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Ruppelt’s Hidden World

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Captain Ruppelt and His UFOs

 

By: 

 

Steve Erdmann

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Copyright, C, Steve Erdmann, 2012.
This article was published originally in the August 1, 2012 issue of The UFO Digest Magazine, reprinted here by permission.
http://ufodigest.com/article/captain-ruppelt-and-his-ufos.
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Colin Bennett portrays the late Edward J. Ruppelt as a hero and iconic archetype that steered a path between erratic and wild military superiors, witnesses and the press.  Ruppelt was a United States Air Force officer who, from 1953 to 1959, headed Project Blue Book, the USAF’s UFO Project. Shortly after adding, in 1959, incongruous and toned-down chapters at the end of his controversial 1956 book on UFOs, Ruppelt died of a heart attack in 1960.

(Flying Saucers over the White House: The Inside Story of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt and his Official U.S. Air Force Investigation of UFOs, Colin Bennett, Cosimo, Inc., http://www.cosimobooks.com,  P.O. Box 416, Old Chelsea Station, New York 10011, 169 pages, 2010, $16.99.)

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What Is Past Is Prologue

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“No one was born more American than he,” instructs Bennett in a somewhat heavy, liberally-used British-Shakespearean style throughout the book. “The demons were all around him in the aircraft and the weaponry. He had all the sacred courage of the Wright brothers and the madness of the astronauts. As thanks for this, after he died, almost every copy of his book disappeared from bookstores worldwide, never to be seen again, and they were not bought by customers.”

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An Official Journey into Magnolia/ Magonia

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(Magnolia: a 1999 movie by Paul Thomas Anderson about paranormal synchronicity/ Magonia: a surrealistic world spoke of by Jacques Vallee.)

Such hijinks seemed to be part and parcel of Ruppelt’s sojourn as a UFO investigator and administrator. Ruppelt took a very poorly organized, almost nonexistent government office and slowly turned it into a fully respected and greatly enhance division of the Air Force—-from Project Grudge to a Project Bluebook—-in a journey that was onerous and often cumbersome but that invariably built, however, respectability on the stepping-stones of major UFO cases.

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 Generals Ramey and Samford Sitting, Captain Ruppelt Standing
http://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/ost-edrruppelt.html.

 

One such case was the September 10, 1951 Fort Monmouth, New jersey T33/radar episode that almost literally forced the hands of the Air Force, cracking the heads of Chief Of Air Major-General Cabell, Lieutenant-Colonel Rosengarten, and Lieutenant Jerry Cummings, to pledge aid to a more serious Air Force UFO Project.

Blue Book went from a one-man operation at a desk at the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) belonging to Officer James Rodgers to an official staff of ten people with Top Secret clearance and many paid consultants.

Ruppelt’s growing-pains tallied cases of destroyed UFO data by military personnel, rather “quirky” happenings that manifested so often that Bennett begins to postulate a Roger Penrose/ M.C. Escher illusion: “A UFO experience then being liminal, is half-in half-out of the Cartesian frame, making it a most peculiar thing that exists in the intermediate area between facts and fiction….films blur, samples get lost, and what appear to be automatically generated warnings (black helicopters. Men in Black) appear….photographs and physical items (and on occasion cattle and people) all disappear within the UFO experience framework….may belong to this world only in part…..”  (pp. 48-49)

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Movie Scenes of Ruppelt in Office: “UFOs: The True Story of Flying Saucers” (1956)

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Here Bennett interjects the sighting of Mrs. Ann Sohn of May, 1952 which contains “humanoid” pilots, a category that even Project Bluebook avoided (this would have been a Hynek ‘Third Kind’ category).  Her sighting precludes the July, 1952 UFO flap, but holds elements of the bizarre, senselessly playful Alice-In-Wonderland’s Cheshire cat, dream-like qualities that Project Bluebook was not prepared to enfold.  Bennett says a “psycho-social filter” was even in play for many cases that came to Blue Book’s doorstep.  Enter mysterious civilian groups:  Robert Johnson and Mr. Brewster of the Republic Aircraft Corporation, later, also, the Rand Corporation, or, the Beacon Hill Group, a segment Bennett refers to as the ‘common techno-industrial base’ which would later become known as the New World Order.

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The ‘Common Techno-Industrial Base’ As It Has Grown Into –  
The Military-Industrial-Corporate-Complex-Matrix As It Is Today
https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/category/military-industrial-complex/page/3/?iframe=true&preview=true%2Ffeed%2F.

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The Invasion of the Capitol

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The drama thickens around classical UFO cases such as the January 21, 1952 Mitchel Air Force Base, New York/Grumman TBM Avenger incident.  “….(the UFO drew) away from their pursuers for most measured manner, increasing speed steadily and performing extraordinary maneuvers quite beyond the technology of the present day….”  (p. 79.)  The UFO activity crescendo in July, 1952 with the “invasion” over the White House Capitol in Washington, D.C: spooky objects and madcap military pronouncements were entwined, as Captain John McHugo and Lieutenant William Patterson were vectored to UFOs and Patterson’s aircraft circled  by a ”cluster” of glowing objects.

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Radar Graph of December 1952 Jet Chase of UFOS
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=7590.0.

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The resultant press conference, witnessed by Rupplet and Major Donald Keyhoe, became a circus of Kafka-like actions by Major General John Samford (along with General Roger Ramey, Colonel Donald Bower and others); “Struggled for verbal expression and produced a weird and wonderful variety of responses, some puerile, some quite mistaken….”  (p. 133)

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Photo of UFO in Passaic, New Jersey During the 1952 Flap Taken By George Stock
http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-new-jersey-1952/7087.

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Mysterium

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The July, 1952 “invasion” was officially denounced as metro-logical: heat inversion (layers of hot air pressing against cold air), mirroring lights from the city.  Keyhoe and Ruppelt both struggled with the absurdity of such fiction. Adding to the paradox and Mysterium, Ruppelt surprisingly added three extra chapters to his book, in 1959, seemingly mocking the UFO subject in a way that was suspicious and uncharacteristic of his writing style in 1956.  Bennett says: “….his retractions were, like the UFOs, and indeed like the solid globe itself, not quite real.”

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UFOs over the Capitol
http://www.thecasabouquet.com/lisas-home-bijou-day-earth-stood-still/

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Ruppelt died a few months later of a heart attack at the age of 35.

 

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Generals Ramey and Samford Sitting, Captain Ruppelt Standing
http://www.seektress.com/swim.htm.

 

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Captain Edward Ruppelt
http://www.project1947.com/fig/look7152.htm.

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The Director of UFO Research for the US Air Force’s “Project Blue Book,” Captain Ruppelt stated: “Of these UFO reports, the radar/visual reports are the most convincing.  When ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the lights and gets a radar lock only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer.”

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Radar Operators James Copeland and James Ritchey Saw “Unidentified Blips” on Washington National Airport’s Scope in 1952.
http://www.nicap.org/true-rup1.htm.

 

Edward J Ruppelt USAF Captain was decorated with two Distinguished Flying Crosses by 1956.

 

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Steve Erdmann, 1980s photo
Steve  Erdmann – independent  Investigative Journalist

 

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ALIEN ABDUCTION TELEPATHIC MIND-CONTROL

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ALIEN MIND CONTROL DURING ABDUCTIONS

By Paul Schroeder

(Copyright 2018, Paul Schroeder – All Rights Reserved)
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Author’s note:
I am “he” …
And this recollection is genuine.
However, I chose the pronoun, “he”, and the nouns,”The Father” and “the priest”,to make this vividly recalled abduction, more easily acceptable to the uninitiated reader.)
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Relaxation techniques, slowly bought him to an altered state; under hypnosis, a series of subconscious motor reflexes, a twitch of a different finger cemented a conversation with the body, not the mind.
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The thumb, indicated “Yes”, the middle finger, “No”, the pinky, “I (can’t) won’t answer”.

This technique would confront repressed fear, avoidance, or directives to forget, and allow direct conversation with the unconscious.

By hypnotic suggestion, the body would answer, meaningfully, even if one fell asleep.

This technique sought to bypass speech, itself, should impasses present themselves.
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Doctor :

“Let’s begin; can we talk about his bad dreams?”

Priest:

(film shows quick flash of thumb;) “Yes”…

Doctor:

“Go back to the day the two puppets floated outside the window, and, below consciousness, recall what happened, that afternoon.

Show me that you begin by moving the “yes” finger, and the end of that recall by moving the “no” finger.”

Priest:

(film shows “yes” and “no” twitches)

 

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Doctor:
“Good; started and ended. Is there any unconscious, additional information, the father has not remembered concerning that afternoon?”

Priest:

(finger twitches quickly with the “yes” thumb movement)

Doctor:

“What happened?

 See it remotely, as if you’re in a projector booth, watching yourself, on a screen; what happened?”

Priest:
(increasing stress) “I don’t want to answer digit”, pinky, signal.

Doctor:

“No? You don’t want to tell me? Fine, can you talk to me orally, tell me what you’re feeling?”

Priest:

(more negative finger) Movements with agonized breath.

Doctor:

“You refer to this as October, 2017.

 Whatever happened was long ago.
 You’re safe and in control;
are you reluctant to talk about it because it’s too upsetting?”

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Priest:

Film records positive finger movement

Doctor: “Freeze the scene and see part in full frame; like a snapshot?

 Is it okay?”

Priest: Film shows a “yes” twitch.

 

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Doctor:

“A still slide projected on a faraway screen; you’re up in the projection booth watching the father in the theater.”

 

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Priest:

“As I was looking through the window, the eyes looked back.

 Staring back.

 The eyes are not normal.”

Doctor:

“Look closer; what else do you notice?”

Priest:

“The face doesn’t have any teeth, it’s not a normal face. It’s gone, now.”

 

Doctor:

“Feel the relief that the face is gone.

Now I have a question for your unconscious to answer by finger movement.

Has any harm been done to the father during the faces’ presence?”

Priest:

(records a quick “no” answer)

Doctor:

“Now what happened, later, that night, when you felt,

sensed something by your bed?

Was there anything done to the father, physically during that time?”

Priest:

Head is shaking “no” and the finger movement is saying “yes”, softly; “They took my clothes”, sadly “They took my priestly vestments”.

Doctor:

“Who did?”

 

Priest:

Very agitated, legs twitching, shoulders twitching. His head shook on a negative reaction.

Doctor:

“Is the “no” for then, or now? You keep shaking your head “no”.

Priest: “For now”.

Doctor:

“You don’t want to talk about it?”

Priest: “No”.

Doctor:

“Do you want to remember it when you come out of trance?”

Priest:

“No”.

 

Doctor:

“Do you want to remember it some other day?”

Priest:

“No”.

Doctor:

“Below consciousness, I want to ask your hand some questions. ”

“Hand, in the course of that encounter, did the father leave the house?”

Priest:

Thumb, positive finger response, “yes”.

Doctor:

“Was he removed from the house?”

 

Priest:

(another “Yes” response)

 

Doctor:

“Would it be all right for him to remember the things that happened?”

 

Priest:

(an animated “no” response)

Doctor:

“Without him reliving the experiences, would it be all right for him to remember what he saw?”

Priest:

The little finger jumps repeatedly with “I don’t want to answer” response.

(Slowly, aloud) “I want to see what happened.”

Doctor:

“Repeat that, please, say it again”.

Priest:

“I want to see what happened”.

 

Doctor:

“To avoid reliving; you do not have to relive the experience,

speak of the priest as “He”, it is not you, but a picture”.

ABDUCTION RECOLLECTION:
‘He’ is flying high over a lush green tree landscape, over rolling tree lined hills and though he knows that it must be night, within the tractor light-beam, under a moving craft,  the fields and countryside below are lit up as though it were day, but he knows it’s night, because he is told that he is dreaming.

 He is flying, floating above a tree landscape.

For a few brief seconds, until he is drawn into the craft, he sees the green granular nature of the trees below, and feels the  visual exhilaration of flying, but rather than fear, he is filled with a combined sense of peace and joyous happiness.
He marvels at the texture and color of his neighborhood, and his movement above it.
He is dreaming, but he is awake.
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The smaller craft lands near a much larger ship, hiding in plain sight, in a field.
A long ramp extends from and to the ship.
He is told by a small, dark, grey alien, always just out of sight, that he is to wait on line, for a tour of a country estate.
People stand on the ramp and slowly move forward
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He is numb and is  surreal vividly dreaming,  but he feels that he is awake.
He  moves forward, people in front of him and in back of him,   on a narrow path surrounded by a false screen memory of a flat, uni–dimensional static scene,  a photograph of an English garden.
It is hot and humid with the rank smell of soil.
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People clutch what looks like brochures and move slowly in a single line, towards the country estate, bored, and only mildly interested.
He approaches the door of the large alien craft.
A ticket taker sits at the entrance way, on a stool behind a lectern, observing the entering crowd, a doorway official seen as a slim teenager.
He thinks it odd, that such a young caretaker should seemingly be in charge, and as he lifts his eyes to meet the teen’s gaze,  the young boy turns into a kindly old man.
“It’s mind control, not shape-shifting”, he is told, by a sonorous tour-guide’s voice, in answer to his unasked thought.
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Everyone is awake and dreaming.
Inside is a waiting room, dirty, dull and round, a white room with no adornments and a black floor.
He awakens, dreaming and feels that the room is in flight.
It is a dream within a dream.
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Awake again, briefly, he is dreaming while standing upright, walking in his sleep, climbing  a steep metal stairway ladder path-bridge, that leads to a very large room at the top of the stairs.
Someone in front of him dreams, and wakes up dreaming.
He looks to his right, as he climbs, to see  an enormous domed -curved window which makes up the staircase’s whole upper wall of the alien craft, and as he climbs, feeling very numb, he pauses, and stops the line of mass abducted people.
He looks out of the window and sees the Earth and the Moon, opposite each other, hanging in the blackness of space.
He places his arms on the curved railing where the staircase meets the bottom of the window and cups his chin in his hands, to understand the raw beauty of what he sees:
Outside is blackness…
The Earth, in the far right portion of the glass window, hangs suspended in a black nothingness, a planet swimming in blue-white haze, with a large red area, perhaps, the desert of North Africa, or the Arabian peninsula.
A Time-Lapse of Earth taken by Elektro-L, The Russian Weather Satellite that Operates in Geostationary Orbit. (io9)

Silver and bright, the Moon, far to the left portion of the glass, also hangs suspended in a black nothingness..

Far away, violet splashes of nebulae, and points of red pinpoint starlight, intersperse with millions of white stars.
Chin in his hands, he leans over and says in a wistful, admiring tone,
“These people who live at THIS estate have some view; what a view!”
The small, dark, grey alien tour guide became startled and all at once,  the window’s 3-D space scene, becomes  a painted uni-dimensional flat portrait,  of an English garden landscape.
Chin in hands, still looking out of the window, but now at the expanse of poster-like green lawn, of a garden landscape, he dully repeats,
“They DO have a nice view!”
The tour guide, startled to hear him repeat this praise, seemingly unaware that the scene of the garden had already worked to distract him,  knee-jerk- reflex -overreacted; he is slammed with a mind control jolt.
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The alien creature tightens and magnifies its short psychic leash of control to throw him into a vivid emotional ecstasy, and he feels compelled to look down at his feet, and away from the window’s view.
The simple metallic ladder- path underfoot, transforms into carved inlaid wood one, delicately patterned and dazzlingly ornate, an inlaid ebony and maple wood design, cryptic and deeply beautiful in motif and complexity.
He is forced to kneel to examine it, his eyes now fully away from the stars, Earth and moon, seen outside the enormous, curved window .
Powerful awe, love, and wood -admiration, a godlike reverence of wood, flashes through his mind at the mirage of the intricate wood designed staircase, suspended in air.
Opulent stenciled ornament on grand staircase in a elegant Victorian-Era townhouse in Pittsburgh.
Complex, gorgeous and lushly constructed, a staircase in multicolored woods,  forces a religious awe, which courses through his brain to thrill him, a tsunami of reverent awe, for the dazzling wood patterns,  the unknown artist-architect, overwhelms and distracts him, a gifted  psychic tug attempt to get him to forget what he has seen outside of the craft’s window.
The sleeping line of climbing people is now fully stopped by his fawning and repeated examinations, of the simple metal staircase, as he repeatedly retraces his steps to examine it, in a rapture.
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The tour guide, just out of sight, presumes that the delusion is strong enough to have worked and he hears a resonant, deep, paternal, impatient voice, now within his head, “Just keep going; it will be there, for you to see, when you get back.”
“But, things change so quickly, in dreams”,  he thinks, “and this gorgeous wood stairway, will likely not be there, when I return.”
He lingers, enthralled.
Opulent stenciled ornament on grand staircase in a elegant Victorian-Era townhouse in Pittsburgh.
The alien ‘ guide’,  who tethers him and all the others, within a snug cocoon of illusions, had deftly made a simple, metal staircase, the un-rightful recipient of that stolen awe, of the magnificent scene he had viewed outside the craft’s window of red and white stars and the dazzling orbs of Earth and moon, floating in blackness..
But when he awakens, he DOES remember the staircase and  his monumental awe of the spectacular space scene, outside the curved window, of the alien craft:
“Astounding creatures, uncanny, psychic, mind-bending, short- leash-controls…”
He  dully thinks, when he awakens exhausted, with a dull headache and a copious nose bleed, more tired getting up, than he had been, going to bed.
 And ‘dreams’, in a gnawing realization, could no longer ever again, be trusted  to merely be only.. ‘dreams’.
POSTSCRIPT:

Nightmares may be screen memories to muddle recollection aboard craft or insertion of core images as trauma, to make connections to your mind.

ETs specialize in  vivid delivery of such surreal dream-scape visuals.

My acquired insights sustain that ALL nightmares are varied degrees of telepathic attacks used by and delivered from a varied collection of negative-thought-entities who strive to ‘reside’ within such “core-images”, and at least, make ethereal connections from us to them by imposing traumatic, horrid imagery.

Post-abductions “nightmares” especially fall within this realm.

It is not insightful, to analyze such imagery nor is it wise to assume that it’s innocuous.

One must attempt to not retain such imagery, but to sever and slash at it’s recollection, using tools of metaphysics, from swords to blow-torches, visualized removing connections.

Source helps those, who help themselves..

However, the silent invasion, of humankind one abductee at a time,

to be possessed , as well as farmed throughout the Multiverse by sinister and controlling E.T.s , as we do with animal husbandry, on “Earth”, is to  wrongly deprive mankind of our spiritual rights, an abject denial of being accepted, with equanimity, as a sentient race of beings.

 

Author’s BIO:
Abductions and their remnant elusive memories have opened all this for me, a confirmed atheist, UNTIL I saw aliens float me out of my body, in my bed, at night.
Then, I knew that they were more interested in an essence, that I never suspected I had: a Soul.

I saw a flotilla of craft, slowly come in from different directions, to assemble overhead, round craft bottoms appearing not unlike red balloons.

They floated into a formation of sorts, overhead, until there were a dozen, and then all bottoms’ red color turned to violet and they darted off overhead together, all in the same direction, like fast minnows in a pond.

After that amazing sighting, poltergeist nonsense began to occur in my house .
And from then on, I looked up at the night skies only with apprehension…

Things moved within immediate eyesight, knocks on the walls and pings on light fixtures, small fast footsteps overhead in the attic, and very strong feelings of being watched and nightmares.

Many nights, fantastic vivid nightmares of encounters with non-human beings ensued, beings very tall, white like a refrigerator, flat like a Gumby cartoon character, and who spoke to me with mind-to-mind-communication..

I was in severe ontological shock…

I have discovered that this ‘reality’ may well be a reptilian preserve matrix of time and illusion, a human-playpen-physical anomaly,  compared to multiple reptilian created synthetic, astral worlds, elegantly designed to ‘house’ trapped human souls.

Can One ‘engage’?

If  you ask: ” Who was I in my last lifetime?”, you will get a memorable vivid roller-coaster ride dream-scape answer, but one that might also be a deception; one must remain skeptical of such tampering entities,

entities who radiate omniscience, and proprietary demeanor.

I was psychically throttled in the womb, with my own queries, questions about their purposes and overall intent, cut off from asking, before I could frame the rehearsed queries.

And I sensed an air of strong anxiety from them, that such things, NOT be ‘discussed’…
I have always surmised that they wouldn’t be so very secretive, if they were up to anything remotely ‘good’..

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Postscript

Rather than a fear-based approach to Dark Force Entity safety and caution, I prescribe a required spiritual “shift”  towards the equally unseen goodness of the spirit world, and away from fear.
Unlearning fear is a step-by-step acceptance and assertion, of one’s spiritual ‘Self’, a distance far and away from fearful  defenses mustered by one’s material physical self.
One’s longitudinal approach to any self-defense must be a spiritual one, and not a physical one.
For defenses to flare, one must  recognize that one is not a person having troubled spiritual problems, but instead an eternal soul having troubling human experiences.
From the stance of self-recognition as an eternal spirit, one can then insist on “one’s own space’ as spiritual fruition.
Avoid  church-based or organized religions and put the Bible on the same shelf as “The Tooth Fairy,” for God is real, but He’s to be found down a long hall, and somewhere else.

Paul Schroeder

March 10th, 2020

Brooklyn, New York

007- Henchmen of James Bond Villains … & How They Died!

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Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels and films are notable for their memorable villains and henchmen.  Each Bond villain has numerous henchmen to do their bidding.

There is typically one particularly privileged henchman who poses a formidable physical threat to Bond and must be defeated in order to reach the employer.  These range from simply adept and tough fighters, such as Donald ‘Red’ Grant, to henchmen whose physical characteristics are seemingly superhuman, such as Jaws.

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Sean Connery Era

(1962–67, 1971)

Dr. No

  • Professor R. J. Dent (Anthony Dawson) – Shot by Bond
  • Miss Taro (Zena Marshall) – Arrested
  • Mr. Jones (Reginald Carter) – Poisons self
  • Annabel Chung (Marguerite LeWars) – Alive
  • Sister Lily (Yvonne Shima) – Unknown
  • Sister Rose (Michel Mok) – Unknown
  • “Three Blind Mice” (Eric Coverley, Charles Edghill and Henry Lopez) – Die in car crash
  • Chen (Anthony Chinn) – Strangled by Bond

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KGB Colonel Rosa Kleb

Soviet Traitor – Spectre Operative 

From Russia with Love 

  • Donovan ‘Red’ Grant (Robert Shaw) – Garrotted by Bond
  • Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal) – Poisoned by Morzeny
  • Morzeny (Walter Gotell) – Blown up by Bond
  • Krilencu (Fred Haggerty) – Shot by Kerim Bey
  • Rhoda (Peter Brayham) – Unknown
  • Commissar Benz (Peter Bayliss) – Shot by Grant
  • General Vassili (Unknown) – Unknown
  • Koslovoski (Unknown) – Unknown

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Gert Fröbe

Goldfinger 

Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi)

Thunderball 

  • Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi) – Accidentally shot by henchman
  • Count Lippe (Guy Doleman) – Blown up by a masked Fiona using a motorcycle equipped with a rocket launcher.
  • Mr. Vargas (Philip Locke) – Harpooned by Bond
  • Mr. Janni (Michael Brennan) – Knocked out by Bond, implied killed when Disco Volante runs aground and explodes
  • Pr. Ladislav Kutze (George Pravda) – Changes sides, unknown
  • Angelo Palazzi (Paul Stassino) – Drowned by Largo
  • Quist (Bill Cummings) – Fed to sharks by Largo
  • Ricardo (Ian Bulloch) – Unknown
  • Colonel Jacques Bouvar (Rose Alba and Bob Simmons) – Strangled by Bond
  • SPECTRE Agent No. 5 (Philip Stone) – Survives
  • SPECTRE Agent No. 7 (Cecil Cheng) – Survives
  • SPECTRE Agent No. 9 (Clive Cazes) – Electrocuted by Blofeld after being found guilty of embezzlement
  • SPECTRE Agent No. 10 (André Maranne) – Survives
  • SPECTRE Agent No. 11 (Murray Kash) – Survives

You Only Live Twice 

  • Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada) – Shot by Blofeld
  • Helga Brandt (Karin Dor) – Fed to piranhas by Blofeld for her failure to kill Bond
  • Hans (Ronald Rich) – Fed to piranhas by Bond
  • SPECTRE Agent No. 3 (Burt Kwouk) – Killed through unknown means
  • SPECTRE Agent No. 4 (Michael Chow) – Unknown
  • Henderson Assassin (Unknown) – Stabbed by Bond
  • Bedroom Assassin (David Toguri) – Shot by Bond
  • Bamboo Assassin (Unknown) – Stabbed with his own weapon by Bond
  • Security Guard (Unknown) – Shot by Bond

Diamonds Are Forever 

George Lazenby era (1969) 

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

  • Fräulein Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) – Thought to have died in car crash, later survives
  • Grunther (Yuri Borienko) – Pushed against nail bed by Tracy Bond
  • Gumbold (James Bree) – Unknown
  • Braun (George Lane Cooper) – Shot by Bond
  • Felsen (Leslie Crawford) – Unknown
  • Josef (Joseph Vasa) – Unknown
  • Ruby Bartlett (Angela Scoular) – Unknown
  • Nancy (Catherine Schell) – Unknown
  • Helen (Julie Ege) – Unknown
  • Strangled SPECTRE Skier (George Leech) – Fell to his death

Roger Moore era (1973–85)

Live and Let Die

Tee Hee Johnson (Julius W. Harris) – Thrown from train by Bond

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  • Baron Samedi

  • Pushed into coffin full of snakes, later shown to have survived

  • Whisper (Earl Jolly Brown) – Bond locks him into a capsule, unknown
  • Simone Latrelle (Solitaire) (Jane Seymour) – Changed sides, loses her powers, survived
  • Rosie Carver (Gloria Hendry) – Shot by one of Kananga’s scarecrows
  • Adam (Tommy Lane) – Blown up inside a ship
  • Sales Girl (Kubi Chaza) – Alive
  • Dambala (Michael Ebbin) – Shot by Bond
  • Cab Driver (Arnold Williams) – Alive
  • New Orleans Assassin (Alvin Alcorn) – Alive
  • Jazz Funeral Procession (Olympia Brass Band) – Alive

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The Man with the Golden Gun

  • Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize) – Arrested
  • Andrea Anders (Maud Adams) – Changed sides, shot by Scaramanga
  • Hai Fat (Richard Loo) – Hired Scaramanga; later shot by Scaramanga
  • Kra (Sonny Caldinez) – Fell into vat of liquid helium after Goodnight hit him with a spanner
  • Chula (Chan Yiu Lam) – Alive
  • Lazar (Marne Maitland) – Alive

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The Spy Who Loved Me

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 Hugo Drax 

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Moonraker

  • Jaws (Richard Kiel) – Changed sides, survived
  • Chang (Toshiro Suga) – Thrown through a clockface and crash lands on a piano
  • Blonde Beauty (Irka Bochenko) – Dies when Space Base blows up
  • Museum Guide (Anne Lonnberg) – Dies when Space Base blows up
  • La Signorina del Mateo (Chichinou Kaeppler) – Dies when Space Base blows up
  • Lady Victoria Devon (Françoise Gayat) – Dies when Space Base blows up
  • Countess Labinsky (Catherine Serre) – Dies when Space Base blows up
  • Mademoiselle Deladier (Béatrice Libert) – Dies when Space Base blows up
  • Apollo Jet Hostess (Leila Shenna) – Unknown
  • Apollo Jet Pilot (Jean-Pierre Castaldi) – Fell to his death
  • Tree assassin (Guy Delorme) – Shot by Bond
  • Corinne Dufour (Corinne Clery) – Torn apart by Drax’s dogs

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For Your Eyes Only

  • Emile Leopold Locque (Michael Gothard) – Pushed off cliff in his car after being shot in the shoulder
  • Erich Kriegler (John Wyman) – Defenestrated by Bond
  • Hector Gonzales (Stefan Kalipha) – Killed by Melina Havelock
  • Claus (Charles Dance) – Harpooned by Columbo’s man
  • Apostis (Jack Klaff) – stabbed with pike by Bond and falls off mountain
  • Countess Lisl von Schlaf (Cassandra Harris) – Ran over by Locque
  • Helicopter Pilot (George Sweeney)- electrocuted through headset by his employer
  • Mantis Man (Graham Hawkes) – Vehicle exploded
  • Kristatos’ Henchman (George Leech) – Eaten by sharks

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Octopussy

  • Gobinda (Kabir Bedi) – Falls off plane
  • Mischka (David Meyer) – Killed by Bond
  • Grischka (Anthony Meyer) – Killed by Bond
  • Lenkin (Peter Porteous) – Arrested
  • Magda (Kristina Wayborn) – Changes sides, alive
  • Octopussy (Maud Adams) – Changes sides, survives
  • Colonel Luis Toro (Ken Norris) – Killed by explosion
  • Thug with Yo Yo (William Derrick) – Killed by crocodile
  • Mufti (Tony Arjuna)- Unknown

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A View to a Kill

Timothy Dalton era (1987–89)

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The Living Daylights

  • Necros (Andreas Wisniewski) – Fell to his death
  • Colonel Feyador (John Bowe) – Blown up by grenade
  • Kara Milovy (Maryam D’Abo) – Changed sides, survived
  • Imposter 00 (Carl Rigg) – Dies in a car explosion
  • Sergeant Stagg (Derek Hoxby) – Shot by Pushkin

Licence to Kill

  • Milton Krest (Anthony Zerbe) – Killed inside a pressure chamber by Sanchez
  • Dario (Benicio del Toro) – Shot by Pam Bouvier and fell into a shredder
  • Ed Killifer (Everett McGill) – Bond pushes him into a shark pool
  • William Truman-Lodge (Anthony Starke) – Shot by Sanchez
  • Colonel Heller (Don Stroud) – Braun impales him with a forklift
  • Perez (Alejandro Bracho) – Falls to his death in a jeep
  • Braun (Guy De Saint Cyr) – Falls to his death in a jeep
  • Professor Joe Butcher (Wayne Newton) – Survived
  • Clive (Eddie Edenfield) – Harpooned by Bond
  • Bill (Carl Ciarfalio) – Killed by Bond
  • Warehouse Guard (Jeff Moldovan) – Electrocuted by Bond
  • President Hector Lopez (Pedro Armendáriz Jr.) – Alive
  • Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto) – Changed sides, survived
  • Honorato (Honorato Magaloni) – Alive

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Pierce Brosnan era (1995–2002)

GoldenEye 

Tomorrow Never Dies

  • Richard Stamper (Götz Otto) – Incinerated by sabotaged cruise missile
  • Dr. Kaufman (Vincent Schiavelli) – Shot by Bond after being electrocuted
  • Henry Gupta (Ricky Jay) – Shot by Carver
  • General Chang (Philip Kwok) – Unknown
  • Captain Scott (Mark Spalding) – Shot by Bond
  • Paris Carver (Teri Hatcher) – Changes sides; Shot
  • Tamara Steel (Nina Young) – Unknown
  • PR Lady (Daphne Deckers) – Unkown
  • Timblin (Unknown) – Unknown

The World Is Not Enough

  • Giulietta da Vinci (Cigar Girl) (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) – Blew up her own hot air balloon
  • Mister Bullion (Goldie) – Shot by Valentin Zukovsky
  • Gabor (John Seru) – Shot by Bond
  • Sasha Davidov (Ulrich Thomsen) – Shot by Bond
  • Dr. Mikhail Arkov (Jeff Nuttall) – Shot by Renard’s Bodyguard
  • Trukhin (Carl McCrystal) – Unknown
  • Renard’s Bodyguard (Sean Cronin) – Unknown
  • Mr. Lachaise (Patrick Malahide) – Stabbed by Cigar Girl
  • Captain Nikolai (Justus von Dohnányi) – Poisoned by Renard’s men

Die Another Day

  • Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) – Stabbed with sword by Jinx
  • Zao (Rick Yune) – Crushed by an ice chandelier
  • Vlad (Mikhail Gorevoy) – Sucked out from Graves’ plane
  • Mister Kil (Lawrence Makoare) – Jinx kills him with a laser
  • General Moon (Kenneth Tsang) – Shot by Gustav Graves after electrocuting him
  • Dr. Alvarez (Simon Andreu) – Shot by Jinx
  • Mr. Van Bierk (Mark Dymond) – Arrested by Bond
  • General Han (Daryl Kwan) – Sucked out from Graves’ plane
  • General Li (Vincent Wong) – Sucked out of Graves’ plane
  • General Dong (Sai-Kit Yung) – Sucked out of Graves’ plane

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Daniel Craig era (2006–present)

Casino Royale

  • Mollaka (Sébastien Foucan) – Shot by Bond
  • Valenka (Ivana Miličević) – Shot by Mr. White
  • Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) – Drowned
  • Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) – Stabbed by Bond
  • Adolph Gettler (Richard Sammel) – Shot by nail gun
  • Fisher (Daud Shah) – Drowned, then shot by Bond
  • Carlos (Claudio Santamaria) – Blown up by Bond
  • Kratt (Clemens Schick) – Shot by Mr. White
  • Leo (Emmanuel Avena) – Arrested
  • Tall Man (Leos Stransky) – Crushed by elevator
  • Obanno’s Lieutenant (Michael Offei) – Unknown
  • Obanno’s Liaison (Makhoudia Diaw) – Fell to his death
  • Gettler’s Henchman (Glenn Foster) – Shot by Bond

Quantum of Solace

  • General Medrano (Joaquín Cosio) – Shot by Camille
  • Elvis (Anatole Taubman) – Incinerated
  • Craig Mitchell (Glenn Foster) – Shot by Bond
  • Edmund Slate (Neil Jackson) – Stabbed in neck with scissors by Bond
  • Guy Haines (Paul Ritter) – Unknown
  • Carlos (Fernando Guillen Cuervo) – Shot by Bond
  • Lieutenant Orso (Jesus Ochoa) – Fell to his death
  • Gregor Karakov (Gustavo Nanez) – Unknown
  • Greene’s Driver (Carl von Malaisé) – Shot by Bond
  • Haines’ bodyguard (Derek Lea) – Shot by Greene’s Driver
  • Motorcycle Cop #1 (Mike Pérez) – Shot by Bond
  • Motorcycle Cop #2 (Juan Carlos Avendaño) – Shot by Bond
  • Moishe Soref (Tsedor Gyalzur) – Unknown
  • Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides) – Arrested
  • Gift Bag Man (Christian Heller) – Unknown

Skyfall

  • Patrice (Ola Rapace) – Fell off of skyscraper to his death
  • Sévérine (Bérénice Marlohe) – Shot by Silva
  • Boat Captain (Milorad Kapor) – Shot by Bond
  • Sévérine’s Bodyguard (Tank Dong) – Eaten by Komodo dragon
  • Sévérine’s Bodyguard (Roger Yuan) – Knocked unconscious by Eve
  • Sévérine’s Bodyguard (Liang Yang) – Unknown
  • Silva’s Mercenary (Jens Hultén) – Drowned by Bond in a frozen lake
  • Silva’s Mercenary (Michael Pink) – Knocked unconscious by Bond
  • Boat Silva’s Mercenary (Adebayo Bolaji) – Shot by Bond
  • Boat Silva’s Mercenary (Amir Boutrous) – Shot by Bond
  • Boat Silva’s Mercenary (Elia Lo Tauro) – Shot by Bond

Spectre

  • Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista) – Pulled off the train
  • Max Denbigh/C (Andrew Scott) – Fell to his death after a fight with M
  • Marco Sciarra (Alessandro Cremona) – Kicked out of helicopter by Bond
  • Dr. Vogel (Brigitte Millar) – Alive
  • Moreau (Marc Zinga) – Alive
  • Lorenzo (Peppe Lanzetta) – Fell to his death
  • Mr. Guerra (Benito Sagredo) – Neck snapped by Mr. Hinx
  • Marco (Matteo Taranto) – Shot by Bond
  • Francesco (Francesco Arca) – Shot by Bond
  • Gallo (Domenico Fortunato) – Shot by Bond
  • Gallo’s Accomplice #1 (Marco Zingaro) – Shot by Bond
  • Gallo’s Accomplice #2 (Stefano Elfi Di Claudia) – Incinerated by Bond
  • Blofeld’s Right Hand Man (Gediminas Adomaitis) – Killed in helicopter crash
  • Blofeld’s London Helicopter Pilot (Richard Banham) – Killed in helicopter crash
  • Abrika (Adel Bencherif) – Alive
  • Marshall (Erick Hayden) – Alive
  • Valerian (Oleg Mirochnikov) – Alive
  • Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) – Unknown

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First appearance: Climax! Series: Casino Royale, 1954

Barry Nelson as James Bond in a 1954 episode of Climax! called Casino Royale (Picture: CBS)

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                In a 1954 episode of Climax! called Casino Royale
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Casino Royale (1954 TV special)

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Casino Royale (1967 film)

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Never Say Never Again

  • Lippe (Pat Roach) – hit in face with Bond’s urine sample; killed by glass shards
  • Jack Petachi – wrecks his car after Fatima Blush throws a snake in his lap
  • Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger) – changes sides, survives
  • Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera) – shot by Bond’s explosive pen & blown up
  • Arab slave-traders – variously shot, defenestrated, and shelled by submarine deck-gun
  • “Tears of Allah” personnel – variously shot, set on fire, and grenaded by Felix Leiter’s Navy team
  • Dr. Kovacs (Milow Kirek) – survives

007 Novel Henchmen

Ian Fleming

Casino Royale

  • Basil
  • Kratt
  • Adolph Gettler
  • Vesper Lynd – shot herself

Live and Let Die 

  • The Whisper
  • Tee-Hee Johnson – knocked down stairs by Bond
  • MoThing
  • Sam Miami
  • The Flannel
  • Blabbermouth Foley

Moonraker

  • Krebs
  • Dr. Walter

Diamonds Are Forever

  • Mr. Kidds and Mr. Wint – both shot by Bond, then made to look like a murder-suicide
  • Shady Tree

From Russia, with Love

  • Red Grant
  • Krilencu

Dr. No

  • Annabelle Chung
  • Miss Taro

Goldfinger

  • Oddjob – sucked out of a broken airplane window
  • Pussy Galore – changes sides, survives
  • Jack Strap
  • Helmut Springer

Thunderball

  • Count Lippe
  • Giuseppe Petacchi
  • Kotze

The Spy Who Loved Me

  • “Sluggsy” Morant – shot by Bond
  • Sol “Horror” Horowitz – shot by Bond

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

You Only Live Twice

The Man with the Golden Gun

  • Hendriks

Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun

  • Von Richter

John Gardner

Licence Renewed

  • Caber
  • Mary Jane Mashkin
  • Franco

For Special Services

  • Markus Bismaquer
  • Walter Luxor
  • Mike Mazzard

Role of Honour

  • Rolling Joe Zwingli
  • Peter Amadeus
  • Simon

Nobody Lives Forever

  • Nannie Norrich
  • Doktor Kirchtum
  • Heinrich Osten

No Deals, Mr. Bond

  • Heather Dare
  • Norman Murray
  • Mischa

Scorpius

  • Bailey
  • Pearlman

Win, Lose or Die

  • Clover Pennington – shot by one of her own thugs
  • Abou – arrested

Never Send Flowers

  • Maeve Horton

Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten

  • General Wong
  • Sunni

SeaFire

  • Mrs Tarn

Doubleshot

  • Nadir Yassasin
  • Jimmy Powers
  • Margareta Piel

Video game henchmen

007: Agent Under Fire

Main article: 007: Agent Under Fire
  • Nigel Bloch (Denny Delk, voice)–Blown away by a rocket fired by Bond.
  • Carla the Jackal (Roxana Ortega, voice)–Shoved into an industrial fan by Bond.

007: Nightfire

Main article: James Bond 007: Nightfire
  • Armitage Rook (Richard Whiten, voice)–Shot to death by Bond.
  • Makiko “Kiko” Hayashi (Tamlyn Tomita, voice)–Incinerated by space shuttle exhaust.

007: Everything or Nothing

Main article: James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
  • Katya Nadanova (Heidi Klum)–Plunges to her death in a disabled Harrier jet.
  • Jean Le Rouge (Marc Graue)–Shot to death by Bond.
  • Jaws (Richard Kiel)–Electrocuted, nearly drowns, and set on fire by Bond, ultimate fate unknown.
  • Arkady Yayakov–Metallic sphere falls onto him after his machinery is sabotaged by Bond.

GoldenEye: Rogue Agent

Main article: GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
  • Oddjob–Vaporized.
  • Pussy Galore–Survives.
  • Xenia Onatopp–Dies in a VTOL explosion.
  • Francisco Scaramanga–Survives.

007: From Russia with Love

Main article: 007: From Russia with Love
  • Eva (Maria Menounos)–Shot dead in her jetpack.
  • OCTOPUS Commando Team–Killed by Bond.

James Bond 007: Blood Stone

Main article: James Bond 007: Blood Stone

Notes

A similar ending for a James Bond henchmen appears in Thunderball, while in You Only Live Twice two Bond henchmen are killed in a piranha tank

References

THE SUBVERSIONS OF THE ECONOMIC ROYALISTS – Part I

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THE SUBVERSIONS OF THE ECONOMIC ROYALISTS

Part I

By Steve Erdmann

(Copyright 2016, Steve Erdmann-All Rights Reserved)

<Edited by Robert D. Morningstar>

(Permission to quote for review and educational purposes granted)

“Thomas Jefferson laid out in an 1816 letter to Samuel Kercheval ‘…a totally ‘free’ market, where corporations reign supreme just like the oppressive government of old, could transform America ‘until the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automations of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.   Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in Omnia, which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man.’”   (p. 63, The Crash of 2016)

(The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America – and What We Can Do to Stop It, Thom Hartmann, Hachette Book Group, 237 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017, 2013, 291 pages, $28.00.)

Thom Hartmann, no stranger to writing on the “abusive states of man,” takes us on a trek of those “stages” where “in the real world, humans must confront both nature and other humans” (p. 63)

THE ROYALISTS

Hartmann takes us on a trek through the formative years of the American Revolution and how the colonists conducted what could be termed “corporate vandalism” (which included the famous Boston Tea Party) against Britain and against political factions such as John Adams’ Federalists and Congressional Acts and the Alien and Sedition Act to lock up political dissenters that were called “the rabble”—Hartmann, comparing a faction known as the Royalists, speaks of a 1786 letter in which Thomas Jefferson gave “his most explicit warning about this threat from plutocracy within, and advocating unwavering vigilance against it.”

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Hartmann gives multiple examples of how The Royalists (in the form of the East India Company, the North and South expansion in the American Civil War, the crash of 1893, others) exploded and grew.   Hartmann quotes President Grover Cleveland in 1888:

“Corporations, which should be carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the peoples’ masters.”

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.Thom Hartmann’s Biography (below)

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In 1907, Teddy Roosevelt passed the Tillman Act which banned corporate contributions in political elections, which was quickly countered by two dark eras of economic Royalist Rule by “Corporate behemoths” which resulted in a Gilded Age after the Great Crash of 1857 and the Civil War.

Hartmann explains the stages in which economic “bubbles” arise and how they interact with war, market crashes, the Economic Royalists, and the Great Forgettings.   Teddy Roosevelt acknowledged what had been referred to as the “Robber Baron Economic Royalists.”  President Franklin Roosevelt said in 1936:

“Here in America we are waging a great and successful war.  It is a war for the survival of democracy.   We are fighting to save a precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.”

CO-CONSPIRATORS

Gerald MacGuire and General Smedley Butler spoke of a “Business Plot” to oust FDR to maintain Royalist Rule. In testimony before the house Un-American Activities Committee, co-conspirators were named, ranging from the Rockefellers, the Mellons, the Morgons, the DuPonts, and the Remingtons.

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General Smedley Butler

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“In the 1960s, a solid middle class had emerged,” says Hartmann, “the Royalists were horrified.   The conservative intellectual base, such as Russell Kirk and W. F. Buckley, genuinely feared that if a middle class grew large enough___and politically and economically powerful enough___it would inevitably lead to social chaos.” (p. 29)

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Tom Hartman on his TV Program

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DECLARATION OF WAR

Lewis F. Powell, Jr., as a Supreme Court Justice, wrote a Declaration of War “memo” on behalf of the Economic Royalists against both democracy and, what they judged to be an overgrown middle-class.   The “confidential” Powell Memo, urging the courts to be used as a “social, economic, and political instrument,” aimed at the Chamber of Commerce and other Royalist-controlled-so-called ‘free market’ systems, and the instilling of “pro-plutocratic perspectives.”

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The Economic-Royalists continued in spades in the Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and the George Bush’s, and assorted Presidencies and associations.    FDR proposed a Second Bill of Rights (which included eight “Rights.”   One of which said there should be “the Right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment”), but it never came to fruition.  The Wagner Act of 1935 guaranteed Americans the right to form a union and bargain collectively with their corporate employers.   These new protections allowed the middle-class to thrive.  Unfortunately, at times, “even attempting to unionize in the workplace,” says Hartmann, “would get you fired, at best.   At worst, it could get you killed.” (p. 70)

CUNNING POLITICAL STRATEGY

In 1981, the national debt was a bit under $1 trillion; Ronald Reagan tripled the debt to about $3 trillion:   more than any single president before him and one of his stated, biggest regrets.  President George H. W. Bush added a trillion dollars more.   George W. Bush added more than $6 Trillion to date, and nearly $16 trillion has been added to the actual debt.   Most politicians promised to lower deficits and reduce the national debt.

“This could be written off as run-of-the-mill political-flip-flopping and pandering,” says Hartmann, “but it’s not.  There’s a cunning political strategy behind it.”

Jude Wanniski

Hartmann describes economist Jude Wanniski as a “Republican strategist/faux” in which Wanniski patterned the “Two-Santa Claus Theory”:   Democrats concentrating on ‘gifts’ such as Social Security and Medicare, and the Republicans centered on “massive tax cuts.”

It was a double-edged sword, in which Republicans would Santa Claus their way into tax cuts and eventually force the Democrats to reverse roles, “play Scrooge, and eventually shoot Santa Claus.”

(Jude Wanniski:   “Taxes and a two-Santa Theory,” National Observer, March 6, 1976 [http://capitalgainandgames/blog/bruce-bartlett/1701/jude-wanniski-taxes-and-two-santa-theory].)

IDEOLOGICAL MATRIX

In the matrix of the ideologues, it was Democrat President Bill Clinton, besieged by Royalist Robert Rubin (Goldman Sachs) and Alan Greenspan (Federal Reserve), who signed in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (upholding the fraudulent myth of the ‘Welfare Queens’), and disregarded Ross Perot and allowed America to grow from a modest $15 billion deficit in 1981 to an enormous $539 billion in 2012.

“A Democrat just elected to the Presidency made no difference to the shadow government of lobbyist, corporate-funded think tanks and political fund-raiser,” says Hartmann.  “Clinton chose political expediency.   He chose to carry the Royalist agenda forward.”

Clinton signed the free-trade death warrant for the middle class.   The Democrats turned into Eisenhower Republicans, as the Republicans turned into something completely different:  they stepped up their assault, they culled a no Leisure Society; instead, just a “cataclysmic crash.”

PSYCHOPATHS

Hartmann quotes economist John Kenneth Galbraith about the on-going psychopathic “madness”:   “The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole…is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent…in a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live…to speak out against madness may be ruin those who have succumbed to it.”

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Hartmann quotes journalist Chris Hodges who described such modern-day oligopolies as Worldwide Royalists: “It’s similar to the age of the Robber Barons but in fact worse because there is no loyalty to the nation-state. The corporations are actually hollowing the country out from the inside…we’re creating a kind of neofeudalism” (p. 98)

Hartmann speaks about the tentacles of this worldwide, growing control and the looting of America by Global Psychopaths:

“American transnational corporations have historically cavorted with nations whose interests were similarly opposed to the United States – morally, at least.”

In Jeff Bercovici’s article for Forbes (“Why (some) Psychopaths Make Great CEOs,” June 14, 2011), Jon Ronson is quoted on millionaire psychopaths:   “The way that capitalism is structured really is a physical manifestation of the brain anomaly known as psychopathy.”

TO BE CONTINUED in Part II

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(In the following continuation, Thom Hartmann continues to delve into the fatalistic madness of our politicians and economists who mask themselves behind hidden agendas.  We also explore what Hartmann’s critics say and how he defends his beliefs).

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