunted millionaire out of the west, trailing a legend of desperation and white sneakers? But then we have always done that. Our favourite people and our favourite stories become so not by any inherent virtue, but because they illustrate something deep in the grain, something unadmitted…That we have made a hero out of Howard Hughes tells us something interesting about ourselves, something only dimly remembered, tells us that the secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake, but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one’s own rules.

Of course we do not admit that…There has always been divergence between our officials and our unofficial heroes. Hughes is the last private man, the hero we no longer admit.

-          Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1967), p. 71-72

In this excerpt Didion suggests that the reason Americans made a hero out of Hughes was because he was a symbol of complete freedom. Legends circulated that he would buy up entire hotels for just him to use, that he would buy movie stars to only work in his movies, that he would pay a barber large amounts of money to be standing-by 24/7 in case he ever wanted a haircut. His money and his power were the means to mobility and privacy. This is both an interesting suggestion about why money and power (often thought to be materialistic ends in themselves) are so valued, and also a dark suggestion about what desires may actually drive human beings.  A suggestion that there is something destructive embedded within the American dream.

There is a delicious irony to Didion’s suggestion. America secretly admired a man who has complete privacy, because it would not be publicly polite to admit that you actually value and desire privacy above all things. America secretly admired the man who had the means to live completely secretly.

Perhaps contemporary fascination with promiscuous NRL players, outspoken radio personalities, adulterous politicians, and idle hedonists like Paris Hilton, is generated from that same place as America’s fascination with Hughes.

Christianity has bad news for those who would chase all their life after ‘personal freedom, mobility, privacy’ as the greatest good in life. And it has a word of warning to those of us who love our privacy a little too much:

The sins of some men are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.  (1 Timothy 5.24)

…Either way, they appear. Privacy is in fact, a myth. Don’t romanticize it, let alone secretly chase after more and more of it.

Several months ago I answered a Facebook questionnaire that asked “which fictional heroine are you?” I had hoped to learn I was Elizabeth Bennett or Fanny Price but to my embarrassment I ended up being likened to Bridget Jones.

I thought hard about this when I was making sauce from the tomatoes in my garden after the food processor splashed sauce across my face and clothing.  I stood still for a moment and marveled at the accuracy of the Facebook survey as I wiped my face, shirt, the wall, and then blotted at my hair.

A few weeks ago I received an email from Match.com that said I could peek at profiles for free. I hadn’t considered dating but was doddling online and thought taking a peek might be fun. What I didn’t realize was that in order to peek I’d have to set up my own profile which was subsequently uploaded to their site and people could peek at me too. From the moment my profile went live men started to wink at me and send emails.

Sending a wink is a way to say I noticed you without sending an email. The wink recipient can then decide to wink back, send an instant message if they’re online , email or reply with a polite “no thank you”. What I quickly learned was that the free trial I signed up for didn’t allow me to read or reply to any emails I received, if I wanted full access to my account I would have to  pay for a full membership. After collecting  hundreds hits in 24 hours and amusing myself by sliding around the website winking at complete strangers I decided to join for 30 days just for fun but  within the first week I accepted my first date.

Days before my first date, I had an allergic reaction while picking green beans in the community garden for the food shelf. My eyes puffed, grew bloodshot and I developed black circles.  I considered rescheduling the date mortified to have to introduce myself looking older than my mother but I bit down, kept the date and went anyway. There was no easy way to say, I honestly don’t look like this without sounding like a twit…so I smiled, drank wine and made the best of it.

Despite looking comparatively like hell, Date 1 has continued to stay in touch and even asked me out again. I couldn’t go on the second date because I was busy that day.  I still hadn’t shaken the eye irritation so I made an appointment to see my doctor. Days before my doctors appointment I asked a man from Match  to take me to dinner for my birthday after shamelessly flirting with him and he agreed.  I arranged to come into town on a Monday and booked the  hotel room through Wednesday since he lived in a neighboring state.

The Friday before my trip I went to the doctor who said my allergic reaction turned into a bacterial infection and he gave me a prescription. This seemed perfect because I could start on the medicine that day, take it all weekend and be on the mend by the time I left Monday. Unfortunately the medication made me so sick that I slept nearly all day on Sunday.  I discontinued use of the prescription hoping to be well enough to leave on Monday, electing to deal with the prescription issue when I returned.

By this time the circles under my eyes were even worse and it was causing pressure in my ears and I had another date…with a guy I really sort of liked. I would have liked to have rescheduled but I knew that he had already arranged his schedule to spend time with me, so  canceling at the last minute seemed like a deal-breaker . When I arrived in town, my head sort of hurt so before calling to tell him I had arrived  I freshened up by running a wash cloth under the faucet and pressing it to my eyes. I had not realized that the water temperature was fifty times hotter than anything my own faucets would produce and I burned the paper thin skin around my eyes and seared the very edges of my eyelids to a puffy pink color, “silly Bridget…”

By the time I left the hotel room the tissue around my eyes had more hash marks than a press release and I wanted to stay under the blankets of my bed. I took a deep breath, told myself that  I wasn’t a whining child and resolved to just buck up and make the best of it. When my date pulled up to pick me up in a Porsche Boxster convertible,  I exhaled the word “shit” out loud in the hotel lobby. He was expecting to meet the girl in the picture I had posted on my profile and I was pretty sure I looked more like her mother. Honestly, if there were ever a moment in my life when I wanted to slam the pause button hard, look at the heavens and say…”okay, I hope you’re amused but this time I want a do-over,” it was then.

To make matters worse, we had only discussed eating out once and maybe taking a walk together so I was under the impression we’d get together once for sure and maybe twice to go for a walk. With that in mind I packed to spend the remainder of my time bicycling or hiking in the state park. I brought one very dressy dress for dinner and hiking clothes, as fate would have it,  he only worked until noon each day then spent the remainder of his time showing me around town. He was fun and funny and seemed to think I was amusing even when I wasn’t trying to be. I scolded myself because I didn’t grab even one cute summer dress or a pair of kitten heels.

At one point he asked if I ever wore heels,then laughed and said, then how tall are you 5′2?  He was of course right, but  it was perhaps good that he couldn’t see the mountain of shoes,  boots and cocktail dresses in my bedroom… shut away like  Howard Hughes.

When I left  he said he’d get in touch with me next time he came through town and I assume he probably will …like stopping to visit a sister:)  I sent him a note thanking him for a wonderful time, because it really was and he sent an email saying he enjoyed my company.

When I arrive home I stopped to see my Mother and told her about scalding my eyes, I thought she might say it wasn’t that bad but she looked at me and said, “oh!”  Real surprised which meant I wasn’t exaggerating.  As of yesterday, my eyes began looking somewhat normal again. The infection is gradually dissipating and the scalded skin around my eyes is starting to rejuvenate…on to date 3, 4 & 5.  Fortunately,  there was no fireman’s pole, my skirt didn’t fly up because I didn’t bring one (although it might have taken the focus off my eyes…note to self…) and my bottom isn’t the size of Brazil.  Que sera sera.

…maybe I should date the professional opera singer next.

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The following Hollywood Gossip originally appeared in The Milwaukee Sentinel, the Eugene Register-Guard and the Toledo Blade on September 2, 1954.

Jolly chap, this Groucho Marx.  When he was in deah ol’ London recently, he was asked if hed like to visit the queen.  “Righto,” he beamed.  “What’s her address?”  Smashing–eh, wot?

Recently in Hollywood, according to a clipping forwarded by Herbert Israel, a woman was fined for speeding on Ventura Blvd.  “It was a beautiful night,” she explained to the judge.  “My top was down and I was just trying to keep up with Liberace to get a good look at him.”

The world’s smallest portable radio with a full-size four-inch speaker was introduced the other day by CBS-Columbia.  The radio is smaller than digest magazine size.

Howard Hughes is skippering a big chartered boat down around Miami and Havana—and Ava Gardner’s friends say she’s often his first mate.

Gloria Vanderbilt, now 30 and mother of two, told the Boston Post she wants to make the stage her career. . . and hopes to crash Broadway.

Johnny Ray’s ex, Marilyn Morrison, gets six dozen roses a day from Cal Kirby, California vending machine owner.  Asked about Johnny Ray, she said, “Isn’t he the fellow who makes records?”

Kyle MacDonnell, one of TV’s first stars, went to Las Vegas to star at the Thunderbird and reportedly to split from TV packager Richard Gordon Jr.

Christian Dior lost the Battle of the Bust (turns out, as we predicted, he’s not for flat women after all).  The only thing flat is his face when he fell on it.

Mom Dorsey, mother of Tommy and Jimmy, has become a TV guest star at 80.  After she made a speech on her sons’ program the other night, Jackie Gleason invited her to be a guest on his opening show Sept. 25.  Her speech on her sons’ show was:  “We now pause for station identification.”

I wonder if Red Skelton had anybody in mind in his prison sketch on TV?  He was playing a prisoner.  His wife was visiting him outside his cell.  “What about the governor’s pardon?” he asked anxiously.  “It’s coming through,” she said.  “The governor’ll be let out next week.”

BeBe Shopp, Miss America ‘48—the one who played the vibraharp and who told the British reporters off good when they asked her about falsies—marries Air Force Lt. David Waring in Minneapolis Sept. 18.

The HARWYN—most amazingly successful restaurant in recent N.Y. history—won’t be a year old till Nov. 17.  Frank Harris (he’s the Har) and Ed Wynn (he’s the Wyn) have a simple success secret:  “Be nice to people.”

Arthur Krim, president of United Artists, is in Europe to buy out Charlie Chaplin’s shares of the company.

Margaret Whiting and Dick Gray are set to marry this weekend.

Joe Glaser set a European tour for Duke Ellington.

Singer Lillian Roth has sold her best-seller about Boston and alcoholism (“I’ll Cry Tomorrow”) to MGM for $100,000.  Susan Hayward’ll star in it.

Jackie Heller, Pittsburgh comic and cafe operator, is becoming a partner of Alan Gale in his big N.Y. Celebrity Club.

Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows leave next week on their delayed honeymoon.

Lana Turner and Lex Barker battled out loud at Sonja Henie’s H’wood party.

Victor Mature makes a hangout of the publicity room—room 221—in the administration building at 20th Century-Fox Studios. . .  So the publicists have given him a “private office.”  There’s an inner door, No. 221-1/2, lettered “Victor Mature.” . . .  But if wide-eyed feminine visitors head for the door to see what Vic’s private office looks like, one of the publicists stops them short.  Room 221-1/2, it develops, is the gentlemen’s washroom.

Animal handlers were key men in shooting scenes near St. George, Utah, for “The Conqueror,” a John Wayne-Susan Hayward movie concerning the armies of Genghis Khan. . . .  The sequences in the desert included the use of 900 horses, 500 head of oxen, 200 goats and sheep, a black leopard, two camels, four pumas, a dancing bear, assorted mongrel dogs and a dozen snakes. . . .  It required 62 men to handle the animals during six weeks of filming.  Producer-Director Dick Powell says not a single animal was injured or died of the heat.

Shelley Winters is being explosive on the set of “Night of the Hunter”—her temperament causing her to bar all visitors, including the press.  The rest of the cast is eagerly awaiting a blowup when Shelley clashes with Charles Laughton, who is directing the picture.

Brando’s coming back and high proteins have got him.  Evidently Marlon plans to breeze into town next week.  He’s wired his personal victual consultant, Smitty of the Sixth Ave. Gristede’s, to have seven pounds of his specially prepared chopped meat ready for him.

“Miss Universe” (Miriam Stevenson) carries one letter with her wherever she goes.  It’s a love note from her home town beau, a lad currently in Korea.

A few hours before she left for California, a cutie-pie Debbie Reynolds confided there “won’t be any engagement announced until Eddie gets to Hollywood”—which will be in about two weeks.  But her trousseau has been ordered.  (The curve-hugging blue satin number she wore on “What’s My Line?” was Ceil Chapman’s latest.)

Feeling strong?  Eileen Barton swears her favorite breakfast dish is a Hungarian concoction she got from her grandmother:  spaghetti, fried onions, cream cheese, salt and pepper.  Breakfast!

Those who’ve previewed the up-coming Ray bolger show (ABC-TV) predict the format—plus Ray’s performing—will put it in the top 10 before the season is very old.

Several persons closely connected with the new Ava Gardner picture, “The Barefoot Contessa,” are carefully letting it “leak out” that the part she plays in the film bears a great resemblance to the real life Rita Hayworth.  (Ava playing a Rita character ought to be fairly hot box office!)

From Hedda Hopper’s column:

Jerry Lewis’ doctor ordered him to bed, cut off the telephone and put a “no visitors” sign up.  His wife, Patti, is beside herself trying to think up ways to keep him amused.  Last weekend she was fresh out of games.

If Ingrid Bergman wants to return to Hollywood, she’s sure got her chance.  Darryl Zanuck cables from Paris that he offered her the role of Countess Amelie Wagner. 

Buddy Adler flew the script of “The Left Hand of God” to France for Zanuck’s approval.  Picture will star Gregory Peck.

Jess Barker, I’m happy to say, has a job.  He’ll be our first Hollywood actor to make a television series—”Shark O’Rourke”—in Lisbon, Portugal, for the American market.  Albert Amateau is at the helm.

The guy who’s writing a series on Patty Andrews should get his facts straight.  He wrote that when she was part of the sister act she was a big success in Las Vegas, but when she went there alone she stayed only one week for a salary of $1,500.  In reality she stayed three weeks and her salary was $6,500 per.

The dog days are hot, but our parties these warm, beautiful nights get better and better.  Dusty and Jean Negulesco staged a farewell dinner for Dorothy and Dick Rodgers in their garden; and while Johnny Green sat at the piano and played every song Rodgers and Hammerstein ever wrote, Dick, Dorothy, and their 17-year-old daughter mouthed the lyrics under their breath.  Rodgers is off to New York to supervise the revival of “On Your Toes.” . . . . . Groucho Marx, there with his pretty new bride, kept calling out, “Give us ‘Slaughter on Tenth Avenue’.” but nobody paid any attention and Johnny went right on playing Rodgers and Hammerstein . . . . . At ringside was Greta Garbo, who formerly owned the Negulesco’s house.  She had come over to have a look at the place filled with laughter and music.

Cole Porter asked photographer Slim Aarons, who’s joining John Ford on Midway to do the stills for “Mr. Roberts,” why the fancy magazines use only bad photographs of celebrities.  Replied Slim, “Because they sell magazines.  Many people get a kick out of seeing famous people in unposed, rediculous positions.”

Sonja Henie surprised herself at her annual party.  At the end of her swimming pool she had installed a water ballet with lights and symphonic music, the loveliest thing I ever saw—even more beautiful than the fountains at Versailles.  A German invention, it made its debut at New York’s Music Hall last year and ran eight weeks.  It cost Sonja $2,500, required a special generator for electricity, and took four days to install.

Joan Caulfield, in a gorgeous Orry-Kelly gown at Sonja’s party, said the only clothes she bought in Paris were a gondolier’s hat and jacket.

June Allyson, in a red and white Edith Head gown, was dancing on air.  Husband Dick Powell gifted her with a blue car (her first) and a gold cigarette case (her first) on their 9th wedding anniversary.  June’s so happy that his daughter, Ellen, is going to live with them.  Ellen taught their 3-year-old son to ride a pony up and down the hills around their place in Mandeville canyon.

When I admired Roz Russell’s black-beaded sweater, she told me she made it herself.  “Come now,” said I.  So she took it off and showed me the label—”Designed and executed by Roz Russell.”

The girls really glittered.  Sonja wore a glittering white dress with a diamond necklace surpassed only by Queen Elizabeth’s.  Marion Davies sparkled in white with her ruby and diamond jewels—necklace, four bracelets and ring.  Lana Turner, in flame colored chiffon, seems to have shed 10 years since her marriage to Lex Barker.  Gracie Allen was wrapped in a new sable fur piece, and Mrs. Edgar Bergen wore the white fox cape given her by Mrs. Joe Davies.

Roy Wolford with Director RJ McHatton

It was a warm day in Southern California.  The news had headlines about the terrible fires all across the hilltops of the Ranchos Palos Verdes area where I was headed and I didn’t know what to expect.  Luckily the fires had been mostly put out and the actual fires were about two miles over the hill from where I was going.  I was there to interview Roy Wolford, the official photographer for Northrop during those incredible test pilot years when Johnny Myers was risking his life on first flights.  Roy had worked over 60 years for Northrop.  Hard to believe these days that anyone could work one place for so long.  Over the years Roy had worn many hats in many departments.  He was the first photographer for Jack Northrop when he was pioneering the Black Widow and Flying Wing technologies.  Eventually Roy led a whole department of photographers with high tech still and motion picture cameras.  We talked for a long time about the different kinds of cameras and equipment he used to capture the test flights.  Then we talked about John Myers.  Roy was a good friend with John Myers since Myers first day with Northrop.  Roy talked about the character, will, and integrity of John Myers.  He talked about the leadership skills John had when he eventually became the VP of Northrop.  Then we talked about the crash.  Roy was there that day that John Myers had a terrible crash that nearly killed him.  Roy told me about how he ran up to the wreckage and he screamed to John several times, only to see Myers totally quiet.  Roy feared the worst but he kept screaming to John and finally he saw John’s eye twitch some movement and Roy realized John was alive.  This was a very emotional moment of the interview.  Roy is a great guy.  He talked about how he first learned to fly and how much he loved aviation.  Roy showed me several books on Northrop history and a lot of the photos from the test pilot days.  In one book he showed me tons of photos of John Myers and the test pilots.  All the photos had a credit to Roy Wolford.  In one photo it showed several of the pilots all together with Roy in his flight suit.  Roy flew in the planes being tested and outside the planes and in front of the planes and behind the planes.  Roy’s photos were a tremendous help to the engineers working to test these aircraft.   In the early days, the test pilots would have a small notebooks taped to their legs so they could make notes during a flight.  Roy had the idea that photos would really help the engineers learn what really was happening during those flights.  He was right.  Thanks to Roy we have lots of photos of those early test flights and early planes.  Roy has donated all of his photos and materials to several museums in the area.  I am hoping to get access to them there and also through Northrop, who has kindly donated access to their archives for this project.  Roy and I hit it off.  I enjoyed talking to Roy very much.  He lived during some of the most fantastic times in Aviation history and he was right there.  He talked about flying with John Myers in the P61 and about his meeting Howard Hughes.  Roy’s wife of over 59 years died a few years ago and now Roy lives in a nice assisted living place.  But I don’t think he’s  ready for much assistance yet.  We went out to lunch and Roy showed me where the Western Aviation Museum is located at Torrance.  Roy talked about how at the age of 94 he still feels strong and wants to keep active.  At his apartment he showed me boxes where he has over 30,000 slides.  Through his work at Northrop he was able to travel all around the world, including time during the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia.  All the time, in every continent of the world, Roy Wolford took photos.  I kept asking him how he could hand hold a camera and get perfect focus on those test flights.  He said he had a steady hand and good eyes.  As a lover of photography myself, I was in awe of the incredible skills of Roy Wolford.  Meeting him was a true joy.

LaToya Jackson still maintains that her brother Michael Jackson was murdered. And she’s going on a national media tour, showing up on The View, and appearing on 20/20 with Barbara Walters to prove it.

I’ve said before that any one setting great store by LaToya’s or Joe Jackson’s brainless meanderings about someone conspiring to kill Michael need their own heads examined. This isn’t about Michael. It’s about Michael’s money.

Bryan Monroe, former Ebony Magazine editor, who conducted the last official interview with Michael Jackson, has this to say:

In the days after Jackson’s June 25 death, I was inundated with questions and concerns from many who were close to the superstar throughout his life and career. They killed him, they would say to me. They finally did it.

What did they mean? Who were “they?” And who would stand to gain at the death of a legend?

Who indeed? Michael was cash-poor, it is true, but he was NOT a poor man by a long shot.

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Dick Gregory, the civil rights activist and natural health proponent who had been an advisor to Jackson for years, told me that singer was often concerned for his own privacy and safety. In the days before Jackson’s 2005 trial ended, Gregory was abruptly called to come and look after Michael’s deteriorating health. The once-regal superstar was noticeably exhausted, dehydrated, worn out.

“Michael’s mother sent word to me, come quick,” Gregory recalled to me two days after Jackson died. “When I got there, Michael told me, ‘Dick, don’t leave me, they’re trying to kill me.” He never said who “they” were.

Gregory and Jackson ultimately checked into a nearby hospital, after taking a circuitous route that originally had the two driving toward San Francisco, nearly three hours away. “When we got there, they rushed him straight to the emergency room,” Gregory said. “At 5 p.m., they hooked him up to IVs. At 5:15 a.m. the next morning, they were still putting fluids in him. He was fighting for his life. They said if we had waited 12 more hours, he’d have been dead.”

I doubt whether this episode was engineered by John Branca, Frank DiLeo or the others involved as attorneys, executors or managers for Michael Jackson. It’s also identical to an episode I mentioned in an earlier post in which Jackson was said to have nearly suffered an OD. I think the “they” were Jackson’s hangers-on or members of his entourage.

As one reader has written, quoting John Lennon, it is always the courtiers who kill the king; that is, it is always the people immediately surrounding people like Michael Jackson, for whom the word no was in a foreign language, who can inadvertently or not kill or injure a star/celebrity. Just like would-be courtier Dr. Conrad Murray, who keeps repeating that he did nothing wrong. Except to accede, despite common sense, to every manipulation and command Michael Jackson gave, to the point where Michael was infantilized and nearly unable to make a life-saving decision on his own.

How? I remember reading a passage from the writer Eduardo Galeano’s trilogy, Memory of Fire, that one 17th century Spanish Hapsburg king, the product of centuries of inbreeding, died literally on the throne as the nobility around him watched. Why? Because the protocol-bound grandees were forbidden to touch the royal person unless he or she was specifically asked to do so, even as the mentally-retarded monarch convulsed and choked his way into oblivion.

Few of you Gen X, Y, Z remember how the last days of billionaire Howard Hughes were depicted. No, not in the film The Aviator with Leonardo di Caprio. The true Howard Hughes ended his life as a grey-haired, emaciated old man who had long hair and a long beard like Sir Ian McKellen’s Gandalf, but who didn’t bathe or clip his nails and was obsessed with germs. Hughes was showing signs of mental breakdown even when he was married and chasing skirt, including Katherine Hepburn’s, in the 1930s. By the 1950s, sex ended for Hughes, as contact with another human being meant that he had to meet up with germs as well.

Ultimately, he was surrounded by Mormons who gave in to his almost every whim, which were partly fueled by obsessive compulsive behavior. The “Mormon Mafia,” as they were called, allowed him to continue his addictions to codeine and morphine, instead of getting him medical and psychological treatment that he needed. Such treatment would have indeed thrown them out of their jobs, and transferred the Hughes billions to a less pliable relative. Particularly in the case of Hughes, some people still believe that the Mormons surrounding the billionaire were hopeful that he would eventually tithe his billions to their already very rich and conservative and weird American church. So they let him do whatever he wanted.

I am going to say it: Michael Jackson follows the behaviors and situations of both these men, even Elvis. He died just about by his own hand, assisted by incompetents and sycophants.

Michael Jackson was also a drug addict, surrounded by courtiers who would do anything for him. as long as they were able to bask in his presence. That included his pick for personal physician Murray, that shady dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein, and others who haven’t yet been exposed to public view. This is only the tip of the iceberg.

Now, just because one is a recurring drug addict, doesn’t mean that s/he would always make mistakes. For example, I don’t think Michael made a mistake in drawing up his will, a will that some in the Jackson family would like to see broken in their favor. I include LaToya Jackson and her father in that picture. They’re pissed because the money didn’t come to them. They only want their mitts on the cash. Frankly, these people shouldn’t measure someone else’s supposed greed on their own grasping.

Let me tell y’all something. I can truly believe that there was conspiracy involved with John and Robert Kennedy’s shootings, and with those of Malcolm X and Martin King. The Sixties, for all of its wonders and triumphs, was a dirty, violent, and turbulent time as well. I can only hope that I live long enough to see and hear what is the truth behind all of these slayings before I leave this lifetime. We needed all of these men; I wish the Universe had spared all their lives.

But you can’t go on just a feeling. Conspiracy is hard to connect and hard to confirm. That’s why there is not just one, but several conspiracies involving all these Saints of the Sixties. LaToya Jackson, from what I understand, didn’t complete higher education. Compared to Janet, her singing career hasn’t followed the same trajectory. Her only claims to fame is that through her book, LaToya, she put the kibosh on all that PR about the Jacksons being a happy family; and that she was close to being pimped out by her manager, Jack Gordon, a representative that her own father, to his detriment, chose for her. Later, Gordon forced LaToya to marry him and physically and emotionally abused the woman. She’s since survived to reinvent herself, but it’s here is where to reverts back to the old LaToya. The only things, I believe, LaToya still has in her favor about this conspiracy-murder theory is a vivid imagination, and how much she wants to show that she’s in with the family. Otherwise, the scenario that LaToya lays out just does not add up.

In order to prove conspiracy, LaToya has to have at her disposal motive(s), names of possible conspirators, phone records, proofs of payoffs, faxes, phone messages, wires. bank statements, records of or witnesses to clandestine meetings, etc., and et al. Particularly, credible witnesses. I don’t think she has access to this kind of thing at all that the cops would be interested in pursuing, unless she really has something up her sleeves. And then again, she would be accused of withholding evidence if she did. I don’t think that she was privy to how Michael drew up his will. I don’t think that she was privy to every change in his household or with his hangers-on.

I know she, like her father, wishes to accuse the executors of Michael’s estate and the AEG people who set up the concert tour. But wishing is not the same as hard facts and reality. Bryan Monroe goes on to say:

Secrecy was also part of the life Michael lived. His close friend and attorney, John Branca, who is also co-administrator of Michael’s estate, recently recovered $5.5 million that the artist had secretly squirreled away with occasional financial advisor Dr. Tohme Tohme, money Jackson wanted hidden away for a rainy day, perhaps to buy his next home.

“He said, ‘Don’t tell anyone about this money,’” Tohme told the Associated Press earlier this month. “But when he passed away, I told them I had this money, and I gave it to them.”

That’s why LaToya was unable to find those garbage bags full of money that Michael used to have at his residences. I think they were long gone, that it was a phase. He changed. Michael no longer needed to have all that cold cash around to prove to himself how powerful or rich he was.

Third, Michael shared something in common with most druggies. He was paranoid. But it wasn’t the CIA or the FBI that was after Michael; at least, not yet that we know of. It was those yes-people close at hand who kept acceding to him until he could only call out for help to someone outside that claustrophobic circle, as with Dick Gregory. It was this same circle and lifestyle that Michael himself helped to create and to whom he returned time and again. He would clean up, and then relapse; rehabilitate himself, and then regress into addiction once more.

Think about how many celebrities and actors and such haven’t been able to get over their addictions, landing back in rehab time and again. La-La Land, Lotos Land or Los Angeles–it’s still a dangerous place in which to be.

I’m sure LaToya stands to gain exposure and money from all these appearances and speechifying. Maybe she really believes what she believes. Maybe she can convince people that there are others who participated in a sinister cabal against her brother. But unless more credible evidence emerges, Michael Jackson is just as much a participant in his homicide as the incompetent Dr. Murray is. Not murder one, but manslaughter. Not conspiracy, but perfectly logical and predictable steps towards oblivion.

As impatient and demanding as a infant, the fifty-year-old Michael told Dr. Murray he wanted his ‘milk,’ which is what he called Diprivan/Propofol.

He got it.

The ISLE of GILLIGAN

By G. Santos, reporter, World Daily Planet News, Metropolis

My sources have revealed that popular talk show host, Glenn Beck, was held in a re-edumacation camp for the past two weeks on the remote Isle of Gilligan at the southwest tip of Barafrica until his rescue.

Mr. Beck was forced to work during the day in the fields growing high cholesterol foods and was nightly tortured by Smith Sheparhd by being forced to eat Sheparhd’s fungus infected toenail clippings. Beck’s captors did not use water boarding, but instead used water ballooning–where the victim runs back and forth in a confined space while being pummeled with water balloons that not only soaks the victim’s $1,000 outfit but also totally ruins the ‘do.

Beck’s rescue was funded and supplied by the great folks at Clorox, CVS, Wal-Mart, and Sprint to name just a few. Additional funding for Mr. Beck’s rescue came from the Stimulus Bailout Package and the Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The Rescue Boat

His rescue team was made up from the best America has to offer: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Payne, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin on shotgun. In addition there was Jane Russell (the movie star), Howard Hughes (the millionaire), Joseph Hazelwood (the Exxon Valdez skipper), and Judas (because there is always at least one).

Glenn's fellow political prisioners

See...I told you! There is ALWAYS at least one JUDAS!

Since his harrowing experience on the island and his daring rescue, Mr. Beck has been reunited with his family and has returned to his syndicated radio show and his television show on FOX News and is none the worse for wear. In fact, when questioned by this reporter about the incident, Mr. Beck denied it ever happened. I, Geraldo Santos, understand that anyone would block out such a horrific memory and want to move on. You go, Glenn!