First let me say that I am uniquely intrigued by the Dyatlov Pass incident as well as the material, excellently compiled, by David Paulides in his seminal works; "Missing 411", and the mystery death of Todd Sees. Here's an interesting movie that has an intriguing, if not wholly explained, "solution" to what happened at Dyatlov Pass:
Here's the IMDB link. Further material on the Dyatlov Pass incident can be found here, here, and here (from the fine folks at Mysterious Universe, highly recommend the site and the podcast.) For some perspective on this case below you will find photos from the investigation team. Warning, some of the images are graphic.
Tent ripped open from inside:
The site:
Still image of the "so-called" "Russian Yeti" that is seen in the background of photos of the party. Alleged by some to be the reason for the deadly events.
One aspect of the Dyatlov Pass incident that crosses over into the "Missing 411" books is what is called "paradoxical shedding of clothes", which is little understood, but attributed to hypothermia. This will be looked at in further detail in this post. David Paulides has done yeoman's work in putting together missing person's cases from national parks and other areas in the face of, at least, indifference (the Park Service claims to keep NO records of missing people), and at worst obfuscation. I highly recommend the books, but do NOT buy them from Amazon. Buy them directly from the website here. Finally we have the case of Todd Sees. Who exhibited the same characteristic of some of the missing people in the 411 series as well as the hikers at Dyatlov; shedding of clothes. Lon Strickler at his blog Phantoms and monsters has done (along with the the assistance of other investigators) a good job of gathering evidence in the "Todd Sees" case and presenting the material for people to read and ponder. Thus we come to the final component of this post and that is the god PAN. It is probably known by many of you that the root of the word Panic is the god Pan. In the mythology there may be many "Pans" each that guards a specific wilderness or forest area. According to the myth Pan would induce panic in people in the wilds by rustling bushes as if something was sneaking up on the person. This usually caused the victim to move away. All the time Pan would follow and continue rustling bushes seemingly in pursuit of the victim. Usually this would eventually induce panic and the victim would run. See here. Panic in the woods has even been mentioned here as one of the top ten paranormal phenomenon. Pan was a Greek god, and the Romans had their own version as well; Faunus. It was also noted by the Romans something called Genius loci. Here is an image of a Roman marker dedicated to a Genius Loci:
The Romans incorporated much of Greek mythology into their pantheons of gods and myth, mostly just changing the names of the deities, like from Zeus to Jupiter. I believe the Genius Loci is a "borrowing" of the idea of multiple "Pans" guarding the wilds in Greek myth along with an admixture of paganism which was, after all, practiced throughout the empire. What is being discussed here is the same thing. The Genius Loci should be propitiated in order to avoid misfortune. So what am I saying here? Is the god Pan/Faunus, or the Genius Loci the source of the panic that seems to be self evident in some of the cases in the Missing 411 books, Todd Sees, and the Dyatlov Pass incident? In a way, yes. It is believed by academics that many of the ancient gods arose out of the need to explain natural phenomena, which the people of the time lacked the scientific knowledge to understand (Thor, god of Thunder, explained why the sky shook; there was a god that lived "up there" and was doing it). I think it is more complicated than that but it's a good start. So accepting this one can then make a rather bold assertion, and that is that the idea of panic in forests is something that has been with humanity for a long time, at least since the Greeks. What or who is Pan, or the power behind the myth? That is the real question here. I believe that there is a force at work within the wilds and forests of the world. One that can and does cause panic in people, causing them to exhibit irrational behavior, like shedding their clothes (even when weather is warm or hypothermia can be ruled out) and more importantly LEAVING THEIR CLOTHES BEHIND in their desperate effort to get away from the terror. Sadly this force also seems to be responsible for deaths and disappearances. It should be noted that I am not attributing this explanation to all cases of people gone missing in parks and wild places but instead to some of the more bizarre instances, removal of clothes, clothes found far from body, the hikers of Dyatlov apparent desperate attempt to get away from something, and Todd Sees. On panic, from Wikipedia (bold italics mine):
Panic disorder sufferers usually have a series of intense episodes of extreme anxiety during panic attacks. These attacks typically last about ten minutes, and can be as short-lived as 1–5 minutes, but can last twenty minutes to more than an hour, or until helpful intervention is made. Panic attacks can wax and wane for a period of hours (panic attacks rolling into one another), and the intensity and specific symptoms of panic may vary over the duration.
In some cases the attack may continue at unabated high intensity, or seem to be increasing in severity. Common symptoms of an attack include rapid heartbeat, perspiration, dizziness, dyspnea, trembling, uncontrollablefear such as: the fear of losing control and going crazy,[6] the fear of dying [7] and hyperventilation. Other symptoms are sweating, a sensation of choking, paralysis, chest pain, nausea, numbness or tingling, chills or hot flashes, faintness, crying [8] and some sense of altered reality.[9] In addition, the person usually has thoughts of impending doom.[10] Individuals suffering from an episode have often a strong wish of escaping from the situation that provoked the attack. The anxiety of Panic Disorder is particularly severe and noticeably episodic compared to that from Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Panic attacks may be provoked by exposure to certain stimuli (e.g., seeing a mouse) or settings (e.g., the dentist's office).[9] Other attacks may appear unprovoked. Some individuals deal with these events on a regular basis, sometimes daily or weekly. The outward symptoms of a panic attack often cause negative social experiences (e.g., embarrassment, social stigma, social isolation, etc.).
Limited symptom attacks are similar to panic attacks, but have fewer symptoms. Most people with PD experience both panic attacks and limited symptom attacks.
I just finished reading a book by Graham Masterton called Forest Ghost. The story involved panic in the forest. It's fiction but worth a look.
It was synchronicity that spurred this blog post. I had been contemplating the idea of Pan and panic in connection with the stories presented here for a while and just happened to get the book mentioned above and it put some of the pieces together for me.
So the question still remains. What or who is Pan? What is the power that overcomes people in these environs?
I believe that some of this can be attributed to the Earth itself. It's probable most, if not all of you, are familiar with the Gaea Hypothesis. I believe the Earth is semi-sentient at least, and that sentience may be achieved by any planet that develops life and has a biosphere. The level of sentience may vary quite a bit but it would seem that with age comes wisdom, and if the Earth has had life for over 3 billion years then the Earth is pretty old and may have achieved a level of sentience which might allow it to actually produce effects. In any event, even if the Earth is not sentient there are still many naturally occurring electromagnetic frequencies that the Earth may generate. The Earth is teeming with electromagnetic energy, and here is a handy list of some of the things that Electromagnetic Frequency can cause in humans. Here is number 3 on that list:
3. Induce panic, disorientation, and deep fear
Although some kinds of electromagnetic fields, applied to certain areas of the brain, pacify people and put them in a good mood, others are said to induce fear. Sometimes people report a persistent, if mild, sense of unease. Others have a more visceral response, feelings of despair and paranoia, sliding into overwhelming terror.
I have explored the idea that our reality may be artificial. If that is the case there may be some unknown quality of the simulation that induces freak behavior in humans under certain circumstances. If there really are Archons, and they have created this reality it seems likely that there would be some level of oversight, control and/or manipulation of the system by these beings. Some of this activity may be designed to stimulate extreme emotional states in order to observe the results. There are, of course many other possibilities that may lie at the heart of the crazy disappearances and bizarre behavior, and deaths associated with the cases cited in the title of this post; Yeti, Bigfoot, and extraterrestrials to name a few. So this question is far from settled but it is always informative to have additional material to add to your investigation.
Well it's always a pleasure to talk with both Andy Colvin the famed "Mothman's photographer" and friend of mine and Kenn Thomas (also counted among my friends) founder of Steamshovel Press. We had a wide ranging discussion on UFO's, Kennedy, Crisman, Nixon, Watergate, drones and much more. Before I present the radio show let me hook you up with their respective works.
If you want to get any of Kenn Thomas' books simply go here. It's Kenn's page on Amazon. Here is his latest book:
Here is Andy Colvin's page at Amazon. You might also like to check out the music of Andy and his mates in the group Interdimensional Vortex League. The album and individual songs are available here, at CDBaby. They are also available at iTunes and other venues.
Here's a sample of the cover art:
Both of these guys are great researchers and great people. Worthy of your support. And now the show. Simply click here to listen to the show stream, or right click and save to play on your mp3 player.
I had scheduled both Peter Levenda and Jim Marrs for the radio show this past Friday, March 29. The technology gremlins prevented us from connecting with Jim Marrs so the show was another tour de force for Peter on Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, Crowley, the Dark Lord, elder gods, the Cthulhu mythos, magic and depth psychology. Apologies to all who were looking for both of these great writers on the show but rest assured that I will do my best to schedule a dual show with both of them in the future.
I cannot update the show list to the right for some reason, but hopefully it will be updated and the show will be added to the list as soon as possible.
A Mother Jones Article, published on 12/28/12, highlighted mass shootings in the US from 1982 to 2012 including the Newtown/Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Find a chart here. In this blog post I will highlight and examine only the more deadly atrocities that resulted in double digit fatalities.
09/24/82 George Banks went on what is termed a "spree killing". Thirteen people were killed by Banks starting with his family at home, and then going out in Army fatigues and shooting several people, interestingly one injured party who survived was named Jimmy Olsen. He then went on to kill his former girlfriend and their kids. Unlike nearly every other case Banks did not commit suicide or get shot by police but was taken into custody. Banks was ordered to be executed but later he was found to be "too crazy" to be killed. He has a bizarre ideation involving the Anti-Christ who lives in New York. In this case Banks used an AR-15 weapon and this incident was not brought up in the wake of Sandy Hook, much like some of the other cases here which would have been good fodder for the faux liberals who want "gun control", or, at least, are using the "gun control" debate in typical wedge issue fashion to hide serious economic hardships that they will inflict on the constituency that they supposedly serve. Wilkes Barre is very close to Tobyhanna Arsenal.
Tobyhanna was primarily an artillery maker as well as a training facility but also like many of the other WWII munitions plants also had German POWs held there. Even closer to Wilkes Barre PA one will find the curiously named Shickshinny, Pennsylvania. And this was the international headquarters of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, or the Shickshinny Knights of Malta. The SKOM are heavily connected to pro-Nazi, far right, anti-Communist activities in the years after WWII. The World Anti-Communist League had several prominent members that were also associates of the SKOM. They have been implicated by some as connected to the JFK assassination.
General Edwin Walker, supposedly the victim of an attempted assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald the "lone nut" supposed assassin of JFK was a far right proto-fascist and linked to the SKOM.
You can find information about them here, here, and here. Some major military names are in this fold, General MacArthur, Willoughby and others involved in the Pacific theater during WWII.
This is William Ellsworth Smythe who started one of the first communes in the US (the Little Landers) in San Ysidro California which was the site of the deadly McDonald's massacre 07/18/84.
Some other important connections in the area. The navy is heavily represented in the area. In WWII the Convair corporation operated there. They were a pioneer in aviation and space research and worked on the Mercury Program and eventually came to be owned and sold by McDonnell Douglass, General Dynamics and Lockheed which were later owners of Convair.
On 08/20/86 there was a mass shooting in a Postal Facility in Edmond Oklahoma. The "lone nut" killer was Patrick Sherrill a relief carrier. One of the fatalities was the grandson of Knute Rockne.
A memorial was erected to remember the dead.
It is interesting to note that there is a company located in Edmond that manufactures silencers for guns named major-malfunction. Tinker Air Force Base is also located here, which has a prominent Air Force and Navy contingent as well as US Material Command and the Defense Logistics Agency.
On 06/18/90 there was the tragic GMAC massacre in Jacksonville Florida. The "lone nut" in this case was James Edward Pough.
He was designated a spree killer because he had allegedly killed a prostitute and pimp prior to the massacre at GMAC.
Jacksonville has a long history. The port was a major ingress for French supplies to the Confederacy during the Civil War. In 1901 Jacksonville suffered a major fire that was one of the worst disasters in Florida's history. During World War II three naval facilities were built in the area so it has a strong military presence. There was also a German POW camp located in the area during WWII. The world famous Blue Angels were founded here as well.
On 10/16/91 there was a deadly massacre at Luby's cafeteria in Killeen Texas. Known as the Luby's massacre. One George Hennard crashed his truck into the front of the restaurant entered shouting; "This is what Bell County did to me!" and started shooting. Witnesses said that he seemed to be particularly interested in killing women and that he shouted misogynist invective's and smirking as he fired at them. He was an unemployed Merchant Mariner/Able Seaman in his mid thirties.
Interestingly this massacre resulted in a new gun law in Texas that was signed by Governor Bush. Of course there is a military base in Killeen created as Camp Hood and later re-designated as Fort Hood and it's official opening was on my birthday of September 18, but well before my birth in 1942. A substantial POW presence was there during the war; 4000 POWs.
Here are some patches of major units stationed at Fort Hood:
On 04/20/99 the tragedy of the Columbine High School massacre took place. This particular instance was probably the first mass shooting that resulted in "conspiracy theories" about what really happened at the school. Here is just one site that indicates the many unanswered questions and anomalies. There were two lesser known school shootings in Littleton at the Deer Creek Middle School, both much less deadly.
Fort Logan is located nearby, you can find a history of the fort here. Some notable names are associated with the fort, Civil War General Sheridan and then Major, Dwight Eisenhower. Some of the land later came to be leased to the state and a mental health facility was built there. The Mental health Institute at Fort Hood opened in 1961 and is still operating today as a civil mental health facility.
According to the official report on the massacre at Columbine two students did all of the shooting and eventually killed themselves after they finished. The shooting itself spurred gun control talk as well as a closer look at pharmaceuticals and their relation to tragedies such as this. Also in common with the latest mass school shooting, that of Sandy Hook Elementary, there also was talk of violent media as causative or contributory factors in gun violence.
Eric Harris
Dylan Klebold
On 07/29/99 Mark O. Barton went on a killing spree in Atlanta, GA. After killing his wife, then his children, he targeted day trading firms, apparently after having lost over one hundred thousand dollars over the preceding months. Barton was from an Air Force family. His home was in Acworth, GA, near the man made lake Acworth. The area was originally Cherokee land. He grew up in South Carolina. Georgia is home to Fort Benning, mentioned in another shooting chronicled here.
Mark O. Barton
On 03/25/05 was the Red Lake massacre. A lone killer and a situation similar to that of Newtown in some ways. Jeffrey Weise an Ojibwe went on what is called a spree killing. He is alleged to have murdered his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend at home and then driving to the school (in his grandfather's squad car) that he once attended taking his grandfather's bullet proof vest and weapons with him (the grandfather was a police officer on the reservation). He killed himself after having a short shoot out with police.
The reservation is flanked by two National Guard armories; Hibbing Armory and Moorhead Armory.
On 04/16/07 was the terrible Virginia Tech massacre. Once again a "lone nut" student with a history of an anxiety disorder and ordered to therapy after being accused of stalking two students. This massacre has had it's share of "conspiracy theories" much like Columbine. It is hardly necessary to outline the military connection in Virginia as it is the home of many military and government bases and offices. But there is also a munitions facility nearby; The Radford Army Ammunition plant. That facility is currently run by BAE systems. The facility was noted by Mother Jones as one of the top 20 polluters of 2010, read that report here. This is now the sole supplier of TNT to the Department of Defense. They also manufacture propellants. I find this facility to strike me as amazingly similar to the so-called TNT area of Point Pleasant, West Virginia once home to a munitions plant that produced exactly the same things as Radford. BAE Systems is, of course, a British company headquartered in London UK.
BAE Systems incorporated Marconi Electronic Systems into it's corporate structure in 1999. Marconi had been involved in many important defense functions in the UK. One might remember the Marconi scientists death conspiracy. In which 25 Marconi scientists working on so-called "star wars" projects for the US died under mysterious circumstances. Here is a list with some detail.
On 03/10/09 there was a tragic affair in Alabama known as the Geneva County massacre. It is very interesting to me that I do not remember this story in the news at all. It should have been food for media manipulation in the wake of Sandy Hook since the alleged perpetrator had a Bushmaster AR15 as one of his weapons. This is a very curious case. The alleged killer was a clean cut man who had done well in school despite family problems.
Michael McLendon, seemed unable to keep a job for whatever reason and had problems with some other family members. He had a list of people who had reported him at his various jobs for things related to work that may have resulted in discipline but none of the people on the list were among the dead. Alabama has a munitions plant in Childersburg that produced TNT and other ordnance for WWII and is now a Superfund site, Fort Rucker and Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base and Fort Benning is close by as well. Fort Rucker is only 26 miles from McLendon's home, interestingly Al Gore was stationed at Rucker during his enlistment period. And what do you know there were also German and Italian POWs housed there as well during the war. On 03/11/09 coincidentally there was also a mass shooting at a school in Germany, known as the Winnenden school shooting.
On 04/03/09 there was the tragic Binghamton shootings, in Binghamton New York. Jiverly Voong a "lone nut" wearing a bullet proof vest committed the shootings and then committed suicide.
Mr. Voong
In similarity to the Virginia Tech massacre a package purportedly from Voong was mailed to a Syracuse news outlet that contained photos of him with guns and a letter attempting, in halting English, to explain his actions. The text of the letter is filled with paranoia and allegations of targeting, discrimination and being subjected to some type of nefarious attacks.
DATE: MARCH - 18 - 2009
"DEAR: NEW TEN NOW
"I AM JiVERLY WONG SHOOTING THE PEOPLE
"THE FiRST I WANT TO SAY SORRY I KNOW A LiTTLE ENGLiSH I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND ALL OF THiS. OF COURSE YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY I SHOOTING? BECAUSE UNDERCOVER COP GAVE ME A LOT OF ASS DURiNG EiGHTEEN YEARS. I GOT SEVEN YEARS AND EiGHT MONTH DELiVERY TO GROCERY IN THE CALiFORNiA. CAME BACK NEW YORK ON THE AUGUST - 2007. LET TALK ABOUT WHEN I LiVE IN CALiFORNiA. SUCH AS. . .COP USED 24 HOURS THE TECHNiQUE OF ULTRAMODERN AND CAMERA FOR BURN THE CHEMiCAL IN MY HOUSE. FOR SWiTCH THE CHANNEL Ti.Vi. FOR ADJUST THE FAN. FOR MADE ME UNBREATHBLE. FOR MADE ME VOMiT. FOR CONNECT THE MUSiC INTO MY EAR.
"UNDERCOVER COP USUAL COiNED SOME NASTY WAS NOT TRUE ABOUT ME AND SPREAD A RUMOUR TO THE RECEiVER AND SOME PEOPLE KNOW ME CONDUCE TOWARD MANY PEOPLE PREJUDiCED AND SELFiSH TO ME . . . COP MADE ME LOST MY JOB . . . COP PUT ME BECAME POOR.
"LET TALK ABOUT WHEN I LiVE AT THE 28.BAKER . ST. 2ND FLOOR. JOHNSON CiTY. NEW YORK 13790. IT TERRiBLE WHEN I LiVE THERE SUCH AS. . COP WAiT UNTiL MiDNiGHT WHEN I OFF THE LiGHT AND WENT TO THE BED. COP UNLOCK MY DOOR AND CAME IN TAKE A SiT IN MY ROOM <<COP DiD IT THiRTEEN TiME ON THE YEAR 1994>> ON THE THiRTEEN TiME HAD THREE TiME TOUCH ME WHEN I SLEEPiNG. ONE TiME STOLEN 20 DOLLAR IN MY WALLET ONE TiME USED ELECTRiC GUN SHOOT AT THE BEHiND MY NECK. (THAT TiME I DiD NOT KNOW ENGLiSH)
"PLEASE CONTiNUE SECOND PAGE THANK YOU.
(Page 2)
"FROM 1990 TO 1995 NEW YORK UNDERCOVER COP TRY TO GET A CAR ACCiDENT WiTH ME. SUCH AS WHEN I DRiViNG ON THE HiGHWAY AND ON THE STREET UNDERCOVER COP SUNDDENLY BRAKE THE CAR STOP IMMEDiATELY AT THE OF FRONT MY CAR . . . COP DiD IT 32 TiME LiKE THAT DURiNG 1990 TO 1995 BUT I NEVER HiT THE CAR.
"MANY TiME FROM 1990 TO 1997 AT THE DAY TiME . . . COP EXPLOiT UNKNON ENGLiSH AND WENT TO MY HOUSE KNOCK THE DOOR FOR HARASS AND DOMiNEER. OF COURSE DURiNG THAT TiME COP COiNED SOMETHiNG WAS NOT TRUE ABOUT ME AND SPREAD A RUMOUR NASTY LiKE THE CALiFORNiA COP.
"FROM AUGUST - 2007 UNTiL NOW COP GAVE ME NOT TO MUCH ASS ONLY ONE TiME COP LEAVE A MASSAGE IN MY VOiCE MAiL AND SAiD << COME BACK YOUR COUNTRY >> AFTER FIVE MiNUTE I SEND A TEXT MASSAGE TO THEM I SAiD I WILL CALL THE POLiCE AND THEY SEND IT BACK TO ME THEY SAiD THEY ARE THE POLiCE
"DEAR. NEW TEN NOW. RiGHT NOW I STiLL GET UNEMPLOMENT BENEFiT OF THE COMPANY SHOP VAC ENDiCOTT. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WAS CHEAT AND UNPAiD FROM DECEMBER – 1st - 2008 TO DECEMBER – 28th – 2008. I ALREADY CLAiM WEEKLY BENEFiT FROM THAT DATE. ANY WAY I CAN NOT ACCEPTED MY POOR LiFE. BEFORE I CUT MY POOR LiFE I MUST ONESELF GET A JUDGE JOB FOR MAKE AN IMPARTiAL WiTH UNDERCOVER COP BY AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE WiTH ME GO TO RETURN TO THE DUST OF EARTH.
"ALREADY IMPARTiAL NOW. . .COP BRiNG ABOUT THiS SHOOTiNG COP MUST RESPONSiBLE. AND YOU HAVE A NiCE DAY."
Binghamton was the home of IBM and also hosted General Electric and Ansco. The town did not experience any economic problems during the cold war because of it's heavy defense industry.
On 11/05/09 was the Fort Hood shooting. Once again a "lone nut" attacker opened fire at Fort Hood. The alleged shooter is Nidal Malik Hasan.
A doctor and Psychiatrist Hasan was of Palestinian descent. Some reports indicate that Hasan has turned against the wars and seemingly had planned the event by buying a weapon shortly before and stocking up on magazines and ammunition. Many different motives have been put forward. As of this time it is being treated as an incident of workplace violence rather than a terrorist act or other such designation. You may scroll up to see the history and connections of Killeen Texas.
On 07/20/12 was the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. This shooting spawned many different conspiracies and theories about who was behind it and what exactly happened. I did an earlier blog post on this shooting in which I examined some of this material and found much of it lacking any validity. There are aspects of the case that are still in doubt to me and many others. These include the possibility of accomplices or a second shooter and some other details.
Read my extensive examination of the Aurora shooting here. Once again the story is the same. James Holmes a "lone nut" killer entered the theater during a presentation of the movie The Dark Knight Rises, a Batman movie, and started shooting. He was also wearing body armor. After the shooting he left the theater and surrendered meekly to the police. In subsequent appearances and media reports Holmes seemed to be totally "out of it".
Very near Aurora Colorado was the one time Rocky Mountain Arsenal. A chemical weapons facility for the US military. It also housed a German POW camp during WWII. There are several very interesting things about Rocky Mountain Arsenal. The first is that it had a deep injection well for the "disposal" of deadly chemicals deep underground. Allegedly "safe". There was massive contamination at the site and like, once again, the TNT area of Point Pleasant West Virginia, there were several reclamation's made at the site apparently run by Shell Oil. The deep injection well was shut down after there was some correlation found between it's operation and earthquakes. This is an important issue today with the proliferation of fracking. There is also a connection to the nefarious, but little known Unit 731. This was a Japanese chemical and biological weapons development project that was running during WWII. One of the scientists from Unit 731 was brought to the US and was at one time at the Arsenal. Unit 731 scientists were brought into work for the US after the war much like the Nazi scientists involved in the rocket program and intelligence agencies. There are many weird coincidences and synchronicities involved in this shooting that has spawned many blogs and videos that examine them in some depth.
Finally we arrive at 12/14/12 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. This is such a major issue and has led to many interesting developments. It has spawned renewed efforts at gun control and an assault weapon ban (which has been brought before the Senate by Diane Feinstein on Thursday January 24, 2013). This was a horrific atrocity that left 20 children dead. The alleged shooter was Adam Lanza, an autistic young man, who like the Red Lake killer started at home by killing his mother and then driving to the school. It was alleged by some media reports that he too had a bullet proof vest on. The shooting ended with Lanza committing suicide. The mainstream media really did a poor job on this investigation reporting conflicting and supposedly erroneous information. You can watch my message to the mainstream media in this video.
The authorities have been very tight lipped on releasing information. The shooting immediately spawned a huge trove of conspiracy theories that spanned many very divergent ideas. Several people were apparently arrested and released as not involved. There were allegations of several other shooters and even theories presented that asserted that the event never even happened and that all of the "witnesses" were actors. At least one person alleges that all of the video footage of the shooting actually was filmed at another school nearby and not at Sandy Hook at all. All of this has resulted in a huge media backlash against conspiracy theorists for their insensitivity and "ludicrous" assertions. This of course led to the fiasco of Alex Jones on Piers Morgan's show which I outlined in my last blog post.
I'm still doing research into the WWII connection and military facilities located in the state that might link this shooting more firmly to that matrix but there are several military bases in the state now. There is a Submarine base in Groton, and a Coast Guard Research and development center in New London. In WWII Connecticut was a powerhouse of military production making planes and ships and a lot of the stuff between. There are also many abandoned mental hospitals in the state as detailed here. This would include one in Newtown. That facility was closed in 1995. Considering Adam Lanza's apparent mental issues one wonders if he was ever treated there? Coincidentally in China on 12/14/12 there was a mass stabbing at a school in China at Chenpeng Village Primary School.
One simply has to do a search and you will find a plethora of information on this affair. Stay tuned to this blog for further updates on the military and WWII connections to this tragedy if such exist.
I have done a video on my take on Alex Jones and his appearance on Piers Morgan's show on CNN.
The analysis that I did in this video can also apply to his subsequent appearances on the Young Turks and other places.
His lunatic ranting and inability to form rational thoughts or complete coherent sentences told me exactly what I have long thought about him and the people that he represents. That is, of course, that he is on some level out of touch with reality. One can see this all over with the radical right and neo-confederate types that appear on his show, that endorse him and that he endorses.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET A PENCIL AND PAPER AND WRITE DOWN THIS STUPID SHIT THAT SOME "OIL EXECUTIVE" TOLD ME ABOUT WHAT IS COMING!
These people and others like them live in their own fantasy world and they work very hard to force that reality into our consciousness. When they get their teeth into something they hang on for dear life no matter what kind of evidence presents that renders that thing in their jaws moot.
Jones would have you believe that he is just a "regular joe" and a "reporter" trying to "wake people up" at least when he is confronted by someone who wants to know what he has done with his media empire that he supposedly built "from nothing". When in reality he BASKS in the role he has as leader of a bunch of lemmings easily led and easily spoon fed his carefully mixed blend of truth and wacky ideology.
He's constantly warning of the coming New World Order, when that has been here for years and is already in power through the multinational corporations, central banks mutual bailouts, and interlocking, vast "free trade" agreements.
He makes token statements about corporations and banks and free trade agreements but he and his handlers and all of the people that he promotes ALL have one major target and that is the nefarious government.
Now don't get me wrong there is plenty wrong with the government, but most of that can be put down to undo corporate influence upon it. So when I say that a strong national government is vital to defend the people they are supposed to represent that presupposes reform of said government. Central to that reform is ousting the deep penetration of corporations into that structure. This is not the central core of this post though so i won't go down that path right now.
The latest idiocy of Jones and his handlers, followers and fellow travelers is over the coming GUN GRAB! Cue dramatic music. Obama is coming for your guns! Run for your life!
After the Newtown Massacre at Sandyhook Elementary School a lot of people have been up in arms over gun violence and mass shootings in this country. And that prompted the media savvy Obama machine to latch onto this for political use. Thus in the aftermath of this Obama announced that he would appoint old Corporate Joe Biden to get down to doing something about this.
This caused apoplexy. Gun grab! Confiscation! The Jones machine went into stroke mode driving fear and producing the desired result, people in droves went out and bought as many guns as they could, particularly AR-15s the alleged weapon used at Sandy Hook by the alleged lone killer Adam Lanza.
This supposedly validates the REAL agenda of Obama finally! Now he will show himself to be the Communist Tyrant they always thought he was. At last the right would be proved correct. Remember they continue to spout the idea that Obama is secretly a socialist and that he is just biding his time until he brings down the hammer and sickle on all of us.
They don't let reality get in the way of any of this of course. Corporate profits are off the charts after 4 years of Obama. The income gap between the richest and poorest widened under 4 years of Obama. Obama cut Medicare by as much as 700 Billion dollars and signals that he wants to cut more. Obama is eager to cut Social Security. He also wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 to 28%, even though the average percentage of profits that corporations pay in taxes is now 14%, and many corporations pay nothing. No relief for underwater homeowners. No effective jobs program. No social programs. The reality is that he is, if anything related to a "socialist", a reverse socialist taking from the many and giving to the few. Because the 99% have foot the bill for the excess and greed of the financial elite and will be raked over the coals under HIS OWN PROPOSED POILICIES in the future to guarantee that the richest stay that way. He is on board with the TransPacific Partnership the mother of all "free trade" agreements that will sap this country of what little jobs there are left. He's a "free" market capitalist's best friend. But that doesn't faze the right wing lunatics.
Finally though we have the PROOF! He's coming after the guns! Our only defense against the tyranny of the state! And he was going to take EXECUTIVE ACTIONS! TYRANT!
So Alex went on Piers Morgan's show on CNN to defend liberty!
That's when the lunacy really oozed out onto every TV tuned to the show. Jones was all over the map. He couldn't complete a sentence, was anachronistic, off topic and just generally looked and sounded like a complete crazy idiot.
In the wake of that the spin was that people were upset with him because he was angry. No Alex, it wasn't your anger, it was YOUR CRAZY LUNACY!
He subsequently appeared on the Young Turks and though somewhat more understandable came across still as several cards short of a full deck.
Then the great and powerful tyrant Obama announced his plans to curb gun violence by signing the dreaded Executive Orders! 23 of them! Robert Anton Wilson would, I'm sure, be smiling if he was still alive.
And what did we see? Some warmed over and tepid ideas that really have no teeth. Which is exactly what you would expect from a president that cares nothing about gun violence anymore than he cares about the people who will die because he cuts their Social Security and Medicare or the thousands (the actual number is a national Security secret) killed by his drone strikes all over the world. Obama is the best thing to happen to the war industry in a long time and he also along with Jones spurred huge increases in domestic gun sales. Sure he wants congress to enact an assault weapons ban, and to ban magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds. That would require congress to actually do it, which is exceedingly unlikely with the House firmly in the hands of NUTS. And Obama knows this as much as anyone with a whit of common sense would. Let us not forget that many of the states that would have to opt into the sharing of information in some of the President's recommendations are hard right fanatical little Hitlers that will simply not comply rendering many of his mental health and background check ideas moot. Where's the tyranny? Where's the gun grab? Now the spin will make these timid steps into stepping stones TO tyranny. Now of course there is much more cognitive dissonance in here as well. How can a gun, even an AR-15, protect you from a hell fire missile fired from a nearly silent drone? Your guns can't protect you from the government when they have tanks, MOABS, Tomahawk missiles and jets. The underlying premise is moot, but that too requires some measure of assent to reason.
And thus it never ends. The lunacy will continue to spin around and down the drain of history. There is a strong racial and class element in this whole thing too of course but that is a point for another time.
Obama is not coming for your guns. He represents the elite and they like it just fine that there are a lot of guns out there because those guns will never be turned on them but will instead be used by the 99% on other members of the 99%. The serfs prey on the serfs. Gangs against gangs. The poorer on the merely poor. Whites against blacks. Blacks against whites. Hispanic against black. White against Hispanic and so on.
Obama is coming for your Social Security and your economic rights but don't bother about that because Pete Peterson the multi-billionaire says it's important and that is a voice that Obama will listen to, you can bet.
As hard as it is to believe the rabid fanatics on the right have taken their hatred, racism, misogyny, and upward redistribution of wealth to new extremes after the outcome of the election. And before we look at some examples of this I will state right here at the beginning that I am NOT an Obama supporter and thoroughly reject his Wall Street faction and his false left cover.
Some of the most immediate comments from the rabid right can be found here.
And for some inflammatory comments on secession look here. Note the term "maggots" used for people who support Obama. Which is not so much a charge leveled against Obama supporters as it is a charge leveled against the majority of people in the country that foaming at the mouth, rabid, right wing ideologues would have us believe were maggots, draining the Treasury with all of the "freebies" that Obama "the closet Socialist/Marxist/Communist" has been giving away and will continue giving away in the future. Of course that notion is completely fraudulent but an effective propaganda campaign has convinced many people that there is a huge population of layabouts and cheats sucking up non-existent welfare and other programs. Most of this can find it's roots in the legacy of Ayn Rand.
Much of this has been fostered by the neo-confederate, neo-feudalist Ron Paul and the so-called "patriot" and "alternative media" that has hammered into the heads of the people a hatred for "the government".
For a very real look at the current state of affairs in the economic realm one can look here. The link will give you a very good breakdown of the coming "Grand Bargain" better known as the "Great Betrayal" that will assault Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as well as other things that impact the poor, seniors and the middle class. But this analysis only goes so far in explaining the situation because it is just a look at the naked facts and tries to explain it in the context of real people who have a working brain and the power to actually do something. These are open questions.
I believe there are several factions in the economic sphere. Obama represents a certain faction in the Wall Street crowd. Seemingly his clique is interested in raping people more slowly and not killing the goose that lays the eggs in the process. I also believe that we have the remnants of the Hughes empire and the Mormon faction that has two goals; one, rape and pillage with abandon because; two, they hate the country and the American people. The Mormon clique seems to be allied with the likes of the John Birch Society and the Koch Brothers in support of measures that will lead to genocidal austerity being imposed upon the middle classes and the poor for the enrichment of those at the top. And of course the rabid, right wing, fascists like the Koch brothers who want to take everything that is not nailed down and dismantle the entire social safety net and bring on crushing, brutal austerity.
With the outcome of the election we are in a space where normally you would expect moderation on the part of the losing party but that is not the case. The foaming-at-the-mouth, racist, corporate fascist, right wing is not moderating at all and has instead decided to entrench themselves. Thus calls for secession, nullification, refusing to implement federal law, and direct attacks on the so-called lazy electorate that wants "free stuff" from the government.
This is a dangerous time on more than the financial front as well. It has been alleged that the killing of the ambassador and 3 others in Benghazi, Libya may have been prevented by a CIA station nearby which had 12 people ready to step in but they say they were told to stand down. The deaths in Benghazi have been alleged to have been allowed to happen to benefit the Romney campaign by the Mormon mafia clique in the intelligence community. That is another danger we face. Terrorism that is either fomented or allowed to happen by doing nothing to stop it.
Webster Tarpley makes a strong case for the infiltration of our intelligence agencies by a Mormon faction in his latest book on Romney and the Mormons. The fact that Mormons go abroad for several years and return with a second language, they don't drink, smoke, or even drink coffee. These people make ideal recruits into the FBI and CIA and other agencies because of their being clean cut, "good living", and knowing a foreign language. It's entirely possible that over the years these people have made their way to key positions that can have a large impact on the actions or inaction of those agencies when decisive action is needed in the face of a fast growing crisis. Viz; Benghazi.
In the wake of the Benghazi tragedy we have seen David Petraeus the former head of the NATO (ahem) operation in Afghanistan and the director of the CIA resign over a supposed affair with his biographer. This has snared another general and an FBI agent as well. The affair thing is probably just a bunch of nonsense. I think Petraeus has seen what is coming and he wants out of the way before all of this comes down.
I would refer you back to my earlier blog post on Romney and the Danites of the Mormon church. In that post I make the case that the Danites have moved into the financial sector. This was a legacy of the Hughes empire and led almost directly to Bain Capital. I should note that this was stolen or embezzled money from the Hughes empire via the Mormon's surrounding him and running things for him when he was in his very bad last years. With Webster Tarpley's new book we can see a much deeper infiltration by the Mormon church, not only in the financial industry but also in the intelligence apparatus.
If we accept that the Mormons are in these positions one might be inclined to say "So what?". I probably would say the same but for the history of the Mormon church and the blatant antagonism that they have had for the government of the United States and the people of the country, whom they call Gentiles.
This can all be traced back to the Oath of Vengeance, which all Mormons had to swear up until the 1920's when it was (publicly) repudiated. Because of the history of the church and their pragmatic use of lying and fraud and all the rest to accomplish their goals I do not believe that the church has abandoned this Oath and the sentiment that goes with it.
"You and each of you do covenant and promise that you will pray and never cease to pray to Almighty God to avenge the blood of the prophets upon this nation, and that you will teach the same to your children and to your children's children unto the third and fourth generation." This oath originated because of the death of Joseph Smith and his brother, killed by a mob. The church lays this squarely on the shoulders of the American people and the government of the United States. One should also think twice about the supposed revelation that changed the Mormon position on blacks and others of varying colors. They allow blacks to be in the church and achieve priesthood but the "holy" book that laid out this theological argument is still valid. This is a public face thing with this church. It is likely that the church still holds all of these beliefs, even polygamy, as "divinely inspired" and operative, but because of pragmatism they choose to put these ideas on the "shelf" so that they appear more mainstream. Bain and other organizations like them were instrumental in the downfall of the economy. It seems likely to me that the Mormon church was in on the raping when this went down and now they are poised along with the rest of the corporations and banks to bring it all back and hold the country hostage this way. It is quite clear in the history of the church that they were always for the breakup and downfall of the US and the balkanization of the country into secession and a bunch of smaller and very ineffective governments. Now we have Ron Paul, the right wing blocker for Romney in the election taking about how the "constitution has failed". Basically calling the US a failure and of course the main idea of this is that a solution is to secede and have "State's rights". Crypto-secession or outright secession. This is all corporate funded and promulgated. The corporations and banks are aligned with the goals of the Mormon church and as such may as well be in on it together. Ron Paul is very dangerous because he has fostered in the many young people that have followed his supposed message of "liberty" and see the federal government as "the enemy". Does that sound like the Mormon position? Alex Jones, corporate stooge, Ron Paul supporter, Romney promoter (by demonizing Obama so much he might as well have told his people to vote for Romney, though he claims to have not been supporting him) is doing the same thing and pumping out the same mantra against the federal government. And I am not a supporter of Obama who is clearly a tool of a faction of Wall Street. Who likes balkanizing the world? Brezinsky, Kissinger and their ilk as well as the corporate elite. The Neo-cons approach this from the political position of a strong US that no longer has to deal with countries large enough to defy the empire. But the corporations are focused on the balkanization of the US as well to have smaller and less effective government everywhere so they have labor pools and different markets to use against each other to pillage the world. Global government and loss of sovereignty is the last thing that the corporate elite want, at least until they have raped everything. Now we can see that the Mormon financial mafia is in league with the corporate elite in promoting the idea of hatred of the federal government and pushing the idea of secession and nullification. The neo-cons also push this agenda to a certain point. So up to a point they are all in league with the same goals. Alex Jones and others like him are in league with these same forces and probably being paid to do it. It is a difficult time but knowing who the players are and what they have planned can help us to come up with solutions to refute this deeply placed assault.
There are many things that happen in life that shape and define a person. All of which serve as object lessons and to be a springboard to the future, whether good or bad. The human condition is one of change and of acceptance or rejection. One either grows or one sits still.
Recently I lost a very dear friend and neighbor who had battled many setbacks in his life. He had lived a relatively long life and had the good fortune to have a family and friends that cared for him until the end.
One thing that can serve as a learning experience for you, even if it is a painful lesson, is the letdown you experience when you find out that supposed friends who love you have nothing for you when you're down.
It's easy to label the entire human race as flawed and to become extremely jaded over the circumstances that have left you bereft of those that supposedly care for you.
I, like many of you, had a difficult childhood. A minefield to walk though, in which you had to step lightly and carefully to make it through as best you could to hopefully become a decent person on the other side.
And I, like many of you, once grown, have been keen to have friends and others in your life that confirm your faith in humanity and in yourself by being supportive and comforting when it is needed. It's an attempted rejection of the flawed paradigm we experienced as children and an effort to be "adult" about it.
So when people come into your life that you feel an immediate connection with and which you feel are going to turn out to be people that truly love and care for you as you truly love and care for them you are naturally ebullient. And often we throw caution to the wind and put ourselves into that relationship because the heart tells us that it is the right thing to do. These are the rocks that our hopes and dreams are dashed upon so many times.
So do we give up on people? Do we consign the human race to that box of avoidance and pull back and choose not to experience life and relationships? Or do we feel a sense of regret and betrayal so much that we want to get back at them? Do we choose to pay betrayal with betrayal?
What's the right course of action?
I will detail a betrayal that will probably sound very familiar to most if not all of you.
I had the good fortune to come across one of those rare finds in life. I found a kindred spirit that seemingly had similar thoughts and feelings to my own and someone that I found to be in connection with. All of these things seem to be very profound at the time and to have some significance in your life. In hindsight it is not always so clear.
So in spending time with a new friend one makes every effort to make their life better. It is the nature of relationships that one seeks to give so that the other feels wanted and appreciated. That means that you buy them gifts and do nice things for them. But more importantly you make time or them, to listen to their concerns and learn about their life as you share your experiences with them.
Time and appreciation is the key.
When you reach a certain point you come to expect that appreciation in one form or another. And when you don't get it you start down a long road of unhappiness in which, in nearly all cases, your worst fears are merely confirmed. Suddenly your close friend, the one that professes love for you is seen to be a person that is not what you thought they were.
One thing that you may be keen to do is to think that it is something that you did that might have ruined things. And then you get to the point where you think, no, it was that person that simply was able to fool you and once again have confirmed some of your worst thoughts about people.
Then you might want to pay that back with harsh words and your own level of betrayal and vitriol. That starts the cycle over again.
One of the hardest things in life to do is to rise above the need to lash out and instead take what life gives you and work it into your life as something that you can use for your own growth rather than becoming that which you have been victimized by.
I'm no master at it and still have those urges but am working on it, like I will be for a long time to come.
I guess the message is that one should not become that which you have been hurt by and one should not lash out at those who have hurt you but one should use the experiences that life gives you to make yourself into a better person. You can't be responsible for other people and certainly not for humanity in general. One can only take responsibility for ones self and learn to make the best of it.
I hope that I can continue to grow in this regard and become a better friend to those that I meet in the future.
If I stumble in that I hope I can be forgiven.
