Sunday, December 31, 2006
WHO DIRECTS THE INFILTRATION OF THE 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT? – THE COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY
NOTE: Daniel Hopsicker has claimed that Adnan Khashoggi is the force behind the infiltration.
Tip: Pull out a search engine and look into Hopsicker's claim that video producer Dave VonKleist is on the Khashoggi payroll – this is a complete fabrication, if one bothers to look into it. Ultimately, it is the CNP sponsoring the cult infiltration. Hopsicker is a deceptive researcher – with a background in the production of FAKE NEWS for NBC – who jumps to too many conclusions – including the essential lie that Al Qaeda perptrated 9/11. In fact, Dave von Kleist, WHATEVER his faults, is NOT on Khashoggi's payroll (again, the accusation is false, despite Hopsicker's slick word games), and much else that he reports is a spin away from the truth – the Bush administration orchetrated 9/11, and it involved an ACTUAL covert operation – so what do DRUGS have to do with it? Drugs and the CIA, as a subject of reporting isolated from the wider pictire, is a pedestrian topic, a lure written about by scores of Gritz-types and Scaife puppets – so Hopsicker jumps on the bandwagon.
Fascist control of government is about much more than drug running and penny stock swindles. Get a clue, Daniel – 9/11 was NOT about cocaine imports and the purloining of files by Jeb Bush, it was about a covert op in NEW YORK CITY.
Hopsicker can rant and boast and bluster about his status as "the greatest journalist in the world," but he's a legend in his own mind, and ego can walk. There is much to be done, and vanity only gets in the way.
Save it for Lois and Harry, butthead, because your secret sponsors will love anything you write.
– Alex Constantine
Many of the cultists who have co-opted the grassroots drive to rip open the cover-stories are covertly controlled by THE COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY, a "faith-based" group of ultra-con seditionists who have received front-loaded financing from HOWARD AHMANSON, JR. and CAROLINE HUNT ... and this includes Claremont theologian DAVID RAY GRIFFIN among the smooth-talking transcendalists ... and many of the cultic and quasi-religious "scholars" who promote globalism, bash the Jewish race, lecture on pending world disasters, advance cultic beliefs, blow smoke at 9/11.
Amhanson, of course, is the ...
Avenging angel of the religious right
Salon
Quirky millionaire Howard Ahmanson Jr. is on a mission from God to stop gay marriage, fight evolution, defeat "liberal" churches -- and reelect George W. Bush.
By Max Blumenthal
January 6, 2004
In the summer of 2000, a group of frustrated Episcopalians from the board of the American Anglican Council gathered at a sun-soaked Bahamanian resort to blow off some steam and hatch a plot. They were fed up with the Episcopal Church and what they perceived as a liberal hierarchy that had led it astray from centuries of so-called orthodox Christian teaching. The only option, they believed, was to lead a schism.
But this would take money. After the meeting, Anglican Council vice president Bruce Chapman sent a private memo to the group's board detailing a plan to involve Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., a Southern California millionaire, and his wife, Roberta Green Ahmanson, in the plan. "Fundraising is a critical topic," Chapman wrote. "But that topic itself is going to be affected directly by whether we have a clear, compelling forward strategy. I know that the Ahmansons are only going to be available to us if we have such a strategy and I think it would be wise to involve them directly in settling on it as the options clarify." It was a logical pitch: As a key financier of the Christian right with a penchant for anti-gay campaigns, Ahmanson clearly shared the Anglican Council's interest in subverting the left-leaning church. Moreover, Ahmanson and his wife were close friends and prayer partners of David Anderson, the Anglican Council's chief executive, while Chapman and his political team were already enjoying hefty annual grants from Ahmanson to Chapman's think tank, the Discovery Institute.
Soon, the money came rolling in to the Anglican Council, with more than $1 million in donations from Ahmanson in 2000 and 2001. And the newly flush Anglican Council redoubled its anti-gay campaign, climaxing in November when the Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, the Rt. Rev. Eugene Robinson. With its war chest full and its strongest pretext yet for a schism, the group cranked up a smear campaign against Robinson, falsely accusing him of sexual harassment and administering a bisexual pornography Web site, prompting three wealthy dioceses to split with the Episcopal Church and join the Anglican Council's renegade network. Now more dioceses and parishes are poised to follow, a prospect that threatens to weaken the progressive Episcopal Church's political influence -- 44 members of Congress are Episcopalian -- and provide an important new tableau for right-wing political organizing.
The Episcopal Church split is only a small part of Ahmanson's concerted efforts to radically transform not only American religion, but the nation's moral culture and, thereby, the country itself. His money has made possible some of the most pivotal conservative movements in America's recent history, including the 1994 GOP takeover of the California Assembly, a ban on gay marriage and affirmative action in California, and the mounting nationwide campaign to prove Darwin wrong about evolution. His financial influence also helped propel the recent campaign to recall California Gov. Gray Davis. And besides contributing cash to George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, Ahmanson has played an important role in driving Bush's domestic agenda by financing the career of Marvin Olasky, a conservative intellectual whose ideas inspired the creation of the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
After more than 20 years of politically oriented philanthropy, Ahmanson is now emerging as one of the major financial angels of the right, putting him in the company of Richard Mellon Scaife, the oil and banking heir who bankrolled the groundwork for much of the conservative movement's apparatus and became a household name in the 1990s thanks to his $2.4 million dirty-tricks campaign against President Bill Clinton. ...
Continued:
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/01/06/ahmanson/index.html?pn=1
PS: For the Ahmanson/David Ray Griffin connection, see:
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2006/12/is-david-ray-griffin-for-real-notes-on.html
Tip: Pull out a search engine and look into Hopsicker's claim that video producer Dave VonKleist is on the Khashoggi payroll – this is a complete fabrication, if one bothers to look into it. Ultimately, it is the CNP sponsoring the cult infiltration. Hopsicker is a deceptive researcher – with a background in the production of FAKE NEWS for NBC – who jumps to too many conclusions – including the essential lie that Al Qaeda perptrated 9/11. In fact, Dave von Kleist, WHATEVER his faults, is NOT on Khashoggi's payroll (again, the accusation is false, despite Hopsicker's slick word games), and much else that he reports is a spin away from the truth – the Bush administration orchetrated 9/11, and it involved an ACTUAL covert operation – so what do DRUGS have to do with it? Drugs and the CIA, as a subject of reporting isolated from the wider pictire, is a pedestrian topic, a lure written about by scores of Gritz-types and Scaife puppets – so Hopsicker jumps on the bandwagon.
Fascist control of government is about much more than drug running and penny stock swindles. Get a clue, Daniel – 9/11 was NOT about cocaine imports and the purloining of files by Jeb Bush, it was about a covert op in NEW YORK CITY.
Hopsicker can rant and boast and bluster about his status as "the greatest journalist in the world," but he's a legend in his own mind, and ego can walk. There is much to be done, and vanity only gets in the way.
Save it for Lois and Harry, butthead, because your secret sponsors will love anything you write.
– Alex Constantine
Many of the cultists who have co-opted the grassroots drive to rip open the cover-stories are covertly controlled by THE COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY, a "faith-based" group of ultra-con seditionists who have received front-loaded financing from HOWARD AHMANSON, JR. and CAROLINE HUNT ... and this includes Claremont theologian DAVID RAY GRIFFIN among the smooth-talking transcendalists ... and many of the cultic and quasi-religious "scholars" who promote globalism, bash the Jewish race, lecture on pending world disasters, advance cultic beliefs, blow smoke at 9/11. Amhanson, of course, is the ...
Avenging angel of the religious right
Salon
Quirky millionaire Howard Ahmanson Jr. is on a mission from God to stop gay marriage, fight evolution, defeat "liberal" churches -- and reelect George W. Bush.
By Max Blumenthal
January 6, 2004
In the summer of 2000, a group of frustrated Episcopalians from the board of the American Anglican Council gathered at a sun-soaked Bahamanian resort to blow off some steam and hatch a plot. They were fed up with the Episcopal Church and what they perceived as a liberal hierarchy that had led it astray from centuries of so-called orthodox Christian teaching. The only option, they believed, was to lead a schism.But this would take money. After the meeting, Anglican Council vice president Bruce Chapman sent a private memo to the group's board detailing a plan to involve Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., a Southern California millionaire, and his wife, Roberta Green Ahmanson, in the plan. "Fundraising is a critical topic," Chapman wrote. "But that topic itself is going to be affected directly by whether we have a clear, compelling forward strategy. I know that the Ahmansons are only going to be available to us if we have such a strategy and I think it would be wise to involve them directly in settling on it as the options clarify." It was a logical pitch: As a key financier of the Christian right with a penchant for anti-gay campaigns, Ahmanson clearly shared the Anglican Council's interest in subverting the left-leaning church. Moreover, Ahmanson and his wife were close friends and prayer partners of David Anderson, the Anglican Council's chief executive, while Chapman and his political team were already enjoying hefty annual grants from Ahmanson to Chapman's think tank, the Discovery Institute.
Soon, the money came rolling in to the Anglican Council, with more than $1 million in donations from Ahmanson in 2000 and 2001. And the newly flush Anglican Council redoubled its anti-gay campaign, climaxing in November when the Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, the Rt. Rev. Eugene Robinson. With its war chest full and its strongest pretext yet for a schism, the group cranked up a smear campaign against Robinson, falsely accusing him of sexual harassment and administering a bisexual pornography Web site, prompting three wealthy dioceses to split with the Episcopal Church and join the Anglican Council's renegade network. Now more dioceses and parishes are poised to follow, a prospect that threatens to weaken the progressive Episcopal Church's political influence -- 44 members of Congress are Episcopalian -- and provide an important new tableau for right-wing political organizing.
The Episcopal Church split is only a small part of Ahmanson's concerted efforts to radically transform not only American religion, but the nation's moral culture and, thereby, the country itself. His money has made possible some of the most pivotal conservative movements in America's recent history, including the 1994 GOP takeover of the California Assembly, a ban on gay marriage and affirmative action in California, and the mounting nationwide campaign to prove Darwin wrong about evolution. His financial influence also helped propel the recent campaign to recall California Gov. Gray Davis. And besides contributing cash to George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, Ahmanson has played an important role in driving Bush's domestic agenda by financing the career of Marvin Olasky, a conservative intellectual whose ideas inspired the creation of the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
After more than 20 years of politically oriented philanthropy, Ahmanson is now emerging as one of the major financial angels of the right, putting him in the company of Richard Mellon Scaife, the oil and banking heir who bankrolled the groundwork for much of the conservative movement's apparatus and became a household name in the 1990s thanks to his $2.4 million dirty-tricks campaign against President Bill Clinton. ...
Continued:
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/01/06/ahmanson/index.html?pn=1
PS: For the Ahmanson/David Ray Griffin connection, see:
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2006/12/is-david-ray-griffin-for-real-notes-on.html
Lexington Comair Crash Supplemental: "The Company," Narcotics & Political Corruption in Lexington and Environs in the '90s
David P. Beiter at the Marijuana Library has compliled an inventory of narcotics smuggling, drug-dealing politicians and law enforcement officials in Kentucky in the 1990s. This is an excerpt, dealing largely with Lexington and environs, of a comprehensive survey. See David Beiter's site for more.
Entries like this are common: "Frankfort State Police arrested nine criminals who were accused of importing crack from New York City. The operation was run from an apartment complex next to the State Police Headquarters. This gang supposedly supplied most of the crack in Lexington. ... "
Sally Denton's Bluegrass Conspiracy should have been a blow to The Company, routed the deep corruption in the political establishment of the commonwealth, but it has been completely ignored by the Kentucky justice system and press. Denton only reported on a small corner of the corruption, the Lexington scene (with Adnan Khashoggi at its core) and the so-called "Company" still thrives in horse country. 
Small-time marijunana growers receive stiff prison sentences, while the officials who are behind the scourge of heroin, cocaine and the gamut of hard drugs RUN THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY unperturbed. The latest wrinkle is an influx of amphetamines spreading across Kentucky from west to east, originating in California. The CIA-driven Company runs the state these days – a confederacy of "patriotic" dunces, and Kentuckians actually buy the vacant rhetoric on gay marriage, etc., and vote these lunatics into office.
Obviously something must be done about the educational system down there. "This is soap – USE it. This is toilet paper – USE it ... "
– AC
By David P Beiter
http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/LOCLAXN.html
810000, Marion County, KY, Al Cross, reporter for The Courier-Journal, personal communication. Officials in the Kentucky state government became suspicious of cash excesses in banks in Marion County, KY. An investigation led to the purchase of the Bank [of Lebanon? (Marion County Seat)] by a cabinet official [The Kentucky State Secretary of Commerce?]
850912, Knoxville, TN, multiple news reports. Andrew Thornton III, retired Lexington, Kentucky, Police Department Narcotics Officer, crash landed via parachute in suburban Knoxville TN with 79 pounds of cocaine. Several other duffle bags of cocaine were found in the Chattahoochee National Forest, totalling approximately 400 pounds.
860324, Morgan Co, KY, multiple reports. Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky State Police Commissioner, is arrested for extorting a one million dollar bribe from a cocaine smuggler (also an FBI agent). This was for airport landing rights in Morgan Co, KY. Several other officials were arrested for assorted corruption: former Morgan County, Kentucky, Judge-Executive Gene Allen; Allen's son Steve; Morgan County, Kentucky, Sheriff Roger Benton; Coal Baron Titus Frederick; former Kentucky District Judge James H Noble; former State Senator and former State Trooper Lester Burns, Jr; and physician, Dr Bill Davis. ref: "Operation Leviticus" of the FBI. They weren't even looking for drug trafficking! The FBI thought they were looking
at coal money!!
860330, Whitley Co, KY, multiple reports. The Whitley County Kentucky Sheriff, one other KY & 3 TN Sheriffs are arrested for drug trafficking.
860619, Marion Co, KY, WLEX, CNN. Kentucky State Police Detective, 19 year veteran of The Force, Joseph Greenwall (Greenwald), age 41, of Loretto, Marion Co KY is arrested for extorting $5000 to protect marijuana growers, after a two month investigation. Arraignment is set for 27 June.
860704, Marion Co, KY, multiple newscasts. 13,000 marijuana plants on 7 acres, and 46,000 marijuana plants on 30 acres, are found in corn fields in Marion County, KY, by DEA chopper. Presumably these were the growers protected by Joseph Greenwald, Kentucky State Police, retired.
861007, Louisville, KY, The Courier-Journal, pB4. The Jefferson County, Commissioner, Carl Brown, is charged with distribution of marijuana and cocaine.
861018, KY, The Courier-Journal, pB1. Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell & Kentucky State Trooper Gerald Griggs were arrested for cocaine trafficking. 861107, near Versailles, Woodford County, KY, KNN, 12N; KET (Lexington). Ten men, one from Louisville, and nine from Marion County were arrested near Versailles, Woodford County, KY. Others escaped. This was on the Jimmy Jack Lewis farm, a major marijuana processing facility. It required 6 dumptrucks to remove the marijuana, approximately 4000 pounds. Marion County again.
861113, London, KY, Lexington Herald-Leader, Nov 13, 86, pA1, A16. "Corruption probe: Half of cases resolved," by Assistant US Attorney James E. Arehart. Gene Allen, 3 time Judge-Executive of Morgan County, Kentucky, was convicted of conspiracy to murder. Gerald Griggs, Kentucky State Police Trooper, was convicted in the same murder for hire scheme. Both were represented by Kevin Charters of Lexington, KY. William Titus Frederick, coal operator and businessman, of West Liberty, KY, pleaded guilty to manufacturing marijuana. Benny Neely, London, KY, pleaded guilty to transporting stolen heavy equipment across state lines. Norman B Williams III, of Detroit, MI, pleaded guilty to transporting a stolen car across state lines. Dr Billy Davis, Urgent Care Center of Burnside, KY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud two insurance companies of $1.1 million for a phony
traffic accident. Lester H Burns, Jr, former Kentucky State Senator[, former Kentucky State Trooper] & attorney, Somerset, KY, pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen money ($1.9 million stolen from the Dr R J Acker robbery & murder) across state lines. James H Noble, former Kentucky District Judge, convicted of obstruction of justice and yet to be tried in the insurance fraud conspiracy. Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky State Police Commissioner, to be tried on Jan 5, 87, for extortion for allegedly taking money for protecting drug-trafficking activities. Roger Benton, Morgan County, Kentucky, Sheriff, accused of conspiracy of drug-trafficking.
61100, Whitley City, KY, The Wayne County Outlook, 861126, p 18; from The Commonwealth Journal. William C "Buddy" Wolk, 56, of Naples, FL, died of a barbiturate overdose in an accidental spill at Herbert W "Butch" Spencer's drug lab. Formerly it was believed that he had died of a heart attack. Rumors have it that he was dragged behind a pickup truck (Dallas Hammond, personal communication) altho Alberta Spencer reportedly contacted the coroner. The DEA raid of 860306 was the largest in its history. In Minneapolis, MN, indictments in a major drug and bookmaking ring were opened in August 86: William C "Buddy" Wolk, unindicted co-conspirator; Mary Louise Wolk, former wife; John Joseph Mussehl, St Paul, MN; Gary Evans Lundgren, Naples, FL; Allan Richard Blake[ney], Naples, FL; Charles Lee Miller, Omaha, NB; James Thomas Mussehl, St Paul, MN; Raymond Edward Gaier, FL & MN, unindicted co-conspirator, deceased of drug overdose in 84.861216, Whitley City, KY, KET. The Butch Spencer drug lab is said to have had $1 million in drugs and $40 million in chemicals at the time of the bust.
861212, London, KY, KET, WLEX. Gene Allen, Judge-Executive of Morgan County, Kentucky is sentenced to 5 years for conspiracy to murder. Gerald Griggs, Kentucky State Police, had his sentencing delayed. Titus Frederick, coal baron, was let off in return for testifying against Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Ky. State Police Commissioner, in his trial for conspiracy to distribute illegal drugs.861229. London, KY, The Wayne County Outlook, 870108, p14; from The McCreary County Record. The Government rested its case against Herbert "Butch" Spencer, represented by Julius Echeles of Chicago and Warren Scoville of London, KY. The Judge is Eugene Siler, Jr. Jane Graham, Assistant US Attorney, is prosecutor. Spencer claimed that he had leased a walled off section of his garage to Roy Creighton Blakeney and William Charles "Buddy" Wolk, but there was no agreement to manufacture methamphetamine. A small amount of methamphetamine and a walkie-talkie tuned to a unit in the lab were found in Spencer's house. Unfortunately, they were found in an area not covered by the search warrant. Even more unfortunately, this was before The Supreme Court had declared that a search warrant is unnecessary for police acting in "good faith".
861230?, London, KY, The Wayne County Outlook, Jan 15, 1987, p18; from The Commonwealth- Journal. Herbert "Butch" Spencer was found guilty after 57 minutes of deliberation. Another federal drug trial for Spencer is scheduled for 27 Jan as well as two civil proceedings. On 861219 Spencer was propositioned to intimidate a juror for $20,000 (5K$ down & 15K$ later) by Billy Rollin Phillips (46), of Clay County. Spencer met with Judge Siler, prosecutor Jane Graham, and DEA agent James Malone. Phillips was arrested 30 Dec.
870105, London, KY. In the Butch Spencer trial, Government witnesses claim that Spencer bought 50 pounds of cocaine in 1980 and hundreds of pounds of marijuana from 80 to 83. And then they waited for 3 years to bust him for crank?!
870108, London, KY. Butch Spencer is convicted in methamphetamine production case. The methamphetamine confiscated was valued at 1 megabuck and there was another 40 megabux worth of chemicals. Spencer is to be sentenced on 9 Feb. Max sentence = (15 years + 125 kilobux)*4. The Judge is Eugene Siler, Jr. Spencer's claim of leasing his garage for a plastics operation was not believed.
870112, Lexington, KY, KET\WLEX. Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky State Police Commissioner, and Roger Benton, Morgan County, Kentucky, Sheriff, are on trial. Houston McNeal, two years a undercover FBI agent, testified that he had made payments of $5000 a month to Campbell, Benton, and Titus Frederick for landing rights at the West Liberty, KY, airport. m(It is unclear if this was each or total.)870114, Lexington, KY, WBKY, KET, WLKY(?). In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Titus Frederick, coal baron and marijuana manufacturer testified that in a meeting at Frederick's house in 1984, three-time Morgan County Kentucky Judge-Executive Gene Allen and Marion Campbell had asked him for contacts in the marijuana and cocaine business. Lester Burns, Jr, former Kentucky State Senator, former Kentucky State Police Trooper, former attorney (now disbarred) bankrolled the operation, and Marion Campbell was in charge of security at the Morgan County airport. Their business grossed about 3/4 of a million dollars a week in cocaine. Houston McNeal, undercover Virginia FBI investigator, testified that Campbell said that he was receiving payments from undercover agents. It is unclear whether Campbell thought that they were FBI agents or drug dealers. Or both.
870115, Lexington, KY, WEKU, KET\WLEX In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Steve Allen, son of the Morgan County Judge-Executive, testified that he saw a $90,000 cocaine sale in November 85 at the house of his father, Morgan County, Kentucky, Judge-Executive Gene Allen. In this transaction, Gene Allen was paid his share plus a share to pass along to Marion Campbell. Gene Allen, Morgan County, Kentucky, Judge-Executive and convicted murder conspirator, testified that he has known Marion Campbell for 25 years and Morgan County Sheriff Roger Benton all of his life. He met several times in late 1983 with Marion Campbell, Titus Frederick, and Lester Burns, Jr to import cocaine from Okalachee, FL. Campbell was said to want the money for his retirement fund. Titus Frederick testified that Gene Allen and Marion Campbell had pushed him to find a cocaine connection.870116, Lexington, KY, KET\WLKY, 10:07PM. In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Gene Allen, former Morgan County, Kentucky Judge-Executive who has been convicted of conspiracy to murder, was cross examined. He has changed his story because he got religion in jail. In his trial in September 86 he claimed that he and Campbell were running their own investigation of drug corruption, without telling anyone else and keeping no records of what they had discovered. He passed money to Campbell once by laying an envelope full of money on the dash of Campbell's truck, and once on the truck seat, but never actually in Campbell's hand.
870123, Lexington, KY, WBKY. In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Jack Evans, Kentucky State Police, testified that he had talked with Campbell thrice about the trial, and got the idea (but was never told openly) that Campbell wanted him to perjure.870126, Lexington, KY, KET\WTVQ. In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell & Sheriff Roger Benton trial, Louie di Falais, US Attorney & apparently part of the "Operation Leviticus" investigation, testified that in two years of investigation of Marion Campbell, Campbell gave no indications of ever conducting his own investigation. The Chief of Police of West Liberty, the Morgan County Seat, said that he knew nothing of the two years of drug traffic thru the West
Liberty airport. Roger Benton, Sheriff of Morgan County, Kentucky, has a previous conviction for bootlegging.
870127, Lexington, KY, WBKY. In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch Campbell & Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff Roger Benton trial, Roger Benton testified that he went along with the drug trafficking in hopes to make some arrests and stop the drug operations.870204, Lexington, KY, KET\WKYT. Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff Roger Benton says that he will appeal his conviction on drug trafficking charges on grounds that his trial should have had nothing to do with the trial of Marion "Butch" Campbell. He obviously thinks that Campbell will be found guilty. This came after one verdict was reached but not announced.
870205, Lexington, KY, WLAP (Lexington, KY), 2PM. Roger Benton, Sheriff of Morgan County, KY, is found guilty on all counts, three counts of extortion and two of drug trafficking conspiracy. He faces a maximum sentence of 80 years.
870206, Lexington, KY, WLAP. Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky State Police Commissioner, is acquitted on four counts of extortion and given a mistrial on one count of conspiracy to traffic in marijuana and cocaine.– KY, Comment on Kentucky, KET. Three reasons are given for Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell's acquittal on charges of extortion and drug trafficking. 1) Gene Allen, Morgan County Judge-Executive changed his story from his trial where he was convicted of conspiracy to murder. Formerly, he had said under oath that Campbell was conducting his own investigation. The new story is that they were indeed trafficking in cocaine. 2) Allen said that on four occasions that he gave payoff money to Campbell, but never directly. Allen was the only solid witness against Campbell on this, but he is a self-confessed perjurer. 3) In a taped meeting with an FBI informant, Campbell thanked him for "information." The prosecution said that this was code word for protection money; the defense said that this was just normal information. The FBI never actually got Campbell on tape accepting payoff money. The jury was leaning towards acquittal on the drug trafficking conspiracy charges, with at least two holdouts. Prosecutor Arehart wants a retrial. I'm sure that none of the jurors would have been in the least bit concerned about their personal safety after finding the State Police Commissioner guilty of drug trafficking!
870200, KY. There are various news reports of a retrial for Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell on charges of trafficking in cocaine and marijuana, but no date was given.870313, Lexington, KY, Various radio reports. Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell is scheduled for retrial on 11 May 87 for conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and marijuana. But 11 May 87 will come and go with absolutely no mention on any newscast that a Butch Campbell had ever existed. Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff Roger Benton is denied a retrial on his conviction for extortion and conspiracy to distribute
cocaine.
870318, Whitley City, KY, McCreary County Record, p1. Butch Spencer is tried again on drug charges. Garrett, a drug dealer turned DEA informant, says that he bought one kilo of cocaine from Spencer for $45,000.
870322, Richmond?, KY, WBKY, 11PM. Kentucky State Police crime lab director Glen Morgan Baxter is accused of falsifying hundreds of tests, including his own qualifications.
870326, Lexington, KY, KET. Morgan County, Kentucky, Sheriff Roger Benton is sentenced to 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000 on three counts of extortion and two counts of conspiracy to traffic in illegal drugs.870331, Louisville, KY, KET. Jeffrey Miles of 2401 Coolridge Ave, Okalona, age 24 or 25, is shot and killed by Louisville cop, John Rucker (Rutger) in a raid on Miles' home. Miles' crime was to be living in an apartment inhabited two years ago by a suspected drug dealer. (The correct address was available in the phone directory.) The murderer was sentenced to paid leave and consultation with the chaplain.
870429, Jeffersontown (Louisville), KY, WHAS. Policeman John Rutger is indicted for second degree manslaughter and suspended from the police department. This is for "accidentally" shooting Jeffrey Miles for the crime of living in an apartment inhabited two years ago by a suspected drug dealer. See 870331.
870515, Somerset, KY, WBKY. Lester Burns, Jr., former Kentucky State Senator, former Kentucky State Police, former attorney, is sentenced to 8 years in prison; 4 each for receiving stolen money from Epperson's Acker robbery/murder, and conspiracy to defraud insurer. Burns will be eligible for parole in 2 years. See 860324, 860716, 861113, 861200, 861231, 870114.
870402, Breathitt Co, KY. James H Noble, Kentucky District Judge, Breathitt County, Kentucky, previously convicted of obstruction of justice for offering to lie in the witness stand for Lester Burns, Jr in a mail fraud trial, is temporarily disbarred. Judge Noble was sentenced to two years on the
obstruction of justice conviction.
871123, KY. Congressman Carroll Hubbard asks FBI to investigate the involvement of Henry Vance (Lexington bigwig recently convicted of supplying the gun used to kill the prosecutor in a drug case in Florida) in wholesale cocaine and marijuana trade in western Kentucky. Hubbard states that major drug smugglers are using local airports, including Bowling Green, KY. On 930416, Comment on Kentucky, Bonnie Kelly (the shooter) is the wife of Mike Kelly, Lexington cop.
881129, Lexington, KY, KET. Marvin Washington, Lexington Fayette County Kentucky police officer for the past eleven years, is arrested for armed robbery and possession of illegal drugs. Officer Washington accosted at gunpoint two restaurant employees attempting to make a night bank deposit. He was also found to be in possession of cocaine.
890225, Lexington, KY, WSEK. Fayette County, Kentucky, Sheriff Lonas Taulbee and five others are indicted on cocaine trafficking charges.
890308, WBKY, 11:05PM. Darrell Gibson, 32, arrested by FBI for distribution of cocaine was the target of a hit squad.
890231, Lexington, KY, WBKY, KNN. Fayette County Sheriff Lonas Taulbee resigns effective 14 April. He was convicted and sentenced to 5 years for theft and malfeasance. He is yet to be tried for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
890411, Lexington, KY, KNN. Fayette County Sheriff Lonas Taulbee, convicted for stealing $15,000 from the Sheriffs Department, will resign and rerun for election.
890505, Lexington, KY, WBKY, 3:15PM. Fayette County, KY, Sheriff Taulbee and 5 others including Arnold Freeman and Bobby Issacs have trial for conspiracy to plant cocaine in the vehicle of chief deputy Joe Albauh, postponed.
900615, Lexington, KY, WEKU. Lexington, Fayette Co, KY Sheriff Taulbee loses appeal on theft & malfeasance and is sentenced to 5 years.
00616, Nicholasville, KY, KNN. Danny Allen Murphy is charged with suffocating his wife in 85. Also on trial next month on Federal drug charges. His occupation is given as Lexington-Fayette County Police Officer.
900820, Lexington, KY, KET. Lexington Police Officer Dan Murphy is on trial for distribution of marijuana, and weapons charges. Judge Forrester will decide if the jury should see Murphy's Jessamine County fortress/plantation/home. The charges are worth 30 years.
900822, Lexington, KY, KET. Danny Allan Murphy, former Lexington Kentucky Police Officer is convicted on marijuana distribution and machine gun charges. He is yet to stand trial for murder in Jessamine County.
910924, Lexington, KY, KNN. Gregory Drake Wahl, a Fayette County Sheriff's Deputy, was arrested Monday for selling 1/4 pound of marijuana within 1000 feet of a school.
920724, KY, WFLW. Cops in Berea, Lexington, KSP & Feds divide $121K taken from the Columbian Detrick Rojas on 0411. $62,298 to Berea, $24,919 each to Lexington & KSP, and balance to Feds. Also Pulaski County was given $8000 of the $10000 for selling Ralph David Perkins's car.
930128, Lexington, KY, KET. Former Lexington Police Officer Danny Murphy has his charges of use of a machine gun while drug trafficking overturned in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, OH. He still is in prison for murdering his wife. In a personal conversation with DPB at Rainbow 93, an individual volunteered that his brother-in-law was one of the fronts for Murphy, holding title to Murphy's estate in alternate years. Murphy beat the machine gun rap because the gun was in the attic and the pot was in a freezer in the basement, this being a sufficient distance that he could not be using his machine gun in perpetration of a drug crime.930318, Lexington, KY, KET. Former Lexington, KY, police officer Danny Murphy is convicted of possession of a pistol while marijuana trafficking and sentenced to five years in prison. He was formerly acquitted of possession of a machine gun while engaged in his moonlight business. See 930128 & 910719 & 900822 & 900820 & 900816 & 900608.
930409, Lexington, KY, KET. Former (fired in 1979 for insubordination after 8 years of service) Lexington Police Officer Bill Canan is arrested by Federal Marshals on charges of drug trafficking and intimidation of a witness. Officer Canan allegedly bought 24 oz of cocaine and then threatened to kill
Robert Scott, his supplier turned Federal Witness, if he squealed. This is part of an investigation ongoing for 1.5 years. Police Chief Walsh vows that he is "finally gonna clean up the Good Ole Boy Network" [his words]. See 850912, 930716.
930416, Lexington, KY, WSEK. Ella Flynn, mother of Melanie Flynn who was disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1977 claims police ineptitude & indifference. Mrs Flynn claims that she gave police many details of names, places, times, etc, which were ignored. She also claims that part of the case file was disappeared. Chief Walsh denies all these false allegations. This re-surfaced upon the arrest of Bill Canan former Lexington
Police Officer on cocaine trafficking charges. Rumors at the time of Melanie Flynn's disappearance were that she knew too much about the Lexington Police drug trafficking. See 850912, 870112, 871123, 890225, 900820, 930409, Sally Denton, The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Doubleday, 1990.
930421, Lexington, KY, KET. Former Lexington Kentucky Police Officer Bill Canan is indicted on 14 counts. Charges include drug possession and distribution in '88, possession of a fake DEA ID, and possession of a pen gun and machine gun. His lawyer is Fred Peters. One of the character witnesses at the bail hearing was the same as for Danny Murphy. (See 900608, 900816, 900820, 900822, 910719, 930128, 930318). The Judge had enuf sense not to pay any attention to him this time. Officer Canan is ajudged to be a danger to the community and an escape risk.
930716, Lexington, KY, KET. Former Lexington Police Officer and accused cocaine trafficker Bill Canan has his 13 counts (didn't it used to be 14 counts?) dropped to 6 counts. Apparently he is still charged with threatening to kill a confidential informant. See 850912, 930409
930824, Frankfort, KY, KNN. Frankfort State Police arrested nine criminals who were accused of importing crack from New York City. The operation was run from an apartment complex next to the State Police Headquarters. This gang supposedly supplied most of the crack in Lexington.
931019, London, KY, WSEK. Former Lexington, KY, Police Officer Bill Canan's trial started on 12 Oct. Today he took the witness stand and swore that he had never engaged in the trafficking of cocaine!! More to come, I expect. See 930409, 930716. He was eventually convicted on the cocaine trafficking and witness intimidation charges & not guilty on the weapons charge.
931216, Lexington, KY, WSEK. Lexington Police Officer Bill Canan has his convictions on cocaine trafficking, intimidation of witnesses, and carrying a false DEA badge upheld.
940104, Lexington, KY, KET. Horrace Inman, 15 year veteran of the Lexington Police Force, is charged with felony possession of cocaine. The Police Department has no further comment.
Bush Administration Takes Control of Scholars for 911 Truth Domains
Doing the Floum Jam Shuffle or Doublespeak In the New Age World
Posted by: Rick Siegel on Friday, December 29, 2006
Bush Administration Takes Control of Scholars for 911 Truth Domains
http://www.911researchers.com/node/49
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ewing2001
"Recent tumultuous events within the beleaguered truth movement have taken a rather ominous turn as the Intellectual Property Attorney Alex Floum tries on his legal two-step to confuse the masses. With a sleight of hand a to delight any Houdini, Alex Floum has handed off his dirty gains to a 10 year cohort and admitted government agent Fred Burks. The job of an attorney is never over as representatives of the Bush administration take control of Scholars for 911 Truth domains and forums.
Fred Burks
"We have uncovered that this twin towers of power each own massive networks of new age and other donation rich web farms established to feed a golden egg distribution center controlled by none other than Alex Floum and Fred Burks. (1) The sole concentration in these domain propositions this self-appointed ad-hoc posse has is on the domain and the intellectual property and nothing to do with truth. In fact the bottom line on any of their alternatives includes yearlong links, something only a professional in SEO websites cares about. Bringing hits and donations. That is one of their core businesses to leach out money and people who might need watching from the sites that Fred Burks and Alex Floum run... "
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PS: A transparent psyop ... Fred Burks runs NeedtoKnow.info, and lists himself as a 9/11 dissident ... with ALBERT STUBBLEBINE, CURT WELDON, LOUIS FREEH, MAX CLELAND, other ultra-cons and intelligence operatives posing as rebels, blowing smoke in our disbelieving eyes ...
http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport
Pathetic theatrics for programmed liberals and conspiracy "buffs."
- AC
Posted by: Rick Siegel on Friday, December 29, 2006
Bush Administration Takes Control of Scholars for 911 Truth Domainshttp://www.911researchers.com/node/49
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ewing2001
"Recent tumultuous events within the beleaguered truth movement have taken a rather ominous turn as the Intellectual Property Attorney Alex Floum tries on his legal two-step to confuse the masses. With a sleight of hand a to delight any Houdini, Alex Floum has handed off his dirty gains to a 10 year cohort and admitted government agent Fred Burks. The job of an attorney is never over as representatives of the Bush administration take control of Scholars for 911 Truth domains and forums.
Fred Burks"We have uncovered that this twin towers of power each own massive networks of new age and other donation rich web farms established to feed a golden egg distribution center controlled by none other than Alex Floum and Fred Burks. (1) The sole concentration in these domain propositions this self-appointed ad-hoc posse has is on the domain and the intellectual property and nothing to do with truth. In fact the bottom line on any of their alternatives includes yearlong links, something only a professional in SEO websites cares about. Bringing hits and donations. That is one of their core businesses to leach out money and people who might need watching from the sites that Fred Burks and Alex Floum run... "
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PS: A transparent psyop ... Fred Burks runs NeedtoKnow.info, and lists himself as a 9/11 dissident ... with ALBERT STUBBLEBINE, CURT WELDON, LOUIS FREEH, MAX CLELAND, other ultra-cons and intelligence operatives posing as rebels, blowing smoke in our disbelieving eyes ...
http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport
Pathetic theatrics for programmed liberals and conspiracy "buffs."
- AC
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Friday, December 29, 2006
Mockingbird vs. Mockingbird
A false-dialectical farce in two movements ...
1.) Salim Muwakkil, a senior editor of IN THESE TIMES, takes aim at David Ray Griffin, A.N. Whitehead fan
2.) Salim Muwakkil from George Soros' Open Society Institute and the "mainstream" Dopa programming system
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http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2444/
December 21, 2005
What’s the 411 on 9/11?
By Salim Muwakkil
"The movement caught my attention when I saw Dr. David Ray Griffin speaking at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on C-SPAN earlier this year. Before retiring last year, Griffin was emeritus professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont School of Theology in California. He has written several well-regarded books on religion and spirituality, co-founded the Center for Process Studies and is considered one of the nation’s foremost theologians. I am familiar with his work and regard him as a wise writer on the role of spirituality in society.
"So, it was shocking to see him pushing a radical conspiracy theory about 9/11 on C-SPAN. His 2004 book, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11, has become the manifesto of this movement. At the University of Wisconsin, this distinguished academic told students at Bascom Hall that 'there is no escape from the frightful conclusion that 9/11 was engineered by the Bush administration and its Pentagon.' ...
"Progressive journalists have an added burden not to be seen as fodder for conspiracists. Sometimes they need a little help. Groups like Political Research Associates (PRA), based in Somerville, Massachusetts, exist to make sure progressives are not duped by conspiracists of any stripe. 'The antidote to conspiracism is Power Structure Research based on some form of institutional, systemic or structural analysis that examines race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, class and other factors that are used to create inequality and oppression,' the PRA explained in a preface to its review of Griffin’s The New Pearl Harbor.
Chip "Ace" Berlet
"The reviewer was Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at the PRA. In an interview with Amy Goodman on 'Democracy Now!,' Berlet agreed with Griffin that 'there are a number of unanswered questions' regarding 9/11, but assessed Griffin’s work as 'a lot of … armchair guesswork by people who haven’t done their homework.' Berlet noted his surprise at this because Griffin’s 'previous work has been stellar. He’s one of the singular most important religious philosophers in America. I don’t understand this lapse.'
"Berlet isn’t alone in wondering what happened to Griffin. In These Times Contributing Editor Terry Allen, a former editor at Amnesty International, is
similarly unimpressed. 'I respect Griffin, but he’s just wrong on his theories,' she says. Allen spent two months assessing the major conspiracy theories concerning 9/11 and she has concluded there is not much to any of them—especially Griffin’s. 'I found plausible explanations for most of the things he disputes. I think part of it is that he’s a theologian who operates on faith,' says Allen.
"A lack of faith in the Bush administration, as well as its pathological aversion to transparency, are what fuels the ongoing skepticism about the official 9/11 story. Unfortunately, debunking conspiracy theories is unlikely to change that."
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http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/about/author/13
Salim Muwakkil
"Salim Muwakkil is a senior editor of In These Times, where he has worked since 1983, and an op-ed columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He is currently a Crime and Communities Media Fellow of [George Soros'] OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE, examining the impact of ex-inmates and gang leaders in leadership positions in the black community.
Soros
"As an editor for In These Times since 1984, Salim Muwakkil has forged a reputation as one of the country’s most insightful writers on issues of African-American culture and politics. He is also a Crime and Communities Media Fellow of the Open Society Institute.
"Currently, Muwakkil is working on a documentary titled Chicago Gangs: An American Story and writing the text for a book of photographs documenting the tenure of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor.
"Muwakkil started his journalism career as reporter for the Associated Press in Newark, New Jersey shortly before graduating from Rutgers University with a BA in Political Science. He soon moved on to become a copy editor and then managing editor at Muhammad Speaks-Bilalian News, the largest black-owned publication in the country.
"Upon moving to Chicago, Muwakkil joined the In These Times’ staff and became a contributing columnist to both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune.
"Muwakkil has also written for the Washington Post, Chicago Reader, The Progressive, Newsday, Cineaste, Chicago Magazine, the Baltimore Sun, Z Magazine, the Toronto Star, Emerge Magazine, The Black Scholar, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Utne Reader.
An irrelevant distraction from Hell
"Muwakkil is a frequent contributor to 'Chicago Tonight' and 'Beyond the Beltway' with Bruce Damont, two Chicago-based public affairs programs. He is also an occasional host on Chicago’s black talk radio station, WVON.
"Muwakkil has won a variety of journalism awards including the 'Top Ten Media Heroes of 1994,' from the Institute of Alternative Journalism, the 'Black Rose Achievement Award for 1997,' from the League of Black
Women, the 2001 Studs Terkel Award for Journalistic Excellence from the Chicago-based Community Media Workshop and the 2004 Lillian Award for Excellence in Journalism, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
The Northwetern University Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois
"In his spare time, Muwakkil serves as a board member for the Progressive Media Project and the Chicago-based Public Square. He is a faculty member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest’s Urban Studies Program, and a former adjunct professor at Columbia College, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago."
1.) Salim Muwakkil, a senior editor of IN THESE TIMES, takes aim at David Ray Griffin, A.N. Whitehead fan2.) Salim Muwakkil from George Soros' Open Society Institute and the "mainstream" Dopa programming system
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http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2444/
December 21, 2005
What’s the 411 on 9/11?
By Salim Muwakkil
"The movement caught my attention when I saw Dr. David Ray Griffin speaking at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on C-SPAN earlier this year. Before retiring last year, Griffin was emeritus professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont School of Theology in California. He has written several well-regarded books on religion and spirituality, co-founded the Center for Process Studies and is considered one of the nation’s foremost theologians. I am familiar with his work and regard him as a wise writer on the role of spirituality in society.
"So, it was shocking to see him pushing a radical conspiracy theory about 9/11 on C-SPAN. His 2004 book, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11, has become the manifesto of this movement. At the University of Wisconsin, this distinguished academic told students at Bascom Hall that 'there is no escape from the frightful conclusion that 9/11 was engineered by the Bush administration and its Pentagon.' ..."Progressive journalists have an added burden not to be seen as fodder for conspiracists. Sometimes they need a little help. Groups like Political Research Associates (PRA), based in Somerville, Massachusetts, exist to make sure progressives are not duped by conspiracists of any stripe. 'The antidote to conspiracism is Power Structure Research based on some form of institutional, systemic or structural analysis that examines race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, class and other factors that are used to create inequality and oppression,' the PRA explained in a preface to its review of Griffin’s The New Pearl Harbor.
Chip "Ace" Berlet"The reviewer was Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at the PRA. In an interview with Amy Goodman on 'Democracy Now!,' Berlet agreed with Griffin that 'there are a number of unanswered questions' regarding 9/11, but assessed Griffin’s work as 'a lot of … armchair guesswork by people who haven’t done their homework.' Berlet noted his surprise at this because Griffin’s 'previous work has been stellar. He’s one of the singular most important religious philosophers in America. I don’t understand this lapse.'
"Berlet isn’t alone in wondering what happened to Griffin. In These Times Contributing Editor Terry Allen, a former editor at Amnesty International, is
similarly unimpressed. 'I respect Griffin, but he’s just wrong on his theories,' she says. Allen spent two months assessing the major conspiracy theories concerning 9/11 and she has concluded there is not much to any of them—especially Griffin’s. 'I found plausible explanations for most of the things he disputes. I think part of it is that he’s a theologian who operates on faith,' says Allen.
"A lack of faith in the Bush administration, as well as its pathological aversion to transparency, are what fuels the ongoing skepticism about the official 9/11 story. Unfortunately, debunking conspiracy theories is unlikely to change that."
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http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/about/author/13
Salim Muwakkil
"Salim Muwakkil is a senior editor of In These Times, where he has worked since 1983, and an op-ed columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He is currently a Crime and Communities Media Fellow of [George Soros'] OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE, examining the impact of ex-inmates and gang leaders in leadership positions in the black community.
Soros"As an editor for In These Times since 1984, Salim Muwakkil has forged a reputation as one of the country’s most insightful writers on issues of African-American culture and politics. He is also a Crime and Communities Media Fellow of the Open Society Institute.
"Currently, Muwakkil is working on a documentary titled Chicago Gangs: An American Story and writing the text for a book of photographs documenting the tenure of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor.
"Muwakkil started his journalism career as reporter for the Associated Press in Newark, New Jersey shortly before graduating from Rutgers University with a BA in Political Science. He soon moved on to become a copy editor and then managing editor at Muhammad Speaks-Bilalian News, the largest black-owned publication in the country.
"Upon moving to Chicago, Muwakkil joined the In These Times’ staff and became a contributing columnist to both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune.
"Muwakkil has also written for the Washington Post, Chicago Reader, The Progressive, Newsday, Cineaste, Chicago Magazine, the Baltimore Sun, Z Magazine, the Toronto Star, Emerge Magazine, The Black Scholar, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Utne Reader.
An irrelevant distraction from Hell"Muwakkil is a frequent contributor to 'Chicago Tonight' and 'Beyond the Beltway' with Bruce Damont, two Chicago-based public affairs programs. He is also an occasional host on Chicago’s black talk radio station, WVON.
"Muwakkil has won a variety of journalism awards including the 'Top Ten Media Heroes of 1994,' from the Institute of Alternative Journalism, the 'Black Rose Achievement Award for 1997,' from the League of BlackWomen, the 2001 Studs Terkel Award for Journalistic Excellence from the Chicago-based Community Media Workshop and the 2004 Lillian Award for Excellence in Journalism, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
The Northwetern University Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois"In his spare time, Muwakkil serves as a board member for the Progressive Media Project and the Chicago-based Public Square. He is a faculty member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest’s Urban Studies Program, and a former adjunct professor at Columbia College, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago."
Is David Ray Griffin for Real? - Notes on Global Theology, the Falk Question, Cults & Howard Ahmanson
BY ALEX CONSTANTINEIn response to an Angie's classic article on the "creepy sides" of the 9/11 truth movement – manifest particularly in representations of one-world governance by religious and cultic proponents in the leadership of the movement – David Ray Griffin writes:
"At the same time as the case is being made for the necessity and possibility of global government, people in various religious and philosophical traditions need to be interpreting those traditions, probably through a combination of retrieval and reformation, so as to reveal and emphasize their support for this transition to world unity ... My major project at present is, in fact, to develop a theology for a new world order ... "
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze25x9n/id25.html]
Angie wasn't appeased by facile explanations, and noted that Griffin's "new order theology" amounted to an eclectic cobbling together of religious concepts, that a Rockefeller study group had inspired Griffin's advocacy of "normative globalism":
" ... the Rockefellers have played a role in re-engineering religion.... It is interesting to learn from your reply that it was actually during your five-week Bellagio-Rockefeller Study Center stay in the early 90’s that you first developed your conviction that a new global structure is a necessity ..."
Princeton's Richard A. Falk wrote a foreword to Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor, published by Interlink – a trenchant piece of investigative journalism that attacks the very people who have supported and nurtured Griffin his entire adult life? 
Dr. Falk sits on the board of The Nation ... the ranking Mockingbird state propaganda outlet for the programmed left. That alone rules him out as a credible authority ... If he can't perceive the shortcomings of The Nation, its role in molding "progressive" opinions then his qualifications are irrelevant – he has no business telling the left what to think. By the same token, if Griffin invites a Nation board member to write the foreword to a book on 9/11, then he has no grasp of media control and infiltration and therefore is NOT the authority on fascism and the intelligence sector that he pretends to be.Dr. Falk, who is also a Council of Foreign Relations member, held a joint appointment in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics between 1961 and 2001. His academic writing includes The End of World Order, The Status of Law in International Society, Human Rights and State Sovereignty, The Promise of World Order, Toward a New Global Politics, and
Emerging Global Village: A Post-Westphalian Perspective. Dr. Falk is currently a Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Angie found Falk's involvement in the World Order Models Project "creepy," and in response, Griffin took a nonsensical position: "With regard to [Angie's] statement that Richard 'has worked on new world order projects for the CFR, like the World Order Models Project, [Falk reports]: 'I did have a MARGINAL relationship to the 1980s Project, which was trying to project a set of future conditions in world affairs, and was headed by Princeton colleague, Richard Ullman. It was a rather benign undertaking, and had NOTHING to do with the world order models project.'”
Dr. Falk's sentence is a slippery non sequitar. "I did have a marginal relationship to the 1980s Project" – actually, Dr. Falk was RESEARCH DIRECTOR of the North American team in the World Order Models Project – "[but] had NOTHING to do with the world order models project." A Rovian gloss? This ... from the leadership of a TRUTH movement? Griffin:
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze25x9n/id25.html
September 13, 2004
Dear Angie,
"... I must confess that, in the eyes of God, I am probably indeed a pretty bad guy. But I was somewhat surprised by the reasons you gave for warning really pure 9/11 truth-seekers to be wary of me."
An official, global theology that coincides with a global state would make anyone wary, but there are other reasons to ask hard questions of Dr. Griffin. A former research partner of mine assembled this background on Claremont and Griffin a couple of years ago:
http://www.cst.edu/grif.htm
Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology; Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate University B.A., Northwest Christian College; M.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
Dr. Griffin is an advocate of process theology and has given special attention to Christology, the problem of evil, science and theology, and ecology and religion. He has been developing a "constructive postmodern theology," which is manifest in his many books. The wider implications of this position for intellectual, social, and global problems are expressed in the SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought, which he edits. His most recent book is entitled Reenchantment without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion (Cornell UP, 2001).
http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/anthropology/sci.anthropology/archive/january-1995/0221.html
The Center for Process Studies, co-founded by John B. Cobb, Jr. and David Ray Griffin in 1973, is oriented to the needs of scholars and students. The Process and Faith program, directed by William A. Beardslee, addresses themes of process theology to pastors, religious educators, and theologically-interested laity. The Center for a Postmodern World, founded by David Ray Griffin in 1987, relates the process worldview to many of the concerns of non-academic and secular audiences.
http://www.hmc.edu/admin/colrel/catalogue/2000-2001/tcc.html
The Claremont Colleges, currently five, small, independent colleges and two graduate institutions. They are (in order of founding): Pomona College (1887), The Claremont Graduate University (1925), Scripps (1926), Claremont McKenna College (1946), Harvey Mudd College (1955), Pitzer College (1963), and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (1997).
"The assets of The Claremont Colleges total more than $3 billion, including substantial endowments in all of the colleges, over 175 buildings, and 550 acres of land˜320 now occupied and 230 reserved for colleges and professional schools that may be founded in the future."
Where did the huge endowment come from? Who pays the salaries, publishes the books, and controls the output of the lectures and research conducted? To find this out--to follow the money – always look at the Board of Trustees; they handle the money questions. See if any names stand out. Look especially for connections to capital streams that could involve money-laundering to finance the institution. What you find is a "network." Money is washed by a team that usually work together toward a purpose without knowing what the purpose is. It is operated like an intelligence operation on a need-to-know basis. The goal is to find money for "worthy causes," without asking tough questions like: "Where is the money coming from?"
http://www.cgu.edu/About/Board_of_Trustees.pdf
• Jonathan Dolgen, Viacom Entertainment• Donald R. DesCombes, Chairman PFF Bank in Pomona
• Charlene R. Jackson, President of HLS Financial
Services in Houston.
• Henry Hwang, Chairman of Rock-Asia Capital
Demonstrators at ClaremontThat's just for starters. What's interesting is that there's no history given at this website. For that you have to dig further.
http://www.cuc.claremont.edu/aboutcuc/history.asp
James Blaisdell's vision gave rise to the consortium of educational institutions known as The Claremont Colleges. The Claremont Consortium was officially born on October 14, 1925, when Robert J. Bernard, the assistant to President Blaisdell at Pomona College, filed in Sacramento the articles of incorporation for The Claremont Colleges. This day was especially chosen because it also marked the 38th anniversary of the founding of Pomona College, the first of several allied colleges that would be established in Claremont. Blaisdell thereby created not only an alliance that is now widely recognized as one of the nation's greatest centers of liberal arts education, but also a central coordinating agency for the consortium - an organization known today as the Claremont University Consortium....To really understand where Claremont's money comes from, you have to go back to the creation of America's oil empire in the Middle East by the FDR administration, with the help of California oil men.
This is very hard work to understand what happened and how what happened then is driving what is happening now. But it's mostly about money--money that supports all these "worthy" goals we established so long ago.
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EASTMAN? ... THE BUCHANANITE?
From: Vigilius Haufniensis
To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com
Cc: political-research@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] DICK EASTMAN
Well that doesn't do much for Griffin's credibility does it? – XX
XX: ... griffen references eastman in that eastman puts foreward the theory that there was a pentagon plane AND a missile, so he doesnt address eastman's personal credibility, he merely brings him up with reference to this theory....
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566565529/qid=1082094982/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8418011-0363963?v=glance&s=books
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin"... i suspect griffin leans toward neoconservatism, even though he doesnt seem to like bush at all. instead of saying 'mossad,' for instance, he says 'a certain foreign intelligence agency.' i had heard rumors that claremont was a haven for neoconservatism, and then i found out that strauss had actually been at claremont for a year back when it was founded by griffin and john cobb jr in the early 70's. ... just kind of makes you wonder about eastman. ... "
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THE HOWARD AHMANSON/CLAREMONT CONNECTION
http://www.reason.com/news/show/30789.html
Invitation to a Stoning
Getting cozy with theocrats
Walter Olson | November 1998 Print Edition
"Prominent California philanthropist Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., who has given Rushdoony's operations more than $700,000 over the years.... An heir of the Home Savings bank fortune, Ahmanson has also been an important donor to numerous other groups, including the CLAREMONT Institute, the Seattle-based Discovery Institute and--just to show how complicated life gets--the Reason Foundation, the publisher of this magazine (for projects not associated with its publication). ... "Compare Howard Ahmanson's nationalistic ideal with David Ray Griffin's global governmental-theological state:
"Ahmanson is a California millionaire who uses his trust fund to finance right-wing Christian, anti-gay, anti-evolution groups and politicians. He was previously associated with Christian Reconstructionism, which advocates a BIBLICALLY-BASED GOVERNMENT for the U.S. (Neither Ahmanson nor his
philanthropic endeavors have their own websites. Make of that what you will.)"
When you think of Ahmanson, think Diebold, ES&S, Disney and (yes) the CFR. (Disney/ABC director John Bryson is also on the board of the H.F. Ahmanson & Co. Ahmanson holds a majority stake in ES&S, invested in Diebold. He is a CFR heavy-weight. He was also instrumental in the founding of the ultra-con Council for National Policy.)
PS: Griffin's publisher Interlink ties to CIA Mockingbird John Train's ongoing war on the left. This will be the topic of a pending note on DGR. In general, I have moved on from 9/11 because the cointel-dupe factor is extreme in the movement, and little can be done because the channels of communication are in a state of chaos as a result. Hard-line factionalism makes argumentation of objective, unbiased research and peer review impossible. Turmoil is not an ideal condition for pursuing truth, unfortunately, but the place to start is with the leadership, sorting out the Mockingbirds from the legitimate researchers, then perhaps the flames will dissipate and real progress can be made. But it's certain that the 9/11 record will begin to correct itself it the cult programmers are ousted from the Temple of Truth.
- AC
Thursday, December 28, 2006
The Haditha Doctor and The Media Dissemblers
by Sarah Meyer
Index Research
This item originally published June 19th 2006
This article updated 27/12/2006
"Try weaning Bush supporters from the obvious lies that are the basis of this administration, and they will call you every name in the book." Paul Craig Roberts
The Haditha Doctor - Walid al-Obeidi
On 2 June 2006, PipeLineNews.org published an unsigned, scurrilous article entitled Questions Arise About Haditha Doctor - Wahid al-Obeidi - Central
Figure In "Massacre" Case.
This article questioned the account "Dr. Wahid al-Obeidi" had given about being arrested and beaten in Haditha in October 2005. The article then said, “Wahid is associated with the pro-terrorist Brussels Tribunal, a European-based anti-American group which counts among its members Saddam's favorite film maker Scott Ritter and Saddam's defense attorney Ramsey
Clark."
Pipeline News has confused and then misused their facts. The name of the Director of the Haditha Hospital is Dr. Walid al-Obeidi. Dr. Walid al-Obeidi is not a member of the BRussells Tribunal. It is Dr. Abdul Wahab Al Obeidi, member of “Freedom Voice Society for Human Rights,” who is on the advisory committee of the Brussells Tribunal.Why is the (misnamed) Dr. Walid al-Obeidi being slandered? He saw the bullets in the bodies from the Haditha massacre, thus opening up the case against American troops.
Ridley Scott is indeed a film-maker. Is PipeLineNews by any chance confusing him with Scott Ritter, who is a former UN weapons inspector and a critic of the US foreign policy in the Middle East? Ramsey Clark has recently written a statement saying that "the case for impeachment is clear beyond question.” Neither Scott Ritter nor Ramsey Clark are members of the BRussells Tribunal.
PipeLineNews has a further story, which it calls “The Haditha Misinformation Dump,” at The Contra Costa Times Watch, which they call their “side project.” This site has links to not only PipeLineNews but also the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes and Militant Islam Monitor.
A recent New York Times article gave details of the most recent understanding of the Haditha murders. It was reported by John M. Broder, David S. Cloud, John Kifner, Carolyn Marshall, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker. It was written by Mr. Broder. See: Contradictions Cloud Inquiry Into 24 Iraqi DeathsThe Chiarelli report on Haditha is complete. We await the findings.
A recent US poll shows that “ nearly one in three of the respondents (32%) said they believe such an incident (Haditha) was a "common one" in that war.
Some 57% called it an "isolated incident" and 11% said they are "not sure." This poll shows what a good job the US corporate media blackout and Media Dissemblers are doing in America – and also shows that, unfortunately, not enough people are reading educated, informative stories on the web.
And the BRussells Tribunal?
The BRussells Tribunal
The BRussells Tribunal initiated The World Tribunal on Iraq. The final meeting of the World Tribunal, Iraq, was in Turkey in 2005. “The first task of the tribunal is to investigate the crimes committed by the US government in launching the Iraq war.”1 The papers given in Istanbul (2005) maintained a very high quality. These papers, and the final declaration of the Jury of Conscience in Istanbul (2005), read by Arundhati Roy, Spokesperson of the Jury of Conscience, can be read here.
Who were / are some of the members of the BRussells Tribunal? In addition to many esteemed Iraqis: two former UN Assistant Secretary Generals; two Nobel Prize winners; seven internationally known writers; human rights and humanitarian lawyers, professors, scientists, journalists and others. Have a look at the full list of members.
What is the BRussells Tribunal now focusing upon? 225 health officials have been murdered in Iraq. There is a “Solidarity call with the plight of Iraqi health workers.” 190 academics have been murdered. There is a call for action to “Save Iraq’s Academics.” You can read more detail about the plight of the Iraqi academics in The Jalilli Report.
Following is the story of an incestuous group and the foundations which collude with them.
The Middle East Forum Family
Noble words, like “democracy”, "liberation", “freedom”, “reform” have been emptied of their true meaning and refilled by the enemies of these concepts.
Their counterfeits dominate the news. John Pilger, 'War by Media.'
Daniel PipesThe Middle East Forum is registered under the name Daniel Pipes, 1500 Walnut St. 1050, Philadelphia, PA., 19102, who is its Director. Sourcewatch has an extensive directory on Pipes. It identifies Pipes as “a neoconservative, orientalist, extreme right-wing Zionist (who) often expresses islamophobic
statements.” He holds many key positions. Sourcewatch says that Pipes’ “columns have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Commentary, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, National Review, New Republic, Policy Review, FrontPage, Jerusalem Post and The Weekly Standard.”2 One (of many) controversial articles which he wrote, Why the Japanese internment still matters, was challenged by historian Juan Cole, presently still a professor at the University of Michigan (see below).
The Middle East Forum 'Mission Statement' says: “The Middle East Forum, a think tank, works to define and promote American interests in the Middle East through research, publications, and educational outreach. The Forum's policy recommendations include fighting radical Islam (rather than terrorism), convincing the Palestinians that Israel is permanent, reducing funds going to the Middle East for energy purchases, slowing down the democratization process, and more robustly asserting U.S. interests vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia. In addition, the Forum works to improve Middle East
studies in North America.”
In case the above rhetoric is not clear, here is a clear gvnews-quoted statement by Mr. Pipes which I found in the MediaChannel archives:
"West European societies are unprepared for the dmassive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic standards of hygiene."
The Middle East Forum / Daniel Pipes publishes The Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. The MEIB Editor is, according to its website, Gary C. Gambill, who also writes for the Jamestown Foundation. This Foundation is “increasingly linked to neocon-driven institutions and leading figures, including the Center for Security Policy and Freedom House.” Two other Jamestown
Foundation writers are also editors of MEIB: Thomas Patrick Carroll, and Robert G. Rabil. Rabil is an adjunct scholar (as is Daniel Pipes) at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and assistant professor of Middle East studies in Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Political Science. Michael Rubin is also an editorial board member, whom Karen Kwiatkowski called a “minor-league neoconservative … indeed a rookie.”
The Middle East Forum also publishes The Middle East Quarterly. The editor of Middle East Quarterly since 2004 is (again) Michael Rubin. Rubin was a member of the Coalition Provisional Authority (2003-4) in Iraq and a resident scholar at the PNAC-heavy American Enterprise Institute. He denies allegations that he was a member of the Lincoln Group’s Pentagon-sponsored propaganda inside Iraq. Rubin was recently an active opponent to Juan Cole’s appointment at Yale University. Further information on Mr. Rubin can be found on Right Web.
Mr. Rubin is ALSO the editor of Campus Watch. (Daniel Pipes is also the Director and co-founder of Campus Watch.) The box at the top of the Campus Watch website says (in bold type):
"Campus Watch is the Trojan horse whose warriors are already changing the rules of the game not only in Middle East Studies but also in the US University as a whole. They threaten to undermine the very foundations of American education." Miriam Cooke, of Duke University.The Mission Statement of Campus Watch says, “Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America, with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses
five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over
students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds.” There is a survey of 44 ‘institutions’ (colleges/universities) and their scholars. Campus Watch is supported by unspecified ‘donations.’
There have been critics of Campus Watch, and these are answered in “Replies to our Critics,” specifically on the charge of ‘McCarthyism.’
Campus Watch publishes articles that have appeared in PipeLineNews. The unsigned attack on "Dr. Wahid" and the BRussels Tribunal appeared in PipeLineNews.
PipeLineNews is registered as pipebombnews.com. The registrant of this site is named as William Mayer, 2395 Lake Meadow Circle, Martinez, CA 94553, whilst the administrative address given is PIpeLineMedia, Inc.; William Mayer, CEO, 3217 Whipple Road, Union City, CA 94587. If one then looks up PipeLineMedia, a new address appears – 123 K Street, Washington, D.C. alongside the same administrative office address as pipebombnews.
Mr. Mayer published an article, McCarthyism — The Right's Badge of Honor (05.03), in Tysknews.3 Tysknews talks about the owner, or “His Majesty,” as being responsible for the site. “We guarantee no accuracy for our allegations and assume no responsibility.” We are not told who the owner, or ‘His Majesty,’ is. There are three links to R. Reagan sites and one to The Federalist.
Mr. Mayer has also published Some Final Thoughts on the Dubai Ports Deal in the Militant Islam Monitor.
“BR,” or Beila Rabinowitz is the registrant name for Militant Islam Monitor. The address given is a P.O. Box number in Peoria, Illinois 60612.4
Daniel Pipes describes what the site is about:
"Militant Islam is a Utopian ideology … that attracts only a portion of Muslims, … (and) seeks to gain control of governments, and is nakedly aggressive toward all those who stand in it' (sic) way…”
Beila Rabinowitz collaborated with Mr. Mayer in two PipeLine articles which were republished in Campus-Watch.5
Beila Rabinowitz also collaborated with Mr. Mayer in a PipeLineNews story, "Moderate" American Islamism And Terror, Zero Degrees Of Separation (12.12.05. This story was republished on free republic.com. This “Hoo-Yah” site, which describes itself as the “Premier Conservative news Forum”, is privately owned and run by Jim Robinson from Fresno, California. The administrative, technical and billing contact is Robinson-DeFehr Consulting, also in Fresno. Their ‘Mission’ is: “pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and pro-America.” Subscribers are called ‘Freepers.’ A lively essay on Mr. Robinson’s site can be read at Flakmag.
Beila Rabinowitz’s University Of Central Florida Funding Islamist Da'wa Event (08.03.06) was also published in PipeLine News. Rabinowitz’s articles also
appear on Discover the Networks (see below). Rabinowitz’s article entitled False Front, co-authored with Joe Kaufman, appeared in FrontPage.org.
“Essentially,” they said of Islamic radicals, “they needed to disguise their reality” (my italics). Mr. Kaufman is Chairman of Americans Against Hate.
‘Americans Against Hate’ is “a civil rights organization and terrorism watchdog group.” Their goal is “to be an active voice against those that spread bigotry and violence.” Many articles by Mr. Kaufman can be seen at this site. Mr. Kaufman also contributes to FrontPage Magazine, the Middle East Quarterly, the Des Moines Register, and The Miami Herald. He appears
on Fox News.
FrontPageMagazine is published by David Horowitz. He is the founder of The Center for the Study of Popular Culture. The mission of this organization, according to media transparency, is to "change the leftist, anti-American, elitist culture that is dominant in the entertainment industry [and to expose] the idiocies and the viciousness of the radical leftism in universities, the media, mainstream churches, and everywhere else this modern plague is found."
Horowitz and Peter Collier (see below) "also created a project of the CSPC called the Committee on Media Integrity (COMINT), designed specifically to attack Public Television.”
Recently, according to Media Matters, David Horowitz called Ann Coulter "a national treasure" and stated that the "point" of Coulter's controversial remarks on the widows of the victims of the 9-11 terrorist attacks was "right on the mark." Coulter worked at the Scaife-funded Centre for Individual Rights. Scaife is also a funder for the Center for the Study of Popular
Culture (see below).
The senior editor of Front Page is Jacob Laksin, who is also a writer for the Centre for the Study of Popular Culture.
Max Blumenthal wrote in The Demons of David Horowitz that “Since David Horowitz switched his political allegiance from the radical left to the authoritarian right, he has engaged in one embarrassingly paranoid crusade after another. Each one is designed to stifle a liberal conspiracy which exists only in the hollow canyons of his own mind.”
Horowitz also writes for NewsMax, is associated with Campus Watch, and appears on Fox News as an ‘analyst.’
Discover the Networks, which has similar witch-hunts to Campus Watch, was co-founded in 2004 by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. Collier was the founding publisher of Encounter Books. He and Horowitz co-authored, amongst other books, The Anti-Chomsky Reader. Collier, according to Media Transparency, “now (2005) runs the Bradley-funded Encounter for Culture and Education, which publishes right wing books by people such as William Kristol.”
A ferris wheel of the ‘Networks’ topics is shown, highlighting
1) Issues: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, globalization, Guantanamo, immigration, Iraq war, Islam and Socialist Left, Patriot Act, treason, etc. This section is essential reading in order to understand the skewed mind-set of Mr. Horowitz and his colleagues.
2) Individuals6: photographs of, amongst others, show: Ramsey Clark,
Ted Kennedy, Fidel Castro, N. Chomsky, George Soros, Jesse Jackson, Dan Rather, Jimmy Carter, Erica Jong, etc.7 Have a look.
3) Academia: anti-semitism and left-wing bias in academia, etc.
4) Media: “Conservatives believe the mass media, predominantly television news programs, slant reports in favor of the liberal position on issues. Most
Americans agree.”8 David Limbaugh wrote an article entitled: MSM Never Tires of Antiwar Propaganda. Glazov penned The Media's Lies About Israel.
5) Funders: “examines the immensely wealthy charitable foundations that provide financial backing for leftist groups and causes.”
Horowitz is the author of Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, and also of The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics inAmerica. “His critics have said the book is akin to a McCarthy-like smear campaign” wrote M.B. Marklein.
The above is an abbreviated summary of the large Middle East Forum network. See the full extent of the Daniel Pipes network here.
FUNDING THE DISSEMBLERS
Who is funding these people who talk about “freedom of speech,” the “abuse of power over students” and the “intolerance of alternative views” whilst
simultaneously slandering and falsely accusing reputable individuals and organizations? The hierarchy resembles the Sicilian Mafia, who ‘protect their own.’
According to Media Transparency, the following have received money. Details are given below.
The American Enterprise Institute, between 1985 - 2004 received 320 grants totaling $41,547,101. Funders included the following foundations: Lynde and Harry Bradley; Carthage; Castle Rock; Richard and Helen deVos; William Donner; Earhart; F.M. Kirby; Charles G. Koch Charitable; Phillip M. McKenna; John M. Olin; Ruth and Lovett Peters; Randolph; Smith Richardson;Sarah Scaife; William E. Simon and The Walton Family Foundation.
Middle East Forum received seven grants totaling $190,000 between 1996 – 2003 from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and The William H. Donner Foundation.
The Centre for Study of Popular Culture received 140 foundation grants, totaling $14,534,000 from the following foundations between 1989 and 2004: W.H. Brady; Lynde and Harry Bradley, Inc.; Gordon and Mary Cain; Castle Rock; William H. Donner; Hickory Foundation; Jacqueline Hume Foundation; John M. Olin, Inc; Randolph, Sarah Scaife (& Allegheny and
Carthage); Shelby Collom Foundation.
Encounter for Culture and Education received 85 foundation grants totalling $5,640,000 from 1991 – 2003. Most of these grants were from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. The Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc., the JM Foundation and the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation gave $18,000 for Encounter Books. The W.H. Brady Foundation gave $2000 for “Project support.” The John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. gave $10,000 for “a research project on the Congress for Cultural Freedom” in 1995 and $50,000 to “support a Berlin conference on the Cold War” in 1992.
The Jamestown Foundation received grants totalling $4,431,613 between 1985 – 2004. These were from The Carthage Foundation; The Smith-Richardson Foundation; The F.M. Kirby Foundation; the Shelby Cullom Davis
Foundation; The Earhart Foundation; The Armstrong Foundation; The Sarah Scaife Foundation; The William Donner Foundation.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy received 8 grants totalling $574,509 between 1991 –2000 from the Sarah Smith Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
= A total of $66,917.223.
Foundations
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. Lynde and Harry Bradley founded the Allen-Bradley Company, which manufactured radio and electronic components. They are the USA’s largest ‘right-wing’ donors with an extensive network. Allen-Bradley sold the company for $1.651billion to Rockwell Int., a defence and aerospace industry, and named the new company Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc, which was run by the John M. Olin Foundation (see below). The new president worked for the Institute for Education Affairs9, which was started by PNAC and Philanthropy
Roundtable member Irving Kristol and William Simon. Simon now heads the Olin Foundation.
Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation. Established 1988, Houston, Texas. “Cain served as a director of Texas Petrochemicals Corporation … chairman of the board of Sterling Chemicals, Inc., Vista Chemical Company, Cain Chemical, Inc., and The Sterling Group; … director for the Cato Institute.” Not much info.
The Castle Rock Foundation. Created in 1993 from funds originating from the Coors Brewery Company. The Coors family backed ‘the Moral Majority,’ which became The Heritage Foundation.10
Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation. Started in 1970 by family who founded Amway (cleaning products). H. deVos said, "our biggest priority is to give back to Christian causes.” Bush friend.
The Earhart Foundation. Fortune from White Star Oil Company. Michigan.
Jaquelin Hume Foundation. Fortune from onions and garlic business started in 1933. Founded Citizens for America. “He helped create the highly-developed conservative infrastructure of think tanks, policy institutes, and foundations which perpetuate the right-wing revolution of the 1990s. Member of Reagan’s ‘Kitchen Cabinet.’ Today Hume’s son, William, carries on the family’s political legacy.”
F.M. Kirby Foundation. Fortune made from F.W. Woolworth, Allegheny Corporation, Investors Diversified Services & the Pittston Company. Family
still involved.
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.11 Founded Koch industries (oil & gas); Charles Koch founded the Cato Institute. David Koch co-founded Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE).
Philip M. McKenna Foundation No known website. Founded by Pennsylvania steel industry; made fortune in WW II.
Olin Foundation. Financed by chemical and munitions fortune. Also funded Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research and other ‘conservative advocacy’ groups. Now closed.
Randolph Foundation New York. Complicated trust manoevering. President: Heather Richardson Higgins. She is also a member of the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution and the Independent Women’s Forum. Next to zero information.
Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation Lovett Peters founded the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research (Boston) in 1988. Daniel Peters is
Chairman of The Philanthropy Roundtable and was formerly an executive with Proctor and Gamble. Unclear where fortune was made. Little info.
Sarah Scaife Foundation includes the Allegheny & Carthage Foundations. Financed from the Mellon oil, banking and industrial fortune.
Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, New York. Established 1962. He was chairman of the oldest and largest investment firm specializing in insurance securities. 1969 – 1975 US Ambassador to Switzerland. Was on board
of Heritage Foundation. No known website.
Smith Richardson Foundation. Fortune from Vicks Vapour Rub. Westport, Connecticut.
William E. Simon, Nixon’s Treasury Secretary; was President of Olin Foundation (1992); founded, with Irving Kristol, the Institute for Educational Affairs. Director Kissinger Associates; Director Xerox. Not much info on where the original money actually came from. D. 2000. Son is now co-chairman with investments in oil and offshore drilling.
Walton Family Foundation. Fortune from Walmart, founded by Sam Walton. His wife, Helen, and daughter Alice are reportedly the two richest women in the world.
William H. Donner Foundation. First established in 1932. Donner “invested in real estate, founded the National Tin Plate Company, co-founded (with Mellon) Union Steel, and established the International Cancer Research Foundation.” The Donner family is still active.
According to Wikipedia, the New Citizen Project was also funded by the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the John Olin Foundation and the Bradley Foundation. The NCP "initiated the neo-conservative Project for the New
American Century, one of the key behind-the-scenes' architects for the Bush administrations foreign policy."
Footnotes
[1] There have been many articles on the illegality of the US/UK’s war on terror in Iraq. Here is a recent one: Haditha, Bush and Nuremburg’s law.
[2] The Weekly Standard is edited by the Chairman of PNAC, William Kristol.
[3] No information on owner of Tysknews. The administrative, technical and registrant contact is David Holtzinger, 913 S. Dogwood Rd.,Walnutport, PA 18088: webmaster@tysknews.com
[4] registry data; also: Arin and Ripe IP 216.92.146.244, Pennsylvania – Pittsburg.”
[5] See: The Catholic Theological Union And The Limits Of Understanding; (28.06.04) and University of Central Florida Slated To Become Cultural Jihad Hub (10.03.06).
[6] Hilary Clinton is included in this group, which is commensurate with calling Prime Minister Blair a Labour Party spokesperson. Mr. Blair’s politics are to the‘right’ of the UK conservative party.
[7] See the American Library Association: Authors whose works have been challenged or even banned in the USA include the authors J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Toni Morrison. Maya Angelou, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Maurice Sendak, “People continue to attempt—to suppress anything that conflicts with or anyone who disagrees with their own beliefs." See the 1st Amendment of the American Constitution. See also: But Which Books Are Suspicious?
[8] See Propaganda and Haditha by Dahr Jamail.
[9] 31 grants from 1985 – 2002 totalling $1,677,293.
[10] The Heritage Foundation has received $555,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
[11] “In writing … papers and making … appearances, individuals associated with these organizations often conveniently decline to acknowledge the substantial funding they receive from Koch and other corporations ... By withholding such information, they are able to front as unbiased the public-minded associations promoting rigorous scientific research and economic autonomy, when, in fact, the individuals are mere mouthpieces for industries like that of the Koch brothers.” From Axis of Ideology, NCRP, 2004.
There you have it. One brave, beleaguered Iraqi doctor in an illegally occupied war-torn country vs. the ‘perception management’ of media dissemblers, or ‘worker bees,’ who are backed by the $66+million taken
from the corporate empire profits of banking, oil, gas, steel, beer, onions and garlic, electronics, chemicals, munitions, real estate, insurance, Walmart, and a drizzle of 21st century “Christianity.” The Directors and Chairpeople of these Foundations, Corporations and Institutes could well benefit from an ‘ethics training’ course alongside the soldiers and mercenaries who murder civilians.
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Updates
16.12.04. TomDispatch.com Michael Massing on Iraq coverage and the election.
22.06.06. Yahoo news. ACLU seeks disclosure of Pentagon files on Haditha.
13.07.06. New York Review of Books. Letter by Daniel Pipes; reply by Michael Massing. Campus Watch.
07.07.06. CBS. An investigation into the cover-up of the alleged murder of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha last November concludes Marine officers at every level up to and including the colonel who commanded the regiment failed to investigate inaccurate and conflicting reports of how the
civilians were killed. Haditha Probe Reveals 'Red Flags.'
08.07.06. Schmitt / Cloud, NY Times. General Faults Marine Response to Iraq Killings.
10.07.06. Media transparency. Center for the Study of Popular Culture becomes David Horowitz Freedom Center
25.07.06. J. Cook, Dissident Voice. "This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a “Semite supremacist” who most recently made his name under the banner of Campus Watch, leading McCarthyite witch hunts against American professors who have the impertinence to suggest that maybe, just maybe, Arabs have minds and feelings like the rest of us." Five dMyths that Sanction Israel’s War Crimes.
02.08.06.AP. Source: Haditha evidence implicates marines.
Inquiry Suggests Marines Excised Files on Killings. 18.08.06. D.Cloud, NY Times / uruknet.
"Fascism" Frame Set Up by Right-Wing Press 09.01.06. IPS / ICH. “The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W. Bush to depict U.S. foes in the Middle East as "fascists" and its domestic critics as "appeasers" owes a great deal to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing press over the past several months to draw the same comparison.”
Rules of engagement: What were they at Haditha?
10.10.06. R. Whittle, CS Monitor. If marines are charged with killing as many as 24 Iraqi civilians, defense lawyers will argue the soldiers followed the rules.
How the Israeli lobby uses intimidation to prevent academic freedom in the U.S.
11.11.06. Video. At Columbia, the professors in the Middle East department believe there's a civil war under way for the hearts and minds of Americans.
Discussion on the watchdog, Campus Watch.
Haditha 'massacre' - one year on
19.11.06. D. Loyn, BBC. Women and children died in the attack in Haditha. The anniversary of the killings in Haditha - the worst single massacre of Iraqis attributed to US troops - could not have come at a worse time for the US forces, with other cases now reaching conclusions in the courts, including one that ended in a life sentence.
Marines likely to face charges in Haditha killings, congressman says
06.12.06. Financial Times. A congressman said Wednesday that about six Marines would be charged in the killing of 24 civilians, many of them women and children, last year in the Iraqi town of Haditha.
U.S., Iraqi troops seal off Haditha - residents
08.12.06. Reuters. ‘The U.S. military said troops were manning checkpoints and building a sand berm to crack down on insurgents in Haditha and in neighbouring Barwana. It said U.S. troops were protecting "the population and good citizens of Haditha".
But residents in Haditha, which is at the centre of a U.S. military investigation into the deaths of two dozen civilians in November 2005 by U.S. Marines, said electricity has been cut off and that no food is being
allowed into the city, they said.’
Marine To Be Charged in Haditha Case
18.12.06. AP / Yahoo news.
U.S. military to announce Haditha charges Thursday
18.12.06. Reuters. The U.S. military plans to charge Marines in the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, on Thursday, according to sources familiar with
the case. The November 2005 killings, which enraged Iraqis, are one of a series of cases in which U.S. service members have been accused, and some convicted, of being involved in killing Iraqi civilians. The charges in the Haditha case could include murder and are expected against at least five Marines, defense officials said.
Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha.
30.05.06. ITV/ICH.
Iraqis: Marines in Haditha case should be tried in Iraq
21.12.06. USA Today.
Haditha Residents on Charged Marines: Let Us Have Them
22.12.06. NY Times. Dr. Waleed Al-Obeidi, 41, the director-general of Haditha hospital said: “If they plan to implement justice, then we welcome this step to refer the eight marines to the court, but we have our doubts in American justice. The verdict will be life sentences for four of them and the other four will be released, according to what we heard in the media. They blamed one soldier in the killing of a whole family, while it was carnage. The Iraqi government should have summoned those soldiers and
executed them.” (cont …)
Human Rights Advocates Not Satisfied with Haditha Charges
22.12.06. A. Glantz. “"Not one of the victims' families is represented," he added. "No lawyer from the victims' families is represented. So you can see
the basic idea of justice and fairness is actually not available."
Dr. Salam Ismael says many Iraqis would like to see the American soldiers brought to trial in Iraqi courts--a position shared by the country's elected prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has demanded an end to the immunity U.S. soldiers currently enjoy under Iraqi law.
"Why are you afraid of being ruled by the law of the country that you're supposedly trying to liberate?" he asked rhetorically. "That's the question--it's a simple question I would like to ask the American people."
International human rights groups have a different concern. They note that since the September 11th attacks five years ago, no officer above the rank of
major has been charged in connection with torture or the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody.”
Four US marines charged with Iraq murders
22.12.06. S. Goldenerg, Guardian. · Eight face life sentence over Haditha killings · Court hearing follows admission of cover-up.
Haditha Investigation Finds Military Press Reports Inaccurate
22.12.06. KPBS. ‘A nine month military investigation into what actually happened in Haditha in November 2005 concludes the original military press reports on the event were not true. ‘
When the Press Dropped the Ball on Haditha
22.12.06. G. Mitchell, Editor and Publisher.
RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: THE LIBERATED AND THE DEAD
22.12.06. Media Lens. The BBC On The Haditha Massacre
Musafir's Musings
22.12.06. More good links from gentle, wise Musafir.
Haditha charges raise questions
23.12.06. Boston Herald editorial. “The lodging of criminal charges against eight Marines in connection with the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians 13 months ago is a sad and absolutely necessary duty for the Marine Corps.
The charging of four officers with dereliction of duty for failure to report what they knew or failure to investigate - in effect, a coverup of what happened in three Haditha homes - is particularly important. It represents a re-affirmation of the important principle of an officer’s responsibility for what troops under his command do, something the armed forces have not
always pursued with rigor in recent years.”
Viewpoint: Breaking Haditha
23.12.06. T. McGirk, Time. "During the months after the Haditha story broke, I became the target of bloggers, self-proclaimed patriots, for supposedly dragging the fine reputation of the Marines through the mud. Nothing about this story made me feel good save for one thing: until TIME's investigation, one of the Marines — the squad leader, Staff Sgt. Frank
Wuterich — was in line to receive a medal for heroism for what he did that terrible day. According to press reports, the recommenda tion says that Wuterich, 26, displayed "calm and confident decisiveness that day and doubtlessly prevented further injury or death to fellow Marines and innocent civilians." Today, Wuterich faces 13 counts of unpremeditated murder.
None of his victims were armed; most were the elderly, women and children."
Haditha: The Mai Lai of Iraq
In spite of all the evidence in The Haditha Doctor and the Media Dissemblers about media who accept vast sums of money from foundations to perpetrate their cover-up P.R., the “right wing” media is still trying to twist the Haditha facts.
PIPELINE NEWS SHOULD APOLOGISE TO THE BRUSSELS TRIBUNAL, THE DOCTOR IN HADITHA AND TO THEIR READERS FOR THEIR MISLEADING PROPAGANDA.
This article was originally published by the BRussells Tribunal. The url is:
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/HadithaDoctor.htm
The url of The Haditha Doctor and The Media Dissemblers is
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/haditha-doctor-and-media-dissemblers.html
Sarah Meyer is a researcher living in Sussex, UK.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 35: Idiot Wind – Return of The Mob
BY ALEX CONSTANTINE
"Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head ...
You hurt the ones that I love best
and cover up the truth with lies ...
"One day you'll be in the ditch,
flies buzzin' around your eyes ...
"Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
Blowing through the curtains in your room ..."
– Bob Dylan,
"Idiot Wind"
The newspapers described her simply as Flight 5191 passenger Betty Bond Young, 74 years old, a Lexington native. Ms Young was bound for Atlanta, the first leg of her trip to her Naples, Florida condominium, the winter home she shared with her husband, W. Richard Young. "Mom was a very expressive person," James Butler, her son, told reporters. "She entertained a lot of people. She always treated everybody the same, whether it was the governor or a bank teller," Butler said, unable to restrain his tears. Her pall-bearers included Calvin Grayson, former state transportation secretary, and Lamar Hight, an assistant to Kentucky secretary of state Trey Grayson.267
"Young had lived in Lexington since 1960 and was involved in a myriad of charitable and civic organizations. For 18 years, she was married to W. Richard Young of Lexington, whose brother was the late businessman W.T. Young."268 That said a mouthful and must have creased brows in Blue Grass country, but obituaries dwell on fond memories of the dead – "the good is oft interred with their bones," per Shakespeare – not the slough of hypocrisy and iniquity the loved one may been immersed in. Cathy Jacobs, a neighbor in Naples where the Youngs spent the winter months, recalled that Betty "talked a lot about her family."269And that may have been her undoing ...
Tom Butler (in red), son of Comair casualty Betty Bond YoungTom Butler, another son, is a fledgling politician in Murietta, California, vice chair of the city council's Community Steering Committee. He was born into the Dixie Mafia and has acquired certain trademark CIA-Repulican traits – particularly the art of histrionic public posturing for political gain. Tom Butler has made a name for himself in Murietta demanding a recall of the mayor – who, in response, made the mistake of criticizing the house-cleaning habits of Butler's wife, thereby inciting a flood of tears. On June 23, 2006, the Temecula Valley News reported that the Murrieta City Council voted three-to-one to sanction Mayor Kelly Seyarto:
Kelly Seyarto
"Nobody seemed pleased.
"Moments after Murrieta Mayor Kelly Seyarto made a public statement from the other side of the dais in response to the complaint filed by Councilmen Rick Gibbs and Doug McAllister, he was escorted out of the building by two Murrieta policemen. The two officers had spent several minutes outside earlier in the meeting plotting the best possible route to get Seyarto out safely. ... " But the mayor stood up to the rabble. "He even joked a bit, saying that 'the incident occurred on 6-6-06 and no, the devil did not make me do it.' Seyarto did say, though, that he was growing tired of personal attacks."
The struggle began with the "last meeting’s contentious verbal sparring between Seyarto and a few members of Rescue Murrieta, which ended with Seyarto asking one member to leave in an ungracious manner and saying to another, 'Why don’t you just go home and clean your house?'
After a statement from Seyarto, "the council heard from members of the public regarding the matter. “'I’m here because character counts,' said Tom Butler, an attorney and the husband of Deborah Butler, who was involved in the incident. Deborah, who tearfully described herself as a victim, asked the council to render the 'harshest punishment possible,' and to then put the matter of Seyarto’s removal as Mayor on the agenda. Barbara Nugent, a frequent speaker at council meetings, fought back tears when she asked the city council to “do the right thing.” Even Butler’s neighbor, who said she has never been to a council meeting before, cried and denied news accounts that Butler’s house is not well kept. Former planning commissioner Kassen Klein was reduced to tears when he invoked memories of his father and expressed a longing for more civility. 'What are we fighting for?' asked Klein. Emotions ran high. ... "The matter then went before the council. 'I cannot in good faith ask for his resignation,' said Gibbs, 'but I can sanction him.' According to Gibbs, the code has some loopholes in it. Admonishment is a slap on the wrist and censure would almost take a criminal act to impose. ... "Before the final vote, Enochs made a motion to have Seyarto removed as mayor. The motion failed. Imposing a sanction is mostly symbolic."270
In Lexington, Betty lived on a farm with her husband, W. Richard Young, the brother of Royal Crown Cola baron William T. Young – a local horse breeder and core conspirator in the criminal net collectively known as The Bluegrass Conspiracy.
W.T. Young died two years ago. Like his sister-in-law, William Young was a graduate of the University of Kentucky. There was no one in town more "prominent," with the possible exception of William Farish. The library at the University of Kentucky is named after him. Young was a director emeritus of Churchill Downs and a member and former steward of The Jockey Club. One of his greatest successes as a breeder was Storm Cat, a horse who may not have been a classic champion, but went on to become the country's leading sire, commanding a stud fee of $500,000.
His greatest success as an entrepeneur was Jif Peanut Butter. The UK Alumni Association's newsletter notes that Young "began his career as an engineer with the Bailey Meter Company, a subsidiary of General Electric and Babcock and Wilcox, and remained with this firm until 1941 when he entered military service." He served with the Army during World War II and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of major. He founded W. T. Young Foods, Inc., in Lexington, "for the manufacture of Big Top Peanut Butter, which business was expanded to national distribution and sold to the Procter & Gamble Company in 1955. He headed the subsidiary for P&G until 1957. The following year he founded W. T. Young Storage, Inc., and related companies, and continued to operate the businesses which included a general warehouse facility with related trucking and frozen food distribution." Young was a director of First Security National Bank and Trust Company, the Kentucky American Water Company, Lexington Center Corporation, Lexington Cemetery, and Humana, Inc., a health insurance provider. He was chairman of the Transylvania University board of curators and Humana, Inc., a director of Reynolds Metals Company... "His principal occupation since 1966 has been as Chairman of the Royal Crown Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia." He was active in Habitat for Humanity, a local charity, and was "a past trustee of the University of Kentucky, vice chairman of the Cabinet under Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, 1979-81."271
There lies the rub. Governor Brown maintained deep-seated Mafia ties. His
second-in-command was Betty Young's brother-in-law – at least until a stock scandal forced him to resign. Governor Brown – the Kentucky Fried Chicken magnate, husband of Phyllis George, friend of Dan Lassater, the Clinton crony sentenced for cocaine smuggling – was a focal antagonist in Sally Denton's investigation. 
Brown began his meta-checkered career as an attorney in his father's law firm. "Through the law firm John Y met one of his father's old friends and clients – a former bootlegger, insurance salesman, and rural restauranteur named Harland Sanders. The white-haired, crochety old man who had had no formal education had been running Sanders Cafe in Corbin, Kentucky since 1929." Sanders sold over six hundred Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, and "John Y. saw Kentucky Fried Chicken as a potential gold mine. He fel that his sales aplomb and innate business sense suited him better that law, and he saw financial success as a perfect springboard into politics. To john Y., politics and sales were synonymous." Brown pressured the Colonel to sell. "Sanders was apparently disenfrancised with the deal, which consisted of $2 million – paid over time at a three percent interest rate – and a lifetime annual salary of $40,000, which was later increased to $75,000 for advisory and publicity work."
"I don't like some of the things John Y. done to me," Sanders later complained to the Washington Post, though he refused to discuss specifics ..."He overpersuaded me to get out."
"At the helm of Kentucky Fried Chicken, John Y. gave lucrative jobs to several of his college buddies. He made Dan Chandler head of public relations ..."272
Dan Chandler, who suffered a fatal heart attack death, natural or induced, three months after the death of W.T. Young, was the uncle of Congressman Ben Chandler (D-Ky.) a principal in House hearings on the Flight 5191 crash, according to syndicated political columnist James Carroll:First Comair hearings will begin this week
"The first congressional hearing focusing on issues raised by last month's Comair crash is scheduled for this week. The House Transportation and Infrastructure's aviation subcommittee is set to hold a hearing Wednesday.... Rep. JOHN MICA, R-Fla., is chairman of the subcommittee.... Rep. BEN CHANDLER, D-6th District, is on the panel ... "273
Kentucky Congressman Ben Chandler(Ben Chandler a liberal line but often votes like a Republican. On October 15, 2006, the Bluegrass Report lamented that Chandler voted in favor of H.R.-6166, "the Military Commissions Act of 2006, otherwise known as the Detainee bill. This is the one that allows coerced confessions and hearsay evidence. It prohibits the use of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum which gives someone the right to claim that the grounds on which they are being held in custody are contrary to the U.S. Constitution. All these things run contrary to the foundational laws of this country and the basic tenet that everyone deserves a fair trial, no matter what their crime."274 He has also promoted the full-blown legalization of casino gambling in Kentucky.275
Brown's partner in the KYC buyout, Dan Chandler, died in 2004:
Son of former governor dies at Versailles home
'He knew all the high rollers'
Kentucky Herald-Leader
April 28, 2004
"Dan Chandler, described by friends as a great ambassador for Kentucky and a legend in the casino gambling industry, was found dead yesterday at his home in Versailles, apparently of complications from congestive heart failure. He was 70 ....
"He had a book full of telephone numbers to choke a horse," A.B. Chandler Jr. said. "He knew all the high rollers. That's one thing that kept him employed, because he knew all of them. ... Later, an in-law got into trouble, and 'that gave Dan a few pages in the book called The Bluegrass Conspiracy,' his brother said. The book [is] subtitled An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder .... Mr. Chandler also was referred to as the 'wayward son' of Happy Chandler. ... "276
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. was governor of Kentucky, 1935-39, and again, 1955-59. He was also a U.S. senator and commissioner of baseball (1945-51). George Wallace considered his for his running mate in the 1968 presidential election, but finally settled on General Curtis LeMay.277Two years after persuading Colonel Sanders to sell out, John Y. took Kentucky Fried chicken public at $15 dollars a share and made his first millions. So did his 31 partners. It was at this time that a gambling compulsion took hold and Brown took up with Mafia figures in Las Vegas. He became close to the owners of Ceasar's, Cliff and Stu Perlman. "Through them he met other big players, such as Lee and Jimmy Chagra." After running KFC for seven years, he grew bored with it and sold Kentucky Fried Chicken to Heublein, Inc. for $288 million worth of stock in Heublein.
"Brown's friendship with the Perlmans went hand in hand with his high-stakes betting habits. Chandler had publicly taken credit for introducing John Y. to the Perlmans." Due to "the Perlmans' corporate ties with alleged lieutenants in the Lansky crime organization, the Perlmans were under investigation at the time by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and the SEC. Meanwhile, Ralph had learned that Ceasar's Palace was under investigation by the DEA for allegedly allowing drug dealers such as Jimmy Chagra to launder narcotics profits through the casino."278
When he ran for governor, gambling and organized crime connections were an issue. Denton: "The basis for much of the controversy swirling around John Y.'s gambling associations began with Gil Beckley. When Beckley had been arrested in 1967 in Miami on illegal bookmaking charges, FBI agents raided his plush home and seized a little black book that read like a Who's Who of sports figures, entertainers and gamlbers. John Y. Brown's name surfaced along with celebrities such as Bob hope, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Hoffa, Paul Hornung, Rocky Marciano, Barren Hilton, and Jules Stein."279As governor, Brown's most trusted aide was W.T. Young, whose sister-in-law died on Flight 5191.
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
THE COMPANYNOTES
267.) "OBITUARIES & MEMORIALS."
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=kentucky&p_multi=LH|&p_product=LH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=betty%20AND%20bond%20AND%20young&s_dispstring=betty%20bond%20young%20AND%20date(last%20180%20days)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=-180qzD&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no
268.) Betty Young obit., Kentucky Herald-Leader, Aug. 28, 2006.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/special_packages/crash/15378482.htm
269.) Betty Young obit, Naples News, Septebember 1, 2006.
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/sep/01/friends_remember_woman_killed_kentucky_plane_crash/?print
naplesnews.com
270.) Nancy Fay, "Murrieta mayor targeted by conflicted council," Temecula Valley News, June 23, 2006.
http://www.temeculavalleynews.com/story.asp?story_ID=15882
271.) William T. Young obit.
http://www.ukalumni.net/pages.php?page_id=12&id=238
272.) Sally Denton, "The Bluegrass Conspiracy," Lincoln, Nebraska: Authors Guild Backinprint.com, 1998, pp. 161-62.
273.) James R. Carroll's Notes from Washington, "First Comair hearings will begin this week," Louisville Courier-Journal, September 17, 2006.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060917/NEWS0104/609170463/1008/NEWS01
274.) http://www.bluegrassreport.org/bluegrass_politics/2006/10/ben_chandler.html
275.) Wes Irvin, Gov. Fletcher's office press release, "Chandler Signals Strong Support for Full-Blown Casinos," mirrored at Bluegrass Report, November 1, 2003.
http://www.bluegrassreport.org/bluegrass_politics/2006/01/index.html
276.) Jennifer Hewlett, "Son of former governor dies at Versailles home," Kentucky Herald-Leader, April 28, 2004.
277.) "Happy Chandler," Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Chandler
278.) Denton, pp. 164-65.
279.) Ibid., pp. 171-72.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
AmericanThinker.com says 9/11 skepticism is "extremely DANGEROUS"
by David CaputoThis just in...
AmericanThinker.com's Michael Lopez-Calderon thinks that people who don't buy the government's line about 9/11 are "extremely dangerous" because they might "undermine our democratic nation's war against the theocratic forces of radical, Jihadi-driven Islam".Ouch.
And here I was thinking I was being patriotic trying to expose the bald-faced lies and brazen evasions that have constituted the "official story" of 9/11 up to this point. After all, if the Bush administration and/or its cronies DID perpetrate or facilitate the crimes of that day, the central justification for the ongoing war(s) against our officially designated enemies would be undermined indeed.
But, that must surely be because I find comfort in conspiracy theories. As Mr. Lopez-Calderon put it, "Conspiracy theories offer explanatory models of complex events to large audiences of the unsophisticated and under-educated."Ouch again...
The weak "attack the messenger as delusional but avoid directly criticizing any of their specific claims" methodology used by his article is all too familiar, but Lopez-Calderon expands upon this with a sinister twist. The main thrust of this twist is that 9/11 skeptics are a dangerous pathogen in the American body politic, infecting otherwise warlike and patriotic citizens, particularly the young, with a paralytic cynicism that weakens their resolve to lash out with sufficient ruthlessness at those irredeemable A-rabs who just can't wait to kill us. Seems we just don't realize how much being force-fed Lee Greenberg can fill those boys with blood-lust. (Blowback from cultural imperialism indeed...)
This, it seems, is the real question at hand.
Should these petit-Benedict-Arnolds still be allowed to roam freely and brazenly challenge (on the scandalously unregulated internet) our great and noble nation's declared world-view?? Perhaps they should all be rounded up and held incommunicado in internment camps until the threat from "radical, Jihadi-driven Islam" has safely passed. That should only be a couple of months, right? Seems like the only sure strategy to keep them from doing things that "may lead more Americans, particularly the young, to withdraw their allegiance to their country."Sounds like a national freaking emergency to me, neh?
And about that intarweb thing... Another culprit of course is the unregulated, often unaccountable Internet-blogosphere, where virtually unfettered free speech has produced a downside, namely, an opening for every conceivable crackpot writer. In the past, such writers and their theories often were relegated to coffeehouses, salons, and obscure, dilapidated radical bookstores commonly found in college towns and or near major university campuses. They were a fringe relegated to relative obscurity. Today, thanks to the Internet's incredible freedom as well as reach, no toiler is condemned to obscurity but on the contrary, with some talent, hard work, and catchy writing, he can reach audiences that may range in the millions. (links added)Oh God I could only hope...
I've been getting so tired of those musty radical bookstores anyway. And millions you say... Sheesh... That'd be nice...
Used to be in the old days I'd spend all night spread out at the local Kinkos, pasting together the carefully typed-out articles from my ragged gaggle of scribes. Now it's just Type, Post, and watch the hit-counter spin like it's a slot machine in Atlantic City. To think I used to spend all my weekends dropping off copies at the local coffeehouses and bookstores...
But I digress...
In addition to Michael's denouncement of 9/11 skeptics as essentially traitors scheming to bare America's belly to the inevitable Scimitar of theological conquest, he links such scholars with Holocaust Deniers and Illuminati fans. He summarily dismisses ALL research, conclusions, and data that would suggest that A) the government's case is fatally flawed, and B) that many 9/11 skeptics have meticulously researched and vetted data and conclusions. He provides links to sites that support his claims, like this one, but never gives links to any of the 9/11 Truth web sites that he is supposedly criticizing.Try digging a little deeper, Mike. You obviously don't have any problem with America's actions or agenda in the world so go ahead. It won't put you at risk of "cynicism", right? Watch a couple of David Ray Griffin videos and systematically debunk his points. Read Jim Hoffman's analysis on his WTC7 site. Show me exactly how their arguments are flawed.
I dare you.
I don't think you've actually got the gravitas to try.
A genuine critique of their points might be a bit much to ask.
Much easier to simply dismiss something out of hand and trash fellow columnists, no?
We shall see I guess...
Cross posted at
http://www.TotallyFixed.com
Monday, December 25, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash Supplemental: Cover-Up at Blue Grass Airport Violates State's Open Records Act
Officials at Blue Grass Airport have established a consistent pattern of withholding information related to the crash of Flight 5191 on August 27, including the identity of the lone air traffic controller on duty at the time. They are also wittholding pertinent documents – in violation of state law.
I have contacted Bernie Lovely, chairman of the controlling board at Blue Grass Airport, by e-mail and stated bluntly that the crash was mass murder. I asked if Mr. Lovely – a leading equine attorney in Lexington – had ever represented William Farish, a local racehorse breeder and a suspect in my personal investigation of the crash. Mr. Lovely did not respond.
It wasn't the only stone-wall that airport officials have constructed around the crash. They have covered up, clammed up, issued denials with no legal basis, dragged their feet and refused to cooperate with attorneys and reporters from the beginning, including this one. If it was only an accident, why the cold shoulder? They have made all the right sympathetic noises concerning the loss of human life at every photo op – yet resist transparency, keep secret files, deny the public's right to know. Shame on Blue Grass Airport. But the ILLEGAL intransigence of the airport board is meeting stern resistance, and this site will keep you posted on developments.
– AC
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AIRPORT BOARD TOLD TO HAND OVER RECORDS
ATTORNEY SEEKS DOCUMENTS FOR LAWSUIT
By Jack Brammer
Herald-Leader Frankfor Bureau
FRANKFORT - Lexington's airport board is violating the state's Open Records Act until it adequately responds to a request for records by an attorney for one of the 49 people who died in the Aug. 27 crash of Comair Flight 5191 near Blue Grass Airport, according to an opinion from Attorney General Greg Stumbo's office.
John McCluneThe opinion said Michigan attorney John McClune, who is representing the estate of victim Erik Harris, said the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Board must provide McClune with access to any records he has requested unless it can articulate a legal basis for denying them.
"Until the Board so responds, it stands in violation of the Open Records Act," said the opinion dated Nov. 8 but not released until yesterday.
McClune said yesterday he has "not received anything from the airport board." A call to the Lexington law office of W. Thomas Halbleib Jr., attorney for the airport board, was not returned.
McClune, on Sept. 15, requested from the airport board records relating to air traffic control and air traffic controllers at Blue Grass Airport, and the repaving and re-location, re-lighting and remaking of airport runways.
Halbleib responded by letter to McClune on Sept. 21, telling him his request may be more appropriately addressed to the Federal Aviation Administration.
McClune appealed Halbleib's response to the attorney general's office, noting that he already had sent an identical request to the FAA. He said Halbleib's response "did not indicate that the documents and information did not exist, just that we 'may' wish to obtain same from the FAA."
Halbleib informed Stumbo's office that the airport board does not maintain public records regarding complaints of air traffic controllers about the airport, complaints made about air traffic controllers to the airport, or information provided to air controllers regarding certain airport construction activities.
Kentucky Attorney General Greg StumboMcClune told Stumbo's office Oct. 20 that it was interesting that Halbleib suggests the board has "no public records responsive to any of (my) requests," but indicates that "records apparently exist in response to my request for all documents, procedures, reports, memos, etc. regarding the re-paving of runways, and the relocations, relighting and remarking of runways."
Stumbo's office said yesterday it is unclear whether the airport board does have copies of some of the requested records.
"If the board has copies of records responsive to the request in its possession, but takes the position that the request must be made to the FAA as the 'official custodian' of those records, its position is misplaced," Stumbo said.
The board must give McClune copies of any records it has that deal with his request unless it can articulate a legal reason for not doing so, Stumbo said.
McClune filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Lexington for the Harris estate. It alleges negligence and breach of warranties by Delta and Comair, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta. The estate, administered by Richard Harris, Erik's father, is asking for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
A Urantia, 9/11Truth.org & CIA Mind Control Technology Development Timeline
e-dited by Alex Constantine
Byron Belitson – founder of 911Truth.org and a figure to be reckoned with in the 911 Truth Movement, publisher of Jim Marrs' book on the NYC air assaults under the Origin imprint – is the world's leading guru in the Urantia movement, a front for the research & development of CIA mind-controlling psychotronics.
I've attached a highly instructive history of the Urantia cult at the end of the lead article on psychotronics, tracing its origins to Seventh-Day Adventism and the Kellogg family.
Background briefing – For a "BRIEF HISTORY OF THE APOLCALYPSE" in relation to Urantia programming, the Family of God and other prominent theocratic/intelligence cults, see:
http://www.abhota.info/end3.htm
Also see Nico Haupt's fine work on Urantia & the surreal "BizarreGate" encroachments and infiltrations of the 9/11 movement in the December archive bin.
Hi-dee-ho.
– Alex Constantine
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http://urantiagate.com/conspiracy/long-timeline.html
The "Voice" of Strangers
(John 10:5)
An In-Depth Timeline Showing the Possible Use by the Intelligence Community of "Synthetic Telepathy" in the Urantia Movement, Teaching Mission (TeaM), A Course in Miracles (ACIM), Findhorn, and Other Religious/Cultic Organizations.
RELATED LINKS: | Short Timeline | The Vern Grimsley Affair | In-Depth Timeline: "The 'Voice' of Strangers" |
[NOTE 1: "Synthetic telepathy" (or as it is sometimes called "artificial telepathy") is defined here as being the human, intentional, surreptitious, production of intra-cerebral "voices", pictures, thoughts, and/or ideas by means of hypnosis, inaudible transmissions, or a combination thereof, which are experienced by an unwitting subject either directly in the mind or apparently extra-cerebrally as emanating from no known source. One of the most current known technologies capable of producing an intra-cerebral "voice" is called "acoustic psycho-correction". It involves the transmission of specific commands via static or white noise bands into the human subconscious without upsetting other intellectual functions. Alternately, by using an infrasound very low frequency-type transmission, the acoustic psycho-correction message can be transmitted via bone conduction. See article at http://www.heart7.net/mcf/bzapping.htm for more.]
[NOTE 2: It is not the intention of this author to disparage or undermine the belief in genuine spiritual contact. The URANTIA Book, however, warns that "a human being would do better to err in rejecting an Adjuster's 1 expression through believing it to be a purely human experience than to blunder into exalting a reaction of the mortal mind to the sphere of divine dignity" (1208 A, 110:5:5), and that "in scrutinizing mental situations, safety lies only in the prompt recognition of each and every thought and experience for just what it actually and fundamentally is, disregarding entirely what it might have been (1199 C, 109:5:3). The Bible says: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try [test] the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (1 John 4:1).
[NOTE 3: Author and former CIA operative, Miles Copland, states that when the CIA’s Special Projects Division makes "connections with international religious groups for the purposes of aiding or supplementing espionage operations (it) is almost as touchy an issue as its association with criminal rings. To start with, Jewish and Catholic organizations are out. ... Organizations stemming from other religions are fair game, however." And he quotes one CIA official as saying that before they "tie into a religious group it’s got to be so offbeat that anyone in the agency who belongs to it may be fired as a security risk."]
TIMELINE
1940s – Sheena Govan and Dorothy Maclean, who will in the following decades help Eileen Caddy start Findhorn (see, 1962), a New Age community in Scotland, are actually working for British Intelligence while ostensibly employed as secretaries at the British Embassy in New York. The two are present there when the OSS (Office of Strategic services, the forerunner of the CIA) was formed in New York with the help of British Intelligence (see, 1942).
– During the 1940s OSS will begin "the first systematic effort to evaluate an individual’s personality in order to predict his future behavior". (John Marks' The Search for the Manchurian candidate: hereinafter, "SEARCH", online at: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm , a "must read" for readers who know little of the MKULTRA scandal)
1942 – British Intelligence, in New York, helps America set up its own intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
c. 1942-1944 – Future URANTIA Book translator, Jacques Weiss, fights with the French Resistance. Thus, he is presumably in contact with the OSS, which during these years was helping the "Free French". Sooner or later Weiss would reportedly claim he followed invisible purported celestials whom he called the "hierarchy" (also see, 1980 and 1962).
1947 – The CIA is created out of the OSS. It begins some preliminary work with drugs, starts a mind-control drug project at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, and investigates hypnosis.
1950 – CIA's Operation Bluebird Begun. British and Canadian observers are present at its first meeting -- all agree to continue investigating behavior control methods (SEARCH).
Sidney Gottlieb
– Helping to make up Bluebird’s staff are Richard Helms, James Jesus Angelton, and Sidney Gottlieb. They establish liaisons with police departments and criminology labs. They contact hypnotists, physicians, and psychiatrists. They design activities to create an "exploitable alteration of personality".
– The CIA contemplates operational use of hypnosis to control a subject "to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of nature as self- preservation" (SEARCH).
1950s (early) – Eileen Caddy, later the primary channeler of Findhorn, leaves her five children and her first husband (Andrew Combe, who is both Peter Caddy's Commanding Officer and a member of Moral Rearmament, a religious organization which has been linked to the CIA) for RAF Officer, Peter Caddy (who was at the time married to "former" British Intelligence operative Sheena Govan -- see, 1940s), and it will not be long until Eileen begins to hear a "voice" claiming to be "God". Before it is over she will fill some thirty thousand notebook pages with the "voice's" dictation to her. (See, 1954)
1951 – An internal report describes Bluebird’s purpose as "the specific subject of devising scientific methods for controlling the minds of individuals".
– Bluebird is renamed, "ARTICHOKE". Artichoke’s interests are in electro-psycho-therapeutic techniques (see 1993), and it reportedly began work with supersonic radiations.
– Morse Allan (Bluebird/Artichoke) uses hypnosis on CIA secretaries.
– CIA convinces British and Canadian Intelligence to start their own behavioral research programs.
1952 – North Korean brainwashing (using Chinese techniques) of American POWs is reported. The CIA sends agents to investigate their methods.
[NOTE: Presumably it was around this year as well when Army psychologist, "A Course In Miracles" (ACIM) channeler Helen Schucman's future Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons Psychology Department colleague, and expert hypnotist, Herbert Spiegel (see, 1962 NOTE 3), carried out his own investigation of the brainwashed Korean War POWs for the US Army. He is considered to be one of the earliest American experts in Chinese brainwashing techniques.]
– National Security Agency (NSA) established by Harry Truman .
1953 – MKULTRA begun (officially, it actually got into operation the year before), with Dr. Sidney Gottlieb as its director. Gottlieb later testified before Congress that, MKULTRA’s purpose was "to investigate whether and how it was possible to modify an individual’s behavior by covert means".
– ACIM's William Thetford, U.S. Government psychologist, Washington D.C., consultant to Foreign Service Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
[NOTE: This was apparently the year that, according to one of Schucman and Thetfords's student-colleagues, Father Benedict Groeshel, Thetford admitted to having been some sort of spy. This disappeared off of the web at about the time that information concerning Thetford's work for MKULTRA appeared there.]
c.1954 – Eileen Caddy, in England, begins to hear “God’s voice”.
– MKULTRA absorbs Project Bluebird/Artichoke. Morse Allen turns a CIA secretary into a sort of “Manchurian Candidate” 1. She, however, is given an unloaded gun with which to "shoot" her victim, and the results are controversial.
1956 – Peter Caddy installs Eileen Caddy with Sheena Govan on the Scottish island of Mull. It is populated largely in the south by Duart Clan Maclean. Sheena subjects Eileen to what appears to be nothing less than a case study of classical (Chinese technique) brainwashing, at least as her experience is later described by Paul Hawken (see, 1962), who interviewed her for his book, The Magic of Findhorn. It includes isolation, sleep deprivation, prolonged maintenance of painful positions, ego-devastating disparagement, etc. Previously to this she had refused to believe that the "voice" she was hearing was actually that of "God", as it had claimed. (By this time, after having returned to and again left her first husband, Eileen has married Peter Caddy. She has also tried to kill herself during another, earlier, less intense apparent attempt at "brainwashing" by Sheena Govan.)
[NOTE 1: I have not so far established a connection between Findhorn's co-founder, Dorothy Maclean (see, 1940s), and the Macleans of southern Mull].
– Future highly placed Teaching Mission (TeaM) channeling supporter, URANTIA Brotherhood Legal Advisor, retired USMC General Duane Faw, (see, 1983 October 6), at this point in his military career a Major, is the Training Depot Legal Officer at Parris Island during the "Ribbon Creek Incident", wherein a highly-rated Drill Instructor (DI) led his charges into dangerous waters causing the drowning death of six recruits.
[NOTE 2: Inasmuch as this incident might have answered questions which the CIA's MKULTRA was presumably asking at this time (see 1950, 1951, and 1953), and that there was a window of opportunity at the base sick bay for the use of hypnotism and mind-control drugs on the DI (he was given a probable hypnotic drug for pain in his leg), some suspicion is justified. Also, according to John C. Stevens III (Court Martial at Parris Island: The Ribbon Creek Incident, © 1999), powerful backstage legal politics arranged for the DI to be defended by a former Air Force Intelligence Officer, Emile Zola Berman, who later likewise defended Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's believed hypnotically programmed assassin, who reported hearing "voices" in his head. Please understand that "suspicion" does not constitute certainty. However there are too many inconsistencies and "coincidences" to simply accept the Ribbon Creek story at face value. Speculatively, Major Faw's role as Legal Officer allowed him to keep the investigation away from any sensitive areas, and Berman's role would have been a similar one. Faw seems to have a facility for popping up around CIA activities. In the next decade, he and his unit of combat-ready Marines (Faw transferred from staff to line officer status, he says, to increase his chances for promotion) will be peripherally involved as a possible backup landing force for the CIA's invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, and later they will be close at hand as an occupation force if needed during the CIA-backed invasion of the Dominican Republic. (See, 1961 and 1965)]
[NOTE 3: "A Course In Miracles" channeler, Helen Schucman's future colleague in the Psychology Department at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, expert hypnotist and brainwasher, Herbert Spiegel, (see, 1952 NOTE) is likewise connected to Sirhan Sirhan. Spiegel accused William Joseph Bryon Jr. – a hypnotist who immediately following the assassination of Robert Kennedy had publicly asserted in the media that Sirhan had been hypnotized to shoot the Presidential candidate – of having himself been the hypnotist. Spiegel based this accusation against Bryon on Spiegel's own esoteric interpretation of a seemingly nonsensical phrase which appeared in Sirhan's "automatic writings". This is sufficient evidence for speculating that it was Spiegel who carried out the actual necessary hypnosis on Schucman, convincing her that what she heard post-hypnotically in her mind was instructions being given by Jesus. It may also be speculated that Spiegel's accusation of Byron was merely a ruse to draw the scent away from himself, and that it was he, Spiegel, who hypnotically turned Sirhan into a Manchurian candidate. Please understand that such speculations only constitute working hypotheses which require further proof.]
1958 – Dr. William Sadler's son, Bill Sadler, acknowledges in an intra-office memo that "a really clever conspiracy could destroy the [URANTIA] Brotherhood or otherwise divert or destroy its mission." This same year he also wrote: "There is no place in the Urantia Foundation for naivete." Both warnings have been largely ignored.
– "A Course in Miracles" channeler (see, 1965), Helen Schucman, goes to work for William Thetford in the Psychology Department at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. (See URANTIAGATE article: Lie Down with Dogs, Get up with Fleas!: The MKULTRA Milieu Surrounding the "Scribing" of A Course In Miracles).
[NOTE: Peter Caddy and William Thetman play almost identical supportive roles in relation to their channelers, respectively, Eileen Caddy and Helen Schucman. Both men appear to be unwavering in their belief in the genuineness of the women's "contacts", both convince the women that what they are hearing is indeed real and encourage them to continue in spite of their doubts. Caddy, however, appears to have carried his "support" over into actual brainwashing, as it was practiced in the post-Korean War era. Peter Caddy had only a known indirect connection with British Intelligence through his wife, Sheena Govan. However while he was in the RAF he did undertake a secret, wartime, intelligence mission to Tibet for his government. On the other hand, William Thetford's secret direct connection to the CIA's mind-control program, MKULTRA, has been exposed by the release of FOIA declassified documents.]
– Project ORION is reputedly begun. It is said to study drugs, hypnosis, electronic brain invasion with radar, microwaves, and extremely low frequencies (ELF) of sound. Leading Edge attributes Orion to USAF, but others say CIA. (see also, 1990, "Elizabeth Y. Fitzhugh")
– Captain Al ("Cappy") Hubbard, whose contacts include the OSS, CIA, and, as evidence would indicate, MKULTRA, writes to Urantia movement leader, Meredith Sprunger, asking for information about The URANTIA Book (see letter at, http://urantiabook.org/archive/history/sprung_1.htm and more about Hubbard at, http://www.maps.org/media/bcflashback.html. Scroll down 10 paragraphs). Sprunger when recently asked could recall no outcome of this event.
Late 1950s – Meredith Sprunger introduces Vern Grimsley, then a high school student, to The URANTIA Book.
[NOTE: I have neither wish nor reason to implicate Sprunger in any of this. The above entry is made simply for its chronological interest in the unfolding of events.]
1960s – CIA-funded investigators discover correlation between EEG (Electroencephalograph) patterns and the ability to remember numbers . (SEARCH).
[NOTE: This is similar to the type of scientific investigation carried out for MKULTRA by Helen Schucman and William Thetford's co-author, David R. Saunders (see, SEARCH, Chapter 10).]
Early 1960s – ORD takes over most of MKULTRA’s mind control research.
c. 1960-1962 – Bert Kaplan, Psychology Professor at the University of Kansas hires Vern Grimsley as an undergraduate research assistant on his National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant. NIMH is known to have acted as a conduit, both funding and fronting grants for the CIA's MKULTRA research during this period. (Also see, 1993)
[NOTE 1: The problem is that Kaplan's version of the terms of Vern's employment reportedly differs sharply from what Vern is said to have later told his friends as well as from autobiographical material which he used in his speeches and elsewhere on occasion for years. Grimsley apparently believed that he worked for two years, not the single one which Kaplan reported to Caston, who interviewed him around 1984. Vern reportedly told people he spent a second year in Washington, D.C. managing a Kaplan-overseen grant from the National Science Foundation. Caston attributes the different stories to exaggeration on Vern's part. However he does not appear even to have considered the alternative that Kaplan, or someone connected to him, may have funneled Vern to be used as an unwitting subject in then ongoing MKULTRA investigations, even though the scandal surrounding the MKULTRA exposure had filled the media less than a decade before he wrote his analysis of Vern's experience. He certainly does not include it among his six "Possible Scenarios", but Caston does include "nefarious forces exploiting an overdeveloped ego and plotting to discredit and split the URANTIA movement . . . to abort the mission of The URANTIA Book". Which, of course, may in fact be what this synthetic telepathy phenomenon is all about. (Refs., "Vern Grimsley Message Evaluation", by Hoite Caston, © 1984, hereinafter, "EVALUATION").]
[NOTE 2: I have established no direct connection with any intelligence agency for either Kaplan or the University of Kansas during the year(s) of Vern's employment in the Psychology Department. However the university medical school was possibly the only institution to hold a symposium on the Russian device which is capable of putting the "voice of God" in the head of an unwitting subject (see, 1993 NOTE), and the University of Kansas Psychology Department shows up on a conspiracy theory webpage as having provided disinformation on the subject of programmed false memories (see, http:/www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/ciaprop1.htm l, scroll down to the alphabetical listing.)]
1960 – Ex-CIA agent, Philip Agee, documents the fact that even as late as this date the "most important liaison operation of the CIA is with MI-6 (British Intelligence). They exchange information and mount joint operations . . . . The inner club includes Canada." (Inside the CIA: CIA Diary, by Philip Agee, hereinafter "INSIDE")
1961 – Bay of Pigs: The failed CIA invasion of Cuba. Future URANTIA Brotherhood Legal Advisor and important Teaching Mission (TeaM) channeling supporter, Duane Faw, the commanding officer of a US Marine landing force, is fully armed and ready for combat in the vicinity of Vieques, a Puerto Rican island used for USMC assault landing training, US Naval bombing practice, etc. Here also the expatriate Cuban frogmen were trained by the CIA for their part in the invasion. Ostensibly Faw's unit was merely rotated by turn into the area in line with standard training procedures, but the operation may have been orchestrated to have his backup available. Even Faw admits that his unit might have been called into action, but this option was abruptly canceled when President Kennedy at the last minute issued orders forbidding all direct US military involvement in the CIA operation.
[NOTE: The suspicion here is that Faw, following the Ribbon Creek incident, represented a known and proven quality who would not balk – as an unproven quality might – at carrying out CIA orders if and when they came. A further supposition is that such a known quality might be persuaded to infiltrate a cult to provide intelligence/security agency support as perhaps a misconceived patriotic duty and for an extra retirement income. (See, 1956, 1965 and 1983 October 6)]
1962 – Helen Schucman and William Thetford co-author a paper on "The personality theory of John Gittinger" (See, http://www.pasf.org/print_bibliog.htm, hereinafter "PAS BIBLIOG"). This was published by the Human Ecology Fund, which has been identified by John Marks as being a MKULTRA front.
[NOTE 1: John W. Gittinger (SEARCH, see http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm Chap. 10) was the primary personality assessor for MKULTRA. He pioneered scientific methods to enable him to identify the most susceptible types of personalities for Dr. Gottlieb's nefarious, amoral, and often harmful U.S. government- sponsored exploitations of innocent human beings, including children (see, MKULTRA Subprojects 102,103, and 117: http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml) Gittinger's MKULTRA research eventually surfaced as his "Personality Assessment System" (PAS), which also both has been studied and used by legitimate scientists for non-exploitive purposes.]
– (Sept.) Helen Schucman and David R. Saunders co-author a paper relating to Gittinger's PAS (see, PAS BIBLIOG).
[NOTE 2: David R. Saunders is mentioned in Chapter 10 of John Marks' book as having carried out secret personality profiling investigations for MKULTRA.]
– (Sept.) Helen Schucman, William Thetford, and David R. Saunders co- author a paper relating to Gittinger's PAS (see, Gittinger Bibliography of References: http:www.pasf.org/print_bibliog.htm. Hereinafter "PAS BIBLIOG").
[NOTE 3: Besides Thetford and Saunders, another of Helen Schucman's Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons Psychology Department "colleagues" around this time was Herbert Spiegel, a recognized expert in hypnotism and brainwashing (see, 1952), who was then teaching courses in hypnosis. During – by his own estimation – "maybe the mid sixties", Spiegal was also associated with the case of "Sybil", a Multiple Personality Disorder victim. Because "Sybil" was so easily hypnotized he was using the woman for demonstration purposes in his classes. Spiegel since that time aligns himself on the "disinformationist" side of the False Memory Syndrome (FMF) controversy, (see, http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/spiegel.html), as also apparently does the University of Kansas Psychology Department (see, 1960-1962 (circa) NOTE 2), where the URANTIA movement's "WW III" channeler, Vern Grimsley, had been employed.]
[NOTE 4: Schucman appears to be like a mouse caught on a glue trap surrounded by cats. Two of her "colleagues" (one a dear friend) have or will have direct, secret connections to the CIA's mind-control program, MKULTRA. A third "colleague" is an expert hypnotist and brainwasher who is perfectly capable of making unwitting subjects see and hear whatever he wishes. Likely her psychological weaknesses were pinpointed and categorized by Gittinger's PAS, and probably she had been hired for the very reason that she fit the profile of a "hypno-patsy" or a "manchurian channeler". When the backgrounds of her "colleagues" are brought into scrutiny, what took place between 1965 and 1972 at the Columbia University college of Physicians and Surgeons Psychology Department in the so-called "scribing" of A Course In Miracles is so blatent as to almost be overt! Even Eileen Caddy, surrounded as she was by ex-British Intelligence personnel comes in a poor second to Schucman! ]
– Led by Eileen Caddy's "voice", Findhorn is begun in an old house trailer pulled up near the beach on a bleak section of the northern Scottish coast adjacent to Kingloss Royal Air Force Base. Eileen's husband, Peter Caddy, is a former RAF officer and recently the husband of Sheena Govan, who worked for British Intelligence during WW II. The Caddys are accompanied by Dorothy Maclean, who was formerly employed by British Intelligence under Govans' supervision (see, 1940s). Later Govan became something of a recognized spiritual teacher and cult leader with ex-underling Maclean and husband Caddy as, at least, two of her "disciples". She apparently continued to direct Caddy after he had left her bed for that of Eileen's, and she played a direct role in Eileen's earlier "brainwashings" (see, 1956).
[NOTE 5: Author Paul Hawken, who later visited Findhorn, will write in The Magic of Findhorn, about the "thick, vibrant energies" felt in the house trailers and gardens. "Whatever it is, it seems to be the physical stuff of the place. If you walk across the road to the bay, it is not quite there. . . the intense energy field is lacking. Everybody here talked about it, knew about it, referred to it as 'the energies'. It was a 'buzz' which was more felt than heard" (see also, 1979, Ken Cory). No one seems to have thought to ask whether or not the Kingloss RAF Base next door might have been somehow responsible, even though on the base immediately adjacent to Findhorn was a posted secret, fenced-off area protected by guard dogs.]
– Publication of La Cosmogonie D’Urantia, a French translation of The URANTIA Book by Jacques Weiss. (See, 1942-1944 and 1980)
– Martin Myers and Richard Keeler drive to Chicago to meet Dr. Sadler and Christy.
1964 – Vern Grimsley begins his URANTIA Book teaching based radio broadcasts on KFAX in San Francisco. He agrees with the URANTIA Foundation that he will not mention the book by name on the air.
1965 – (June - October) Helen Schucman experiences "a dramatic progression of waking dreams . . . culminating with her experiencing a Voice which speaks clearly in her mind. The Voice, which Helen references with a capital "V", explains to her the visions she has been receiving" (ref., http://www.whitmorelaw.com/time_line.htm).
– Sir George Trevelyan, in England, gathers together "all of the New Age groups under one roof for the first time," with Air Marshall Sir Victor Goddard former chief of British Air Intelligence -- in attendance. Peter Caddy, who was uninvited, "gate crashes" this event to announce the beginning of Findhorn (The Magic of Findhorn).
– Future URANTIA Brotherhood Legal Advisor and important Teaching Mission (TeaM) channeling supporter, Duane Faw, and his combat ready Marine landing force, lay in wait just over the Caribbean horizon from the Dominican Republic. If called by the CIA officers directing the invasion, they are to go ashore to seize and hold the government. The situation, however, developed in such a way that they are not needed. (See, 1956, 1961 and 1983 October 6)
[NOTE: Again, this is an illustration of the high degree of trust placed in Faw by the intelligence/security community.]
1965-1968 – Helen Schucman, with William Thetford's support, "scribes" ("channels" into written form, purportedly directly from Jesus) "A Course In Miracles" (ACIM).
1967 – Family of God Foundation (FOG) established by Vern Grimsley in California.
1968 – MKULTRA's Gittinger and Saunders co-author an article or paper relating to Gittinger's PAS (see, PAS BIBLIOG).
– Martin Myers moves into in the Chicago URANTIA Foundation and Brotherhood headquarters to live there with Dr. Sadler and Christy (whom the Sadlers had "adopted").
– In the beginning many hippies were drawn to Findhorn, who likely could be expected to be familiar with psychotropic drug effects, but around this year, according to Paul Hawken, Peter Caddy began to "verbally thrash" them for "the slightest deviation from the rigid order and structure of the community". Most left. Only those who, as Hawken paraphrases Timothy Leary, "gave up, gave in, and submitted" to the "thick overlay of authority" stayed behind.
[NOTE: Most, if not all, of strange experiences described by Hawken during his own stay – which Findhorners ascribed to spiritual causes – are similar (actually appear to be identical) to the effects of a variety psychotropic drugs (including marijuana and MDA, or "love drug"). This same similarity is also apparent in the earlier purported religious experiences of selected Findhorners, such as Robert O. ("Roc") Crombie, who had several LSD-type experiences which he believed included a genuine visitation by the "horned god Pan". Caddy and others supported this illusion as being reality. At least 25 MKULTRA Subprojects concern drugs or botanicals]
1969-1970 – Recent Yale graduate and future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, is employed and trained by the National Security Agency (NSA), then and possibly still America's most secret spy shop.
– The CIA accomplishes brain-computer link-up. The process unscrambles an individual’s brainwaves, deciphers and records them, and injects them into another subject. (http://www.trufax.org/welcomemsie.html: Hereinafter "LEADING EDGE")
[NOTE: The labels "brainwashing victims" and "Manchurian candidates" will evolve through "hypno-patsies" to, currently, mental or emotional "clones". The development of this particular technology during the past three decades may account for this change. It is believed that secret technology also presently allows for direct wireless access to an unwitting subject's visual cortex both for inputting and downloading of realtime awake and dreaming field of vision data. The idea that other areas of the brain can be equally accessed should not be dismissed.]
1969-1971 – Helen Schucman, with William Thetford's support, "scribes" ("channels" into written form, purportedly directly from Jesus) the ACIM "Workbook"
1970 – Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, NSA-trained Neal Waldrop enters the U.S. Navy, attends Officer Candidate School.
[NOTE: Phillip Agee described his own experience in becoming a CIA officer with a military cover. After being inducted into the agency, he was hired as a civilian by an "Air Force cover unit". A few weeks later he enlisted in the Air Force. "While in the Air Force," he wrote, "I will be treated like any other enlisted man. . . . Keeping the secret will be a part of my training -- learning to live my cover." (INSIDE)]
– Rand Corporation publishes a report entitled, "A Direct Mechanism for the Direct Influence of Microwave Radiation on Neuroelectric Function", by R.J. MacGregor. He "notes that power densities of close to 1000,000mw/cm2 can produce auditory hallucinations in a field that would be averaged as low intensity and non-thermal." (LEADING EDGE)
1971 – Harry McMullan makes initial contact for Vern Grimsley’s Family of God Foundation (FOG) with Radio Free Europe (RFE) while in New York. RFE at this time is a "proprietary arm of the CIA" (Mark Lane). Congress will later force the CIA's disassociation from RFE.
– One month after this possible CIA involvement began, Vern Grimsley visits Bert Kaplan (see, 1960-1962), who was by then teaching at a college in California.
-- The CIA's Radio Free Europe dispatches a questionnaire to be filled out by all FOG members. Later RFE produces and airs a half-hour documentary about Vern and FOG ostensibly based on the group's answers.
[NOTE 1: It is not impossible that this questionnaire also was to be used for creating Gittinger-style psychological profiles of the members. The FOG Diary describes it as a "list of questions dealing with the religious beliefs, and principal religious doubts, of America's young people, the mission and future plans of the Family of God Foundation, together with a request for background information on 'what led you (VBG) and your associates into this work?'" (quoted in EVALUATION, p. 129). Generic, unanswerable questions about "America's young people" would tend to open a Rorschach-like window into the subconscious mind of the individuals answering them rather than to elicit real facts, which the testees could not be expected to know.]
– The printing plates for The URANTIA Book are destroyed after the second printing by the URANTIA Foundation, thus severing the last physical link between the published work and the original "Papers", and thereby erasing a benchmark for future scholars and translators.
– Eileen Caddy’s "voice" is discontinued. She will remain at Findhorn.
[NOTE 2: Peter Caddy (after divorcing Eileen) will tour the international New Age scene, propounding the "spirit" of Findhorn and group consciousness until he is killed in a car wreck. Dorothy Maclean (ex-British Intelligence), along with a few more Findhorners, will start the Lorian Association in California. Sheena Govan, after having suffered from "cluster headaches" for much of her adult life, has died. It is worth noting in this context that in the early 1960s ultrasonic experiments on 225 Fort Ord soldiers produced brain lesions.
– General Duane Faw retires from the Marine Corps (see, 1961, 1956, 1965 and 1983 October 6).
1971 - 1978 – MKULTRA's David J. Saunders and ACIM's William Thetford together secretly contract to the CIA's MKULTRA to do personality theory research (see, http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml, Subproject: MKULTRA 130).
1972 – Helen Schucman, with William Thetford's support, "channels" ACIM "Manual."
– The U.S. Army publishes a study entitled: "Controlled Offensive Behavior: USSR" which concerns itself with targeting individuals with "mind altering techniques" and "the total submission of one’s will to some outside force." The study involved the use of pulsed microwaves. (LEADING EDGE. See also, 1993)
Helms
1973 – Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Helms order the destruction of most of MKULTRA's records. Many, however, apparently overlooked, will later be found intact, declassified, and subsequently released to John Marks (1,600 pages of documents) and others as a result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
[NOTE: In 1977 John Marks will make a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for ORD files on "behavior research related to bio-electrics, electric or radio stimulation of the brain, electronic destruction of memory, stereotoxic surgery, psychosurgery, hypnotism, parapsychology, radiation, microwaves, and ultrasonics". The CIA reports back as having 130 cubic feet of material expected to contain pertinent documents. Marks regretted that he could not afford to obtain them.]
1974 – "J.F. Schapitz proposes a project, later funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, showing how the spoken word of a hypnotist may be conveyed by modulated electromagnetic energy directly into subconscious parts of the brain. The subject cannot consciously control the information input." A monograph entitled "Psychotronics in Engineering" published by the Joint Publications Research Service in Arlington, VA. repeats Schapitz’s claim, adding that "voices would program the subconscious mind without employing any technical devices for receiving or transcoding the messages ... "[emphasis added] (LEADING EDGE. Also see, 1993).
– An Army Medical and Information Agency document, entitled, "Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation" discusses, among other things, the induction of voices inside the brain by use of signal modulation at very low power densities. (LEADING EDGE)
– The author of "Microwave Auditory Effects and Applications", Dr. James Lin, notes that "the capacity of communicating directly with humans by pulsed microwaves is obviously not limited to the field of therapeutic medicine." (LEADING EDGE)
– Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, becomes a URANTIA Book reader while serving in the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C.. Each of his duty stations have the word "communications 3" in their name.
[NOTE 1: The NSA's primary mission is to monitor and analyze "communications".]
[NOTE 2: Ex-CIA operative, Phillip Agee describes two methods by which the CIA puts agents where they want them. Sometimes they will recruit leaders of groups they want to infiltrate. And the other way of penetrating, he says, is to have an agent join and then work his way up from the bottom. (INSIDE)]
– USMC Brigadier General (Ret.) and Pepperdine University Law Professor, Duane Faw, makes his initial contact with the URANTIA Foundation. He will associate himself with Vern Grimsley's cult-like organization, the Family of God Foundation (FOG), and shortly be given the position of Chairman of the URANTIA Brotherhood's Legal Committee. Faw will become the chief "inner circle" supporter of Teaching Mission channeling and "stillness practice", both of which appear to be contra-indicated in The URANTIA Book! (See, 1099 D, 100:5:8 through 11)
– Paul Snider, for the URANTIA Brotherhood and as its President, signs the Foundation's "Confirmatory Agreement," essentially a lie which denied that the registered trademark "Urantia" had been in general use up to that time, ceding all rights to it (and to the three azure concentric circles) to the Foundation. The Foundation later used this to "disenfranchise" the Brotherhood in 1989. Without this agreement it would have had no grounds to do so.
[NOTE: This "Confirmatory Agreement" was so hypocritical and dishonest that a number of Urantia Brotherhood Societies refused to become signatories to it, so "Licensing Agreement" governing each Society's use was then drawn up and signed by each of them.
The Brotherhood's General Council reported to its membership in 1989 -- just a month and a half before the Foundation "formally terminat[ed] the Confirmatory Licensing Agreement" and evicted the Brotherhood from their shared office space -- that in retrospect there were four "perhaps unintended" (my emphasis) effects to the 1974 signing:
1. "It partially defeated the initial founding effort to separate the work into two automous orgizational entities".
2. "It caused the URANTIA Foundation to believe it had veto power over Brotherhood activities".
3. It "seemed intended to sever the inherent organizational integrity of URANTIA Brotherhood".
4. "It set up an almost inevitable conflict between" the official, organizational use of the name "Urantia" and its "also valid use" as a symbol with spiritual meaning by readers of The URANTIA Book ", Sept. 16-17, 1989).
The split between the two Urantia movement organizations can be seen as having its roots and beginning in this document.]
1975 – A version of Vern Grimsley's radio program is being carried on 874 outlets of Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRN), including 572 onboard Navy ships. Each station is indicated by a destroyer on the FOG map. AFRN is known at times to have loaned its facilities to the CIA. (Mark Lane). Vern's complete program is being heard in all 50 states and in a number of foreign countries, as well. FOG claimed a grand total of "more than 1,000 stations around the world" and "over 100 million listeners", figures which are disputed by Caston.
– (April) Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, is admitted to URANTIA Brotherhood as a member-at-large.
– Carolyn Kendall, a former Forum member (joined in 1951) and Urantia movement leader, believes that the URANTIA Brotherhood was diverted this year from its primary role of fostering serious and systematic study, to marketing The URANTIA Book, the "endless reassessment of its [organizational] purpose," and the "fine tuning of its organization". (Ref., "The Plan for The URANTIA Book Revelation", by Carolyn B. Kendall, April,1996)
[NOTE: I myself see no direct revelence to this issue in this, and Kendall dismisses the idea that it may have been conspiratorial (however, she does not appear to have been considering a governmental conspiracy). I have included it since it shows a general trend. Also, I have yet to learn General Faw's role here, if any, which may alter the entry's significance.]
1976 – Neal Waldrop is sworn in as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State (which is well-known to provide cover for CIA and NSA operatives).
– Emma “Christy” Christensen tells then URANTIA Brotherhood President John Hales that Vern Grimsley is a member of the Reserve Corps of Destiny 3. Many believe that "voices" which she heard told her this.
1977-1979 – Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, co- hosts the Washington, D.C. study group.
1978 – Secret journals purportedly prepared by Dr. Sadler and kept in a locked file cabinet until this year unexplainedly disappeared, as Urantia movement member Barbara Newsom was prepared to testify under oath. [ ref. TENTH CIRCUIT MICHAEL FOUNDATION, INC., a foreign corporation, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. URANTIA FOUNDATION, an Illinois Charitable Trust, Defendant - Third-Party Plaintiff - Appellant, v. HARRY MCMULLAN, III, Third-Party Defendant - Appellee: No. 01-6347 and 01-6348 (D. Ct. No. CIV-00-885-W) (W.D. Okla.):ORDER AND JUDGMENT; II.4B.¶2 ]
– Jonestown mass "suicide". This followed the assassination nearby of Congressman Leo Ryan by followers of Jim Jones. Ryan was at that time investigating what he called "CIA cults". The investigation apparently ceased with the Congressman's death.
[NOTE 1: Author, Michael Meiers, will later claim in his exhaustively researched book, Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? A Review of the Evidence, that Jonestown was a field test of mind control drugs on African Americans and Native Americans -- two racial distinctions which made up the majority of Jones’ followers.]
[NOTE 2: Jones is said to have once told a reporter for the Black Panther newspaper that all of his thoughts came from the CIA (Mark Lane).]
1978-1979 – Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, is the chief organizer, master of ceremonies, and a speaker at the First through Third Mid-Atlantic Conferences of Urantia Book readers.
[NOTE: The apparent chronological inconsistency above (three annual events in two years) appears in Waldrop's "URANTIA Brotherhood Background" which he submitted in a cover letter to his, "Do We Live in the Shadow of Nuclear Annihilation?" (see, 1983 November 14).]
1979 – Ken Cory, whose channelings became the book Starseed Transmissions writes that while channeling he hears "a low humming, an energy field" (see, 1974, also, 1962 NOTE 4). The messages he receives, he says, "came first in non-verbal form on waves or pulsations that carried the concise symbolic content of what I term ‘meta-conceptual information’" (quoted in Jon Klimo's book, Channeling) This last appears possibly to be similar or identical to the channeling experience of Helen Schucman and Teaching Mission (TeaM) "transmitter/receivers", whose "voices", while dictating, are described as being just at the audible/sub-audible threshold.
1979-1989
– Soviet Union war in Afghanistan: During this time the Russians reputedly used then-secret equipment employing inaudible transmissions that can convince individuals that they are hearing the voice of God inside their heads (see, 1993, the year knowledge of it surfaced in the media). The possibility that some of this technology fell into the hands of CIA-trained and supplied Afghanistani fighters, such as Osama bin Laden, and into the hands of the CIA itself cannot be discounted. The use of this equipment could explain the seeming mass-production of ("mentally cloned"?) "fanatic" terrorist suicide bombers. The probability that the U.S. intelligence/security community had itself developed similar, parallel technology, as indicated in this timeline primarily by Leading Edge and John Marks references, should neither be confused with this Russian technology nor be quickly dismissed.
1980 – Emma "Christy" Christensen receives an apparently audible "message" from "unseen friends", who are believed to be the same Revelatory Commission of supernal beings who created The URANTIA Book. She reportedly informed several people of this occurrence. Thomas Kendall credits the solution of the "French situation" to the credence given to this message.
[NOTE: The "French situation" concerned the first French language translation of The URANTIA Book, entitled, La Cosmogonie d'Urantia, which was made by Jacques Wiess, (see, 1942-1944 and 1962). Wiess was sued by the URANTIA Foundation in 1974 for copyright violation, and his book went into underground, pirated publication.]
1982 – Emma "Christy" Christensen dies.
– Two months after Christy's death, Neal Waldrop submits to the URANTIA Foundation "a detailed Project Outline for a [Mandarin] Chinese Translation of The URANTIA Book, together with a draft Chinese Translation of the Foreword and Paper 1". (EVALUATION)
[NOTE 1: A URANTIA Book reader reports that sometime around this year Waldrop expressed his anger that the Foundation ignored his translation project. Waldrop also reportedly told that same individual then that some unnamed US intelligence/security agency had previously been involved in the Urantia movement, but that it no longer was at that time. If Waldrop's reference was to CIA (MKULTRA or ORD) activity, it would likely have been disseminated only on a need-to-know basis. The fact that Waldrop was privy to that information hardly closes the door to the idea of subsequent or simultaneous NSA involvement (he could hardly be expected to admit or allude to his own undercover mission, if any -- indeed, those readers who know Waldrop cannot picture him as an intelligence operative, a fact which is necessarily the mark of successful undercover work). If this hearsay is factual (and I have no reason to doubt the reader's veracity) it would appear that the NSA may have won a bureaucratic turf war against the CIA. It might be observed that a revelation such as The URANTIA Book, transmitted by extra-terrestrial, ("alien") supernal beings undoubtedly constitutes "communications". This "communications" aspect places the Urantia movement in a distinctly different category from ACIM, Findhorn, Jim Jones' People's Temple, or David Koresh's Branch Davidians. The Urantia Papers had been received in 1934-1935, several decades before intelligence/security community interest in developing synthetic telepathy began. Therefore it could not have been the product of "synthetic telepathy". It would appear, then, that beginning sometime around 1974-1975 (when NSA-trained future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, became a URANTIA Book reader and was admitted into the URANTIA Brotherhood as a member-at-large), in cultic activity where there are no purported intra-cerebral "communications" other than those likely induced by "synthetic telepathy" – TeaM, ACIM, Jim Jones' People's Temple, and David Koresh's Branch Davidians – the CIA is in charge, but where the prospect of actual "alien" communications exist – the Urantia Papers and UFOs – then the NSA has jurisdiction. How fine this dividing-line is drawn and exactly where it is placed is known only by the intelligence/security community itself.]
[NOTE 2: I would like to point out the absurdity of trying to present the fifth epochal revelation (The Urantia Book) to the Asian world in a translation sponsored by, or in any way connected to, either the U.S. State Department or the NSA! It is bad enough that the first Asian-language translation is in Korean, the nation in the eastern hemisphere in which there is probably the highest concentration of U.S. Intelligence/Security presence, whose own intelligence agency, the KCIA, was started with CIA help and which likely still maintains CIA ties. The U.S. Congress actually found connections between the KCIA and cult activity in the United States (the Sun Myung Moon organization). And one of the present URANTIA Foundation trustees (who reputedly made the translation) happens to be a naturalized American South Korean. Dr. E. Kwan Choi, a Profesor of Economics at Iowa State University, was elected trustee in March, 1997 . None of this may be expected to encourage Asians to accept the revelation. One must wonder if there is a plan to keep the revelation from widespread acceptance in Asia! Kwan is presently (2002) suing the other URANTIA Foundation trustees for alleged organizational, including financial, improprieties.(See also, 1958)]
– Six months after Christy’s death, Vern Grimsley, "awoke one morning with a strong feeling that he must buy a new property for his organization, the Family of God (F.O.G.). He developed a picture in his mind of what it should entail and encompass." (EVALUATION).
– The following month, while viewing the vacated St. Anthony's College campus, which was being shown to him by a Realtor, Vern heard an audible "voice" from no apparent source telling him, "This is it!"
– Before the end of the year Vern bought his new "Spiritual Renaissance Institute" at Clayton, California for $4 million. Its was situated four miles from the Concord Naval Weapons Station and partially surrounded by a dozen other strategic installations with varying importance as possible targets, including two Naval shipyards (one for nuclear subs), two military air bases and an international airport, a Naval fuel depot, a Naval supply center, and Livermore Nuclear Research Laboratory -- all at distances from fifteen to twenty eight miles from Vern's soon-to-be purported holocaust survival headquarters (see, 1983 October 6).
– Many Urantia movement people believe Christy's "mantle" as de facto leader of the Urantia movement had been passed to Vern.
[NOTE 3: In 1969 when Dr. William Sadler died, his last words spoke of passing the "torch" to Christy who would then pass it to younger members.]
1983 – Vern Grimsley has "over 100 ‘contacts’". He would emerge from sessions "in a very tired and worn state". Vern said that his messages came, "even when I am asleep" (EVALUATION).
– (October 6) Vern’s "voices" tell him to prepare to survive a nuclear exchange (WW III). They then began to develop survival strategies (including – in answer to a question put directly to them – that if necessary attackers storming F.O.G. fallout shelters could be shot!). Accordingly, Vern surrounded the new compound with chain link fence, and F.O.G. began stockpiling arms. Combat veteran, Brigadier General Duane Faw (USMC Retired), a URANTIA Brotherhood official who would soon become the primary inner circle leadership supporter of TeaM channeling (see, 1985), actually gave advice to FOG on military defense procedures, reportedly including such things as "fields of fire". Faw demurs that he never expected FOG's all-out military response to his suggestions. However, the purported celestials spoke to Vern in words which sound more like those of a Marine Corps General than of the seraphim or midwayers recorded in The URANTIA Book. They told him that "the institute in Clayton is projected to be in the top ten percent of functional, slash, protectable locations given current data" (EVALUATION). Ironically, after surviving the holocaust, Vern was expected to carry on broadcasting the light of truth from his radio transmitter tower on top of nearby Mt. Diablo (Devil Mountain)! This area was once reputedly the home of the Devil, who reputedly made appearances to people in the days before California became a state.
[NOTE 1: While I could find no direct ties between General Faw and the U.S. Intelligence/Security community (beyond his having been assigned as a Matine Corps legal officer to the Judge Advocate General Corps), Faw had the habit of popping up near actual or possible CIA projects (see, 1956, 1961, and 1965).]
-- It was around this point in time that part of the Urantia movement’s inner circle deserted Vern and/or turned against him. The "official", or "organized" Urantia movement would become divided precisely along the pro/con "messages" fault-line. Continuing support of Vern would later be used as the excuse for disenfranchising the URANTIA Brotherhood (see, 1989 October 30), and Thomas Kendall would be suddenly removed both from his position as URANTIA Foundation President and trustee ostensibly because of his support for Vern.
– (November 14) Neal Waldrop submits reasons to the URANTIA Brotherhood why he believes it is impossible that the USA could then be living "In The Shadow of Nuclear Annihilation", thus professionally 5 refuting the message given to Vern by purported celestials. There followed, according to one reader, "a well-neigh general rejection of the ‘messages’ and an overwhelming flow of criticisms" leveled against Vern (ref., Emmanuel DeSurvire, quoted in EVALUATION).
– The week following Waldrop's submission, Vern’s "unseen friends" told Vern, "We won!" – possibly their very last message to him, or the last one about WW III. Vern has remained silent on the issue. It was, at least, the last message he forwarded to any "official" Urantia movement organizations. Rumor has it, however, that Vern is still hearing the "voices" of purported celestials.
– Many FOG members, including Richard Keeler (on Nov. 20), and Harry McMullan (before Oct. 27), abandon Vern's group. FOG (reportedly) eventually will go bankrupt, defaulting on its loan for the Clayton site. Vern's influence as an effective movement leader with a wide following from this point forward is curtailed. Christy's mantle, if Vern had ever indeed worn it, was snatched quickly from his shoulders.
[NOTE 2: It may be speculated that if Vern was an unwitting CIA (MKULTRA/ORD) subject, the withdrawal of its influence from the Urantia movement could have allowed for the "sacrifice" of Vern as a red herring and stepping stone for putting an NSA operative into a leadership position. In any event, the "voices" eliminated the widely acknowledged major contender, the "voices" caused the movement to be divided over the issue of belief in them (see for instance, "Special report to the Readers of The URANTIA Book: URANTIA Foundation Ends Its Relationship With The Former URANTIA Brotherhood", by URANTIA Foundation, April 1990, p. 15 and p. 19-3), and afterwards "NSA Neal" Waldrop was put into the catbird seat (see, 1989).]
1984-1989 – The climate at Foundation headquarters reportedly continues to deteriorate.
1985 (circa) – What will become the first Teaching Mission group (see, 1989) begins as a small channeling group in New Zealand (see, http://www.winged-horse.com/archives/time.htm), where one of the NSA's largest facilities is located.
1986 – Hoite Caston is made a trustee of the URANTIA Foundation.
– First Spanish language translation of The URANTIA Book. It contains serious flaws, and is reputedly distorted in meaning.
1989 – The entire Executive Committee of the URANTIA Brotherhood are signatories to a letter to the Foundation trustees referring to Martin Myers' "questionable and secretive use of 'instructions' or 'mandates' supposedly given [by supernal beings] in confidence to our predecessors" (but see, 1990 Helena Sprague letter).
[NOTE 1: These "mandates" were received over the years as physically materialized writings and each contained an instruction at the bottom that it was to be destroyed by fire no later than the publication date of The URANTIA Book. Reportedly, however, Dr. Sadler and Christy were given permission to retain some beyond that date which were destroyed immediately upon the death of Christy. On the other hand, copies of the "mandates" made by Forum members were reportedly extant after that year. These might constitute a body of "secret communications" worthy of NSA interest.]
– (July through October) Three URANTIA Foundation Trustees and several staff members resign in reaction against Martin Myers’ actions and policies.
[NOTE 2: The question has never been answered whether these trustees and staff members might have been influenced by synthetic telepathy. The fact is that at least one 533 Diversey Parkway, Foundation/Brotherhood part-time office worker reports having herself heard "voices" in her head which she continues to the day of this writing to believe were genuinely supernal in origin. These, she says, supported Vern Grimsley's "messages" and directed her into performing certain undisclosed activities which she describes as being seemingly mundane, but which she maintains nevertheless were purported to her as being necessary to help ward off the nuclear holocaust (WW III). She alludes to having knowledge of others like herself who heard similar "voices", and there were also rumors of "voices" being heard in that same time-frame in Hawaii by URANTIA Book readers there. (Also see, 1990 "Helena Sprague" letter)]
– The new URANTIA Foundation Board of Trustees at this time consists of three of Vern Grimsley's college fraternity brothers: Foundation President Martin Myers, Hoite Caston and Richard Keeler (as of July). Also on the board are Patricia Sadler Mundelius (who, of course, bears the honored Sadler name), and Neal Waldrop (as of August), a Foreign Service Officer with a NSA background..
– (October 1) Martin Myers quits his upper managerial bank job and assumes full-time URANTIA Foundation Executive Directorship.
– (October 30) URANTIA Foundation Trustees formally disenfranchise the URANTIA Brotherhood and evict it from their shared headquarters at 533 Diversey Parkway, Chicago. (See, 1983)
– A New Zealand channeling group (four members) is introduced to The URANTIA Book by a channeled purported celestial named, "Abraham", self- identified as being the same Abraham who is the Biblical "father of the Jewish race". This is the beginning of TeaM as such. After this, members of the group reportedly took TeaM to URANTIA Book-oriented internet listserves, newsgroups, and web- forums – as well as to URANTIA Book study groups – where they carried on a process of recruitment. The goal, according to one purported celestial, was to create at least one or two channelers in every study group. (See also, 1985)
1990 – Then-recently-resigned, former URANTIA Foundation Trustee Helena Sprague writes that "Martin [Myers] has been heard, with several present, to bestow approval of the midwayers on one individual and to tell another, 'The midwayers are not pleased with you . . . you are in league with Lucifer.'" This leaves one with the distinct impression that Myers also may have heard "voices" and believed himself to have been in direct contact with purported celestials. It is therefore possible that his guidance was not limited to extant copies of previously materialized "mandates" or "instructions" (see, 1989 "Executive Committee" letter).
[NOTE: Many accused Myers of having a "chosen person" attitude. Speculatively something of the sort might be expected to have developed if intra-cerebral voices, claiming to be midwayers, had told Myers that Christy's "torch" or "mantel" of Urantia movement leadership had been passed to him instead of to Vern Grimsley. (See, 1982 NOTE 3)]
– Elizabeth Y. Fitzhugh's ad appears in some New Age newspapers promoting her channeling of a purported entity named "ORION" (she uses the upper case -- this is the same name as what is believed to be a MKULTRA, ORD, or U.S. Naval Intelligence program which includes, among other things, "electronic brain invasion" (see, 1958). One of the ad's two favorable blurbs says:
"I found . . . that I could listen to the ORION spokesperson as though I were listening to music or observing a natural scene. . . . I became totally absorbed by the utter beauty of the voice and the language."
It is signed, "S.G., Boston, VA". The only listing in the telephone directory for the Boston area in 1990 conforming to those initials is Sidney Gottlieb, known to be the then retired former director of MKULTRA. Boston is a small, U.S. postal rural delivery area connected to a combination post office and general store. Gottlieb's retirement location there is well documented.
1991 – A URANTIA Book study group member in Woods Cross, Utah begins channeling a purported celestial named "Ham". This becomes the second TeaM group, and the first to appear in the United States. For a number of years thereafter the procedure for a study group to obtain a "teacher" to channel was that they must first telephone their request to the Woods Cross channeler, who would forward it on to the purported celestial during a "contact". It is now presumably just as possible for the massive email and telephone monitoring programs currently being run by NSA and its data-sharing partner nations to flag any interest voiced in these communications mediums by persons desiring "personal" or group "teachers" ("purported celestials" who are believed to communicate intra-intellect) as it is for them to flag the words "cocaine" or "bomb". It should be noted that not all who desire these "teachers" get them.
[NOTE 1: Although I have found no direct connection between the Woods Cross group and either the CIA or the NSA, Utah is the center of Mormonism, and Mormons have long been especially sought out for recruitment into the U.S. Intelligence/Security community. It may be speculated that widespread support for secret intelligence projects might be found within that state.]
[NOTE 2: TeaM has not to this date subjected itself to any testing procedures such as those to which Dr. Sadler subjected the physically materialized text (as well as the channeling-like activities which preceded it). Neither has TeaM so far attempted to correlate the reception of intra-cerebral "teachers" to previous open expressions of a desire for the same on electronic communications media. If TeaM wants to behave responsibly and to find anything approaching mainstream acceptance in the Urantia Book reader community, it needs to rule out synthetic telepathy as well as ordinary psychological delusion as providing the platform for its purported celestial "teachers". Also the finding of MKULTRA fingerprints all over "A Course In Miracles" demands that its antecedents be thoroughly investigated as well!]
1991-1992 – A manuscript copy of this writer's, "URANTIAGATE: The Conspiracy Theory", consisting of much that appears here, is mailed to the URANTIA Foundation at its headquarters office, to each individual Foundation Trustee, and to other movement leaders.
1992 – Martin Myers is dismissed as a URANTIA Foundation Trustee. He will be successfully sued to relinquish his position as President.
– Neal Waldrop resigns as Trustee, and is reportedly transferred by the U.S. State Department to Australia and New Zealand.
1993 – Revised Spanish language translation is published. It has flaws of its own and continues many of the 1986 version's problems.
– U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms officers and David Koresh's Branch Davidians exchange gunfire at the Davidian compound outside of Waco, Texas. This precipitates a 51-day FBI siege which ends in a conflagration that gutted the building which the cult was defending and left Koresh, who followed a "voice" which he believed to be that of "God", and 82 of his followers, including children, dead. Autopsies revealed that a number of the adult male victims did not die by flames but had received twin fatal gunshot wounds in their heads which had been administered by a person or persons unknown during the fire.
[NOTE1: For what it is worth, convicted Watergate burglary conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, maintained on his syndicated radio talk-show that the FBI hostage rescue teams, such as besieged the Branch Davidians, cross-train with Navy Seals (Liddy is an ex-FBI Special Agent and one of Liddy's sons is a Seal Officer). The Seals, the elder Liddy maintained, are taught a method of execution called "double popping", which consists of two shots fired in rapid succession into the head of the victim. The Seals are also known to cover their tracks by fire.]
[NOTE2: Interestingly, but perhaps coincidentally, Koresh's presumed direct communication with "God" ceased immediately following the initial BATF shootout. It was not restored until after two separate individuals, days apart, crossed FBI lines surrounding the compound and entered the besieged Davidian headquarters. One must wonder if some hidden transmitting equipment had been accidentally knocked out and required repair or replacement. Both people left the compound before the fire.]
1994 – Mind control technology, called "acoustic psycho-correction", capable of producing intra-cerebral "voices" at the time of the Waco siege surfaces in the media:
"The FBI consulted Moscow experts on the possible use of a Soviet technique for beaming subliminal messages to Koresh. The technique uses inaudible transmissions that could have convinced Koresh he was hearing the voice of God inside his head." (Newsweek, Feb. 7, 1994 – emphasis added. See also, 1972, 1974)
[NOTE: Although the Russian device was not used on David Koresh, American Rifle Association President and movie actor, Charlton Heston, had been considered for the "voice" role. If similar technology was already being used on Koresh and others it would have been a closely guarded secret, even possibly from the FBI itself! The Russian-developed equipment is presently being manufactured in the USA for commercial sales. The University of Kansas, where Vern Grimsley was employed in its Psychology Department (see, 1960-1962), was the only reported organization that I found which held a symposium on the device and its technology (at its Medical College). The device reputedly was originally designed to be used as an electro-psycho-therapeutic technique (see, 1951), but was reportedly used by Russians during their war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) to free (cure?) the minds of their own troops from their moral inhibitions against, as well as from guilt resulting from, the atrocities which they were expected to commit there. The CIA, of course, had trained and supplied Osama bin Laden and others to fight against the Soviets, and it is a possibility, if not a likelihood, that some of this equipment fell into both bin Laden's and the CIA's hands then.]
"For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." (Ecclesiastes 12:14)
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[EDITORIAL NOTE: Due to technical difficulties with a word processing program a very small number of the above dates may be slightly off. All are believed at this time to have been found and corrected, however.]
FOOTNOTES
1. Adjuster, or Thought Adjuster: "If the finite mind of man is unable to comprehend how so great and so majestic a God as the Universal Father can descend from his eternal abode in infinite perfection to fraternize with the individual human creature, then must such a finite intellect rest assurance of divine fellowship upon the truth of the fact that an actual fragment of the living God resides within the intellect of every normal-minded and morally conscious Urantia [Earth] mortal. The indwelling Thought Adjusters are part of the eternal Deity of the Paradise Father. Man does not have to go farther than his own inner experience of the soul's contemplation of this spiritual-reality presence to find God and attempt communion with him." (62 B, 5:0:1)
2. Manchurian Candidate: Strictly speaking, a person who has been programmed unwittingly with the use of drugs, (Chinese technique) brainwashing, and hypnosis to be an assassin. Ably performed by Laurence Harvey in John Frankenheimer’s film, The Manchurian Candidate, also starring Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury (1962). Also see: John Marks' The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: online at: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm, which details the CIA's MKULTRA program's attempt to create such an "asset". I have coined the term, "Manchurian Channeler" to apply to situations such as appear in this "synthetic telepathy" timeline.
3. Neal Waldrop's duty stations:
1. 1971-1972, U.S. Naval Communications Station, Sidi Yahia du Rharb, Morocco.
2. 1972-1975, Office of the Director, Communications Security Material System, Washington, D.C.
4. Reserve Corps of Destiny: "Consists of living men and women who have been admitted to the special service of the superhuman administration of world affairs.
. . .
"Mortals of the realm are chosen for service in the reserve corps of destiny on the inhabited worlds because of:
1. Special capacity for being secretly rehearsed for numerous possible emergency missions in the conduct of various world affairs.
2. Wholehearted dedication to some special social, economic, political, spiritual, or other cause, coupled with a willingness to serve without human recognition and rewards.
3. The Possession of a Thought Adjuster of extraordinary versatility and probable pre-Urantia experience with coping with planetary difficulties and contending with world emergency situations." (1257 A-C, 114:7:1,3)
5. Neal Waldrop's Professional Background: His list in his cover letter to the URANTIA Brotherhood includes, besides those career positions mentioned earlier in this timeline: Foreign Service assignments to the Multilateral Affairs Bureau, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; U.S. Delegation to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament; the Political-Military Affairs Course at the Foreign Service Institute; U.S. Delegation to the Seabed Arms Control Treaty Review Conference; and Political Section of the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong.
His letter states: "Within our country's national security and foreign policy communities, intricate issues like these [i.e., nuclear attack and/or annihilation] are under constant discussion and review." (EVALUATION, Appendix)
Reference urls
1. LEADING EDGE: http://www.trufax.org/welcomemsie.html
2. SEARCH: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm
3. PAS BIBLIOG: http:www.pasf.org/print_bibliog.htm
4. MKULTRA Subprojects: http:/www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/ciaprop1.htm l
5. Intelligence/Security Connections: http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml
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http://withchrist.org/urantia.htm
Introduction
The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, Urantia Fellowship, and the Urantia three concentric circle symbol above (Banner of Michael) represent a modern-day Arian/Gnostic cult. The group began in Chicago during the early 1930's among high-ranking members of the heretical Seventh Day Adventist1 sect. The cult gained increasing popularity during the hallucinogenic 1960s and 70s, as the interrelationships between drugs, the occult, metaphysics, and the New Age movement were being forged. Urantia is one of many New Age religious efforts to create spirituality within the context of the philosophic naturalism and modernism that pervades Western culture.2
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The Urantia Book (a.k.a. The Urantia Papers, "God's Bible", the Revelation), consisting of 2,097 six by eleven inch pages, was complied in 1934-35 and first copyrighted in 1955. It is a collection of 196 apocryphal "papers" (i.e. so-called revelations) said to be communicated by various "authors"--i.e. spirit beings who names are listed in the papers. The book's theme consists of highly detailed, mythology-like descriptions of (our) universe, surrounding universes, numerous extraterrestrial spirit beings which are said to inhabit these universes, the spiritual evolutionary history of planet earth (Urantia), and the life and teaching of a "Jesus", also called "Christ Michael", a "Creator Son". The Urantia Foundation has provided multiple copies of the cultic Urantia Book to libraries across the United States.
As part of the larger "Urantia Brotherhood", small groups of followers...Societies... hold regular, sometimes clandestine meetings "to study the book and ... pledge themselves to disseminate its teachings." These groups are found throughout the United States with large concentrations in AZ, CA, CO, FL, IL, OR, TX, and WA. Larger societies can typically be found in cities and towns which draw above-average numbers of New Age followers, e.g., San Francisco, CA; Boulder, CO; Sedona, AZ, etc.
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http://logosresourcepages.org/urantia1.html
The Urantia Book
A Brief Description and its Secret Author Discovered by Eric Pement
CORNERSTONE magazine, vol. 20, issue 97, pp. 19, 23.
... Ironically, it was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and physician who was ultimately responsible for the publication of the Urantia papers. Dr. William S. Sadler, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Chicago and teacher of pastoral counseling at McCormick Theological Seminary, had spent over a decade debunking and refuting spiritualism, even assisting magician Harry Houdini in this task. His better-known works on this subject include THE TRUTH ABOUT SPIRITUALISM (1923) and THE MIND AT MISCHIEF: TRICKS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND (1929). However, researcher Steve Cannon tells about something that eventually turned Sadler around:
In the appendix of THE MIND AT MISCHIEF Sadler recounts a story of one investigation into the psychic realm that he could not debunk. From the summer of 1911 until the time of his writing in 1929 he had a subject under observation who would go into a deep sleep out of which he could not be awakened. Sadler wrote: "This man is utterly unconscious, wholly oblivious to what takes place, and, unless told about it subsequently, never knows that he has been used as a sort of clearing house for the coming and going of alleged extra-planetary personalities" (MIND, 383). Of the communications themselves, "I can only say that I have found in these years of observation that all the information imparted through this source has proved to be consistent within itself. . . . Its philosophy is consistent. It is essentially Christian and is, on the whole, entirely harmonious with the known scientific facts and truths of this age" (MIND, 384). Sadler wanted to say more on the subject, but the person under investigation would not give his permission to do so.1
W.K. Kellogg
Beginning in 1923, Dr. Sadler invited a group of friends, informally known as The Forum, to examine these intelligences, which were now rapidly becoming more numerous. While the channeler slept, the spirits freely answered questions in a manner not unlike that of Edgar Cayce, the famed "sleeping prophet." Sadler and his cohorts compiled 4000 questions they wanted the spirits to answer. A few weeks later, the channeler handed Dr. Sadler a sheaf of 472 pages, answering every question which had been put to him/them. The channeler's wife told Sadler that the material had been written in a single evening. By 1935, the last of the messages was delivered, and the entities asked Dr. Sadler, by now a true believer and an ex-Adventist, that the work be published.2 Twenty years later THE URANTIA BOOK appeared in print. The identity of the channeler was kept secret for many years by the Urantia Foundation. In fact, the board of directors took a pledge of secrecy not to reveal the human author or its means of transmission. However, in 1991 Martin Gardner identified the channeler as WILFRED CUSTER KELLOGG, son of Rev. Charles Leonidis Sobeski Kellogg, a Seventh-day Adventist minister from Vermont. Wilfred was a shirttail relative of W. K. KELLOGG, founder of the Kellogg's Cornflake Company, and also happened to be William Sadler's brother-in-law (the men had married two sisters).
Wilfred moved to Illinois when he married, and he and his wife lived for a time with Dr. and Mrs. Sadler. He was one of the founding members of the Urantia Foundation, and his home was half a block from the present headquarters of the Foundation in Chicago. He died in 1956.
The Adventist background of both Kellogg and Sadler does explain a few things. For example, it's a point of Adventist doctrine that Jesus is really Michael the Archangel.3 Martin Gardner pointed out some other interesting parallels with Adventism, notably how the name of an Adventist friend of Kellogg, G. W. AMADON, appears as an important figure of the Urantia papers. Gardner's articles were published in the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, Spring 1991, with significant corrections in the Fall 1991 issue. The Urantia Foundation officially has "no comment" on this matter.
Byron Belitson – founder of 911Truth.org and a figure to be reckoned with in the 911 Truth Movement, publisher of Jim Marrs' book on the NYC air assaults under the Origin imprint – is the world's leading guru in the Urantia movement, a front for the research & development of CIA mind-controlling psychotronics. I've attached a highly instructive history of the Urantia cult at the end of the lead article on psychotronics, tracing its origins to Seventh-Day Adventism and the Kellogg family.
Background briefing – For a "BRIEF HISTORY OF THE APOLCALYPSE" in relation to Urantia programming, the Family of God and other prominent theocratic/intelligence cults, see:
http://www.abhota.info/end3.htm
Also see Nico Haupt's fine work on Urantia & the surreal "BizarreGate" encroachments and infiltrations of the 9/11 movement in the December archive bin.
Hi-dee-ho.
– Alex Constantine
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http://urantiagate.com/conspiracy/long-timeline.html
The "Voice" of Strangers
(John 10:5)
An In-Depth Timeline Showing the Possible Use by the Intelligence Community of "Synthetic Telepathy" in the Urantia Movement, Teaching Mission (TeaM), A Course in Miracles (ACIM), Findhorn, and Other Religious/Cultic Organizations. RELATED LINKS: | Short Timeline | The Vern Grimsley Affair | In-Depth Timeline: "The 'Voice' of Strangers" |
[NOTE 1: "Synthetic telepathy" (or as it is sometimes called "artificial telepathy") is defined here as being the human, intentional, surreptitious, production of intra-cerebral "voices", pictures, thoughts, and/or ideas by means of hypnosis, inaudible transmissions, or a combination thereof, which are experienced by an unwitting subject either directly in the mind or apparently extra-cerebrally as emanating from no known source. One of the most current known technologies capable of producing an intra-cerebral "voice" is called "acoustic psycho-correction". It involves the transmission of specific commands via static or white noise bands into the human subconscious without upsetting other intellectual functions. Alternately, by using an infrasound very low frequency-type transmission, the acoustic psycho-correction message can be transmitted via bone conduction. See article at http://www.heart7.net/mcf/bzapping.htm for more.]
[NOTE 2: It is not the intention of this author to disparage or undermine the belief in genuine spiritual contact. The URANTIA Book, however, warns that "a human being would do better to err in rejecting an Adjuster's 1 expression through believing it to be a purely human experience than to blunder into exalting a reaction of the mortal mind to the sphere of divine dignity" (1208 A, 110:5:5), and that "in scrutinizing mental situations, safety lies only in the prompt recognition of each and every thought and experience for just what it actually and fundamentally is, disregarding entirely what it might have been (1199 C, 109:5:3). The Bible says: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try [test] the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (1 John 4:1).
[NOTE 3: Author and former CIA operative, Miles Copland, states that when the CIA’s Special Projects Division makes "connections with international religious groups for the purposes of aiding or supplementing espionage operations (it) is almost as touchy an issue as its association with criminal rings. To start with, Jewish and Catholic organizations are out. ... Organizations stemming from other religions are fair game, however." And he quotes one CIA official as saying that before they "tie into a religious group it’s got to be so offbeat that anyone in the agency who belongs to it may be fired as a security risk."]
TIMELINE
1940s – Sheena Govan and Dorothy Maclean, who will in the following decades help Eileen Caddy start Findhorn (see, 1962), a New Age community in Scotland, are actually working for British Intelligence while ostensibly employed as secretaries at the British Embassy in New York. The two are present there when the OSS (Office of Strategic services, the forerunner of the CIA) was formed in New York with the help of British Intelligence (see, 1942).
– During the 1940s OSS will begin "the first systematic effort to evaluate an individual’s personality in order to predict his future behavior". (John Marks' The Search for the Manchurian candidate: hereinafter, "SEARCH", online at: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm , a "must read" for readers who know little of the MKULTRA scandal) 1942 – British Intelligence, in New York, helps America set up its own intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
c. 1942-1944 – Future URANTIA Book translator, Jacques Weiss, fights with the French Resistance. Thus, he is presumably in contact with the OSS, which during these years was helping the "Free French". Sooner or later Weiss would reportedly claim he followed invisible purported celestials whom he called the "hierarchy" (also see, 1980 and 1962).
1947 – The CIA is created out of the OSS. It begins some preliminary work with drugs, starts a mind-control drug project at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, and investigates hypnosis.
1950 – CIA's Operation Bluebird Begun. British and Canadian observers are present at its first meeting -- all agree to continue investigating behavior control methods (SEARCH).
Sidney Gottlieb– Helping to make up Bluebird’s staff are Richard Helms, James Jesus Angelton, and Sidney Gottlieb. They establish liaisons with police departments and criminology labs. They contact hypnotists, physicians, and psychiatrists. They design activities to create an "exploitable alteration of personality".
– The CIA contemplates operational use of hypnosis to control a subject "to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of nature as self- preservation" (SEARCH).
1950s (early) – Eileen Caddy, later the primary channeler of Findhorn, leaves her five children and her first husband (Andrew Combe, who is both Peter Caddy's Commanding Officer and a member of Moral Rearmament, a religious organization which has been linked to the CIA) for RAF Officer, Peter Caddy (who was at the time married to "former" British Intelligence operative Sheena Govan -- see, 1940s), and it will not be long until Eileen begins to hear a "voice" claiming to be "God". Before it is over she will fill some thirty thousand notebook pages with the "voice's" dictation to her. (See, 1954)
1951 – An internal report describes Bluebird’s purpose as "the specific subject of devising scientific methods for controlling the minds of individuals".
– Bluebird is renamed, "ARTICHOKE". Artichoke’s interests are in electro-psycho-therapeutic techniques (see 1993), and it reportedly began work with supersonic radiations.
– Morse Allan (Bluebird/Artichoke) uses hypnosis on CIA secretaries. – CIA convinces British and Canadian Intelligence to start their own behavioral research programs.
1952 – North Korean brainwashing (using Chinese techniques) of American POWs is reported. The CIA sends agents to investigate their methods.
[NOTE: Presumably it was around this year as well when Army psychologist, "A Course In Miracles" (ACIM) channeler Helen Schucman's future Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons Psychology Department colleague, and expert hypnotist, Herbert Spiegel (see, 1962 NOTE 3), carried out his own investigation of the brainwashed Korean War POWs for the US Army. He is considered to be one of the earliest American experts in Chinese brainwashing techniques.]
– National Security Agency (NSA) established by Harry Truman .
1953 – MKULTRA begun (officially, it actually got into operation the year before), with Dr. Sidney Gottlieb as its director. Gottlieb later testified before Congress that, MKULTRA’s purpose was "to investigate whether and how it was possible to modify an individual’s behavior by covert means".
– ACIM's William Thetford, U.S. Government psychologist, Washington D.C., consultant to Foreign Service Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
[NOTE: This was apparently the year that, according to one of Schucman and Thetfords's student-colleagues, Father Benedict Groeshel, Thetford admitted to having been some sort of spy. This disappeared off of the web at about the time that information concerning Thetford's work for MKULTRA appeared there.]
c.1954 – Eileen Caddy, in England, begins to hear “God’s voice”.
– MKULTRA absorbs Project Bluebird/Artichoke. Morse Allen turns a CIA secretary into a sort of “Manchurian Candidate” 1. She, however, is given an unloaded gun with which to "shoot" her victim, and the results are controversial.
1956 – Peter Caddy installs Eileen Caddy with Sheena Govan on the Scottish island of Mull. It is populated largely in the south by Duart Clan Maclean. Sheena subjects Eileen to what appears to be nothing less than a case study of classical (Chinese technique) brainwashing, at least as her experience is later described by Paul Hawken (see, 1962), who interviewed her for his book, The Magic of Findhorn. It includes isolation, sleep deprivation, prolonged maintenance of painful positions, ego-devastating disparagement, etc. Previously to this she had refused to believe that the "voice" she was hearing was actually that of "God", as it had claimed. (By this time, after having returned to and again left her first husband, Eileen has married Peter Caddy. She has also tried to kill herself during another, earlier, less intense apparent attempt at "brainwashing" by Sheena Govan.)
[NOTE 1: I have not so far established a connection between Findhorn's co-founder, Dorothy Maclean (see, 1940s), and the Macleans of southern Mull].
– Future highly placed Teaching Mission (TeaM) channeling supporter, URANTIA Brotherhood Legal Advisor, retired USMC General Duane Faw, (see, 1983 October 6), at this point in his military career a Major, is the Training Depot Legal Officer at Parris Island during the "Ribbon Creek Incident", wherein a highly-rated Drill Instructor (DI) led his charges into dangerous waters causing the drowning death of six recruits.
[NOTE 2: Inasmuch as this incident might have answered questions which the CIA's MKULTRA was presumably asking at this time (see 1950, 1951, and 1953), and that there was a window of opportunity at the base sick bay for the use of hypnotism and mind-control drugs on the DI (he was given a probable hypnotic drug for pain in his leg), some suspicion is justified. Also, according to John C. Stevens III (Court Martial at Parris Island: The Ribbon Creek Incident, © 1999), powerful backstage legal politics arranged for the DI to be defended by a former Air Force Intelligence Officer, Emile Zola Berman, who later likewise defended Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's believed hypnotically programmed assassin, who reported hearing "voices" in his head. Please understand that "suspicion" does not constitute certainty. However there are too many inconsistencies and "coincidences" to simply accept the Ribbon Creek story at face value. Speculatively, Major Faw's role as Legal Officer allowed him to keep the investigation away from any sensitive areas, and Berman's role would have been a similar one. Faw seems to have a facility for popping up around CIA activities. In the next decade, he and his unit of combat-ready Marines (Faw transferred from staff to line officer status, he says, to increase his chances for promotion) will be peripherally involved as a possible backup landing force for the CIA's invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, and later they will be close at hand as an occupation force if needed during the CIA-backed invasion of the Dominican Republic. (See, 1961 and 1965)]
[NOTE 3: "A Course In Miracles" channeler, Helen Schucman's future colleague in the Psychology Department at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, expert hypnotist and brainwasher, Herbert Spiegel, (see, 1952 NOTE) is likewise connected to Sirhan Sirhan. Spiegel accused William Joseph Bryon Jr. – a hypnotist who immediately following the assassination of Robert Kennedy had publicly asserted in the media that Sirhan had been hypnotized to shoot the Presidential candidate – of having himself been the hypnotist. Spiegel based this accusation against Bryon on Spiegel's own esoteric interpretation of a seemingly nonsensical phrase which appeared in Sirhan's "automatic writings". This is sufficient evidence for speculating that it was Spiegel who carried out the actual necessary hypnosis on Schucman, convincing her that what she heard post-hypnotically in her mind was instructions being given by Jesus. It may also be speculated that Spiegel's accusation of Byron was merely a ruse to draw the scent away from himself, and that it was he, Spiegel, who hypnotically turned Sirhan into a Manchurian candidate. Please understand that such speculations only constitute working hypotheses which require further proof.]
1958 – Dr. William Sadler's son, Bill Sadler, acknowledges in an intra-office memo that "a really clever conspiracy could destroy the [URANTIA] Brotherhood or otherwise divert or destroy its mission." This same year he also wrote: "There is no place in the Urantia Foundation for naivete." Both warnings have been largely ignored.
– "A Course in Miracles" channeler (see, 1965), Helen Schucman, goes to work for William Thetford in the Psychology Department at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. (See URANTIAGATE article: Lie Down with Dogs, Get up with Fleas!: The MKULTRA Milieu Surrounding the "Scribing" of A Course In Miracles).
[NOTE: Peter Caddy and William Thetman play almost identical supportive roles in relation to their channelers, respectively, Eileen Caddy and Helen Schucman. Both men appear to be unwavering in their belief in the genuineness of the women's "contacts", both convince the women that what they are hearing is indeed real and encourage them to continue in spite of their doubts. Caddy, however, appears to have carried his "support" over into actual brainwashing, as it was practiced in the post-Korean War era. Peter Caddy had only a known indirect connection with British Intelligence through his wife, Sheena Govan. However while he was in the RAF he did undertake a secret, wartime, intelligence mission to Tibet for his government. On the other hand, William Thetford's secret direct connection to the CIA's mind-control program, MKULTRA, has been exposed by the release of FOIA declassified documents.]
– Project ORION is reputedly begun. It is said to study drugs, hypnosis, electronic brain invasion with radar, microwaves, and extremely low frequencies (ELF) of sound. Leading Edge attributes Orion to USAF, but others say CIA. (see also, 1990, "Elizabeth Y. Fitzhugh")
– Captain Al ("Cappy") Hubbard, whose contacts include the OSS, CIA, and, as evidence would indicate, MKULTRA, writes to Urantia movement leader, Meredith Sprunger, asking for information about The URANTIA Book (see letter at, http://urantiabook.org/archive/history/sprung_1.htm and more about Hubbard at, http://www.maps.org/media/bcflashback.html. Scroll down 10 paragraphs). Sprunger when recently asked could recall no outcome of this event.
Late 1950s – Meredith Sprunger introduces Vern Grimsley, then a high school student, to The URANTIA Book.
[NOTE: I have neither wish nor reason to implicate Sprunger in any of this. The above entry is made simply for its chronological interest in the unfolding of events.]
1960s – CIA-funded investigators discover correlation between EEG (Electroencephalograph) patterns and the ability to remember numbers . (SEARCH).
[NOTE: This is similar to the type of scientific investigation carried out for MKULTRA by Helen Schucman and William Thetford's co-author, David R. Saunders (see, SEARCH, Chapter 10).]
Early 1960s – ORD takes over most of MKULTRA’s mind control research.
c. 1960-1962 – Bert Kaplan, Psychology Professor at the University of Kansas hires Vern Grimsley as an undergraduate research assistant on his National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant. NIMH is known to have acted as a conduit, both funding and fronting grants for the CIA's MKULTRA research during this period. (Also see, 1993)
[NOTE 1: The problem is that Kaplan's version of the terms of Vern's employment reportedly differs sharply from what Vern is said to have later told his friends as well as from autobiographical material which he used in his speeches and elsewhere on occasion for years. Grimsley apparently believed that he worked for two years, not the single one which Kaplan reported to Caston, who interviewed him around 1984. Vern reportedly told people he spent a second year in Washington, D.C. managing a Kaplan-overseen grant from the National Science Foundation. Caston attributes the different stories to exaggeration on Vern's part. However he does not appear even to have considered the alternative that Kaplan, or someone connected to him, may have funneled Vern to be used as an unwitting subject in then ongoing MKULTRA investigations, even though the scandal surrounding the MKULTRA exposure had filled the media less than a decade before he wrote his analysis of Vern's experience. He certainly does not include it among his six "Possible Scenarios", but Caston does include "nefarious forces exploiting an overdeveloped ego and plotting to discredit and split the URANTIA movement . . . to abort the mission of The URANTIA Book". Which, of course, may in fact be what this synthetic telepathy phenomenon is all about. (Refs., "Vern Grimsley Message Evaluation", by Hoite Caston, © 1984, hereinafter, "EVALUATION").]
[NOTE 2: I have established no direct connection with any intelligence agency for either Kaplan or the University of Kansas during the year(s) of Vern's employment in the Psychology Department. However the university medical school was possibly the only institution to hold a symposium on the Russian device which is capable of putting the "voice of God" in the head of an unwitting subject (see, 1993 NOTE), and the University of Kansas Psychology Department shows up on a conspiracy theory webpage as having provided disinformation on the subject of programmed false memories (see, http:/www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/ciaprop1.htm l, scroll down to the alphabetical listing.)]
1960 – Ex-CIA agent, Philip Agee, documents the fact that even as late as this date the "most important liaison operation of the CIA is with MI-6 (British Intelligence). They exchange information and mount joint operations . . . . The inner club includes Canada." (Inside the CIA: CIA Diary, by Philip Agee, hereinafter "INSIDE")
1961 – Bay of Pigs: The failed CIA invasion of Cuba. Future URANTIA Brotherhood Legal Advisor and important Teaching Mission (TeaM) channeling supporter, Duane Faw, the commanding officer of a US Marine landing force, is fully armed and ready for combat in the vicinity of Vieques, a Puerto Rican island used for USMC assault landing training, US Naval bombing practice, etc. Here also the expatriate Cuban frogmen were trained by the CIA for their part in the invasion. Ostensibly Faw's unit was merely rotated by turn into the area in line with standard training procedures, but the operation may have been orchestrated to have his backup available. Even Faw admits that his unit might have been called into action, but this option was abruptly canceled when President Kennedy at the last minute issued orders forbidding all direct US military involvement in the CIA operation.
[NOTE: The suspicion here is that Faw, following the Ribbon Creek incident, represented a known and proven quality who would not balk – as an unproven quality might – at carrying out CIA orders if and when they came. A further supposition is that such a known quality might be persuaded to infiltrate a cult to provide intelligence/security agency support as perhaps a misconceived patriotic duty and for an extra retirement income. (See, 1956, 1965 and 1983 October 6)]
1962 – Helen Schucman and William Thetford co-author a paper on "The personality theory of John Gittinger" (See, http://www.pasf.org/print_bibliog.htm, hereinafter "PAS BIBLIOG"). This was published by the Human Ecology Fund, which has been identified by John Marks as being a MKULTRA front.
[NOTE 1: John W. Gittinger (SEARCH, see http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm Chap. 10) was the primary personality assessor for MKULTRA. He pioneered scientific methods to enable him to identify the most susceptible types of personalities for Dr. Gottlieb's nefarious, amoral, and often harmful U.S. government- sponsored exploitations of innocent human beings, including children (see, MKULTRA Subprojects 102,103, and 117: http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml) Gittinger's MKULTRA research eventually surfaced as his "Personality Assessment System" (PAS), which also both has been studied and used by legitimate scientists for non-exploitive purposes.]
– (Sept.) Helen Schucman and David R. Saunders co-author a paper relating to Gittinger's PAS (see, PAS BIBLIOG).
[NOTE 2: David R. Saunders is mentioned in Chapter 10 of John Marks' book as having carried out secret personality profiling investigations for MKULTRA.]
– (Sept.) Helen Schucman, William Thetford, and David R. Saunders co- author a paper relating to Gittinger's PAS (see, Gittinger Bibliography of References: http:www.pasf.org/print_bibliog.htm. Hereinafter "PAS BIBLIOG").
[NOTE 3: Besides Thetford and Saunders, another of Helen Schucman's Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons Psychology Department "colleagues" around this time was Herbert Spiegel, a recognized expert in hypnotism and brainwashing (see, 1952), who was then teaching courses in hypnosis. During – by his own estimation – "maybe the mid sixties", Spiegal was also associated with the case of "Sybil", a Multiple Personality Disorder victim. Because "Sybil" was so easily hypnotized he was using the woman for demonstration purposes in his classes. Spiegel since that time aligns himself on the "disinformationist" side of the False Memory Syndrome (FMF) controversy, (see, http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/spiegel.html), as also apparently does the University of Kansas Psychology Department (see, 1960-1962 (circa) NOTE 2), where the URANTIA movement's "WW III" channeler, Vern Grimsley, had been employed.]
[NOTE 4: Schucman appears to be like a mouse caught on a glue trap surrounded by cats. Two of her "colleagues" (one a dear friend) have or will have direct, secret connections to the CIA's mind-control program, MKULTRA. A third "colleague" is an expert hypnotist and brainwasher who is perfectly capable of making unwitting subjects see and hear whatever he wishes. Likely her psychological weaknesses were pinpointed and categorized by Gittinger's PAS, and probably she had been hired for the very reason that she fit the profile of a "hypno-patsy" or a "manchurian channeler". When the backgrounds of her "colleagues" are brought into scrutiny, what took place between 1965 and 1972 at the Columbia University college of Physicians and Surgeons Psychology Department in the so-called "scribing" of A Course In Miracles is so blatent as to almost be overt! Even Eileen Caddy, surrounded as she was by ex-British Intelligence personnel comes in a poor second to Schucman! ]
– Led by Eileen Caddy's "voice", Findhorn is begun in an old house trailer pulled up near the beach on a bleak section of the northern Scottish coast adjacent to Kingloss Royal Air Force Base. Eileen's husband, Peter Caddy, is a former RAF officer and recently the husband of Sheena Govan, who worked for British Intelligence during WW II. The Caddys are accompanied by Dorothy Maclean, who was formerly employed by British Intelligence under Govans' supervision (see, 1940s). Later Govan became something of a recognized spiritual teacher and cult leader with ex-underling Maclean and husband Caddy as, at least, two of her "disciples". She apparently continued to direct Caddy after he had left her bed for that of Eileen's, and she played a direct role in Eileen's earlier "brainwashings" (see, 1956).
[NOTE 5: Author Paul Hawken, who later visited Findhorn, will write in The Magic of Findhorn, about the "thick, vibrant energies" felt in the house trailers and gardens. "Whatever it is, it seems to be the physical stuff of the place. If you walk across the road to the bay, it is not quite there. . . the intense energy field is lacking. Everybody here talked about it, knew about it, referred to it as 'the energies'. It was a 'buzz' which was more felt than heard" (see also, 1979, Ken Cory). No one seems to have thought to ask whether or not the Kingloss RAF Base next door might have been somehow responsible, even though on the base immediately adjacent to Findhorn was a posted secret, fenced-off area protected by guard dogs.]
– Publication of La Cosmogonie D’Urantia, a French translation of The URANTIA Book by Jacques Weiss. (See, 1942-1944 and 1980) – Martin Myers and Richard Keeler drive to Chicago to meet Dr. Sadler and Christy.
1964 – Vern Grimsley begins his URANTIA Book teaching based radio broadcasts on KFAX in San Francisco. He agrees with the URANTIA Foundation that he will not mention the book by name on the air.
1965 – (June - October) Helen Schucman experiences "a dramatic progression of waking dreams . . . culminating with her experiencing a Voice which speaks clearly in her mind. The Voice, which Helen references with a capital "V", explains to her the visions she has been receiving" (ref., http://www.whitmorelaw.com/time_line.htm).
– Sir George Trevelyan, in England, gathers together "all of the New Age groups under one roof for the first time," with Air Marshall Sir Victor Goddard former chief of British Air Intelligence -- in attendance. Peter Caddy, who was uninvited, "gate crashes" this event to announce the beginning of Findhorn (The Magic of Findhorn).
– Future URANTIA Brotherhood Legal Advisor and important Teaching Mission (TeaM) channeling supporter, Duane Faw, and his combat ready Marine landing force, lay in wait just over the Caribbean horizon from the Dominican Republic. If called by the CIA officers directing the invasion, they are to go ashore to seize and hold the government. The situation, however, developed in such a way that they are not needed. (See, 1956, 1961 and 1983 October 6)
[NOTE: Again, this is an illustration of the high degree of trust placed in Faw by the intelligence/security community.]
1965-1968 – Helen Schucman, with William Thetford's support, "scribes" ("channels" into written form, purportedly directly from Jesus) "A Course In Miracles" (ACIM).
1967 – Family of God Foundation (FOG) established by Vern Grimsley in California.
1968 – MKULTRA's Gittinger and Saunders co-author an article or paper relating to Gittinger's PAS (see, PAS BIBLIOG).
– Martin Myers moves into in the Chicago URANTIA Foundation and Brotherhood headquarters to live there with Dr. Sadler and Christy (whom the Sadlers had "adopted").
– In the beginning many hippies were drawn to Findhorn, who likely could be expected to be familiar with psychotropic drug effects, but around this year, according to Paul Hawken, Peter Caddy began to "verbally thrash" them for "the slightest deviation from the rigid order and structure of the community". Most left. Only those who, as Hawken paraphrases Timothy Leary, "gave up, gave in, and submitted" to the "thick overlay of authority" stayed behind.
[NOTE: Most, if not all, of strange experiences described by Hawken during his own stay – which Findhorners ascribed to spiritual causes – are similar (actually appear to be identical) to the effects of a variety psychotropic drugs (including marijuana and MDA, or "love drug"). This same similarity is also apparent in the earlier purported religious experiences of selected Findhorners, such as Robert O. ("Roc") Crombie, who had several LSD-type experiences which he believed included a genuine visitation by the "horned god Pan". Caddy and others supported this illusion as being reality. At least 25 MKULTRA Subprojects concern drugs or botanicals]
1969-1970 – Recent Yale graduate and future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, is employed and trained by the National Security Agency (NSA), then and possibly still America's most secret spy shop.
– The CIA accomplishes brain-computer link-up. The process unscrambles an individual’s brainwaves, deciphers and records them, and injects them into another subject. (http://www.trufax.org/welcomemsie.html: Hereinafter "LEADING EDGE")
[NOTE: The labels "brainwashing victims" and "Manchurian candidates" will evolve through "hypno-patsies" to, currently, mental or emotional "clones". The development of this particular technology during the past three decades may account for this change. It is believed that secret technology also presently allows for direct wireless access to an unwitting subject's visual cortex both for inputting and downloading of realtime awake and dreaming field of vision data. The idea that other areas of the brain can be equally accessed should not be dismissed.]
1969-1971 – Helen Schucman, with William Thetford's support, "scribes" ("channels" into written form, purportedly directly from Jesus) the ACIM "Workbook"
1970 – Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, NSA-trained Neal Waldrop enters the U.S. Navy, attends Officer Candidate School.
[NOTE: Phillip Agee described his own experience in becoming a CIA officer with a military cover. After being inducted into the agency, he was hired as a civilian by an "Air Force cover unit". A few weeks later he enlisted in the Air Force. "While in the Air Force," he wrote, "I will be treated like any other enlisted man. . . . Keeping the secret will be a part of my training -- learning to live my cover." (INSIDE)]
– Rand Corporation publishes a report entitled, "A Direct Mechanism for the Direct Influence of Microwave Radiation on Neuroelectric Function", by R.J. MacGregor. He "notes that power densities of close to 1000,000mw/cm2 can produce auditory hallucinations in a field that would be averaged as low intensity and non-thermal." (LEADING EDGE)
1971 – Harry McMullan makes initial contact for Vern Grimsley’s Family of God Foundation (FOG) with Radio Free Europe (RFE) while in New York. RFE at this time is a "proprietary arm of the CIA" (Mark Lane). Congress will later force the CIA's disassociation from RFE.
– One month after this possible CIA involvement began, Vern Grimsley visits Bert Kaplan (see, 1960-1962), who was by then teaching at a college in California.
-- The CIA's Radio Free Europe dispatches a questionnaire to be filled out by all FOG members. Later RFE produces and airs a half-hour documentary about Vern and FOG ostensibly based on the group's answers.
[NOTE 1: It is not impossible that this questionnaire also was to be used for creating Gittinger-style psychological profiles of the members. The FOG Diary describes it as a "list of questions dealing with the religious beliefs, and principal religious doubts, of America's young people, the mission and future plans of the Family of God Foundation, together with a request for background information on 'what led you (VBG) and your associates into this work?'" (quoted in EVALUATION, p. 129). Generic, unanswerable questions about "America's young people" would tend to open a Rorschach-like window into the subconscious mind of the individuals answering them rather than to elicit real facts, which the testees could not be expected to know.]
– The printing plates for The URANTIA Book are destroyed after the second printing by the URANTIA Foundation, thus severing the last physical link between the published work and the original "Papers", and thereby erasing a benchmark for future scholars and translators.
– Eileen Caddy’s "voice" is discontinued. She will remain at Findhorn.
[NOTE 2: Peter Caddy (after divorcing Eileen) will tour the international New Age scene, propounding the "spirit" of Findhorn and group consciousness until he is killed in a car wreck. Dorothy Maclean (ex-British Intelligence), along with a few more Findhorners, will start the Lorian Association in California. Sheena Govan, after having suffered from "cluster headaches" for much of her adult life, has died. It is worth noting in this context that in the early 1960s ultrasonic experiments on 225 Fort Ord soldiers produced brain lesions.
– General Duane Faw retires from the Marine Corps (see, 1961, 1956, 1965 and 1983 October 6).
1971 - 1978 – MKULTRA's David J. Saunders and ACIM's William Thetford together secretly contract to the CIA's MKULTRA to do personality theory research (see, http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml, Subproject: MKULTRA 130).
1972 – Helen Schucman, with William Thetford's support, "channels" ACIM "Manual."
– The U.S. Army publishes a study entitled: "Controlled Offensive Behavior: USSR" which concerns itself with targeting individuals with "mind altering techniques" and "the total submission of one’s will to some outside force." The study involved the use of pulsed microwaves. (LEADING EDGE. See also, 1993) 
Helms1973 – Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Helms order the destruction of most of MKULTRA's records. Many, however, apparently overlooked, will later be found intact, declassified, and subsequently released to John Marks (1,600 pages of documents) and others as a result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
[NOTE: In 1977 John Marks will make a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for ORD files on "behavior research related to bio-electrics, electric or radio stimulation of the brain, electronic destruction of memory, stereotoxic surgery, psychosurgery, hypnotism, parapsychology, radiation, microwaves, and ultrasonics". The CIA reports back as having 130 cubic feet of material expected to contain pertinent documents. Marks regretted that he could not afford to obtain them.]
1974 – "J.F. Schapitz proposes a project, later funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, showing how the spoken word of a hypnotist may be conveyed by modulated electromagnetic energy directly into subconscious parts of the brain. The subject cannot consciously control the information input." A monograph entitled "Psychotronics in Engineering" published by the Joint Publications Research Service in Arlington, VA. repeats Schapitz’s claim, adding that "voices would program the subconscious mind without employing any technical devices for receiving or transcoding the messages ... "[emphasis added] (LEADING EDGE. Also see, 1993).
– An Army Medical and Information Agency document, entitled, "Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation" discusses, among other things, the induction of voices inside the brain by use of signal modulation at very low power densities. (LEADING EDGE)
– The author of "Microwave Auditory Effects and Applications", Dr. James Lin, notes that "the capacity of communicating directly with humans by pulsed microwaves is obviously not limited to the field of therapeutic medicine." (LEADING EDGE)
– Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, becomes a URANTIA Book reader while serving in the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C.. Each of his duty stations have the word "communications 3" in their name.
[NOTE 1: The NSA's primary mission is to monitor and analyze "communications".]
[NOTE 2: Ex-CIA operative, Phillip Agee describes two methods by which the CIA puts agents where they want them. Sometimes they will recruit leaders of groups they want to infiltrate. And the other way of penetrating, he says, is to have an agent join and then work his way up from the bottom. (INSIDE)]
– USMC Brigadier General (Ret.) and Pepperdine University Law Professor, Duane Faw, makes his initial contact with the URANTIA Foundation. He will associate himself with Vern Grimsley's cult-like organization, the Family of God Foundation (FOG), and shortly be given the position of Chairman of the URANTIA Brotherhood's Legal Committee. Faw will become the chief "inner circle" supporter of Teaching Mission channeling and "stillness practice", both of which appear to be contra-indicated in The URANTIA Book! (See, 1099 D, 100:5:8 through 11)
– Paul Snider, for the URANTIA Brotherhood and as its President, signs the Foundation's "Confirmatory Agreement," essentially a lie which denied that the registered trademark "Urantia" had been in general use up to that time, ceding all rights to it (and to the three azure concentric circles) to the Foundation. The Foundation later used this to "disenfranchise" the Brotherhood in 1989. Without this agreement it would have had no grounds to do so.
[NOTE: This "Confirmatory Agreement" was so hypocritical and dishonest that a number of Urantia Brotherhood Societies refused to become signatories to it, so "Licensing Agreement" governing each Society's use was then drawn up and signed by each of them.
The Brotherhood's General Council reported to its membership in 1989 -- just a month and a half before the Foundation "formally terminat[ed] the Confirmatory Licensing Agreement" and evicted the Brotherhood from their shared office space -- that in retrospect there were four "perhaps unintended" (my emphasis) effects to the 1974 signing:
1. "It partially defeated the initial founding effort to separate the work into two automous orgizational entities".
2. "It caused the URANTIA Foundation to believe it had veto power over Brotherhood activities".
3. It "seemed intended to sever the inherent organizational integrity of URANTIA Brotherhood".
4. "It set up an almost inevitable conflict between" the official, organizational use of the name "Urantia" and its "also valid use" as a symbol with spiritual meaning by readers of The URANTIA Book ", Sept. 16-17, 1989).
The split between the two Urantia movement organizations can be seen as having its roots and beginning in this document.]
1975 – A version of Vern Grimsley's radio program is being carried on 874 outlets of Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRN), including 572 onboard Navy ships. Each station is indicated by a destroyer on the FOG map. AFRN is known at times to have loaned its facilities to the CIA. (Mark Lane). Vern's complete program is being heard in all 50 states and in a number of foreign countries, as well. FOG claimed a grand total of "more than 1,000 stations around the world" and "over 100 million listeners", figures which are disputed by Caston.
– (April) Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, is admitted to URANTIA Brotherhood as a member-at-large.
– Carolyn Kendall, a former Forum member (joined in 1951) and Urantia movement leader, believes that the URANTIA Brotherhood was diverted this year from its primary role of fostering serious and systematic study, to marketing The URANTIA Book, the "endless reassessment of its [organizational] purpose," and the "fine tuning of its organization". (Ref., "The Plan for The URANTIA Book Revelation", by Carolyn B. Kendall, April,1996)
[NOTE: I myself see no direct revelence to this issue in this, and Kendall dismisses the idea that it may have been conspiratorial (however, she does not appear to have been considering a governmental conspiracy). I have included it since it shows a general trend. Also, I have yet to learn General Faw's role here, if any, which may alter the entry's significance.]
1976 – Neal Waldrop is sworn in as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State (which is well-known to provide cover for CIA and NSA operatives).
– Emma “Christy” Christensen tells then URANTIA Brotherhood President John Hales that Vern Grimsley is a member of the Reserve Corps of Destiny 3. Many believe that "voices" which she heard told her this.
1977-1979 – Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, co- hosts the Washington, D.C. study group.
1978 – Secret journals purportedly prepared by Dr. Sadler and kept in a locked file cabinet until this year unexplainedly disappeared, as Urantia movement member Barbara Newsom was prepared to testify under oath. [ ref. TENTH CIRCUIT MICHAEL FOUNDATION, INC., a foreign corporation, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. URANTIA FOUNDATION, an Illinois Charitable Trust, Defendant - Third-Party Plaintiff - Appellant, v. HARRY MCMULLAN, III, Third-Party Defendant - Appellee: No. 01-6347 and 01-6348 (D. Ct. No. CIV-00-885-W) (W.D. Okla.):ORDER AND JUDGMENT; II.4B.¶2 ]
– Jonestown mass "suicide". This followed the assassination nearby of Congressman Leo Ryan by followers of Jim Jones. Ryan was at that time investigating what he called "CIA cults". The investigation apparently ceased with the Congressman's death. [NOTE 1: Author, Michael Meiers, will later claim in his exhaustively researched book, Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? A Review of the Evidence, that Jonestown was a field test of mind control drugs on African Americans and Native Americans -- two racial distinctions which made up the majority of Jones’ followers.]
[NOTE 2: Jones is said to have once told a reporter for the Black Panther newspaper that all of his thoughts came from the CIA (Mark Lane).]
1978-1979 – Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, is the chief organizer, master of ceremonies, and a speaker at the First through Third Mid-Atlantic Conferences of Urantia Book readers.
[NOTE: The apparent chronological inconsistency above (three annual events in two years) appears in Waldrop's "URANTIA Brotherhood Background" which he submitted in a cover letter to his, "Do We Live in the Shadow of Nuclear Annihilation?" (see, 1983 November 14).]
1979 – Ken Cory, whose channelings became the book Starseed Transmissions writes that while channeling he hears "a low humming, an energy field" (see, 1974, also, 1962 NOTE 4). The messages he receives, he says, "came first in non-verbal form on waves or pulsations that carried the concise symbolic content of what I term ‘meta-conceptual information’" (quoted in Jon Klimo's book, Channeling) This last appears possibly to be similar or identical to the channeling experience of Helen Schucman and Teaching Mission (TeaM) "transmitter/receivers", whose "voices", while dictating, are described as being just at the audible/sub-audible threshold.
1979-1989
– Soviet Union war in Afghanistan: During this time the Russians reputedly used then-secret equipment employing inaudible transmissions that can convince individuals that they are hearing the voice of God inside their heads (see, 1993, the year knowledge of it surfaced in the media). The possibility that some of this technology fell into the hands of CIA-trained and supplied Afghanistani fighters, such as Osama bin Laden, and into the hands of the CIA itself cannot be discounted. The use of this equipment could explain the seeming mass-production of ("mentally cloned"?) "fanatic" terrorist suicide bombers. The probability that the U.S. intelligence/security community had itself developed similar, parallel technology, as indicated in this timeline primarily by Leading Edge and John Marks references, should neither be confused with this Russian technology nor be quickly dismissed.
1980 – Emma "Christy" Christensen receives an apparently audible "message" from "unseen friends", who are believed to be the same Revelatory Commission of supernal beings who created The URANTIA Book. She reportedly informed several people of this occurrence. Thomas Kendall credits the solution of the "French situation" to the credence given to this message.
[NOTE: The "French situation" concerned the first French language translation of The URANTIA Book, entitled, La Cosmogonie d'Urantia, which was made by Jacques Wiess, (see, 1942-1944 and 1962). Wiess was sued by the URANTIA Foundation in 1974 for copyright violation, and his book went into underground, pirated publication.]
1982 – Emma "Christy" Christensen dies.
– Two months after Christy's death, Neal Waldrop submits to the URANTIA Foundation "a detailed Project Outline for a [Mandarin] Chinese Translation of The URANTIA Book, together with a draft Chinese Translation of the Foreword and Paper 1". (EVALUATION)
[NOTE 1: A URANTIA Book reader reports that sometime around this year Waldrop expressed his anger that the Foundation ignored his translation project. Waldrop also reportedly told that same individual then that some unnamed US intelligence/security agency had previously been involved in the Urantia movement, but that it no longer was at that time. If Waldrop's reference was to CIA (MKULTRA or ORD) activity, it would likely have been disseminated only on a need-to-know basis. The fact that Waldrop was privy to that information hardly closes the door to the idea of subsequent or simultaneous NSA involvement (he could hardly be expected to admit or allude to his own undercover mission, if any -- indeed, those readers who know Waldrop cannot picture him as an intelligence operative, a fact which is necessarily the mark of successful undercover work). If this hearsay is factual (and I have no reason to doubt the reader's veracity) it would appear that the NSA may have won a bureaucratic turf war against the CIA. It might be observed that a revelation such as The URANTIA Book, transmitted by extra-terrestrial, ("alien") supernal beings undoubtedly constitutes "communications". This "communications" aspect places the Urantia movement in a distinctly different category from ACIM, Findhorn, Jim Jones' People's Temple, or David Koresh's Branch Davidians. The Urantia Papers had been received in 1934-1935, several decades before intelligence/security community interest in developing synthetic telepathy began. Therefore it could not have been the product of "synthetic telepathy". It would appear, then, that beginning sometime around 1974-1975 (when NSA-trained future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, became a URANTIA Book reader and was admitted into the URANTIA Brotherhood as a member-at-large), in cultic activity where there are no purported intra-cerebral "communications" other than those likely induced by "synthetic telepathy" – TeaM, ACIM, Jim Jones' People's Temple, and David Koresh's Branch Davidians – the CIA is in charge, but where the prospect of actual "alien" communications exist – the Urantia Papers and UFOs – then the NSA has jurisdiction. How fine this dividing-line is drawn and exactly where it is placed is known only by the intelligence/security community itself.]
[NOTE 2: I would like to point out the absurdity of trying to present the fifth epochal revelation (The Urantia Book) to the Asian world in a translation sponsored by, or in any way connected to, either the U.S. State Department or the NSA! It is bad enough that the first Asian-language translation is in Korean, the nation in the eastern hemisphere in which there is probably the highest concentration of U.S. Intelligence/Security presence, whose own intelligence agency, the KCIA, was started with CIA help and which likely still maintains CIA ties. The U.S. Congress actually found connections between the KCIA and cult activity in the United States (the Sun Myung Moon organization). And one of the present URANTIA Foundation trustees (who reputedly made the translation) happens to be a naturalized American South Korean. Dr. E. Kwan Choi, a Profesor of Economics at Iowa State University, was elected trustee in March, 1997 . None of this may be expected to encourage Asians to accept the revelation. One must wonder if there is a plan to keep the revelation from widespread acceptance in Asia! Kwan is presently (2002) suing the other URANTIA Foundation trustees for alleged organizational, including financial, improprieties.(See also, 1958)] – Six months after Christy’s death, Vern Grimsley, "awoke one morning with a strong feeling that he must buy a new property for his organization, the Family of God (F.O.G.). He developed a picture in his mind of what it should entail and encompass." (EVALUATION).
– The following month, while viewing the vacated St. Anthony's College campus, which was being shown to him by a Realtor, Vern heard an audible "voice" from no apparent source telling him, "This is it!"
– Before the end of the year Vern bought his new "Spiritual Renaissance Institute" at Clayton, California for $4 million. Its was situated four miles from the Concord Naval Weapons Station and partially surrounded by a dozen other strategic installations with varying importance as possible targets, including two Naval shipyards (one for nuclear subs), two military air bases and an international airport, a Naval fuel depot, a Naval supply center, and Livermore Nuclear Research Laboratory -- all at distances from fifteen to twenty eight miles from Vern's soon-to-be purported holocaust survival headquarters (see, 1983 October 6).
– Many Urantia movement people believe Christy's "mantle" as de facto leader of the Urantia movement had been passed to Vern.
[NOTE 3: In 1969 when Dr. William Sadler died, his last words spoke of passing the "torch" to Christy who would then pass it to younger members.]
1983 – Vern Grimsley has "over 100 ‘contacts’". He would emerge from sessions "in a very tired and worn state". Vern said that his messages came, "even when I am asleep" (EVALUATION).
– (October 6) Vern’s "voices" tell him to prepare to survive a nuclear exchange (WW III). They then began to develop survival strategies (including – in answer to a question put directly to them – that if necessary attackers storming F.O.G. fallout shelters could be shot!). Accordingly, Vern surrounded the new compound with chain link fence, and F.O.G. began stockpiling arms. Combat veteran, Brigadier General Duane Faw (USMC Retired), a URANTIA Brotherhood official who would soon become the primary inner circle leadership supporter of TeaM channeling (see, 1985), actually gave advice to FOG on military defense procedures, reportedly including such things as "fields of fire". Faw demurs that he never expected FOG's all-out military response to his suggestions. However, the purported celestials spoke to Vern in words which sound more like those of a Marine Corps General than of the seraphim or midwayers recorded in The URANTIA Book. They told him that "the institute in Clayton is projected to be in the top ten percent of functional, slash, protectable locations given current data" (EVALUATION). Ironically, after surviving the holocaust, Vern was expected to carry on broadcasting the light of truth from his radio transmitter tower on top of nearby Mt. Diablo (Devil Mountain)! This area was once reputedly the home of the Devil, who reputedly made appearances to people in the days before California became a state.
[NOTE 1: While I could find no direct ties between General Faw and the U.S. Intelligence/Security community (beyond his having been assigned as a Matine Corps legal officer to the Judge Advocate General Corps), Faw had the habit of popping up near actual or possible CIA projects (see, 1956, 1961, and 1965).]
-- It was around this point in time that part of the Urantia movement’s inner circle deserted Vern and/or turned against him. The "official", or "organized" Urantia movement would become divided precisely along the pro/con "messages" fault-line. Continuing support of Vern would later be used as the excuse for disenfranchising the URANTIA Brotherhood (see, 1989 October 30), and Thomas Kendall would be suddenly removed both from his position as URANTIA Foundation President and trustee ostensibly because of his support for Vern.
– (November 14) Neal Waldrop submits reasons to the URANTIA Brotherhood why he believes it is impossible that the USA could then be living "In The Shadow of Nuclear Annihilation", thus professionally 5 refuting the message given to Vern by purported celestials. There followed, according to one reader, "a well-neigh general rejection of the ‘messages’ and an overwhelming flow of criticisms" leveled against Vern (ref., Emmanuel DeSurvire, quoted in EVALUATION).
– The week following Waldrop's submission, Vern’s "unseen friends" told Vern, "We won!" – possibly their very last message to him, or the last one about WW III. Vern has remained silent on the issue. It was, at least, the last message he forwarded to any "official" Urantia movement organizations. Rumor has it, however, that Vern is still hearing the "voices" of purported celestials.
– Many FOG members, including Richard Keeler (on Nov. 20), and Harry McMullan (before Oct. 27), abandon Vern's group. FOG (reportedly) eventually will go bankrupt, defaulting on its loan for the Clayton site. Vern's influence as an effective movement leader with a wide following from this point forward is curtailed. Christy's mantle, if Vern had ever indeed worn it, was snatched quickly from his shoulders.
[NOTE 2: It may be speculated that if Vern was an unwitting CIA (MKULTRA/ORD) subject, the withdrawal of its influence from the Urantia movement could have allowed for the "sacrifice" of Vern as a red herring and stepping stone for putting an NSA operative into a leadership position. In any event, the "voices" eliminated the widely acknowledged major contender, the "voices" caused the movement to be divided over the issue of belief in them (see for instance, "Special report to the Readers of The URANTIA Book: URANTIA Foundation Ends Its Relationship With The Former URANTIA Brotherhood", by URANTIA Foundation, April 1990, p. 15 and p. 19-3), and afterwards "NSA Neal" Waldrop was put into the catbird seat (see, 1989).] 1984-1989 – The climate at Foundation headquarters reportedly continues to deteriorate.
1985 (circa) – What will become the first Teaching Mission group (see, 1989) begins as a small channeling group in New Zealand (see, http://www.winged-horse.com/archives/time.htm), where one of the NSA's largest facilities is located.
1986 – Hoite Caston is made a trustee of the URANTIA Foundation.
– First Spanish language translation of The URANTIA Book. It contains serious flaws, and is reputedly distorted in meaning.
1989 – The entire Executive Committee of the URANTIA Brotherhood are signatories to a letter to the Foundation trustees referring to Martin Myers' "questionable and secretive use of 'instructions' or 'mandates' supposedly given [by supernal beings] in confidence to our predecessors" (but see, 1990 Helena Sprague letter).
[NOTE 1: These "mandates" were received over the years as physically materialized writings and each contained an instruction at the bottom that it was to be destroyed by fire no later than the publication date of The URANTIA Book. Reportedly, however, Dr. Sadler and Christy were given permission to retain some beyond that date which were destroyed immediately upon the death of Christy. On the other hand, copies of the "mandates" made by Forum members were reportedly extant after that year. These might constitute a body of "secret communications" worthy of NSA interest.]
– (July through October) Three URANTIA Foundation Trustees and several staff members resign in reaction against Martin Myers’ actions and policies.
[NOTE 2: The question has never been answered whether these trustees and staff members might have been influenced by synthetic telepathy. The fact is that at least one 533 Diversey Parkway, Foundation/Brotherhood part-time office worker reports having herself heard "voices" in her head which she continues to the day of this writing to believe were genuinely supernal in origin. These, she says, supported Vern Grimsley's "messages" and directed her into performing certain undisclosed activities which she describes as being seemingly mundane, but which she maintains nevertheless were purported to her as being necessary to help ward off the nuclear holocaust (WW III). She alludes to having knowledge of others like herself who heard similar "voices", and there were also rumors of "voices" being heard in that same time-frame in Hawaii by URANTIA Book readers there. (Also see, 1990 "Helena Sprague" letter)]
– The new URANTIA Foundation Board of Trustees at this time consists of three of Vern Grimsley's college fraternity brothers: Foundation President Martin Myers, Hoite Caston and Richard Keeler (as of July). Also on the board are Patricia Sadler Mundelius (who, of course, bears the honored Sadler name), and Neal Waldrop (as of August), a Foreign Service Officer with a NSA background..
– (October 1) Martin Myers quits his upper managerial bank job and assumes full-time URANTIA Foundation Executive Directorship.
– (October 30) URANTIA Foundation Trustees formally disenfranchise the URANTIA Brotherhood and evict it from their shared headquarters at 533 Diversey Parkway, Chicago. (See, 1983)
– A New Zealand channeling group (four members) is introduced to The URANTIA Book by a channeled purported celestial named, "Abraham", self- identified as being the same Abraham who is the Biblical "father of the Jewish race". This is the beginning of TeaM as such. After this, members of the group reportedly took TeaM to URANTIA Book-oriented internet listserves, newsgroups, and web- forums – as well as to URANTIA Book study groups – where they carried on a process of recruitment. The goal, according to one purported celestial, was to create at least one or two channelers in every study group. (See also, 1985)
1990 – Then-recently-resigned, former URANTIA Foundation Trustee Helena Sprague writes that "Martin [Myers] has been heard, with several present, to bestow approval of the midwayers on one individual and to tell another, 'The midwayers are not pleased with you . . . you are in league with Lucifer.'" This leaves one with the distinct impression that Myers also may have heard "voices" and believed himself to have been in direct contact with purported celestials. It is therefore possible that his guidance was not limited to extant copies of previously materialized "mandates" or "instructions" (see, 1989 "Executive Committee" letter).
[NOTE: Many accused Myers of having a "chosen person" attitude. Speculatively something of the sort might be expected to have developed if intra-cerebral voices, claiming to be midwayers, had told Myers that Christy's "torch" or "mantel" of Urantia movement leadership had been passed to him instead of to Vern Grimsley. (See, 1982 NOTE 3)]
– Elizabeth Y. Fitzhugh's ad appears in some New Age newspapers promoting her channeling of a purported entity named "ORION" (she uses the upper case -- this is the same name as what is believed to be a MKULTRA, ORD, or U.S. Naval Intelligence program which includes, among other things, "electronic brain invasion" (see, 1958). One of the ad's two favorable blurbs says:
"I found . . . that I could listen to the ORION spokesperson as though I were listening to music or observing a natural scene. . . . I became totally absorbed by the utter beauty of the voice and the language."
It is signed, "S.G., Boston, VA". The only listing in the telephone directory for the Boston area in 1990 conforming to those initials is Sidney Gottlieb, known to be the then retired former director of MKULTRA. Boston is a small, U.S. postal rural delivery area connected to a combination post office and general store. Gottlieb's retirement location there is well documented.
1991 – A URANTIA Book study group member in Woods Cross, Utah begins channeling a purported celestial named "Ham". This becomes the second TeaM group, and the first to appear in the United States. For a number of years thereafter the procedure for a study group to obtain a "teacher" to channel was that they must first telephone their request to the Woods Cross channeler, who would forward it on to the purported celestial during a "contact". It is now presumably just as possible for the massive email and telephone monitoring programs currently being run by NSA and its data-sharing partner nations to flag any interest voiced in these communications mediums by persons desiring "personal" or group "teachers" ("purported celestials" who are believed to communicate intra-intellect) as it is for them to flag the words "cocaine" or "bomb". It should be noted that not all who desire these "teachers" get them.
[NOTE 1: Although I have found no direct connection between the Woods Cross group and either the CIA or the NSA, Utah is the center of Mormonism, and Mormons have long been especially sought out for recruitment into the U.S. Intelligence/Security community. It may be speculated that widespread support for secret intelligence projects might be found within that state.]
[NOTE 2: TeaM has not to this date subjected itself to any testing procedures such as those to which Dr. Sadler subjected the physically materialized text (as well as the channeling-like activities which preceded it). Neither has TeaM so far attempted to correlate the reception of intra-cerebral "teachers" to previous open expressions of a desire for the same on electronic communications media. If TeaM wants to behave responsibly and to find anything approaching mainstream acceptance in the Urantia Book reader community, it needs to rule out synthetic telepathy as well as ordinary psychological delusion as providing the platform for its purported celestial "teachers". Also the finding of MKULTRA fingerprints all over "A Course In Miracles" demands that its antecedents be thoroughly investigated as well!] 1991-1992 – A manuscript copy of this writer's, "URANTIAGATE: The Conspiracy Theory", consisting of much that appears here, is mailed to the URANTIA Foundation at its headquarters office, to each individual Foundation Trustee, and to other movement leaders.
1992 – Martin Myers is dismissed as a URANTIA Foundation Trustee. He will be successfully sued to relinquish his position as President.
– Neal Waldrop resigns as Trustee, and is reportedly transferred by the U.S. State Department to Australia and New Zealand.
1993 – Revised Spanish language translation is published. It has flaws of its own and continues many of the 1986 version's problems.
– U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms officers and David Koresh's Branch Davidians exchange gunfire at the Davidian compound outside of Waco, Texas. This precipitates a 51-day FBI siege which ends in a conflagration that gutted the building which the cult was defending and left Koresh, who followed a "voice" which he believed to be that of "God", and 82 of his followers, including children, dead. Autopsies revealed that a number of the adult male victims did not die by flames but had received twin fatal gunshot wounds in their heads which had been administered by a person or persons unknown during the fire.
[NOTE1: For what it is worth, convicted Watergate burglary conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, maintained on his syndicated radio talk-show that the FBI hostage rescue teams, such as besieged the Branch Davidians, cross-train with Navy Seals (Liddy is an ex-FBI Special Agent and one of Liddy's sons is a Seal Officer). The Seals, the elder Liddy maintained, are taught a method of execution called "double popping", which consists of two shots fired in rapid succession into the head of the victim. The Seals are also known to cover their tracks by fire.]
[NOTE2: Interestingly, but perhaps coincidentally, Koresh's presumed direct communication with "God" ceased immediately following the initial BATF shootout. It was not restored until after two separate individuals, days apart, crossed FBI lines surrounding the compound and entered the besieged Davidian headquarters. One must wonder if some hidden transmitting equipment had been accidentally knocked out and required repair or replacement. Both people left the compound before the fire.]
1994 – Mind control technology, called "acoustic psycho-correction", capable of producing intra-cerebral "voices" at the time of the Waco siege surfaces in the media:
"The FBI consulted Moscow experts on the possible use of a Soviet technique for beaming subliminal messages to Koresh. The technique uses inaudible transmissions that could have convinced Koresh he was hearing the voice of God inside his head." (Newsweek, Feb. 7, 1994 – emphasis added. See also, 1972, 1974)
[NOTE: Although the Russian device was not used on David Koresh, American Rifle Association President and movie actor, Charlton Heston, had been considered for the "voice" role. If similar technology was already being used on Koresh and others it would have been a closely guarded secret, even possibly from the FBI itself! The Russian-developed equipment is presently being manufactured in the USA for commercial sales. The University of Kansas, where Vern Grimsley was employed in its Psychology Department (see, 1960-1962), was the only reported organization that I found which held a symposium on the device and its technology (at its Medical College). The device reputedly was originally designed to be used as an electro-psycho-therapeutic technique (see, 1951), but was reportedly used by Russians during their war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) to free (cure?) the minds of their own troops from their moral inhibitions against, as well as from guilt resulting from, the atrocities which they were expected to commit there. The CIA, of course, had trained and supplied Osama bin Laden and others to fight against the Soviets, and it is a possibility, if not a likelihood, that some of this equipment fell into both bin Laden's and the CIA's hands then.]
"For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." (Ecclesiastes 12:14)
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[EDITORIAL NOTE: Due to technical difficulties with a word processing program a very small number of the above dates may be slightly off. All are believed at this time to have been found and corrected, however.]
FOOTNOTES
1. Adjuster, or Thought Adjuster: "If the finite mind of man is unable to comprehend how so great and so majestic a God as the Universal Father can descend from his eternal abode in infinite perfection to fraternize with the individual human creature, then must such a finite intellect rest assurance of divine fellowship upon the truth of the fact that an actual fragment of the living God resides within the intellect of every normal-minded and morally conscious Urantia [Earth] mortal. The indwelling Thought Adjusters are part of the eternal Deity of the Paradise Father. Man does not have to go farther than his own inner experience of the soul's contemplation of this spiritual-reality presence to find God and attempt communion with him." (62 B, 5:0:1)
2. Manchurian Candidate: Strictly speaking, a person who has been programmed unwittingly with the use of drugs, (Chinese technique) brainwashing, and hypnosis to be an assassin. Ably performed by Laurence Harvey in John Frankenheimer’s film, The Manchurian Candidate, also starring Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury (1962). Also see: John Marks' The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: online at: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm, which details the CIA's MKULTRA program's attempt to create such an "asset". I have coined the term, "Manchurian Channeler" to apply to situations such as appear in this "synthetic telepathy" timeline.
3. Neal Waldrop's duty stations:
1. 1971-1972, U.S. Naval Communications Station, Sidi Yahia du Rharb, Morocco.
2. 1972-1975, Office of the Director, Communications Security Material System, Washington, D.C.
4. Reserve Corps of Destiny: "Consists of living men and women who have been admitted to the special service of the superhuman administration of world affairs.
. . .
"Mortals of the realm are chosen for service in the reserve corps of destiny on the inhabited worlds because of:
1. Special capacity for being secretly rehearsed for numerous possible emergency missions in the conduct of various world affairs.
2. Wholehearted dedication to some special social, economic, political, spiritual, or other cause, coupled with a willingness to serve without human recognition and rewards.
3. The Possession of a Thought Adjuster of extraordinary versatility and probable pre-Urantia experience with coping with planetary difficulties and contending with world emergency situations." (1257 A-C, 114:7:1,3)
5. Neal Waldrop's Professional Background: His list in his cover letter to the URANTIA Brotherhood includes, besides those career positions mentioned earlier in this timeline: Foreign Service assignments to the Multilateral Affairs Bureau, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; U.S. Delegation to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament; the Political-Military Affairs Course at the Foreign Service Institute; U.S. Delegation to the Seabed Arms Control Treaty Review Conference; and Political Section of the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong.
His letter states: "Within our country's national security and foreign policy communities, intricate issues like these [i.e., nuclear attack and/or annihilation] are under constant discussion and review." (EVALUATION, Appendix)
Reference urls
1. LEADING EDGE: http://www.trufax.org/welcomemsie.html
2. SEARCH: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm
3. PAS BIBLIOG: http:www.pasf.org/print_bibliog.htm
4. MKULTRA Subprojects: http:/www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/ciaprop1.htm l
5. Intelligence/Security Connections: http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml
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http://withchrist.org/urantia.htm
Introduction
The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, Urantia Fellowship, and the Urantia three concentric circle symbol above (Banner of Michael) represent a modern-day Arian/Gnostic cult. The group began in Chicago during the early 1930's among high-ranking members of the heretical Seventh Day Adventist1 sect. The cult gained increasing popularity during the hallucinogenic 1960s and 70s, as the interrelationships between drugs, the occult, metaphysics, and the New Age movement were being forged. Urantia is one of many New Age religious efforts to create spirituality within the context of the philosophic naturalism and modernism that pervades Western culture.2
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The Urantia Book (a.k.a. The Urantia Papers, "God's Bible", the Revelation), consisting of 2,097 six by eleven inch pages, was complied in 1934-35 and first copyrighted in 1955. It is a collection of 196 apocryphal "papers" (i.e. so-called revelations) said to be communicated by various "authors"--i.e. spirit beings who names are listed in the papers. The book's theme consists of highly detailed, mythology-like descriptions of (our) universe, surrounding universes, numerous extraterrestrial spirit beings which are said to inhabit these universes, the spiritual evolutionary history of planet earth (Urantia), and the life and teaching of a "Jesus", also called "Christ Michael", a "Creator Son". The Urantia Foundation has provided multiple copies of the cultic Urantia Book to libraries across the United States.
As part of the larger "Urantia Brotherhood", small groups of followers...Societies... hold regular, sometimes clandestine meetings "to study the book and ... pledge themselves to disseminate its teachings." These groups are found throughout the United States with large concentrations in AZ, CA, CO, FL, IL, OR, TX, and WA. Larger societies can typically be found in cities and towns which draw above-average numbers of New Age followers, e.g., San Francisco, CA; Boulder, CO; Sedona, AZ, etc.
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http://logosresourcepages.org/urantia1.html
The Urantia Book
A Brief Description and its Secret Author Discovered by Eric Pement
CORNERSTONE magazine, vol. 20, issue 97, pp. 19, 23.
... Ironically, it was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and physician who was ultimately responsible for the publication of the Urantia papers. Dr. William S. Sadler, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Chicago and teacher of pastoral counseling at McCormick Theological Seminary, had spent over a decade debunking and refuting spiritualism, even assisting magician Harry Houdini in this task. His better-known works on this subject include THE TRUTH ABOUT SPIRITUALISM (1923) and THE MIND AT MISCHIEF: TRICKS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND (1929). However, researcher Steve Cannon tells about something that eventually turned Sadler around:
In the appendix of THE MIND AT MISCHIEF Sadler recounts a story of one investigation into the psychic realm that he could not debunk. From the summer of 1911 until the time of his writing in 1929 he had a subject under observation who would go into a deep sleep out of which he could not be awakened. Sadler wrote: "This man is utterly unconscious, wholly oblivious to what takes place, and, unless told about it subsequently, never knows that he has been used as a sort of clearing house for the coming and going of alleged extra-planetary personalities" (MIND, 383). Of the communications themselves, "I can only say that I have found in these years of observation that all the information imparted through this source has proved to be consistent within itself. . . . Its philosophy is consistent. It is essentially Christian and is, on the whole, entirely harmonious with the known scientific facts and truths of this age" (MIND, 384). Sadler wanted to say more on the subject, but the person under investigation would not give his permission to do so.1
W.K. Kellogg
Beginning in 1923, Dr. Sadler invited a group of friends, informally known as The Forum, to examine these intelligences, which were now rapidly becoming more numerous. While the channeler slept, the spirits freely answered questions in a manner not unlike that of Edgar Cayce, the famed "sleeping prophet." Sadler and his cohorts compiled 4000 questions they wanted the spirits to answer. A few weeks later, the channeler handed Dr. Sadler a sheaf of 472 pages, answering every question which had been put to him/them. The channeler's wife told Sadler that the material had been written in a single evening. By 1935, the last of the messages was delivered, and the entities asked Dr. Sadler, by now a true believer and an ex-Adventist, that the work be published.2 Twenty years later THE URANTIA BOOK appeared in print. The identity of the channeler was kept secret for many years by the Urantia Foundation. In fact, the board of directors took a pledge of secrecy not to reveal the human author or its means of transmission. However, in 1991 Martin Gardner identified the channeler as WILFRED CUSTER KELLOGG, son of Rev. Charles Leonidis Sobeski Kellogg, a Seventh-day Adventist minister from Vermont. Wilfred was a shirttail relative of W. K. KELLOGG, founder of the Kellogg's Cornflake Company, and also happened to be William Sadler's brother-in-law (the men had married two sisters).
Wilfred moved to Illinois when he married, and he and his wife lived for a time with Dr. and Mrs. Sadler. He was one of the founding members of the Urantia Foundation, and his home was half a block from the present headquarters of the Foundation in Chicago. He died in 1956.
The Adventist background of both Kellogg and Sadler does explain a few things. For example, it's a point of Adventist doctrine that Jesus is really Michael the Archangel.3 Martin Gardner pointed out some other interesting parallels with Adventism, notably how the name of an Adventist friend of Kellogg, G. W. AMADON, appears as an important figure of the Urantia papers. Gardner's articles were published in the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, Spring 1991, with significant corrections in the Fall 1991 issue. The Urantia Foundation officially has "no comment" on this matter.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
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Minaret Gorge near Mammath Mtn. (photos by Alex Constantine – CLICK to Enlarge)
Thursday, December 21, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 34: A World of Illusion (conclusion) – The Fellowship of Extraordinary Nazi Theocrats
BY ALEX CONSTANTINE
The Seed, planted by the DuPont-Sembler-Latvala School of behavior modification, grew into a family tree of incarnations following the discreditation and closure of Straight, Inc., including Pathway Family Center, the Drug Free America Foundation, Operation Par and finally the WestCare Foundation. These organizations operated under the rubric of the Therapeutic Communities of America (TCA), chaired by WestCare's Richard Steinberg (who missed Flight 5191 and lived to attend Andrews' wake).
WestCare is a faith-based reorganization of The Seed, Straight, Inc. and their scandal-ridden successors.
At the WestCare Foundation in Florida, where Arnold Andrews worked, you find:
• Virginia Rowell, a WestCare director, manager of Social Services in St. Petersburg. At the July 12, 2005 Board of County Commissioners meeting, Ms. Rowell was nominated to the Social Action Funding Committee by Pinellas County Commissioner SUSAN LATVALA (the Semblers' right-hand woman and Operation Par director), and the motion was approved by the board.252 Rowell is a member of the Defense Department's Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, director of the Pinellas Board County License Board for Childrens' Centers and the local Homeless Policy Group.253
Susan Latvala
• Chief Clinical Officer Robert L. Neri was, like the late Arnold Andrews, an executive vice president at Operation Par. Neri has over 20 years of experience in the health care field, and has been responsible for the design and oversight of nonprofit substance abuse treatment providers in West Central Florida. Neri is past chairman of the "Standards and Ethics Committee" for TCA, and has been a registered evaluator of the Counseling and Credentialing Board of TCA since 1978. He has been a member of the
Certification Board for Addiction Professionals of Florida since 1989. Neri has provided expert testimony to a U.S. Senate subcommittee on drug abuse and is a training consultant for the Florida Department of Corrections.254
• Tom Sledd sits on the Florida board of directors at WestCare. His son, Lance Cpl. Antonio "Tony" Sledd Figueroa, Jr., Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, was murdered "by al Qaeda" in 
Kuwait, according to "well-informed sources" (a charge denied by the Kuwaiti government, which made arrests after the slayings) in October 2002: "Sledd was fatally shot by two al-Qaeda-trained Kuwaiti gunmen Tuesday during an urban assault training exercise on heavily-guarded Failaka Island, ten miles east of Kuwait City in the Persian Gulf. A second Marine was wounded. ... 'He was determined to be a Marine when he graduated' in 2000 with his twin brother, Mike, said their aunt, Iris Figueroa. Tony Sledd joined the Marine Corps two years ago, and Mike followed at his brother's urging a year later. Figueroa, who teaches at Gaither ... spoke for them after Sledd's father told her 'his son doesn't only belong to the family, but he belongs to the country, the country he loved so much.' A small U.S. flag fluttered on the mailbox. ..."255 On December 17, Lebanon's Daily Star reported that the Kuwaiti court rejected the al Qaeda claim, noting that the testimony had been "extracted under torture."256 Sledd is co-founder, with Dr. Jean LaCour, of Bush's Access to Recovery voucher program (favored by Charles Currie at SAMHSA under H&HS Secretary Tommy Thompson; part 32), of the NET Training Institute.257 According to its web site, "NET Training Institute provides training in counseling, addiction, prevention and recovery support ministry using sound curriculum that is both faith-based and knowledge-based."258
• Askia Muhammad Aquil – "He came into this world Otha Favors," the Tampa Tribune reports, named for his father. "From the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, they called him a black militant, a drug kingpin, an agitator. He founded the Black Youth for Peace and Power, organized boycotts, protested police harassment." The FBI watched him, "local police arrested him, although he never was convicted." The St. Petersburg activist "doesn't deny his colorful past, but he says it has little to do with the man he is today." In 1976, "he cast aside his Christian upbringing and embraced Islam. Three years later, Otha Favors was gone forever when he adopted the Muslim name."259 Aquil is the executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) in St. Petersburg – a faith-based group that has received generous funding from Governor Jeb Bush – much of it misappropriated – while other social service groups in Florida languish with starvation-level funding, according to the St. Petersburg Times.260
Exactly how much misery have the CIA-Republicans - plus some of the wealthiest and most powerful Democrats - behind a commuter jet crash in eastern Kentucky inflicted on the world?
Gary Webb
There have been untold casualties. Some are known ... "GARY WEBB WAS INVESTIGATING ACS [Affiliated Computer Services, the core of the Guantanamo torture scandal, employer of Comair casualty Fenton Dawson – cf. parts 1-5] and contract fraud in CA when he committed suicide on Dec. 10," Internet journalist Wayne Madsen wrote in a December 2004 e-mail to the Daily Kos web site.261
There is particle-physics momentum to the corruption that began with Caroline Hunt's ES&S ...
Madsen: "The more the Bushes fire additional government insiders, the more stuff is leaked to me about this election fraud. This smoking gun is...the election voting machine companies (all run by extreme right-wing [Dominionist], 'End Timers') conspired with the homeland security and other database firms – all conveniently located in FL, OH, and TX – to rig the vote.... Not only this last election but several previous ones were 'fixed' by a dangerous group of right-wing [Dominionists] who dominate the election machine industry and various GOP Secretary of State and congressional offices. They (known as 'The Fellowship') have been planning this coup for a very long time but now that their 'man' is in the White House they are not about to leave through a fair electoral process."
That electoral corruption has led directly to mass "faith-based" infiltration of the national social services apparat by the CIA DuPont-Sembler mind control spin-offs, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the WestCare Foundation, and a host other unsavories – all feeding at the public ecumenical- and corporate-welfare trough.
Steve McElravy, the Ananda Marga devotee, hired into the Bush administration under the faith-based initiative at Health & Human Services. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been instrumental in shaping anti-tobacco policy at H&HS.262 And the Foundation's interests are far from altruistic, as the "smoking rights" Clearing the Air web site notes: "ALZA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson [have] developed products have provided therapy for millions of patients throughout the world ... including transdermal (D-TRANS), which has found applications in many widely used pharmaceutical products, such as NicoDerm CQ (nicotine) via site-specific targeting."
J & J bought up Alza in 2001. "RWJF financial holdings include but not limited to 80,499,208 and 86,853,208 shares of Johnson & Johnson Common Stock in 2003 and 2002, respectively. This information is found on page eight of 2004 financials for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. At today's Johnson & Johnson price per share 67.36, that's just a shade over $5.4 billion dollars. ... Since the 1998 election cycle, employees of the pharmaceutical and health product industry, their family members and industry political action committees have given $133 million in campaign contributions to candidates running for federal and state offices."
The financial manipulation is epitomized by a handsome $160,000.00 grant from Nicoderm to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.264
Under the banner of a subsidiary, McNeil Consumer Products, Johnson & Johnson markets the Nicotrol nicotine patch and nicotine inhaler. RWJF, J&J's controlling sharehold, began the massive funding of tobacco control in the U.S. in 1991 – the same year the FDA granted approval to the nicotine patch.265
Oddly enough, all of this recalls the weirdly-uncharacteristic Nazi anti-smoking campaign. George Davey Smith, a professor at the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, writes: "It may seem paradoxical that the robust identification of one of the most important environmental causes of disease of the 20th century occurred in a totalitarian state. The first case-control study of smoking and lung cancer originated in Nazi Germany in 1939 and found that heavy smoking was strongly related to the risk of lung cancer. Such research occurred against a backdrop of considerable official concern in Germany on the health damaging effects of smoking. Dr Leonard Conti, the Reich health führer, established the Bureau against the Dangers of Alcohol and Tobacco in 1939. In 1942, the Institute for the Struggle against the Dangers of Tobacco was established at the University of Jena, where a second case-control study of smoking and lung cancer was carried out.2 This was a convincing investigation in which the authors showed a sophisticated understanding of the potential biases that could distort epidemiological findings. The institute from which this study was run was supported by 100 000 reichsmark of Adolf Hitler's personal finances. ...
"The Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls disseminated antismoking propaganda, and in 1939 Hermann Göring issued a decree forbidding the military from smoking on the streets and during marches or brief off-duty periods. In 1942 the Federation of German Women launched a campaign against tobacco and alcohol misuse. Such campaigns were backed by legislation, and smoking was banned for both pupils and teachers in many schools. From July 1943, tobacco use was outlawed in public places for anyone aged less than 18 years. It was considered criminal negligence if drivers were involved in crashes while smoking. In 1944, smoking was banned on trains and buses in cities. It was also prohibited in many workplaces, public buildings, hospitals, and rest homes. The advertising of smoking products was strictly controlled, and there was discussion on whether people with smoking related illnesses should receive medical care equal to that of patients with illnesses not seen to be self inflicted. ...
"Adolf Hitler was the star performer in antismoking propaganda. As one magazine stated, 'Brother national socialist, do you know that your Führer is against smoking and thinks that every German is responsible to the whole people for all his deeds and missions, and does not have the right to damage his body with drugs?' ... Promoting these lifestyles fitted in with the racial hygiene movement but also covered up the fact that health in Nazi Germany deteriorated."266
So it was that two of the deceased in Kentucky, Steve McElravy and Arnold Andrews, social service careerists with everything in common, were used to promote "hidden agendas." McElravy was a bohemian, Andrews a Cuban – both were expendable in a system run by rich thugs to whom eugenics (population 
control, genocide) constitute acceptable national policy. It is safe to assume that both knew enough to hurt their superiors should the incoming Democratic legislature in DC begin to ask questions about Bush administration expenditures.
What interesting congressional testimony they took to their graves: Andrews' knowledge of Sembler, the Latvalas, DuPont and CIA mind control experiments involving adolescent and Black subjects, McElravy's insights on New Freedom, Access to Recovery, the "human service" excesses of Thompson, Curie and Jeb Bush ...
Such a public record would leave little to base faith in the Bush Syndicate upon, given its ecumenical ... ahhh ... perorations, and this may well explain why two dedicated *liberals* tied to SAMHSA and the GW Bush administration perished in flames.
With each step, you come closer to the inner-core of the OverClass cadré that ordered the downing of Comair Flight 5191. At the center of this group, the disaster's "chairman of the board," one figure emerges as the kingpin ...
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
THE KINGPIN ... AND THE SEVENTH PASSENGER
NOTES
252.) Meeting minutes, "Item #44, County Commission Miscellaneous – Board of Pinellas County Commissioners Meeting," Clearwater, Florida, Tuesday, July 12, 2005.
http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=4782152761687&lang=en-US&mkt=en-US&FORM=CVRE2
253.) For "Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) Meeting Minutes," December 5-6, 2005, see:
http://www.dtic.mil/dacowits/docs/mar2006/dec2005_mtg_min.html
On the Pinellas County Homeless Policy Group:
http://www.pinellascounty.org/homeless-policy-group/pdf/meeting-notes-110504.pdf
254.) "Robert L. Neri, Chief Clinical Officer, WestCare, St. Petersburg, Fla."
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=G39Z13nFBPyZGpPTpCmPW4QLGVTHb0TjjCr23bhSl0mMZG82mrtp!451746041?a=o&d=5000743978
255.) "Antonio Sledd," The Iraq Page, November 05 2005.
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/SleddTony
Also see: http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/2002-10/2002-10-09-NBC-4.html
Kuwait denies the al Qaeda accusation:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0104-03.htm
256.) Nicholas Blanford, "Kuwaiti court rejects confessions by Al-Qaeda suspects," Lebanon Daily Star, December 17, 2002.
Cachéd: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:xP69rhgHl_cJ:www.lebanonwire.com/0212/02121722DS.asp+Failaka+Island+and+al+qaeda&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=27
" ... Osama al-Monawer, the defense lawyer, told the panel of three magistrates that the case deserved to be dismissed. 'The defendants were arrested and tortured. They confessed under duress and in the absence of a lawyer, which is illegal under the Kuwaiti Constitution,' Monawer said. He added that Fadhli had claimed '20 sticks were broken across his back' during the interrogation sessions. At the end of the hour-long hearing, the magistrates rejected the testimonies and ordered a public cross-examination of the accused. ... "
257.) http://www.netinstitute.org/leaders.htm
258.) Net Institute site.
http://www.netinstitute.org/
259.) Michelle Bearden, "Islam Offers Identity For Some Blacks," Islam Awareness site (reprint), March 4, 2003.
http://www.islamawareness.net/Fastest/blackidentity.html
260.) See: Leonara LaPeter, "Front Porch's choice for grant raises eyebrows," St. Petersburg Times, January 14, 2001.
http://www.saintpetersburgtimes.com/News/011401/SouthPinellas/Front_Porch_s_choice_.shtml
261.) "Madsen: End of Year Update on Investigation," Daily Kos, Dec 31, 2004.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/31/175217/25
262.) SAMHSA and RWJF, see: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/01fstbco.html
Also: www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/publications/pdf/PP-Ch8.pd
263.) "Why is a pharmaceutical company funding smoking bans all around the country?" July 09, 2005.
http://www.data-yard.net/10p2/clearing_the_air_pharmaceutical.htm
On the ALZA takeover, see: http://www.alza.com/alza/tl_2001
264.) http://www.forces.org/evidence/files/pharma.htm
265.) Wanda Hamilton, "Pharmaceutical Players – Drug Companies Involved With 'Cessation' Products," July 13, 2001.
http://www.forces.org/evidence/pharma/players.htm
266.) Davey G. Smith, "Lifestyle, health, and health promotion in Nazi Germany," BMJ 18; 329 (7480): 1424–1425, BMJ Publishing Group, December 2004.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA7A4.htm
The Seed, planted by the DuPont-Sembler-Latvala School of behavior modification, grew into a family tree of incarnations following the discreditation and closure of Straight, Inc., including Pathway Family Center, the Drug Free America Foundation, Operation Par and finally the WestCare Foundation. These organizations operated under the rubric of the Therapeutic Communities of America (TCA), chaired by WestCare's Richard Steinberg (who missed Flight 5191 and lived to attend Andrews' wake).
WestCare is a faith-based reorganization of The Seed, Straight, Inc. and their scandal-ridden successors. At the WestCare Foundation in Florida, where Arnold Andrews worked, you find:
• Virginia Rowell, a WestCare director, manager of Social Services in St. Petersburg. At the July 12, 2005 Board of County Commissioners meeting, Ms. Rowell was nominated to the Social Action Funding Committee by Pinellas County Commissioner SUSAN LATVALA (the Semblers' right-hand woman and Operation Par director), and the motion was approved by the board.252 Rowell is a member of the Defense Department's Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, director of the Pinellas Board County License Board for Childrens' Centers and the local Homeless Policy Group.253
Susan Latvala• Chief Clinical Officer Robert L. Neri was, like the late Arnold Andrews, an executive vice president at Operation Par. Neri has over 20 years of experience in the health care field, and has been responsible for the design and oversight of nonprofit substance abuse treatment providers in West Central Florida. Neri is past chairman of the "Standards and Ethics Committee" for TCA, and has been a registered evaluator of the Counseling and Credentialing Board of TCA since 1978. He has been a member of the
Certification Board for Addiction Professionals of Florida since 1989. Neri has provided expert testimony to a U.S. Senate subcommittee on drug abuse and is a training consultant for the Florida Department of Corrections.254
• Tom Sledd sits on the Florida board of directors at WestCare. His son, Lance Cpl. Antonio "Tony" Sledd Figueroa, Jr., Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, was murdered "by al Qaeda" in 
Kuwait, according to "well-informed sources" (a charge denied by the Kuwaiti government, which made arrests after the slayings) in October 2002: "Sledd was fatally shot by two al-Qaeda-trained Kuwaiti gunmen Tuesday during an urban assault training exercise on heavily-guarded Failaka Island, ten miles east of Kuwait City in the Persian Gulf. A second Marine was wounded. ... 'He was determined to be a Marine when he graduated' in 2000 with his twin brother, Mike, said their aunt, Iris Figueroa. Tony Sledd joined the Marine Corps two years ago, and Mike followed at his brother's urging a year later. Figueroa, who teaches at Gaither ... spoke for them after Sledd's father told her 'his son doesn't only belong to the family, but he belongs to the country, the country he loved so much.' A small U.S. flag fluttered on the mailbox. ..."255 On December 17, Lebanon's Daily Star reported that the Kuwaiti court rejected the al Qaeda claim, noting that the testimony had been "extracted under torture."256 Sledd is co-founder, with Dr. Jean LaCour, of Bush's Access to Recovery voucher program (favored by Charles Currie at SAMHSA under H&HS Secretary Tommy Thompson; part 32), of the NET Training Institute.257 According to its web site, "NET Training Institute provides training in counseling, addiction, prevention and recovery support ministry using sound curriculum that is both faith-based and knowledge-based."258 
• Askia Muhammad Aquil – "He came into this world Otha Favors," the Tampa Tribune reports, named for his father. "From the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, they called him a black militant, a drug kingpin, an agitator. He founded the Black Youth for Peace and Power, organized boycotts, protested police harassment." The FBI watched him, "local police arrested him, although he never was convicted." The St. Petersburg activist "doesn't deny his colorful past, but he says it has little to do with the man he is today." In 1976, "he cast aside his Christian upbringing and embraced Islam. Three years later, Otha Favors was gone forever when he adopted the Muslim name."259 Aquil is the executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) in St. Petersburg – a faith-based group that has received generous funding from Governor Jeb Bush – much of it misappropriated – while other social service groups in Florida languish with starvation-level funding, according to the St. Petersburg Times.260
Exactly how much misery have the CIA-Republicans - plus some of the wealthiest and most powerful Democrats - behind a commuter jet crash in eastern Kentucky inflicted on the world? 
Gary WebbThere have been untold casualties. Some are known ... "GARY WEBB WAS INVESTIGATING ACS [Affiliated Computer Services, the core of the Guantanamo torture scandal, employer of Comair casualty Fenton Dawson – cf. parts 1-5] and contract fraud in CA when he committed suicide on Dec. 10," Internet journalist Wayne Madsen wrote in a December 2004 e-mail to the Daily Kos web site.261
There is particle-physics momentum to the corruption that began with Caroline Hunt's ES&S ... Madsen: "The more the Bushes fire additional government insiders, the more stuff is leaked to me about this election fraud. This smoking gun is...the election voting machine companies (all run by extreme right-wing [Dominionist], 'End Timers') conspired with the homeland security and other database firms – all conveniently located in FL, OH, and TX – to rig the vote.... Not only this last election but several previous ones were 'fixed' by a dangerous group of right-wing [Dominionists] who dominate the election machine industry and various GOP Secretary of State and congressional offices. They (known as 'The Fellowship') have been planning this coup for a very long time but now that their 'man' is in the White House they are not about to leave through a fair electoral process."
That electoral corruption has led directly to mass "faith-based" infiltration of the national social services apparat by the CIA DuPont-Sembler mind control spin-offs, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the WestCare Foundation, and a host other unsavories – all feeding at the public ecumenical- and corporate-welfare trough.
Steve McElravy, the Ananda Marga devotee, hired into the Bush administration under the faith-based initiative at Health & Human Services. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been instrumental in shaping anti-tobacco policy at H&HS.262 And the Foundation's interests are far from altruistic, as the "smoking rights" Clearing the Air web site notes: "ALZA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson [have] developed products have provided therapy for millions of patients throughout the world ... including transdermal (D-TRANS), which has found applications in many widely used pharmaceutical products, such as NicoDerm CQ (nicotine) via site-specific targeting."
J & J bought up Alza in 2001. "RWJF financial holdings include but not limited to 80,499,208 and 86,853,208 shares of Johnson & Johnson Common Stock in 2003 and 2002, respectively. This information is found on page eight of 2004 financials for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. At today's Johnson & Johnson price per share 67.36, that's just a shade over $5.4 billion dollars. ... Since the 1998 election cycle, employees of the pharmaceutical and health product industry, their family members and industry political action committees have given $133 million in campaign contributions to candidates running for federal and state offices."
The financial manipulation is epitomized by a handsome $160,000.00 grant from Nicoderm to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.264
Under the banner of a subsidiary, McNeil Consumer Products, Johnson & Johnson markets the Nicotrol nicotine patch and nicotine inhaler. RWJF, J&J's controlling sharehold, began the massive funding of tobacco control in the U.S. in 1991 – the same year the FDA granted approval to the nicotine patch.265
Oddly enough, all of this recalls the weirdly-uncharacteristic Nazi anti-smoking campaign. George Davey Smith, a professor at the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, writes: "It may seem paradoxical that the robust identification of one of the most important environmental causes of disease of the 20th century occurred in a totalitarian state. The first case-control study of smoking and lung cancer originated in Nazi Germany in 1939 and found that heavy smoking was strongly related to the risk of lung cancer. Such research occurred against a backdrop of considerable official concern in Germany on the health damaging effects of smoking. Dr Leonard Conti, the Reich health führer, established the Bureau against the Dangers of Alcohol and Tobacco in 1939. In 1942, the Institute for the Struggle against the Dangers of Tobacco was established at the University of Jena, where a second case-control study of smoking and lung cancer was carried out.2 This was a convincing investigation in which the authors showed a sophisticated understanding of the potential biases that could distort epidemiological findings. The institute from which this study was run was supported by 100 000 reichsmark of Adolf Hitler's personal finances. ...
"The Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls disseminated antismoking propaganda, and in 1939 Hermann Göring issued a decree forbidding the military from smoking on the streets and during marches or brief off-duty periods. In 1942 the Federation of German Women launched a campaign against tobacco and alcohol misuse. Such campaigns were backed by legislation, and smoking was banned for both pupils and teachers in many schools. From July 1943, tobacco use was outlawed in public places for anyone aged less than 18 years. It was considered criminal negligence if drivers were involved in crashes while smoking. In 1944, smoking was banned on trains and buses in cities. It was also prohibited in many workplaces, public buildings, hospitals, and rest homes. The advertising of smoking products was strictly controlled, and there was discussion on whether people with smoking related illnesses should receive medical care equal to that of patients with illnesses not seen to be self inflicted. ... 
"Adolf Hitler was the star performer in antismoking propaganda. As one magazine stated, 'Brother national socialist, do you know that your Führer is against smoking and thinks that every German is responsible to the whole people for all his deeds and missions, and does not have the right to damage his body with drugs?' ... Promoting these lifestyles fitted in with the racial hygiene movement but also covered up the fact that health in Nazi Germany deteriorated."266
So it was that two of the deceased in Kentucky, Steve McElravy and Arnold Andrews, social service careerists with everything in common, were used to promote "hidden agendas." McElravy was a bohemian, Andrews a Cuban – both were expendable in a system run by rich thugs to whom eugenics (population 
control, genocide) constitute acceptable national policy. It is safe to assume that both knew enough to hurt their superiors should the incoming Democratic legislature in DC begin to ask questions about Bush administration expenditures. 
What interesting congressional testimony they took to their graves: Andrews' knowledge of Sembler, the Latvalas, DuPont and CIA mind control experiments involving adolescent and Black subjects, McElravy's insights on New Freedom, Access to Recovery, the "human service" excesses of Thompson, Curie and Jeb Bush ... Such a public record would leave little to base faith in the Bush Syndicate upon, given its ecumenical ... ahhh ... perorations, and this may well explain why two dedicated *liberals* tied to SAMHSA and the GW Bush administration perished in flames.
With each step, you come closer to the inner-core of the OverClass cadré that ordered the downing of Comair Flight 5191. At the center of this group, the disaster's "chairman of the board," one figure emerges as the kingpin ...[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
THE KINGPIN ... AND THE SEVENTH PASSENGER
NOTES252.) Meeting minutes, "Item #44, County Commission Miscellaneous – Board of Pinellas County Commissioners Meeting," Clearwater, Florida, Tuesday, July 12, 2005.
http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=4782152761687&lang=en-US&mkt=en-US&FORM=CVRE2
253.) For "Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) Meeting Minutes," December 5-6, 2005, see:
http://www.dtic.mil/dacowits/docs/mar2006/dec2005_mtg_min.html
On the Pinellas County Homeless Policy Group:
http://www.pinellascounty.org/homeless-policy-group/pdf/meeting-notes-110504.pdf
254.) "Robert L. Neri, Chief Clinical Officer, WestCare, St. Petersburg, Fla."
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=G39Z13nFBPyZGpPTpCmPW4QLGVTHb0TjjCr23bhSl0mMZG82mrtp!451746041?a=o&d=5000743978
255.) "Antonio Sledd," The Iraq Page, November 05 2005.
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/SleddTony
Also see: http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/2002-10/2002-10-09-NBC-4.html
Kuwait denies the al Qaeda accusation:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0104-03.htm
256.) Nicholas Blanford, "Kuwaiti court rejects confessions by Al-Qaeda suspects," Lebanon Daily Star, December 17, 2002.
Cachéd: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:xP69rhgHl_cJ:www.lebanonwire.com/0212/02121722DS.asp+Failaka+Island+and+al+qaeda&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=27
" ... Osama al-Monawer, the defense lawyer, told the panel of three magistrates that the case deserved to be dismissed. 'The defendants were arrested and tortured. They confessed under duress and in the absence of a lawyer, which is illegal under the Kuwaiti Constitution,' Monawer said. He added that Fadhli had claimed '20 sticks were broken across his back' during the interrogation sessions. At the end of the hour-long hearing, the magistrates rejected the testimonies and ordered a public cross-examination of the accused. ... "
257.) http://www.netinstitute.org/leaders.htm
258.) Net Institute site.
http://www.netinstitute.org/
259.) Michelle Bearden, "Islam Offers Identity For Some Blacks," Islam Awareness site (reprint), March 4, 2003.
http://www.islamawareness.net/Fastest/blackidentity.html
260.) See: Leonara LaPeter, "Front Porch's choice for grant raises eyebrows," St. Petersburg Times, January 14, 2001.
http://www.saintpetersburgtimes.com/News/011401/SouthPinellas/Front_Porch_s_choice_.shtml
261.) "Madsen: End of Year Update on Investigation," Daily Kos, Dec 31, 2004.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/31/175217/25
262.) SAMHSA and RWJF, see: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/01fstbco.html
Also: www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/publications/pdf/PP-Ch8.pd
263.) "Why is a pharmaceutical company funding smoking bans all around the country?" July 09, 2005.
http://www.data-yard.net/10p2/clearing_the_air_pharmaceutical.htm
On the ALZA takeover, see: http://www.alza.com/alza/tl_2001
264.) http://www.forces.org/evidence/files/pharma.htm
265.) Wanda Hamilton, "Pharmaceutical Players – Drug Companies Involved With 'Cessation' Products," July 13, 2001.
http://www.forces.org/evidence/pharma/players.htm
266.) Davey G. Smith, "Lifestyle, health, and health promotion in Nazi Germany," BMJ 18; 329 (7480): 1424–1425, BMJ Publishing Group, December 2004.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA7A4.htm
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 33: A World of Illusion – God, Pestilence & the Roots of Torture at Guantanamo (cont'd)
BY ALEX CONSTANTINE
He was born Arnoldo Andreas. His father, the late Peter Andreas, a CUBAN EXILE, was a Tampa (Trafficanté's zone) boxing promoter who changed his name in the States. His son was rechristened Arnold Andrews. At the University of Tampa, Andrews volunteered for a fledgling drug treatment program in St. Petersburg, and ascended through the ranks at several CIA drug-treatment/mind control centers, beginning with The Seed. At the time of his death, Andrews, who'd always been active in the church, was executive director emeritus at Catholic Charities in St. Petersburg, a diocese that has seen its own share of sex scandals.252
Father Christopher Fitzgerald delivered the eulogy at Andrews' funeral: "God and Arnold were good friends, very good friends. They walked together. For many years. ... On that dark Sunday morning, at 6 a.m., they were closer to God's house in heaven than they were to Arnold's house in Tampa ... "
Andrews was an exemplary public servant. He founded San Jose Villas, an 80-unit housing complex for migrant farmworkers in east Hillsborough County, and built homes for the poor – yet he suffered the rats, was surrounded by scabrous CIA-Republican corruption throughout his career, held executive positions at several CIA drug treatment/mind control fronts.
The dual nature of the human beast ...
There is much that he could tell ... but Andrews has left for mortality's nearer house ...
Time Machine
In 1972, NIDA Director Dr. Robert DuPont, says Fager, "administered a whopping $1.8 million contract to an experimental, start-up Synanon for kids-only called The Seed in Fort Lauderdale." NIH funded several programs patterned after the cultic, bizarre Synanon, Inc., "had even started its own experimental Synanon at the federal lockup hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. This program was called MATRIX. Eventually, Dr. DuPont left government service and became a paid consultant for Straight, which had replaced The Seed" after a Senate investigation found that it was engaged in "brainwashing."
"One feature of [Art] Barker's Seed was the Spanking Machine, where a child's father must publicly whip his kid before the large peer group. Dr. Jerome Jaffe, the first White House Drug Czar, had written the foreward to Dr. Meyers' book which called for caution in the use of Synanon-style screaming matches against kids. Despite this, despite the warnings of so many other notables, despite Art Barker's total lack of credentials [he had a mail-order degree] and less than admirable past, The Seed received a $1.8 million U.S. government grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) soon after it opened." By 1975 The Seed spread, but "the Senate forced NIDA to require Seed clients to sign a 'risk to human subjects' form as required by NIDA's own policy for grants involving human experimentation. Barker balked at this and lost his bid for an additional federal grant for expansion."
Dr. Robert DuPont
Human experimentation was the furtive mission of The Seed. Fager: "It is important you understand that back in the 1970s Senator Irvin was not conducting a study of The Seed, he was studying any programs funded by the federal government which used drugs, psycho-surgery or thought control on American citizens in possible violation of their constitutional rights. And it was with that purpose in mind that he found out about The Seed. For example, the report discussed a psychiatrist at Georgetown University (where Robert DuPont and Richard Schwartz now teach) who had performed over 4,000 frontal lobotomies using only a serialized ice-pick in a special chair in his office. The pick was trust through the eye and this psychiatrist had shown that he could permanently disable two people at once. The Senate report discussed work done by psychologist James V. McConnell at the University of Michigan who published an article in the May 1970 issue of Psychology Today, titled 'Criminals Can Be Brainwashed-Now.'
"Dr McConnell had spent years training flatworms to go in and out of mazes at his bidding by administering a series of painful electric shocks, now he proposed using similar techniques on prisoners combining sensory deprivation with drugs, hypnosis, and manipulation of rewards/punishment. The report also discussed an Iowa program which injected prisoners with the drug apomorphine for breaking rules like cussing or illegally smoking. Apomorphine cause one to vomit uncontrollably for up to an hour.
"Another program in a state mental hospital in Vacaville, California evaluated the effectiveness of using Succinylcholine (anectine) as a means of suppressing hazardous behavior [e.g. repeated assaults, attempted suicide]. Succinylcholine when injected intramuscularly results in complete muscular paralysis including temporary respiratory arrest. It avoids, the program boasted, many of the strenuous features which characterize other chemical aversion procedures like uncontrolled vomiting. Sixteen patients likened the experience to dying. Three patients compared it to actual experiences in the past in which they had almost drowned. The majority described it as a terrible, scary, experience. Irvin’s report discussed one experimental California Criminal Justice program in 1971 which was to develop a Maximum Psychiatric Diagnostic Unit (MPDU) designed to hold eighty-four convicts. Another program at Folsom prison was to build four, 21 man cell blocks for a total of eighty-four cells! The Seed just happened to be the only juvenile synanon receiving funds from the federal government that the Senate had felt compelled to investigate because of the rumors of what was going on down there in Florida with that government-backed program."253
The Seed was terminated and supplanted by Straight, Inc., a continuation of CIA mind control experimentation. Straight's board of directors included:
Jeb Bush – Governor of Florida
Columba Bush – Jeb's wife
Thomas Constantine – Former director of the DEA
Robert L. DuPont, Jr. – Second White House Drug Czar and key CIA-Republican drug rehab/mind control operative
James R. McDonough – Florida's Drug Czar
Toni Jennings – a Republican and formerly President of Florida's Senate
Rudy Bradley – A Republican, Florida state Representative from Saint Petersburg, pushes faith-based initiatives.
Richard M. Baker – Mayor of Saint Petersburg
Susan Latvala – Pinellas County commissioner, chairwomen of Operation Par
Brad Owen – a Democrat and Lt. Governor of Washington state
Alfred Hoffman, Jr. was also on Straight's advisory board. In 1997, Salon's ezine reports, Hoffman, Jeb Bush's finance co-chairman, paid $3-million for a yacht club in Coral Gables purchased from Armando Codina, leader of the Cuban American National Foundation. Armando Codina is a former business partner of Jeb Bush. Salon ezine reports: "American intelligence and law enforcement authorities firmly believed that [one Orlando] Bosch was responsible for ... the 1976 explosion that BROUGHT DOWN A CUBAN AIRLINER [see Lexington Comair Crash, Part 4], killing all 76 civilians aboard, although Venezuelan prosecutors had failed to convict him of that terrible crime." In 1989 Bosch was in prison in America for entering the country illegally, but prominent Miami Republicans, including businessmen with the Cuban American National Foundation, pressured President Bush to pardon Mr. Bosch. President Bush's son Jeb had made a fortune in real estate deals with some of these Cuban exile businessmen who had advocated Bosch's release. George H. W. Bush pardoned Bosch and worked out a deal so he could stay in America despite the Justice Department's desire to have him deported because he had, "repeatedly expressed and demonstrated a willingness to cause indiscriminate injury and death."254
Orlando Bosch
The key director of Operation Par is Susan Latvala. Since the 2000 election, she has been a very busy little Pinellas County commissioner. In 2004, Ms Latvala chaired the Board of County Commissioners. She has been appointed to the statewide Substance Abuse and Mental Health Corporation, is chair of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Leadership Group in Pinellas County, a member of the local Elections Canvassing Board.255
Her husband, state Senator W. J. "Jack" Latvala, chaired the Florida Young Republicans as a student at Stetson U., and went on to executive directorship of the state Republican Party in Tallahassee. In 1979, Jack Eckerd, chairman of the Florida Republican Legislative Campaign Committee, recruited Latvala and relocated him to Palm Harbor, Pinellas County, to run for the state senate.256
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was but a pill-pop away, of course. The Foundation's web site boasts of its Advancing Recovery State Partnership program: "Florida's Department of Children and Families [DCF, headed by Jerry Regier, formerly president of Gary Bauer's Family Research Council], Substance Abuse Program Office (SAPO), has assembled a partnership with the Florida Office of Drug Control, Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, the Southern Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and treatment providers Operation PAR, River Region Human Services, and Spectrum Programs. The purpose of the program in Florida is to modify the substance abuse treatment system, primarily to increase the use of Naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism [and]. .... For the primary aim, the State's SAPO will develop guidelines to help providers address statutory requirements for use of Naltrexone. ... "257
Florida's DCF under Jeb Bush has been a travesty:
Dept of Children's Services in Florida
Miami Herald
August 8, 2004
Arguably the most important appointment of the governor's [Jeb Bush's] tenure -- choosing the person to lead Florida's scandalized child-welfare agency – has proven to be one of the worst decisions that Bush has ever made. A scalding report by the governor's chief inspector general has revealed that high-ranking DCF officials handed out fat and dubious contracts to pals and political cronies, and accepted gifts, favors and lodging from outside contractors. ... "
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
MIND CONTROL, BUSH'S BIBLE CODE, SAMHSA, NAZIS, MIND CONTROL ...
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NOTES
252.) Stephen Nohlgren "St. Petersburg bishop puts price on sex abuse claims," St. Petersburg Times, December 12, 2003.
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/12/12/Southpinellas/St_Petersburg_bishop_.shtml
253.) Wes Fager, "Where did it come from? Synanon Church and the medical basis for the $traights, or Hoopla in Lake Havasu."
http://thestraights.com/theprogram/synanon-story2.htm
254.) Wesley Fager, "Jeb Bush joins Straight's Advisory Board,"the$traights dot com, 2002.
http://www.thestraights.com/news/index.htm
255.) Pinellas County Government site, "Susan Latvala – Commissioner."
http://www.co.pinellas.fl.us/bcc/commission/SLatvala.htm
256.) Wes Fager, "Scientology and Straight Cult Rehabs Political Ties," December 29, 2005.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/wir09-52.html
257.) "Active Grants: Addiction Prevention & Treatment – Advancing Recovery: State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care" Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
http://www.rwjf.org/portfolios/grant.jsp;jsessionid=F11d0kDf1gXEKwyW1UTDsZQ2z3glHixHxWuZQa8CzCKUnijLPSWH!218734715?id=56896&iaid=131
He was born Arnoldo Andreas. His father, the late Peter Andreas, a CUBAN EXILE, was a Tampa (Trafficanté's zone) boxing promoter who changed his name in the States. His son was rechristened Arnold Andrews. At the University of Tampa, Andrews volunteered for a fledgling drug treatment program in St. Petersburg, and ascended through the ranks at several CIA drug-treatment/mind control centers, beginning with The Seed. At the time of his death, Andrews, who'd always been active in the church, was executive director emeritus at Catholic Charities in St. Petersburg, a diocese that has seen its own share of sex scandals.252 Father Christopher Fitzgerald delivered the eulogy at Andrews' funeral: "God and Arnold were good friends, very good friends. They walked together. For many years. ... On that dark Sunday morning, at 6 a.m., they were closer to God's house in heaven than they were to Arnold's house in Tampa ... "
Andrews was an exemplary public servant. He founded San Jose Villas, an 80-unit housing complex for migrant farmworkers in east Hillsborough County, and built homes for the poor – yet he suffered the rats, was surrounded by scabrous CIA-Republican corruption throughout his career, held executive positions at several CIA drug treatment/mind control fronts.
The dual nature of the human beast ...
There is much that he could tell ... but Andrews has left for mortality's nearer house ...
Time MachineIn 1972, NIDA Director Dr. Robert DuPont, says Fager, "administered a whopping $1.8 million contract to an experimental, start-up Synanon for kids-only called The Seed in Fort Lauderdale." NIH funded several programs patterned after the cultic, bizarre Synanon, Inc., "had even started its own experimental Synanon at the federal lockup hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. This program was called MATRIX. Eventually, Dr. DuPont left government service and became a paid consultant for Straight, which had replaced The Seed" after a Senate investigation found that it was engaged in "brainwashing."
"One feature of [Art] Barker's Seed was the Spanking Machine, where a child's father must publicly whip his kid before the large peer group. Dr. Jerome Jaffe, the first White House Drug Czar, had written the foreward to Dr. Meyers' book which called for caution in the use of Synanon-style screaming matches against kids. Despite this, despite the warnings of so many other notables, despite Art Barker's total lack of credentials [he had a mail-order degree] and less than admirable past, The Seed received a $1.8 million U.S. government grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) soon after it opened." By 1975 The Seed spread, but "the Senate forced NIDA to require Seed clients to sign a 'risk to human subjects' form as required by NIDA's own policy for grants involving human experimentation. Barker balked at this and lost his bid for an additional federal grant for expansion." 
Dr. Robert DuPont
Human experimentation was the furtive mission of The Seed. Fager: "It is important you understand that back in the 1970s Senator Irvin was not conducting a study of The Seed, he was studying any programs funded by the federal government which used drugs, psycho-surgery or thought control on American citizens in possible violation of their constitutional rights. And it was with that purpose in mind that he found out about The Seed. For example, the report discussed a psychiatrist at Georgetown University (where Robert DuPont and Richard Schwartz now teach) who had performed over 4,000 frontal lobotomies using only a serialized ice-pick in a special chair in his office. The pick was trust through the eye and this psychiatrist had shown that he could permanently disable two people at once. The Senate report discussed work done by psychologist James V. McConnell at the University of Michigan who published an article in the May 1970 issue of Psychology Today, titled 'Criminals Can Be Brainwashed-Now.' 
"Dr McConnell had spent years training flatworms to go in and out of mazes at his bidding by administering a series of painful electric shocks, now he proposed using similar techniques on prisoners combining sensory deprivation with drugs, hypnosis, and manipulation of rewards/punishment. The report also discussed an Iowa program which injected prisoners with the drug apomorphine for breaking rules like cussing or illegally smoking. Apomorphine cause one to vomit uncontrollably for up to an hour. 
"Another program in a state mental hospital in Vacaville, California evaluated the effectiveness of using Succinylcholine (anectine) as a means of suppressing hazardous behavior [e.g. repeated assaults, attempted suicide]. Succinylcholine when injected intramuscularly results in complete muscular paralysis including temporary respiratory arrest. It avoids, the program boasted, many of the strenuous features which characterize other chemical aversion procedures like uncontrolled vomiting. Sixteen patients likened the experience to dying. Three patients compared it to actual experiences in the past in which they had almost drowned. The majority described it as a terrible, scary, experience. Irvin’s report discussed one experimental California Criminal Justice program in 1971 which was to develop a Maximum Psychiatric Diagnostic Unit (MPDU) designed to hold eighty-four convicts. Another program at Folsom prison was to build four, 21 man cell blocks for a total of eighty-four cells! The Seed just happened to be the only juvenile synanon receiving funds from the federal government that the Senate had felt compelled to investigate because of the rumors of what was going on down there in Florida with that government-backed program."253
The Seed was terminated and supplanted by Straight, Inc., a continuation of CIA mind control experimentation. Straight's board of directors included:
Jeb Bush – Governor of FloridaColumba Bush – Jeb's wifeThomas Constantine – Former director of the DEARobert L. DuPont, Jr. – Second White House Drug Czar and key CIA-Republican drug rehab/mind control operative James R. McDonough – Florida's Drug CzarToni Jennings – a Republican and formerly President of Florida's SenateRudy Bradley – A Republican, Florida state Representative from Saint Petersburg, pushes faith-based initiatives. Richard M. Baker – Mayor of Saint PetersburgSusan Latvala – Pinellas County commissioner, chairwomen of Operation ParBrad Owen – a Democrat and Lt. Governor of Washington state Alfred Hoffman, Jr. was also on Straight's advisory board. In 1997, Salon's ezine reports, Hoffman, Jeb Bush's finance co-chairman, paid $3-million for a yacht club in Coral Gables purchased from Armando Codina, leader of the Cuban American National Foundation. Armando Codina is a former business partner of Jeb Bush. Salon ezine reports: "American intelligence and law enforcement authorities firmly believed that [one Orlando] Bosch was responsible for ... the 1976 explosion that BROUGHT DOWN A CUBAN AIRLINER [see Lexington Comair Crash, Part 4], killing all 76 civilians aboard, although Venezuelan prosecutors had failed to convict him of that terrible crime." In 1989 Bosch was in prison in America for entering the country illegally, but prominent Miami Republicans, including businessmen with the Cuban American National Foundation, pressured President Bush to pardon Mr. Bosch. President Bush's son Jeb had made a fortune in real estate deals with some of these Cuban exile businessmen who had advocated Bosch's release. George H. W. Bush pardoned Bosch and worked out a deal so he could stay in America despite the Justice Department's desire to have him deported because he had, "repeatedly expressed and demonstrated a willingness to cause indiscriminate injury and death."254
Orlando Bosch
The key director of Operation Par is Susan Latvala. Since the 2000 election, she has been a very busy little Pinellas County commissioner. In 2004, Ms Latvala chaired the Board of County Commissioners. She has been appointed to the statewide Substance Abuse and Mental Health Corporation, is chair of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Leadership Group in Pinellas County, a member of the local Elections Canvassing Board.255
Her husband, state Senator W. J. "Jack" Latvala, chaired the Florida Young Republicans as a student at Stetson U., and went on to executive directorship of the state Republican Party in Tallahassee. In 1979, Jack Eckerd, chairman of the Florida Republican Legislative Campaign Committee, recruited Latvala and relocated him to Palm Harbor, Pinellas County, to run for the state senate.256
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was but a pill-pop away, of course. The Foundation's web site boasts of its Advancing Recovery State Partnership program: "Florida's Department of Children and Families [DCF, headed by Jerry Regier, formerly president of Gary Bauer's Family Research Council], Substance Abuse Program Office (SAPO), has assembled a partnership with the Florida Office of Drug Control, Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, the Southern Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and treatment providers Operation PAR, River Region Human Services, and Spectrum Programs. The purpose of the program in Florida is to modify the substance abuse treatment system, primarily to increase the use of Naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism [and]. .... For the primary aim, the State's SAPO will develop guidelines to help providers address statutory requirements for use of Naltrexone. ... "257Florida's DCF under Jeb Bush has been a travesty:
Dept of Children's Services in Florida
Miami Herald
August 8, 2004
Arguably the most important appointment of the governor's [Jeb Bush's] tenure -- choosing the person to lead Florida's scandalized child-welfare agency – has proven to be one of the worst decisions that Bush has ever made. A scalding report by the governor's chief inspector general has revealed that high-ranking DCF officials handed out fat and dubious contracts to pals and political cronies, and accepted gifts, favors and lodging from outside contractors. ... "
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
MIND CONTROL, BUSH'S BIBLE CODE, SAMHSA, NAZIS, MIND CONTROL ...
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NOTES
252.) Stephen Nohlgren "St. Petersburg bishop puts price on sex abuse claims," St. Petersburg Times, December 12, 2003.
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/12/12/Southpinellas/St_Petersburg_bishop_.shtml
253.) Wes Fager, "Where did it come from? Synanon Church and the medical basis for the $traights, or Hoopla in Lake Havasu."
http://thestraights.com/theprogram/synanon-story2.htm
254.) Wesley Fager, "Jeb Bush joins Straight's Advisory Board,"the$traights dot com, 2002.
http://www.thestraights.com/news/index.htm
255.) Pinellas County Government site, "Susan Latvala – Commissioner."
http://www.co.pinellas.fl.us/bcc/commission/SLatvala.htm
256.) Wes Fager, "Scientology and Straight Cult Rehabs Political Ties," December 29, 2005.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/wir09-52.html
257.) "Active Grants: Addiction Prevention & Treatment – Advancing Recovery: State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care" Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
http://www.rwjf.org/portfolios/grant.jsp;jsessionid=F11d0kDf1gXEKwyW1UTDsZQ2z3glHixHxWuZQa8CzCKUnijLPSWH!218734715?id=56896&iaid=131
Results of Long-Term Carcinogenicity Bioassays on Coca-Cola Administered to Sprague-Dawley Rats (Coke Causes Cancer)
FIORELLA BELPOGGI, MORANDO SOFFRITTI, EVA TIBALDI, LAURA FALCIONI, LUCIANO BUA, AND FRANCESCA TRABUCCO Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center, European Foundation for Oncology and Environmental Sciences “B. Ramazzini,” 40010 Bentivoglio, Bologna, Italy
John Pemberton, creator of Coca-ColaABSTRACT: Coca-Cola was invented in May 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia by a pharmacist who, by accident or design, mixed carbonated water with the syrup of sugar, phosphoric acid, caffeine, and other natural flavors to create what is known as “the world’s favorite soft drink.” Coca-Cola is currently sold in more than 200 countries and in early 2000, the company sold its 10 billionth unit case of Coca-Cola branded products. Given the worldwide consumption of Coca-Cola, a project of experimental bioassays to study its long-term effects when administered as substitute for drinking water on male and female Sprague-Dawley rats was planned and executed. The objective of the project was to study whether and how long-term consumption of Coca-Cola affects the basic tumorigram of test animals. The bioassays were performed on rats beginning at different ages, namely: (a) on males and females exposed since embryonic life or from 7 weeks of age; and (b) on males and females exposed from 30, 39, or 55 weeks of age.
Overall, the project included 1999 rats. During the biophase, data were collected on fluid and feed consumption, body weight, and survival. Animals were kept under observation until spontaneous death and underwent complete necropsy. The results indicate: (a) an increase in body weight in all treated animals; (b) a statistically significant increase of the incidence in females, both breeders and offspring, bearing malignant mammary tumors; (c) a statistically significant increase in the incidence of exocrine ademonas of the pancreas in both male and female breeders and offspring; and (d ) an increased incidence, albeit not statistically significant, of pancreatic islet cell carcinomas in females, a malignant tumor which occurs very rarely in our historical controls. On the basis of the results of this study, excessive consumption of regular soft-drinks should be generally discouraged, in particular for children and adolescents.
INTRODUCTION
Cancer is one the principal public health problems faced by industrialized countries, both because of its epidemiological dimension and because of the growing environmental influences behind its increase to today’s epidemic proportions. Diet is often cited as an important factor in the occurrence of cancer; however, influence of diet on health cannot be easily isolated or quanttified given the varied composition of the average diet over a lifetime and the complex mixture of substances present in food. While the overall diet is difficult to analyze, specific nutrients and food components have been implicated both in causing cancer and as protective factors in the carcinogenic process.
There are several sources of food components believed to induce cancer. One is the presence of naturally occur ring substances, such as aflatoxin found in groundnuts and corn. Another potential source of risk are substances which are added directly to food in order to improve its quality, taste, or stability. 
It has long been suggested that total calorie intake may have an important effect on the incidence of cancer. Data by Tannenbaum in the 1940s and 1950s demonstrated that underfed mice developed fewer spontaneous mammary tumors, primary lung adenomas, and chemically induced tumors.1,2 In addition, human obesity has been identif ied as a risk factor for some types of cancer.3,4 Long-term carcinogenicity bioassays on rodents, which reproduce exposure situations experienced by humans as much as possible, is in our opinion, a good approach to study the influence of dietary products on the incidence of spontaneous tumors in a controlled environment.5,6 In an attempt to evaluate the interaction between one such product and tumor incidence in rodents, an experimental carcinogenicity bioassay was performed at the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center (CMCRC) of the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF). The product tested is a beverage mixture which is both caloric and widely consumed in most of the world –Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886 by pharmacist
John Pemberton. The regular cola beverage contains water, sugar (about 10%
by weight), carbon dioxide, caramel coloring, acidulates, flavoring substances, and caffeine, all of which are approved for use around the world. Today Coca-Cola, recognized as the world’s number one soft drink brand, is cur rently sold in more than 200 countries. In 2001, the company sold its 10 billionth unit case of Coca-Cola branded products.7
The experimental project described in this article was designed to evaluate the long-term effects of Coca-Cola on the spontaneous development of tumors when administered as a substitute for drinking water to Sprague-Dawley rats for the life span. Since it is known that the age of the animals at the start of the experiment
may affect the possible modulating effects of the test compounds, the project includes experiments performed on groups of male and female breeder rats (30, 39, and 55 weeks old at the start of the experiment), all the offspring of each litter descending from the aforementioned breeders (exposed since intrauterine life), and one group exposed beginning at 7 weeks of age. ...
Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1076: 736–752 (2006). C
2006 New York Academy of Sciences.
doi: 10.1196/annals.1371.078
CONTINUED AT:
http://www.ramazzini.it/fondazione/docs/
NYAS_Coca-Cola_Ramazzini.pdf
Monday, December 18, 2006
Constantine Nature Photos (My Sweet & Not-Pissed-Off-at-Nazis Side)
Twin Lakes (Near Tahoe)
A Heron at Elkhorn
Smith Lake (Tahoe area)
Twin Lakes Trail
Arroyo Seco headwaters, near Big Sur, in December
Arroyo Seco
Sunday, December 17, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 32: A World of Illusion – God, Pestilence & the Roots of Torture at Guantanamo
BY ALEX CONSTANTINE
On July 19, 1942 – the same day that Flight 5191 passenger Arnold Andrews was born – Heinrich Himmler issued his order for "The Completion of the 'Final Solution' in the Government-General." Himmler therewith commanded that resettlement of the entire Jewish population of Germany be carried out and completed by the end of the year. After December 31, "no persons of Jewish origin may remain within the Government-General" unless they were in "collection camps" in Eastern Europe. Himmler's order was "required with
a view to the necessary ethnic division of races and peoples for the New Order in Europe, and also in the interests of the security and cleanliness of the German Reich and its sphere of interest. Every breach of this regulation spells a danger to quiet and order in the entire German sphere of interest, a point of application for the resistance movement and a source of moral and physical pestilence."241
Several generations of scientific advancement later, the American OverClass (who provoked much of the anti-Semitic agitation in the Nazi Germany – eg. Henry Ford's "The International Jew" sold over 11-million copies) is still bent on the quiet implementation of racial hygiene policies.
Mel and Betty Sembler, for example.
Straight, Inc., the drug-abuse treatment network founded and operated by Mel Sembler – one that bore an uncanny resemblance to the torture at GUANTANAMO (see part 3: Deason, ACS and detainee torture) in its CIA-conceived mind control "treatment" regimen – took white kids, preferably with wealthy parents who felt no qualms over Sembler's "tough" approach to therapeutic strategy.242
Maia Szalavitz, a drug treatment authority in a Cato Foundation presentation on April 1, 2006, described the Guantanamo/Abu Ghraib methods developed by Mel Sembler: "Straight put kids on peanut-butter-only diets for weeks, kept them awake with no sleep whatsoever for days, forced them to spank each other and made them maintain various stress positions or exercise to the point of exhaustion.
"It constantly humiliated participants, famously gagging some with Kotex, calling girls 'sluts' and boys 'fags' and making those who had been sexually abused take responsibility for their 'part' in seducing the pedophiles who had molested them.
Straight also extensively used isolation and restraint, which involved "a teen being thrown violently to the floor by fellow participants and then sat upon by multiple people, sometimes someone would even restrict the victim’s breathing by holding the mouth and nose closed. This, too, often lead to serious injuries – many of which went untreated so the program could avoid arousing suspicion from medical personnel."243
Betty Sembler
Operation PAR – the drug-abuse treatment network overseen by wife Betty Sembler – employed Arnold Andrews for 23 years. This program was, by design, not for white kids but low-income blacks.244 Back in 1978, the Saint Petersburg Times published a "Special On-site Monitoring Report on Straight," by Florida’s Bureau of Criminal Justice Planning and Assistance Assistant Chief John H. Dale, Jr. found that Operation PAR treated an average population base of 40-50 adolescents ... all were black.245
Wes Fager followed the Deep Throat money trail, and found a mess of local, state and national conservative connections: "The Florida Department of Law
Enforcement (FDLE) has been granting Betty Sembler's Operation PAR $64,000 a year since 1999. Guy Tunnell, commissioner of FDLE, and James "Tim" Moore, former commissioner of FDLE, are members of the Advisory Board for DFAF. In 1995 the Florida Attorney General's office granted Operation PAR $59,000.
CHARLIE CRIST (who will prove to be significant in the execution of CIA-Republican airplane crashes), the present AG, "has been a friend of Mel's son Brent since childhood. ... Op PAR board member Terry Hensley is the former executive director of DFAF. Before that he was chief of police for St. Petersburg. Operation PAR works with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. It appears that Betty Sembler had something to do with the creation of the St. Petersburg-based Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training organization that trains law enforcement officials nationwide in drug interdiction. She serves on MCTFT's Advisory Board with Pinellas County's sheriff Jim Coates and Guy Tunnell, commissioner of FDLE. Betty Sembler is Florida Governor Jeb Bush's former finance co-chairman. In 2000 Jeb Bush proposed to spend $16.4 million for the construction of more juvenile residential centers so that incarceration stays could be increased by five months. Jeb Bush is on the Advisory Board for DFAF. His wife Columba and his lieutenant governor, Toni Jennings, are also on DFAF's Advisory Board."246
Andrews left Operation PAR in 2004 for the executive vice president position at the WestCare Foundation, based in Las Vegas.
The Funeral for Arnold Andrews
The president of the WestCare Foundation is Richard Steinberg – now, he intended to be on Flight 5191, but (not the first time in this account, nor the last) God interceded:
There But For the Grace of God
One of those traveling on the ill-fated Comair plane was Arnold Andrews, a senior vice president of Westcare, a national non-profit agency with offices in Metro Atlanta. ... Andrews was supposed to be in Atlanta on Monday night for a meeting in DeKalb County with Westcare, a non-profit health and human services agency with an outreach that extends across America. ... "Andrews’ chair in the boardroom sat vacant Monday night, both literally and figuratively ...
"Richard Steinberg was SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE FLIGHT WITH ANDREWS, but missed it due to a problem with a connecting flight."247 (Connecting flight complications ... in the middle of the night? Flight 5191 was scheduled for departure at 6:00 am – Steinberg wanted a connecting flight at ... when? 3:00 in the morning? Flight 5191 passengers were highly unusual people - they had no need for sleep, evidently.)
Yahoo News reports that Richard Steinberg hails from SAMHSA – the same agency that employed Flight 5191 casualty Steve McElravy – yet another Comair "coincidence": "Steinberg [is the] CEO and president of WestCare, president of Therapeutic Communities of America [TCA] and a former member of the National Advisory Council of SAMHSA, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment."248
Arnold Andrews (center), late VP of Operation Par and the WestCare Foundation
SAMHSA has funded a number of offshoots of Mel Sembler's Straight, Inc. (Pathways Family Centers in Indianapolis, Kids Helping Kids of Cincinnati, and Growing Together and Turn About), and Sembler has continued to pander to power.249 (On September 21, the International Herald Tribune reported, "A prominent Republican who chairs I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's legal defense fund in the CIA leak affair co-hosted a fundraiser Wednesday for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is running for re-election as an independent after losing the Democratic party primary. Mel Sembler, a former Republican National Committee finance chairman, helped organize a reception that raised about a "couple hundred thousand dollars" for Lieberman, who was in attendance. Sembler said the event at his firm's office in St. Petersburg, Florida, drew a mix of Republican, Democratic and independent donors. 'He's a man of principle,' Sembler, a former ambassador to Italy and Australia, said of Lieberman ... 'He's an excellent candidate. We're happy to support him.' 
"Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, was indicted last year on charges that he lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about how he learned CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and when he subsequently told reporters. Sembler, who is board chairman of the Sembler Company, a real estate and shopping center development company, said he has worked hard to raise money for Libby's legal defense fund. 'It's amazing to go to all this hard work when a crime never got committed,' said Sembler, who also described himself as 'dear friends' with Cheney."250)
All of this has the implied blessing of The Lord on High, of course ...
Charles Curie, pill pusher in Pennsylvania, SAMHSA director under H&HS secretary Tommy Thompson, involved the agency in Access to Recovery, according to the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities web site, "a $600 million project to expand drug and alcohol treatment capacity for voucher programs, and to use faith-based service providers as well as medical-based. The impetus for the project, said Curie, is the recognition that the path to a person’s wellness involves treating the mental, emotional and spiritual, as well as the physical aspects of the individual."251
McElravy, the Ananda Margan transcendentalist, found his niche at high-minded H&HS ...
So did Mormon Mike Leavitt (R-Utah), Thompson's successor at the helm of Health and Human Services. It would take an entire book to detail the corruption that Leavitt has been involved in; here is a brief list of summaries with cites:
MICHAEL OKERLUND LEAVITT (born February 11, 1951 in Cedar City, Utah), Secretary of Health and Human Services.
"On August 11, 2003, Governor Leavitt was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at a press conference in Aurora, Colorado. He was confirmed to this office on October 28, 2003 by a vote of 88-8 in the United States Senate. Leavitt resigned the Utah governor's office on November 5. He was sworn in as the 10th Administrator of the EPA the following day. On December 13, 2004, Leavitt was nominated by Bush to succeed Tommy Thompson as Secretary of Health and Human Services and was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on January 26, 2005.
"Mr. Leavitt has described the avian flu virus as the most serious threat to American security ...
Mr. Leavitt's cited the work of the World Health Organization's Dr. Michael McCoy as the most probative scientific work into the threat of the avian flu.
"Leavitt also serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council."
(Source: Wikipedia)
http://www.commondreams.org/scriptfiles/views03/1215-07.htm
December 15, 2003
Home, Home on the (Radioactive) Range
by TomDispatch.com
"Under former governor, now EPA director Michael Leavitt, Utah regulators were more like lap dogs than watch dogs with only one trick in their repertoire: roll over. Predatory corporations peddling toxic waste disposal, who knew an anemic civic environment when they saw one, took full advantage. Each new environmental horror pried opened the gate a bit further for the next poisonous monster to slither in.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0104.mencimer.html
Theocracy in America – What Gentile life in Mormon Utah can Teach Us about Church and State
By Stephanie Mencimer
"Last year, the non-church-owned Salt Lake Tribune published a three-part series on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a dark moment in church history when Mormon settlers slaughtered a group of emigrants from Arkansas in 1858. The church has long tried to downplay the events at Mountain Meadows, and official lore maintains that sympathetic Mormons had rescued the emigrants' children during the massacre. But in 1999, an anthropologist studying the bones from a mass grave at the massacre site discovered that many of the victims had been shot in the face at close range, including young children.
"Adding to the scandal, the Tribune revealed that Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (a descendant of one of the killers), had cut short the anthropologist's work and ordered the bones reburied in the desert to prevent further study. Not a word of the story appeared in the church-owned Deseret News, Salt Lake's other daily paper. And not long after the series, the church attempted to buy the Tribune as part of a hostile takeover---a move the staff believed was designed to silence the independent paper. The purchase is still in litigation."
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.PrintableArticle?article_id=14454
The Latest Bounce
Follow-up
by Laura Paskus
"During his introductory address, the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Mike Leavitt, told of a visit to President Bush’s Crawford ranch: 'I’m from the West, and I know love of the land when I see it,' he said. Leavitt then announced plans to implement Bush’s Clear Skies Initiative, which, among other things, allows coal-fired power plants to send more mercury into the air. Under the plan, rather than cleaning up their act, polluters can trade 'pollution credits' with less-polluting plants (HCN, 9/29/03: Who’s at the helm?)."
http://schreinervideo.blogspot.com/
Utah Pollution Worsens to Red Alert
"A new report by the Interior Department discovers that they themselves have not been collecting royalties owed them by Big Oil companies drilling on public land. Everyone else has known this for years but Bushites like former Interior Department director Gale Norton of Colorado and former EPA director and Utah governor Mike Leavitt covered it up or ignored it."
http://3rdave.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html
Leavitt takes a page from Abramoff
"Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, and Grover Norquist would approve of ex-Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt's (current Bush secretary of HHS) sham charity. After all, its what they used to funnel money to their favorite cause: themselves.
The Leavitts used nearly $9 million of their assets to set up the foundation in 2000 under an obscure provision of the federal tax code. In 2002, 2003 and 2004, the Leavitt organization donated less than 1 percent of its assets.
... While Mike Leavitt alone has claimed about $1.2 million in tax write-offs since 2000, the foundation gave away only $49,000 in 2002 and $52,000 the next year, according to tax returns and other documents filed by the foundation. Meanwhile, the foundation's assets have been used for a $332,000 loan to Leavitt Land and Investment Inc., in which the secretary owns a significant stake, and other secured loans for insurance and real estate deals, said Alan Jones, a trustee of the organization.
"Leavitt Land and Investment, in turn, extended an interest-free loan to Leavitt in 2002 valued at more than $250,001, according to a recent financial disclosure."
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/feat_2004-01-01.cfm
Year in Review
"On June 20, Gov. Mike Leavitt denied he was even remotely interested in replacing outgoing Christy Todd Whitman as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, saying that assuming the position would be 'highly problematic.' It wasn’t disclosed whether his 'highly problematic' sticking point was that little 2000 promise he made to Utah voters about finishing his term if elected, or any one of such toxic incidentals as Envirocare, MagCorp, Whirling Disease, or speculation that a new bio-terror zombie flick called 28 Days Later was actually a documentary about Ogden."
http://www.dmiblog.net/archives/2006/07/bless_the_whistleblowers_part.html
Bless the Whistleblowers: Part III of the Leavitt Foundation Story
"Bless the whistleblowers! Remember when the whistleblowers at Enron, WorldCom, and the FBI were honored as the Time Magazine 2002 Persons of the Year? Unfortunately, among nonprofits, there is too often an understanding that whistleblowing isn't appropriate behavior, violating the omerta that allows some of the unfortunate charity scandals to fester out of control. Despite the propensity of some nonprofit trade associations to sound like shills for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in their apocaplytic denunciations of Sarbanes-Oxley, one of the only two provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley law that expressly apply to nonprofits is the law's whistleblower protection language.
"Let's hope it protects a brave woman who in an act of civil disobedience blew the whistle on HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt's use of a Type III Supporting Organization as his preferred vehicle for charity and philanthropy. In previous posts to the DMI Blog on Leavitt's foundation and later the Leavitts' defense of their foundation, we discussed the issues involved with the Leavitt family's apparently legal but less than savory use of a Type III Supporting Organization, with activities that included spending very little for charity and philanthropy, devoting their grantmaking to charities associated with the Leavitt family for the most part, and tapping the foundation for loans for Leavitt family business interests.
"On NPR's All Things Considered, in a story which we contributed to significantly, an NPR reporter found the answer to something that we had also found but couldn't explain. When the Leavitt Foundation gave grants to the Southern Utah Foundation, the Southern Utah Foundation's Form 990s listed grants that institution gave to the Leavitt Foundation, a practice called "round-tripping". Why would an organization supported by a Type III Supporting Organization, in this case the Dixie and Anne Leavitt Foundation, give some of the money back?
"The answer was found in the civil disobedience of the Southern Utah Foundation's treasurer, one Rhea Tuft. The Southern Utah Foundation was repeatedly hit with Leavitt requests that it use its Leavitt grants for things that would have directly benefitted Leavitt family members, such as paying for some Leavitts (there are a lot of them--the HHS Secretary has 5 brothers) to go to Latin America to work on a water project, a request that the Southern Utah Foundation turned down.
"One item the Southern Utah Foundation didn't turn down was the use of $578,500 of Leavitt Foundation contributions for a housing scholarship program at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, to pay for the housing costs of needy students. The money went entirely to pay for housing owned by Leavitt Land and Investment. In other words, the Leavitts' real estate firm was the beneficiary of the entire $578,500 charitable grant.
"This obviously ticked off Ms. Tuft. Rather than listing the $578,500 as a grant to the university for the housing scholarship program, Ms. Tuft in her capacity as the Southern Utah Foundation treasurer listed the grant as going back to the Leavitt Foundation because the money, in the end, DID go back to the Leavitts, that is, their business bank account. Ms. Tuft's explanation simply confirmed everything we've said about the Leavitt family's Type III Supporting Organization: "I don't think it was illegal. I just don't think it was right."
"That is the problem right there, Ms. Tuft. So far, what the Leavitts have done with their foundation may very well be legal, but it's lousy. That's why the Internal Revenue Service has included Type III Supporting Organizations on its list of the Dirty Dozen tax scams in both 2005 and 2006. That's why the Senate Finance Committee originally wanted to get rid of Type IIIs. That's why a federal cabinet officer shouldn't have chosen a Type III Supporting Organization as his family's preferred charitable vehicle.
"Ms. Tuft, if they go after you, you'll have a bunch of us standing up to defend your courage in calling out the Leavitt's charitable and business round-tripping."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php title=Bush_regime_environmental_record
Bush regime environmental record
"To avoid answering questions posed by six U.S. Senators concerned with the records of President Bush and EPA nominee Michael Leavitt on environmental issues that affect the lives of millions of Americans, Senate Republicans Bill Frist (R-TN) and Mitch McConnel (R-KY) last night filed a cloture petition ( write a petition ) to override "holds" placed on Leavitt's nomination and to cut off any floor debate--before any debate has even begun." – EarthJustice
"The Senators with holds on Mike Leavitt's confirmation vote have asked legitimate questions about this nomination. The Senators have questions that have yet to be answered about whether Governor Leavitt and President Bush will continue to weaken our nation's environmental safeguards. They are refusing to release information about their anti-environmental policies," said Joan Mulhern, senior legislative counsel for Earthjustice.
"This disrespectful disregard of traditional Senate processes is an effort to force a vote on the EPA nomination before many important questions can even be asked," said Mulhern. 'The Bush administration and Senate Republican leadership apparently don't believe they have to answer to anyone about their policies to destroy federal environmental safeguards. These are life and death issues for many Americans - will our drinking water be clean? Is the air safe for our kids to breathe? The Bush White House and Governor Leavitt do not want to answer these questions.'"
http://www.bird-flu-history.com/2006/07/27/hhs-secretary-mike-leavitt-joined-mayor-bloomberg-.php
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Joined Mayor Bloomberg at New York City
Jul 2006 15
"Acknowledging that a possible flu pandemic would require a strong local response, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt signed a resolution, committing the city and federal government to planning efforts.
"They did so before an audience of public health officials, business and community leaders, gathered to address pandemic flu preparedness. Secretary Leavitt is in New York City as part of a national tour, as the federal government prepares the country for a potential influenza pandemic."
And so on and on and on ...
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
MIND CONTROL ... MIND CONTROL ... AND MORE OF THE SAME ...
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Trail of Pestilence
Hey there brothers
the time is near
you wouldn't listen
now it's too clear
power madmen
screwed our world
now we suffer
for their thrills ...
We let it happen
we sealed our fate
we're thinking twice, now
but it's too late
burning bodies
with eyes that glow
distorted vision
of a life we've known
- Saint Vitus
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NOTES
241.) Heinrich Himmler Jewish resettlement order, "Documents of the Holocaust," Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.
242.) Wes Fager blog entry, "Dead: James T. Russell, former Pinellas County States Attorney," January 06, 2006
http://pinellascounty.blogspot.com/
"Republican James T. Russell, the former states attorney for Pinellas County Florida, died at his home in Tennessee on Jan. 2, 2006. They say when a man dies, if you can not say anything good about him, say nothing at all. So this will be awkward for us. From what we have read about the man, he had a reputation for going after local political corruption and for that we are grateful because Pinellas County Florida is one of the most corrupt political systems in the nation..."
243.) Maia Szalavitz, "TOUGH LOVE QUACKERY," Cato Institute paper, April 20, 2006.
http://www.nospank.net/szlvtz2.htm
244.) Wes Fager, "Straight: Mel and Betty Sembler's $95 million charity marketing to white families and violating human rights & civil liberties," 2000.
http://www.thestraights.com/reports/violatingrights.htm
245.) Wesley Fager, "Ambassador Melvin Sember, wife Betty and Straight, Inc.: should they be ambassadors of national drug policy, or jailed?" March 8, 2005.
http://drugfreeamericafoundation.blogspot.com/2005/03/ambassador-melvin-sembler-wife-betty.html
246.)
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=83936
247.) Keith Whitney and Michael King, "There But For the Grace of God," WXIA-TV (Channel 11 in Atlanta), August 29, 2006.
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=83936
248.) "Hythiam Expands Licensing to Miami," Managed Care Weekly Digest, May 18, 2005.
biz.yahoo.com/bw/050518/185356.html?.v=1 Mirrored here:
http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=82251498#ref770899558
249.) "Oakton Institute call for Orlando and Washington Protests, 9/11/03 - 9/12/03."
http://www.thestraights.com/pickets/dc-orlando-091103-press-rel-encl1.htm
250.) AP release, "Top Republican Co-Hosted Fund-raiser for Leiberman," September 21, 2006.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/21/america/NA_POL_US_Connecticut_Senate.php
251.) "Charles Curie, Advocate for the ill"
http://www.cccu.org/chem/profileID.34/profile.asp
On July 19, 1942 – the same day that Flight 5191 passenger Arnold Andrews was born – Heinrich Himmler issued his order for "The Completion of the 'Final Solution' in the Government-General." Himmler therewith commanded that resettlement of the entire Jewish population of Germany be carried out and completed by the end of the year. After December 31, "no persons of Jewish origin may remain within the Government-General" unless they were in "collection camps" in Eastern Europe. Himmler's order was "required with
a view to the necessary ethnic division of races and peoples for the New Order in Europe, and also in the interests of the security and cleanliness of the German Reich and its sphere of interest. Every breach of this regulation spells a danger to quiet and order in the entire German sphere of interest, a point of application for the resistance movement and a source of moral and physical pestilence."241Several generations of scientific advancement later, the American OverClass (who provoked much of the anti-Semitic agitation in the Nazi Germany – eg. Henry Ford's "The International Jew" sold over 11-million copies) is still bent on the quiet implementation of racial hygiene policies.
Mel and Betty Sembler, for example.
Straight, Inc., the drug-abuse treatment network founded and operated by Mel Sembler – one that bore an uncanny resemblance to the torture at GUANTANAMO (see part 3: Deason, ACS and detainee torture) in its CIA-conceived mind control "treatment" regimen – took white kids, preferably with wealthy parents who felt no qualms over Sembler's "tough" approach to therapeutic strategy.242 Maia Szalavitz, a drug treatment authority in a Cato Foundation presentation on April 1, 2006, described the Guantanamo/Abu Ghraib methods developed by Mel Sembler: "Straight put kids on peanut-butter-only diets for weeks, kept them awake with no sleep whatsoever for days, forced them to spank each other and made them maintain various stress positions or exercise to the point of exhaustion.
"It constantly humiliated participants, famously gagging some with Kotex, calling girls 'sluts' and boys 'fags' and making those who had been sexually abused take responsibility for their 'part' in seducing the pedophiles who had molested them.
Straight also extensively used isolation and restraint, which involved "a teen being thrown violently to the floor by fellow participants and then sat upon by multiple people, sometimes someone would even restrict the victim’s breathing by holding the mouth and nose closed. This, too, often lead to serious injuries – many of which went untreated so the program could avoid arousing suspicion from medical personnel."243
Betty SemblerOperation PAR – the drug-abuse treatment network overseen by wife Betty Sembler – employed Arnold Andrews for 23 years. This program was, by design, not for white kids but low-income blacks.244 Back in 1978, the Saint Petersburg Times published a "Special On-site Monitoring Report on Straight," by Florida’s Bureau of Criminal Justice Planning and Assistance Assistant Chief John H. Dale, Jr. found that Operation PAR treated an average population base of 40-50 adolescents ... all were black.245
Wes Fager followed the Deep Throat money trail, and found a mess of local, state and national conservative connections: "The Florida Department of Law
Enforcement (FDLE) has been granting Betty Sembler's Operation PAR $64,000 a year since 1999. Guy Tunnell, commissioner of FDLE, and James "Tim" Moore, former commissioner of FDLE, are members of the Advisory Board for DFAF. In 1995 the Florida Attorney General's office granted Operation PAR $59,000. 
CHARLIE CRIST (who will prove to be significant in the execution of CIA-Republican airplane crashes), the present AG, "has been a friend of Mel's son Brent since childhood. ... Op PAR board member Terry Hensley is the former executive director of DFAF. Before that he was chief of police for St. Petersburg. Operation PAR works with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. It appears that Betty Sembler had something to do with the creation of the St. Petersburg-based Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training organization that trains law enforcement officials nationwide in drug interdiction. She serves on MCTFT's Advisory Board with Pinellas County's sheriff Jim Coates and Guy Tunnell, commissioner of FDLE. Betty Sembler is Florida Governor Jeb Bush's former finance co-chairman. In 2000 Jeb Bush proposed to spend $16.4 million for the construction of more juvenile residential centers so that incarceration stays could be increased by five months. Jeb Bush is on the Advisory Board for DFAF. His wife Columba and his lieutenant governor, Toni Jennings, are also on DFAF's Advisory Board."246Andrews left Operation PAR in 2004 for the executive vice president position at the WestCare Foundation, based in Las Vegas.
The Funeral for Arnold Andrews
The president of the WestCare Foundation is Richard Steinberg – now, he intended to be on Flight 5191, but (not the first time in this account, nor the last) God interceded:There But For the Grace of God
One of those traveling on the ill-fated Comair plane was Arnold Andrews, a senior vice president of Westcare, a national non-profit agency with offices in Metro Atlanta. ... Andrews was supposed to be in Atlanta on Monday night for a meeting in DeKalb County with Westcare, a non-profit health and human services agency with an outreach that extends across America. ... "Andrews’ chair in the boardroom sat vacant Monday night, both literally and figuratively ...
"Richard Steinberg was SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE FLIGHT WITH ANDREWS, but missed it due to a problem with a connecting flight."247 (Connecting flight complications ... in the middle of the night? Flight 5191 was scheduled for departure at 6:00 am – Steinberg wanted a connecting flight at ... when? 3:00 in the morning? Flight 5191 passengers were highly unusual people - they had no need for sleep, evidently.)
Yahoo News reports that Richard Steinberg hails from SAMHSA – the same agency that employed Flight 5191 casualty Steve McElravy – yet another Comair "coincidence": "Steinberg [is the] CEO and president of WestCare, president of Therapeutic Communities of America [TCA] and a former member of the National Advisory Council of SAMHSA, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment."248
Arnold Andrews (center), late VP of Operation Par and the WestCare Foundation
SAMHSA has funded a number of offshoots of Mel Sembler's Straight, Inc. (Pathways Family Centers in Indianapolis, Kids Helping Kids of Cincinnati, and Growing Together and Turn About), and Sembler has continued to pander to power.249 (On September 21, the International Herald Tribune reported, "A prominent Republican who chairs I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's legal defense fund in the CIA leak affair co-hosted a fundraiser Wednesday for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is running for re-election as an independent after losing the Democratic party primary. Mel Sembler, a former Republican National Committee finance chairman, helped organize a reception that raised about a "couple hundred thousand dollars" for Lieberman, who was in attendance. Sembler said the event at his firm's office in St. Petersburg, Florida, drew a mix of Republican, Democratic and independent donors. 'He's a man of principle,' Sembler, a former ambassador to Italy and Australia, said of Lieberman ... 'He's an excellent candidate. We're happy to support him.' 
"Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, was indicted last year on charges that he lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about how he learned CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and when he subsequently told reporters. Sembler, who is board chairman of the Sembler Company, a real estate and shopping center development company, said he has worked hard to raise money for Libby's legal defense fund. 'It's amazing to go to all this hard work when a crime never got committed,' said Sembler, who also described himself as 'dear friends' with Cheney."250)All of this has the implied blessing of The Lord on High, of course ...
Charles Curie, pill pusher in Pennsylvania, SAMHSA director under H&HS secretary Tommy Thompson, involved the agency in Access to Recovery, according to the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities web site, "a $600 million project to expand drug and alcohol treatment capacity for voucher programs, and to use faith-based service providers as well as medical-based. The impetus for the project, said Curie, is the recognition that the path to a person’s wellness involves treating the mental, emotional and spiritual, as well as the physical aspects of the individual."251
McElravy, the Ananda Margan transcendentalist, found his niche at high-minded H&HS ... So did Mormon Mike Leavitt (R-Utah), Thompson's successor at the helm of Health and Human Services. It would take an entire book to detail the corruption that Leavitt has been involved in; here is a brief list of summaries with cites:
MICHAEL OKERLUND LEAVITT (born February 11, 1951 in Cedar City, Utah), Secretary of Health and Human Services."On August 11, 2003, Governor Leavitt was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at a press conference in Aurora, Colorado. He was confirmed to this office on October 28, 2003 by a vote of 88-8 in the United States Senate. Leavitt resigned the Utah governor's office on November 5. He was sworn in as the 10th Administrator of the EPA the following day. On December 13, 2004, Leavitt was nominated by Bush to succeed Tommy Thompson as Secretary of Health and Human Services and was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on January 26, 2005.
"Mr. Leavitt has described the avian flu virus as the most serious threat to American security ...
Mr. Leavitt's cited the work of the World Health Organization's Dr. Michael McCoy as the most probative scientific work into the threat of the avian flu."Leavitt also serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council."
(Source: Wikipedia)
http://www.commondreams.org/scriptfiles/views03/1215-07.htm
December 15, 2003
Home, Home on the (Radioactive) Range
by TomDispatch.com
"Under former governor, now EPA director Michael Leavitt, Utah regulators were more like lap dogs than watch dogs with only one trick in their repertoire: roll over. Predatory corporations peddling toxic waste disposal, who knew an anemic civic environment when they saw one, took full advantage. Each new environmental horror pried opened the gate a bit further for the next poisonous monster to slither in.http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0104.mencimer.html
Theocracy in America – What Gentile life in Mormon Utah can Teach Us about Church and State
By Stephanie Mencimer
"Last year, the non-church-owned Salt Lake Tribune published a three-part series on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a dark moment in church history when Mormon settlers slaughtered a group of emigrants from Arkansas in 1858. The church has long tried to downplay the events at Mountain Meadows, and official lore maintains that sympathetic Mormons had rescued the emigrants' children during the massacre. But in 1999, an anthropologist studying the bones from a mass grave at the massacre site discovered that many of the victims had been shot in the face at close range, including young children.
"Adding to the scandal, the Tribune revealed that Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (a descendant of one of the killers), had cut short the anthropologist's work and ordered the bones reburied in the desert to prevent further study. Not a word of the story appeared in the church-owned Deseret News, Salt Lake's other daily paper. And not long after the series, the church attempted to buy the Tribune as part of a hostile takeover---a move the staff believed was designed to silence the independent paper. The purchase is still in litigation."http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.PrintableArticle?article_id=14454
The Latest Bounce
Follow-up
by Laura Paskus
"During his introductory address, the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Mike Leavitt, told of a visit to President Bush’s Crawford ranch: 'I’m from the West, and I know love of the land when I see it,' he said. Leavitt then announced plans to implement Bush’s Clear Skies Initiative, which, among other things, allows coal-fired power plants to send more mercury into the air. Under the plan, rather than cleaning up their act, polluters can trade 'pollution credits' with less-polluting plants (HCN, 9/29/03: Who’s at the helm?)."
http://schreinervideo.blogspot.com/
Utah Pollution Worsens to Red Alert
"A new report by the Interior Department discovers that they themselves have not been collecting royalties owed them by Big Oil companies drilling on public land. Everyone else has known this for years but Bushites like former Interior Department director Gale Norton of Colorado and former EPA director and Utah governor Mike Leavitt covered it up or ignored it."
http://3rdave.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html
Leavitt takes a page from Abramoff
"Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, and Grover Norquist would approve of ex-Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt's (current Bush secretary of HHS) sham charity. After all, its what they used to funnel money to their favorite cause: themselves.
The Leavitts used nearly $9 million of their assets to set up the foundation in 2000 under an obscure provision of the federal tax code. In 2002, 2003 and 2004, the Leavitt organization donated less than 1 percent of its assets.
... While Mike Leavitt alone has claimed about $1.2 million in tax write-offs since 2000, the foundation gave away only $49,000 in 2002 and $52,000 the next year, according to tax returns and other documents filed by the foundation. Meanwhile, the foundation's assets have been used for a $332,000 loan to Leavitt Land and Investment Inc., in which the secretary owns a significant stake, and other secured loans for insurance and real estate deals, said Alan Jones, a trustee of the organization.
"Leavitt Land and Investment, in turn, extended an interest-free loan to Leavitt in 2002 valued at more than $250,001, according to a recent financial disclosure."
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/feat_2004-01-01.cfm
Year in Review
"On June 20, Gov. Mike Leavitt denied he was even remotely interested in replacing outgoing Christy Todd Whitman as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, saying that assuming the position would be 'highly problematic.' It wasn’t disclosed whether his 'highly problematic' sticking point was that little 2000 promise he made to Utah voters about finishing his term if elected, or any one of such toxic incidentals as Envirocare, MagCorp, Whirling Disease, or speculation that a new bio-terror zombie flick called 28 Days Later was actually a documentary about Ogden."
http://www.dmiblog.net/archives/2006/07/bless_the_whistleblowers_part.html
Bless the Whistleblowers: Part III of the Leavitt Foundation Story
"Bless the whistleblowers! Remember when the whistleblowers at Enron, WorldCom, and the FBI were honored as the Time Magazine 2002 Persons of the Year? Unfortunately, among nonprofits, there is too often an understanding that whistleblowing isn't appropriate behavior, violating the omerta that allows some of the unfortunate charity scandals to fester out of control. Despite the propensity of some nonprofit trade associations to sound like shills for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in their apocaplytic denunciations of Sarbanes-Oxley, one of the only two provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley law that expressly apply to nonprofits is the law's whistleblower protection language.
"Let's hope it protects a brave woman who in an act of civil disobedience blew the whistle on HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt's use of a Type III Supporting Organization as his preferred vehicle for charity and philanthropy. In previous posts to the DMI Blog on Leavitt's foundation and later the Leavitts' defense of their foundation, we discussed the issues involved with the Leavitt family's apparently legal but less than savory use of a Type III Supporting Organization, with activities that included spending very little for charity and philanthropy, devoting their grantmaking to charities associated with the Leavitt family for the most part, and tapping the foundation for loans for Leavitt family business interests.
"On NPR's All Things Considered, in a story which we contributed to significantly, an NPR reporter found the answer to something that we had also found but couldn't explain. When the Leavitt Foundation gave grants to the Southern Utah Foundation, the Southern Utah Foundation's Form 990s listed grants that institution gave to the Leavitt Foundation, a practice called "round-tripping". Why would an organization supported by a Type III Supporting Organization, in this case the Dixie and Anne Leavitt Foundation, give some of the money back?
"The answer was found in the civil disobedience of the Southern Utah Foundation's treasurer, one Rhea Tuft. The Southern Utah Foundation was repeatedly hit with Leavitt requests that it use its Leavitt grants for things that would have directly benefitted Leavitt family members, such as paying for some Leavitts (there are a lot of them--the HHS Secretary has 5 brothers) to go to Latin America to work on a water project, a request that the Southern Utah Foundation turned down.
"One item the Southern Utah Foundation didn't turn down was the use of $578,500 of Leavitt Foundation contributions for a housing scholarship program at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, to pay for the housing costs of needy students. The money went entirely to pay for housing owned by Leavitt Land and Investment. In other words, the Leavitts' real estate firm was the beneficiary of the entire $578,500 charitable grant.
"This obviously ticked off Ms. Tuft. Rather than listing the $578,500 as a grant to the university for the housing scholarship program, Ms. Tuft in her capacity as the Southern Utah Foundation treasurer listed the grant as going back to the Leavitt Foundation because the money, in the end, DID go back to the Leavitts, that is, their business bank account. Ms. Tuft's explanation simply confirmed everything we've said about the Leavitt family's Type III Supporting Organization: "I don't think it was illegal. I just don't think it was right."
"That is the problem right there, Ms. Tuft. So far, what the Leavitts have done with their foundation may very well be legal, but it's lousy. That's why the Internal Revenue Service has included Type III Supporting Organizations on its list of the Dirty Dozen tax scams in both 2005 and 2006. That's why the Senate Finance Committee originally wanted to get rid of Type IIIs. That's why a federal cabinet officer shouldn't have chosen a Type III Supporting Organization as his family's preferred charitable vehicle.
"Ms. Tuft, if they go after you, you'll have a bunch of us standing up to defend your courage in calling out the Leavitt's charitable and business round-tripping."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php title=Bush_regime_environmental_record
Bush regime environmental record"To avoid answering questions posed by six U.S. Senators concerned with the records of President Bush and EPA nominee Michael Leavitt on environmental issues that affect the lives of millions of Americans, Senate Republicans Bill Frist (R-TN) and Mitch McConnel (R-KY) last night filed a cloture petition ( write a petition ) to override "holds" placed on Leavitt's nomination and to cut off any floor debate--before any debate has even begun." – EarthJustice
"The Senators with holds on Mike Leavitt's confirmation vote have asked legitimate questions about this nomination. The Senators have questions that have yet to be answered about whether Governor Leavitt and President Bush will continue to weaken our nation's environmental safeguards. They are refusing to release information about their anti-environmental policies," said Joan Mulhern, senior legislative counsel for Earthjustice.
"This disrespectful disregard of traditional Senate processes is an effort to force a vote on the EPA nomination before many important questions can even be asked," said Mulhern. 'The Bush administration and Senate Republican leadership apparently don't believe they have to answer to anyone about their policies to destroy federal environmental safeguards. These are life and death issues for many Americans - will our drinking water be clean? Is the air safe for our kids to breathe? The Bush White House and Governor Leavitt do not want to answer these questions.'"
http://www.bird-flu-history.com/2006/07/27/hhs-secretary-mike-leavitt-joined-mayor-bloomberg-.php
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Joined Mayor Bloomberg at New York City
Jul 2006 15
"Acknowledging that a possible flu pandemic would require a strong local response, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt signed a resolution, committing the city and federal government to planning efforts.
"They did so before an audience of public health officials, business and community leaders, gathered to address pandemic flu preparedness. Secretary Leavitt is in New York City as part of a national tour, as the federal government prepares the country for a potential influenza pandemic."And so on and on and on ...
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
MIND CONTROL ... MIND CONTROL ... AND MORE OF THE SAME ...
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Trail of Pestilence
Hey there brothers
the time is near
you wouldn't listen
now it's too clear
power madmen
screwed our world
now we suffer
for their thrills ...
We let it happen
we sealed our fate
we're thinking twice, now
but it's too late
burning bodies
with eyes that glow
distorted vision
of a life we've known
- Saint Vitus
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NOTES
241.) Heinrich Himmler Jewish resettlement order, "Documents of the Holocaust," Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.
242.) Wes Fager blog entry, "Dead: James T. Russell, former Pinellas County States Attorney," January 06, 2006
http://pinellascounty.blogspot.com/
"Republican James T. Russell, the former states attorney for Pinellas County Florida, died at his home in Tennessee on Jan. 2, 2006. They say when a man dies, if you can not say anything good about him, say nothing at all. So this will be awkward for us. From what we have read about the man, he had a reputation for going after local political corruption and for that we are grateful because Pinellas County Florida is one of the most corrupt political systems in the nation..."
243.) Maia Szalavitz, "TOUGH LOVE QUACKERY," Cato Institute paper, April 20, 2006.
http://www.nospank.net/szlvtz2.htm
244.) Wes Fager, "Straight: Mel and Betty Sembler's $95 million charity marketing to white families and violating human rights & civil liberties," 2000.
http://www.thestraights.com/reports/violatingrights.htm
245.) Wesley Fager, "Ambassador Melvin Sember, wife Betty and Straight, Inc.: should they be ambassadors of national drug policy, or jailed?" March 8, 2005.
http://drugfreeamericafoundation.blogspot.com/2005/03/ambassador-melvin-sembler-wife-betty.html
246.)
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=83936
247.) Keith Whitney and Michael King, "There But For the Grace of God," WXIA-TV (Channel 11 in Atlanta), August 29, 2006.
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=83936
248.) "Hythiam Expands Licensing to Miami," Managed Care Weekly Digest, May 18, 2005.
biz.yahoo.com/bw/050518/185356.html?.v=1 Mirrored here:
http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=82251498#ref770899558
249.) "Oakton Institute call for Orlando and Washington Protests, 9/11/03 - 9/12/03."
http://www.thestraights.com/pickets/dc-orlando-091103-press-rel-encl1.htm
250.) AP release, "Top Republican Co-Hosted Fund-raiser for Leiberman," September 21, 2006.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/21/america/NA_POL_US_Connecticut_Senate.php
251.) "Charles Curie, Advocate for the ill"
http://www.cccu.org/chem/profileID.34/profile.asp
Saturday, December 16, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 32 PRELUDE: ARNOLD ANDREWS, OPERATION PAR & CIA MIND CONTROL
Arnold Andrews died on Comair. Like SAMHSA's Steve McElravy, he was employed in the battle against drug abuse.Contents of this section:
1.) Arnold Andrews, R.I.P., & OPERATION PAR
2.) Wes Fager, editor of www.theStraights.com (an Internet newspaper about child abuse in therapeutic communities), documents the sickening history of OPERATION PAR, including ties to the Bush "faith-based" syndicate, CIA mind control, and figures relevant to the Comair crash story.http://www.sptimes.com/2006/08/29/
news_pf/Tampabay/Ky_crash_kills__serva.shtml
Ky. crash kills 'servant' of poor
Arnold Andrews worked behind the scenes for decades for the bay area's downtrodden.
LEONORA LAPETER
Published August 29, 2006
Arnold Andrews, who was killed in a commuter plane crash in Kentucky on Sunday, rarely made news - but left his imprint all over the Tampa Bay area.
He helped everyone from migrant workers, Cubans and hurricane victims to children with cancer, and the drug and alcohol addicted. One of his latest projects was a training center for homeless families in St. Petersburg.
"He did so much behind-the-scenes work for people," said Hillsborough Commissioner Ronda Storms, who met him eight years ago. "Just completely causing big and small things to be done on behalf of people who had no voice and no power."
Andrews was among 49 people killed when a Comair regional jet crashed after taking off from Lexington's Blue Grass Field airport.
Andrews, 64, was an executive with WestCare Foundation, a non-profit that runs mental health and substance abuse programs. He had attended a company board meeting in Lexington and was scheduled to return Saturday night.
But HIS PLANE HAD A MECHANICAL PROBLEM, he told longtime friend and colleague Bob Neri when the two spoke Saturday night. ...
FOR 23 YEARS HE WORKED FOR OPERATION PAR (Parental Awareness and Responsibility), a drug treatment program serving Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Lee counties. He started as a volunteer and counselor and left as executive vice president.
"We've lost someone who behind the scenes has masterminded quite a few things," said Watson Haynes, a friend of 35 years who worked with Andrews at Operation PAR.
Andrews became executive director of Catholic Charities in St. Petersburg for a decade, serving also as vice chair on Catholic Charities USA.
"He had a real fondness for the poor and the downtrodden," said Sheila Lopez, chief operating officer of Catholic Charities, Diocese of St. Petersburg Inc., who also worked with him at Operation PAR. "He loved working in particular with migrant workers. His dream was to build the San Jose Mission."
Andrews was key in getting grants to set up the residential community for low-income farm workers in Dover in Hillsborough County. ...
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http://drugfreeamericafoundation.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_archive.html
Drug Free America Foundation, formerly known as Straight, Inc.
From 1976-1985 it was known as Straight, Inc. and had a reputation for abusing kids as a drug rehabilitation program. In 1985 it changed its name to Straight Foundation, Inc. in order to protect its money and its principals from civil suits. In 1995 it was changed again to Drug Free America Foundation. DFAF is a national and international drug policy think tank and provider of services for drug free work places.
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Florida's Supreme Court strikes down statue of limitations, allows abuse law suit 20 years later
In 1995 a woman identified as S.A.P. filed a lawsuit accussing the state of Florida of concealing details of how she was "beaten, burned choked and denied food" in 1979 at the age of 3 and 4. The judge threw it out under Florida's 4 year statue of limitations law (section 768.28(13)). S.A.P. appealed and the matter made its way to Florida's Supreme Court. On November 27, 2002, in a 5-2 decision, Florida's Supreme Court ruled that the "statute of limitations" could not stop a lawsuit against the state "when one of the allegations in the suit says the state concealed facts about the abuse and delayed the filing of the lawsuit." [Source: Naples Daily News 11/28/02 by Jackie Hallifax, AP] Related articles:
1. 1973: Pinellas County States Attorney James T. Russell and County Sheriff Don Genung invite The Seed, Straight's progenator, to Pinellas County. Russell and 6th Circuit judges join The Seed's advisory board.
2. 1978: The Dale Report confirms child abuse at Straight. State Attorney James T. Russell does absolutely nothing while state health officials bow to political pressure from the Sembler crowd, hide the abuse in its official report, and fires its chief investigator.
3. 1978: Sixteen year old Jerry Vancil exposes child abuse at Straight to St. Pete Times but state investigation is dropped when Vancil dissapears. He has never been seen or heard from since (dead or alive) and the state has never bothered to look for him (or his body).
4. Ray Waymire, acting chief of police for the city of St. Petersburg, Fl., was a founding Straight board member.
5. 1987: HRS (state health department) received a complaint from a kid who escaped from Straight only to be brought back in handcuffs by a sheriff's deputy.
6. 1989: Clary Report--Florida state health officials (HRS) bow to political presure once again and allow abuse to continue. Straight Foundation secretary Donald Sullivan, MD resigns to run for state Senate and joins committee that would oversee any investigation of Straight while his wife Irene Sullivan joins Sixth Circuit and attends Betty Sembler's birthday party.
7. States Attorney James T. Russell shows favortism to Sembler by failing to prosecute anyone in his clan over the Great Cooper's Point Land Scam while his former assistant state attorney Louis Kwall (whose former partner is now a 6th Circuit judge), who may have investigated the torture of Leigh Bright, et. al., but took no action if he did, becomes attorney for one of those involved in the land scandal; joins Sembler's powerful Republican Pary Machine; and his wife becomes the Sheriff's attorney.
8. 1990s: A teenager who had escaped from Straight met with an HRS (Florida state health department) official to file a complaint against Straight. Instead the HRS official called the police who escorted the child back to Straight for further abuse.
9. The Governor, his wife, the Lieutenant Governor, the Mayor and
everybody else joins the Advisory Board of Straight (now called DFAF).
10. The Sixth Circuit and the cops collude with Straight.
11. Operation PAR is a rehabilitation tool used extensively by Pinellas County's 6th Circuit. It appears that Operation PAR has become the new treatment arm of Straight (now DFAF).
12. Florida's 6th Circuit gags Ray Bradbury to keep him from exposing its own involvement in Straight and The Seed.
13. 1978: US Congressman C.W. "Bill" Young receives three out-of-state complaints against Straight and forwards them to James T. Russell. Russell investigates but does absolutley nothing and Young lets the ball drop. (St. Pete Times, 4/30/78, p. 15B) [Also see Young and Straight; Young and pork for Sembler's Treasure Island; Sembler tells Young to give Itlalians $10M of our money.]
14. How Phil Elberg overcame the statue of limitations in the Lulu Corter case.
15. RICO and how attorney Wendall Turley overcame the statue of limitations to sue the Hare Krishna church for abusing its children 25 years ago. link
16. Suicide or Murder? (Straight and 40+ suicides)
17. Over 40 suicides: Florida jury convicts mother of child abuse resulting in suicide after judge allows a psychological autopsy to determine state of mind of deceased teenager (e.g. whether actions taken by mother drove girl to suicide).
Claims Bill. Beyond suing for recompensation, there is another possible avenue of relief. That's a claims bill. Let's say the U.S. government did wrong by knowingly exposing thousands of our soldiers to the plant defoliator Agent Orange. The US Congress can pass a special bill to give a monetary award to those who had been put in harms way. Could the Florida legislature be educated to the problem that Florida state officials colluded with Straight, looked the other way, failed to prosecute, backed down to political pressure from Mel Sembler? Could the legislature be humbled into doing the right thing and make amends for what Florida state officials allowed to happen to thousands of kids by authorizing a special claims bill to reimburse them for the harm state officials caused by their reckless failure to do their jobs. link
If David Miscaviage can go to his deposition as Admiral Farragut, then Keith Henson can go as Bozo the Clown.
Posted by Wes Fager at 3:05 PM 4 comments Links to this post
DFAF carries the logo OJJDP
OJJDP is the US government's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. If you go to Drug Free America Foundation's (formerly Straight, Inc.) web page, at the bottom right appears the logo OJJDP. What does this mean? Could DFAF and OJJDP be one and the same? (new 2/26/05)
Posted by Wes Fager at 2:13 AM 0 comments Links to this post
Friday, February 25, 2005
Has Op PAR become the treatment arm of the Drug Free America Foundation?
Or: 3 strikes and the Sixth Circuit is OUT! This article also appears on Tampa Bay Independent Media. SUMMARY Operation PAR is the biggest drug rehabilitation program in the southeast. In recent years PAR has been infiltrated by officials formerly associated with the defunct Straight, Inc. program. In its heyday Straight was the biggest juvenile rehab chain in the world, but it had a reputation for the dastardly abuse of its young clients (over 40 former clients have commited suicide) as can be seen in these links:
• a newspaper montage on Straight
• professionals comment on Straight
• the US Senate calls the methods of The Seed (the model upon which Straight is based) Communist-styled brainwashing
• Straight civil suits
• Montel Williams Show on Straight (video trailer)
• George W. Bush praises Straight (video)
• Straight Kids (a video trailer)
• Miller Newton, Straight's former national clinical director, and now with a DFAF subsidiary, settles for $11 million for abusing kids
• Tough Love rejects Straight
Mel SemblerStraight was founded and operated by US Ambassador to Italy, Melvin Sembler and his wife Betty. Today Straight is called Drug Free America Foundation. Today it specialzes in helping small businesses set up Drug Free Workplaces, and in promoting national and international drug policy. Many of Florida's Sixth Circuit justices were publicly supportive of Straight, Inc. and its predecessor The Seed. Betty Sembler and many others tied to DFAF/Straight have joined Operation PAR. The Sixth Circuit works closely with Operation PAR. Operation PAR has had no reputation for abuse. This report looks at the question, has Operation PAR become the treatment arm of DFAF? And, if so, should the Sixth Circuit be aware of it? ---
In the early 1970s a remarkable woman from Pinellas County Florida named Shirley Coletti was so concerned that her teenage daughter was using drugs that she worked with James T. Russell, the county prosecutor, and Sheriff Don Gedung to found a juvenile drug rehabilitation program they called Parental Awareness and Responsibility or Operation PAR. Op PAR has become so successful that in 2001 PAR sent a representative to the National Institute on Drug Abuse's National Conference on Drug Abuse Prevention. But Shirley Coletti did not represent PAR at the conference; a woman named Betty Sembler did. A few years after PAR was founded, Betty Sembler had been another Pinellas County mother concerned that one of her teenagers was into the drug scene. But she did not send him to PAR; she chose instead a controversial Fort Lauderdale-based therapeutic community called The Seed.
The Seed had been founded by a comedian and recovering alcoholic named Art Barker. The St. Petersburg Times reported that Barker had a mail-order degree in psychology. Barker had ambitions to make The Seed a national program. James T. Russell and Sheriff Gedung visited the program and recommended opening a Seed expansion facility in Pinellas County. Sixth Circuit (Pinellas /Pasco County) Judge Jack Dadswell had two kids in The Seed in Fort Lauderdale. He had been on the Executive Committee which had brought The Seed to St. Petersburg in Pinellas County. Sixth Circuit Justices William L. Walker and James B. Sanderlin had served on The Seed’s Advisory Board along with Russell, Gedung and Dr. Charles J. Crist, vice chairman of the Pinellas County school board and father of Charlie Crist (Florida's Attorney General). Thirty years ago Sixth Circuit Judge Jack Page boasted about sending kids to The Seed "on a daily basis." Today it's Judges Walt Logan and Dee Anna Farnell who brag about sending one kid a day to Operation PAR.
In 1974 the US Senate published a report that likened the methods of The Seed to those used by North Koreans on American servicemen (brainwashing). The Seed fell from grace after that but Betty Sembler and her husband Melvin were so enamored with The Seed that they opened their own version of The Seed which they called Straight, Inc. Mel Sembler was very wealthy and politically connected too and the two of them were able to accomplish what Art Barker had not. They made Straight a national-level program with treatment camps all over the country.
Besides peddling their program to politicians, the Sembler's were very successful in marketing Straight to the 6th Circuit as this marketing minutes shows. In 1977 Judge Page (the judge who sent kids to The Seed "on a daily basis") had called Straight "excellent"; but word of Straight's abuses were quickly leaking out. Turns out, Straight was much more destructive than The Seed had been. By 1981 Judge Page and other 6th Circuit justices had stopped sending kids to Straight. Judge Page says he started sending kids to PAR instead. He noted that a court order to Straight could involve more time than a sentence to jail for the drug offense for which the juvenile had been brought to him in the first place. He noted that PAR is a shorter program and a little more “normal” than Straight.
In 1985 the Semblers, fearing civil suits (and perhaps fearing possible criminal prosecution as well) changed the mission of Straight, Inc. from "treatment" to "education" and its name from "Straight, Inc." to "Straight Foundation, Inc." And then they created a brand new organization to treat kids for addiction which they called "Straight, Inc."! [See Straight: Piercing the Corporate Veil] In 1989 Florida health authorities tried to close Straight's flagship treatment camp in Pinellas County, but it appears that Mel Sembler used his political connections to keep it open. The new Straight, Inc. finally closed in 1993 amidst law suits and allegations of child abuse all over the country. And for the first time in 17 years DFAF and Betty Sembler found themselves without ties to a drug treatment business. James T. Russell, the man who brought The Seed to Pinellas County, never indicted Mel and Betty Sembler for their role in Straight, Inc. In fact the only person Russell ever prosecuted from Straight was a male adult counselor who went ot prison for sexually molesting a teenage male client. James T. Russell never even indicted anyone connected with Mel Sembler in 1988 for conspiring to defraud the taxpayers of Clearwater, Florida in The Great Cooper's Point Land Scam .
In 1995, two years after Straight had to be closed, Betty changed the name of her educational foundation again. This time to Drug Free America Foundation (DFAF). But Ms. Sembler will always feel she has something special to offer those suffering from addictions, her fiasco at Straight, Inc. notwithstanding. After Straight closed she joined the board of directors for Operation PAR. And so it came to pass that it was Betty Sembler, and not Shirley Coletti, who attended the 2001 NIDA conference representing Operation PAR. (That same year Mrs. Sembler spoke to the US Congress as a representive of DFAF. So this dual hatted grandam of the "War on Drugs" and self proclaimed "drug prevention and policy expert" represents DFAF when she wants to talk drug policy and represents PAR when she wants to talk drug treatment.)
Betty Sembler is not the only person with ties to Straight who has come over to PAR. Susan Latvala is chairman of the board of directors of Operation PAR. She is also on DFAF's Advisory Board. Former St. Petersburg police chief Terry Hensley is the former executive director of DFAF. Before that he was a director at Op PAR. The former director of Straight - St. Petersburg is an Interim Executive Director at Operation PAR. The former director of Straight - Sarasota is director of marketing for Operation PAR. Judge Irene Sullivan is on one PAR committee; her husband Donald was formerly secretary of Straight Foundation.
Betty's treatment concept through the use of politics (with its influx of taxpayer money) seems to have reached Operation PAR. The Sembler's were able to persuade George H. W. Bush and Nancy Reagan to visit Straight. Already Jeb Bush and his mother Barbara have made separate visits to Operation PAR. The web page for The White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy caries a feature article on Operation PAR. Wes Fager, editor of www.theStraights.com once editorialized on his concern of Mel Sembler's plan to test all American teenagers as a rite of passage for getting a learner's permit and that possibly Sembler and/or his associates would be paid to do the testing. If a teen shows positive on this invasion of his privacy and if he is just a user he would possibly go to a Sembler-inspired drug rehab program. But if he is a dealer, he would go to a private prison for punishment and treatment. (See Sembler's plan to make all 16 year-olds pay drug testers for the right to drive .) Operation PAR is already working with law enforcement in America. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has been granting PAR $64,000 a year since 1999. In 1995 the Florida Attorney General's office granted Operation PAR $59,000. Operation PAR runs a pilot program to rehabilitate prostitutes which as been funded by the St. Petersburg Police Department. Also Operation PAR works with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Internationally, PAR runs a prison program in Barbados. Today Operation PAR is an $18-million, 500-employee agency treating 8,000 to 10,000 people yearly making it the biggest, most comprehensive drug treatment agency in the southeastern United States!
Blacks and addiction in Pinellas County. A study done by the St. Petersburg Times in the early 1980s found that Operation PAR clients were typically black, had demonstrated a drug dependency beyond casual use of marijuana, and paid on a true sliding scale based upon income. That same study found that Straight clients were typically white, the fees were steep, and casual use of marijuana was cause for admittance.
After the street violence in the predominantly black Midtown section of St. Petersburg in 1996 the community opened Family and Substance Abuse Center to treat black addicts. But by 2003 no public money had ever been freed up for the operation of that program (unless the person in need had committed a crime and had been subsequently court ordered). Any available operational money went to Operation PAR and to other established treatment programs elsewhere in the region. So much for failed drug rehabilitation for Midtown. But the city did manage to free up $ 1.3 million to buy land to build a $ 5 million shopping center in Midtown. Urban Development Solutions, a nonprofit headed by Larry Newsome and the NAACP's Daryl Rouson, got the contract. The city council leased land to UDS for $5 per year and loaned it $1.35 million for construction. The loan is interest free and UDS doesn't have to make payments for 10 years. And who is UDS' business partner in this project? The Sembler Company. [See Coalition Building: Sembler and the NAACP.]
Op PAR receives a lot of its income from government grants, and from government Medicaid and Medicare payments. Last year it received a $ 4 million federal grant to build a development center and therapeutic community. In 1999 PAR was accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Today PAR can also be reimbursed by managed health care providers in addition to receiving its government grants. PAR even bought and operated a mental hospital which is ironic since Susan Latvala, chairman of the board at PAR, has been very chummy with the Church of Scientology™. Scientologists strongly oppose the profession of psychiatry, though many consider Scientology™'s Dianetic™ processing as a sort of poor man's alternative to psychiatric counseling. PAR's Dr. Betty Buchan even endorses Narconon™ the drug treatment regimen so closely aligned with Scientology™.
Two Strikes against the Sixth Circuit. Justices Page, Logan and Farnell are not the only 6th Circuit judges with a working relationship with Operation PAR. Sixth Circuit Judge Nancy Moate Ley is or was a member of the board of directors at Operation PAR. Judge Lauren Laughlin works with Operation PAR to do drug assessments for the court. Pinellas County prosecutor James T. Russell helped found PAR. PAR runs a program for the county sheriff's department. Judges are always looking for an alternative to rehabilitate or punish young offenders in lieu of sending them to jail. That's understandable, but the judges need also understand that these places of businesses are, after all, just that--places of business--even many of the non-profits. The more people they treat, the more money they make. The more people referred to them by the courts, the more money they make. And the longer a person stays in treatment, the more money they make. Twice before Florida's 6th Circuit has placed its money on juvenile rehabilitation programs endorsed by or operated by Betty Sembler. And twice before that court has struck out. To our knowledge, there has been absolutely no history of abuse at Operation PAR and that's great. But the court should be reminded, from time-to-time, of its own endorsements of The Seed, Straight and Operation PAR, and the links these programs have to one another. [See The skinny on Florida's Royal Court under Judge George Greer.)
Straight, Inc. used to be the treatment arm of DFAF but today DFAF has no drug abuse treatment arm. Or does it? Drug Free Workplaces of Tampa Bay is an arm of DFAF. According to SAMHSA, there are 147 substance abuse programs within 100 miles of Pinellas County, and yet DFWTB's web page links to one, and only one, of these 147 programs--Operation PAR![1] Why? What is the true relationship between Op PAR and DFAF? On Feb. 12, 1999 Betty Sembler and Shirley Coletti attended Governor Jeb Bush's Drug Summit in Tallahassee but they had to be back in Tampa that evening to attend an Operation PAR fund raiser co-chaired by Karol Bullard, wife Sembler's business partner Fred Bullard. No problem, the two just hopped aboard Mel Sembler's private jet and flew to Tampa. Lennie Bennett, a gossip columnist for the St. Petersburg Times, covered the day's events writing that Betty Sembler is "one of PAR's founders." Well that is not true, but we might was well start believing it. After all, who runs PAR today--Shirley Coletti or the Straight crowd?
Related articles:
The Infiltration of Operation PAR by Straight
Straight Foundation: Piercing the Corporate Veil
Footnotes:
[1] DFWTB links to several sites, but only one of them is a drug treatment program--OP PAR.
If David Miscaviage can go to his deposition as Admiral Farragut, then Keith Henson can go as Bozo the Clown.
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The Conspiracy Theory: Is Straight some sort of Richard Nixon CIA-NIH mind-control experiment gone awry?
by Wesley Fager (c) 2005
Thomas Constantine (former director of the DEA) is on the Advisory Board of Straight under its latest name (Drug Free America Foundation). Karen P. Tandy (Administrator DEA) is also on the Advisory Board. Former Drug Czar Robert DuPont of Bensinger & DuPont is another board member. Dr. DuPont administered the US government's grant to The Seed, Straight's predecessor, when he was the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (an NIH subsidiary). Later he became a paid Straight consultant. Peter Bensinger, DuPont's business partner, was another director of the DEA.
Guy M. Tunnell, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (Florida's state police) and former FDLE commissioner James "Tim" Moore are also on the board. Former White House drug czars Rober DuPont, MD (a former paid Straight consultant) and Donald Ian MacDonald, MD (Straight's former national medical research director) are members of the International Scientific and Medical Forum on Drug Abuse (a DFAF subsidiary). Richard Schwartz, MD, former medical research director for Straight - Springfield is another forum member.
Former CIA director George H. W. Bush made a TV commercial for Straight out of the Oval Office and appointed Straight founders Mel Sembler and Joseph Zappala to ambassadors to Australia and Spain, respectively. His son President George W. Bush appointed Sembler to ambassador to Italy. His son Governor Jeb Bush is on the Advisory Board for Straight (under its current name, DFAF) along with his wife Columba and his Lt. Governor Toni Jennings. DFAF is funded by the US government. Perhaps it's a good time to wonder whether Straight (and its predecessor--The Seed) is some sort of Richard Nixon CIA-NIH mind-control experiment gone awry?
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In the early 1950s accounts started coming out of Red China about a remarkable discovery to change men's minds. It was quickly called brainwashing in the West, though one prominent psychiatrist suggested "mendicide" or "death of the mind" as a more appropriate title. After careful scientific analysis it was finally dubbed thought reform by the Western medical establishment. What the Chinese had devised are "re-education" schools which they call Seventh of May Academies. In reality they are prisons for political prisoners which they call "students". Academy students are deprived of food and sleep, of toilet facilities and baths, of medicine. Their hands are chained behind their backs so they have to eat their meager rations and lap water out of a bowl like an animal. They defecate like a dog or cat without being able to wipe themselves. People spit in their faces and they are beaten, scolded, and incessantly urged to "tell all" in a process called "struggling". The students live under constant fear that they may be executed at any time.
As the Chinese thought reform student is being systematically humiliated, he is made to invent a trumped-up confession and then to spend the next three years of his life re-writing it, perfecting it, rehearsing it, and defending it, until, it is felt, he actually comes to believe his own made-up story! Once it is deemed the student is sufficiently confused about his own confession, he starts taking classes to learn Communist doctrines [re-education]. Psychologically the student becomes depressed over his present milieu and overloaded with deep feelings of guilt and shame for what he has admitted to, including confessions to turn in his friends and family members for real or dreamed-up crimes. For years he is afforded no exercise, diversions, or free time for relaxation or contemplation to think things out because he spends his three years in a small cell with eight other inmates. No one graduates unless everyone does what is asked. And what is asked is that they all come to truly believe their confession. There is a nightly court where a judge questions the student about his confession and tries to trip him up, and where guards might beat him, but it is his fellow cellmates who wake him through the day and night depriving him of sleep. It is his fellow prisoners who constantly urge him to "tell all" and who spit in his face. There is no trust. Everybody rats on everybody else in order to save himself.
Many newage (one word rendition of "New Age", rhymes with sewage. Coined by cult buster and magician The Amazing Randi) cult leaders have read these accounts of brainwashing (just as this author has) and some have attempted to use some of these techniques on members of their own organizations. Cult apologists, citing findings in Lifton's own work, argue that you can't really cleanse someone's mind. Whether brainwashing truly works or not, I'll leave that to the cult apologists to convince a judge. But I will tell you there is no denying that brainwashing is cruel, physically and psychologically damaging, and can lead to death by suicide from humiliation and depression. And, I can also tell you that, many cult leaders use it because they think it works, or at least they don't know of any better way to exert total control over their subordinates. Some cults, claiming they can make sane men saner and smart men smarter, have been accused of using thought control in their program. This is the so-called human potential movement.
The newage cults are not the only westerners who have shown interest in Chinese Communist thought reform. The United States government is another. In the 1960s the CIA started experimenting with thought reform and in the use of mind altering drugs to control one's thoughts as possible ways to combat brainwashing, and also as a way to try to persuade enemy agents into becoming double agents for the United States. The U.S. prison system is another government agency which has investigated brainwashing. Their interest is in a way to rehabilitate prisoners. Incredibly, in 1962 Dr. Edgar H. Schein, associate professor of psychiatry at M.I.T., addressing the topic "Man Against Man: Brainwashing" at a seminar for prison wardens and psychologists chaired by James V. Bennett, the then director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, told his audience:
My basic argument is this: in order to produce marked change of behavior and/or attitude, it is necessary to weaken, undermine, or remove the supports of the old patterns of behavior and the old attitudes'; this can be done 'either by removing the individual physically and preventing any communication with those whom he cares about, or by proving to him that those whom he respects are not worthy of it and, indeed, should be actively mistrusted.' Dr. Schein told his audience that he had gotten most of his ideas by studying the techniques used by North Korean and Chinese Communist on GI prisoners of war, but cautioned his audience not to be put off by this fact: 'These same techniques in the service of different goals may be quite acceptable to us. . . I would like to have you think of brainwashing not in terms of politics, ethics, and morals, but in terms of the deliberate changing of human behavior and attitudes by a group of men who have relatively complete control over the environment in which the captive population lives.' [Corrective Psychiatry & Journal of Social Change, Second Quarter, 1962.]
Thus were experimental "brainwashing" programs begun in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the Marion, Springfield, and Butner federal prisons.Thought reform is not the only tool in the arsenal of government agencies and mind control cults. Some newage ideas are coming right out of professional western psychology. Primal Scream, for one, where the patient lays on the floor in his therapists' office and screams to the top of his lungs. Another is rebirthing where a person is wrapped in a blanket and slowly emerges reliving the birthing experience. Two counselors are in prison in Colorado today for rebirthing a defiant little girl named Megan. She did not come out of her the blanket alive.
Aversion therapy is another popular tool for behavioral modification. One father, fearing his teenage son was gay, sent him to a program that placed an erection detector on the child's penis. The child was shown pictures of nude males and if the detector sensed movement in the young boy's genitals, he was given an electric shock. The boy committed suicide. Synanon Church. In 1958 in California a recovering alcoholic named Chuck Dederich formed a foundation to treat heroin addicts which he called Synanon. The heart of Synanon was a brutal, verbal peer group confrontation called "The Game" (or synanon with a small "s") where addicts shouted indictments at one another. That is, addicts aided in their own recovery. Synanon was no more effective than anyone else but some slick marketing strategies plus national exposure in a book by New York psychiatrist Daniel Casriel and spreads in Look, Life and Ebony magazines made the Synanon Game a new standard of addiction treatment. Programs like Phoenix House and Daytop are based on synanon-style confrontations though they prefer to call themselves the more professional sounding therapeutic communities.
A remarkable series of events converged on the month of June 1970 which has forever affected the way the world has come to look at addiction treatment. Woodstock had just occurred and shown us that middle class whites were using drugs. And Charles Manson and Green Beret Captain Jeffery MacDonald had scared us into believing that drugs make middle class kids want to kill. Through the winter of 1970 the nations' newspapers and magazines were forecasting a heroine epidemic amongst middle class American teenagers which would begin in June of 1970. All sorts of drug treatment programs started springing up all over the place. Charles Manson's trial began in June and the month before, in May, Narconon™, the drug rehabilitation program affiliated with the Church of Scientology™, was incorporated on the west coast. But many of the new treatment programs were Synanon-based therapeutic communities like Elan (if you've been keeping up with the Michael Skakel / Martha Moxley murder trial). Another was The Seed which opened for business in June 1970 on the east coast in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Seed was a synanon for kids-only. It was unusual in that as a start-up, experimental program founded by a high school graduate and recovering alcoholic, it got a grant for $1 million (in 1970 dollars!) from the federal government's NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse )--a subsidiary of the sprawling NIMH (National Institue of Mental Health). Psychiatrist Robert L. DuPont, Jr. was then the director of NIDA. The CIA had experimented with LSD on prisoners at the NIH's lock-up hospital in Lexington, Kentucky where NIH had set up its own experimental synanon which it called MATRIX.
This has made more than one conspiracy theorist wonder whether The Seed was some sort of CIA-backed mind control experiment to turn long-hair, pot smoking American teenagers into mindful and obedient, clean-cut kids with button-down, collared shirts who would fight our wars and vote for Richard Nixon's Republican Party. The theory gets even more intriguing when, in 1974, the U.S. Senate published a report which likened The Seeds methods to the brainwashing techniques employed by the North Koreans against American servicemen during the Korean War. The Senate report was
a principal reason for The Seed to stop its expansion programs.
Drug Free America Foundation (Straight). But out of the ashes of one of those Seed expansion programs, some former Seed parents including Melvin Sembler (now Ambassador to Italy) and his wife Betty Sembler, opened their own Seed-like program which they called Straight, Inc. which grew to become the largest chain of juvenile drug rehabilitation programs in the world. Straight was so successful , in large part, because Robert DuPont (the man who had administered the unusual NIDA contract to The Seed) left NIDA and became a paid consultant for Straight! He claims that he got Nancy Reagan involved in Straight. He has stated in deposition that it was his idea that Straight go national. He defended Straight in many of its civil suits against it for abusing kids. Today Straight is a drug policy think tank operating under the name Drug Free America Foundation and Robert DuPont is on its Advisory Board.
DFAF does not run the Straight treatment program anymore (though Betty Sembler and so many other former Straight officials have infiltrated Operation PAR, another therapeutic community for drug rehabilitation, that a great case can be made that PAR is the new treatment arm of DFAF.) DFAF no longer operates the old Straight program but second-generation Straights continue to operate all over the country and there have been allegations of abuse at some of them. [Look at the people who endorse Straight on the flier at top left. George Bush is the former director of the CIA during the Nixon administration. Robert DuPont is the founding director of NIMH'S NIDA. In World War II Congressman Charles Bennett had been an intelligence officer assigned to the secret Counter Intelligence Corps. And Dr. Maxie Maultsby taught Rational Emotive Therapy to Straight's Dr. George Ross at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY., the same city where the NIMH operated an experimental, federal lockup hospital on addictions and where the CIA conducted LSD experiments on inmates.] The juvenile heroine epidemic never did materialize in June 1970 but a plethora of treatment programs to combat it did. Now thanks especially to synanons any businessman can open up a lucrative drug rehab program for teens. Today there are all kinds of specialty schools for defiant, middle class teenagers and rich kids (and some wards of the state). They are variously called wilderness programs, boot camps, emotional growth schools, achievement camps, religious boarding schools, and synanon-based therapeutic communities. Kids are treated for drug addiction, sexual orientation, eating disorders, low academic performance, or for just plain being defiant. And the programs are not cheap either, some costing as much as $60,000 a year. Accusations of abuse have been leveled at some of these programs and there have been some deaths.
Many of these specialty schools employ aspects of behavior modification including elements of Communist Chinese brainwashing, and some develop novel ways to effect these techniques to avoid criminal prosecutions. Instead of using chains to restrain ( which, criminally, is bondage) they pick fights with clients and then have 4 or 5 of his fellow clients painfully restrain him. In Straight food deprivation is achieved by giving a kid food!--plain peanut butter sandwiches for breakfast, for lunch and for supper, no jelly, just big globs of peanut butter, for up to 30 days until the child is sickened at the thought of another peanut butter sandwich. Like so many involved in the human potential movement, many kids in newage rehabilitation programs are tricked or forced to tell their deepest darkest secret (confession) as a primary step towards recovery, often citing AA ("admitted to God, myself, and another human being") as the reason. This extorted information may then be used against the confessor, relentlessly. Many of these programs use the Chinese peer group concept--no one gets out unless everyone complies. In the Straight cult inmates actually spit in one another's faces just like their counter parts in Chinese Seventh of May Academies. In many of these programs kids are allowed no unmonitored contact with their own parents until they earn that privilege. In many of these programs kids are not allowed to discuss what happens in the program. In order to control parents, parents are often subjected to some form of a control program of their own where they will typically attend parent meetings in the evening or attend a weekend seminar from time-to-time. It would be another decade after June 1970 before the established psychiatric hospitals would catch on to the the lucrative market of teenage drug addiction; that's another story altogether. But the message about any program which treats teens is this. If a child can be sexually molested in a Catholic Church, can he not be sexually molested in a treatment program for teens--or physically assaulted or psychologically abused? How can a parent consent to place a child in any program where he can not contact that child at reasonably specified time periods? How can a parent consent to not ask his child what happens in this program? And how can a well-meaning judge sentence a teenager to such a place or even recommend such a place? Look, everybody knows there are kids with problems who need help, and there are many fine programs available which are genuinely concerned with helping kids in trouble. But judges need to realize that all of these places, like private prisons, are, after all, businesses.
A warden in a publicly operated prison has incentive to get a prisoner rehabilitated and back to society at large as a productive citizen. In a privately owned prison, the longer a prisoner stays, the more money the warden and guards make. Is this not an inducement for prison wardens and guards to pick fights with prisoners to stop early paroles? And while we are on private prisons, the conspiracy theorists among us ask why George H. W. Bush, former director of the CIA, is so interested in Straight which is a private prison.
And why is Wackenhut, the nation's second largest operator of private prisons, so filled with former CIA men? Why is George H. W. Bush so close to Straight founders Mel Sembler and Joe Zappala, two Floridian construction moguls.? And why is a Florida-based private prison operations company running private prisons in Texas?
Previously we reported that Governor Jeb Bush, his wife Columba and his Lieutenant Governor Toni Jennings, along with other prominent Florida Republicans had joined the advisory board of Straight under its new name--Drug Free America Foundation. That report is here. DFAF has now publicly disclosed its members and backers, so we have some new names to add to the list. Historically, Straight targeted the children of affluent white parents for drug treatment (See $95 million charity for white kids) Thus it is not surprising to learn that Darryl Rouson, President of the St. Petersburg Chapter of the NAACP, has joined DFAF's Advisory Board. Susan Latvala, the Pinellas County Commissioner who is so chummy with the Church of Scientology, joined Rouson along with Christy McCampbell, Director of Public Safety, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (See Advisory DFAF Board. See Never Again on Advisory Board.) Foundation founder Betty Sembler's biography is here.
More surprising than the inclusion of Darryl Rouson is the revelation that Stephanie Haynes of the Drug Prevention Network of the Americas is now a special DFAF advisor. In 1996 Texas Governor George W. Bush appointed Stephanie Haynes to the board of directors of the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (TCADA). In 1989 TCADA yanked the license of Kids of El Paso, Miller Newtons's brutal rendition of Straight, and in 1991 Straight-Dallas closed after being advised by TCADA that it was going to revoke Straight's license for reports of child abuse. (See Haynes)Posted by Wes Fager at 8:22 PM 1 comments Links to this post
Man dies of heroin overdose at Operation Par two days before his graduation from the program
Man dies of heroin overdose at Operation Par two days before his graduation from the program story
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Operation Par to receive 1.5 million fed grant
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Straight-infiltrated Operation Par sending referals to Narconon™
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Operation PAR's Dr. Betty Buchan endorses Narconon™
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DFAF Adv. Bd. member Susan Latvala and husband Jack (former director of the Fl. state Republican Party) get chummy with the Church of Scientology™
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Operation Par counselor with extensive criminal record arrested for armed rape
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Operation Par defends its hiring screening process in wake of assault by one of its counselors
story Reader's shouldn't be overly surprised at PAR's ability to screen its employees. In 1999 it took them over a year to learn that its CEO had been convicted of a DUI. story PAR fired its medical director in 1994 as soon as it learned that he had been accused of sexual abuse of a teenage boy. story
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Operation PAR tackles faith-based by W. Fager
Faith-based rehabilitation is a concept that assumes that men of God need no state oversight to administer social programs such as drug rehabilitation. It is a concept first popularized in Texas by then Gov. George W. Bush who is today trying to make it the law of the land. In a clear violation of "separation of church and state" the president presses for awarding federal grant money to church-based social programs.
Many fault the President for assuming that all men of God should be trusted out of hand. Look at Father Bruce Ritter and Covenant House, for example. During his 1984 inaugural address President Ronald Reagan singled out Father Bruce Ritter as one of the nation's "un-sung" heroes for his work at Covenant House, a program to take in homeless children. In 1989 President George H. W. Bush launched his "thousand points of light" initiative from Covenant House. Four months after Bush's award, Father Ritter stepped down from Covenant House amidst allegations he was having sex with the young boys he saved from the streets and that he was fraudulently handling charitable funds.
The President's brother Jeb Bush is pushing the faith-based initiative in Florida. But, like Texas, Florida has had problems with church-based social programs as reported in An intro to ABC Pensacola News Report on faith-based schools by W. Fager. Look at Reverend Doctor Miller Newton. Miller Newton was formerly the national clinical director for Straight, Inc. He hurriedly left Florida in 1982 amidst a flurry of criminal and civil allegations for abusing teenagers. He moved to New Jersey and setup his own Straight-like program he called Kids of Bergen County. From there he setup his own chain of juvenile rehabilitation programs he called Kids Centers of America. In 1989 state health authorities closed down his Kids of Southern California for abusing kids. So Straight moved in and took over his clients. Next year California health authorities closed down Straight of Southern California for abusing kids. Similarly state authorities closed Kids of El Paso and Kids of Salt Lake City. In 1993 three counselors at Kids in New Jersey were convicted of assault. In 1999 another was convicted of assault. Reverend Newton finally closed his flagship facility two years ago after paying out over $11 million to former clients for abuse and to the federal government for Medicare fraud. The New Jersey Law Journal labled Father Newton's treatment regimen "medical quackery." Reverend Newton has moved back to Florida and taken on an alias--Father Cassian. Straight watchers have been very concerned that Jeb Bush will let him organize a faith-based treatment program for youths in Florida, because, by ordination and education, he is a man of God. Father Cassian has not established a social program for youths, but he has joined a subsidiary group of DFAF!
In 1984 Straight, Inc. was ordered by a jury in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia to pay Fred Collins $220,000 for falsely imprisoning him. The jury felt that Mr. Collins had not sufficiently proved that he had been abused while incarcerated at Straight, otherwise the judgment would have surely been for much more. Fred Collins had been an honor roll engineering student at Virginia Tech who had come to Straight to visit his brother there during Spring break. But during prescreening as a requirement to see his brother, a Straight counselor had looked into Fred's eyes, determined that they were red, and ordered him into treatment against his will. The counselor who made the decision to incarcerate Fred Collins was a former Catholic priest named Chris Yarnold. During deposition Mr. Yarnold admitted he did not know what laughing gas was, nor did he know the active ingredient in marijuana [THC]. When asked, in court, if he knew how the hallucinogenic factor in drugs worked, he replied, "No. All I knew was drugs affected people." He declared that he had known Mr. Collins had been smoking marijuana because his eyes had been red at intake. He admitted that contact lenses could make one’s eyes red, but on physical examination of Collins at the trial, he failed to notice that Collins was then wearing contact lenses. Later Yarnold became director of the ill-fated Straight-Sarasota.Today Chris Yarnold is director of marketing at Betty Sembler's Operation Par. He represents Op PAR on Florida's Faith and Community-Based Treatment Committee. Operation PAR is looking for individuals to serve on its interfaith advisory board.
Mr. Yarnold is standing in the line to get that fat faith-based money along with Joy Margolis. Joy is Straight's former mouthpiece. Now she is a member of Jeb Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Advisory Board. A second link is here.
Also read Child Abuse in Florida's Faith-based Programs by Wes Fager.
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Disinfopedia on DFAF
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Report spells out Straight's violation of human rights and civil liberties
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Friday, December 15, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 31: A World of Illusion – ARBIET MACHT FRIE
BY ALEX CONSTANTINE
Tommy Thompson, H&HS secretary when McElravy hired on, drags you straight back to the Pinay Circle of CIA-Republican financiers – Deason, the Hunts, Farish, Johnson, the Wylys – who have haunted this investigation from the start ...
Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson is a member of the COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY (CNP, see part 17), the ultra-conservative Christian cadré that received lavish funding from CAROLINE HUNT and launched JACK ABRAMOFF on his shooting-star crime spree, the strategic base of Trant Lott, Gary Bauer, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson and many more.228 The Department of Health & Human Services, where Steve McElravy was employed, was overseen by a clutch of arch-conservative cronies:
• Tommy Thompson (DH&H Secretary) – Former Wisconsin Gov. Thompson hails from the AKIN GUMP STRAUSS, HAUER & FELD LAW firm in Washington, D.C. Akin, Gump clients have included Khalid bin Mahfouz, Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi and Salah Idris. (Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, the non-partisan political watchdogs, maintains that Akin, Gump's representation of Saudi power-brokers with "ties to terrorists" poses unique ethical considerations "since partners at the firm are so close to the president," according to the Boston Herald.229) Thompson was also a senior advisor at the Deloitte consulting firm, chairman of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. 
• Claude Allen (Deputy Secretary) – From Virginia, Allen is a prominent Black Republican. He was also press secretary for the arch-conservative Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC). 
• Wade Horn (Assistant Secretary for Children and Families) – Adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and a columnist for the Washington Times. President of the National Fatherhood Initiative, Horn served as Commissioner of Children, Youth and Families, and Chief of the Children's Bureau at Thompson's H&HS. An adjunct faculty member of Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, he is a member of the U.S. Advisory Board on Welfare Indicators.
• Susan Orr (Associate Commissioner, Children’s Bureau) – Orr was the director of social studies policy at the Reason Institute, a "libertarian think tank" (CIA front) that advocates privatization of government services. 
• Andrew Bush (Director of the Office of Family Assistance) – Andrew Bush was Director of the Welfare Policy Center at the Hudson Institute.
• Alex Azar II (General Counsel) – Alex Azar II clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, one of Bush's self-professed models for future Supreme Court Justices. Azar was recruited by Kenneth Starr for the Whitewater investigation.230Akin, Gump, Thompson's law firm, also gave us Thomas S. Foley, a partner since 2001, former Speaker of the House of Representatives and member of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board. Prior to rejoining the firm in 2001, Foley served as the 25th U.S. ambassador to Japan. He was appointed to the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. Foley sits on the board of advisors of the CNP and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).231
Also Robert S. Strauss (see Part 1 & 17 suppl.), chairman of the board and founder of Akin, Gump. Strauss is a former special agent of the FBI. He received his law degree from the University of Texas. In January 1946, Strauss entered private law practice and founded the firm that would become Akin, Gump, with offices in Texas, Washington, Brussels, and Moscow. He was Democratic National Committee chairman from 1973-76, and chaired Jimmy Carter's election campaign in 1976.232
On December 3, 2004, Thompson resigned as H&HS czar, to be succeeded by Michael Leavitt. Bush praised Thompson as a "stalwart member of my homeland security team." The following month, as London's Guardian reported, "the Bush administration was confronted with fresh evidence of a far-reaching clandestine campaign to influence public opinion yesterday after a third conservative commentator admitted receiving payments for championing its policies. Michael McManus, a newspaper columnist, was paid up to $10,000 to praise the administration's marriage initiative." Fees were approved by a branch of H&HS "and were funnelled through the Lewin Group," a health care consultancy firm in Des Moines, Iowa. "The commentator's rightwing Marriage Savers Foundation received an additional $49,000 in government grants. Mr McManus did not disclose the payments in his columns."233 It was one of several Bush administration "payola" scandals to hit the front pages.
Shortly after dropping out of the Bush administration, Thompson joined the board of directors of Applied Digital Solutions (ADS), developer of the VeriChip, the injectable, glass-encapsulated radio frequency identification (RFID) implant. In public appearances, he suggested implanting the chips to link electronic medical records.234 Incidentally, Thompson picked up a considerable share in the company. (Thompson's CBS interview re the RFID device is here:
http://www.spychips.com/devices/tommythompsonverichip.html)As secretary of Health and Human Services, Thompson oversaw the FDA's approval of the VeriChip as a medical device. After leaving his cabinet post, Thompson joined the ADS board of directors.235
In July 2005, the media reported that he would soon receive a VeriChip injection. But by December, the Spychips web site reports, "Ex-Bush cabinet member Tommy Thompson still hasn't received an RFID implant despite a televised promise he made in July 2005 to do so [and] he has no plans to undergo the procedure anytime soon, according to recent revelations." 
According to ADS, "only about 60 living persons in the U.S. have agreed to be chipped. In addition to the voluntary recipients, the company's implants were injected into the deceased victims of hurricane Katrina, and there are plans to chip mentally disabled patients at a residential center in Chattanooga. VeriChip has also had talks with the Pentagon about chipping military personnel, though Procter said that 'no formal agreements have been reached.'"235
Thompson has long held one eye on the White House. In 1996, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole included Thompson in his short list of potential WP nominees. Other names on the list: New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, George W. Bush, Michigan Governor John Engler and former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp. Dole picked Kemp, but Thompson and Engler played key roles in Dole's run for president.237
And then there is the Manhattan Institute (MI)/Bell Curve eugenics connection, as explained by Franc's Puteaux Cedex: "The Manhattan Institute was founded in 1978 by William Casey, who later became the CIA director during the Reagan administration. As a top intelligence operative, Casey helped the CIA bring thousands of Nazi SS officials into the US after WWII, as part of Operation Paper Clip. Nazi doctors, scientists, and intelligence experts were installed in private industry, in the CIA, in medical and psychological research programs in universities, and in the media. The scientists included specialists in eugenics, propaganda, and using pharmaceuticals for social control and research on genetics, and many of them had extensive experience in rounding up people to be exterminated, as former Nazis became a core group within the newly formed CIA. Under Casey's leadership covert action increased in Afghanistan, Central America, and Angola. "Among other endeavors, he funded BIN LADEN and Co. with billions in arms, cash, and terrorist training and was a pivotal figure in the Iran-Contra Affair, in which US weapons were sold to Iran and the money was funneled to Nicaraguan rebels. William Casey suffered seizures, underwent brain surgery, and died from nervous-system lymphoma just before he was to testify in Congress (1986). Compassionate conservatism became public policy in New York City under the reign of Rudy Giuliani, who claimed to get his ideas directly from MI. Many of his policies were based on the books of Charles Murray, who was a top MI resident scholar when he co-authored 'THE BELL CURVE,' which is clearly SUPREMACIST EUGENIC PROPAGANDA of the 'over class.'
"MURRAY WAS A PAID CONSULTANT ON THEN-GOVERNOR TOMMY THOMPSON'S WELFARE PROGRAM.
"Other high level neo-conservatives that associate with Murray's ideas include Bush Senior and Junior, KARL ROVE, DOE Secretary Spencer Abraham, Elaine Chou, and Linda Chavez. Tommy Thompson's corporate connections include Philip Morris, Amtrak, America Online, Time Warner, General Electric, Merck, and Abbott Laboratories. Also linked to MI, Jason Turner was Thompson's #2 man on welfare reform in Wisconsin and then later hired by Giuliani to head up NYC's welfare reform. Turner was forced to apologize for using a Nazi death camp slogan, 'Work shall make you free' (Arbiet Macht Frie), to explain Giuliani's workfare policy. Nazi methods of extermination included starving and working slave labor to the point of death, under a program called "Vernichtung durch Arbeit" (annihilation through work)."238
This is the abiding deep, dark secret behind the HORSE BREEDING in Blue Grass country among the Hunt Syndicate "Over-Class," Farish and like-minded white supremicists. Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother Herbert (also Jesse Helms), for example, were active in the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE) – the early publisher of the racist-revisionist "academic" journal Mankind Quarterly.239 The Journal of Social Issues (1998) reports that the IAAEE's key "benefactor was Colonel Wickliffe Draper, a segregationist who opposed the civil rights movement of the 1960s and sought to fund research that would provide scientific justification for segregation and revive the concept of racial hygiene which had been discredited as a result of the Nazis. In the 1970s, Gregor was criticised for accepting grants from the Pioneer Fund, which had been established by Draper to advance his views. IAAEE received $82,000 in grants from the Pioneer Fund between 1971 and 1996. ... In the controversial book The Bell Curve, authors Charles Murray and Richard J. Hernstein recommend two books on race and intelligence by three Pioneer Fund recipients."240
GW Bush gave the eugenics crowd entry into his administration through his "Faith-Based Initiative" – an Orwellian term, like "New Freedom," that resulted in the hiring of Ananda Margan Steve McElravy at SAMHSA, under H&HS Secretart Tommy Thompson. Two men were placed in charge of the "Faith-Based" scheme, reports homeless activist Robert Lederman, "John J. DiIulio Jr. and Stephen Goldsmith. Both men are senior fellows of the CIA's Manhattan Institute and are colleagues of Charles Murray, author of the classic text of scientific racism, The Bell Curve."
In fact, "most of Bush's advisors are also associated with the Bell Curve. As just one of many examples, Murray was a consultant on Tommy Thompsons' Wisconsin Welfare Reform program, which Bush will make the national model." The New York Times has confirmed "the CIA origin of the Manhattan Institute, its influence on GW Bush and its very close decade-long association with Charles Murray, who wrote The Bell Curve while a research fellow at The Manhattan Institute.Whether you are a fundamentalist Christian, an Orthodox Jew, a devout Muslim or an atheist you might question what part the CIA rightfully has in a multi-billion dollar 'religion initiative' or in any domestic US policy decisions. The best known modern example of government sponsored religion-based initiatives is Nazi Germany."
For numerous articles on the connection between GW Bush, the CIA and Nazis see: http://Baltech.org/lederman/spray/
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New Bush Office Seeks Closer Ties to Church Groups
NY Times
January 29, 2001
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. President Bush has selected a University of Pennsylvania professor of political science to head the first federal office intended to promote the integration of religious groups into federally financed social services, several Bush advisers said today.
The advisers said the opening of the office and the appointment of John J. DiIulio Jr. to fill it would almost certainly be announced at a White House event on Monday, and they acknowledged that it would draw heated opposition from organizations and religious groups that advocate a strict separation of church and state.
But the encouragement and government financing of faith-based programs was a signature campaign issue for Mr. Bush, who has said he reads the Bible every day. And the decision to entrust the new federal office in charge of that effort to Mr. DiIulio, a widely published expert on juvenile crime with impressive academic credentials, is an example of the political caution with which the Bush administration will proceed.
The choice of Mr. DiIulio, in fact, is only one of several ways in which Mr. Bush and his aides are trying to blunt any impression that what the president is doing amounts to an evangelical endeavor.
"John is a social scientist who believes in empirical evidence," said one Bush adviser, stressing Mr. DiIulio's focus on provable results from faith-based social programs that address problems like substance abuse, youth violence and teenage pregnancy. The adviser also emphasized that Mr. DiIulio does not see faith-based programs "as a panacea," but rather as one arrow in a quiver with plenty of others.
In addition to Mr. DiIulio, the other central figure in the effort is Stephen Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis who was the chief domestic policy adviser for Mr. Bush's presidential campaign. Several Bush advisers said Mr. Goldsmith would be the chairman of a new national advisory board whose work will complement that of the new federal office. Mr. Goldsmith will also serve as an official adviser to Mr. Bush on the issue.
Mr. Bush and his aides do not want the proposals related to faith-based programs that they unveil to seem too driven by religion. Indeed, the president's goal is to find new ways for the federal government to encourage private charities including but not limited to religious groups to provide more social services. To that end, the title of the new federal office will allude not just to faith-based programs but also to community initiatives, although several advisers said the order in which the words "faith" and "community" would be placed was under debate.
Additionally, Mr. Bush has invited not only leaders of faith-based groups but also the heads of other not-for-profit organizations to meet on Monday morning at the White House to kick off a week of events intended to describe and promote the president's vision. The guest list, according to one of the people on it, includes the Rev. Stephen E. Burger, executive director of the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions; Sara E. Meléndez, president and chief executive officer of Independent Sector, a coalition of nonprofit organizations and foundations; and Millard Fuller, founder and president of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY International, the ecumenical house-building group. 
"It is about faith-based institutions, but it's also about more than that," said another Bush adviser, referring to Mr. Bush's plan to encourage private groups to administer more of the kinds of local programs often provided by government. A more thorough integration of faith-based and other not-for-profit groups into federally financed social services is a cornerstone of compassionate conservatism, a political philosophy with which Mr. Bush has strongly identified himself. Compassionate conservatism holds that while the government should limit the scope of the social services it provides, it should take an active role as a catalyst and source of financing for work done by neighborhood and religious groups. 
Mr. Bush has said some of the groups with the best results for rehabilitating prisoners or fighting drug abuse are ones that take religious and spiritual approaches. He has also said the government should not hesitate to give money to these groups, as long as secular groups that provide similar services are also available. There are signs that these initiatives may elicit bipartisan support. This morning, on the ABC News program "This Week," Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the House minority leader, signaled interest in Mr. Bush's approach. The Bush administration will roll out these initiatives with the utmost care, under the guidance of Mr. DiIulio, who is Catholic, and Mr. Goldsmith, who is Jewish. Although both are well liked by religious conservatives, neither is an ideological lightning rod like Marvin Olasky, another proponent of faith- based programs and compassionate conservatism. Mr. Olasky was with Mr. Goldsmith and Mr. DiIulio at a long meeting with Mr. Bush in Austin, Tex., nearly two years ago. "It's not just that we're paying attention to the politics of it," one of the Bush advisers said. "We're paying attention to the pragmatics of it. I think we're doing it right, and I think we're going to be careful about it." Mr. DiIulio's résumé makes him seem like a personification of Mr. Bush's attempts to retain the support of religious conservatives while also courting moderates and building a broad base of support.
He is a fellow at both the Manhattan Institute, which is a conservative think tank, and the Brookings Institute, which is not. In a two-month period in the summer of 1999, he wrote major articles for The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication, and for The New Democrat, a moderate one. He identifies himself as a new Democrat. Mr. DiIulio has also done extensive work with black pastors in urban areas, and one of the Bush administration's hopes is that its advocacy of faith-based programs will be a bridge to black ministers and win some support with the Congressional Black Caucus. Mr. Bush garnered the support of about 9 percent of black voters in the presidential election and has been reaching out aggressively to African- Americans ever since.
This morning, he, his wife, Laura, and his parents attended a Methodist church here with a predominantly black congregation. For years, Mr. DiIulio, who taught at Princeton before the University of Pennsylvania, was known more for his work on criminal justice issues than on his interest in faith-based programs. He was among the voices loudly advocating increased prison construction in the early 1990's and wrote a 1996 book about the war against crime, "Body Count," with John P. Walters and William J. Bennett, the former education secretary and drug czar. Mr. Goldsmith, a former prosecutor, was a two-term mayor in Indianapolis who privatized everything from golf course construction to sewage treatment and showed an interest in revitalizing long-neglected inner-city neighborhoods. Late in his second term, he started the Front Porch Alliance, a group that acted as a liaison between religious congregations, mostly urban African-American churches and government. For his work with churches, Mr. Goldsmith, a Republican, was lauded by many evangelical Christian leaders. But some Jewish leaders said they were nervous about an approach that redirects tax dollars to churches. "There's a lot of respect for Stephen Goldsmith," said Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. "Many in the Jewish community know him and respect him, but any time you have a formal government endorsement of religion that this faith-based office conveys, that takes us down a path that too often in our history has turned out to be disastrous for religious freedom and religious tolerance."
NY Times Monday, May 12, 1997
Manhattan Institute Has Nudged New York Rightward "...the institute was founded as a free-market education and research organization by William Casey, who then went off to head the Central Intelligence Agency in the Reagan Administration."
NY Times June 12, 2000
Bush Culls Campaign Theme From Conservative Thinkers
Gov. George W. Bush has said his political views have been shaped by the work of Myron Magnet of the Manhattan Institute. From the MI website: Books That Influenced Gov. George W. Bush Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare: "Referring to this book, Gov. Bush has said, other than the Bible, that it was the most important book he had read..."
"Education and Welfare: Meeting the Challenge A Message from CCI Chairman, Mayor Stephen Goldsmith [CCI is a division of Manhattan Institute] America is in the midst of an urban renaissance... April conference Next Steps in Welfare Reform highlighted just how far we have come. The conference brought together public officials like Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and scholars like Dr. Charles Murray to discuss how governments and private groups have reduced dependency and increased self-sufficiency...Fifteen years after the Manhattan Institute published Charles Murray's landmark study of American welfare policy, Losing Ground, the presentations showed that ideas once seen as radical now form the mainstream of the welfare debate."
[Among the panelists alongside Murray and Goldsmith was Jason Turner, former head of Wisconsin's welfare program. Turner later became infamous as head of NYC's abusive workfare system after quoting the motto over the gates of Auschwitz - "Arbeit Macht Frei - work shall make you free"
[see: NManhattan Institute http://www.manhattan-institute.org/ ]
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
SAMHSA & THE EMERGING BRAVE NEW WORLD
NOTES
228.) People for the American Way, "Right-Wing Affiliations of Bush Administration Officials":
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=6190
229.) Maggie Mulvihill, Jonathan Wells and Jack Meyers, "White House Connection –
Saudi 'Agents' Close Bush Friends," December 12, 2001.
http://www.rense.com/general17/whitehouseconnection.htm
230.) Ibid.
231.) Akin, Gump web site:
http://www.akingump.com/img/attorney_pics/1798.jpg
232.) U.S.-Russia Business Council web site, "Robert S. Strauss – Chairman Emeritus of the Board U.S.-Russia Business Council."
http://www.usrbc.org/council/strauss%20bio.htm
233.) Suzanne Goldenberg, "Bush payola scandal deepens as third columnist admits being paid," The Guardian, January 29, 2005.
The Lewin Group home page: http://www.lewingroup.com/
234.) Wikipedia entry, "Tommy Thompson":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Thompson
235.) e-week site, "Tommy Thompson: A Pro-Chipper in the White House?"
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/eweek/archive/2006/11/16/14697.aspx
236.) Spychips.com, "RFID IMPLANTS: FINE FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME, Ex-HHS Head Puts Off Being Chipped Despite July Promise," December 7, 2005.
http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/verichip-thompson-no-implant.html
237.) Answers.com:
http://www.answers.com/topic/tommy-thompson
238.) The Truce of God site, "The Eugenic Connection":
www.trdd.org/EUGBRE.HTM
239.) Wikipedia entry, "Nelson Bunker Hunt":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Bunker_Hunt
240.) A. Winston "Science in the service of the far right: Henry E. Garrett, the IAAEE, and the Liberty Lobby," International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology, Experts in the Service of Social Reform: SPSSI, Psychology, and Society, 1936-1996. Journal of Social Issues, Spring, 1998.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Ethnology_and_Eugenics
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 30: A World of Illusion – "New Freedom," SAMHSA & the SIXTH PASSENGER
By Alex Constantine
Steve McElravy was in Lexington to attend a pre-conference planning session at the Hyatt Hotel on Saturday afternoon (the eve of the crash) for an upcoming series of leadership development seminars sponsored by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) in partnership with the National Prevention Network (NPN). The leadership academy was underwritten by CSAP and created for the benefit of state NPN representatives attending the 19th annual NPN Prevention Research Conference at the Lexington Convention Center, August 27-30.218 The conference was sponsored by the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, NASADAD and NPN, and it drew some 740 participants.219 
But McElravy never made it back to Maryland and his job at DH&H's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) – a front for the pharmaceutical industry, as will soon be apparent. The loss of McElravy was only the latest administrative blow to the agency. A few months before, in a letter dated May 22, Charles Curie resigned his position as SAMHSA administrator. He was appointed by Bush in November 2001. When he resigned, Curie had no particular place to go, no jobs in the private sector or academic appointments in his scopes. It was time to explore "future options," he said. He offered no explanation in his resignation letter (thereby perplexing the press to no end), but took the opportunity to praise Bush's New Freedom Commission (NFC).
"These initiatives opened the door for our constituency groups to move the focus to achieving meaningful, real-life results for people who are striving to attain and sustain recovery, build resilience, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities," wrote Curie. "At the same time, we have firmly established that there are many pathways to recovery, including the transformative powers of faith, and have broadened alliances with community and faith-based service providers to better serve citizens seeking help and support."220Curie – McElravy's boss for four four years – was a leading light of the New Freedom Commission – another public-service facade for the pharmaceutical biz that has tied a grant-writing love-knot with SAMHSA.
In November, Richard Warner at Online Journal reported, "the U.S. government will soon begin a massive campaign of psychiatric indoctrination, designed to increase the acceptance of psychiatric chemical imbalance theories and labeling, and to pave the way for national psychiatric screening, driving more Americans into seeking psychiatric drug treatment." This was the "New Freedom" initiative that Curie touted so highly.
Charles G. Curie"Regional meetings in support of the National Anti-Stigma Campaign (NASC), a nationwide television, radio and print public service advertising program" – funded by SAMHSA – "were held this past summer in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. According to a senior technical assistance specialist at the SAMHSA Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma Associated with Mental Illness (ADS Center), the ad campaign, which will target 18-25-year olds, will be launched today. A campaign directed at older adults and ethnic and racial minorities will follow ... "
At first blush, "New Freedom" seems an appropriate step in mass mental illness prevention. The stated objective of NF is to “encourage, educate and inspire 18-25-year olds to step up and support friends they know are experiencing a mental health problem.”
However, writes Warner, "there can be no doubt about the real purpose of the campaign’s emotional appeal: to create customers for the psychiatric [and] pharmaceutical industry. This is clearly evident at SAMHSA’s website and in its literature. It is no accident that 18-25-year olds were chosen as the first target." This demographic "represents a huge untapped market for psychiatric drugs and services. According to SAMHSA’s website, the anti-stigma media blitz has been designed to establish a ‘new norm,’ in which individuals, without hesitation, will seek out the mental health services they need and deserve.”
New Freedom Commission member Charles Curie, who stepped down a few months before McElravy's death, "was the Deputy Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Pennsylvania. ... According Allen Jones, an investigator in the Pennsylvania Office of Inspector General and a whistleblower, Curie is reported to have set up a slush fund from which state employees could solicit grants from the pharmaceutical industry."221
Curie was one of many NFC directors with ties to Pharma, "principally by way of an industry marketing scheme that was developed in Texas in the 1990s."
The drug-promotion scheme was largely funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
"Known as the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, or TMAP, it was designed to make the newest and most expensive psychiatric drugs the first (and virtually only) treatment option for mental health care. The project was nurtured at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, a major research center that conducts drug trials for pharmaceutical companies, with significant funding coming from the drug companies themselves. Pharmaceutical company gifts to the Texas Department of State Health Services totaled $1.3 million from 1997 to 2004, with at least $834,000 earmarked for TMAP. Backed by drug industry funding, TMAP was then exported to other states."222
McElravy's job as an anti-drug activist wasn't as clear-cut as it seemed. He was, in fact, like Curie, a Pharma federal front man, a cog in the pharmaceutical-industrial-military complex – the very same combination, in fact, that imposed fascism on Germany in the last century.
As if these Orwellian reverberations aren't bizarre enough, the story is about to become even more interesting ...
Arnold Andrews, R.I.P.The sixth passenger aboard Flight 5191 when it crashed was Arnold Andrews, senior vice president and chief operating officer of the WestCare Foundation's eastern/offshore division in St. Petersburg, Florida. According to the capsule newspaper obits accompanying news of the Comair crash, "at WestCare, Andrews oversaw the Foundation’s substance abuse and mental health treatment programs and facilities in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands."
From the WestCare web site: "CHARLES G. CURIE, Administrator of the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) presented a grant award to WestCare for $2 million over five years to integrate treatment for health problems, substance abuse and mental disorders for homeless adults at The Turning Point."223 Another SAMHSA grant to WestCare, this one specifically for drug treatment, was bestowed on WestCare Kentucky in Frankfort for $774,000.224
Among the most strident critics of SAMHSA is Freedom Center in Northampton, Massachusetts – a coalition of patients, or "mental health consumers." In May of 2001, the Center's site reports, "people diagnosed with severe mental illness – such as schizophrenia, bipolar (manic depression), and obsessive-compulsive disorder – came together in the Pioneer Valley to form the Freedom Center. Defying stereotypes of helplessness, breaking the silence around psychiatric abuse, exposing the propaganda of pharmaceutical companies and challenging people to stand up against a system that fails to meet people's true needs, we became the the area's first advocacy and support group run by and for mental health consumers ourselves."225
Freedom Center notes that the majority of SAMHSA's grants "promote mental health services shaped by the bio-medical model, a model that equates emotional and behavioral problems to a genetic or biological defect or disease. SAMHSA supported services rely on psychiatric diagnoses for treatment."
What's more, mental health diagnoses and individualized treatment "have served as a method of social control by internalizing the problems of an individual rather then focusing on the external socio-economic-political factors involved in an individual’s suffering. The first line of treatment for individuals with mental health diagnoses in many SAMHSA supported programs include medication and electroshock. Medication is widely prescribed by SAMHSA supported service providers without properly informing consumers of risks involved. 
"Benzodiazepines such as xanax and ativan are widely prescribed for anxiety or PTSD while consumers are rarely warned of the side effects of addiction and increased anxiety. SAMHSA supported service providers practice poly-pharmacy where multiple drugs are prescribed to individuals who rarely receive warning of potentially lethal drug interactions. Medication is commonly used for ‘off-label’ purposes that it has not been FDA approved for. This method of prescribing is experimental medicine."The Center's activists warn that SAMHSA’s much-ballyhooed response to the "emotional needs" of Katrina survivors "continues to promote the disease-based model of mental distress through the widespread use of the PTSD diagnosis."226
The Secret Origin of the New Freedom Commission
At the annual conference of the 2004 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's (AACAP), TeenScreen's Laurie Flynn admitted her hidden role in creating the NFC – by inserting a few words into a Bush campaign speech. Once "on the record" with a promise to form a commission, Flynn coerced Bush into keeping his "promise." George Stone, a licensed clinical social worker, is very concerned about the New Freedom mental health screening initiatives ...
The President’s New Freedom Commission On Mental Health: The Plan to Drug American School Childrenby George Stone
MEDICALIZATION: Convincing Healthy People They Are Sick"Charles Currie’s name is not a household word, but it should be. He was in charge of the Pennsylvania mental health system at the time TMAP was brought into that state from Texas. He gave final approval for adoption of TMAP in Pennsylvania, where it is known as PennMap; and he supervised the people who set up illegal “off book" accounts for the drug industry bribes to Pennsylvania officials that lubricated the process. Soon thereafter, President Bush (or Karl Rove) appointed Currie head of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) – perhaps as a reward for his good work on PennMap. Once at SAMHSA, Currie began vigorously promoting TMAP, TeenScreen, and other NFC recommendations. For example, in July 2005, a SAMHSA press release announced its sponsorship of the Federal Mental Health Action Agenda (FMHAA). FMHAA is a coalition of six cabinet level departments, including Health and Human Services, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, and represents a major effort.
"The creators of TMAP claim they used scientific evidence to establish the safety and effectiveness of the drugs on their list. However, Allen Jones a former investigator for the Pennsylvania Office of the Investigator General (OIG) disputes this claim, “It has been revealed that TMAP personnel may have tampered with the research results through a process known as ‘Retrospective Analysis.’ Patients who had previously been treated with the new medications were researched, and files showing positive results were selected [out] and reported on. Unsurprisingly, TMAP research ‘confirmed’ that the new drugs were safer and more effective than the older treatments. Ignoring contrary findings, TMAP employees referred to their algorithm as being ‘Evidence-Based Best Practices.’ [But] Dr. Peter J. Weiden, a member of the project’s expert consensus, stated that the guidelines promoted by the program are based on ‘opinions, not data’ and that ‘most of the guideline’s authors have received [financial] support from the pharmaceutical industry.""Let me summarize the situation:
1) the NFC was created as part of Laurie Flynn Pharma agenda.
2) TMAP, created under George W. Bush’s tenure as governor of Texas, is a list of expensive, ineffective and dangerous drugs.
3) despite its political/pharmaceutical birth, TMAP is presented as 'scientific' and a 'model' program and that has the support of President Bush’s NFC.
4) TMAP drugs have all been shown to be no more effective than older, cheaper drugs and they are far more dangerous than those older drugs.
5) TeenScreen has no scientific validity (it has high levels of false positives, for example).
6) TeenScreen has a record of flagrantly bypassing parental consent in screening children.
7) Children shown to be at risk by the TeenScreen program would be referred to a standard of treatment that is highly likely to use the dangerous TMAP drugs.
"Is this the best US public mental health policy has to offer?"TeenScreen and TMAP represent naked drug company greed. Even before these NFC recommendations were made there were 15 million Americans on Zyprexa (7.4 million) and Risperdal (7.6 million) alone in 2002. Sales of atypical antipsychotic drugs reached $6.4 billion, making them the fourth best selling class of drugs in America. “The combined sales of antidepressants and antipsychotics jumped from around $500 million in 1986 to nearly $20 billion in 2004 – a 40-fold increase.” (Whitaker 2004 & 2005) Yet, apparently this kind of growth is not enough for Pharma. A public mental health policy to screen children and get more of them on atypical antipsychotics is also required. ...
"Allen Jones contends that the TeenScreen program is 'designed to diagnose mental illness in teenagers…[but] has been shown to be coercive and unreliable. It serves the same political/pharmaceutical alliance that generated the Texas project [and is] behind the New Freedom Commission.' Using TeenScreen, this alliance is 'poised to consolidate the TMAP effort into a comprehensive national policy…with expensive, patented medications of questionable benefit and deadly side effects.'
TeenScreen: Introducing Children to Life-Long Use of Psychiatric Drugs
"Just as Pharma subsidized bone density tests in osteoporosis, so it is behind the promotion of TeenScreen as the mental health-screening tool of public mental health policy. TeenScreen is a nonprofit organization, housed at Columbia University – an interesting arrangement that gives TeenScreen an air of academic respectability it does not deserve. Let’s follow the money ...
"Laurie Flynn is CEO of TeenScreen. Before joining Columbia, Laurie Flynn was CEO of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI); for 16 years Pharma paid her salary. NAMI is Pharma’s number one grassroots front group and is committed to promoting and selling as many drugs as possible. So, before joining Columbia, 'Laurie Flynn was the leading drug pusher in the United States.' During Flynn’s tenure, in the three-year period from 1996-1999 NAMI received $11.72 million from 18 different drug companies. ... "227Who will conduct the screening tests and write the algorithms? Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson, primarily, both with extensive ties to the Bush administration:
Eli Lilly (Prozac, Zyprexa):
• George Herbert Walker Bush – former CIA director, unindicted Iran contra co-conspirator, Eli Lilly director.
• Mitch Daniels, George W. Bush's former OMB director – former Eli Lilly vice president.
• Sidney Taurel of Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Council – current CEO of Eli Lilly.• The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) – major recipient of Eli Lilly funding.
(Source: Eli Lilly, Zyprexa and the Bush Family, by Bruce Levine)
Johnson & Johnson, parent company of Janssen Pharmaceutica (Risperdal):
• Robert Wood Johnson IV, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, raised more than $100,000 for George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, and over $200,000 for Bush's 2004 campaign.(Source:"Bush Administration – Money, Politics & Drugs, by Evelyn Pringle)
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
UP IN SMOKE ...
NOTES
218.) MHSA Database, "Steve McElravy of CSAP is Among 49 Killed."
http://www.nasadad.org/resource.php?base_id=840
219.) "19th Annual NPN Research Conference Held in Kentucky Despite Air Disaster, Hundreds Attend Conference," NASADAD release.
http://www.nasadad.org/resource.php?base_id=840
220.) Bob Curley, "SAMHSA Director Submits Resignation," Join Together News, May 26, 2006.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/features/2006/samhsa-director-submits.html
221.) Richard A. Warner, "Federal government launches marketing campaign for psychiatric industry," Online Journal, Nov 29, 2006.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1480.shtml
222.) Ibid.
223.) http://www.westcare.com/aboutus.htm
From the WestCare site: "Andrews was the past Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Catholic Charities USA. He was a member of the Catholic Health Association’s New Covenant Phase IV national task force."
224.) On SAMHSA grant to WestCare Foundation, see:
http://www.samhsa.gov/StateSummaries/detail/2006/ky.aspx
225.) Freedom Center.
http://www.freedom-center.org/info/aboutus.html
226.) Ibid.
227.) George Stone, "The President’s New Freedom Commission On Mental Health: The Plan to Drug American School Children."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0605/S00432.htm
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 29: A World of Illusion – Turn to the Rain and the Wind
By Alex Constantine
"The judge spoke
out of the side of his mouth ...
... Turn, turn, turn again,
Sayin', 'The witness who saw,
He left little doubt,'
Turn, turn to the rain
And the wind ... "
– Bob Dylan, "Percy's Song"
Apply a cutting torch of rational skepticism ... illusions let go, tumble and clang on the floor like scrap iron ...
It was an oxymoronic formula: Steve McElravy, the bearded, progressive Ananda Margan at DH&H under GW Bush, died in the Lexington crash. He was a round peg in a forest of square holes.
McElravy's favorite radio station back home in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he lived for 30 years, was "free-form," community-sponsored KZUM, 89.3 FM, a progressive omelot of alternative musical forms and political talk.214 The station picks up the usual compromised-left programming – "Radio Nation," "Democracy Now!" "Counterspin" – and airs alternative discussion and commentary: "Exploring Unexplained Phenomena" ("UFO's, ghosts,
Colburn
metaphysics, energy healing, dreams, out-of-body research," Saturday mornings, airing since 1984, hosted by Scott Colburn), "Interrobang?!" ("upbeat exploration of the varied expressions of spirituality in Lincoln"), and "New Dimensions" ("help make the world a better place by holding the space for what is possible") ...
The Cultural Cold War grinds on ... mental programming for progressives. Behind the leftist hand-wringing, aliens and restless spirits lurks a Mockingbird ...
And so it is that details of the plane crash that claimed McElravy's life are fixed in our own heads, a mental movie based on the testimony of a single witness – Bill Giltner, Jr. from Salina, Kansas.
Giltner, 59, the Kentucky Herald-Leader reported, had been "living in Kentucky since May, working around horses." He hired on at the 115-acre farm adjacent to the airport, owned by Nick A. Bentley, a local real estate broker (not a "farmer" as widely reported), only five days before the crash.
Giltner quit the day after the tragedy, he told reporters, due to the "heavy workload."
He told the Herald-Leader that he was "making coffee NEAR THE WINDOW OF A SMALL TRAILER that faced that runway on the horse farm" owned by Bentley, "who leases the land to Wayne Murty." Giltner "was stunned to see the CRJ-100 commuter plane struggling to get off the ground. Its engines – which are much bigger and louder than the small private planes that usually take off on that runway and pass over his head – caught his attention. 'This sounded like a freight train coming right at you, I mean, full-blast,' he said.
Giltner reported that he saw the plane first hit the metal fence at the perimeter of the airport, then he watched its tail scrape the ground.
"'He hit, and there were all kinds of sparks flying out of the back of that plane,' Giltner said. The plane bounced back into the air and over a smaller fence and the farm's lower horse pasture. It had begun going airborne when it clipped the top of a thicket of trees. Giltner said that's when he LEFT THE TRAILER in time to see 'a ball of fire' followed by a large plume of smoke from behind the trees."215
According to this account, he was standing "IN A TRAILER," looking out a window and observed the plane attempting to takeoff on the runway.
Compare the above account with the one he gave Sharon Montague, a reporter for the Salina Journal, on the same day:
"A Salinan working temporarily on a Kentucky horse farm watched from a PASTURE ABUTTING THE RUNWAY .... Bill Giltner Jr., 59, was STANDING OUTSIDE A HORSE BARN occupied by more than a dozen thoroughbred racehorses when the plane took off shortly after 6 a.m., and it passed within 40 feet of him before crashing.
"'It came right toward me and the BARN where the horses are at,' Giltner said by phone Monday evening. 'It hit a fence, it skipped in the pasture twice, then it hit some trees near the barn and went down an eighth of a mile south. The pilot, he did his best to try to get it over the trees, but when he hit those trees, it was all over. It just went up in a ball of flames."216
The essential details have changed. At the time the Bombadier attempted takeoff from Blue Grass, Giltner was standing in a trailer, gazing out a window, and the plane sounded "like a freight-train" ... even before leaving the runway (?) and heading straight for him ... and at the VERY SAME TIME, by the second account, he was also standing OUTSIDE the horse barn, near the runway, directly in "the path" of Flight 5191?
Two entirely different accounts – which, if either, is true? Where exactly WAS Giltner at the time of the crash?
The NTSB has announced that there will be no public hearing on the crash – to the outrage of the families, attorneys and some in the press – so these contradictions may never be resolved.217
Here is a photo of the crash site – there is no trailer discernible in the photo situated to allow a clear view of the runway. – perhaps that's why the story changed so drastically. He claimed the sound of the jet – like a "freight-train" – BEFORE takeoff from the runway caught his attention, and he looked to see it lift off, clip the trees and crash south of the barn (which does not appear to be directly in the plane's path) and explode (lower right corner):
In the absence of a dependable witness ... or media or public hearing ... turn, turn to the rain and the wind for answers to the paradoxes surrounding the death of McElravy and the other passengers on Flight 5191 ...
[Continues ... ]
NEXT ...
NOTES
214.) Colleen Kenney, "Memorial Service today for man killed in Kentucky plane crash," Lincoln Journal Star, October 17, 2006.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/10/17/local/doc453557e76931b644935183.txt
215.) Ryan Alessi, "Witness: It bounced, clipped trees," Kentucky Herald-Leader, August 29, 2006.
216.) Sharon Montague, "Salinan witnesses fiery crash," Salina Journal, August 29, 2006.
217.) Alexander Coolidge, "Comair's crash case moves fast – No public hearing likely," Cincinnati Enquirer, November 11, 2006.
"The judge spokeout of the side of his mouth ...
... Turn, turn, turn again,
Sayin', 'The witness who saw,
He left little doubt,'
Turn, turn to the rain
And the wind ... "
– Bob Dylan, "Percy's Song"
Apply a cutting torch of rational skepticism ... illusions let go, tumble and clang on the floor like scrap iron ...
It was an oxymoronic formula: Steve McElravy, the bearded, progressive Ananda Margan at DH&H under GW Bush, died in the Lexington crash. He was a round peg in a forest of square holes.
McElravy's favorite radio station back home in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he lived for 30 years, was "free-form," community-sponsored KZUM, 89.3 FM, a progressive omelot of alternative musical forms and political talk.214 The station picks up the usual compromised-left programming – "Radio Nation," "Democracy Now!" "Counterspin" – and airs alternative discussion and commentary: "Exploring Unexplained Phenomena" ("UFO's, ghosts,
Colburnmetaphysics, energy healing, dreams, out-of-body research," Saturday mornings, airing since 1984, hosted by Scott Colburn), "Interrobang?!" ("upbeat exploration of the varied expressions of spirituality in Lincoln"), and "New Dimensions" ("help make the world a better place by holding the space for what is possible") ...
The Cultural Cold War grinds on ... mental programming for progressives. Behind the leftist hand-wringing, aliens and restless spirits lurks a Mockingbird ...And so it is that details of the plane crash that claimed McElravy's life are fixed in our own heads, a mental movie based on the testimony of a single witness – Bill Giltner, Jr. from Salina, Kansas.
Giltner, 59, the Kentucky Herald-Leader reported, had been "living in Kentucky since May, working around horses." He hired on at the 115-acre farm adjacent to the airport, owned by Nick A. Bentley, a local real estate broker (not a "farmer" as widely reported), only five days before the crash.
Giltner quit the day after the tragedy, he told reporters, due to the "heavy workload."
He told the Herald-Leader that he was "making coffee NEAR THE WINDOW OF A SMALL TRAILER that faced that runway on the horse farm" owned by Bentley, "who leases the land to Wayne Murty." Giltner "was stunned to see the CRJ-100 commuter plane struggling to get off the ground. Its engines – which are much bigger and louder than the small private planes that usually take off on that runway and pass over his head – caught his attention. 'This sounded like a freight train coming right at you, I mean, full-blast,' he said. Giltner reported that he saw the plane first hit the metal fence at the perimeter of the airport, then he watched its tail scrape the ground.
"'He hit, and there were all kinds of sparks flying out of the back of that plane,' Giltner said. The plane bounced back into the air and over a smaller fence and the farm's lower horse pasture. It had begun going airborne when it clipped the top of a thicket of trees. Giltner said that's when he LEFT THE TRAILER in time to see 'a ball of fire' followed by a large plume of smoke from behind the trees."215
According to this account, he was standing "IN A TRAILER," looking out a window and observed the plane attempting to takeoff on the runway.
Compare the above account with the one he gave Sharon Montague, a reporter for the Salina Journal, on the same day:
"A Salinan working temporarily on a Kentucky horse farm watched from a PASTURE ABUTTING THE RUNWAY .... Bill Giltner Jr., 59, was STANDING OUTSIDE A HORSE BARN occupied by more than a dozen thoroughbred racehorses when the plane took off shortly after 6 a.m., and it passed within 40 feet of him before crashing.
"'It came right toward me and the BARN where the horses are at,' Giltner said by phone Monday evening. 'It hit a fence, it skipped in the pasture twice, then it hit some trees near the barn and went down an eighth of a mile south. The pilot, he did his best to try to get it over the trees, but when he hit those trees, it was all over. It just went up in a ball of flames."216
The essential details have changed. At the time the Bombadier attempted takeoff from Blue Grass, Giltner was standing in a trailer, gazing out a window, and the plane sounded "like a freight-train" ... even before leaving the runway (?) and heading straight for him ... and at the VERY SAME TIME, by the second account, he was also standing OUTSIDE the horse barn, near the runway, directly in "the path" of Flight 5191?
Two entirely different accounts – which, if either, is true? Where exactly WAS Giltner at the time of the crash?
The NTSB has announced that there will be no public hearing on the crash – to the outrage of the families, attorneys and some in the press – so these contradictions may never be resolved.217Here is a photo of the crash site – there is no trailer discernible in the photo situated to allow a clear view of the runway. – perhaps that's why the story changed so drastically. He claimed the sound of the jet – like a "freight-train" – BEFORE takeoff from the runway caught his attention, and he looked to see it lift off, clip the trees and crash south of the barn (which does not appear to be directly in the plane's path) and explode (lower right corner):
In the absence of a dependable witness ... or media or public hearing ... turn, turn to the rain and the wind for answers to the paradoxes surrounding the death of McElravy and the other passengers on Flight 5191 ...[Continues ... ]
NEXT ...
NOTES
214.) Colleen Kenney, "Memorial Service today for man killed in Kentucky plane crash," Lincoln Journal Star, October 17, 2006.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/10/17/local/doc453557e76931b644935183.txt
215.) Ryan Alessi, "Witness: It bounced, clipped trees," Kentucky Herald-Leader, August 29, 2006.
216.) Sharon Montague, "Salinan witnesses fiery crash," Salina Journal, August 29, 2006.
217.) Alexander Coolidge, "Comair's crash case moves fast – No public hearing likely," Cincinnati Enquirer, November 11, 2006.
NICO HAUPT – ny911truth BizarroGate: Pressure on Urantia-Jamieson increased with NYPD Intel Unit showing up and Protest by ex-Realian
December 11, 2006
By ewing2001
"...I should hope that those who are active within 9-11 Truth, deal with this matter in the only appropriate manner, and that would be, by grabbing you and your little buddies by the throat, and knocking the living day-lights out of you all. You are a disgusting little piece of shit...
Sincerely,
Joseph Carranza
BizarroGate ny911truth vs. NYPD-IU:
Ex-Realian + Anti-Larouchie-Protest against Urantia-Les + Co
Exclusive by Nico Haupt
December 11, 2006
UPDATED 12/11
Things are getting more bizarre at the weekly Sunday ny911truth.org meetings at St. Mark's Church.
911bloglines.org reported last week already about 6-8 different infiltration concepts from competing groups inside, and outside the audience (as described at 911close.up)
We are reporting now as things developed tonight with no particular bias.
At around 7 PM EST, a protest outside St. Mark's Church against Les Jamieson and Frank Morales started.
The protest was organized by an ex-Realian named Roman Shusterman, which used to be a regular audience member, until he sympathised with street activist Tom Weiss against Culster Jamieson and Co. (911bloglines.com reported).
The Realians are actually a cult by itself which was also founder of the Clonaid company. This pro-cloning sect also believes humans were created by extra-terrestrial beings who had mastered genetic engineering.
Shusterman, who said he has nothing to do with that sect anymore, handed out leaflets and also organized a placard, which had multiple slogans on it.
The guy who displayed the placard insisted that he didn't write the message, but was "just helping out" and is actually a member of the JDL. (JDL stands for Jewish Defense League)
The text says: "St. Marks Church taken over by Neo Nazis (Drug Trafficking Frank Morales, Urantia Cultist Les Jamieson, Eminem wannabee Luke Rudkowski) and their sympathizers (Tom Foti etc...) Time for a boycott! Death to Nazism! Long live Globalism..."
Leaflet and Text is also available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NoPoliceStateCoalition/ and was obviously also supported by Tom Weiss, who was removed several times by Les Jamieson and others, when he insisted that the 9/11 Truth Movement is "infiltrated with LaRouchians".
911bloglines.com asked Shusterman, why he thinks, that Pater Frank Morales allegedly supports "drug Trafficking", when Shusterman also started to do a tape interview with one of the confused audience members of the church, who already started to surround the group.
In this Interview Shusterman stated, he has actually "evidence", that Morales allegedly supports a Heroine Drug Ring in Afghanistan (!) and pulled some papers to make his point.
911bloglines had not much chance to follow that argument, because the audience from St. Mark's already started to debate with the protest crowd, which was also supporter from another member of the already diverted no police state -group.
The audience took some photos of the protest crowd.
Tom Foti and Luke Rudkowski, who came out of the church, reacted relaxed and basically got amused by the message, also asked some questions.
It wasn't also really clear, what kind of "globalism" Shusterman supports, but he insisted that he is also against the "New World Order supported by David Ray Griffin"... "and other NeoNazis".
Meanwhile inside the church actually a video presentation of David Ray Griffin started, which was recorded last year.
911bloglines.com informed the crowd about the latest info on Griffin, who runs the 9/11 Truth Movement and a pantheism cult in China, both inspired by Alfred North Whitehead.
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2006/12/911-truthling-infiltration-watch-pt2.html
The ex-realian- pro globalist group is not the only diversion outside the church.
Geo aka cetseson, an independent researcher informs the audience regularly about the shady background of Professor Steven E Jones and David Ray Griffin and why the Inside Jobbers from 9/11 are actually linked to a transnational cartel ("outside job") with more ties to british royalists and other international bankers, than to the CFR (as Tom Foti often pointed out).
On his Sunday night's leaflet, cetseson expressed that Griffin is not only a cultist, but actually attended in 1974 a Rockefeller Foundation Conference in Bellagio (Lago di Como) and reappeared in 1992 and apparently also applied in 2002.
see also http://mysite.verizon.net/vze25x9n/id25.html
Griffin reported: "...Incidentally, I personally, as an individual scholar, went back to Bellagio in 1992, where my wife and I stayed for about 5 weeks. It was there, in fact, that I first developed the conviction that if the world’s global problems are to be solved, we need to move from the present global structure--technically known as global anarchy--to global democracy..."
Frank Morales wasn't outside at this Protest, but is actually supportive of the criticism against Jamieson, but since he's just a "moderator" of the weekly events, he's pointing the finger on that on the so called "committee", led by Foti and Rudkowski.
Cetseson and Morales later spoke with each other, as usually also with a friendly vibe.
Morales asked him to write down the information on Griffin in a more "condensed" way so that it could be 'presented next week'.
Cetseson actually also points out why Loose Change, "24"/FOX, BBC and dutch VPRO are all presenting a hangout version of 9/11 and many other interesting things, which will not have a chance to be mentioned in this short report.
Meanwhile, somehow also bizarre, the presentation of our "best of 911bloglines.com" of the week was approved by Frank Morales and the 'committee', but they didn't allow Nico Haupt to speak, instead Peggy Carter was picked to present the highlights at an open mic.
This Sunday Night was the first official presentation of a reading of 911bloglines.com.
According to the audience, Carter, who actually was skype guest in our radio podcast on Sunday (together with Killtown and JustDiggin), did a good job and presented some bloglines, which stirred some controversy lately.
Among them also some headers on David Ray Griffin(griffinthink.blogspot.com), another one about the cover-up of Attorney Alexander Floum and his powergames on censorship at 911blogger.com and the 9/11 Scholars, which also stirred a fight between Fetzer + Jones.
Other bloglines included the recent Pentagon-Doubletree video, a Wall Street Journal article, which described the butter-effect on the 9/11 (Fakery-) Videos, furthermore Webster Tarpley's statement against Robert Gates, plus an analysis of the recent hangout articles of the Nation, Counterpunch + Co.
Carter also mentioned the forthcoming Boston 9/11 Truth 'teaparty' and other events and analysed in an appropriate way the latest pseudo 9/11 hollywood 'truthers' Dustin Hoffman, David Lynch and Streisand husband James Brolin.
The audience reacted very thankful about this new '911blogline-news' service and actually didn't know much about the recent controversies on Jones, Floum, Fetzer + Co.
Les Jamieson, still with Urantia, seemed also to be entertained from this presentation of 911bloglines.com , though it couldn't really be established, which headers he liked or disliked.
If this roundup of Sunday night's ny911 "truth" event wasn't bizarre enough for you, then what about this? :
Tom Weiss, the heckler and protester from Sunday night actually called during last week the Terrorist Intelligence Division of the NYPD (!), which showed up at Frank Morales.
However, as Morales confirmed to 911bloglines.com, he could explain to the Intel Unit, that Weiss was actually just a heckler and that his group wouldn't support terrorists.
The NYPD-ID apparently sympathized with Morales and wasn't interested in a further investigation on that matter.
Furthermore, things are also getting ugly between Jamieson and the "Committee".
As Luke Rudkowski (once close to Loose Change Team) reported to 911bloglines.com, it turned out, that Jamieson abused an email list of 1,000 ny911truth 'members' to promote a forthcoming event from Ward "Little Eichmans" Churchill, the controversial leftgatekeeper figure from last year.
Since Sunday night's event turned into some obscure circus, we couldn't even follow carefully all details, so please bare with us, if we left out additional context.
Fact is, the audience is apparently still as colorful as NYC, therefore somehow still more "progressive" than other 9/11 'truth activist' group in the U.S.
Where else you can openly talk with a convinced Freemason or a huge Latino-fan of David "Lizard" Icke?
Tom Weiss writes about Freemason and 9/11 Scholar Member (!) Judy Cunningham:
"...she told me that she had been living in her car of about 5 years, despite earning a salary of about $70,000 annually as a nurse, because any landlord anywhere renting a place to her would be contacted by the CIA resulting in her eviction ... She also dated a KKK member, from that I assume she also went along with racist white supremacist activities..."
If you jealous by now, then what about this?:
There are also people in the audience, who claim that they're Undercover-Cops, while others whisper outside about a "perfect anarchy strategy".
Since 911bloglines.com doesn't really support the one or other coup d'etat concept, we're just amazed how bizarre the NY 9/11 'truthling' Department backfired on the audience right now, which almost let Griffin look like an angel compared to the multiple diversions, triggered by Jamieson.
Fact is, a huge part of the ny911truth audience almost don't trust Griffin, Jones and Bowman anymore anyway, but just wanna get entertained with the "movie of the week" and somehow are using the weekly events also a a "therapy", while hoping, that one day this 'mess and nightmare will be over'...
It also apparently still looks, that the audience prefers a puppet leader "pseudo activist" than extreme hangouters like John Albanese "or this troll Weiss", as many pointed out openly in- and outside the church.
Whereelse in this world are you getting presented so many different versions of the "truth"?
Only in New York, kids, only in New York ;
to be continued next week...
PS: 911bloglines.com also informed "Charlie", a harmless 9/11-inside job banner holder (every week at Ground Zero, which is now getting poisoned by the Deutsche Bank demolishment), how he ended up in a Photo-Fakery Job by Jonathan Gold, who titled his photo as CB_Brooklyn, who has nothing to with Charlie, who had no clue, that his photo became 'famous' this week at 911blogger.com
By ewing2001
"...I should hope that those who are active within 9-11 Truth, deal with this matter in the only appropriate manner, and that would be, by grabbing you and your little buddies by the throat, and knocking the living day-lights out of you all. You are a disgusting little piece of shit...
Sincerely,
Joseph Carranza
BizarroGate ny911truth vs. NYPD-IU:
Ex-Realian + Anti-Larouchie-Protest against Urantia-Les + Co
Exclusive by Nico Haupt
December 11, 2006
UPDATED 12/11
Things are getting more bizarre at the weekly Sunday ny911truth.org meetings at St. Mark's Church.
911bloglines.org reported last week already about 6-8 different infiltration concepts from competing groups inside, and outside the audience (as described at 911close.up)
We are reporting now as things developed tonight with no particular bias.
At around 7 PM EST, a protest outside St. Mark's Church against Les Jamieson and Frank Morales started.
The protest was organized by an ex-Realian named Roman Shusterman, which used to be a regular audience member, until he sympathised with street activist Tom Weiss against Culster Jamieson and Co. (911bloglines.com reported).
The Realians are actually a cult by itself which was also founder of the Clonaid company. This pro-cloning sect also believes humans were created by extra-terrestrial beings who had mastered genetic engineering.
Shusterman, who said he has nothing to do with that sect anymore, handed out leaflets and also organized a placard, which had multiple slogans on it.
The guy who displayed the placard insisted that he didn't write the message, but was "just helping out" and is actually a member of the JDL. (JDL stands for Jewish Defense League) The text says: "St. Marks Church taken over by Neo Nazis (Drug Trafficking Frank Morales, Urantia Cultist Les Jamieson, Eminem wannabee Luke Rudkowski) and their sympathizers (Tom Foti etc...) Time for a boycott! Death to Nazism! Long live Globalism..."
Leaflet and Text is also available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NoPoliceStateCoalition/ and was obviously also supported by Tom Weiss, who was removed several times by Les Jamieson and others, when he insisted that the 9/11 Truth Movement is "infiltrated with LaRouchians".
911bloglines.com asked Shusterman, why he thinks, that Pater Frank Morales allegedly supports "drug Trafficking", when Shusterman also started to do a tape interview with one of the confused audience members of the church, who already started to surround the group.
In this Interview Shusterman stated, he has actually "evidence", that Morales allegedly supports a Heroine Drug Ring in Afghanistan (!) and pulled some papers to make his point.
911bloglines had not much chance to follow that argument, because the audience from St. Mark's already started to debate with the protest crowd, which was also supporter from another member of the already diverted no police state -group.
The audience took some photos of the protest crowd.
Tom Foti and Luke Rudkowski, who came out of the church, reacted relaxed and basically got amused by the message, also asked some questions.
It wasn't also really clear, what kind of "globalism" Shusterman supports, but he insisted that he is also against the "New World Order supported by David Ray Griffin"... "and other NeoNazis".
Meanwhile inside the church actually a video presentation of David Ray Griffin started, which was recorded last year.
911bloglines.com informed the crowd about the latest info on Griffin, who runs the 9/11 Truth Movement and a pantheism cult in China, both inspired by Alfred North Whitehead.
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2006/12/911-truthling-infiltration-watch-pt2.html
The ex-realian- pro globalist group is not the only diversion outside the church.
Geo aka cetseson, an independent researcher informs the audience regularly about the shady background of Professor Steven E Jones and David Ray Griffin and why the Inside Jobbers from 9/11 are actually linked to a transnational cartel ("outside job") with more ties to british royalists and other international bankers, than to the CFR (as Tom Foti often pointed out).
On his Sunday night's leaflet, cetseson expressed that Griffin is not only a cultist, but actually attended in 1974 a Rockefeller Foundation Conference in Bellagio (Lago di Como) and reappeared in 1992 and apparently also applied in 2002.
see also http://mysite.verizon.net/vze25x9n/id25.html
Griffin reported: "...Incidentally, I personally, as an individual scholar, went back to Bellagio in 1992, where my wife and I stayed for about 5 weeks. It was there, in fact, that I first developed the conviction that if the world’s global problems are to be solved, we need to move from the present global structure--technically known as global anarchy--to global democracy..."
Frank Morales wasn't outside at this Protest, but is actually supportive of the criticism against Jamieson, but since he's just a "moderator" of the weekly events, he's pointing the finger on that on the so called "committee", led by Foti and Rudkowski.
Cetseson and Morales later spoke with each other, as usually also with a friendly vibe.
Morales asked him to write down the information on Griffin in a more "condensed" way so that it could be 'presented next week'.
Cetseson actually also points out why Loose Change, "24"/FOX, BBC and dutch VPRO are all presenting a hangout version of 9/11 and many other interesting things, which will not have a chance to be mentioned in this short report.
Meanwhile, somehow also bizarre, the presentation of our "best of 911bloglines.com" of the week was approved by Frank Morales and the 'committee', but they didn't allow Nico Haupt to speak, instead Peggy Carter was picked to present the highlights at an open mic.
This Sunday Night was the first official presentation of a reading of 911bloglines.com.
According to the audience, Carter, who actually was skype guest in our radio podcast on Sunday (together with Killtown and JustDiggin), did a good job and presented some bloglines, which stirred some controversy lately.
Among them also some headers on David Ray Griffin(griffinthink.blogspot.com), another one about the cover-up of Attorney Alexander Floum and his powergames on censorship at 911blogger.com and the 9/11 Scholars, which also stirred a fight between Fetzer + Jones.
Other bloglines included the recent Pentagon-Doubletree video, a Wall Street Journal article, which described the butter-effect on the 9/11 (Fakery-) Videos, furthermore Webster Tarpley's statement against Robert Gates, plus an analysis of the recent hangout articles of the Nation, Counterpunch + Co.
Carter also mentioned the forthcoming Boston 9/11 Truth 'teaparty' and other events and analysed in an appropriate way the latest pseudo 9/11 hollywood 'truthers' Dustin Hoffman, David Lynch and Streisand husband James Brolin.
The audience reacted very thankful about this new '911blogline-news' service and actually didn't know much about the recent controversies on Jones, Floum, Fetzer + Co.
Les Jamieson, still with Urantia, seemed also to be entertained from this presentation of 911bloglines.com , though it couldn't really be established, which headers he liked or disliked.
If this roundup of Sunday night's ny911 "truth" event wasn't bizarre enough for you, then what about this? :
Tom Weiss, the heckler and protester from Sunday night actually called during last week the Terrorist Intelligence Division of the NYPD (!), which showed up at Frank Morales.
However, as Morales confirmed to 911bloglines.com, he could explain to the Intel Unit, that Weiss was actually just a heckler and that his group wouldn't support terrorists.
The NYPD-ID apparently sympathized with Morales and wasn't interested in a further investigation on that matter.
Furthermore, things are also getting ugly between Jamieson and the "Committee".
As Luke Rudkowski (once close to Loose Change Team) reported to 911bloglines.com, it turned out, that Jamieson abused an email list of 1,000 ny911truth 'members' to promote a forthcoming event from Ward "Little Eichmans" Churchill, the controversial leftgatekeeper figure from last year.
Since Sunday night's event turned into some obscure circus, we couldn't even follow carefully all details, so please bare with us, if we left out additional context.
Fact is, the audience is apparently still as colorful as NYC, therefore somehow still more "progressive" than other 9/11 'truth activist' group in the U.S.
Where else you can openly talk with a convinced Freemason or a huge Latino-fan of David "Lizard" Icke?
Tom Weiss writes about Freemason and 9/11 Scholar Member (!) Judy Cunningham:
"...she told me that she had been living in her car of about 5 years, despite earning a salary of about $70,000 annually as a nurse, because any landlord anywhere renting a place to her would be contacted by the CIA resulting in her eviction ... She also dated a KKK member, from that I assume she also went along with racist white supremacist activities..."
If you jealous by now, then what about this?:
There are also people in the audience, who claim that they're Undercover-Cops, while others whisper outside about a "perfect anarchy strategy".
Since 911bloglines.com doesn't really support the one or other coup d'etat concept, we're just amazed how bizarre the NY 9/11 'truthling' Department backfired on the audience right now, which almost let Griffin look like an angel compared to the multiple diversions, triggered by Jamieson.
Fact is, a huge part of the ny911truth audience almost don't trust Griffin, Jones and Bowman anymore anyway, but just wanna get entertained with the "movie of the week" and somehow are using the weekly events also a a "therapy", while hoping, that one day this 'mess and nightmare will be over'...
It also apparently still looks, that the audience prefers a puppet leader "pseudo activist" than extreme hangouters like John Albanese "or this troll Weiss", as many pointed out openly in- and outside the church.
Whereelse in this world are you getting presented so many different versions of the "truth"?
Only in New York, kids, only in New York ;
to be continued next week...
PS: 911bloglines.com also informed "Charlie", a harmless 9/11-inside job banner holder (every week at Ground Zero, which is now getting poisoned by the Deutsche Bank demolishment), how he ended up in a Photo-Fakery Job by Jonathan Gold, who titled his photo as CB_Brooklyn, who has nothing to with Charlie, who had no clue, that his photo became 'famous' this week at 911blogger.com
Monday, December 11, 2006
Lexington Comair Crash Supplemental: The *Bill Giltner* Mystery
Now you walk headlong into one of the most curious and profound and troubling Comair crash mysteries of all ... in two easy steps ...
Step One ... In a universe very nearby, on the other-dimensional DarpaNet intelligence platform, there exists a 9/11 Truth activist named Bill Giltner ... his web pages are here:
Bill Giltner's News Review:
http://pbgiltner.blogspot.com/2006/
12/simplyheadlines-daily-digest_05.html
PodShow.com
Rank: 1,515,517 (3 links from 1 blog)
http://911truth.podshow.com
David Ray Griffin, Webster Griffin, Alex Jones, wtc, 911, 9/11
Tagged: 9/11, alex jones, Pentagon, wtc, 911, 911 Commission, 911truth.
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Step Two: Now, review this excerpt on the *only eye-witness* to the Comair crash:
Witness: It bounced, clipped trees –
Account of last seconds matches scrapes, markings
KENTUCKY HERALD-LEADER
August 29, 2006
"As Comair Flight 5191 reached the end of Blue Grass Airport's shorter runway, it broke through an 8-foot chain-link fence, bounced off the ground and was almost airborne until it brushed a clump of trees, a witness said yesterday.
"'He came bouncing across the pasture there. He just about had it off the ground when it clipped those trees,' said BILL GILTNER, who was hired to tend horses at the farm next to the airport. ... "
That is, there are TWO Bill Giltners. The first ... happens to be (?) ... an activist in the 9/11 Truth Movement ...
The SECOND Bill Glitner witnessed the crash. Given the tell-tale repetition of ties to the Pearl Harbor of Manhattan detected in the Comair crash – Flight 5191 – this PUSHES coincidence over the edge ... kicking and screaming ...
TWO Bill Giltners: Giltner I, the 9/11 researcher, lives in Austin, Texas. Giltner II, the eye-witness, is from Kansas. The Herald-Leader reports: "Giltner [II], a native of Salina, Kan., has been living in Kentucky since May, working around horses."
Bill Giltner II was hired to tend to the horses at the Bentley farm FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE CRASH, and quit his job – at the farm where Flight 5191 crashed – THE DAY AFTER THE DISASTER "because of the heavy workload."
His boss, Wayne Murty, confirmed that Bill Giltner II "worked there for FIVE DAYS until yesterday [August 28, 2006], but Murty declined to talk about the crash ... "
Giltner II "said he was making coffee near the window of a small trailer that faced that runway on the horse farm owned by Nick Bentley, who leases the land to Wayne Murty. Giltner, 59, who had started there five days before, said he was stunned to see the CRJ-100 commuter plane struggling to get off the ground. ... "
QUESTIONS THAT MAY COME TO MIND:
Q: Who is Bill Giltner II?
A: A deduction is possible, no more, but it's very likely that he was an intelligence plant who took the name of a highly-visible 9/11 researcher for his own reasons.
Q: What relation do Bentley, the property owner, Murty, a horse and jockey trainer, and Glitner II have to the circle of Bush financiers behind the Comair crash?
A: The WILLIAM FARISH horse farm is JUST ACROSS VERSAILLES ROAD.
Murty and Farish (and until Aug. 28, Bill Giltner II) are neighbors.
What's more, a check of Keeneland postings reveals that Murty and Farish are both regular affiliates of the race track ... and undoubtedly each other.
Step One ... In a universe very nearby, on the other-dimensional DarpaNet intelligence platform, there exists a 9/11 Truth activist named Bill Giltner ... his web pages are here:Bill Giltner's News Review:
http://pbgiltner.blogspot.com/2006/
12/simplyheadlines-daily-digest_05.html
PodShow.com
Rank: 1,515,517 (3 links from 1 blog)
http://911truth.podshow.com
David Ray Griffin, Webster Griffin, Alex Jones, wtc, 911, 9/11
Tagged: 9/11, alex jones, Pentagon, wtc, 911, 911 Commission, 911truth.
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Step Two: Now, review this excerpt on the *only eye-witness* to the Comair crash:
Witness: It bounced, clipped trees –
Account of last seconds matches scrapes, markings
KENTUCKY HERALD-LEADER
August 29, 2006
"As Comair Flight 5191 reached the end of Blue Grass Airport's shorter runway, it broke through an 8-foot chain-link fence, bounced off the ground and was almost airborne until it brushed a clump of trees, a witness said yesterday.
"'He came bouncing across the pasture there. He just about had it off the ground when it clipped those trees,' said BILL GILTNER, who was hired to tend horses at the farm next to the airport. ... "
That is, there are TWO Bill Giltners. The first ... happens to be (?) ... an activist in the 9/11 Truth Movement ...The SECOND Bill Glitner witnessed the crash. Given the tell-tale repetition of ties to the Pearl Harbor of Manhattan detected in the Comair crash – Flight 5191 – this PUSHES coincidence over the edge ... kicking and screaming ...
TWO Bill Giltners: Giltner I, the 9/11 researcher, lives in Austin, Texas. Giltner II, the eye-witness, is from Kansas. The Herald-Leader reports: "Giltner [II], a native of Salina, Kan., has been living in Kentucky since May, working around horses."
Bill Giltner II was hired to tend to the horses at the Bentley farm FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE CRASH, and quit his job – at the farm where Flight 5191 crashed – THE DAY AFTER THE DISASTER "because of the heavy workload."
His boss, Wayne Murty, confirmed that Bill Giltner II "worked there for FIVE DAYS until yesterday [August 28, 2006], but Murty declined to talk about the crash ... "
Giltner II "said he was making coffee near the window of a small trailer that faced that runway on the horse farm owned by Nick Bentley, who leases the land to Wayne Murty. Giltner, 59, who had started there five days before, said he was stunned to see the CRJ-100 commuter plane struggling to get off the ground. ... "
QUESTIONS THAT MAY COME TO MIND:
Q: Who is Bill Giltner II?
A: A deduction is possible, no more, but it's very likely that he was an intelligence plant who took the name of a highly-visible 9/11 researcher for his own reasons.
Q: What relation do Bentley, the property owner, Murty, a horse and jockey trainer, and Glitner II have to the circle of Bush financiers behind the Comair crash?
A: The WILLIAM FARISH horse farm is JUST ACROSS VERSAILLES ROAD. Murty and Farish (and until Aug. 28, Bill Giltner II) are neighbors.
What's more, a check of Keeneland postings reveals that Murty and Farish are both regular affiliates of the race track ... and undoubtedly each other.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Litvinenko: " ... the radioactive element used to poison the former spy could not have come from Russia ... "
Litvinenko's death mystery deepens as his associate lapses into coma[Q: Where were ARMITAGE and GROSSMAN?]
Pravda
08.12.2006
Five weeks after Alexander Litvinenko suddenly fell ill at the hands of an unknown poisoner, the riddle of his murder and the uneasy diplomatic stand-off that surrounds it grew ever more knotted in intrigue and tragedy.As the former Russian spy's radioactive body was laid to rest in a north London cemetery, the authorities in Moscow announced they were investigating the attempted murder of one of his business associates.
Dmitry Kovtun, one of two Russian businessmen who met Mr Litvinenko on several occasions in London prior to his assassination, was reported to be in a coma in a Moscow hospital last night after testing positive for polonium-210.
In a day of further twists, it was revealed that seven workers at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, where the men met on 1 November, had also tested positive for the radioactive isotope, the Independent reports.
The discovery of significant levels of contamination last night moved the hotel centre stage in the effort to pinpoint where and when Mr Litvinenko and Mr Kovtun were contaminated....Continued:
http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/crimes/08-12-2006/85848-Kovtun-0
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"Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika also insisted that the radioactive element used to poison the former spy could not have come from Russia . ... " 06.12.200
Russia not to extradite suspects in Litvinenko's death
... In a further possible setback, a lawyer for a man regarded by the Yard as one of their best witnesses said he could not see them immediately because he was in hospital undergoing further tests for contamination with polonium-210, the Guardian reports. ...More:
URL: http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/crimes/85799-Litvinenko-0
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Bermuda triangles can be created by modern military radarsURL: http://english.pravda.ru/science/
mysteries/85497-Bermuda-0
Norfolk is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. Norfolk is a very quiet place but for drivers it is some kind of Bermuda triangle. On the coast near Cromer many of them experience problems with engines, transmission windshield wipers etc.
At first authorities gave no sensible explanation of this paranormal phenomenon and people believed that this 'dead' area was under aliens' control. However MOD officials have recently cleared the situation.The MOD has finally come clean about the car-molesting radar installation in Norfolk which made merry with passing motorists' electronics, the Evening Standard reports.
A probe into the Type 93 radar showed it was "'out of alignment" for three months from November 2005. Specifically, "unserviceable phase shifters and drop in wave guide air pressure" were fingered at the cause. Defence expert Jonathan Levy explained to the Standard: "The phase shifters control the frequency of the radar. When this changed it could have moved the frequency close to the immobilisers of cars. The effect would be like disrupting a circuit by putting a magnet near it.http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/14-11-2006/85497-Bermuda-0
Saturday, December 09, 2006
MAE BRUSSELL: The Death of John Belushi
Mae Brussell – World Watchers International radio broadcast, March 21, 1982. Transcribed and edited by Alex Constantine
When John Belushi died, there was much confusion in Los Angeles for the first week or so from the coroner's office and police officials concerning the cause of death. A week later, the headlines delivered a fait accomli – that he was always drunk, a slob, took drugs all the time. He had this expensive drug habit.I didn't know John Belushi, but he was very successful, just as many rock musicians died at the peak of their success, at the crest when they were about to do better things. This death follows the same pattern.
Louis MalleHe was about to make, with partners, two very important and highly political movies. One was to be called Blue Moon Over Miami, and it was to be directed by Louis Malle, the fellow who directed Atlantic City, nominated for an Academy Award – and also My Dinner with André; it's been suggested this was the best picture of the year. Malle is a serious director. The script was written by highly-successful and well-known writer, John Guare.
So one of the movies that Belushi was about to make was a comedy about the FBI and drug smuggling from Colombia to Miami. And he would play the role of the drug dealer, an informer for the FBI, and then the FBI agent becomes the drug dealer. That is, you must admit, a very controversial movie because the state of Florida depends upon the drug market. It is probably the biggest going industry in Florida, and also the United States.
And these people don't appreciate comedy.
And the network of assassination teams and drug dealers selling poison drugs comes from headquarters in Hollywood and Miami.
Belushi was also in Hollywood to make a movie called Noble Rot, and he was to be with his good friend Don Novello, Father Sarducci. Now, Father Sarducci and John Belushi were making a movie about the wineries in California, dominated by the mob. They are trying to establish social acceptance, and this was to be a comedy about the Italian Mafia. Noble Rot, you can imagine what that is by the title alone.
So if you think that Belushi was not overly-political, forget it. In the past, he made fun of the Establishment. And to make fun of the Establishment is lethal.
Incidentally, Belushi had bought a $400,000 home up at Martha's Vineyard – he had 2,000 feet of ocean-front land and eight-and-a-half acres. He bought it in 1979 from former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. When you read that a man had $2-million in life insurance, and has a $400,000 home that belonged to Robert McNamara, he wasn't just drugging and goofing off, his lazy, sloppy, sleazy image. After he was dead, the articles came out, the mess he lived in, the dirt. To get into productions, you have a commitment to be on time. Millions of dollars are invested in you. You have a schedule you keep, and while it looks like fun and games on the screen, and I'm sure there is plenty of goofing off, there were also a lot of brilliant laughs – and plans and commitments to schedules and sense of timing. The image given after he was dead was the big slob who almost deserved to die in his own vomit. But that wasn't John Belushi. His success, what he earned and what he was saying speak loud and clear. All the rest is garbage. You don't have to believe the cover stories once the fellow is dead. 
Three nights before he died he was on LaCienega Blvd. near Wilshire., just bordering Beverly Hills. He was with a cab driver who gave an interview. It was late at night. They were sitting at a counter at a sandwich shop, and there was a newspaper there. They both were looking at it, and he asked Belushi, "Which part do you want, 'Sports,' 'Entertainment," or 'El Salvador'" And Belushi said: "I want El Salvador." He went on to say that he hated what he read in the news, that he hated Hollywood, that they're a "bunch of pricks. I want to get back to New York City." And he said that he wanted to stay there.They went to Belushi's car, where he had a lot of cocaine in the glove compartment. But the driver said Belushi was unhappy, fearful of his environment, that he wanted to get back [to New York]. I think that about describes it. There was another article published about him, that he didn't want to stay in Hollywood. The last night before he died, Belushi said to somebody, "I'm going home to Judy tomorrow" – that's his wife in New York – "I want to get out of here."
I'm sure that he sensed some danger, just as Elvis Presley was poisoned until he died. Or John Lennon was kept secluded and isolated in an apartment, and the minute he emerged, he died.